Jul
7
Satan, God, & Responsibility (again).
July 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment
This is what’s been weighing on my mind recently and has only been exacerbated by today’s class–if it doesn’t relate enough to be counted as a Milton post, let me know and I’ll write on another subject, but this is what is urgent to me today.
There seems, throughout Milton’s works, to be a recurrent [...]
Jul
3
Gratitude & “In Place of a Curse”
July 3, 2008 | 2 Comments
I was gathering my thoughts yesterday and getting ready to write them out when the umwblogs site went down for maintenance. I should have written something out but I’m too dumb to do that so I just went to bed instead. Anyway, here’s another try.
It seems to me that Satan’s inability to be [...]
Jun
30
Self-doubt & Responsibility
June 30, 2008 | 3 Comments
The discussion today about Milton’s consideration of self-doubt and self-esteem really caught my attention. Milton knows he has a gift, and he knows that God has given him this gift in order for him to use it; he sees that there’s no point in denying this. Denying it would, in fact, be a refutation of [...]
Jun
25
Riotous growth.
June 25, 2008 | 1 Comment
“The very act of restraining growth creates growth.”
We see this everywhere, from the pruning of a plant to damming water. Deny something and it’s liable to burst forth further, at least if it’s a true thing. From experience I can say that trying to squash something you’re worried of and scared of, if [...]
Jun
24
This has a title now.
June 24, 2008 | 2 Comments
What do you do with an imagination that can bring a vision before your eyes that you cannot inhabit?
For reference, the five Milton fascinations: beginnings, loss, delay, ambition and choice.
We can all imagine things. Even the sadly unimaginative can see the ways the future might go. When you’re trying to figure out what [...]