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In Which I Enrage Millions
By now the entire world is aware. Well, likely not the entire world, but at least the entire portion of the world that would have given two-shits insofar as they are already connected through industrialized technological communicative media. In order to move this along, I'll assume you are not aware even though you already are. 'Aware of what?', we ( Read more... ) -
Sentimentality & Returning
A friend of mine recently posted a video on facebook. By itself, this isn't a big event. It happens all the time as facebook has somehow become the friend-circle bulletin board of the age. For me however, this video was rather meaningful. How it was/is meaningful is something rather difficult to describe. When we talking about something being ( Read more... ) -
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Brain Fodder
I'm reading this book Feminism and Theology - ed. Soskice/Lipton for my doctoral class. It has a modern midrash of Judges in it, and that darn thing is making my head go all sorts of interesting and unhappy places. So, misery loves company ... so here's a portion. This text, spawns a lot of reaction from me but most of all I love the way it draws ( Read more... ) -
Herman Melville, run away with me.
"Gifted with the high perception, I lack the low, enjoying power." -
brainfodder
Think about this, particularly with respect to ST 8465 - Theological Hermeneutics:
discourse of oppression under the guise of expedienceJudgmental Forms of Reference Tend Toward Maximum Simplicity, in my reading seems to say that the methods we use to refer to ideologies, peoples, etc. which happen to be judgmental or objectifying in one way or ( Read more... ) -
Fantastic Addition To My Day
So today, we got our MN Tax Return. In addition to being able to buy groceries (YAY!) we also went to the bookstore. At the bookstore, to be fair, I spent a giftcard from Christmas. I purchased this:
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Found in the Office
Host of Family Fortunes (UK): We surveyed a hundred people and asked them to name a way of toasting someone. Michelle?
Contestant (Michelle): Over a fire.
