#particularity

[addictivecontradiction]

기생충, 2019

[genuineemotionwriter]

Love and Particularity

Being deceived by the idea that you've found your true love or "the one" can make you very unwilling to share this love with anyone else. Little do you know, you might've found yourself a Mr. Wrong and, through your idealization of him, have convinced yourself somehow that he's your Mr. Right. I feel so dumb for having reserved my love all these years for one person who never even cared to return it. True love is mutual — there are no ifs, ands, or buts about it. As Rupi Kaur expresses in her book The Sun and Her Flowers, it is so wrong to associate the idea of love with or attach it to one human being when the concept of love is something that is much deeper and sincere than that. The beauty of love lies in that single, unique sensation and not in any concrete form, for it is impermissible to take an emotion so eternal and mortalize it. Your love is a miracle. Don't keep it to yourself just because one person refuses to possess it. Don't be greedy or selfish about it. Use the love that is within you to realize the love and joy you seek in your relationships and connections with other people in this world. There are far more people who deserve a sprinkle of this love than that unappreciative "lover" of yours who keeps it on hold. Love is that beauty that lies within you. Save your love for those who deserve it and can return it to fill that void that was created in you every time you decided to give it away to people who failed to give it back. Love is meant to be a never-ending cycle of mutual exchange of pure compassion. What you give is what you get, but if you don't get what you gave, then what you had to offer was never received in the first place. It would go to waste unless you decide to seize it and redistribute it evenly with the loving people of this world. He's just not worth it because you deserve to feel loved as well. Unconditional love has none but one condition: it must be true.

[recreation-law]

A season pass release for a Pennsylvania ski are was limited to the inherent risks of skiing. Consequently, the plaintiff was able to argue his injury was not due to an inherent risk.

A season pass release for a Pennsylvania ski are was limited to the inherent risks of skiing. Consequently, the plaintiff was able to argue his injury was not due to an inherent risk.

The defendant one because the court was able to interpret the risk as one that was inherent in skiing. The defendant also, laid out the risks of skiing quite broadly in its information to the plaintiff.

Cahill v. Ski Liberty Operating Corp., 2006 Pa. Dist. & Cnty. Dec. LEXIS 444; 81 Pa. D. & C.4th 344

State: Pennsylvania, Common Pleas Court of Adams County, Pennsylvania

Plaintiff: Timothy Joseph…

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[duhk-ha]

Easy for some, hard for others

[vanessa1blog]

Siate fieri di essere fuori tempo. Fieri di essere fuori moda, di dir la cosa sbagliata al momento giusto. Fieri di pensarla diversamente. Fuori dal gregge. Fieri di essere fuori.

[adventism-atheism-orthodoxy-me]

Meditation on a Blade of Grass

Recently I've been reading with interest the articles being posted on Fr. Stephen Freeman's blog - as always the comments sections are pure gold.

One of the things I said, have even said in the comments of his blog back in the day when it was part of Ancient Faith Media, was that I was tired of worshiping a constrained and circumscribed God.

Father Freeman has used those words in his impassioned defense of the particular.

Except - I was tired of worshiping the God my Protestant teachers told me was restrained by his sense of justice, and whose love was subservient to that justice. I was tired of worshiping a God who had to save us in just a particular way, that seemed way to tightly focused on arbitrary rules and non-natural dualities. A God who was more concerned with some fluffy idea of consent to an idea, than in actually doing anything substantive. Or a God who wanted to utterly destroy us, except for the fact that his son, who was also him, kept holding him back. There is in no way that this "God" isn't in some way hemmed in, circumscribed, constrained, and I might also add, inconsistent, incoherent, and contradictory . This "God" is a gnostic demiurge.

In short, I was tired of the "particular" God of Protestantism that didn't have a scope universal enough to explain the reason for blades of grass.

What I wanted was a God who could be understood in the universality of his defense of sparrows, lilies-of-the-valley, and, yes, even blades of grass. The God in whom all creation groans in expectation of restoration. I wanted a God who created the heaven and earth, and who said that what he created was good. I wanted a God who wasn't just running damage control against sin, but who had literally conquered death-by-death. A God who I could have confidence in because of his love for the little things. Themes, that while they are expressed in the "particular", are universal (i.e. of cosmic significance and effect).

Language. Language is all we have sometimes to covey information, instruct and inform, but it's such an imprecise thing sometimes.

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, Have mercy upon me, A sinner.

[trusswork]

on equality and singularity

The ideals of equality and consistency (though not of impartiality) are there as a hedge against the uncertainty of particular moral judgments. To those who argue that equal treatment under law, or treating like cases in like ways, is baggage upon moral philosophy that tramples on outcomes; to those who argue with Lyotard that the only moral judgments worthy of the name are made with respect to each case's irreducible singularity; it should be answered that where such judgments in practical terms will often be somewhat in error, we hopefully avoid massive errors by a covering of formal equality, showing a boundary beyond which particular judgments cannot go -- limiting the damage in case of disaster. This goes for equality of resources and of opportunity; to those who favor equality of outcome, and acknowledge that this process will have error as well, it should be clear that by the moment of outcome, it is already too late to reign in the massively wrong judgment.