amasando... hahahahaha

"[Bonhoeffer's] nature remains undiscovered unless he is encountered as a person. He himself accepted the truncated nature of his vocation and writing as his destiny: 'The longer we are uprooted from our professional activities and our private lives, the more it brings home to us how fragmentary our lives are compared to those of our parents (or grandparents, etc.)… What chance have many of us today of producing a real magnum opus? How can we do all the research, the assimilation and sorting out of material which such a thing entails?... That means that culture has become a torso. The important thing today, however, is that people should be able to discern from the fragment of our life how the whole was arranged and planned. For there are some fragments which are only worth throwing into the dustbin, and even a decent hell is far too good for them. But there are some fragments whose importance lasts for centuries, because their completion can only be a matter for God, and therefore they are fragments which must be fragments. I think for example of the Art of the Fugue. If our life is but the remotest reflection of such a fragment, if in a short time we accumulate a wealth of themes and weld them together into a pleasin harmony and keep the great counterpoint going all through… then let us not bemoan the fragmentariness of our life, but rather rejoice in it.' "

bear with my processing...

existentialism... post-modernity...

individuality... aloneness? or self-sufficiency? but people are made for people. wait. passive 'are made'. my thought process, my language, is undeniably shaped by my Christian background. how would you say it then? or would you still say 'are made' but think 'by parents' instead of 'by God'? even so, Already the individual is no longer.

freedom... in everything... but real freedom, unchained? aren't you simply adding on more links? heavier ones? so many people dragging around mill-stones... do they even realize...?

choice. unlimited.
everything has limits...
do you feel suffocated by your unlimited options?

moral individualism...
I, god.
whoe... wait a second.
are you sure you can fill those shoes? are you sure you want to?

does hope exist for the existentialist/post-modernist? assuming this person is not a Christian... or perhaps not assuming anything of the sort...

what of grace?

these two words are probably two of the strongest words that I know...
what do they mean to you?

giving up on progress...

so... this is the title of a song currently being played by 'adelaide' in the cc... it made me think of some of the characteristics of existencialism... this paradigm of disillusionment with the world -- as it has been defined by the majority of our parents and all of our grandparents (generally speaking)... this 20% of the world caught up in the winds of discontentment... materialism doesn't work... 'God? What God? You actually believe in God? Come on. Christians are just as much into the secular world as agnostics, sometimes worse.' ... All questions, no answers... questions that breed questions... tolerance - the only people who can speak their minds are the ones who speak it in support of hearing everything and claiming nothing.
I really don't know what I'm talking about... maybe I'll talk some more later... maybe not.