Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 VO
[Words3(2 impose on others.
Words3(2 are not inconsistent with free choice.
Words3(2 demand exchanges without reciprocity.
Words3(2 are co-opposed to bondage2(1)).]
[Words3(2 impose on others.
Words3(2 are not inconsistent with free choice.
Words3(2 demand exchanges without reciprocity.
Words3(2 are co-opposed to bondage2(1)).]
[Clearly, her words were intended to indicate her miserable condition.
Her words also conveyed that she was not responsible for her situation.
Social Security is free to compensate her for her “disability”.
If I were to criticize her, I would be a bad person.
I would be accused of thinkanti-helping_disabled_persons.]
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[Here is an example:
Recently, a 50 year old acquaintance said, “Look at my hands. I can’t do work. I am entitled to Social Security Disability.”
Then, she got into her SUV to drive to a party to play bridge.]
[Obligations3(2 put ‘the potentials inherent in me1’ into context.
It makes a difference whether those obligations3(2 are responsibilities3(2 or words3(2.]
[In the language of modernism, there is no difference between responsibility and words. Both create obligations.
In the language of postmodern scholasticism, they are mutually exclusive.]
[The American language is on the verge. It will soon turn, upending not just modernism’s false dichotomy of ‘responsibility’ and ‘freedom’, but the whole system of differences.]
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[The elixir of postmodern alchemy dissolves crystalline modernity.
Uncertainty replaces certainty.]
[Consider the thoughts that this piece of legislation has engendered.
Corporate media spew Progressive thinkpro-object while regulations remove freedom and responsibility from both providers and recipients.
Another name for a system without choice is a single payer system.]
[What is the meaning of each word?
Affordability is not determined by the consumer, but by a federal bureaucracy.
Care is not defined by the consumer, but by a faceless bureaucracy.
No one else is to be held responsible. No one else is to exercise freedom.
Our federal bureaucracy, who art in Washington, hallowed be thy name.]
[The term “words” points to a new plane of awareness.
Post-religious (enlightenment) religions alchemically fuse words to sin and thoughts to law.
Consider the misleading title of a purely Progressive law: The Affordable Care Act.
Each word misleads.]