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"Ideas! We had ideas for breakfast! We had ideas instead of breakfast!"
-John Steinbeck, "East of Eden"
Ah, the marvelous meanderings of the mind!
if it isn't painfully obvious by now, let me tell you that i take great joy in ideas. i revel in ideas. i fairly wallow in them. i love nothing more than to learn something new.
today was a a fantastic day for my brainmeats.
This morning, i had my first extended conversation in American Sign Language. The young deaf lady i work with is as excited as i am with my new communication skills. I have been taking notes for her for 18 months now, and today was the first time we were able to talk without an interpreter.
this is what is known as a Big Moment for me.
And then came the Thursday Theology Mind-Glut, led by one Mr O'Leary. O'Leary brings to this already fascinating subject a vigor and a genuine excitement that are infectious. it is impossible to be bored in his classroom. it is impossible not to think. And O! What thinking there be, gentle readers.
We began with a debate over the possible literacy of Jesus, then read John's account of the Crucifixion (Pilate, "What is truth?") before moving on to the Gospel of Thomas, the general history of gnosticism, and a bit of Judas. i lingered afterwards to talk Judas and Magdalene with our Fearless Leader.
He: This gospel is so strange, it paints Judas as Jesus's best friend!
Me: Really? Reading this, and Magdalene, i keep coming back to the idea (planted in my head by Rob) of Christ the Manipulator and Judas the Used. Judas was a worldly man, not a spiritual seeker. He handled the money, the lodgings, he bought the food, all that. Then Jesus takes him aside and tells him, "You're special! The others, they don't get me. But you're my buddy, you'll do what i ask you to. You will sacrifice the man that clothes me."
He: That's a good reading. Where are you going to go with that?
Me: i don't know. that's why i'm talking to you about it.
He: Take it to the Vatican!!
Me: They wouldn't let me in, O'Leary, i'm a Lutheran!!
It's the "Jesus was a Jerk" theory.
This is my idea of a great time. i think i've said that before. The headbones are a-buzz with gnosis.
-John Steinbeck, "East of Eden"
Ah, the marvelous meanderings of the mind!
if it isn't painfully obvious by now, let me tell you that i take great joy in ideas. i revel in ideas. i fairly wallow in them. i love nothing more than to learn something new.
today was a a fantastic day for my brainmeats.
This morning, i had my first extended conversation in American Sign Language. The young deaf lady i work with is as excited as i am with my new communication skills. I have been taking notes for her for 18 months now, and today was the first time we were able to talk without an interpreter.
this is what is known as a Big Moment for me.
And then came the Thursday Theology Mind-Glut, led by one Mr O'Leary. O'Leary brings to this already fascinating subject a vigor and a genuine excitement that are infectious. it is impossible to be bored in his classroom. it is impossible not to think. And O! What thinking there be, gentle readers.
We began with a debate over the possible literacy of Jesus, then read John's account of the Crucifixion (Pilate, "What is truth?") before moving on to the Gospel of Thomas, the general history of gnosticism, and a bit of Judas. i lingered afterwards to talk Judas and Magdalene with our Fearless Leader.
He: This gospel is so strange, it paints Judas as Jesus's best friend!
Me: Really? Reading this, and Magdalene, i keep coming back to the idea (planted in my head by Rob) of Christ the Manipulator and Judas the Used. Judas was a worldly man, not a spiritual seeker. He handled the money, the lodgings, he bought the food, all that. Then Jesus takes him aside and tells him, "You're special! The others, they don't get me. But you're my buddy, you'll do what i ask you to. You will sacrifice the man that clothes me."
He: That's a good reading. Where are you going to go with that?
Me: i don't know. that's why i'm talking to you about it.
He: Take it to the Vatican!!
Me: They wouldn't let me in, O'Leary, i'm a Lutheran!!
It's the "Jesus was a Jerk" theory.
This is my idea of a great time. i think i've said that before. The headbones are a-buzz with gnosis.