This has been a day of Random Thoughts echoing through the grey sky into the grey matter. First, I know that many of my posts have these really boring titles. I tend to title my posts with the date so it makes sense if you, dear reader, follow for more than a few entries. You get to see processes arise and fall and then can watch how the grey matter works. Granted, this entry throws that for a loop, but it still fits in and makes sense somewhere.
Currently I’m eating lunch and writing this. So here’s what’s been rolling through. Random thought on the way into the office, Saul of Tarsus would convert later in life to a form of Christianity and would become paramount in shaping the direction of the nascent faith. However, as he never met Yeshua, he only had his own experience and common readings of the day to use as a source. It seems he wasn’t reading or aware of the gospels which were written after his time, so most of his sources were oral. In this vein, and when you look at the meillieu of religious threads in Tarsus as well as the Empire overall, it makes sense what he learned was much different from the Judaism practiced by the rabbi. What would be more enlightening would be to not only comb the authenticated letters, but other documents of religious thought from that same time period to see just what shaped his views. (Preferably without a bias if possible)
With healthcare, teabaggers, birthers, progressives, and all the other issues running amok in politics, it feels like the middle ground is becoming more and more vacant. Centrist is taking on the appearance of being a dirty word, and just exactly how does a libertarian like Glenn Beck claims to be, become the poster child of the extreme right wing?
I feel like there has to be middle ground and there are so many independents who would likely embrace a philosophy which states that we the people have a greater importance in civilizing the national debate. I thought of this is a similar vein to Marx and Engels, without the utopianism or room for misinterpretation.
More will be coming.
