BigMike wrote:
We're in an appointed time, bro.
What does that mean to you?
I shoot back another question to you, do you know what an idiom is off the top of your head, I didn't when someone said that to me, or probably I did and forgot.
Interesting, do we still know things that we personally forgot about, and even more intriguing is, - how many people know what a locution is, which is better know as a "locutionary act" ?.
Its a seemingly obfuscated idiom, my apoligies if you already knew what a locutionary speech act was.
Using I or we so as to distinguish exactly who appointed time is paying out on, so we're in an appointed time, compared to I'm in an appointed time.
Also I think we have to distinguish between a appointed time and the appointed time.
These are all locutionary acts as utterances that spotlight the meaning of a group of words as an idiom and the meaning it shines on is a subliminal reference to deeply held convictions.
I am in an - ] appointed time [ - is different to
we am in an - ] appointed time [ - is different to
we or I am in - ] "the" appointed time [.
My problem with my saying or agreeing with "we're in an appointed time" is that I would then be connected to other people's appointed time which to me is also made apparent by saying "we're in "the" appointed time".
How could that be?.
I am going to live and die and be judged according to what I am, I don't think other people's judgments apply to me and I don't think God has a specific time to end it all, and this is something I run up against all the time.
Looking back on my scribble notes, yesterday.
thinking about Rabbi David Weiss' rave he sees cultural assimilation as being a final act of deliverance by God so the result will be that we are as individuals without ideological identity, all of a sudden God will bring about "the appointed time " and everyone believes in the same Theology which really means all differences are forgotten about.
Can we really forget so we never knew ? I mean it must be in there stored up somewhere.
Personally I think, and I hope not to offend anyone on OPP that would destroy my purpose for being here, but I think that Christ made the mistake of thinking that individualism ends at a certain junction, and furthermore He realised His mistake on the Cross.