05.28.07
Hello
I really like the features that Vox offers in my other blog, such as the easy way to post pictures, videos, and audio. It has a very attractive, user friendly format, BUT it only lets me columnize 5 outside links (!!!) AND you have to have an account to comment, and if you get an account just to comment, they display a question mark on a chalk outline of your torso. So I’m mainly starting this blog to post my links and to check out why so many Orthodox bloggers use this service.
George said,
May 28, 2007 at 3:38 pm
I like your new blog – looking forward to watching your thoughts unfold, or unfurl.
andreaelizabeth said,
May 28, 2007 at 8:49 pm
or unravel.
Sophocles said,
June 2, 2007 at 9:34 pm
Madam (I presume?, not mademoiselle?) Andrea Elizabeth,
You beckoned and here I am.
This could be a little tricky. In one sense, when I talk, if I don’t measure my words, the speech is instantaneous, it is “Me”, thought and speech are one unit. But even here that is altogether not correct, because the speech, even if untempered by prior contemplation, still runs through the “filter” of all my experiences which in turn may themselves have been flavored by prior dispositions based on hereditary traits, my sex, my height, my race(all these traits perhaps affecting me differently depending on where I am,i.e. a Jew in Nazi Germany, an Aryan in the same Germany but if same Aryan was in Jamaica today what would the outcome of his personality be?).
When I write, true, more thought(at least for me, I’m not sure about everyone) goes into what is written down, but even this is tempered when written in a public forum by a variety of factors. If I’m writing lyrics for my garage punk band when I’m 16 I have a very select audience in mind and will write accordingly. Now, at 37, writing on Energetic Procession or Andrea Elizabeth’s Blog, I am again searching for words to describe things quite different from then.
Incidentally, check out the new post on Energetic Procession, especially as it relates to your paragraph:
“Regarding the problem of evil in relation to freedom of speech, maybe that snake in the Garden of Eden was a necessary opposing voice to sharpen our knowledge of and experience with the truth. We need to know what the truth is, as well as what it is not.”
as it is uncanny to me how I read that yesterday and now I read your post. Great food for thought at least.
And all this somehow ties into our Lord’s teaching that “Out of the heart proceed these thought”,etc. so that in any way I communicate, word, expression, body language, speech, etc., out of the same well proceed forth this “Me”, what I am. I believe this is why the great monastics strive to acquire mastery over their whole being at all times, even in their sleep in regards to dreams.
So for me, I suffer from being different “parts and components” and I believe this fragmentation to be healed in our Lord, “to become a complete man, to attain to the stature of Christ”.
I’m not sure if I adequately addressed your post so please let me know.
In Christ and in fellowship,
Andrea Elizabeth said,
June 3, 2007 at 3:09 am
Sophocles,
I responded here.