Month: October 2007
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The Two Halves of Life
“In the first half of my life I fought the Devil. In the second half, I fought God.” Nikos Kazantzakis Angst about sin and purity; worries about traditions and who’s in and who’s out; individuation, desperation to innovate, neophilia. And now something… other. I am exploring. Technorati: Jung | Kazantzakis | Rohr
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England 129-10 Australia
Don’t know if someone at the BBC was having a laugh, or having a bad day, but despite the real score being just 12-10, it felt like 129. Nothing like beating the Aussies twice in a row in World Cup matches! How does that feel, Hirschy?! Technorati: Alan Hirsch | BBC | England | Australia
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Is Your Faith Endo- or Exoskeletal?
Manuel de Landa, in his brilliant book A Thousand Years of Non-Linear History writes of the two skeletons that humankind have developed. Our endo(internal)skeleton “made new forms of movement control possible, freeing [us] to conquer every available niche.” Later, around 8000 years ago, we then developed the urban exo(external)skeleton, whereby “bricks of sun-dried clay became…
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The-No-Longer-Interested-Spouse-of-Christ
As I have mentioned here before, I have recently written an article about Facebook (and other social networks) for Third Way. I sent a copy of it to a simian friend of mine based in the US – who I naturally keep up with mostly via the internet – and her response to a passage…