red saucer posts

i figger my longer rambles deserve their own mis-space

emerging theology

emerging theology purports to encompass left and right, but the extremists won't be happy. am i an extremist?

insanity contained, almost!

this morning, still in bed, i thought i had a grip on this. then my roommate started on the phone, and i lost the centre of my being. it's as if i can contain it within myself i'm okay, but if i have to account for others, it's beyond me. nothing like sleep deprivation to screw me up!

rough day

• the music group was not very good, but it was outside and sunny
• we're in isolation again, but it made me think
• did drw ever recover?
• what of it?if he did, will i find his answer, and will i like it?
• if he didn't, does that mean i won't?
• faith may be the only thing that saves me, tho' perhaps not in this world....
• are there any indications? signs? am i truly, permanently, deeply mad?

i think i see a pattern....

another crack in the reality wall

by the time i get here, i forget the all-impotant whatever that i was going to blog about!

this time it had to do with another crack in the reality wall--a wall that contains me, but beyond which i can see.

i didn't blog yesterday cuz i moved next door. i'm in room 153.

if left alone long enough, i'll go places inside of me i shouldn't! 'don't go in there alone!' i was warned, but what are my choices?

actually, i've been doing really well this morning knowing where reality is on the compass. it's been these last few encounters which are really upsetting. but only cuz i let them. i can expect them, which means i can prepare for them, or i learn to laugh at them.

maybe there wasn't enough laughter in our house.

questions

"But the distinguishing marks of the movement remain smallness, decentralization, personal responsibility, the personal response to persons in need in direct encounter and a search for answers to the questions that arise from that meeting: Why are there so many poor and abandoned? What is honest work? What is due workers and the unemployed? What is the relationship between political, social and economic democracy, and between these and the common good? Just where are we, where do we want to be and how can we get there? What of means and end? What does it mean to follow Jesus Christ today?

"Catholic Workers attempt to alleviate the sufferings of the poor by adopting lives of voluntary poverty in order to be free for direct, personal involvement, not so much dispensing charity as sharing in the lives of others. Voluntary poverty also frees us to respond to militarism, exploitation and racism...."

http://www.catholicworker.org/historytext.cfm?Number=4

productive week

i've had very productive week, and i don't want to forget it. not only have i kept up with my posts (such as this one), i've attempted the old and started the new (such as smarting the goals for the week)

'everyone's important'

ruth says focus on today's successes, and don't worry about tomorrow; let tomorrow take care of itself; people are important; nuff said.

many people don't know they own the internet

it's paid for by our tax dollars. we own it as much as we own the highways. don't let anyone tell you different.

the big picture

want to see the world the way david suzuki sees it? try his new book, the big picture

This Is Spinal Tap

watched a bit of mock-rock history; saw a bit of This Is Spinal Tap. now i wanna see the whole thing again.

faith

that's why it's called faith. and not something else. because if we listened to external advice, such as what button to click, it wouldn't be faith. it would be something like, 'stop, look, and listen...'

if we knew the answer in advance (even kind-of), would it still be faith?

world oceans' day

http://www.theoceanproject.org/wod/ and http://www.canada.com/Technology/Voyage+centre+Plastic+Vortex/1628237/story.html --- actually, 'world' and 'ocean' is redundant, and 'oceans' plural is meaningless. but it's good read, nonetheless.

plastic rafts

this is disgusting!
http://www.canada.com/Technology/Voyage+centre+Plastic+Vortex/1628237/story.html

i still feel foggy

i still feel foggy. after all these months, after resting all day, i till feel foggy.

to brock and back

i wheeled to brock, to the library's learning commons. the librarian told me that the closest wheelchair-accessible bathoom is on the fifth floor. so i headed there and used it. on the way back, i couldn't get up the merrittville highway median and a woman came to my rescue. she pushed me over the median and back to the shaver.

weak theology defined

'Weak theology emphasizes the responsibility of humans to act in this world here and now. Because God is thought of as weak and as a call, weak theology places an emphasis on the "weak" human virtues of forgiveness, hospitality, openness, and receptivity.'
see Non-dogmatic theology (also known as Weak theology) on wikipedia

'...is a school of thought within continental philosophical theology '

weak theology cloud

secular religion?

caputo's book

weak theology and bullshit!

i can't remember from before lunch what i was going to email about. so i'll just ramble....

while downstairs i got to feeling pretty good, and i thought to myself, self, this is feeling pretty good, don't lose it. is this the continual joy [cj] that the enlightened experience? do they really experience cj? how do they accommodate other, seeming contary, feelings? what makes them enlightened? am i on the path to enightement, or am i [way] off track? is this question unbecoming of a enightened novitiate? does it really matter? and now i am thinking about weak theology and its relationship to gravity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weak_theology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Ron_Hubbard--which appears to have been taken over by Anonymous, another internet-based group associated with the Church of the SubGenius.

and thing get extreme after that, including:

the fsm
richard dawkins and out!--a pro-agnostic site
pen and teller--but different than what i assumed about the successful vegas act
bullshit!--a p&t show about false things

insanity revisited

i can't keep up with the internet. by admitting the insanity of it, however, i don't stop it. i just have to roll with it. but because i know this is insane, does this make me more or less insane? does it really matter?