Last night, I read the entirety of C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters. It's a novel told in the form of letters written by a demon to another demon instructing him on ways to manipulate his "patient" to do evil.
This one quote sounded familiar.
@theswansjr “Bitcoin is backed by energy.”
Let me stop you right there.
You are basically saying it’s backed by unicorns and rainbows with this rhetorical rubbish… which we all know is the truth anyway.
@DrJohnVervaeke Not a thing.
Not merely the ground beneath things.
A living fire at the heart of being, the source from which all roads emerge and to which every road secretly returns.
@DrJohnVervaeke You say God is not another being among beings.
Good.
Because the Divine is not a face in the crowd,
not the tallest figure in the parade of things.
The old mystics knew this.
The Fathers knew it.
Even Aquinas knew it.
God is not trapped inside the inventory of existence.
@DrJohnVervaeke But neither is He a cold abyss,
an anonymous principle,
a philosophical fog drifting beneath reality.
The sacred is deeper than the split between seer and seen,
deeper than subject and object,
deeper than the mind that names and the thing that is named.
@RFupdates "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." "O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was."
@MmisterNobody It's not the video games, it's seeking validation for a way of life of everyday passive entertainment. Would Marcus Aurelius be playing video games every night? When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man...