tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post291239468199335910..comments2024-03-28T11:33:16.271-05:00Comments on Adventus: (But how is the Kingdom of God like that?)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-38629149300923624912012-05-18T15:40:19.402-05:002012-05-18T15:40:19.402-05:00No problem re: the email. I wasn't even lookin...No problem re: the email. I wasn't even looking for correspondence, so you can rest easy, just wanted to drop you a short note. I've been a regular if quiet reader here for a loooong time and figured I owed to to you.<br /><br /><i>As for the Marvel fix, I'm finally going to "The Avengers" this weekend, a promise to my daughter for her 20th birthday that we had to postpone. I fully expect to have a theological reflection of insidious intent when I return.</i>.<br /><br />Plenty of fodder for that. Hope in the face of certain destruction, the importance of loving thy Hulk, etc. In fact, the very premise of the movie sets out to prove your point about community being more important than wealth or individual status in the end. Wonder if Whedon's been reading your blog...?Windhorsenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-36882737604667340442012-05-18T14:33:40.015-05:002012-05-18T14:33:40.015-05:00Windhorse--
I haven't lost your e-mail addres...Windhorse--<br /><br />I haven't lost your e-mail address; just been too busy on the side to respond yet.<br /><br />My friends will tell you I've become a lousy correspondent in my old age.<br /><br />As for the Marvel fix, I'm finally going to "The Avengers" this weekend, a promise to my daughter for her 20th birthday that we had to postpone. I fully expect to have a theological reflection of insidious intent when I return.<br /><br />"O do not ask 'What is it?'<br />Let us go, and make our visit."Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-22802367513919830652012-05-18T12:50:11.947-05:002012-05-18T12:50:11.947-05:00What life have you if you have not life together?
...<i>What life have you if you have not life together?<br />There is no life that is not in community,</i><br /><br />The verse is really provocative. Ribbon roads indeed. <br /><br />You do a great job of laying out a clear case for community ultimately being more important than wealth, and of being key for wealth to have any value or make any sense (with Beowulf, fictional dragons, and a picture of Thor, no less, to satisfy the Nordic part of one's soul). In a related vein, in the ages-old chicken-and-egg argument between the primacy of labor and capital, the Catholic Church teaches the priority of labor, much to the chagrin of capitalists everywhere (the magisterium doesn't always get social issues wrong and I'm begrudgingly willing to give them their due....). <br /><br />I think your argument could be appended to theirs to more fully flesh it out and illuminate the issue, such that labor is prior to capital and community is prior to and has primacy over both labor and capital. We're a tribal species living in an interdependent network with others and with the biosphere; our survival and prosperity depend on community, and not only our physical survival (saving each other from getting eaten by bears or getting together to plant and harvest) but our spiritual prosperity (learning compassion, teaching each other to embody higher spiritual energies). <br /><br />History is pretty clear on the fact that when wealth allows members of society to isolate themselves from each other it can lead to all sorts of corrosions of the spirit like greed and paranoia, which in turn give birth to strife and oppression and even class warfare. <br /><br />In other words, that thousand dollar blender is all fun and games until somebody gets their soul poked out. Or their McMansion sacked. <br /><br /><i>(I just like the picture, is all....)</i><br /><br />The picture is awesome! One can get their Marvel fix and their Norse fix in one place!Windhorsenoreply@blogger.com