questions...

Whilst trying to get my head round whether experience can be a valid basis for knoweldge I have been thinking and pondering upon some other questions and let my imagiation take me to some places.

What would a conversation between the Apostle Paul and Foucault look like? Apparently Paul was great at Philosophy, or so Acts tells us. What would he have said? How would he have argued with him? Where would he have started? I reckon Paul would have finally socked him with the gospel, then shook the sand off his feet and walked on.

Now, a show down between God and Fouacault would be very cool to watch. In fact, I guess it's already happened. I doubt Foucualt said very much. He would have had that philosopher's mouth eating the dirt. My imagination serves as a warning to me. One day we will all face God. I'm safe, Jesus says so, but how in awe of God am I now? Am I face down?

I've also been questioning the notion of confession recently. Here's an interesting question...when I was a little younger someone in my churhc apologised to one of my friends for all the bad thoughts and feelings he'd been having about him. That blew me away. And for some reason, in recent months, this memory has resurfaced. There have been a few times recently when a couple fo things I ahve said and done, which, the person about whom, would never have known, have so stirred my conscience that I have actively confessed stuff to them. A dear brother in Christ has had this expereince of being a weirdo twice now and it's impressed him. I don't know what it would have done to our friendship though. I did the same thing to a couple of my housemates and they just told me i was a freak. love, friendhsip means we say stuff at times out of frustration that others will never know about and we don't need to tell them, let alone apologise.

I dunno, what do u think? Is this apologising gone one step too far? Or could be considered keeping 'short accounts'...? Maybe it depends on the situation. I think at times it's useful and at times its risky and maybe just self centred. Hmmm..I wonder what the apostle Paul would say if I asked him. I havent had time to check all this out Biblically and no verses spring to mind, otehr than the general, sorting things out with your brother, type verses.

okay, back to the essay.