"What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism." - G.K. Chesterton
May I direct your attention back to the Abolition of Man thread from about week ago. Tom Freeman has posted an incredibly long comment on that thread that is well worth a careful read. I also just finished a response that I do believe breaks the comment-length record so far. Don't blame me. It's Tom's fault for making me think so hard.
posted by Alex at 7:33 AM
For as long as I've thought seriously about God I've been engaging those who see the world differently than I do. Usually, but not always, these folks are atheists. Through the course of my discussions I have perhaps learned (and been spurred on to learn) more than any other educational endeavor I've engaged in. About 6 months after starting this blog I quit my day job as a graphic designer to pursue a Masters Degree in Christian Thought. I should be finishing that up in 2010. I welcome all view points and encourage honest disagreement with me. Who knows, I just might learn something. (again)
8 Comments:
Apologies for being verbose... the trick is to say nothing at all for ages and then let it all come spewing out!
8:02 AM
Thereby causing me to lose sleep and have a hard time concentrating at work!
It's all good though. As usual you are touching on some very fundamental points. I'm very glad you've brought them to my attention. This concept of emergence has been very productive thus far. I'd much rather be working on my response right now, but this blasted "life" stuff keeps requiring my attention.
8:15 AM
Pesky, ain't it? My boss keeps wanting me to do "work" rather than blogging. Think I need to talk to my union rep about these unreasonable demands. ;-)
12:24 PM
Just out of curiousity, what do you do for a living? If you'd rather not say that's cool. I've just always been curious.
3:04 PM
I watch movies at work.
8:35 PM
I work for a medical research charity. We publish a whole load of newsletters, policy reports and other such stuff, and I copy-edit these. (This ought to mean that my blog posts and comments have perfect grammar and are typo-free, but I like to go off-duty!) And I actually know very little about medicine, which entails a lot of googling...
How about yourself?
6:11 AM
Oh, and I've just skimmed your response - my turn to go off and ponder for a while!
11:01 AM
I find it rather funny that I attracted two writer types (Matt and yourself) to banter with, when I personally can barely spell my own name half the time!
As for me I am a graphic designer at a small shop here in central Minnesota. We do ad work for a few local companies and a number of national clients ranging from medical device manufacturers, to direct sales companies. It's a great group of people here. That's the main thing that keeps me around. Aside from that I design and manufacture custom motorcycle seats in my spare time. In fact I just took an order from a fella in your fair country a couple weeks ago! Keep an eye out for him!
12:06 PM
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