18-01-23 Religious Language Patterns

Metaphor

Light / Brilliance, Darkness. Spark, Lightning, Electricity as the unity of life and light. Life, Death. Birth. Energy. Beauty. Infinity. The Universe. Everything. Love. Emptiness and Fullness. Breath. Blood. Rock. Fire. Flood. Earthquake. Tornado, Hurricane. Eruption. Tsunami. Kingship. Throne. Crown. Height. Being risen up. Depth, Lowering. Being struck down. Submission. Reception. Lowering. Strength. Dominance. Power. Battle. War. Fight. Struggle.

Fucking religious language patterns.

Repetition. Metaphor. Abstraction. Conviction. Paradox. Contradiction.

Religious Emotionality

Worship Ecstasy Contrition Submission Sacred The Transcendent Overcome / Overwhelm Purity Triumph Righteousness Redemption Forgiveness Joy (Rejoice!) Repentance Healing Hope Universal Love Deep Acceptance Salvation

Case Study

Conviction. "It is with..." Metaphor. "The mind is the battleground." Rhetoric. People who go to bed tired and wake up tired.. sleep 8 hours and wake up still tired. Rhetoric (Undermine assumptions). You got sleep but you didn't get rest. Unconflating the conflated. "Your got sleep but you didn't get rest." Tribal conflict. "The enemy is after your mind." Reality. Metaphor. "You've been wrestling in your sleep." "wake up to sweat". Metaphor. "Your mind is still caught up in a warfare." Repetition.

Out to worry you to death
Out to stress you to death
Out to break you down
1. 1. Out to make you quit
Out to make you think that you can't get up
Out to make you give up on your dream

warfare is in your mind it's not in your checkbook it's not in your savings account it's not on your job The fight that you've got to fight is in your mind

And if you can whip it in your head You can whip it in your checkbook You can whip it on your job You can whip it out of your children But you got to drive it out of your head.

It is with the mind that we serve the lord

Source: Original Google Doc