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• Begin with a discussion of consciousness. What does consciousness mean? The word extracts out habitable order. We encounter a formless and chaotic potential as human beings. Consciousness gives it form. This is how people act. There is something about a person, their potential if they participate in the process properly.
• 8:00 3 causal elements in mythology. one is the formless potential that is given a feminine nature, second is an interpreted structure to grapple with that potential, Immanuel Kant, akin to God the Father, something deeply structural. Third, consciousness itself in the individual. The structure has a capacity for action in the world. You’re the spirit that gives the dead structure life.
• The speaking of the son is what turns chaos into order. Your very body is an interpretive structure.
• 11:00 Humans are made in the image of God. It’s not obvious why people would come up with this structure. It’s counter intuitive. Cornerstone of our legal system. Individual sovereignty developed over a long time. We dispense with something at our serious peril. You act that idea out.
• 13:40 A God of tradition and structure and the son is verbal. There is something to speech that is more than mere thought. It is something shaped by others. It is put forward in the word as a causal element but subject to mutual shaping. Advocate of free speech above all.
• 15;00 : the dream by which we dreamed up consciousness and localize it. by John there is an element of God that acts in a living way with the potential of the world.
• 16:30 you act in the material world as if you are in a place of potential. You can transform. we treat each other as if we have free choice and free will. Societies that are predicated that we don’t don’t do very well. It’s an insult to suggest to someone that they’re not in charge of their choices. Legally it’s diminished capacity.
• 18:30 how people act and how they want to be treated and trace it back to some metaphysical connection
• 18:53 reading the text.
• toho wavohu he understands as endless deep potential.

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