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Posted in Literature, Philosophy on Dec 14th, 2009
I was talking to one of my students today, and the topic of existential crises (i.e., the experience of meaninglessness, [see Ecclesiastes 1, for example, or any play by Samuel Beckett, or Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl]) came up.
I thought my student was having one, you see. And I proceeded to explain Camus’ [...]
Posted in Culture, Literature on Dec 9th, 2009
Dr. Currid is now transitioning from the Historical Books to the Poetical Books.
He began with an attempt to define poetry.
Which gives me an excuse to discuss my own theory of poetry.
Definition:
A linguistic piece is poetic when its words are connected in ways other than those needed to convey information.
Corollary 1:
A work becomes more poetic the [...]
Posted in Literature, Music, Religion on Nov 1st, 2009
It’s the hardcore genre of praise-n-worship, as opposed to the girly-man guitar-pop one normally gets in praise-n-worship.
Actually, I’m just kidding.
(Anybody remember ’80s praise-n-worship, back before the girly-man guitar-pop days? Like “Awesome God” and “El-Shaddai,” and “Sing Your Praise to the Lord.” Okay, it looks like what I mean is, “Anyone remember when praise-n-worship was written [...]
Posted in Culture, Literature, Politics on Jun 20th, 2009
I’m almost finished with Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement, by Brian Doherty.
I’m in the Epilogue, and have run across a couple things I wanted to share.
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First, I thought the following passage would be interesting to you (p. 589):
If government were restricted to its libertarian minimums of protecting citizen’s [...]
Posted in Life, Literature on Oct 31st, 2008
The Wife is currently reading Harry Potter in French, and just ran across a strange word: Poudlard.
Evidently, that’s how the translator decided to render “Hogwarts.”
So, imagine some French kid coming to England for the First International (Harry Potter Kids’ Conference) to deliver a paper on the architecture of Poudlard.
He is met with nothing but ???’s.
Reminded [...]
Posted in Aesthetics (Philosophy), Literature on Jun 10th, 2008
As opposed to some of the graphic design I encounter in the world which is not very impressive, take a look at the following:
Depth (as in the third dimension) is an important part of a successful cover design, IMO. One doesn’t want one’s cover to make potential readers feel claustrophobic.
The depth issue may be ignored [...]
Posted in Culture, Literature, Religion on Apr 18th, 2008
I have a new article up at Radiant Magazine. You can read it here.
Posted in Culture, Literature, Philosophy on Apr 15th, 2008
I’m getting annoyed with people’s using the prefix “post.” “Postmodern,” “post-national,” “post-partisan,” “post-protestant,” “post-Christian,” “post-secular,” etc.
From here on, I insist that we be in the post-post- era. We are beyond post-’s. We have learned from the post-’s of the past and are better for it. We rise above the post-’s which divide. We look to [...]
Posted in Arts and Entertainment, Culture, Life, Literature, Philosophy on Apr 4th, 2008
One good thing that came of the Writers’ Strike was CBS’s rebroadcasting Season 1 of Showtime’s Dexter. At least, I assume that the reason CBS started to run Dexter was that they had no new material to air because of the strike.
The show comes from the book series by Jeff Lindsay, and Season 1 at [...]
Posted in Literature, Philosophy, Religion on Feb 5th, 2008
I just ran across a very interesting looking book. It’s “Pagan Christianity?” by Frank Viola and George Barna. Here’s the description from the publisher’s website:
Have you ever wondered why we Christians do what we do for church every Sunday morning?
Fantastic question. Cartesian, perhaps, but good nonetheless.
Why do we “dress up” for church?
Because it shows our [...]
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