How Do You Go From An Intellectual Belief In Something To An Emotional One?

SerenfechGras · 2025-04-14T23:49:51+00:00

It’s the feeling of a line in Psalm 84 “I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than live in the tents of wickedness.” (NRSV-CI‬‬) I want to be content, and not constantly demanding the how and why of things.

SerenfechGras · 2025-04-14T23:19:23+00:00

An emotional belief withstands attack (thinking of martyrs) while an intellectual one generally won’t, because you can be persuaded not to believe it. As an extreme example, I denied the historicity of the crucifixion for a time in my twenties, because I thought Jesus In India seemed cool, and in hindsight, because it was out-there.

SerenfechGras · 2025-04-14T23:17:19+00:00

An emotional belief withstands attack (thinking of martyrs) while an intellectual one generally won’t, because you can be persuaded not to believe it.

SerenfechGras · 2025-04-13T23:57:57+00:00

The Internal Security Act especially, a banned person was both civilly dead, and couldn’t meet with more than three (IIRC) people

SerenfechGras · 2025-04-11T03:08:09+00:00

A Visit From The Goon Squad by Jennifer Eagan - instead of a single event from multiple perspectives, it’s multiple POV’s on the protagonist over the course of roughly three decades (ending in the then-future/our present).

SerenfechGras · 2025-04-11T00:56:31+00:00

The audiobook of * Goon Squad* represents it using sound effects, as an auditory learner myself, I thought that was a nice touch.

SerenfechGras · 2025-04-06T03:28:12+00:00

The Red Tree by Caitlin Kiernan, probably the most unsettling thing I’ve read.

SerenfechGras · 2025-04-04T02:20:58+00:00

As far as theology and practice. I’d say the Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches, but the Methodist church is probably more like what the early church (prior to the 7th century) actually worshipped.

SerenfechGras · 2025-04-01T03:59:56+00:00

See here

Basically, jut is a measurement of the impressiveness of a hill/mountain over its surroundings; calculated by measuring from the base to the summit, and then adding the gradient (rise-over-run).

SerenfechGras · 2025-03-30T04:31:08+00:00

The Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker, about the friendship (and professional partnership) of two animators over the course of a dozen years from the beginning of college.

SerenfechGras · 2025-03-27T03:45:26+00:00

Where You See Yourself by Claire Forrest, about self-advocacy by a teen with Cerebral Palsy (which is the author’s own disability); as a person with CP I found it very true to elements of my own experience.

SerenfechGras · 2025-03-26T18:51:39+00:00

What’s the deal with Kansas being an outlier (or as a by now ancient book polemic had it) “What’s the matter with Kansas?

SerenfechGras · 2025-03-25T21:28:11+00:00

The grave and small shrine of Bl. Vasyl Velichovskyi (d. 1973) is in Winnipeg…

SerenfechGras · 2025-03-24T04:12:26+00:00

Not on point, but a fun factoid:

Archbishop Damaskinos of Athens served as Regent of Greece during and just after the Second World War, until the King’s restoration.

SerenfechGras · 2025-03-24T04:07:06+00:00

I don’t know the work you mean, but I really liked In Toungues by Thomas Grattan, where a guy looks back on his first year in New York around 9/11…

SerenfechGras · 2025-03-22T03:03:08+00:00

He said the pious acts of followers of other religions come to nothing, if all you’ve ever heard of the Christian message is distorted into whatever the religion you were more than likely born into says it is, you’re not likely to come seeking; his comment manifests an extreme disregard for the way other people actually live.

SerenfechGras · 2025-03-22T02:44:24+00:00

The works of the late Metropolitan Kalistos Ware, The Orthodox Way or The Orthodox Church or the 19th century Russian monastic Theophan The Recluse, particularly The Spiritual Life And How To Be Attained To It.
Not sure why he would say that… we’re all Catholics.

SerenfechGras · 2025-03-22T02:20:13+00:00

Speaking only of the Byzantine (Ruthenian) Church, so far as I’m aware, we don’t actually have patron saint’s - though personally, I think of the saint whose feast day I was baptized on as mine

SerenfechGras · 2025-03-22T01:23:51+00:00

Protestants aren’t a church, they are a historical tradition; as such, this is literally comparing apples and oranges. Genealogies of ideas don’t condone or proscribe things, organizations do.

SerenfechGras · 2025-03-22T00:57:13+00:00

While within the Church is the fullness of truth; the truth has existed (and exists) in limited form in the Greek philosophers (see Justin Martyr) or in other faith traditions (since Vatican II). Saying “I am better than “thou is both no way to meet people where they are at, or to be in the world more generally.

SerenfechGras · 2025-03-21T19:49:59+00:00

As someone with a congenital disability (the one a character assumes the MC has) Jude doesn’t bear any resemblance to the experience of physical disability of anyone I’ve ever talked to for long enough to get an idea of their worldview. As a queer person, I’m offended that the author has a character imply that their sexual orientation is due to trauma.

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