In a weird, unintended bit of congruity, I ended up watching the “Knowlede or Certainty” episode of The Ascent of Man tonight. That fit rather nicely with my last post on the blind men and the elephants. This episode had me thinking about how good science programming isn’t just a matter of Facts and Teaching [...]
1 August 2008
Friday Religious Wisdom, Inaugural Edition: The Blind Men and the Elephant
I’m going to try to make this a weekly feature — highlighting religious mythology and teachings that I think are Good, Important Things. For this first one, it’s the story of the Blind Men and the Elephant. You can go read it over at the Way of Yo Site.
The story makes me think of two [...]
1 August 2008
My Encounters with Christianity III: Cricket and Twisted Perspective
This is where it gets hard. This one is hard to write about, folks, and it’s going to take at least 2 posts. So bear with me. There’s a lot going on here — teenage pain. First love. Desperate searching for anything, anything at all, to hold on to.
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My sister left for college my sophomore [...]
