Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 MJ
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[Let me list the lower level co-opposition.
Responsibility3a(2a & freedom2a(1a)
Corresponds to:
Mirror of the world3a( something2a( me1a))]
Summary of text [comment] page 83
[Let me list the lower level co-opposition.
Responsibility3a(2a & freedom2a(1a)
Corresponds to:
Mirror of the world3a( something2a( me1a))]
Summary of text [comment] page 83
[Both the ancient Jewish and modern American infra(sovereign) religions possessed objects that bring all subjects into organization.
Both were and are committed to creating the thought experiement3a or a mirror of the world3a.]
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[The elite’s desire to blame others for whatever bothers them2a is the ‘something2a’ that holds Americans in bondage.
Progressive experts thrive on representing the good ones and identifying and destroying the bad ones.]
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[My own inadequacy in understanding how to fulfill God’s laws2a was the ‘something2a’ that held first century common-folk Jews in bondage.
Paul, on the other hand, originally felt that he counted among the elites.
He knew how to fulfill God’s laws:
Persecute the followers of Jesus.]
[In the above examples, what do I desire?
I want to get along.
Therefore, the elites must never be satisfied with me.
They will always be morally superior in order to force me to pretend to desire things that I would never would desire on my own.
I desire to be left alone.
What I do to accomplish that desire validates the values that valorize elite moral superiority.]
[How did we get this way?
It started with the first singularity.
Humans adopted a new way of talking, speech alone talk, leaving behind the referential world of hand speech talk.
Speech alone talk allows us to create purely symbolic orders3a, specialized languages3a, thought experiments3a and mirrors of the world3a, whose unintended consequences (lawessential) can be ignored, and therefore must be ignored, by the elites who benefit from the ‘something2a’ that emerges and situates the possibilities inherent in me1a.]
Summary of text [comment] page 83
[Just as the regular first-century Jews selected the ‘something2a’ that empowered the Pharisees, many twentieth century Americans vote for ‘something2a’ that denies other people’s rights and properties.
By pretending to be a victim, we get free stuff.
We vote for Progressive representatives to scam easily intimidated common folk (who strive to build wealth).
The very rich folk, however, have different options.
They hire lobbyists.
How character building is that?]