Alexis Jacobi wrote: ↑Sat Jul 13, 2024 11:55 pm
In a way you are right. I am uncertain what “ultimate” position to take.
Nevertheless, you are taking - and so are we all - ultimate positions in the choices we make now to act and not act, to express and not express. Whatever we decide to criticize or let slide, to assertion or not assert about. These are all then written into history with effects flowing from them or not flowing. We can't call these back, though, yes we can change.
But my references are not for the purpose of manifesting erudition. They are genuine sources.
So, you've read these sources. And they have affected, it would seem, how you react to current events, for example. They have led to you being more critical of group A, and less critical of group R. They may have affected how you will vote, or whose positions you are more critical of here or elsewhere.
Perhaps you haven't worked out your position, but you have de facto positions in terms of effects and attitude already. In action, unfolding.
And these could be noted and stood for. Of course, you have made a clear stand in favor of a certain religious or perhaps spiritual attitude that falls within the broader Christianity. Surely, there are others here.
Though perhaps you think it is better for such positions to be implicit rather than expressed. I don't know.
On the other hand you refer us to writers who make their positions explicit, so at the very least this seems like a good thing for people to do at least in certain cases.
