Sucker love is heaven sent

On the joys of sugar:

A placebo has no pharmaceutical properties; if it works, it works only because of my own belief in its efficacy.

If I know that I’m taking a placebo, it will be ineffective.

So while the placebo cures me only because I believe it will, I can’t believe that it will cure me only because I believe it will.

Peter Cave

Theologised history

Karl Barth can be great for a pithy quote at times. His view of Enlightenment man is fairly underwhelming.

Upon discovering that the earth was not the centre of the universe, humanity didn't feel more humbled that he was on a small speck of dust on the edge of the cosmos. Instead, he declared himself to be the master of the infinite new space which he had discovered. Barth's summary:

He moved from a geocentric view of the universe to an anthropocentric one.

Words

There is something about them. You can almost argue from the existence of words to the existence of God. Of course, you can't really do this. However, let me elaborate.

Facts are things that are objectively so. The existence of a rock in space-time, for example. A word, however, adds meaning to a fact. Not necessarily spiritual meaning, or moral meaning or even relational meaning, but meaning. It takes the bare fact of existence and forms it into an idea. They cannot help but narrate the universe as we know it.

Much like Calvin's view of revelation, in a way. God's words narrate his works. Words give meaning to actions.

Now this is only a baby thought, and I need interaction to refine and develop it more.

Thoughts please!*

*Yes Simone, I'll even welcome your overtly Platonic thoughts too. :P