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One Love
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| Posted 3/16/2008 10:57 AM (GMT -6) |   | Tom: To sort IS to differentiate. That's what it means.
Corey: Well, here's a simpler topic where I may actual contribute. Sorting, in this usage, is better considered a synonym for ordering or prioritizing than for differentiating. The statement in the case is meant to comment on whether you tend to FIRST pay attention to differences, or to similarities.
Exactamundo, Corey! Selah would know this too. NLP stuff.
I know myself here. I order first by SIMILIARITY (gestalt-like), then move to difference.
It seems to me that Tom does so by DIFFERENCE (particulars), then moving to similiarities.
And it plays out in the way we focus our theologizing.
"One"/"Many"
"Imago Dei"/"HumanHypostasis"
Universality/Particularity
Mutuality/Uniqueness
Oneness/Differentiation
It's been pretty consistent with how I see Tom and I interact.
Whoever knows and recognizes how near God’s Kingdom is to him may say with Jacob, “God is in this place, and I knew it not.”
Meister Eckhart, "The Nearness of the Kingdom"
Once, having been asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, "The coming of the kingdom of God is not something that can be observed, nor will people say, 'Here it is,' or 'There it is,' because the Kingdom of God is within you.
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Tom
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| Posted 3/16/2008 11:52 AM (GMT -6) | | |
Tom: To sort IS to differentiate. That's what it means.
Corey: Well, here's a simpler topic where I may actual contribute. Sorting, in this usage, is better considered a synonym for ordering or prioritizing than for differentiating. The statement in the case is meant to comment on whether you tend to FIRST pay attention to differences, or to similarities.
Tom: Right. Still, though, to order by priority is to ‘differentiate’ between relative importances (if I can make that word a plural), or importance-levels. There’s no sorting/ordering that is not a differentiation according to some given measurement or standard.
But if D’s point was just to say that I pay attention to difference first, cool. I thought he meant something else.
I don’t know how I’d be in OTHER conversations, but in THIS one I’m fighting for the existence of differentiation (with regard to personal identity), so sure, I’m paying attention to difference. If I were talking to some deist who rejected the notion of any participation or engagement at all between the divine and the human, I’d be less concerned about differentiation and more concerned about unity/oneness, but that would be a totally different conversation.
Your friendly neighborhood contextualizer,
T
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