To think and to be fully alive are the same.

Hannah Arendt

  • Consciousness is the foundation

    What is missing from an omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent God? Boundaries. What does an omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent God lack if he limits himself? The possibility of not taking responsibility. These two statements cry out for explanation. But they also form the basis for a thought experiment that attempts to explain the world. Let’s just start. In…

  • Friendship

    It is striking where the word for friend comes from in many languages. Let’s take Latin: amicus is a form of the word Amor, amare. In Greek, philia means both friendship and love. And in German, the word comes from Old Saxon friohon, Old English frēogan, Old Norse frjā, Gothic frijōn, which means to love…

  • Rethinking

    Most of you will know that I interpret “The Fall”, what led up to it, and what resulted from it quite differently from traditional Christianity. I do not buy the story of perfect paradise, followed by a moral and ethical assessment we failed, resulting, therefore, in a struggle back to the previous state, trying to…

  • The Church and Development

    I have written about communities before. Let me remind you: they can develop through four stages. In a pseudo-community, everybody agrees to believe the same. But many things are just not talked about. We assume that we all think the same, mostly because people do not dare to share their doubts, ask for clarification, or…

  • Self-Love and Omnipotency

    Here we go again. I can’t hear these platitudes anymore: ‘Love Myself’ and ‘I Can Do Anything.’ I’ve been told to recite those phrases to myself. To strengthen my insecurities. I was told friendship wouldn’t come until I loved myself. To no avail.

  • But we can dance with them! – Complexity and Models

    A model of reality that tells us how reality works is a false idol. Daniel Schmachtenberger As you might know, I am a Spiral Dynamics practitioner, CliftonStrengths coach, and Christian. I value all three views on the world, be it evolutionary psychology, positive psychology, or the biblical narrative. And still, I would never say that…

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