If the Rapture happens today, what is the chain of command for our Armed Forces? I mean who is left behind? Wouldn’t it be prudent to plan ahead and get at least one Secular Humanist, Jew, Muslim or Catholic into the loop?
No Unitarian Universalists? But we’re the least likely to go up…
I’ve been thinking of switching from MovableType to WordPress for MyIrony’s engine. I’ve installed some anti-spam software here, which has helped, but I can’t seem to install it for my work website (which also uses MT). Here’s why I’m thinking of switching:
On the minus side, I don’t really have time to do this right now. (For some reason I only want to do major site overhauls when I’m already too busy.) MovableType should be coming out with version 3.0 this summer, which should have more anti-spam features, so maybe I should wait. What do you think? Should I make the switch? I hope to install it this weekend and give it a good test run.
I’ve been reading up on Foucault for possible participation in a faculty ethics seminar late this spring that hopes to focus on the question of the moral self. I found myself reading a lecture by Tom Beaudoin that uses a Foucauldian approach to “poach” some new methods of selfcraft from Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Christian theologian who was martyred by the Nazis.
Beaudoin finds four new methods of selfcraft in between the lines of Bonhoeffer’s prison letters:
Is “poaching” a method we should use to find new selfcrafts? If so, who should we “poach?” Is there a methodology we should develop? Even looking at the Bonhoeffer example, how would you go about each of his four practices? Are there raw practices–say, certain types of meditation, confession, or prayer, to give some examples–that can be used arbitrarily for any gleaned selfcraft? Can we decide that we’ll apply method A to feeling existential separation, method B to felt indebtedness, and method C to personal history and solidarity with the suffering? It sets us up with something of a mix and match game, a connect the dots approach to selfcraft. Or perhaps all we’re saying is that selfcraft also is briccolage.
New phrase for me: the “apophatic self.” Beaudoin’s own? Beautiful way around the question of self vs. no-self; and brings a certain theological beauty to the problem: the self is ultimately affirmed only through its denial.
Lakoff’s First and Second Laws answer all. (Hat tip to Rebecca Blood.)
Why I’m still nervous about throwing my support to John Kerry. The Kerry I’ve seen the last three weeks might be able to pull it off. The Kerry I saw the year before acts like a damn senator.
From narrative therapist Michael White:
UPDATE: This means my Secret Happy Special Place Where No One Else Can Go is closed indefinitely.
