Hallelujah
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008Hallelujah A little Leonard Cohen song I recorded for my brother's birthday (and sister in-law's if this other recording doesn't work out ;))
Hallelujah A little Leonard Cohen song I recorded for my brother's birthday (and sister in-law's if this other recording doesn't work out ;))
Sophist
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008by Plato Translated by Seth Benardete I'm pretty excited to be moving on to Aristotle.
On Grace and Justice
Saturday, May 31st, 2008I think there is a popular thought that goes something like: "Yes, God is just. However, He is only just because He offers us Grace." We need to be aware that God is just and He would be just even if He were not gracious. I thank God that He is ...
The Four Loves
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008by C.S. Lewis The greatness of Plato's Symposium is to the greatness of this book as the sphere of the Earth is to the sphere of the fixed stars. The four loves are: Affection, Friendship, Eros, and Charity (Storge, Philos, Eros, and Agape). I especially connected with Lewis' redemption of Eros. The sternest feminist ...
Hanging By A Moment
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008Great Song, Great Lyrics: Desperate for changing Starving for truth I'm closer to where I started Chasing after you I'm falling even more in love with you Letting go of all I've held onto I'm standing here until you make me move I'm hanging by a moment here with you Forgetting ...
On Rejection
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008or Ration vs. Emotion I have lived a very sheltered life, I haven't experienced much tragedy. Just remember that, because I want to keep this in the proper perspective. Rejection is really rough. My reason and my emotion generally get along pretty well. Sometimes my emotions decide to rebel against their rational ...
Fire From Heaven
Monday, May 12th, 2008I have a feeling that 1 Samuel 19:20-21 and 2 Kings 1:9-12 looked very similar in the spiritual realm. Then Saul sent messengers to take David, and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over them, the Spirit of God came upon the messengers ...
The Pilgrim’s Progress
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008by John Bunyan Excellent book. I especially like the second part and the aspect of community that it points out. The motley crew of pilgrims all traveling down the road to the King's Dominion is very encouraging and insightful.
On Dreams and Wakefulness
Thursday, May 1st, 2008What if our dreams are reality and reality are our dreams? I'm not going to give a logical proof of reality here. I'm just going to tell you why I act the way I do, i.e. As if what I experience during wakefulness is real and what I experience while asleep ...
The Book of Mormon
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008An Account Written by The Hand of Mormon Upon Plates Taken from the Plates of Nephi. Translated by Joseph Smith, Jun. In comparison to the Koran, this book has much more narrative. When I was reading the Koran, I thought that narrative would make it easier to read. I was wrong. ...
Theaetetus
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008by Plato translated by Seth Benardete This is a very important dialogue. Socrates inquires into the notion of "knowledge". It is very interesting what he allows and disallows. He offers a delighful argument against the Pythagorean notion that "Man is the measure of all things"
Back to Greek
Sunday, June 24th, 2007I'm working on learning Greek again... This is the third time through. Hopefully this time I can spend a little bit each day not letting the paradigms slip out of my head...
The Scriptorium
Thursday, June 21st, 2007A blog I have recently begun reading. Politics, theology, etc.
iTunes U
Saturday, June 2nd, 2007Lots of free higher education content is now available on iTunes. I was about to search for Greek when I noticed that Elementary Greek from Concordia is available. Cool!
Gödel’s Proof
Wednesday, January 24th, 2007by Ernest Nagel and James R. Newman The author's present an exegesis (for laymen) of Kurt Gödel's 1931 paper: "On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems" Gödel basically showed that mathematics is not finite. (as far as I can tell... you shouldn't quote me on that :P) Gödel's conclusions ...
Another Cool Link (for my bro)
Thursday, October 12th, 2006Blockwriter Software concept (dang, no free download) that allows you to write like you would on a typewriter. (i.e. no delete) Thomas told me once that that was good for writers (or something).
