the cosmos of my inner world

1st order
Trinity (discovered before Time)
Job
Daniel
Enoch
Paul
Solomon

2nd order

*Soren Kierkegaard (discovered 2006)
Jakob Böhme (discovered 2008)
Jacques Derrida (discovered 2006)
Emmanuel Levinas (discovered 2008)
Samuel Beckett (discovered 2005)
Franz Kafka (discovered 2007)
Fyodor Dostoevsky (discovered 2007)
Friedrich Dürrenmatt (discovered 2004)

3rd order
Heraclitus (discovered 2008)
Jean Baudrillard (discovered 2006)
Carl Gustav Jung (discovered 2007)
Roland Barthes (discovered 2006)
William Shakespeare (discovered 2003)
Maurice Blanchot (discovered 2008)
J.R. Tolkien (discovered 2001)
Charles Spurgeon (discovered 2000)
Jonathan Edwards (discovered 2000)
John Calvin (discovered 2000)
金庸 (discovered 1995)
Fredrico Fellini (discovered 2006)
Akira Kurosawa (discovered 2006)
Stanley Kubrick (discovered 2006)
Jean-Luc Godard (discovered 2007)
Michel Gondry (discovered 2006)
Friedrich Nietzsche (The Outsider) (discovered 2007)
Blaise Pascal (pending) (discovered 2007)
Maurice Merleau-Ponty (pending) (discovered 2007)

I believe that by listing out these names, we can have a clearer picture of my psyche. These people are responsible in screwing up my mind, especially those of the 2nd order. With these names, I'm able to paint a clearer picture of how they came to influence me and my thinking and continue to do so. As you can see, most of the influences came post-2000. I find this really significant but I can't explain why and how. There are names I have left out because they are of lesser importance. Nevertheless they are still significant in their own ways, though only intellectually. People like John MacArthur, John Bunyan and Augustine would have made into the list but I decided that they lacked something that say Charles Spurgeon would have as a preacher. More significantly, the important omissions would include the likes of Louis Althusser, Deleuze, Michel Foucault and Jacques Lacan were not exactly good role models. But they have in some ways forced me to think of certain issues in a different light.

With this, I can next embark on remembering the other influences and factors that have shaped my entire existence and personality.