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- Thu Jan 21, 2021 1:25 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Philology and the Incarnation
- Replies: 2
- Views: 572
Re: Philology and the Incarnation
My man 'Substantial' Brad... great to hear from you, as usual!
- Thu Jan 21, 2021 1:22 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: No Objective Space or Time = No Free Will or Events
- Replies: 91
- Views: 10945
Re: No Objective Space or Time = No Free Will or Events
I obviously can’t tell whether any of you have free will, but I certainly do. It’s shaped by all kinds of things including my evolutionary driven instincts, my emotions, and the realities of the world. Nonetheless I can chose how I respond to the world, and how I act in the world. Isn’t that a fund...
- Thu Jan 21, 2021 1:14 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Schizophrenia, Sin and the Self (Owen Barfield)
- Replies: 34
- Views: 4715
Re: Schizophrenia, Sin and the Self (Owen Barfield)
A person who is not first motivated to provide for their own needs and orient their own habits of thinking is useless to everyone else. Your [preceding the above clip] answer is unrelated to what I said. If my recollection is correct, I talked about peeps who regarded their "'self' as being 'm...
- Wed Jan 20, 2021 11:09 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Schizophrenia, Sin and the Self (Owen Barfield)
- Replies: 34
- Views: 4715
Re: Schizophrenia, Sin and the Self (Owen Barfield)
Anyway, Barfield was aiming his criticism of 'sinful' behavior entirely within Western culture. Hence his example of the "white man's guilt". Cool. Then we agree that it is not a fair projection into how symptoms of schizophrenia and psychosis are interpreted and experienced in non-Europe...
- Wed Jan 20, 2021 9:30 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Schizophrenia, Sin and the Self (Owen Barfield)
- Replies: 34
- Views: 4715
Re: Schizophrenia, Sin and the Self (Owen Barfield)
Barfield's take was more metaphysical. He was not identifying 'sin' with 'selfishness', although the latter can be a manifestation of the underlying metaphysical sin. Another manifestation of that same sin could be extreme self-hate and lack of self-confidence and assertion of one's will. I don't k...
- Wed Jan 20, 2021 9:21 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Schizophrenia, Sin and the Self (Owen Barfield)
- Replies: 34
- Views: 4715
Re: Schizophrenia, Sin and the Self (Owen Barfield)
I get (at least I think I do) what Barfield talked about. What I talked about included that (I think). Barfield's take was more metaphysical. He was not identifying 'sin' with 'selfishness', although the latter can be a manifestation of the underlying metaphysical sin. Another manifestation of that...
- Wed Jan 20, 2021 8:20 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Schizophrenia, Sin and the Self (Owen Barfield)
- Replies: 34
- Views: 4715
Re: Schizophrenia, Sin and the Self (Owen Barfield)
I get (at least I think I do) what Barfield talked about. What I talked about included that (I think). Barfield's take was more metaphysical. He was not identifying 'sin' with 'selfishness', although the latter can be a manifestation of the underlying metaphysical sin. Another manifestation of that...
- Wed Jan 20, 2021 8:13 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Schizophrenia, Sin and the Self (Owen Barfield)
- Replies: 34
- Views: 4715
Re: Schizophrenia, Sin and the Self (Owen Barfield)
I would say the daemon here may be the freezing cold weather ... Well, the ice daemon does hang about in Canuckistan for half the year, yet doesn't seem to have profound psyche-altering influence over the vast majority of folks I know. They just dress imperviously in lots of weather-resistant downy...
- Wed Jan 20, 2021 7:23 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: No Objective Space or Time = No Free Will or Events
- Replies: 91
- Views: 10945
Re: No Objective Space or Time = No Free Will or Events
Bernardo says in part 2 of More Than Allegory that there is no such thing as objective space or time Space and time do not have sense data. Neither color, smell, taste, sound or feel. So they cannot be objects and therefore cannot in any case be objective. All objects that can be considered to be a...
- Wed Jan 20, 2021 5:01 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Philology and the Incarnation
- Replies: 2
- Views: 572
Philology and the Incarnation
The following is a mind-blowing essay by Owen Barfield. You will not regret reading it. It explores the evolution of consciousness through the corresponding evolution of language and the central historical event of Christ. Philology and the Incarnation by Owen Barfield [/b] Sir Thomas Browne, that m...