Aug
19
The semaphore (four rotating disks of light) atop the Adobe tower in downtown San Jose is indeed transmitting a message.
Never heard of a semaphore? There are multiple meanings. In programming, it concerns methodology for mutual exclusion (see “excluded middles” below), parallel processing, and synchronization.
Predating the electrical telegraph, the semaphore was defined as an [...]
Jun
24
I’m out of books to read. I’ve read everything I have, some things two or three times. Today I reread Douglas Coupland’s Life After God. These are the two passages that struck me, compellingly, again.
Our conversations are never easy, but as I — we — get older, we are all finding that our conversations must [...]
Jun
26
Kind of outdated and the questions aren’t that great, but anyway…
You scored as Paul Tillich. Paul Tillich sought to express Christian truth in an existentialist way. Our primary problem is alienation from the ground of our being, so that our life is meaningless.
Paul Tillich
87%
Jurgen Moltmann
73%
Martin Luther
67%
Charles Finney
60%
Friedrich Schleiermacher
53%
John Calvin
53%
Augustine
47%
Karl Barth
20%
Jonathan Edwards
13%
Anselm
0%
Which theologian are [...]
Aug
02
This study seeks to apply the insights of discourse analysis to the epidemic of signification surrounding the virus, marking out the traits and terrain of an emerging discourse.