Thanks for this, Peter. It brought a smile to my face that I needed so much after a long weekend. (Had a story rejected Friday which started the weekend, and I know, get used to it, but still...)
Anyway, I've not read that essay, and so will put it on my list for this week. Perhaps we need to say over and over what humanism is and to quote the Sermon on the Mount. Just quoting the sermon has done little. And look at what is going on today? Not to return us to the depressing stuff. Is there something that has changed in the classroom from 1988 and 2025? Maybe. I know that the business bros are not interested in the questions we ask. And often I think I should've become a writing teacher than a philosophy teacher. Anyway, regrets, right?
There's probably more humor in the Bible than we see. We have to see it from Jesus' view. Surely God/Jesus is laughing at how mostly men wrote about them and interpret them today.
2) To survive in my early day, I viewed rejections as leaves falling of a tree, and my tree had a hell of a lot of leaves.
3) PC, even years ag, never got it that the business world is often incompatible with Christain Humanism. When the finance people infiltrated with their anal Ph.D's in Assessment (that's true), the language of humanism disappeared.
4) If Jesus doesn't have a sense of humor, the I will gladly embrace complete annihilation.
religion = collectivism
humanism = individualism
I would agree.
P.S. "Humanism: A New Political Party, sounds like something from Canticle for Liebowitz
I’m on board with you, Peter! Totally!
Thanks for this, Peter. It brought a smile to my face that I needed so much after a long weekend. (Had a story rejected Friday which started the weekend, and I know, get used to it, but still...)
Anyway, I've not read that essay, and so will put it on my list for this week. Perhaps we need to say over and over what humanism is and to quote the Sermon on the Mount. Just quoting the sermon has done little. And look at what is going on today? Not to return us to the depressing stuff. Is there something that has changed in the classroom from 1988 and 2025? Maybe. I know that the business bros are not interested in the questions we ask. And often I think I should've become a writing teacher than a philosophy teacher. Anyway, regrets, right?
There's probably more humor in the Bible than we see. We have to see it from Jesus' view. Surely God/Jesus is laughing at how mostly men wrote about them and interpret them today.
Now, I have to write a story about a drunk God.
1) Terrific comment.
2) To survive in my early day, I viewed rejections as leaves falling of a tree, and my tree had a hell of a lot of leaves.
3) PC, even years ag, never got it that the business world is often incompatible with Christain Humanism. When the finance people infiltrated with their anal Ph.D's in Assessment (that's true), the language of humanism disappeared.
4) If Jesus doesn't have a sense of humor, the I will gladly embrace complete annihilation.