Adobe Semaphore Pynchon

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 [...]

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Coupland’s Life After God (up to God?)

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 [...]

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Which theologian are you?

Kind of outdated and the questions aren’t that great, but anyway…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 [...]

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Got the PhD today!

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.

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