Once upon a time, Christianity grew and endured and even flourished over the course of many generations in total and blissful ignorance of any officially defined dogma, any single recognized canon of scripture, anything remotely like the systematic or dogmatic theologies of the coming ages of Christendom and after. 133

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"Jonah: The Dynamics of Compassion” Avivah Zornberg 9.7.2022

1. Compassion as a human and divine disposition, includes the possibilities of forgiveness and helplessness.

2. Chasta - you have looked with compassion.

3. You have looked with pity and sorrow at all life.

4. God’s compassion is uncompromising. Compassion is valued more than the law.

... the Kingdom was preached, but it was the church, with its often almost comically corrupt and divisive institutional form, that arrived. 138

David Hart Tradition and Apocalypse 2022

... it might be wise for believers with a genuine concern for the life of the tradition to start all their theological musings from a sense of awe before the vastness of the mystery that summons them in their faith, and a sense also of how far beyond conceiving or understanding that mystery still remains. 168

David Hart Tradition and Apocalypse 2022

Message is change of scale or pace or pattern.

Change Scale

Change Pace

Change Pattern

Marshall McLuhan’s “Medium is the Message” Model:

many have found McLuhan’s aphorism “the medium is the message” confounding, McLuhan actually offered a rather explanation. “The ‘message’ of any medium or technology,” McLuhan wrote, “is the change of scale or pace or... See more

God’s recognition that it is not good to be alone leads to his creation of an ezer k’nedo (an antagonistic helper) for the human being, Adam. ... The reason it’s the woman who gets emphasized is that we might presume her only to be an ezer, only a helper, only a yay-sayer. But the k’negdo part means that she helps by opposing, by being different;... See more

“Interesting drug” Rob Horning 9.30.2022

1. Toni Morrison: Fascism ... is marketing for power; converting citizens to consumers and recognizable by its need to purge and its fear of democratic goals.

2. Fascism is embedded in consumerism; a kind of fascist conditioning.

3. Fascism draws its sustenance from the content/culture industries that... See more

Clutter images Rob Horning 9.16.2022

1. In consumer society we feel useful when we participate in the circulation of goods.

2. Hoarding is a way to adapt to the quantified life; a way of upping your score.

3. Collecting dots creates a hoard where you cede intention to chance encounters with miscellaneous stuff.

4. In the digital realm as objects,... See more

culture eats strategy for breakfast. ...

metaphysics eats culture for supper. What we believe to be real is the most significant factor in determining our values, and in turn our cultures, which birth and change our institutions and politics.

Multiverse and Meh: The best shows, books, podcasts and concepts of 2022

Alexander Beiner 12.15.2022