Moreover, if primacy is also or therefore given to the ultimate reality of the non-conscious, then it may thereby be placing
its hope upon a reality which is indifferent to human affirmation and experience.
Not exact matches
presents a powerful alternative
upon facing this
reality: We can find
hope in humanity itself.
But nothing less than the recovery of real Christianity, with its ineradicable emphasis
upon human compassion, and its inexorable insistence
upon the transience of this world and the
reality of eternity, will ever put back into the disillusioned the faith,
hope, courage and gaiety which are the marks of a human being cooperating with his Creator.
During Christmas we celebrate this
hope» that «the dawn from on high will break
upon us»» shattering our ideas about
reality and about our circumstances.
The ultimate
reality upon which our
hope depends is therefore the eternal truth and power of God, breaking into the flow of historical events, qualifying it, transforming it, yet always to be understood as giving meaning to life through its relation to that which is beyond the time form of the world process.
«Messiah,» «Son of Man» are human ways of thinking, historically developed, and at best can only point to, suggest, symbolize the final salvation,
upon the
reality of which faith and
hope lay hold.
You know, we who CHOOSE to believe in
REALITY and who choose a morality based
upon HUMAN love, compassion, mindful awareness, and LOGIC as opposed to a salvation - based transactional morality - exchange entered into with a petty, arrogant, childish, vengeful, MYTHOLOGICAL «Sky Father» in the
hopes that, should we live a «good» life according to «His» contradictory, hypocritical, and inconsistent «rules» (or Commandments, or whatever you enjoy calling them) or else spend «Eternity» burning in everlasting torment in «Hell» you know, because «God» loves us so much.
A wise man will accept his faults, accept
reality, accept his shortcomings, accepts his mistakes and will do everything possible to improve
upon every part of his life which needs improvement.A foolish man hmmm I would say is the complete opposite.I
hope you guys see where am going with this so that it won't seem like I'm heaping insults on a certain somebody.
But there is
hope, compliments of Jane Friedman, the WD article's author (I prefer to call it a
reality check): «If your immediate thought
upon reading this blog post headline was something like: I couldn't stop trying even if someone told me to give up, then you're much closer to publication than someone who is easily discouraged.
In that way it also functions as a criticism of Doom in pointing out all of the unmanifested
realities a commercial game like Doom could never
hope to touch
upon.
The point you are trying to make is so vital, so incredibly significant, that I would
hope others could be encouraged to set their subjective discomforts aside, to put their ignorance and / or denial of
reality aside, and acknowledge the ominously looming, human - driven predicament before humanity, the one apparently induced by the huge scale and skyrocketing growth rate of global human over consumption, overproduction and overpopulation activities now overspreading the surface of the wondrous planetary home
upon which God has blessed us to live so well.
Heck, the only reason I even stumbled
upon this posting was because I typed «articling crisis» into Google, as I'm prone to do every now and then, in the idle
hope of finding something new which might help to shed light on the
reality that I and many others are currently facing.
He recalls a saying he once heard: «The wealthiest place on earth is the graveyard because in the graveyard, there are dreams that never became
realities and
hopes that were never acted
upon.