presence or ideas

Which celebrity would you love to meet, and what would you talk about?

Ok, so celebrity is a broad term. I have people (present and past) in whose presence I would rejoice. And I have people (present and past) in whose ideas I would engage.

So presence: St Mary of Egypt, St Olga of Alaska, St Herman of Alaska. And I would simply sit and enjoy their presence. Encounter is the aim. The very person is special to me.

Ideas? Nihilism with Nietzsche, Christianity with Kierkegaard, Anglican Spirituality with Thornton. The experience of the conversation would be the aim. The ideas are special.

So anyway …

who cares …

I wake up at night singing this song.

Nowadays, it’s hard to feel alive
When the only way I want to live is to try and slowly die
And I should probably find a new explanation
‘Cause it’s been days and I’m running out of lies
My heart, it aches but as it star
I can feel a taste of what its like

To be happy
When truth is don’t really know what that means anymore

Lyrics

be true to myself

What does it mean to be a good person?

I think I answered this, somewhat, yesterday. So I am going philosphical on this one.

Jesus says, “Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments” (Matthew 19:17). The point: good requires an external standard – something against which to measure. (And, in turn, the absence of that standard is “bad”.) So the issue, for me, is the existence of such a standard. Or is standard something that has been created by culture and society? A quote ascribed to Nietzsche says it all for me:

The most dangerous form of blindness is believing that your perspective is the only reality.

So, a very long way to an answer, for me to be a “good person” means to be true to myself. Not in an abstract way but by living authentically. Being honest and humble. And acknowledging the ways that I am not authentic to myself.

[Following on from yesterday, that, of course, can mean I can be an authentic serial killer and still be a “good person”.]

Anyway …

duty of care

So I have a serious question:

Does the church have a duty of care to people outside the church when it comes to “healing ministry”?

A duty of care is a legal obligation to avoid acts or omissions that could foreseeably lead to harm to another person.

Go To Court Lawyers

This is what I mean: when a person comes for healing and, according to the church, is healed, but then goes on to commit harm to another (because of something which the church claims has been healed), is the church responsible?

So … should the church refer a person who has been healed to a “professional”? Either mental or physical.

good?

I love a good real crime show. So I watched Should I marry a murder?. I am also half way through The Staircase.

Something I have noticed, in my ignorance, is how often people who are the subject of these documentaries say, “I am a good person”. But, methinks, being a murder for whatever reason excludes you from being a “good person”. The very act defines “badness”.

Does intention matter? Of course it does. But saving yourself does not mean you are a “good person”. Does not the act itself define good and bad?

We all like to think of ourselves as good. But what does that really mean? Maybe we should simply ditch the “good / bad” distinction? And good “for me” maybe bad “for you”. Nietzsche would perhaps say that good is another way of saying useful.

Anyway, more crime documentaries for me today.

maybe Alaska

What’s a country that’s at the top of your bucket list?

With the understanding that I would never travel outside of my home town …

I would love to go to Alaska. I know it is not a country but a state. I think it is the bridge between Russia and the west. I watched Northern Exposure and loved it.

I have holy cards of a number of saints from Alaska. Also the weather would suit me.

Again, not going to travel but if. Anyway …

none!

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