I had a fabulous night with my Bible study brothers and Im all enthusiastic and back on task. Thanks for everyones patience. What drives me is so many good women I know who live out ideals that I almost worship them. I know some of the most gladly self-giving women in the world, but Im not comparing one to another, they all take my breath away. I am filled with passion to protect the happy gutsy beauty of their wonderful teamwork with their honourable grateful husbands. Im also torn with grief about painfully beautiful hearts and fabulous minds and souls I see and love among sisters around me who are single but generously open to sharing in respectable family formation. These women have absolute perfection in their ideals, and suffer disappointments and live starved of legitimate and humble hopes and dreams. Dont mistake me for being a mens rights dude. Im not at all. Im just not against men. They are robbed too. I know many good men. But my heart doesnt break for men. I just see when good men are mistreated and children robbed of fathers, or children are not even born. I see the human project as essentially a womans project, believe me or not. I think men throughout history have thought the same. The *have* often got distracted by technology and politics away from the true, mother-centred, focus of the human project, and when they are distracted like that, its not good. But the solution is not pushing women into being like misguided men. Nor is it to deny that mother-centred implies father-managed. We are a family of families and single people have a place in that in a way families dont have much place in a uniformly drab mass of functionally indistinguishable individuals. Reproduction is way more interesting and vital than production or sterile eroticism, which only get intergenerational meaning via reproduction. The meek mothers of the world bear children who will inherit the earth. You seize today for your pleasures if you will, though I think finding those in family is more rewarding. I dont post to complain about life. Im personally content. I post because key things are wrong with assumptions in public discourse. I want all my friends and the world to know that Im prepared to denounce this. If others stood up, Id be happy to sit back and just vote for them. Im lazy like that. But what injures my sleep is thinking everyone else is asleep! Im not posting particularly to back individual causes. Im trying to show how so many of our issues arise from being confused about a handful of simple principles that the human race used to take for granted. Theres nothing clever about me being aware of what Ive read written by endless writers from many ages and in many cultures. Theres nothing brave about defending ideas with so much consensus to back them. Theres nothing radical in standing up for causes that benefit *everyone* rather than benefit people or issues that need awareness raised for them. All I see myself as doing is grimly clinging to empirical and reasoned truth, and universal intuitions about love. And I really pray that people will see that my methodology is genuinely neutral and realistically patient. There are things in the Bible about God that cannot be known any other way. But there is a lot in the Bible that is just about things that can be known other ways. The Bible does not socially construct truth, it reliably describes truth. And we can only demonstrate that by interpreting the Bible carefully and objectively and interpreting the world around us carefully and objectively, and *checking* that they match. My assertion or your assertion is irrelevant. We should take the example of the Bible to heart. It *expects* its assertions to be checked against facts. Facts are neutral. Lining up behind the opinions of people we like or trust is without any value at all unless it is done grounded on independent verification.
Posted on: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 22:58:00 +0000
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