tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post3840025893514656671..comments2024-03-28T17:44:11.289+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: What is the scale of divine providence in 2020? Bruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-72157904862745927002020-12-17T06:35:56.850+00:002020-12-17T06:35:56.850+00:00@Igude - As I have said before, sometimes (not by ...@Igude - As I have said before, sometimes (not by any means usually) I feel impelled to write a post, almost against resistance, on the basis that 'someone' among my readership 'needs' (or at least wants) it. This is almost never wrong (so long as I manage to write the post adequately), and is subsequently confirmed either by a comment like yours or else a private e-mail. When I wrote this post I felt I was 'sticking my neck out' a fair bit, allowing myself to think aloud in a way that (obviously) would strike most people as foolish (especially since I did not link to my earlier philosophical rationale for a living universe); but your comment indicates that this was probably one of those impelled posts. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-42032188256068921422020-12-17T04:08:34.498+00:002020-12-17T04:08:34.498+00:00Not so fanciful to me. As a Jungian I think of the...Not so fanciful to me. As a Jungian I think of the level you indicate here as the Collective Unconscious, but I am no way arguing for that term - I want to say that I recognise the level you are referring and say that it intensely satisfying to read someone who is feeling clearly that our society is so imbalanced and value inverted that 'the very stones would cry out'. The Brexit/Trump shock of 2016 cracked the foundations of our secular Western Culture at a level far deeper than that culture recognises or is capable of engaging. The image I see reading your post is of the rock filled brook I grew with and I hear the words 'As the deer longs for the water-brooks". Whatever conceptual framework we use to indicate that level, there is no recovery from the current pass without acknowledging and addressing it. I have stopped reading almost everything on the Net, but continue to read you site because it consistently gets underneath the endless distraction and encourages me to do the only thing I can do in the circumstances - dedicate myself to inner prayer and practice. God Bless. lgudehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12774491337993415578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-70041548178452600922020-12-16T22:58:36.055+00:002020-12-16T22:58:36.055+00:00Maybe there are Ents out there, biding their time....Maybe there are Ents out there, biding their time.Sean G.https://www.blogger.com/profile/03107563428752354740noreply@blogger.com