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1Heart
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Posted 7/16/2005 5:34 PM (GMT -6)

BBBCanada said...
Hey what happens when you START DEFINING personhood in terms of RELATION and not atomistic individual selves? Not the dictum of "I think therefore I am," but "I DO therefore I am." Thinking involves the mind ONLY but doing requires BOTH whereby we transfer the center of reference to action in which the self requires the recovering of the body and becomes a "self-in-action" in which the self exists in dynamic relation with the OTHER restoring the self to its proper existence in community of PERSON'S IN RELATION? That is to say, that a being's existence is constituted by ACTIVE INTERRELATIONS with a reality that is external to itself, such that if you don't have this, then one does NOT have existence. Hmmm...choke on that!

This is the SLAM! This is the ONE! (Toby Mac)

Does thinking really involve just the mind? I wonder. "As a man thinketh, so is he ..." Thoughts don't always lead to actions, but often they do, even subconsciously. What say ye?

J

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1Heart
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Posted 7/16/2005 5:39 PM (GMT -6)

BBBCanada said...
By the way Jo-Anne. It was Meph Man who discussed "hard-times theology." He is more or less talking about theology that will take through, as he calls it, "the dark nights of the soul."

Thanks for the clarification BBB; I don't believe I've heard the term used here before. I'm still not sure what kind of theology it is that will take us through our "dark night of the soul," other than relationship, and I know that all theology involves that. I read somewhere recently that the word theology actually means thinking about God. I always thought it meant the study of God, because of the suffix. Thinking/studying--splitting hairs, perhaps. Anyway, I'm in my own dark night of the soul right now, and there are times when I think I see light at the end of this tunnel, and times when the light pales, and I am an optimistic person. This has been enlightening for me; none of us are immune to "dark nights." Relationship (relational theology) is the only way out that I can see.

Thoughts?
J

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Empiressque
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Posted 7/17/2005 9:36 PM (GMT -6)

Soul Purpose:
Thank you so much for your kind comments, and in particular, your prayers. Blessings to you!! You certainly seem like a kind soul.

BBC:
Yes, one of these days we shall meet! (I know, we said that 2 or 3 years ago, didn't we?!) Thanks for the links! And I came up with "True" for a name because I wanted to have a characteristic (like hope or grace) and "True" sounded better than "Truth" to me, plus, it has a more complex meaning than "truth" in my mind...it's almost like an action. "Be true..."

Peace,
~E+

BBBCanada
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Posted 7/18/2005 12:24 PM (GMT -6)

"True"...hmmmm...I like that. I like the reasoning behind it as well. Things are more fluid. And Jo-Anne, you'll want to listen up on Miss E. She has some great insights. Wow! Her and the other one....Mode's gal. But she doesn't show up as much these days. But then again, neither does Modes. :-)

Brandon

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