J-J Kirschke

"Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering." -Carl Jung

"We need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure." -Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes

Aiming is everywhere in nature — from biological instincts to human intentions. A reflection on the ubiquity of aiming and the metaphysical questions it raises: jjordanck.wixsite.com/website/post/_…

Human life is too valuable to arise on accident and disappear forever, so we reason that it was created for an eternal purpose. Jesus says, "Indeed. And this reasoning reaches eternity if you believe in what you need." John 6:40

"Some things are believed because they are demonstrably true, but many other things are believed simply because they have been asserted repeatedly and repetition has been accepted as a substitute for evidence." -Thomas Sowell

Ever wonder if naturalism can truly explain who we are? My latest blog post takes a closer look at that question. jjordanck.wixsite.com/website/post/m…

"Building up an author's meaning out of separate texts leads nowhere unless you have first grasped his centre or vision by an act of the imagination." -William James

"Then He spoke a parable to them, that men always ought to pray and not lose heart," (Luke 18:1) Hang in there. Don't stop praying.

Contra determinism: "The human is subject to external influences but also exercises influence. He is not passive in the face of the events but takes an active role in them; society is a requirement for but not the origin of personality." (Bavinck, "Christian Worldview", p. 117)

"The mind discovers and submits to and is ruled by truth rather than creating it." (Kreeft, "Socrates' Children: Medieval Philosophers", p. 13)

"Whoever trusts in the Lord, happy is he." (Prov. 16:20b)

"The supreme spirit is truest parent, and the Word truest child." (Anselm, Monologion)

If one's perspective leads to vice, violence, or vanity, that perspective isn't true. The truth leads to the service of Goodness (God). Reasonableness sides with righteousness. Honesty evokes humility. Confession breeds character.

The feeling of fear isn't necessarily evidence that there is something to fear. One can have false fear. "There they are in great fear where no fear was" (Ps. 53:5), but God "has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind" (2 Tim. 1:7).

If it wasn't for God's lovingkindness, we wouldn't be alive. "Because Your lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you." (Ps. 63:3)

Is your metaphysical framework compatible with your moral values? In other words, can your worldview contain the world you believe in? If you notice your morals and metaphysics conflict, will you own the contradiction or be consistent?