James Chastek points out that the authors of Scripture were not constructing a body of ‘evidence’ for God, but rather relating their testimony of things they were witnesses to. He remarks, “Christ, for one, was chiefly interested in making sure that he would have continual witnesses on earth, not that there would be any careful documentation of what he did . . . → Read More: for all
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Listening today to the NewstalkZB discussion of youth vandalism (which relate to my recent post) and the Pike River mining incident (29 miners trapped in a complex and multi-faceted situation). Yet again, we see that technology is neither good nor bad. If it’s good things we’re aiming to do, technology aids and strengthens our efforts. If it is best to . . . → Read More: technology Two things (neither good/evil of themselves) which will not make humans more moral are technology & science. Technology gives us ever-increasing levels of power; and this power can be used to do both good and evil. Spiderman, anyone1? Science gives us an ever-increasing amount of data/facts; which make ethical choices more complex/detailed/varied – but which do not help us in . . . → Read More: power, complexity & ethics Think of causality as a chain. (Leaving aside Aristotle’s other varieties of causation [formal, efficient and final] we’ll just focus on material causation alone…) Much of the chain we can see with our eyes… Quite a bit more of the chain has been brought into view with modern technology and scientific methodology… The rest of the chain (actually, even some/most . . . → Read More: causal chain Check out (and contribute to!?) the online, editable, book (‘Not Only A Father‘) by Tim Bulkeley about gender language and God. Yes – editable. This is a new kind of book. A book you discuss with others, and with the author, as you read. It may even be edited and rewritten as a result of your comments. Pretty neat idea . . . → Read More: mather God? I incessantly think and type in footnotese.1 I constantly use parentheses2 to put thoughts within thoughts within thoughts. Thanks to a funky plugin3, I can now make my nuances and additions viewable by hovering or clicking on the footnote number4 – all without breaking the flow of thought.5 this is probably just being lazy [↑]and hyphens [↑]http://elvery.net/drzax/wordpress-footnotes-plugin [↑]that’s it!!! [↑]sort . . . → Read More: postflow To completely tell the story of something, you have to talk about something other than the thing itself. To completely tell the story of a sub-atomic particle, you have to talk about the atom. To completely tell the story of a living cell, you have to talk about the cellular organism it is a part of. To . . . → Read More: contingency technology has changed the way we use words… if we restrict a quick analysis to the major modes of communication used now (we could include ancient writing, but will not at the moment), we could make some brief observations about the different kinds… journals, encyclopedias and textbooks – characterised by their scholarship, which (lest we forget) is basically interaction with . . . → Read More: on publishing words Quite interesting (I’m slowly working through them in spare time, which I’ve not got much of!) For mozzila firefox users, who blog with wordpress… …I recommend installing the ‘Google Gears‘ plug-in (click ‘Turbo’ in your WordPress dashboard – sorry not available for wordpress.com users!), which (when enabled) stores all the little images and things that you otherwise have to download each time you change pages. This not only saves bandwith, but should considerably speed up your . . . → Read More: gears |
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