Bogosity

My forms arrived from SFC today for withdrawing from the subjects I had enrolled in for this semester. I had to withdraw from the intensive because I’ve already used up too much leave this year with my injured finger. I had to withdraw from the Wednesday morning lecture because I’m no longer doing [...]

This is me at the emergency department after I had an accident in the back yard and almost severed my finger. Some may recall I had a vague new-years resolution to clean up the yard and I was faithfully engaging in this activity at the time using a wheelbarrow and some railway sleepers [...]

Imagine a world in which generations of human beings come to believe that certain films were made by God or that specific software was coded by him. Imagine a future in which millions of our descendants murder each other over rival interpretations of Star Wars or Windows 98. Could anything—anything—be more ridiculous? And yet, this [...]

This has been rattling around in my head since Christmas. It seemed to me that the readings of the Christmas season had a lot to do with hope.

Back in the old days, the Israelites used to hope that God would make them into a great nation and lead them to the promised land where [...]

At first I was pretty happy when I made the decision to drop out of the formation program (the process to become a priest). The decision came suddenly and easily and I knew it was the obvious choice to make. I still think it was the right decision.

It’s taken a month for the [...]

Another ‘Odds and Ends’ post but I think I might have to cut back on these as they are not very satisfying. Perhaps I can make a kind of sidebar widget thing for putting interesting links like a del.icio.us feed.

Cognitive dissonance – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

a driving force that compels the mind to acquire [...]

This is another one of those ‘Odd Bits’ posts where I’ve got a few bits and pieces all in one post.

Prodigal Kiwi(s) Blog: A Redeeming Narrative…?

instead of referring to the biblical narrative as a “metanarrative”, he’s increasingly prefers to use the term “redeeming narrative”—i.e. not the narrative that overrides all others, but rather the narrative [...]