Posted by The Happy Tutor
When all is said and done at Wealth Bondage, what would remain? As in Socratic conversation among friends, a memory, shared understanding, certain refinements of skill. And how would that make for immortality? Each person so touched is driven to continue the conversation with others, and so the skills, the sensibility, the culture is passed on. For this I honor those who went before. In conversation with the living, we can even awaken the voices of the dead. To be a link in that chain of transmission is a calling and the only immortality that matters. This view is what I mean, AKMA, by Faithful Interpretation. You are such an apostolic teacher. Meaning is the consecrated wine we pass in the chalice from hand to hand. And of course it spills like blood: Commemoration of sacrifice, endlessly repeated by those who bear witness even unto death whether there is another world or not. Judas who betrays the Truth has his part in the story too, along with jesting Pilate , the glib Scribes, and the rest. In our faces, in our every act, we betray more than we say. Each of us is exemplary of one thing or another. Our posterity is our congregation, Church, School, or Dumpster.
As in Socratic conversation among friends, a memory, shared understanding, certain refinements of skill. And how would that make for immortality? Each person so touched is driven to continue the conversation with others, and so the skills, the sensibility, the culture is passed on. For this I honor those who went before. In conversation with the living, we can even awaken the voices of the dead. To be a link in that chain of transmission is a calling and the only immortality that matters
Exactly, notably the "conversations among friends, a memory, shared understanding, certain refinements of skill ..."
This is what lives on, changes minds, lives and the world over time. It is IMO where we practice faithful interpretation in real time.
Our posterity is our congregation, Church, School, or Dumpster.
As you repeat here, this is the stake in the ground around which our individual and collective posterity grows. It is all there is.
You missed family and deep friends, for better and worse.
Posted by: JJ Commoner | February 11, 2007 at 02:51 PM
Good additions, JJ. Amen.
Posted by: Tutor | February 11, 2007 at 03:14 PM
I'm humbled into silence, almost, by so generous a compliment; I’ve been trying to draw together my faculties to compose an acknowledgment befitting your own gift.
All that comes to my lips is, Thank you, brother.
Posted by: AKMA | February 13, 2007 at 08:44 PM
"Father," AKMA, is what sprang to my lips, reading your comment, though I know you prefer to be taken for a peer.
Posted by: Tutor | February 13, 2007 at 10:02 PM