http://thinkblog.org philosophy :: psychology :: theology :: technology Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:22:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en all your dreams collapse to alpha waves mystical REM revelations find a frozen foundation flickering falsehoods from which you finally wake to see the ash around you falling, calming snow, burned expectations newspapers yellowed, unburned, stacked, neatly piled along matte black paths down which you stumble, drunk with consequences, forgotten headlines, age-pressed pages, serifed typeface called Regret, ... http://thinkblog.org/2008/01/03/requiem-2/ Which idea appeals to you more for a feature-length film, assuming all other variables could be adjusted to your own tastes and comfort?* A1. shot in full color with minimal to zero soundtrack but with penetrating dialogue; A2. shot in black and white with what you judge near-perfect dialogue but ... http://thinkblog.org/2007/04/23/conversation-piece-expressions-of-logos/ [WARNING: SPOILERS.] Watching Fight Club (1998, Brad Pitt, Edward Norton) with a friend the other night, I enjoyed myself by analyzing it with fresh eyes in light of a better grasp of postmodernism than I had the last time I'd seen it (at least a year ago). In particular, the following. ... http://thinkblog.org/2007/04/22/his-name-is-robert-paulsen/ [From Introduction to Phenomenology by Dermot Moran.] In his discussion of Husserl's Logical Investigations, Moran mentions off-hand, "Of course, Frege held the strange view that all true sentences have the same reference, namely the true, whereas for Husserlthe references of sentences will be the state of affairs that they affirm ... http://thinkblog.org/2007/04/21/frege-husserl-sentential-reference/ A good salutation requires a bit of thought: are we familiar enough or too familiar with the individual we're addressing to use dear, should we use first or last names, and if so, how about honorifics? Most of us don't have to pause over this; and even if we ... http://thinkblog.org/2007/01/20/why-be-well/ Men do hear the calls of Christ, but they are willfully deaf, because they think he wants them to do something. But he does not want anything of you; he wants you to receive what he has already done. He comes laden with mercy, with his hands full of blessing, ... http://thinkblog.org/2007/01/19/notable-quotes-quotable-notes/ If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.—GoetheWhen I was just old enough to know that I should control myself in the company of my elders ... http://thinkblog.org/2007/01/01/let-god-be-gracious-but-from-self-demand-more/ It's really not like Elisabeth Kubler-Ross got it completely wrong.It's just that, perhaps, she didn't flesh it out enough.  Instead of Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance, I propose a few less abstract labels.  The first one looks a lot like Pablo Francisco's sketch of "Tommy" in his standup routine ... http://thinkblog.org/2006/12/29/sola-dei-gratia/ I just finished the final, ten-page paper of my entire undergraduate career. This Monday, I will graduate with a dual BA in experimental psychology and philosophy from the University of South Carolina. It's been a long road, and I wouldn't know where to begin to thank everyone that's ... http://thinkblog.org/2006/12/15/victoria-non-praeda/ How unpopular does this sound today, in our culture of weak-minded non-committal laissez faire "tolerance"? Avoid a sugared gospel as you would shun sugar of lead. Seek that gospel which rips up and tears and cuts and wounds and hacks and even kills, for that is the gospel that makes alive ... http://thinkblog.org/2006/12/10/a-sugared-gospel/ But if I say, "I will not remember Him Or speak anymore in His name," Then in my heart it becomes like a burning fire Shut ... http://thinkblog.org/2006/11/16/what-makes-your-bones-burn/ I've been thinking lately about how hard it is to meditate in the Christian sense—to meditate in actual prayer, as opposed to just going through the motions of insincere rote incantations. A friend and I were discussing this, in fact: it's really hard to concentrate on how great God ... http://thinkblog.org/2006/11/15/gods-greatness/ For information on creatine, check the creatine FAQ. It's not a prohormone and it's not a steroid. I've been learning more about it as I work at the Vitamin Shoppe and the more I think it's a great thing. Check it out; and also if you have ... http://thinkblog.org/2006/11/14/creatine-faq/ This is more of a thank-you post than it is theoretical or even practical in any sense. I can be myself around PJ, my former roommate and my constant friend. He is, like me, goofy, Christian, and southern—but he especially keeps me rooted when I come visit him ... http://thinkblog.org/2006/11/13/prior-roommate-constant-friend/ There are generally two types of people: the Jungian "Feeling" types that are very suspicious of psychology because they are simply "too unique to be put into a box" (like all the other people who can be categorized into that same group, ironically enough) and who believe that psychology exists ... http://thinkblog.org/2006/11/10/jungian-type-views-of-psychology/ I'll get right to the point. What assumptions do you carry with you that you never really have stopped to consider? We all have thousands. You can detect your own assumptions about the way reality is and ought to be by the way you react to certain ... http://thinkblog.org/2006/11/09/thinking-about-assumptions/ Aside from the clever wordplay (Shamandalie is a Finnish girl's name; "sham and a lie" is a redundant phrase in English meaning "untrue"), the song itself is a work of fine art. I don't even have any reason to post it other than that it's an excellent song by ... http://thinkblog.org/2006/11/08/shamandalie/ I do not believe there is a single honest man living who, having once heard the gospel simply preached, does not in his conscience believe it to be true. I am persuaded that light will penetrate. There is such force, such energy in Christ, it must and will pierce through ... http://thinkblog.org/2006/11/07/spurgeon-on-intellectual-honesty/ Back in 1999, when I had practically no money anyway because I was a young student, I actually paid for WinZip. You know, those click-here-if-you-acknowledge-it's-been-thousands-of-days-and-hundreds-of-thousands-of-archives and so forth. I actually paid for it because I felt a conviction that I should be honest and forthright about my dealings ... http://thinkblog.org/2006/11/06/winzip-rouses-my-ire/ Interesting how when we read books that are typeset in pleasant fonts the text itself seems to be crisper, brighter. I've been looking for some good, unique fonts for the logo of this site (it's been up for several years—it's about time, right?), and a couple of good links ... http://thinkblog.org/2006/11/05/on-the-pleasure-of-a-good-font/