2/23/2005

Community Life is not to gather mess

So I have been looking around at the discussions by prospective and erstwhile PhD and D ‘whatever’ candidates; noting that many debatable points are raised yet very little meat is fed at the troughs. I find myself wondering what difference does it make that Hellenism influences the world today from a point so far in antiquity that one has to wonder if the Greeks could have been that shallow as to think that a rose by any other name could be other than a rose. One thing I rant about here is that the Greek’s typology misleads us all into the misunderstanding that love is anything other than that divine auspice which God has granted usward and in no wise is it anything other than that. Love is not lust, Love is not fleeting, Love is not without commitment. To the contrary, love is that thing which we take from God as if we starved and then cannot help but give it away as though we will never hunger again. The Greeks mislead us by claiming that this love or that love , love is something we share, the way we share it becomes the true descriptive and defining angle to use in explaining how we love. The object, then, is a major determinant in whether we use physical expression, and what sort of physical expression, as we relate our love for another to that other. This perspective lends itself to a less confusing understanding of relationships than trying to decide what kind of love we have for another.

The other moaning I have heard, is from those who surely know better, but delve into banal slighting of Brothers in Arms with Christ, whose only sin in the particular matter seems to be that they don't split hairs over motivation, but rather apply nuance to active onslaught against the wiles of the principalities of darkness manifested in our common and social structure(s).

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