There really is no point in tearing something down if you are not going to build something up in it's place. To be entirely deconstructional is a temptation for the PoMo generations. Any fool can pull lego blocs apart. Putting them together calls for optomism; you have to be constructive. Yet there is no enlightenment in building without any understanding of potential follies. We see this in the over-optomist. Aristotle would point out that there is a balance, or "Golden Mean" between the extreems of pessimist and over-optomist. Randy has the best idea for this.
Randy Webb referencing Chestertons says "We must dislike things enough to change them, and love them enough to make them worth changing." This is what I want people to think about me. I do not want to be part of society's problem, I want to be part of the solutions.
About Me
- Scott
- I am a dreamer in the body of a bureaucrat. Married to a lovely wife who gave me two splendid kids. Currently serving as the Dean of Students at Eston College.
Our walk
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hey scott! I just found your sight via rachel's links. I am so glad too... i will enjoy catching a slice of you world. Love your pick of you and my favourite little guy!
Kaleena
........bravo......join us brother.
These aren't personal criticisms, their a few reflections on what you've posted...
"I don't want to be a part of society's problem."
Aren't you a part of the problem? Born a part of the problem? In and of ourselves it is one of the oldest tenents of our historic faith that we are part of the problem and find ourselves entirely incapable of discovering/attaining a solution. That's why we've got the cross. That's why we cling to the cross. We can try all we like, but Humpty isn't going back together again. Deconstruction is what Adam did in the garden. Slippery slope indeed.
There is the old anonymous saying: "The devil was the first grammarian because he taught Adam to decline Deo in the plural."
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