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Blessedwife318 gives out pearls of wisdom and Evan casts swine at her.!

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Don't care. Its an animal from you

 

Oh that is funny. I didn't even catch that pun. Well played Rolf, well played.

 

I am waiting for him to post a picture of a duck so that I can tell him to step on it.

(Another play on words. )

 

Still at the dentist? :laugh:

 

Clever although you probably just lessened your chance of that happening.

 

You never know it can take awhile for the nitrous oxide to wear off. I'm going to assume it was major mouth work being done on a Saturday.

 

Evangelism is made somewhat more challenging when dealing with the post-modern mindset, but, I don't think the method should be much affected, but rather your speech. I don't think that any perceived inefficacy of gospel tracts or open-air sermons are a result of Post-modernism though.
I tend to think the ineffectiveness is a result of changing culture more than any pop-philosophical trends. Like many things before it, post-modernism will fade away and soon recycle itself under another moniker in about a century or so, just like modernism, existentialism even Epicureanism before that.

How to deal with the post-modernist mindset?
Personally, I ignore it.
Seriously.
I often find when speaking to people that when they start speaking in post-modernist terms I gloss over it and speak as though we both pre-suppose objective truth. I have found this effective many times.

Post-modernism is self-contradictory and intellectually vapid. If we can speak to a person and get them to engage in any serious self-reflection than post-modernism melts away. I don't think any person who is truly intellectually honest with themselves and open to truth really holds to any serious post-modernism. There's zero intellectual rigour to it. Post-modernists are like moral nihilists, no one can actually LIVE that viewpoint, and no one does.

I speak with them as though we both assume objective truths and I gloss over their usually rather weakly and un-convincingly proposed post-modern objections. Post modernism is convenient shadow for them to hide behind, not a serious intellectual obstacle. Don't acknowledge it as one.

It shouldn't change our evangelistic methodology much at all. Just evangelize, and let the Holy Spirit do its work of melting away those cheap mental tricks. They know deep down that their excuses are void of content. Just give them the gospel.

God reward your effort.

 

And that was a well thought out post.:thumbsup:

 

What is so post-modern about post-modernism? The only difference between the ancient Greeks and modern America is they had togas and we have Facebook.

 

You are probably right.

Might need to issue a preemptive Ducky. :laugh:

 

Frankly, I thought the same but guessed that I was missing something.

 

You probably are infected with Pasteurella multocida bacterium from all your rabbits. It makes your eyes runny and causes your head to lean to the side. :laugh:

On a serious note, what we know as Greek philosophy existed in one form or another since 600 years before Christ. It has widely influenced Western thought and -in spite of our insistence - is essentially unchanged since the time of the Presocratics. Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning would fit nicely into a discussion with the students of Aristotle or Plato. The terms are different and the mechanism to propagate the philosophy has changed but it remains the same - unregenerated man searching for the meaning of life outside the presence of God.

Calling ancient pagan philosophy post-modern is a symptom of the arrogance. It remains a fruitless search for meaning whether we wear togas or use a Twitter account.

Ecclesiastes 1:8-10 NAS77

8 All things are wearisome; Man is not able to tell it. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, Nor is the ear filled with hearing.
9 That which has been is that which will be, And that which has been done is that which will be done. So, there is nothing new under the sun.
10 Is there anything of which one might say, "See this, it is new"? Already it has existed for ages Which were before us.​

 

Wow I give you the benefit if the doubt and I get another animal, that is quite generous if you. Thank you.