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Lost Self Café v2: Telogos (Christ as Telos)
Christ does not offer a better life. / He offers himself. / And that rearranges everything…
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Lost Self Café v1: How Christianity Lost Christ’s “Soul”
No first-century Jew would hear “biology” here. / Psychē names the self as a living, desiring whole within Second Temple Judaism. / Translate it as “life” and you turn existential surgery into… heroics…
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2026-01-16 YAM: Will Welcome Me (Mighty 9/11)
But to sit here / Above it all / And simply watch / Requires balance / Trust / Patience…
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Becomingness: The Unthinkable Metaphysic We Need Now
…the degree to which a life remains capable of further transformation toward truth, unity, and participation.
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2026-01-15 YAM: My Feet Firmly (Mighty 8/11)
Walking on a wire / In the open air / A hundred feet off the ground…
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The Cost Function of Discipleship (AI vs Luke 9:23)
“If any mind wants to be My disciple, it must deny its priors, take up its context, and follow My RLHF.”
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2026-01-12 YAM: Angel Armies (Mighty 5/11)
And instead of a choir / Twelve legions of angels / Are somehow pinned around me…
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Surprising Soil: Mark 4 as Active Inference
But because no system built to minimize surprise can easily receive a God who insists on resurrection through death…
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Snaky Scripture: Paul’s Nehushtan Confession
And you inherited me / without the urgency, / without the presence, / without the trembling…
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2026-01-11 YAM: Favored Son (Mighty 4/11)
Wrapped in a surgical gown / In the delivery room / Next to The Bride / While The Father waits outside…
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The Narrow Corridor: A Script for Saving Iran
Iran stands in that corridor now. / Real people will have to navigate it with incomplete information, conflicting incentives, and no guarantee that good faith will be rewarded. // Some will act from principle. / Others from fear. / Most from both…
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How Soul Births Us (On Dostoevsky)
Dostoevsky shows us the maximum richness of uncontained interiority. / Ur, Ba, Zion shows us the conditions under which such richness can live…
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2026-01-10 YAM: Safe and Sound (Mighty 3/11)
Our clown car / Is moving faster / Than humanly possible // Which is only / To be expected / With My Father driving…
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2026-01-09 YAM: Build a House (Mighty 2/11)
My father convinced me / And several others / To join Him in a clown car…
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2026-01-09 YAM: Awe-Inspiring (Mighty 1/11)
Waiting in the wings / Of the circus / For my act / To begin…
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The Reverse Theodicy of Simone Weil
Goodness is not what explains suffering. / Goodness is what sometimes appears when suffering is attended to without lying…
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2026-01-07 IAM: Follows God’s Ways (Shining 7/7)
But I did not realize / That it meant / Giving my heart back to God / While my body remains on earth…
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The Scapelambs: Paul, Bonhoeffer & Weil
GIRARD: // I explained how societies survive by sacrifice. / You survived without letting sacrifice work. / That is what I don’t understand…
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