On my phone again so excuse the typos.
Since my last post, two wonderful things have happened!
A Christian theonomist agreed to work on my categorization project with me! I had all but given up on completing that within the next 10 years, after my first excursion which made it through Genesis and most of the way through Exodus was lost to the sands of internet mutability. I had changed my strategy to just a slow Bible study and some note taking, but now that I have help, there is hope that we can actually do it! I'll post the url for the project here later when it's a little more sturdy.
The other thing that happened was: an atheist made an argument against my epistemology which I had not before thought through carefully! He took a brand new approach! The idea that the ultimate reference is something we can't have received naturally depends on it being reducible in content and form, but irreducible in necessity, so that there are many parts but no part can be missing, because nature as a source would have to develop the ultimate reference in our minds incrementally. Now, I already know that there are many distinguishable features of the ultimate reference which can be idealized as distinct points of information, but that does not necessitate that the physical substance in our minds which contains that reference is divisible or alterable while maintaining a mind capable of thought (rational or irrational). I do think it's a stretch to suppose that nature provided us with information pertaining to its own trustworthiness, and that the info is physically unalterable in our brains, but with a carefully adjusted definition for trustworthiness, and a careful tip toeing through our ignorance about the way the mind actually structures its information, it is not something I can rule out...yet.
So now I have some clear direction for my thoughts, and (I'm legit gonna cry thinking about it) another person who wants to understand and apply God's Law!!!!! I've actually been in touch with that guy for a while now, but I didn't mention him because I didn't trust my cards. The past 2 years have been brutal.
Isaac and Chowon have managed to shine through the muck in a lot of ways. They give me much pleasure, and continuously remind me of my need for God. It's everything else that seems to harm us. Could there be good fortune for me outside my son's healthy growth? My good fortune is to vicariously experience the good fortune of my neighbors.
Now it appears that I have received something to call a good fortune of my own.
"I am just trying to be neutral."
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