The Ideal Man – Part 1

MEMORANDA REGARDING THE IDEAL MAN
By
J. Michael Strawn

Memorandum: “a short note designating something to be remembered”

“something to be done or acted upon”

Webster’s New Universal Unabridged Dictionary

How to read this book:
The book of Proverbs is a high compression of ideas.  We release the compression by meditation on it.

INITIAL CONCERNS IN THREE PARTS:

PART ONE: THE ULTIMATE CONVENTION

1. THE IDEAL MALE is this ultimate convention
2. THE MATRIX OF THE CONVENTION 1:7,29
3. THE PRESUMPTION OF THE CONVENTION 2:1-22
4. THE PRESCRIPTION OF THE CONVENTION 3:5,6
5. THE PRIORITY OF THE CONVENTION 8:1-36 (v.22,23)

“WISDOM” = CONVENES THE INCOMMENSURABLE: GOD AND MAN

PART TWO: THE IDEAL MALE: MASTER OF THE COGNITIVE ENCOUNTER

1. THE PRINCIPLE OF BIBLICAL ORGANICISM 1:8; 4:1,10; 5:7; 2:1; 3:1
2. THE “SIMPLE”: ANALOG OF THE NONCOGNITIVE 1:4,22,32-33; 7:7,21
3. LARGE RANGING TYPIFICATIONS:

THE WISE                                                        THE SIMPLE
ORGANIC TO WORDS OF WISDOM         ORGANIC TO RECEIVED DOCTRINES
REVEALED PROPOSITIONS                       CATEGORIES OF THE HUMAN MIND

4. THE COGNITIVE ENGAGEMENT 6:20-23; 7:1-4
5. THE COGNITIVE ENCOUNTER: MASTER INDEX

PART THREE: “PROVERBIAL IDEALISM” AND THE IMMUTABLE FRAME OF

REFERENCE
-ONLY ONE THING IN OUR UNIVERSE DOES NOT CHANGE: THE LORD
-THE IDEAL MALE DOES NOT BUILD ON FLUX BUT UPON THE
UNSEEN

1. PHYSICAL LAWS AND INITIAL CONDITIONS DO NOT GOVERN THE UNIVERSE 3:5-20; 15:3; 16:9,20
2. THE PRESENCE AND POWER OF GOD ARE PRECEDENTIAL 2:7,8; 3:19,20; 15:11; 20:22
3. THE PSYCHOLOGICAL WORLD OF MEN IS NOT A CLOSED SYSTEM 15:3,11,26; 16:2,5; 17:3; 20:27
4. THE IDEAL IS DEFERABLE TO GOD 1:7,29; 2:5; 3:7; 14:2,26,27; 15:16,33
5. ABSOLUTE JUSTICE FINALLY PREVAILS 2:7; 3:34,35; 15:25; 17:5; 21:30
6. THE SUPERSTRUCTURE OF HUMAN LIFE IS BUILT ON THE
SUBSTRUCTURE OF REVEALED TRUTH 2:5, 9:10; 10:29; 12:1
THE PROBLEM OF STUPIDITY 30:3,9

7. IDEALISM GROWS OUT OF A CONTRAVENING TRUTH 3:33,35; 12:22; 11:10,11
8. IDEALISM GUARANTEES THE LORD’S SUPERINTENDENCE 2:8; 3:6; 16:1; 21:31
MEMORANDUM #1 THE IDEAL MAN: A SELECTIVELY CLOSED MIND
2:1-6

1.1 THIS MIND CLOSED TO OTHER OPTIONS

1.2 NO IDEALISM BY ACCIDENT RATHER BY ROUTE OF THE  CONSCIOUSNESS

1.3 PRICE OF IDEALISM = LET GO OF OTHER MOTIVES (PEERLESS)

1.4 PROFILE OF THIS “CLOSED MIND”:

1.4.1 THE PRIMACY OF AUTHORITY – “ACCEPT MY WORDS” V.1

THERE IS SOMETHING BIGGER/BEYOND HIS OWN ONSCIOUSNESS

1.4.2 THE CRITICAL BASE – “STORE UP MY COMMANDS” V.1

ALL DECISIONS / PERSPECTIVES COME OUT OF THIS

1.4.3 DIRECTED ATTENTION – “TURNING YOUR EAR TO WISDOM”   V.2
DISCRIMINATING MIND
IMPLIES THE TRAINING OF THE SENSES
THE SENSES SLAVED TO WISDOM (NON-NATURAL)

1.4.4 THE SUPERSEDING PURSUIT – “APPLY YOUR HEART TO   UNDERSTANDING V. 3

THIS IS SIMPLIFICATION
THE WAY TO ELIMINATE “COMPLEXITY OF LIFE”
NOT A SOLITARY PURSUIT BUT A SUPERSEDING ONE

1.4.5 PRAYERFUL AGITATION – “CALL OUT FOR INSIGHT”
“CRY ALOUD FOR UNDERSTANDING V. 3
CANNOT BE DISSUADED
TOO IMPORTANT TO IGNORE
DISSATISFACTION WITH LESSER THINGS
SEARCH FOR THE ONLY THING THAT BRINGS PEACE
PEACE DOES NOT EXIST APART FROM IDEAS

“FOR THE LORD GIVES WISDOM AND FROM HIS MOUTH COME   KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING

1.4.6 THE SETTLED ISSUE OF ULTIMACY – “LOOK FOR IT AS FOR   SILVER”

“SEARCH FOR IT AS FOR HIDDEN TREASURE” V.4
DISPLACES THE PRIMACY OF THE MATERIAL
SURE SIGN OF A “WISE” MAN
TO BE FORMED IN US IN OUR YOUTH!
CHALLENGES ALL EMPIRICAL THEORIES OF MAN
REVISES OUR “POTENTIALITY”

1.5 THE IDEAL MALE IS AN IDEAL MIND

THIS IS NOT AN UNCRITICAL INTELLIGENCE