Mysticism, Spirituality, and Religion?
Jul 30th, 2008 by Randy Toman
This went out to a fellow I know only through our E-Mail correspondence. I thought I would put it out on the “Blog” and see what kind of reaction I would get. This person was telling me of an individual he knows (Republican) that has gone over to the O’bama camp. You can see I took it from that individual to the crowd.
Herman Dooyeweerd in his book “In the Twilight of Western Thought” quotes this from Aristotle;
”Aristotle concluded from this presupposition that the theoretical-logical function of thought has an activity quite independent of the organic life of the body and the sense orgins.” Page 12
Dooyeweerd goes on to separate presuppositional thinking from, if I can use my words “just reasoning as the person” and the person using his emotions, into the essences of a persons being. What I believe Dooyeweerd to be after is the theoretical attitude of a persons thought, how he will apply his essences to critical thinking thereby using his ability to reason and the emotion. This inner make-up will give the person his true routes of life and is called the Soul and was given to him by God and corrupted and died in Adams fall. Being born again changes that presuppositional thinking at the essences of the individual that explains the difference in reasoning of Pelosi, Reed and some of the other Politicians in Washington and of-course all other people.
Now to what I wrote to this person;
Without prolonging this discussion of mysticism, spirituality, and religion. Let me just say a couple more things in regards to O’bama and his ability to mesmerize crowds, which Hitler also had. O’bama has the ability to bring together the theoretical attitude (the presuppositional belief) the-were one starts, and that is not reasoning as most people think. That start is well inside ones soul and you can see that readily in Congress, they can’t and will never come together, only compromise. (Back to O’bama) He has the ability to reach people by bringing them together in their presuppositional thinking, the attitude of thought is bought together with the basic thinking and reasoning that makes HOPE a religious element.
That is why “ISSUE” arguing will never stand up to O’bama’s type of positioning, he constantly brings in the mystical element of hope thereby reaching the inner attitude, the presuppositional thinking. That is why he is no good off teleprompter he can’t frame the comment in mystical terms without getting to religious causing him to bumble and grope for words in his attempt, because he is not a true believer in any religion but “Self” Humanism and Humanism is not capable reaching out to anyone, it is SELF period.
Issue arguing is fruitful only if truth is being sought after and both party are willing to start at the same position, IE: belief in God, God’s law, the Constitution, the Family, belief in Jesus Christ and these elements are in their basic presuppositional thinking. And as you can see they are not in their belief system but HOPE is and therefore O’bama will prevail over truth because that is what people need and want and O’bama falsely will give it to them.
I would like to think the Republican Leadership understand this simple observation of truth, but I am afraid this simple truth is not in their thought process and worse it will never be because it is spiritually discerned.
By the way McCain will never go there because he can’t see those things nor does know of them, O’bama knows but only fakes them. McCain will always stick to the Issues, with his analysis through his thought process.
Sorry for the length
Randy
