tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4043614237635944555.post4307165389802799296..comments2023-10-28T06:52:53.451-07:00Comments on MODERN LECTIONARIES: THE LITTLE APOCALYPSE: Hope or Tribulation?Rich Procidahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17725435787045864505noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4043614237635944555.post-81482792459842504172015-11-15T17:10:56.793-08:002015-11-15T17:10:56.793-08:00Your commentary on this passage made me think abou...Your commentary on this passage made me think about some of its themes. The idea of Cosmic Apocalypse has never really grabbed me as a believer because, 1. as an event singularity, its occurrence probability of many orders less than probable in relationship to me and this now world makes it a non event and more of a reductive abstraction, and 2. an occurrence probability of probable makes it a meaningless, post event because all of us, ipso facto, then are become obviously members of the null set in a time many orders less than the twinkle an eye blinks, from something out of nothing to something into nothing, an end wall of paradox, like go jump into a big black hole, a symmetry of coherent annihilation, really? This is more the aesthetics of physics than pragmatic description. The Big CA for me is a kind of end parenthesis like the start parenthesis of the Big Bang physicists talk about in the dry terms of event and process math, aphenomenologically meaningful on paper but not in our phenomenological world, which world reflects the embedding of our experiences in limiting, adjectival contexts, or in the various implicates of the Creation, more of which, below.<br /><br />When Jesus talks about the end of the world, it makes more sense to me that he's adverting to the fact that in a creation of radical contingency, by our agencies, yea and nay, will our worlds be upturned and ended. Thus, new worlds of birthing developmentally manifest; like the intra-uterine world of the fetus become the post uterine world of the infant, old world dying, ending, become different new world emerged. Another example is personal. Half a century ago, when I got dumped into the middle of a war in Vietnam, my prior world ended, my new world, a killing world began, then when the "Freedom Bird" brought me home, my Vietnam Hell world ended and a third world began with differing pains and sufferings. Where do all things go in this Creation which forms our life long affective mutating contexts? It took a while for me to see these contingent successions of new worlds, but when I did through a glass darkly maybe less darkly, a meaningful hope and a faith that arose therefrom eventually led me to feel the press of and belief in a living grace that allows us to inch toward redemption if we choose to say yes in open hearted thanksgiving in whatever idiom to the savior of all. And this is universal to all the religions which are the various inward and outward eyes and ears and hearts and spirit minds the Lord has endowed us all by which we find the ways by ourselves and with each other to ourselves in community with each other coming together into communion with Our Lord. I agree with you that it isn't adherence to the fixity of some particular and contingent doctrine, some crotchity and mean catch all orthodoxy, but the grace granted to so supple leanings of the heart's yearnings toward the thin places of the spirit where, in my case, the Lord touches me, and maybe all of us in our own unique ways, in his own inscrutable but insistent ways. Hallelujah!<br /><br />I thank you for your lights which for me has made this passage of Mark a little more 3-D.Paul Lawrencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17901580048951681945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4043614237635944555.post-80210114946917633092015-11-14T19:53:06.397-08:002015-11-14T19:53:06.397-08:00Beautifully Interpreted Mark 13:1-8. God Bless You...Beautifully Interpreted Mark 13:1-8. God Bless You. <br />Danielnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4043614237635944555.post-43351720176028566042013-02-18T11:13:46.879-08:002013-02-18T11:13:46.879-08:00I would like to write professionally. I've pu...I would like to write professionally. I've published one academic book, but would like to write another book for the general public. I'm using this blog to work toward that goal. It would be great to write magazine articles, too. Richard Mario Procidahttp://www.modernlectionaries.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4043614237635944555.post-29368949847012645472013-02-18T04:01:44.972-08:002013-02-18T04:01:44.972-08:00Hey! First of all I would like to say the fact tha...Hey! First of all I would like to say the fact that you actually managed to create a beautiful site. Also I wanted to ask you one thing that I am interested about. Do you have an idea to write in a professional way or running a blog is basically just a hobby of yours?AppreciateYourTimehttp://appreciateyourtime.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.com