La joie de Dieu est folie: Why?

December 18, 2009

Why?

Why is intellectualism so gnostic? So afraid of the sensual? Is this knowledge? Or fear?

2 comments:

pasivirta said...: fear, because gnosis is power, or at least over someone, so if you have it, you have more than at least one other person, but that draws you into the problem of comparison with other people, which we all loose at. competition. Jesus never considered equality with God something to be grasped. and he was God.; 1/01/2010 7:00 PM
RW said...: hey
you are still here in the blogosphere?
who knew?; 1/05/2010 8:04 AM

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"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” --Oscar Wilde

"The more I love humanity in general the less I love man in particular. In my dreams, I often make plans for the service of humanity, and perhaps I might actually face crucifixion if it were suddenly necessary. Yet I am incapable of living in the same room with anyone for two days together. I know from experience. As soon as anyone is near me, his personality disturbs me and restricts my freedom. In twenty-four hours I begin to hate the best of men: one because he's too long over his dinner, another because he has a cold and keeps on blowing his nose. I become hostile to people the moment they come close to me. But it has always happened that the more I hate men individually the more I love humanity." --Fyodor Dostoevsky "The Brothers Karamazov"

"In the face of impossible odds, people who love their country can change it." --Barack Obama

"It's a sad thing in a man when his sense of leadership derives from that fact that his wife is even more inert than he is...." --Vic

"[Healing] started with becoming Orthodox and discovering that my body is a vehicle of prayer... that I am my body, not that I "have" a body

"This isn't truth, it's culture." --Me

"When you invite evil into your mind, you aren't acquiring a servant, you're acquiring a master." --Danny Carlton

"Community is the evangelist." --Anon

"On three great bonds of love do all cultures depend:the love between man and woman in marriage;the love between a mother and her child; and the camaraderie among men, a bond that used to be strong enough to move mountains." --Anthony Esolen

"Surely, the first and only safe control is self control. A man unable to govern himself cannot wisely be entrusted with the governance of anyone else - a family, for instance." --Patrick Henry Reardon

"The love of our neighbour in all its fullness simply means being able to say to him, "what are you going through?" --Simone Weil

"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth." --Benjamin Disraeli

"Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice." --H.L. Mencken

"The truth will make you odd." --Flannery O'Conner

"I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers." --Kahlil Gibran

"You don't have to stop being American to be Orthodox, but you do have to stop being Protestant" --Paige's priest

"I have tried and I cannot find, either in Scripture or in history, a strong-willed individual whom God used greatly until He allowed them to be hurt deeply." --Charles Swindoll

"There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures." -- James Thurber

" When health is absent wisdom can not reveal itself,art cannot be exerted,wealth is useless and Reason is powerless." -- Herophilies 300bc

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December 18, 2009

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