German Words of Wisdom

"I faked it until I believed it !"
Evelyn

A new member of the community on the way

You may or may not know that, our friends, Kath and Derek Powell are at the hospital in  the process of welcoming a new baby. Their child is breach, and will likely require C-section. Please keep the Powell's in your prayers for safe arrival of this baby and Kath's recovery.

Also, the baby is coming a little earlier than expected and so the house isn't quite ready to be as welcoming as their hearts. So, as a loving community, let's make ourselves available to help in any way the Powell's should need us.

The Fatal Conceit & The Errors of Socialism

by F.A. Hayek

On Differentiation

Freedom involves freedom to be different - to have one's own ends in one's domain; yet order everywhere, and not only in human affairs, also presupposes differentiation of its elements. Such differentiation might be confined merely to the local or temporal position of its elements, but an order would hardly be of any interest unless the differences were greater than this. Order is desirable not for keeping everything in place, but for generating new powers that would otherwise not exist. The degree of orderliness - the new powers that order creates and confers - depends more on the variety of the elements than on their temporal or local position.

The advantage of individual differentiation is all the greater in that it makes large groups more efficient. Thus, differences among individuals increase the power of the collaborating group beyond the sum of individual efforts. Synergetic collaboration brings into play distinctive talents that would have been left unused had their possessors been forced to strive alone for sustenance.

Thus individuals had to become different, before they could be free to combine into complex structures of cooperation. Moreover, they had to combine into entities of a distinct character: not merely a sum but a structure in some manner analogous to, and in some important respects differing from, an organism.

Neurosis

I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage, reputation, outward success or money and remain unhappy and neurotic even when they have attained what they were seeking. Such people are usually confined within too narrow a spiritual horizon. Their life has not sufficient content, sufficient meaning, and if they are enabled to develop into more spacious personalities, the neurosis generally disappears. For that reason the idea of development was always of the highest importance to me.

C. Jung

Pondering "Wild at Heart"

by: O'Steven Joyce another Irish writer

Apparently in 2002 many mild mannered, very polite and nice tame guys read it and talked about it and went to conferences about it and discussed it some more and thought about it and pondered its meaning with other nice guys around the USA until it became a best seller in the evangelical world where it was put on the agenda for further committee meetings to determine how it might be incorporated into the church without causing nasty disruptions and divisional splits that might actually lead to destructive situations where determined young men go on the offensive picking fights while destroying reputations in the process of living passionately for their Lord, and once marshalling their band of destructive brothers go on to wipe out all forms of freedom that don't conform to their particular brand of pure faith and with righteous anger they flaunt their strength quoting scripture while scaring women and children and stampeding in herds that rush to and from as God's army defending Christendom from pagans while traveling as globetrotting missionaries building a kingdom out of sheer might and power of persuasion inspired by the Holy Ghost of doom and gloom for the salvation of the heathen, grown cold and stupid with generations of sin and wickedness that couldn't recognize God if he showed up as Morgan Freeman on the big screen at the drive in theater where modernist philosophy is the bottom line of a culture needing the white hot fire of revival and the inoculation of the mega church membership somewhere in the suburbs away from the the urban stains of the dust of death that have clouded any clear thinking at the universities and the broader global marketplace which racks up capital hoards of wealth tainted with the sweat and blood of countless, faceless souls laboring to survive in coastal third world cities that have clearly rejected Jesus' saving grace for ancestor worship and animal sacrifice over thousands of years leading to, poverty, disease and AIDS not to mention global warming and other countless afflictions whose spread and high mortality rates are a blight not only to those guilty containers of wasted humanity but even the chosen brethren spread in the blessed lands of Europe and the USA where faith has taken root and the likes of Calvin, Luther and Wesley have turned over in their graves at the state of the affairs in the kingdom at the start of another century where once again faithful destructive men with righteous anger lay waste the sin and corruptions that so easily entangles them.

Shame. All this from a wee little book.

"... blues-inflicted hope..."

Some light watching

I admit, 40 minutes is a long time to spend watching a show on the internet, but I think this one is worth it. Morgan Spurlock, of Super Size Me fame, did a show where he spent 30 days on a Navajo reservation. 

I would love to know what you all think.