Comments on: A Mormon Maximalism

By: W

Wed, 26 Aug 2015 21:58:52 +0000

“I’ll be stretching my mouth to let those big words come right out…”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBAl9cchQac

(Love your contributions, Adam, and I share the maximalist hungering and thirsting after meaning & poetry & righteousness…. just couldn’t resist poking a bit of fun.)

By: Adam G.

Adam G. — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 15:52:27 +0000

Tasty stuff. Keep on gobbling.

By: Leonard R

Leonard R — Mon, 09 Mar 2015 13:03:33 +0000

Now that you’ve combined this with your previous post on minimalism, they both sing. This one resonates more with my nature, while the other with acquired practise. And the Annie Dillard imagery – is there really a greater meditation than Tinker’s Creek?

By: Josh Smith

Josh Smith — Sun, 08 Mar 2015 22:50:20 +0000

That makes sense, James. Agreed.

By: James Anglin

James Anglin — Sun, 08 Mar 2015 19:13:13 +0000

Yes, really — for certain values of ‘one’.

I’m sure not everyone who believes less searches frantically. I just mean that it’s easy to go that way. Maximalism and minimalism can reinforce each other well, and when they do, that’s how it works.

By: Josh Smith

Josh Smith — Sat, 07 Mar 2015 16:31:04 +0000

“The fewer things one really believes, the more frantically one searches for something one can believe.”

–James Anglin (7)

Not really.

By: rameumptom

rameumptom — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 21:14:35 +0000

Wasn’t it Alexander Pope that warned about sipping from the waters of knowledge would only get you inebriated? One must drink deep from the waters to truly begin to understand.

By: Christopher Bradford (Grasshopper)

Christopher Bradford (Grasshopper) — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 20:24:02 +0000

…waits for the “A Mormon Moderation” post to drop…

By: James Anglin

James Anglin — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 17:16:55 +0000

Minimalism of conviction and maximalism of experiment are natural partners. The more new things one tries, the more convictions get shaken loose. The fewer things one really believes, the more frantically one searches for something one can believe.

There must be a middle way.

By: p

Fri, 06 Mar 2015 03:57:43 +0000

“Once you really solve a problem like direct brain-computer interface … when brains and computers can interact directly, to take just one example, that’s it, that’s the end of history, that’s the end of biology as we know it. Nobody has a clue what will happen once you solve this. If life can basically break out of the organic realm into the vastness of the inorganic realm, you cannot even begin to imagine what the consequences will be, because your imagination at present is organic. So if there is a point of Singularity, as it’s often referred to, by definition, we have no way of even starting to imagine what’s happening beyond that.” Yuval Noah Harari EDGE 3.4.15

By: p

Fri, 06 Mar 2015 03:11:38 +0000

“Now, boys, you won’t see this operation performed very often and there’s a reason for that… You see it has absolutely no medical value. No one knows what the purpose of it originally was or if it had a purpose at all. Personally I think it was a pure artistic creation from the beginning.”
? William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

By: Medio

Medio — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 02:33:35 +0000

Good luck on your journey. Maybe try moderation? Maybe you can be a maximalist of moderation? It seems that too much enthusiasm leads to a fall or neglect of something important.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 23:57:45 +0000

Reminds me of Rev. 3:15-16 – I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. 16So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.

By: Greg Call

Greg Call — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 21:46:10 +0000

Well I quoted from Donald Judd last time, so this post calls for the Austrian anarch-itect and artist, Hundertwasser:

“The straight line is godless and immoral. The straight line is not a creative line, it is a duplicating line, an imitating line. In it, God and the human spirit are less at home than the comfort-craving brainless intoxicated and unformed masses.”
“Now we have the smooth. Everything slips off smoothness. Even God falls down. FOR THE STRAIGHT LINE IS GODLESS. The straight line is the only uncreative line. The only line which does not correspond to man as the image of God. The straight line is a true tool of the devil. Whosoever uses it is aiding the downfall of mankind.”

By: Clark Goble

Clark Goble — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 21:27:18 +0000

It sounds like a person unable to simply eat healthily so the swing radically between denialism wherein they partake only of meal replacement shakes until it becomes too much and they go on months of binging on fast food. It seems the middle ground of healthy eating and regular exercise is the way to go.