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Weekend update
Jan. 29th, 2007 03:57 pmLast night Adam and I watched An Inconvenient Truth. The information presented wasn't entirely new to me, but I thought the presentation of the material was engaging. Who knew Al Gore was funny? Or charming? Or so wicked smart? I was choked up, naturally, by the beautiful shots of our glorious world. Anything arctic hit me in the gut especially hard. I think about my beloved glacier in my home town dwindling down to a shadow of its former self, an anorexic behemoth. I think about parts of Alaska I've never been to withering as the permafrost melts. Bah! I can't write about this without getting upset. And I know I preach to the choir here....
Most of my weekend was spent doing theology - taking another one of those classes at the GTU that meet one weekend a month for the semester. I was a little disappointed that the first weekend was rather weak. I find it frustrating to discuss Augustine's (or anyone else's) ideas about anything if we're not given primary sources. The teacher distilled certified genius's ideas to two lines and we were supposed to say educated things about them. At the very least give us a handout with a couple of pages of original source material (in translation, please) to read during lunch or something. Plus, everyone in the class, from what I can tell, are classical theists and the teacher's bias definitely comes out, even though she is an Eastern Orthodox and I thought they were a little more accepting of panentheism, which I align myself with.
Anyway, it's great to get my juices going. I have written up my thoughts below the cut. They're not my notes for the class, but rather stuff that I was thinking while class was going on. This is rough and posted mostly to get it out of my actual notebook. No editing or further thought has occurred. If theology doesn't interest you or makes your belly queasy (I know who you are) then stay away. Otherwise, ( dive )
Having gone through these thoughts they seem so elementary and redundant. They are the same questions and thoughts that people have had since the beginning of religion. Still it's nice to get thinking again.
Most of my weekend was spent doing theology - taking another one of those classes at the GTU that meet one weekend a month for the semester. I was a little disappointed that the first weekend was rather weak. I find it frustrating to discuss Augustine's (or anyone else's) ideas about anything if we're not given primary sources. The teacher distilled certified genius's ideas to two lines and we were supposed to say educated things about them. At the very least give us a handout with a couple of pages of original source material (in translation, please) to read during lunch or something. Plus, everyone in the class, from what I can tell, are classical theists and the teacher's bias definitely comes out, even though she is an Eastern Orthodox and I thought they were a little more accepting of panentheism, which I align myself with.
Anyway, it's great to get my juices going. I have written up my thoughts below the cut. They're not my notes for the class, but rather stuff that I was thinking while class was going on. This is rough and posted mostly to get it out of my actual notebook. No editing or further thought has occurred. If theology doesn't interest you or makes your belly queasy (I know who you are) then stay away. Otherwise, ( dive )
Having gone through these thoughts they seem so elementary and redundant. They are the same questions and thoughts that people have had since the beginning of religion. Still it's nice to get thinking again.