The Hubris behind "The Full Truth"

Jeffrey · #1 10-21-2010, 05:14 PM

I read this blog from time-to-time. A friend sent the most recent post to me with great enthusiasm. After reading, I could see why. It was well-written and touched the heart, along with the mind, in typical SAL style.

http://stuffapostolicslike.blogspot....90809789894819

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There is a pandemic amongst us Apostolics that find a justification for our ego in the name of God. This should be maddening but it seems so easy and right. It's telling our ego what we know is absolutely correct and not only is it correct in it's "truthiness" but it claims truth in exclusion of other non-participants. Enter the popular term "full truth." Enter "Apostolic Identity."

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"Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of my own universe, the realist, most vivid and important person in existence."

In short for each of us, we love ourselves the most.

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From what I gather, most of us think ourselves hopelessly good looking. Better looking than we really are. Especially in comparison with our peers. Sure, I have friends who I think are better looking than me. I have names! Zach Dunning, Darron Sistrunk, and Justin Morr. They are really devilishly good looking (sorry ladies, Darron and Zach are engaged. But Justin Morr is so completely single right now that I suggest you add him as a friend on facebook and see what I am talking about: Morrsey's Facebook Profile.

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You ever notice how much quicker to forgive our own flaws and sins before anyone else? Sure our hygiene is suspect and we lie on occasion and obsessively think about eating bacon, and even secretly hold viscous judgments about others which we dare not tell others about (save our closest friends), but we just as easily excuse such flaws under the label of "being human." But we are no so quick to allow others such an excuse, especially to those whose personality strikes us in the raw or actually treads on our own existence in a conflict. I love myself some me. Some of us just learn to keep this truth more hidden than others. And those who are no so skilled at disguising their self importance are the most ripe for some Guantanamo Bay Torture (Yay Waterboarding!).

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Luckily there is a system in place that keeps ourselves in check. It's called reality. Reality tells us we are not as important as we would like to think. It makes ugly people like myself develop a sense of humor and personality in order to make oneself the least bit of attractive and marketable both socially and in the dating scene. In short reality is heartless and seeks nothing more than to make special you conform to levels of mediocrity and conformity. In this scenarios we best leave our innate delusions of grandeur, and get on with the monotony and boredom and complacency which reality offers in return for your compliance.

Reality softens the ego, but in the end your ego just finds ways to hide amidst the lack of importance wherein we are each our own king and queen.

There are a few LS video clips and much more... read it. Chime in over here too. Would love to here some AFF feedback.

coadie · #2 10-21-2010, 05:30 PM

I get excited when people cut and paste other blogs to read for us.

1:27 · #3 10-21-2010, 06:09 PM

I've read this blog from time to time. (I'm sure most know it's a Oneness twist on "stuffchristianslike.net".) I think it's supposed to be a satire blog, but now all of the sudden--as with many satire blogs--it falters when it tries to make very serious points. As in the first video clip of LS, which is satire itself.

The writer tries to make a point by taking it serious when it conveniently supports the argument. They compound the error in the last paragraph with an ultimatum: Either I'm liar or LS is a liar. This is hubris in itself. But I guess if those are my only choices, I pick LS.

Praxeas · #4 10-21-2010, 06:15 PM

I don't know why anyone would think that was well written.

Jeffrey · #5 10-21-2010, 06:18 PM

Bunch of cry babies chiming in lol

It was indeed, well written. I guess you'd have to be familiar with the author. How did it fail your criteria, Prax?

1:27, the post was TIC at times, and very serious at others. It was a guy making a serious point using sarcasm. I don't think the author takes LS serious. I think he's a UPCI college student, and maybe his perspectives are bleeding through. So how does it "falter" and did you actually read the post in its entirety? It's a long end-around, but the point is "the full truth" is hubris. And the LS clips only support that. I hear the heart of a UPCI kid wrestling through the reality of the ........ theology he's grown up with.

Praxeas · #6 10-21-2010, 06:20 PM

How is any post here crying? I don't think it was well written. The author sounds like a 6th grader trying to sound like a Pulitzer prize author

Jeffrey · #7 10-21-2010, 06:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Praxeas

How is any post here crying? I don't think it was well written. The author sounds like a 6th grader trying to sound like a Pulitzer prize author

The fact that you are rebutting my "cry baby" statement is crying in itself. I was teasing with you all. Sheesh...

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The author sounds like a 6th grader trying to sound like a Pulitzer prize author

You think he is verbose? You know, Prax, did you read the whole thing? Honestly?

He has articulated his thoughts 10x better than any post of yours I've read. Just sayin...

Praxeas · #8 10-21-2010, 06:25 PM

There is a pandemic amongst us Apostolics that find a justification for our ego in the name of God

There is a pandemic amongst us Apostolics that finds a justification for our egos in the name of God

Pandemic? Really? This just sounds like someone trying way too hard to sound witty. Best to keep it simple and grammatically correctAnd is a pandemic amongst us or is a pandemic sweeping through us?The author might have good points but well written? Not in my opinion

Praxeas · #9 10-21-2010, 06:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Jeffrey

The fact that you are rebutting my "cry baby" statement is crying in itself. I was teasing with you all. Sheesh...

You think he is verbose? You know, Prax, did you read the whole thing? Honestly?

He has articulated his thoughts 10x better than any post of yours I've read. Just sayin...

Why do I have to read the whole thing to have an opinion that it was not "well written"...maybe you confuse "well written" with "well said" ie, you agreed with his view point where as I'm addressing whether his viewpoint was well written

Jeffrey · #10 10-21-2010, 06:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Praxeas

There is a pandemic amongst us Apostolics that find a justification for our ego in the name of God

There is a pandemic amongst us Apostolics that finds a justification for our egos in the name of God

Pandemic? Really? This just sounds like someone trying way too hard to sound witty. Best to keep it simple and grammatically correctAnd is a pandemic amongst us or is a pandemic sweeping through us?The author might have good points but well written? Not in my opinion

I was just trying to get your feedback on his content.

I understand you think he's verbose. When you head is in Kierkegaard, Bultman, Augustine, Barth, Lewis, etc you tend to write different. Especially when you're right in the middle of studying (from what I gather he's a Masters student). It happens. Plus, I think it's part of his schtick on SAL.

So he doesn't write on the basic 6th grade level of American reading.. .give him a break.