Thursday, August 13, 2009

let me understand what is "WORSHIP"

I have a question maybe people after reading this blog can help me answer.

1) What is worship? (I take an answer to this question to be in the form of a filling in of the analysans of an illuminating bi conditional of the form: S worships T if and only if ... )

'Worship' is sometimes used as an adjective, and I'm not concerned with understanding what 'worship' means when people talk about "worship services". I'm concerned with 'worship' as a verb. Here are some paradigm worship ascriptions. Call this group A:

- Sally worships her boyfriend.
- Todd worships money
- Gina worships God.

Now I'm wondering if 'worship' in these sentences is different from 'worship' in these sentences:

- when John was appeared to by the Lord in Revelation, he fell prostrate and worshiped.
- the Israelites worshiped the Lord at Mt. Sinai.
- "Then the man said, "Lord, I believe," and he worshiped him."

Call this group of sentences Group B. Are these uses of 'worship' different? The latter sentences appear to be true at more localized periods of time. The former appear to be about a more general attitude towards an object. Do people see what I'm getting at?

I'll be happy to analyze 'worship' once I get clear on whether there are two different senses of 'worship' in Groups A and B or not. If people want to take a stab at an analysis anyway, that'd be welcome as well.

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

ism of doing nothing

Work, work, work. Play hard. Take a holiday. Go out. have you seen the latest movie? And yet .... I crave to walk the mountains, not alone, but in solitude, allowing my mind to breathe, to listen to the quite whispers going on between me and my mind. Between my conscious and subconscious. Every day to get to know myself again, to say a quite hello to myself, and give myself a gentle hug. And seemingly to do nothing. Nothing except just be.....

.... for if not, I am no longer active. I fool myself into thinking that the flurry of activity is real. That it gives my presence on this planet worth

It is an illusion.

For it is just a flurry of reactivity.. It's like my mind is leaving my heart behind.

Often we believe that what happens is so directly related to what we do. Our actions.

That is just our Ego. For often our actions are mere reactions. Reactions that actually impede what we set out to achieve. To do.

Sometimes, it is good to sit back and believe. Just believe. Knowing that sometimes it is not merely in the doing, but also in the believing.