Diary: Horse goodbyes lost books and security:

~~The Horse of Marken must go, I visit the library and muse about our defensive society.~~

Today I say good bye to “Het Paard van Marken”, which is the name of the January illustration on my Dutch calendar; translated “The Horse of Marken” and so named because it looks like a horse.

The lighthouse tower has a substantial three story dwelling attached to its back, while the tower front faces the waters of the old ‘Zuider (South) Sea’. This structural arrangement looks like a horse, with some imagination thrown in!

Today this ‘South Sea’ has become the ‘Yssel meer’, or the ‘Yssel Lake’ after the building of the ’Enclosure Dyke’ back in around 1920. The Yssel river feeds this lake with water from the Rhine, having branched from the latter at Arnhem City to the south.

However, when I write again on Monday it will be February and the Horse of Marken will be put to pasture at the back of my calendar.

This completes the Dutch geography lesson for today even though there is one day left in January yet. However, when I write again on Monday it will be February and the Horse of Marken will be put to pasture at the back of my calendar. So, I’m saying my good byes today!

Yesterday I wrote quite a substantial composition as part of my endeavour to make a formulation of my belief framework. It turned out to be four pages on my website when printed off. Below follow some further observations on this writing.

In the afternoon I walked to the Memorial library branch to pick up the DVD titled ‘Kumare’, subtitled with the phrase ‘A true story about a false prophet’, a nice turn of words. Derrick had recommended it to me when we talked last time. The circulation copy of the dictionary on Mesoamerican religions has gone missing, so I’m restricted to the reference copy at Castel.

Like the Castel, the Memorial branch interior too has been rearranged to give clearer lines of sight and is better lit for security and camera monitoring no doubt. All this, to keep the perceived danger at bay, as we used to do collectively during the cold war.

Now the threats of the stranger have morphed from collective to individual. I wonder which is more costly as a defence system, the old nuclear warhead rockets or the present pervasive security measures all around us in society? It’d be worthy of several PhD projects!

Writings: Generalised redemption structure named:

~~Describing the process of naming yesterday’s writings as ‘redemption structure’.~~

This morning I spent some restless hours awaking, with vague notions swirling through my mind, about how to characterise my writings of yesterday. Was it to be a teaching? That did not feel right. A process then? No, not that either, even though it does describe a process.

After a while the idea surfaced that yesterday’s composition deals with ‘salvation’ of the human being, but in a very general sense. Instead of a person living in ‘sin’, as the old traditions call it, you could say that the human must become more aware with time.

…being less aware corresponds to the old ‘sin state’, while 'salvation' would refer to becoming more aware,…

This way you could say that the state of being less aware corresponds to the old ‘sin state’, while becoming more aware, more conscious is the way out off sin or un-enlightenment and towards ‘salvation‘, to use that old, but clear notion.

You could then say that yesterday’s composition is a structure I thought, one that is a generalised description of the process of ‘Redemption’ and as such corresponds to one of the five categories in Theology that I mention in Teaching Two Addendum a few entries back (2015-01-21).

This last notion seemed to be the most satisfactory description, concluding my restless awaking process this morning. It resulted in the notion of a generalised redemption structure. One that can be applicable to any of the human religious traditions and I might add modern ideologies.

This ‘redemption structure’ is a formalised description of human development over time as we can discern that from our own human history and development since about 60k years ago (60kYa).

This latter idea brings us face to face with how to describe the process of humans acquiring consciousness, framing that with reference to evolution or what I call ‘continuous adaptation’.

This is a separate subject, but we are here at the point that connects the individual endeavour referred to above, with the collective human development that started so long ago and continues to this very day.

I intend to address this topic of acquisition of consciousness by that name later on, under the title ‘The Narrative of Humanity’, so indicated in an earlier writing around 2014-12-29.
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