Ian Napier

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My brisk response to “Historical Christianity, Capitalism and the Problem of Freedom”

23 September, 2008 · Leave a Comment

the paradox of pure Christianity: facilitator of freedom, liberty and humanity and obstructor of marginalization, slavery, inhumanity and the like; therefore enemy of any system that was created or is run imperfectly, running with an imbalanced facilitation.

but how can a humbly non-omniscient man even create/run a social system that is not an imbalanced facilitator?

or perhaps would humanity thrive more in anarchy? – well, not anarchy but living a livelihood consciously and intentionally striving for absence of systems, guided by the constantly and humbly sought after pure christian ideals, therefore understanding all varied viewpoints of the spiritual as differing viewpoints of “God” (shall I simply propose that “God” and “spiritual” should be interchangeable in this sentence?). Could this bring social unity regardless of an absence of systems? could humanity thrive like this?

haha IS THERE ANY HOPE!?

This is in response to an article that a friend of mine wrote; I want to share his article =) I think it is definetly worth being entertained by

Categories: religion · response · sociology
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ich liebe dich

11 August, 2008 · Leave a Comment

friends

Categories: daily meditations · response

my words

11 August, 2008 · Leave a Comment

I once made a collection of words that were sought out with the criteria to be THE words that define me; I wrote them in my journal to record them for future use in an art project; the art project hasn’t yet been started, but here are the words:

Fear

masked by strength

Cognitive dissidence

sketching

writing

passion

Listening

self-hatred

the perpetuate struggle

laughter

forgetting

lightness

weight

seeking answers

seeking understanding

confussion

fly fishing

creativity

leaving rubbish behind

seeking peace

used to be private

trying to be humbly public

I don’t know if I completely agree with these words any more; I believe at the time they had me nailed pretty damn well. But that is how it goes, constant movement; static chaos and chaotic consistence; always changing, always made up of the same stuff. Perhaps those words still define me, since more has been added to my life since I may just have to add more words to define myself correctly. endless words?

nah. . . .

Categories: inquisition · journal · musings · response