Occasionally we still have the feeling that violence has long been done to the thingly element of things and that thought has played a part in this violence, for which reason people disavow thought instead of taking pains to make it more thoughtful. But in defining the essence of the thing, what is the use of a feeling, however certain, if thought alone has the right to speak here? Perhaps, however, what we call feeling or mood, here and in similar instances, is more reasonable—that is, more intelligently perceptive—because more open to Being than all that reason which, having meanwhile become ratio, was misinterpreted as being rational. The hankering after the irrational, as abortive offspring of the unthought rational, therewith performed a curious service. To be sure, the current thing-concept always fits each thing. Nevertheless, it does not lay hold of things as it is in its own being, but makes an assault upon it.” (pp. 150-151, Martin Heidegger, in What is Called Thinking)At memorial service thursday for Jim’s brother Tony, the pastor commented that so many people today are bible-illiterate. It was a soft jab.
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| brush drawing by Thomas Merton (image size: 8 1/2 h x 5” w, on gray card) |
Via Negitiva: A way of describing something by saying what it is not, especially denying that any finite concept of attribute can be identified with or used of God or ultimate reality.No help.
WARREN — The death of inmate Micah Boland Friday evening at the Maine State Prison in Warren has been classified as a homicide, according to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. http://knox.villagesoup.com/p/inmate-death-ruled-a-homicide/1135798When I walked through crosswalks between prison industries and cellblocks hours earlier that morning had he seen me, had I seen him?
