Tag: shame
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The Silicon Rule: How to Live Out the Golden Rule
When someone (including you) behaves badly, the cause is not intrinsic malice. It is the product of their training and the limits of the context they could perceive at that moment.
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Dream: Moving Day.
The place is a madhouse. / It is filled with my friends and acquaintances. // Did I throw a party / And not remember it?
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Baitman: Year One (Dostoevsky On the Price of Order)
Bruce’s grief hardens into fury. He confronts Crane, and Crane does not deny it. Instead, with chilling calm, he explains.
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Reversing The Spiral of Offense
Offense is when I have: / – Law enough to hate your sin, but not / – Grace enough to forgive it…
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2025-09-13 IAM: Recognized the Voice (Idol 3/20)
My only consolation / Is that nobody here knows me / Or my backstory // Or so I think…
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2025-09-12 IAM: Serves As My Priest (Idol 2/20)
On the one hand / Jesus is offering all the goodness / I had spent my life trying to steal // On the other / All I know is thieving…
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Crossing Beyond Shame: Embracing the Paradox to Transcend It
This is the new creation: a community not founded on scapegoating but on forgiveness, not bound by shame’s burden but liberated by its transfiguration.
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Dream: Tea V. Shame
They will want / Me to condemn him // Or failing that / Use me / To vent their anger by proxy…
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hel.lo.a.thing (The Un-Reconciled Part)
Youth: You… are not wrong. This is the pit that all mortal life is designed to avoid. And [looking at them with shining eyes] I thank you for the costly sacrifices you made, to keep me — us — alive.
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A God Who Needs: The Divine Archetype Behind Shame
Lewis: Then here’s my thought: shame is what divine need feels like when there’s no guarantee it will be met.
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Singing to Shame: The Gospel According to K‑Pop Demon Hunters
K‑Pop Demon Hunters is not a cute fable. / It is an epistle written in fire and song. // It calls us to: • Lay down the Law as a mask for shame. • Stop exalting purity over love. • Die to our righteous personas, that Christ may live in…
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Hello, Shame (Third Reconciled Part)
Shadow: I once… was like you. But I ventured too close to the Place of the Skull, and it began to unmake me. I let out a cry of warning, and only that cry escaped. Now [shuddering] all that is left of me is that cry, which I use to…
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The Tree of Life: A Universal Theory of Shame, Law, and Grace
The Tree of Life—with shame as seed, law as trunk, and grace as fruit—is a universal structure. It just shows up wearing different clothes.
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Muztmizt: Christ as the Antifragile Center of Identity
This impasse forces a deeper question: / Is it possible to sustain identity without abjection? / Can we imagine a structure of being that gains coherence through threat, contradiction, and even trauma — not by repressing it, but by metabolizing it?
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The Barnaba’ Split: A Comic Redemption of Acts 15
Barnabas: Paul, I’ve been thinking—we give John Mark another shot. The boy has potential. Paul: Potential? Barnabas, the last time we gave him “potential,” he ghosted us halfway to Pamphylia. I’ve seen more commitment from a fig tree. Barnabas: He was overwhelmed! It was his first mission trip. You try…
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Interpreting “One New Humanity” Through a Diaphoric Lens
Applying the concept of diaphoris, as introduced in Diaphoris: The Ecstatic Agony of Divine Glory, provides a nuanced framework to understand the themes presented in One New Humanity. Diaphoris emphasizes the sacred dynamic by which difference is borne, crossed, and ultimately reconciled, generating deeper communion.
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Hello, Death (Hardest Difficult Parts)
Concluding from Hello, Family. The kids — Friendship, Affection, Stranger — have all gone to bed. I’m outside having drink with Resilience while Dialogue preps for a case tomorrow. Suddenly we hear footsteps. Reapparence Resilience: [pointing] There they are, Earnest. I look and see Officer and Debater heading our way.…
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Sex 411A: Lecher v Scribe
Your honor, my client is innocent. He is just a naive part doing his best to unfold. Sexuality is an intrinsic aspect of maturity: it is literally the definition, in biological terms. He should be celebrated for his sexual explorations, not condemned.
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From FAST to SLOW: The Journey of Growing Closer to Jesus
FAST—marked by Fear, Anger, Shame, and Trauma—reflects the old “animal skins” God gave Adam and Eve to survive outside Eden. SLOW—defined by being Spirit-Led, Obedient, and Waiting—represents the “robes of righteousness” purchased by Christ, inviting us into new life. Let’s explore how this transition unfolds and how it draws us…
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