I had nothing to do with the creation of this paper. I’m posting it here so I can have an access point to reference in a response I’ll be writing. The original piece was published on Facebook, so I asked Derek’s permission to put it here. Obviously permission was granted. Also, I titled the piece [...]
Worst of all, while it opens up a radical prospect by acknowledging the authenticity of other voices, postmodernist thinking immediately shuts off those other voices by ghettoizing them within an opaque otherness, the specificity of this or that language game. It thereby disempowers those voices (of women, ethnic and racial minorities, colonized peoples, the unemployed, [...]
This is half joking. Half. Actually, after going back and rereading this, less than half. Accusations have been tossed, rather frequently at times, that emergent was comprised of mostly the hipster generation of pseudo intellectuals trying to retain a bit of their religious background while still continuing to buck the system as their non-religious fellows [...]
Oh hi there, you didn’t know I still existed did you? But, alas, the ex hasn’t managed to kill me yet, and I’m here for yet another sporadic blog post. I got a message yesterday from someone I don’t really know that well. I know this persons family pretty well, and I like this person, [...]
I talked a bit yesterday about the need for a constant outlet of doubt, and I had intended today to talk a bit about the political changes that my agnosticism has brought about (not idealogical changes but changes in how I approach differences/“the other”), but after yesterdays post, a comment by a buddy on Facebook, [...]
Religion I’ve been sitting with this whole “agnostic” label for a few months now, I had finally reached a point in life where I said “I don’t know if God exists in any way, I don’t see it, and I’m ok with that.” I’ve been pleasantly surprised at the reactions I’ve garnered, for the most [...]
Written via my iPhone. Forgive any typos, grammatical errors, or punctuation mistakes. All ratings are out of five stars. Name * The first thing I must mention is the terrible name, I think everyone agrees on this point, except, apparently, Apple themselves. While iSlate was an ok name (I wasn’t thrilled) iPad just makes me [...]
Eh, this was all written via my iPhone and transferred over to wordpress, forgive any typos/grammatical errors/punctuation errors. I didn’t check for them (not that I ever really do). I’ve been away for a while; I find myself distracted often by books, music. These two distractions I don’t mind so much… they’re productive and I [...]
There’s a couple things I want to mention before I start. First, since my posts now go to facebook as notes, I’ve gotten some more personal responses from people that didn’t read my blog previously but have been following me since I started moving into the facebook area as well. To these people, and to [...]
My friend, Nick Fielder, recently released his book, “The Hopeful Skeptic“, and he’ll be speaking at the Cobb Emergent Cohort tomorrow. I bring this up for a couple reasons, one because I like Nick, I drank his booze and swam in his pool once, but mostly because I’ve been talking recently about my own agnosticism [...]