The Debt to the Wise and the Foolish

I came across this meme on r/Enlightenment and figured I'd share it and my response to it:  Evidently there is more than thought, since the blankness of the subsequent statement is not thought, but a sensible image, so along with thoughts there are sensible images. Sensible images clearly vary, as we have white on the one side, and black on the other; and of course, there is the sensible image of the various colors in the meme, the cartoon faces, the words, etc. in turn, outside of this meme there is the whole web-page, which is not merely a still image but a moving one, it can scroll up or down.  In turn, there is the moving image of the body before the screen; the hand holding the phone, or typing on the keyboard, etc. human bodies abound, as distinct from the bodies of animals, plans, and inanimate objects, and from the space in which these exist; and among these human bodies there is a body in experience distinct from others. It is one experienced most frequently, yet als...

  The line between good and evil cuts through the heart of man, and the line between true and false cuts through his mind. There are many good forms of neutrality; neutrality in listening to another person's views i.e. bracketing one's own beliefs for the moment so as to better attend to what they say, this is good since it allows the truth of another person's view to arise more clearly in one's mind. Neutrality is also an essential step in phenomenology, it is the 'epoche' of the reduction, likewise a bracketing of one's views so that as unbiased a description of phenomena as possible can arise. Once again, neutrality in forming one's arguments, that is, by appealing to premises which one knows (or at least, has good reason to believe) are common ground between one's interlocutor and one's self, rather than appealing to premises which one knows (or again, has good reason to believe) one's interlocutor shall dispute; this too is a good form o...

A prayer I wrote to God I contemplation of the Holy Wounds.  Praise: Lord you are the beauty ever ancient and beauty ever new, the Trinity in unity and unity in Trinity, the one God above all, simple, yet infinite in all perfections; in truth, goodness, and beauty, in justice, mercy, and peace, in wisdom, power, and love, you are thrice holy, infallible and impeccable, pure and source of moral purity, you are that than which none greater can be conceived, and that greater than all that can be conceived, incomprehensible Lord, you are beyond the grasp of human reason to know in full, and so beyond the human capacity to praise fully, so that all our praise is but an understatement of the great glory that is you. God, you are he who is, and your name is sacred above all, and worthy to be praised, blessed, loved, adored and glorified, now, and forever and ever. thanksgiving:  Lord I thank you for this life, and for my family, and for all the good you do for me and for us all, I t...

Premise 1: All that is mental is directed to something. Premise 2: Mental things exists. Premise 3: Mental things can be directed to mental things. Theorem 1: Chains of mental things directed to mental things can exist. (P3, UI, MI) Theorem 2: If all that exists is mental, all that exists is a chain of mental direction. (1, 3, UI, ACP) Premise 4: An endless chain of mental direction (be it endless due to looping in on itself or going on infinitely) is meaningless. Theorem 3: if all that exists is a chain of mental direction, nothing meaningful exists. (P4, UI, ACP) Theorem 4: If all that exists is mental, nothing meaningful exists. (T2, T3, CP) Premise 4: Something meaningful exists. Conclusion: Not everything is mental. (T4, P4, MT) Defense of premises and theorems: Defense of premise 1: To be conscious is always to be conscious 'of' something, so awareness is awareness of something, experience experience of something; thought is always thought about something, conception or...

 Jesus said that he did not come to abolish the law but to fulfill it, and the law itself says: "honor your Father and Mother" and as such, Mary had Jesus ear.  Thus though Jesus is King, the tradition of the ancient kingdom of Israel was that the queen of Israel was not the wife of the King (for the king could have many wives) but rather the mother of the King (the גְּבִירָה‎ i.e. 'Gebirah', translating roughly to 'great lady' and often translatd as: "queen mother") hence Solomon had a throne set up at his right hand for his mother, whose requests he was willing to hear out (1 Kings 2:19-20) and this makes sense in light of how the King of Israel was still subject to the covenant of God with Israel, and so would himself be subject to the commandment of honoring father and mother.  In light of this, if the Kingdom of God is in any way reflected by the Kingdom of Israel (which seems to be, for the new covenant in the blood of Jesus (Luke 22:20) which ...

 Christ was wounded by the nails which pierced his hands and feet, and the spear that pierced his side, the thorns which pierced his holy head, the scourges at the pillar, and perhaps in his heart at gesthemane in the loneliness in seeing his coming death.  Christ is the way, the truth, and the life. Christ is the light of the world. Christ is the Word, the Logos, the Son of the Father and who sends the Spirit.  The Way The hands and feet and side of The Way are pierced. The Way wears a crown of thorns.  The Way was scourged at the pillar.  The heart of The Way suffered at Gesthemane. The Truth The hands and feet and side of The Truth are pierced. The Truth wears a crown of thorns.  The Truth was scourged at the pillar.  The heart of The Truth suffered at Gesthemane. The Life The hands and feet and side of The Life are pierced. The Life wears a crown of thorns.  The Life was scourged at the pillar.  The heart of The Life suffered at Gestheman...