faith in progress
After looking at my previous post of this nature, I realized it may have been misconstrued. The word sine is Latin for “without” and should not be confused with the mathematical term sine (typically written as sin, which should also not be confused with the notion of sin!). Anyhow, this is a quote of Stanislaw Lex, the Polish poet, from Baudrillard’s Intelligence of Evil:
Technorati Tags: baudrillard, realityLast night I had a dream about reality.
It was such a relief to wake up.
I just made a short post over at Church and Postmodern Culture about the future of theology (direct link). In some ways, this is where I find my future research leading.
I want to graduate and move on to a doctoral program, but I feel like I’ve just gotten a feel for my advisor’s work (which is right in my area…see the previous post over at Church and Postmodern Culture!). I would love to collaborate with him in the future.
I enjoy reading way too much. Nearly every book that I read leads me to three others that all look interesting. I’m on a first-name basis with the circulation desk at the school library.
When I first started my MA program, I felt like I knew very little of everything. Some of the links and connections in classes were so foreign (e.g. Deleuze!) that I had no idea how to understand them. It wasn’t until a class I took last year that these connections were understood in rudimentary ways. Now, I feel like every book I read is a new daybreak, a new revelation, a new idea. Some of the more recent books I’ve read have found ways of connecting my interest(s) in technology and programming with philosophy and theology.
I have five weeks left to write my papers. For my class on globalization, I want to explore the notion of identities as multiplicities. For my class on Augustine and Origen, I want to tease out Augustine’s and Origen’s feelings on language and compare them to modern semiotics: their “rule of faith” as a crutch for language.
No Tags85-100% You must be an autodidact, because American high schools don’t get scores that high! Good show, old chap!
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What American accent do you have? Your Result: Philadelphia
Your accent is as Philadelphian as a cheesesteak! If you’re not from Philadelphia, then you’re from someplace near there like south Jersey, Baltimore, or Wilmington. if you’ve ever journeyed to some far off place where people don’t know that Philly has an accent, someone may have thought you talked a little weird even though they didn’t have a clue what accent it was they heard. |
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Not even close. i be from the South, dahlin’.
No TagsThis WTF goes out to all the snobbish customers in the world (or at least America). When somebody is using a cheaper rental computer, it is rude to ask them to switch with you because you’re going to be there longer. Period. It doesn’t matter if they’re paying for it or not, work there or not, or have five hands growing out of their waist or not. It is rude and selfish to ask someone to do something that benefits you just because it will benefit you. If there is a reason other than “it helps me,” ask away. If there isn’t, then either wait your turn or take another computer, even if it winds up being 10 cents more per minute. If you’re really going to spend another ten hours on those computers (at $120 a pop), you might want to consider (amazing here) buying a laptop. Has consumer America really become that selfish that it now lacks knowledge of simple etiquette. And no, saying “thank you” afterward doesn’t make it better.
No TagsThis week’s WTF goes to a year old report from the Harvard Business School (link) that hashes out the Microsoft vs. Linux/Open Source debate, but from a business/economic factor. It doesn’t say anything novel, but it gets the WTF award for apparently misunderstanding the nature of OSS. It’s really quite simple: OSS stands for community involvement, not market shares. Of course Microsoft will be top dog in market shares because OSS is not about the market. The people who develop Open Source software (especially the GNU folks) don’t use their market shares as the bottom line because for them, it’s about making a piece of software that works and sharing it with the rest of the world. Drop a line at the folks at Debian and ask them if they’re concerned about Microsoft having more of the market share than Linux: they won’t really care. Sure, they’ll say that it’d be nice of more people used Linux, but their argument will be one from a coder’s perspective, not a CEO’s.
No TagsIn this article (link), Frederick Meekins criticizes McLaren. Now, once you get through the grammatical mistakes (in case, not encase…), you’ll find a simple argument: McLaren said “Da Vinci Code is no better than Left Behind: they’re both full of errors.” After that McLaren also said that many churches have distorted views of Christianity because of Left Behind and they’re fighting for something that not all Christians would consider to be Christianity. Because of this, the author argues that McLaren is a (nearly heretical) universalist based on what the author believes McLaren is lamenting in Left Behind: the warning against globalisation. Now, i read the McLaren article being referenced here and found no such thing. In fact, McLaren didn’t mention at all what his “beef” with Left Behind was. As this author mentioned, Andrew Jones (Tall Skinny Kiwi) called this author’s critique of McLaren “the worst McLaren slam” and he’s shown again that his critique of McLaren is misguided. This isn’t to say his belief that McLaren is a universalist is incorrect (i think i agree with him on that one), but his argument up to that point and from that point are off base. So, for this week’s WTF? Award goes to Frederick Meekins for bad argument form.
No TagsThis is directed towards Mark Pilgrim’s recent move away from Apple (just scratch out “Windows©” and put “Linux”):
Who’d thunk it? Kierkegaard and Barth! (Luther too)
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You scored as Fideist. You are a fideist! You love to read Soren Kierkegaard, Martin Luther, and Karl Barth. Knowing God is a personal thing, so you believe that the best case for Christianity is made on a subjective level.
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