To think and to be fully alive are the same.

Hannah Arendt

  • Law, Lawless, Immature

    We know that the law is not meant for a righteous person, but for the lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinful, for the unholy and irreverent, for those who kill their fathers and mothers, for murderers. 1Ti 1:9 I am in a writing class at the moment to find my unique voice and…

  • Easter

    What is Easter all about? I think that for centuries we have misunderstood the concept and the whatabouts of Easter. Let me give you the traditional understanding of the why and the what of Easter: God created mankind and man rebelled against him at the first occasion. They ate the forbidden fruit to become like…

  • Sitting in a Room doing less

    Already in 1654, the French philosopher and devout Christian Blaise Pascal quipped: All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone. Blaise Pascal Can you imagine that coming rom a person that lived in a time when things were still done in a seasonal manner? Outdoor activities like horseback…

  • Autism

    I have suspected it for a long time. A few months ago, I have been diagnosed with an Autism Spectrum Disease. When I talked to my mom about it years ago, she laughed at the thought, because she had the old narrative in mind of what autism looks like: children being secluded to their own…

  • Dialogos

    Dialogos cannot be made happen nor can I just wait for it to appear in some magical way. Dialogos appears where there is dialectic. Dialectic classically is the art of investigating or discussing the truth of opinions. And while we investigate or discuss the truth of opinions in an engaged and open manner, dialogos might…

  • Imagining Visualization

    I have aphantasia. It is the inability to visualize. Otherwise known as image-free imagination. This text is a musing about “What if I was not internally blind?” It must be overwhelming. If I imagine that all those things that get me thinking would in addition have an image pop up before my inner eye, I…

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