Hezo Kittie

The Daily Deuce #2

Okay it's the same day but I have like a week's worth of deuces to drop so here's the last of it.

In my History of Religion class we spent about a week on Chinese religions, and many of them talk about the concept of "De". It has varying definitions depending on the source; one interpretation is "inherent character / inner power / integrity". Another way we defined it in class was "compassion, discipline, humility".

I found it interesting that these three character traits nicely coincided with what C.S. Lewis called the three essential relationships. You with everyone else, you with yourself, and you with God. We have to treat each other with compassion, no matter how easy it is to forget; we must be self-disciplined or else we lose control of our life; no matter how accomplished and self-righteous we might think we are, we truly are nothing compared to God.

Crazy. We start the Abrahamic religions this week, should be interesting.