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A response to Billy on Bob’s thought experiment, part 2 April 23, 2007

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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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warcraft, death and fictive kinship groups December 12, 2006

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Assuming that what Stan says is true, there is a place for bonding in World of Warcraft (WoW). A very real place, since the average amount of time spent in the game by each of its >7 million subscribers is around 2 hours a day.
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Out of the bubble and into the game November 18, 2006

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This site has been suffering from schizophrenia lately, divided between thoughts on TWU, vague motions towards the religious, a smattering of the political and a healthy dose of video game frenzy. To cut down on the clutter, I have decided to do the following:

  1. Everything with a particularly religious bent has been redirected to mythmeme, a site I started with some friends to play with the metaphors various religions bat about these days.
  2. All my bits and pieces on life at Trinity were to appear on the site twubits.com, but since I find myself caring less and less about the political side of my school, I don’t imagine you’ll be hearing much more from me on that topic.
  3. This site is going to be dedicated to my attempt to make it big in the electronic game industry. Specifically, I’m going to be posting clippings, theories, success stories, failures, lessons learned and more from the gaming world, crossing the spectrum from the casual game market and its players to “serious games” to the big guns like EA and Blizzard. I want to figure out why they succeed, why they fail and how I can get in the game, first on the level of corporate elearning and eventually the broader entertainment world.

To those of you who have followed my commentary on TWU, thank you for reading. Perhaps out of the new mix there will arise a truly independent student press that will not hesitate to hold the administration accountable. Maybe that will be Mars’ Hill, and maybe it will be another project in the blogosphere where it can remain safe from the pharisees. To those of you who have read this blog for gaming news and general thoughts about the future of technology, stay tuned. It’s time to extend beyond TWU, beyond Langley, and into the future of play.

Eidolons October 18, 2006

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Re-examine all that you have been told… dismiss that which insults your soul.
–Walt Whitman

Circular defenses and church authority June 8, 2006

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(Authentic religions) too can degenerate into idolatries; especially where the will to power is waiting to corrupt them; and this, alas, is almost invariably the case when the Church becomes endowed with temporal authority.
-Gabriel Marcel, “What is a Free Man?”

Today I stumbled across the Secular Web, and found an interesting piece entitled Advice from an Agnostic Baptist Minister. The authorship is anonymous (as most agnostic baptists would probably like to remain), but it offers some interesting insights into the forces that keep Christian beliefs firmly entrenched in the minds of their believers.
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Feminism and the gospel May 1, 2006

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I went to Nexus tonight and had the chance to hear Dr. Robynne Healey talk about Christian feminism. It was an interesting topic, and a good precursor to the feminist philosophy course I am taking in the fall.

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Pope condemns moral bankruptcy of our world April 14, 2006

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Times Online | Pope condemns geneticists ‘who play at being God’

At the Fourth Station, where Jesus is helped by Simon the Cyrene to carry the cross, Pope Benedict and his followers will pray: “Lord Jesus, our affluence is making us less human, our entertainment has become a drug, a source of alienation, and our society’s incessant, tedious message is an invitation to die of selfishness.”

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