Monasteries as VCs for neurotic craziesIf you’re insane in a way where you need people to laugh at your jokes (so that you feel accepted), you end up a comedian. If you’re crazy in a way where you need a copious amounts of adrenaline in order to feel anything, you end up in extreme sports. If you’re a schizo who can…
An axiomatic approach to hermeneuticsMy approach is summarized as: Start with God exists. Find the center: assume the outer layers of the religion may be tainted, and find the core. As applied to Biblical interpretation, I don’t care if the the outer layers of the religion are wrong or flawed. I want to know if the…
Is the Bible really against suicide?After reading some of the Gospels, a thought struck me: did Jesus commit suicide by proxy? And further, is the Bible against suicide at all? The Wikipedia article on Christian views on suicide starts: “There has been much debate over the Christian views on suicide…” This is…
We don't understand God because we don't understand love, and vice versaWhy are love poems simultaneously so indirect and vivid? Shakespeare compared a woman to a summer’s day. Do people do this anymore? Are we too advanced for such over-the-top flowery language? We’re rational creatures. Instead of love poems we send memes and flirtatious texts. We…
