(False) Humility?
Is it an honest display of humility, or an example of (needless) self-abasement? Or is it simply an intellectual acknowledgement? I’m talking about those people who describe themselves in something like the following way: “32, husband, brother, pastor, author, hater, failure, servant, sinner…” What do people mean when they describe themselves as ‘hater, failure… sinner’? Do they mean the same thing when particular PoMo (postmodern) Christians describe themselves as ‘heretical’? I see these descriptions a lot on Facebook, so there must be some sort of nonchalant attitude surrounding them (or are they titles?). I suppose I’m struggling with the point, what is the point? It doesn’t read like humility to me, nor does it read like a simple stating of facts. Rather, it reads as something false. I don’t know what, but it doesn’t seem sincere.
While purchasing my classical guitar I asked the guitar tech why he didn’t … (Read more)
Inconsistent self
This is just a short thought in continuation from my post yesterday on the virtue of magnanimity. I find that there are certain feelings which are related to those of inadequacy, and I’ll call them ‘thoughts of consistency”. To give an example, this would take the form of doing or saying something early in life and then coming to disagree with that view as one grows older. Truthfully I don’t think there is anything wrong with this, and would think it rather hard to grow if not for expressing views which are allowed to evolve. Take for instance a post I wrote quite a while ago, “Response to Postmodern Biblical Authority” (it’s worth reading, so check it out). Since writing it I’ve come to read more on the subject (such as Lyotard’s books), and as a result I’ve come to better understand the argument presented. Now, this is … (Read more)
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