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Monday, August 26, 2013 at 6:11PM In this episode of Extra Lean, Jerzy and Rob reflect on framing choices and how for each of us our twenties was when we learned how to take on different philosophies for new perspectives.
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Man I love hearing you guys. I'm so addicted to you guys now it's embarrassing. Great talk.
Jerzy, you and I had some really lousy Catholic Catechizes. The difference between you and me though, is that after you left to study easter philosophy you never bothered to study Catholicism in earnest, asking all the hard questions and trying to find the answers, because you assume you know what Catholicism would answer.
I went to eastern thought and the Joseph Campbell route, then got attacked for still being Catholic and asked the tough questions from it. Got my answers and fell madly in love with Catholicism. Then got angry at my bad teachers and Joseph Campbell for misrepresenting something awesome and making it look so shallow and stupid.
You may not know this but historically, Catholicism has THRIVED by being questioned and criticized. The Church ENCOURAGED it in the middle ages and the Renaissance. Half of Aquina's "Summa Theologica" is about destroying Catholic thought with the greatest arguments anyone has put against it. The second half is all about answering those arguments. Problem is, people are no longer trained in logic so the answers put forth by the Aquinas have become difficult to understand for modern readers.
For you Jerzy and even you Rob, may I suggest the books "The Cloud of Unknowing" By Anonymous (a book written in 1375) and "Abandonment to Divine Providence" by Rev. Jean-Pierre De Caussade S.J.. You will find Catholicism is not so different from the eastern traditions. It's focus is just on Someone else.
Anyway, I love you guys. It makes me envious that you get to have conversations like these and record them. Keep them coming.