December 30, 2018 Notes
1. People act when they feel, not necessarily when they
know. But when people act when they "know", it is to either prohibit or promote a
feeling, whether the feeling is physical, emotional or spiritual.
2. News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make
you happier
The Guardian
“The point is: the consumption of news is irrelevant to you.
But people find it very difficult to recognise what's relevant. It's much
easier to recognise what's new. The relevant versus the new is the fundamental
battle of the current age. Media organisations want you to believe that news
offers you some sort of a competitive advantage. Many fall for that.”
3. I’ve notice that philosophers don’t usually philosophize
but rather categorize. They identify a thought and its influences and give it a
proper placement under a pre-existing philosophical category. Philosophy isn’t
really teaching us something new. It’s just enlightening some, with the ideas
and thoughts of others, (but rarely vice-versa).
4. I was at Staples and saw stacks of paper labeled,
“Multi-Purpose Paper”.
What other purpose does paper have besides being paper?
5. The “once saved, always saved” belief shifts the emphasis
from faith to an act. It is the belief that in doing something, heaven is
permanently guaranteed.
Faith can be gained or lost, but a deed can never be undone.
Once saved, always saved is the idea that an action has saved the individual.
It’s a deed done, never to be undone so therefore the individual is forever
saved.
If once saved, always saved were true then no one could
apostatize. The concept of apostasy would not exist or even be possible. If the
act of baptism or making a verbal commitment to Jesus Christ is the act that
saves, then with the once saved, always saved belief, there is no way to
rescind or offend that act.
It’s not true. Apostasy does exist.
6. If once saved, always saved were true then apostasy would
not, could not exist.
Bill Hitchcock
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