tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post1462592482320001537..comments2024-03-27T14:45:28.176-05:00Comments on Adventus: Wool-gathering in the third week of LentUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-29205896518685915142010-03-13T21:33:05.144-06:002010-03-13T21:33:05.144-06:00A friend of mine grew up in an even more conservat...A friend of mine grew up in an even more conservative evangelical world than I did, and he observed that Star Wars was considered evil and anti-Christian for a while, and then it wasn't anymore. It seems to me with popular culture that evangelicals are "against it before they are for it" - they rail against it until they can find a way to co-opt it or convince themselves that it has the message they want it to have, then it's okay. See Christian fiction and Christian music - pop culture with a great big OK stamped on them. As long as it keeps women in their place, that is; can't have the women getting uppity.Sherrinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-52515845674524736992010-03-13T10:49:32.852-06:002010-03-13T10:49:32.852-06:00Of course, that should have been Borden Parker Bow...Of course, that should have been Borden Parker Bowne. <br /><br />I must have been a lot more tired than I'd thought, yesterday. <br /><br />Anthony McCarthyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-42103764508355023452010-03-13T00:02:21.701-06:002010-03-13T00:02:21.701-06:00I'm not interested in demonizing them or evang...<i>I'm not interested in demonizing them or evangelicals in general, but I do question the notion that evangelicals want respect from the secular culture. In the environment I grew up in, a lack of respect from the world at large was a badge of honor; you were supposed to be converting the world, not being converted to the world.</i><br /><br />That's actually more my experience than not. Oddly, evangelicals embrace "the world" far more than many: no problem with TV, or technology, or the comforts of modern American society. "The world" they reject is often the one where they aren't in charge. The world they are interested in is the one where they are in charge.Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-5969638326335559282010-03-12T18:30:09.818-06:002010-03-12T18:30:09.818-06:00I have a complicated relationship with conservativ...I have a complicated relationship with conservative evangelicals, having been raised in that culture. I don't discuss religion with anybody in my family; it never goes well, because anything I say that disagrees with what they believe tends to result in my being told that I need to "get right with God." I'm not interested in demonizing them or evangelicals in general, but I do question the notion that evangelicals want respect from the secular culture. In the environment I grew up in, a lack of respect from the world at large was a badge of honor; you were supposed to be converting the world, not being converted to the world.Sherrinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-39827850233761193222010-03-12T18:00:56.972-06:002010-03-12T18:00:56.972-06:00Love 'Count', and Bester's rewrite of ...<i>Love 'Count', and Bester's rewrite of it, too...</i><br /><br />Yeah, I'm mentally comparing the two, because I love Bester's version.Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-78936673795532774492010-03-12T16:47:54.211-06:002010-03-12T16:47:54.211-06:00Love 'Count', and Bester's rewrite of ...Love 'Count', and Bester's rewrite of it, too...ProfWombathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11251229209601018545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-3064653875556974272010-03-12T08:43:33.781-06:002010-03-12T08:43:33.781-06:00Just wait till I've read more late 19th centur...<i>Just wait till I've read more late 19th century stuff.</i><br /><br />Yeah, I'm back on my 19th century novels binge; reading "The Count of Monte Cristo," which is SO GREAT! (Really!). But no pictures! and great blocks of text!<br /><br />Still, it's not Proust, whose sentences can go on for over a page....Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-7155419104318880062010-03-12T07:57:56.249-06:002010-03-12T07:57:56.249-06:00And that Onion post, I never use photos or graphic...And that Onion post, I never use photos or graphics. And my typical post runs at least seven hundred words. I got flack several times this past week for using long sentences too. <br /><br />Just wait till I've read more late 19th century stuff. <br /><br />Anthony McCarthyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-37574984125318396052010-03-12T07:54:10.949-06:002010-03-12T07:54:10.949-06:00Having been busy the last several days with unimpo...Having been busy the last several days with unimportant stuff, I'd come here to make a query, which oddly dovetails with this post. <br /><br />Leading from reading William James a lot this past year, I've become interested in Borden Parker Browne but am having trouble finding his books. I was wondering if you had any clues as to how I could find them. <br /><br />Personalism, not as a philosophy of the universe but informing human thought and action has interested me a lot more as I go on. While some of the Catholic personalism - mostly French but some through Catholic Worker --- I'd known most about before is good, I find its contemporary manifestation, especially online, disturbing and off-putting. I don't think that it's how it necessarily had to turn out. I'm not advocating a wholesale revival of personalism but the little I've read about Browne is enticing. <br /><br />Anthony McCarthyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-63120177377722731712010-03-12T07:18:15.963-06:002010-03-12T07:18:15.963-06:00Yup. Yet again, the dividing line is obscured; sc...Yup. Yet again, the dividing line is obscured; scientists have faith in their conclusions, and the assumptions underlying them, as much as anyone has faith in anything. If one wants to distinguish science, that isn't the place to do it. Richard Feynman noted his father's observation that, while a moving object has inertia, nobody knows why. It may well be turtles all the way down, but human beings can't see all of 'em.<br /><br />So here's an interesting article:<br /><br />A dangerous idea has taken hold in modern politics, and the sooner it is discredited, the better. The idea is that political disagreements can be resolved by science. Its basic logic seems sensible: As good children of the Enlightenment, we should turn to science to establish the facts about problems such as climate change before deciding what policies to implement. Yet the types of things that scientists are good at figuring out don't have much to do with the types of things that politicians need to decide. <br /><br />http://www.slate.com/id/2247487/pagenum/all/#p2<br /><br />It's been tempting for many of us, with the example of the Busherregnum before us, to applaud the Enlightenment uncritically. Worth reconsidering, that...ProfWombathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11251229209601018545noreply@blogger.com