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01 July 2025
With "An Architecture of MSL/VMH Reform", I felt done. With what? I don't think I'm completely done.
Here are some things I could work on in my writing project:
1. The philosophy may need to be fixed.
2. I wanted to write a Bible commentary relating extended MSL to the
Bible. It would also try to prove some points even to non-MSLian Bible
readers, through the lenses of "Who is God?" and "how do we obey God in
a way that minimizes harm in case we're wrong about what God's word is?"
3. I could always write more songs, make more albums, make them
higher-quality, etc.
4. Overall, I have thought about futurism (like the topic of social
sustainability), and have written some notes about it.
5. I have notes for a novel, or series of novels.
6. Those are things that I've started. But one project I thought of
but haven't started up to now is to read fiction, analyzing it through the
lens of MSL, particularly to retrain myself so that I see everyday
life stories with MSLian values and expectations.
7. Another similar one being some kind of news analysis.
8. I could keep going with learning Indonesian and pursuing what could
come from that.
Possibly there are other things I could pursue. Or maybe it's better for other people to do the things in the list instead? I think that is fairly likely with the Bible commentary, since I don't have the scholarly background to make something that is what I assume your typical Bible commentary reader would want (someone with a big bookshelf of theology and Bible books, like a pastor or academic, who would want a certain standard of scholarly rigor). At least I couldn't do it all myself. Similarly with the philosophy -- it's at a point where it needs criticism, something other people would be better at than I would be.
These days I've been working on the fiction and news analysis projects, although not very hard. Also working some on music. I study Indonesian some, at a similarly slow pace. Sometimes I feel ambitious, like I will read a lot of Indonesian texts as part of learning the language, and thus be able to interface with Islam and the developing world through that portal. And maybe someday I will be able to write books in Indonesian. Other times, those goals seem hopelessly far away. There are things I can do with sub-fluent Indonesian, I guess. It's also true that in life there are things that are long projects with indefinite chances of completion, and which you can always invest more in (always learn some more vocabulary), and learning a language teaches about that reality. I feel ambivalent about learning Indonesian, but keep it in the mix of what I do in my free time.