tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3479340912474221858.post4880089921478435079..comments2016-05-17T03:44:31.306-05:00Comments on On Pop Theology: On Ambivalence, Doubt, and How I ThinkAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10452247853466672445noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3479340912474221858.post-18698663660971075992013-01-25T09:54:21.025-06:002013-01-25T09:54:21.025-06:00Yes and no, which you know is my ever ambivalent r...Yes and no, which you know is my ever ambivalent response. Personally, I blame it on being a Libra.. that whole thing about balancing all sides, giving "on the one hand/and on the other" its due. <br /><br />I have two competing selves when it comes to how I come by my views the world: the first is a rational self who usually operates from an epistemology of suspicion - this self is very good at finding the fallacies in a theory, and poking holes in narratives that tie things up too neatly and try to avoid the messiness of life. <br /><br />The other self is the intuitive self - this one approaches the world in much the way you described. This is where things come freighted with feelings that can't be put well into words. Things may feel like they just "fit", or I may feel like there's something "unsafe" about a given construct for the world. Call it premonition, or intuition, or a form of Idealism. <br /><br />My navigation of the world holds these two as guiding stars, triangulating my way by means of their relationship to one another. I can't buy in to explanations that have so cleaned up reality that their clay feet lie bare and exposed to reason. I can't choose theories so cold and heartless that they feel untrue to experience. I can't forego one for the other, and in the strange alchemy of the two, my own approach to truth and to reality and to all is catalyzed into being.Sebastian Fausthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07541605748649085510noreply@blogger.com