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CATHOLOGIC - A Cure for the Plague of the West Jan Moniak

 PROLOGUE and  I. THE ONE WHO INVENTED EVERYTHING. PROOF AND FAITH II. THE MYTH THAT BECAME TRUE III. THE WAWEL TOWER IV. ERRONEOUS BODILY AND MATERIAL FORMS of Our Culture V. A PROPOSAL FOR ACTION — ORDINARY THINGS AS SIGNS OF FAITH Contents Why did I write this ? This book is a misunderstanding.- 2 Introduction  – 5 A Futile Fight Against Schemas  – 11 Without Imposing, There Is No Formation  – 11 DISCIPLINE  – 12 More… Than I Can Bear: Stimuli, Information, Accusations  – 13 The Desire to Judge — “More Than I Can Bear” in Accusing  – 15 Blind Accusers Accuse Others of Blind Defense  – 16 He Must Suspect, Otherwise He Will Suffocate  – 17 Blind Trust in Accusatory Messages  – 17 The More Accurate, the Less Convincing  – 18 A Correct Diagnosis Generates the Most Intelligently Defended Errors  – 18 A Theory Worth Nothing Without Examples?  – 19 Not Too Little, but Too Much — and in the Wrong Place  – 20 “You Beco...

Cathologic chapter V. A PROPOSAL FOR ACTION — ORDINARY THINGS AS SIGNS OF FAITH Jan Moniak

 author: Jan Moniak redaction: Copilot AI V. A PROPOSAL FOR ACTION — ORDINARY THINGS AS SIGNS OF FAITH The four self‑destructive convictions recalled at the end of the previous chapter correspond to four remedies: 1. Reconstructing the Grammars We must restore the grammars into which we can inscribe the religious “lexicon” — images, actions, individual practices — that has been left to drift toward ruin according to personal whims and merely aesthetic criteria, and thus ceases to be understood or lived. A small example of such a grammar is the grammar of space. 2. Grammatization Through Forms, Not Words Alone These “grammatizations” must occur not only through words, but above all through forms that reach all the senses — and through ordinary, daily matters: human relationships, food, the home, clothing, work, signs referring to nature, and the organization of time (daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, and life‑long), dependent on overarching natural cycles. 3. Appealing Not ...