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Comment on Et Cum Spiritu Tuo | Peace and Justice in Modern Ireland by Evangelikale Katholiken in der Offensive – Washington Post « Moment Mal

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 16:37:14 +0000

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Comment on The Nature Of Peace by Kurt.A

Kurt.A — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 21:46:36 +0000

You know, you’re right on the money with greed (no pun intended). The greed of this world is tremendously painful to watch unfold each day as the “paper” brings news of more distasteful behavior. This is perhaps a better rhetorical question, but I have to wonder allowed if the root of all this is because of the power afforded to people within our created systems, or the people themselves? Perhaps both?

Comment on Umm, Jesus, It’s Windy Out Here by Kurt.A

Kurt.A — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 21:30:40 +0000

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you, my apologies. How do I see peace coming from self-reflection? The times that I do take a look over my shoulder are often the times when I realize how peaceful things really were. Reflection is often a time to appreciate having gotten through something, or completed something, good or bad. When I notice something have been peaceful, I have a real sense of gratitude. This is where I see myself as a more developed Christian because when I was younger, rather than feeling gratitude, I’d have felt lucky instead. I’m able to see life through my faith, and in turn, I’m seeing Gods fingerprints all over my life. I think that gratitude, may even allow God to open more doors for me that I might have walked right by when I was younger. I hope that makes sense, and I hope I’ve answered clearly enough.

Comment on Understanding and Mercy | Abortion in Ireland by skyride

skyride — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 14:35:58 +0000

You hit on it when you said the psychology of linguistics, but this is precisely why we should stop using gendered nouns, pronouns, etc. We reinforce gender norms and stereotypes by calling inanimate objects, even bodies of people, “her”/”she”, or even “his”/”he”. It perpetuates ideas about what masculinity and femininity should be.
I appreciate and support your use of it in a facetious sense, though, of course.

Comment on Umm, Jesus, It’s Windy Out Here by homophilosophicus

homophilosophicus — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:58:34 +0000

Kurt, you quoted Plato’s citation of Socrates; “a life unexamined isn’t worth living.” Here I am interested. How do you see peace coming from self-reflection?

Comment on Umm, Jesus, It’s Windy Out Here by Kurt.A

Kurt.A — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:42:51 +0000

Christopher I had a lot of fun writing this. When I spoke of taking a few stabs, I had started writing a sort of comical dialogue between everyone on the boat from the perspective of a group of friends who are all still getting to know each other. It wasn’t appropriate for this post, but I’m going to continue working on it, and post it on my blog. Needless to say, I went way off the beaten path in a hurry with it.

I also took out a piece discussing the act of offering peace to other church members every Sunday. If we are to have piece, and it is part of the weekly liturgy, then I’m guessing that Jesus really wants us to have it all the time because things aren’t always rose colored. Now that I’m writing this again, I really do believe that piece is flighty based entirely on the idea that we have to offer it one another every week! Slippery. Bugger. Peace.

Comment on Umm, Jesus, It’s Windy Out Here by Christopher C. Randolph

Christopher C. Randolph — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 02:23:38 +0000

Kurt! Good stuff. I love this story. The example of your life was perfect, too. Peace is found in Christ, not in the storms that rage all around. Seriously. Look to the story itself. The disciples should have been stressed. Jesus was with them after all. But he calmed the storm like they pleaded. But then they had to row the rest of the way on their own power. I’m thinking He went back to sleep.

God Bless

Comment on The Nature Of Peace by thenarcissisticanthropologist

thenarcissisticanthropologist — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 18:40:49 +0000

Reblogged this on The Narcissistic Anthropologist and commented: In honor of the late Martin Luther King Junior and the inauguration of President Obama to his second term, I thought I would share this thoughtful perspective on the concept of Peace and our challenge as humans living in a "civilized" society.

Comment on What They Really Think About Us by homophilosophicus

homophilosophicus — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 03:54:54 +0000

Yes, I could not agree more. The problem is one of forgetting. Not so much the plight of the Other, but a complete forgetting of our own selves – a forgetting of our humanity. This is the great sin, to forget who we are, and then not to our own selves be true. Once we have lost sight of our own humanity, we cannot see humanity in others. I would go further and say that wealth – in itself – is a sin. Not gold or money, as there are but ‘things,’ but the ‘to have and to hold’ of those things which make people wealthy; the fact of having wealth as sinful. We would indeed all like to win the lottery, to have more than one lover, rob a bank and get away with it. Of course we would. Sin is enticing. It is sin nonetheless.

Comment on Understanding and Mercy | Abortion in Ireland by homophilosophicus

homophilosophicus — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:07:01 +0000

Thank you again for such a thoughtful and well considered comment, and I am glad that you have picked up on this language. It is something on which I would like to write about further in the future. For now, however, a brief note on why I employed this form must suffice. In ‘her’ own language the Church has always spoken of itself in the feminine, and indeed as a woman. Why? A number of reasons. Firstly in the earliest languages of the Church (ie. Greek and Latin) ‘εκκλησια’ and ‘ecclesia’ are feminine nouns. Undoubtedly proceeding from the psychology of linguistics this morphed into a spiritualisation of the perception. This is evinced in the Orthodox and Catholic self referential ‘the holy mother Church.’

Whilst in many manifestations of the Church over a long period of time women have been marginalised and often degraded, this use of the term is universal to the Church in its fullest sense – the whole Church (“always and everywhere”) as one body, and the perfection of humanity (even so in the female form). Your comment is well understandable and was not lost on me as I wrote. I was, however, attempting to speak of the Church critically while quite deliberately echoing its own [official or hierarchical] voice.