The ‘scrapheap’ Job -- #97

[April 2004 journal entry]

What ideas do I trust unconditionally? A carefully considered few – e.g.,

1. the regularities of nature,
   
2. the scientific method (and the antecedent ‘scholastic method’ that fueled the turn from the ‘dark’ centuries to ‘enlightenment’ in the unfolding of European/Western thought) re careful and rigorous inquiry,
   
3. that there is ‘more’ about being human than can be empirically detected,
   
4. that the clearest insight into a person comes when s/he encounters strangers and adversaries,
   
5. the way of being that is implicit in the resolve to give expecting nothing in return,
   
6. that respect heals/unites,
   
7. a ‘beatitudes’ way of being,
   
8. courtesy,
9. the ideas expressed in the ‘I Have Time’ poem and the ‘To Live Life Well’ poem I wrote for our daughters,
   
10. that all ‘God’ language is morphic (i.e., anthropo-, socio-, cosmo-),
11. . . . .