READ, PROCESS, LINGER…
Meditation is private soliloquy… thought in private solitude.
Meditation can divorce us from the external world while we search or contemplate the abstract or certain concepts. For example: God is perceivable and conceivable based on certain evidence that defy any other explanation. Therefore, faith makes God appear to be real, whereas empiricism, even intellect, utterly rejects his existence.
Common sense realism is not as critical as intellect, but neither is it naive. Common sense is based on logic, which is the same method as intellect without the detail – things are not always as they appear to be.
Conceptual factors enter into our perceptual conscious experience of existing things. In other words, our normal perceptions are conceptually enlightened. This is the distinguishing difference between homo-sapien and other life forms.
For example of conceptual enlightenment – we perceive something as fact or concrete evidence, others as abstract. However this is a misstatement, or perhaps even a paradoxical statement, because all ideas are abstract or conceptual when considered universally, not individually. In other words, we are able to confirm our conclusions based on other concepts. In so doing, our perception is enlightened by what we already know to be true or self-evident.
When we theorize the objects of our thought, it may or may not exist as we perceive it. Therefore we must be able to substantiate our conclusion – experience it by testing, observation, etc. Perceptual experience may be involved that can only become reality in concept – we can experience perception but cannot derive a conclusion if there is no conceptual bases. The object remains philosophical or theoretical in nature until substantiated. Both theoretical constructs and empirical constructs are involved in intellectual pursuit.
In personal crisis, the intrusion of panic, fear, doubt, worry or self pity obscure reality, cut off thought, and eliminate common sense. In crisis, complexity must needs be reduced to simplicity. Overwhelming situations or complications can be logically concluded by calm rationality.
Human equality is a panacea that cancels human freedom – the foundation of human life.
Socialism, communism, and altruism are satanic systems of false reality. Religion breeds contempt and unhappiness when the proselytized submits control of their life to a hierarchy of humans who insist and enforce ritualistic systems of asceticism or lasciviousness. Legalism exalts human good and production above Christ and is contradictive and counterfeit of Christianity. Anthropocentric intellectuality is humanism, which depicts man as the center of life and the measure of all things – the philosophy of man.
The relationship of creation and the wisdom it holds makes man wise.
The dome of Heaven in the night sky reveals the history of man, the fallen serpent, and our victorious Savior, all spelled out in the constellations (which have been hijacked and turned into astrology, negating the original story put there by God Himself). Those constellations tell a different story than the one we have been led to believe, from Christ’s birth to the agony of the cross.
Government fosters the hallucination of equality, which it can never qualify.
What I find vulnerable about American freedom is the tyranny that always lurks close by.
In a democratic society, each generation has a new challenge and risk to maintain itself.
In America, the wealthy minority supply the products and opinions of the majority.
Certain Americans are so obsessed with equality that they risk the equality of enslavement rather than the inequality of freedom. People are out of place with Truth because they would rather reside in their comfort zone, living harmoniously (and ignorantly) with “their truth.” The wealthy and educated have freed themselves from God, but believe that faith keeps the poor and uneducated in line.
A liar should have a perfect memory.
Life goes on in spite of itself.
All quotes are by C. S. Craig unless otherwise noted.