A response to Billy on Bob’s thought experiment, part 2 April 23, 2007
Posted by mwj as atheism, christianity, existentialism, fsm, philosophy, religion, technology, youtube. add a comment.
Part two of my response to some YouTubers on the subject of existentialism and religion. The webcam is ancient but I am making a few faltering steps towards a new way of thinking about religion. Click below for the transcript.
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A response to Billy on Bob’s thought experiment, part 1
Posted by mwj as existentialism, philosophy, technology, youtube. add a comment.
Part one of some low-tech observations about existentialism in the post-human age. Follow the link for the script if you can’t bear watching my lips flap about completely disconnected to the words that are coming from them.
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What seems easier than to let a thing be just the being that it is? Or does this turn out to be the most difficult of tasks, particularly if such an intention — to let a being be as it is — represents the opposite of the indifference that simply turns its back upon the being itself in favor of an unexamined concept of Being?
–Martin Heidegger, The Origin of the Work of Art
A new standard: drinking like the rest of the world April 14, 2007
Posted by mwj as opinion, politics, twu, writing. 2 comments.Since I’ve kind of gotten into a habit of posting work published elsewhere, I present my final opinion piece (ever?) for Mars’ Hill, the student newspaper at TWU.
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After the Fraser Health Authority decided we had too much arsenic in our water, Trinity Western University was forced to give students as much clean, tasty water as they could handle. I moved off campus this year, so I was kind of miffed that I missed my chance to drink water at TWU that didn’t taste like goose poop.
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