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Surrendering Our Weaknesses to God

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 Let's clarify things first. 🧠 WHAT REALLY HAPPENED WITH HUSSERL 🎯 1. Husserl’s Noble Start: Fighting Psychologism He saw that truth, logic, and meaning must not be reduced to mental habits or individual psychology . His early work ( Logical Investigations ) aimed to restore objectivity in philosophy. ✅ GOOD: “Truth is not just a mental pattern—it is something I intend toward .” πŸŒ€ 2. But… He Got Stuck in Consciousness Husserl avoided psychologism , but swung into another problem: He made intentional consciousness the center of everything. ❗Even though he said “consciousness is always about something” (intentional), he ended up bracketing being (reality) and staying in the mental structure (noesis–noema). ❓ Result: Intentionality remained, but it became internally structured —the world is accessed through meaning-givings , not direct metaphysical contact. So yes, you’re correct: He started well , but ended up over-centralizing consciousness as if it c...

The Eastern Catholics

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 I'm a roman catholic though. Sometimes differentiation makes me see familiar things I take for granted. Here is how ChatGPT-4o, 27 April 2025 describes differences between these rites. For my roman catholic readers, you can see the differences below as intriguing at first glance but in place as to what we are discussing here. Some core themes of Eastern Catholic spirituality: Theosis  ("divinization"): The idea that salvation is not just about avoiding hell, but about  becoming filled with God's own life , becoming "godlike" by grace. Mystery over logic : They are more comfortable with mystery and paradox, less eager to explain everything logically. Beauty and senses : Worship involves  all senses  — incense, icons, chanting, beautiful vestments — to make you  feel  heaven already starting. Prayer of the heart : Simple, deep prayers like the  Jesus Prayer : "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner." Repeated slowly, breathing it...

Gratitude

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 Bakit nga ba nagawang iwaglit ng "pasasalamat sa Dyos" ang mga problema ko sa aking career? Sang-ayon kay Copilot, Quick response, 25 April 2025:                                % of World Population Suicide                             0.0092% Burnout                            20.4% PTSD                                  3.9% Depression                          5% Stress                                 24.6% Nung nagtrabaho ako saka ko naranasan kung anu nga ang stress, pwedeng maging depression, o mauwi sa trauma, pwedeng tawagin...

Daily Examen

 Let's get back to St. Ignatius of Loyola. This time in his Examen to see and give thanks to all the works of God small and mighty. Some Jesuits (for example, Fr. James Martin, SJ, and Fr. David Fleming, SJ) have indeed summarized the Examen in this way: > If you remember nothing else about the Examen, remember this: begin with gratitude — and let everything flow from that. -ChatGPT-5, 12 August 2025 This is the shortest I can get for you my atheist friend just so you understand what it is and cater it to one's need or situation. If discernment is for decision making when crossroads are ahead of us, the Examen is a daily practice to atune ourselves to God's movement. The Ignatian Examen St. Ignatius invites us to find God in all things. That means we have to pay careful attention to how the Spirit is moving in each moment of our daily lives. We have to take a magnifying glass to the seemingly ordinary, seeking to encounter the Divine.  That’s why the Examen is such a pow...

Holy Week

 Here is a glimpse of attending my religious rituals. Even our religions are imperfect themselves. And the devil will distract you and put all kinds of things in your mind while attending the eucharist on my part as a catholic. Sintonado si Father sa tatlong beses nyang kinantang "Masdan ninyo ang kahoy na krus..." However (after reading the life of St. John Vianney), I always practice to always have in mind the scripture or spiritual reading one liner to recall all througout the day. And the priest's homily strucked me, "It is by pushing forward no matter the failures and difficulties, that we will taste success in the end." Maundy Thursday was the Last Supper or the Institution of the Eucharist where Jesus told the apostles to do the breaking of bread and the drinking of wine in memory of him before he was brutally tortured and then crucified. Nikola Tesla's work can't be also measured financially during his lifetime, dying alone on a hotel in poverty....

Introduction

In a world where atheism, lack of faith, wrong philosophy, etc. reigns, there seems to be no need for analyzing phenomenologically our religious experiences. There is rather a lack of religious experience or rather a denial of it. But we are not here to evangelize. We've shifted axis since reflecting phenomenologically on my career or your career did not result in any insights. Well, the godless world turns to sins when they can't get what they want. Ah wait, they don't name it sin anyway.πŸ˜†They would do anything just to earn or get ahead, even showing outside that they are sheeps but are just wolves in sheep's clothing. So if you don't believe in God and just want to giggle being curious about theist's outmoded religious experiences, then welcome! Read on. We theists, believe in God in the first place. If you've come reading this far, then I don't need to explain things since I already explained from the previous pages. There is a Supreme Being out ther...