Category: Personal

cds

Which outdated technology do you miss the most, and why?

I am partial to music CDs! I like streaming services but the experience of handling the physical CD is very nostalgic. Also the lyrics sheet was mint!

And I like collecting.

why?

I saw someone on TikTok ask, “why does God send people to hell?”.

Good question. So here is my completely not asked for response:

God respects people’s choices. God respects “rejection” so that I can choose to love. Without that freedom, and God’s absolute respect for my freedom, there is no real love or faith.

Also, and let’s be honest, for people who choose to reject God in this life to spend all eternity with God is just another example of hell! Right!?

Completely without authority (or insight).

neither?!

Do you think we’re shaped more by our experiences or by who we are?

I am shaped by my choices. My choices are influenced by nature and nurture but I can choice to make a chose outside of context.

I cannot experience necessity (I am not locked into a certain choice) – I am free in the moment.

the most convenient definitions

[last lines]Brian Johnson: [closing narration] Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong. But we think you’re crazy to make us write an essay telling you who we think we are. You see us as you want to see us – in the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain…

Andrew Clark: …and an athlete…

Allison Reynolds: …and a basket case…

Claire Standish: …a princess…

John Bender: …and a criminal.

Brian Johnson: Does that answer your question? Sincerely yours, the Breakfast Club.

How often do I simply see people in “the most convenient definitions”? Putting someone in a box is easier than encountering the “you”.

Anyway …

biology

I heard someone say today, “biology proves that men and women are different”.

Well, I say, “biology proves that I am different.” I am different from other males and other human beings. My life is one of a kind.

And tomorrow? I have no proof (biological or otherwise) of tomorrow. Biology (or any science) can only make statements about the past. The rest is a guess! Tomorrow I may cease to be either male or female. I may simply cease to be!

Anyway …

flying cars

What’s a piece of technology you’re convinced will exist in 20 years?

Just to reveal my age, and movies I watch, I think flying cars. And glasses that act as rear view mirrors.

Tbh: I am a little afraid of what technology will exist. Yes, I am old. But rather than making my life easier, technology stresses me and makes me want to run away (to a forest somewhere). My hope is that humanity discovers itself, becomes less dependent on technology, and more free to be human.

oh, so many …

Which book have you read more than any other?

tbh, the Deposited Book. I have used it for my daily prayer since before I was ordained. This current edition is new since my last one fell apart (literally!). I have tried other books but I always come back to this one. It has everything I need in one book!

But also Fear and Trembling. And The Metamorphosis. And The Confessions. Also, I Am Dynamite!. And maybe Beyond Good and Evil.

And also the book I am currently obsessed with Monasticism: The All-embracing Gift of the Holy Spirit by Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou. I only have an ebook copy. It is an impressive book! (Also, by the same author, Hesychasm: The Bedewing Furnace of the Heart.)

I could go on. Anyway …