dailey crafton

everyone feels the urge to get high…

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:55:41 -0500

high on weed, or sex, or friends, music, design, twinkies, pizza, health & fitness, being green, children, a spouse, science, the universe, fashion, typography, religion, TEDtalks, brooklyn, PBR, the scene, nature, architecture, banking, politics, ray-bans, culinary interests, entrepreneurialism, technology, apple products, the new york giants…

you don’t have to be a pothead to be a junkie.

what’s it gonna take humanity?

what's Jesus hiding?

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 06:51:00 -0500

consider mark 4:10-12:

And when he was alone, those around him with the twelve asked him about the parables. And he said to them, “To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside everything is in parables, so that

“they may indeed see but not perceive,
and may indeed hear but not understand,
lest they should turn and be forgiven.”

so this is kinda weird right? why would Jesus say such a secretive thing? especially with forgiveness at stake? for clarity, we can begin by turning to isaiah 6:8-13. this is the passage Jesus is quoting when he says these things.

so, this is a curse upon the jews that reaches all the way back to the time of the prophet isaiah. Jesus is repeating a curse that already rests upon them. ok. but still, it’s so harsh! why would Jesus want to keep someone from turning and repenting?

the prophet jeremiah has some very similar words to those of isaiah. look to jeremiah 5, especially verses 3 and 21. in verse 3, we see this people makes their faces harder than a rock and refuses to repent. and so it is in verse 21 that they are proclaimed a senseless people and we see this motif repeated; that they have eyes but do not see. that they have ears but do not hear.

behold, the heart attitude of unrepentance brings the consequence of spiritual blindness and deafness.

a loving reminder from the word of God to me to soften my heart before him.

what you resist persists

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 06:44:00 -0500

you may be familiar with this quote. it is from swiss psychologist carl jung. in this short blog post, the writer explains that, essentially, jung means that if you feel like you are “dumb” and you constantly resist being “dumb,” then a sense of feeling dumb will persist and you’ll never overcome it and you may fracture your psyche.

i get this, i do. i do agree that there is healing in owning up to what you really are and, in some cases being OK with it, like low intelligence, or “being dumb.” but i must say, are there not instances in which we do indeed own up to and admit “the shadow” that is in heart but very firmly resist the deeds that might originate from such a shadow? like murder? is there healing in “truly embracing being a murderer and the gift in it?”

most people are only religious because their parents forced it on them when they were too young to think for themselves

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:05:06 -0500

at least that’s what a new ad campaign by the group, minnesota atheists seems to imply. featuring an image of a baby, “we are all born without belief in gods. learn how to be a born-again atheist,” reads one of the campaigns billboards. yet another reads “please don’t indoctrinate me with religion. teach me to think for myself.” indeed, the minnesota atheists appeal to the late great christopher hitchens, quoting him as having said, “if religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.”

but would we? because at some point or another, when the first homo-sapiens arrived on the scene, there was nobody “indoctrinating them with religion.” there were no overbearing christian, muslim, jewish, hindu, buddhist, shintoist, or republican parents force-feeding them religion. somebody (or bodies) conceived of this on their own.

according to a position that holds to evolution as a grand theory of everything, there was once a world where whether or not religious instruction was allowed was a moot point, because no religion would have been implanted by the elders. yet here we are, in world full to the brim with people who are, by and large, religious.

generalizing generalizations

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:48:32 -0500

generalizations are generally too general. i just generalized generalizing. boom goes the dynamite.

if you’re actually still reading this, what i mean is, you’re gonna be hard-pressed to assign a single characteristic to an entire people group. i.e. “americans are all…” “muslims are all…” “christians are all…” “democrats are all…” so, try not to do it.

write it down

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:25:32 -0500

my life for the past several months has been been in a rather tumultuous state of upheaval, flux and/or uncertainty. my career, family and social lives are undergoing some rather large changes, and my online presence is shifting a lot to reflect that. i hope to use this site as a space to record my raw thoughts and opinions on all the aspects of what i’m experiencing personally and culture as i see it being shaped. happy reading.