Wednesday tries to understand a really broad topic, goodness, and how it relates to unity.
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I really like this video, but I at first had a hard time thinking of how to express my thoughts about it.
While I like the idea of goodness having to do with this "story" I cannot escape the feeling that there is a more "essential whatness" to it than that. That goodness is more . . . itself than that. However, I think it's a good illustration. Perhaps the difficulty is that definitions depend on comparison to be explained. You can't really get at goodness ITSELF in definitions, it is explained through something else. I agree wholeheartedly that goodness is not just "virtue". This would place goodness outside of Gods character and make it too . . . solid or universal to be . . . from God, I suppose. (It would separate our Goodness from our dependence on God.) I think I'm going to make a video about this. The difference between being in service to the universal (ethics, virtue) and in service to the absolute (God).
I love (heh) the idea that love is the one of the three that . . . gives something to another person. Yes, this totally fits with Kierkegaard. He would probably also say that in loving this one person, if they are who is set before you, you love the whole world. (yet to exclude love of anyone else for that one person is to not love even them as your neighbor).
A Year Of Questions is a project begun on March 22, 2010, by seven teens who want to be better at asking questions and articulating answers. This blog exists to make it easier to discuss these questions (because a 500 character limit on YouTube comments is rather limiting). Enjoy!
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I really like this video, but I at first had a hard time thinking of how to express my thoughts about it.
While I like the idea of goodness having to do with this "story" I cannot escape the feeling that there is a more "essential whatness" to it than that. That goodness is more . . . itself than that. However, I think it's a good illustration. Perhaps the difficulty is that definitions depend on comparison to be explained. You can't really get at goodness ITSELF in definitions, it is explained through something else.
I agree wholeheartedly that goodness is not just "virtue". This would place goodness outside of Gods character and make it too . . . solid or universal to be . . . from God, I suppose. (It would separate our Goodness from our dependence on God.) I think I'm going to make a video about this. The difference between being in service to the universal (ethics, virtue) and in service to the absolute (God).
I love (heh) the idea that love is the one of the three that . . . gives something to another person. Yes, this totally fits with Kierkegaard. He would probably also say that in loving this one person, if they are who is set before you, you love the whole world. (yet to exclude love of anyone else for that one person is to not love even them as your neighbor).
Also, you're lovely.
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