I ask the questions and you answer

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you've almost run me out of questions! i appreciate your enthusiasm. i've just got one final question: what questions do you have?

You ask the questions, and I'll answer

Questions people ask me that I don't have concise answers to:

• What do you mean when you say you live in an intentional community affiliated with a church?
• Why do you go to church? Are you Christian?

I ask the questions, and I also answer them

experiments i've tried

• Does my understanding of biblical Jesus match how I hear people talk about him?

I ask the questions, but they remain unanswered

some open questions

• In what sense can there be reified ethical principles? Why does striving to be good, or to make the world good, so often seem like the wrong framing, or a framing that can lead us astray? What does a human-scale ethics look like today? (And if Bonhoeffer has relevant ideas: is there any way they can be translated to a natural-theology framing?)
• Can we apply techniques used for individual addiction to systems addiction? (Think Alan Carr's Easy Way to Quit Smoking but for capitalist exploitation.)
• Is an unsentimental religion possible? desirable? What is the relationship between unsentimental engagement, engagement with reality itself, and neutral engagement?
• What works universally, what needs to be specified differently for different archetypes, and what must be perfectly particular? (Think sweeping statements about the human condition vs personality-specific advice.) What are the implications for philosophy & psychology, as disciplines? What are the implications for finding e.g. necessary-and-sufficient-conditions for the audience of a book? What are the implications for thoughtful marketing?
• Why am I so happy to say that God came to earth as a human, but so reluctant to say that some particular human was God? Is the resistance just from an epistemological habit?

• How do I orient around my religious commitments in the context of my interfaith relationship?
• How do I build a career that engages my analytical side and my interpersonal/thoughtful side in a unified way?
• How can I encourage others more?
• What would it look like to practice instant action more often?