Simone Weil: An Astonishing Life (P1) - by Brad Jersak

[@nickball2420]

Hi Brad I just wanted to offer gratitude for your wonderful broadcasts on Simone Weil An Astonishing Life parts 1 through 3. Me and my partner have just concluded the series and hugely enjoyed the insights, the laughter, the learning and the profound depth of wisdom. I've known of her for years but haven't seriously engaged with her work. It now comes as somewhat of a revelation and one of the most compelling reconciliations of the All Good All Loving with the world of suffering and distress. Beautifully mediated and conveyed Brad so a deep bow to you and your team for facilitating that session. Next stop will be to imbibe your Awaiting God translation of her work. With sincere regards and warm affection from Nick Ball in the United Kingdom

[@DonalLeader]

Fantastic!

[@ianboyd6227]

A new ObjectiveBob drop? Let’s goooo!

[@ObjectiveBob]

I know I don't post often anymore. Thanks for sticking around. Two more Simone Weil lectures coming this week!

[@djketler]

@@ObjectiveBob Always awaiting new videos - grateful for this! And about Simone Weil? So good...

[@TheSoteriologist]

@@ObjectiveBob More DBH !

[@bikrommahmud3476]

Thanks for uploading!

[@racheladkins6060]

As an Autistic person she’s someone I am interested in. I really don’t care what some evangelicals think of Autism, some think it’s demon possession but that’s the carnal mind of eating from the tree of good and evil, the tree of religion and one of death.

[@racheladkins6060]

Someone needs to make a film about all of Simones life?

[@Tobazhniazhi]

In her essay "The Love of God & Affliction", she expresses, most cogently, what the love of God signifies and the significance of the Cross of Jesus: "God created through love and for love. God did not create anything except love itself, and the means to love. He created love in all its forms. He created beings capable of love from all possible distances. Because no other could do it, He Himself went to the greatest possible distance, the infinite distance. This infinite distance between God and God, this supreme tearing apart, this agony beyond all others, this marvel of love, is the Crucifixion. Nothing can be further from God than that which has been made accursed." She continues "This tearing apart, over which supreme love places the bond of supreme union, echoes perpetually across the universe in the midst of the silence, like two notes, separate yet melting into one, like pure and heart-rending harmony. This is the Word of God. The whole creation is nothing but its vibration. When human music in its greatest purity pierces our soul, this is what we hear through it. When we have learned to hear the silence, this is what we grasp more distinctly through it." Simone Weil is one of the most luminous intelligence of the 20th century. She had her feet rooted on the earth with noble social causes and yet with a faith and love soaring beyond time and into eternity. Thank you for sharing the life of this brilliant soul. Her writings, at times difficult to understand yet glowing with an inner core of meaning, has helped me both intellectually and spiritually.

[@barrytebb7947]

Diogenes Allen remains the best commentator on her without doubt

[@richardbowker1338]

I am no expert but know a fair bit. I've never come across the incident in Marseille and I would really like a reference.

[@smileyface5908]

Thanks for the video. I recognise your profile pic. Looks like the porcupine tree album cover isn’t it, great tunes! ❤️❤️

[@lisalasoya2898]

In one of the blogs dubbed Ms. Weil akin to a Quaker, but it is general Christian beliefs, focusing on attention and the word apathy came about. Almost like love thy neighbor could it be an entrapment?

[@claudelebel49]

Lucid attention or choiceless awareness.

[@lisalasoya2898]

The imagination is essentially a lie; the result, this young lady volunteered to gingerly walk in to an outpost. In between, the outsiders were developing camera effects to film these atrocities.

[@ximono]

Her philosophy (and life) has a lot in common with quaker belief.

[@BakkerSamuel]

Are they not walking around naked?

[@ximono]

@@BakkerSamuel No, that would be nudists.

[@BakkerSamuel]

@@ximono what exactly do they stand for/believe in?

[@ximono]

@@BakkerSamuel Nudists? Being nude. Quakers? Hard to sum up in a KZbin comment. They name these core "testimonies": simplicity, peace, integrity, community, equality (and sometimes: stewardship). They're Christian, believing in "the inner light" in all of us, and that by waiting in silence one can come into the presence of God. They're also known to be activist, out in the world living according to what they believe. They're a very interesting bunch, especially the silent/waiting kind.

[@racheladkins6060]

I’m Autistic and Christian. Unfortunately American Christian’s find everything they don’t understand as “controversial”.

[@TheSoteriologist]

13:05 - 13:45 I could have told her that beforehand and probably so could those who shook their heads over that around her. Maybe she wasn't so brilliant after all then.

[@jasonegeland1446]

Or maybe she was.

[@TheSoteriologist]

@@jasonegeland1446 I do not doubt that she was brilliant in many more or less dissociative ways. But this is one indication that in some ways, especially concerning compassionate realism, she was extremely stupid. Notice she didn't compassionately consider the real life of those workers before she did this. She just simply forged her totally unrealistic ideas onto their reality in the typical ässjaydubblyoo manner, on the pretext of saving them. Another indication would be that she may have mothered a child and gave it away, just for the sake of seeing how it is to have sex, as the speaker suspects. That would be worse than stupid, it would be heartless and irresponsible even. Or that number with dropping nurses into the frontlines ...

[@jasonegeland1446]

@@TheSoteriologist I suppose if what you're saying is true about her then I might be inclined to agree in certain ways. I'll have to read more on her soon.

[@TheSoteriologist]

@@jasonegeland1446 I only mentioned some points the speaker relates in this very talk.

[@jasonegeland1446]

@@TheSoteriologist Right on.

[@OUTBOUND184]

I don't think inspiring Vatican II should be something cited as an achievement....

[@ristomikkonen5255]

Isn't delving into other people's encounters with Christ idolatry of sorts? I know Christians who hold Paul's description of his personal encounter with Jesus in a much higher esteem than the gospel Paul preached. They literally use the diction of that description in order to thwart the universal scope of the gospel.