Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 PF
[Should harmful practices and behaviors be regulated?
The question is, of course, rhetorical.
It is the question posed by the Big Government Liberal in the mirror of the world3a.]
09/25/18
09/24/18
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 PE
[The Progressive desires to organize opposition to tobacco products.
The Progressive pretends that a healthy lifestyle is an object that brings the individual into organization.
Is that Satanic?
No, if it aims to build the person’s character, to inform “him” of the consequences of “his” actions.
Yes, if it aims to impose the objectorganization upon the individual through sovereign power.
The former builds a person of greater responsibility and freedom.
The latter does not.]
09/21/18
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 PD
[When I smoke habitually, my entire heart may grow larger.
I may convince myself that I am brave and accept responsibility.
But I know that I, seat of choice3V, have chosen recklessly.
My own heart2 betrays what I could have been1V.]
09/20/18
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 PC
[Health-minded institutions not try to regulate human behavior by demanding sovereign power.
They should try to influence human behavior by presenting facts that induce dread.
This is the opposite view from Big Government Liberalism.]
09/19/18
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 PB
Summary of text [comment] page 83
[If governments do not regulate tobacco cigarettes, then the subject’s responsibilities and freedom increase.
Health-minded institutions must step in.
They must remind the smoker of “his” responsibilities and freedom.
In doing so, they build character.]
09/18/18
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 PA
[Progressives prefer forced over unforced conversion.
The material outcomes appear identical.
But the immaterial outcomes are not.]
09/17/18
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 OZ
Summary of text [comment] page 83
[Progressives cannot account for the immaterial world.
They cannot see it.
Categorical associations open the opportunity to envision how Progressives immaterially (or spiritually) gain from imposing their organizational objects.]
09/14/18
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 OY
Summary of text [comment] page 83
[In the case of giving up smoking, the overt behavioral change of unforced conversion appears identical to the change induced by forced conversion.
Progressives do not see that there is an immaterial difference.
Why?
They are committed to a materialist ideology.
Big Government Liberalism is the Materialist Ideology that won the Cold Battle Among the Enlightenment Gods (1945-1989), otherwise known as ‘the Cold War’.
Is it no better than the material ideology that lost the war?
Satan casts out Satan.
Yet, “his” house still stands.]
09/13/18
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 OX
[Smoking tobacco cigarettes2H is attractive1H. It interrupts repetitive patterns of negative thoughts.
Smoking tobacco cigarettes2H is dreadful2H. It ruins my lungs.
The contradiction may empower the potentials1V underlying my choice2V.
Thus, information3H becomes available to I, seat of choice3V, only indirectly.]
09/12/18
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 OW
[Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.]