'the Travis problem'
the name was was more fitting than my instructor knew when he referred to it as that. We were discussing the Gothic cathedral and I brought up a point about their intensely animated exterior surfaces, and why nothing of the sort is seen on the inside of the church. Was it a medieval ploy to lure prospects in close and shock them with reality once they're inside?
I don't think it's that simple.
The exteriors are decorated with thousands of stories - an ancient visual bible, if you will - designed for an illiterate populus that was free to take a sample of religions hottest new product without obligation.
once drawn in, it's a whole different story. no visual bible to map your way through salvation. It's you and Him in there, 1 on 1. The connection should already exist by this point. It isn't visual anymore. It's something else...it's belief...and it just works.
it just works.
We ended up dwelling on that subject for the rest of the class, again and again it was referred to as the Travis problem.
It's 4. And I need to be finished moving out/in by 7. I just had to write. I had a bad day today, mostly because it seemed to foreshadow to a really really bad week to come. Long story short, my loan company denied me today. I was depending on this more than anything...and if the student loan check I was supposed to get on Tuesday doesn't materialize, I cant pay the new landlord the deposit, at which point he will kill me. Neither can I get my car out of impound, leaving it to be sold by the yard, nor will I be able to afford tuition at Sciarc, leaving me to be sold to the highest bidder.
more later
I don't think it's that simple.
The exteriors are decorated with thousands of stories - an ancient visual bible, if you will - designed for an illiterate populus that was free to take a sample of religions hottest new product without obligation.
once drawn in, it's a whole different story. no visual bible to map your way through salvation. It's you and Him in there, 1 on 1. The connection should already exist by this point. It isn't visual anymore. It's something else...it's belief...and it just works.
it just works.
We ended up dwelling on that subject for the rest of the class, again and again it was referred to as the Travis problem.
It's 4. And I need to be finished moving out/in by 7. I just had to write. I had a bad day today, mostly because it seemed to foreshadow to a really really bad week to come. Long story short, my loan company denied me today. I was depending on this more than anything...and if the student loan check I was supposed to get on Tuesday doesn't materialize, I cant pay the new landlord the deposit, at which point he will kill me. Neither can I get my car out of impound, leaving it to be sold by the yard, nor will I be able to afford tuition at Sciarc, leaving me to be sold to the highest bidder.
more later