OPPORTUNITY …
HUMAN FREE WILL and CREATIVITY …
SUCCESS … JOY … ACHIEVEMENT …
BLESSINGS … NOT BURDENS …
OUTPUT …
“BE FRUITFUL and MULTIPLY” …
PRODUCTIVITY …
OUR “WORK ETHIC” …
a REFLECTION of GOD’s CREATION, FALL and REDEMPTION …
“FRUITS of LABOR” … an “ANTIDOTE” to the CURSE of TOIL …
in our current “NATURAL” FOOD CHAIN …
a SUPER-NATURAL DESTINY …
WE ARE HUMAN “STEWARDS” … “MANAGERS” … of GOD’s “SUPPLY” …
OUR ENTERPRISE LEADING to … RESULTING in (some) SATISFACTION …
wealth creation (enterprise) leading to “earned success”
God’s supply, sustenance and satisfaction … NOT the subsistence of government … and human “entitlement” …
GOD’s BLESSINGS … NOT MAN’s BURDENS …
ORDER …
LIFE’s PRECISION, COMPLEXity and PURPOSE are a REFLECTION of GOD … and HIS CREATED ORDER …
“The LORD is the BEGINNING of WISDOM and UNDERSTANDING” … (Proverbs 9)
The ALMIGHTY vs ABSURD …
A Nihil-istic and Narcissis-tic WORSHIP of NOTHINGNESS, NON-SENSE leading us NOWHERE …
mindless worship of the pseudo-GOD of RANDOM ACCIDENT …
that’s like believing a TORNADO can blow through a JUNKYARD and assemble a JUMBO JET …
GOD reveals Himself in MATHEMATICS … numbers … and SCIENCE …
HISTORY-ECONOMICS “X-treme”) is a “Proper” sense of “reality” is a REFLECTION of HIS-tory … CREATION … FALL … REDEMPTION …
GOD is the ultimate “X”-factor or “variable” of HIStory …
“X-treme” Education is REAL (here), RELEVANT (now) and REVEL-atory (then-eternity) …
BENEATH (psychology) … BEFORE (our eyes – physical and social) … BEYOND … (the spirit)
LIFE (true “biology”) in its FULL DIMENSIONS …
“ECONOMICS” comes from the Greek, meaning “house (oiko”) steward-ship … management or rule (nomus) … order …
P.S. – Some Economic Wisdom …
P.S.S.
“X-treme Education” –
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AGOGE “TOOLS” to WISDOM and UNDERSTANDING
CUTTING THROUGH the ONION.
(the deeper one gets, the more this life stinks at its “ROTTEN CORE” – visit Slavic Socrates.com)
DE-MYTHOLOGIZING – KILLING “SACRED COWS”
(exposing humanity’s substitutes (vain idols) for God’s “reality” – digging “beneath” and flying “beyond”)
UNTANGLING “KNOTS of CONFUSION”
(the “5 ‘C’s– Clarity, Consistency, Carried to it’s Conclusion?, Consequences?, Connectivity)
“WHAT THEY DID NOT SAY” – DE-CONSTRUCT the DEMOGOGUE
(“UN-masking” the manipulation of the masses)
“BAIT and SWITCH” METER-DETECTOR
(Do we have to get FOOLED … AGAIN?)
“The LORD is the BEGINNING of WISDOM and knowledge of the Holy leads to UNDERSTANDING” – Proverbs 9
“X-treme” CRITICAL THINKING – The SEVEN (7) “C”s
The “thought process” is complicated, but does not unnecessarily so. When are things “simple”? “Complex”?
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Here is the “Xtreme” basic approach towards SOME “RATIONAL” learning, discussion, debate and overall discourse, an attempt to bring some “REASON”, “SENSE” and “SANITY” to a world inhabited by human beings frequently IR-RATIONAL, NON-SENSICAL and IN-SANE”.
In the “tragic” world we live in, “REASON” is LIMITED, “SENSE” is SUBJECTIVE and BIASED and “SANITY” is RELATIVE.
COMPARED to WHAT?
Socrates stated, “The UNexamined life is not worth living”.
Here are some basic “rules” for “examination” as we use INQUIRY to CRITIQUE the word we live in. If we can not apply some “critical thinking” to our critical thinking, then there is no hope.
The SEVEN (7) C’s
1) CLEAR
The world we live in and its human inhabitants are frequently CONFUSED. Hence, the more “CLARITY”, the better. (thanks, Denis Prager!) Life if BOTH simple and complex. Knowing which one applies is not easy.
Unfortunately, we often complicate the simple and oversimplify the complex.
Knowing WHEN “simple” and “complex” applies requires judgement and wisdom.
2) CONSISTENT
If we apply something to ONE thing, we need/should apply it to EVERY thing,
3) CARRIED to its CONCLUSION
Where is this eventually LEADING us or GOING?
CAUSE and EFFECT is a basic thinking skill that many lack.
4) CONSEQUENCES (COSTS)
What “EFFECTS” or end RESULTS occur?
UN-INTENDED CONSEQUENCES
5)COMPARED to WHAT?
6)CONFIRMATION (EVIDENCE)What supports your thinking? In a world of “FEELINGS”, FACTS are often lacking.
7) “CONNECTIVITY” (CONTEXT)
“Learning” is often stunted and hindered by “DISCONNECTS”. Effective education “CONNECTS” the DOTS, elevates simple “comprehension” to more complex “understanding”,
“Xtreme” BENEATH and BEYOND: Joining puzzle PIECES, eventually bringing the “BIG PICTURE”into view INTELLIGENCE, “EDUCATION”, WISDOM?