June 2009
8 posts
Triumph of the Default →
“It’s hard to remember a time when defaults were not part of life. But defaults only arose as computing spread; they are an attribute of complex technological systems. There were no defaults in the industrial age. “
And so how are we then changed?
Rules that don't make a good life but are...
Christians:The Law :: Pagans:Diets
“There is, however, another method of assessing human worth…it sees their...”
– The Epistle to the Romans, KB, p123
A KB List
Of noteworthy historical figures:
Abraham
Jeremiah
Socrates
Grünewald
Luther
Kierkegaard
Dostoevsky
Time to read more Kierkegaard and find out who Mr. G is.
It always seems like a good idea at the time
Can one act without pre-justifying the act in one’s mind?
Is there any human action that isn’t already justified in the agent’s mind at the moment of action?
And yet we presume to judge others actions as “unjustified” by virtue of our perspective outside of the agent’s head.
The Trouble with Pacifism
Pacifism is an approach to humanity where you give the Stronger permission to kill you.
A Christian believes that they will live beyond death, and so death is not so troublesome. ”Kill me? Ok, I will live forever in a new body.” This is the only comfort to a Christian. There is no solace from God-having-Revenge-on-them fantasies. Just as God provided forgiveness and justice in...
Vampire Words
There is a way of thinking about words in which words are merely symbols that we move around, and which don’t point to anything outside themselves. In this way of thinking, communication is a kind of game, the rules of which are made up and to which we all agree.
This, clearly, is a radically non-Christian cosmology. For we belive that some words point to the most true/real things in the...
Marx on Facebook?
Since the value of Facebook is only potential unless and until users give it their own info, is it parallel to a feudal society where farmers worked the land (realized it’s potential) but owned nothing and got no profit?