JBB’s Twitter Updates for 2010-03-11

• @ShawnKing getting webpage is not available on http://www.yourmaclifeshow.com s'up? in reply to ShawnKing #
• grhhh, just as I'm trying get the proper attitude 2 grade content proposals, microsoft wants 2 do a critical update. damn #
• Listening to a song I love: The Police – O My God http://foxytunes.com/artist/the+police/track/o+my+god #
• Grey moody view outside my window. Or it could be the SarahMaclachlan on iTunes #treadmill day 55 http://yfrog.com/10dg0j #
• looks like we're having our 1st hard rain of the season. muggy & drizzly in the AM, now it's pouring. welcome 2 life in central florida #

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JBB’s Twitter Updates for 2010-03-11

• @ShawnKing getting webpage is not available on http://www.yourmaclifeshow.com s'up? in reply to ShawnKing #
• grhhh, just as I'm trying get the proper attitude 2 grade content proposals, microsoft wants 2 do a critical update. damn #
• Listening to a song I love: The Police – O My God http://foxytunes.com/artist/the+police/track/o+my+god #
• Grey moody view outside my window. Or it could be the SarahMaclachlan on iTunes #treadmill day 55 http://yfrog.com/10dg0j #
• looks like we're having our 1st hard rain of the season. muggy & drizzly in the AM, now it's pouring. welcome 2 life in central florida #

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In Bad Faith, part 8: The Case for God – Not What You Think

I just finished read/listening to Karen Armstrong’s The Case for God, and like waking with memories of a vivid dream, I want to get my thoughts down before they get pushed aside by the concerns of the day.

In Bad Faith, part 8: The Case for God – Not What You Think

I think that Armstrong did such a great job summarizing the book in her NPR/Fresh Air interview that the book feels a bit ponderous. What I mean is that this is a book that one really needs to pay attention to and no play as background music (ack, stupid multitasking lifestyle). Armstrong takes the reader from the very beginning evidences of “god thoughts” found in the pre-historic caves of Lascaux, to the new-atheists like Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins, spending a goodly bit of time going through the Greek, Asian, and post-medieval schools of thought that may not be familiar to the reader.

So, as a former Loyola Marymount religious studies major with a B.A. in Biblical Studies from Biola University and several quarters of study at Fuller Seminary toward an MA in Theology and a piss-pour background in the Greek and Latin Classics (no ones fault but my own), I greatly appreciated Armstrong’s academic, non-polemic, recitation of pre-history and history of religion on this planet. Yeah, that’s the scope of this book. I’m very interested in her other books on Islam and Buddhism to see how deep she dives into these religions where I’m greatly lacking in my own understanding.

Thoughts that struck me as I listened to the book, mainly how every generation and every great thinker felt compelled to re-interpret God based on their own recent history, cultural and personal, and their own cultural problems. For example, how different would modern Christianity be if Augustine had not had such a problem with his pre-conversion sexual appetites, how would the relationship between God and man be cast differently if Augustine hadn’t promoted the idea of Original Sin and demonized sexuality in general, making it a sin except for the purpose of conception? What would have happened if Emperor Constantine had not chosen to use Christianity as a unify force in his divided empire, thus forcing provincial Christianity to agree on which books belonged in the scriptures, the divinity of Jesus of Nazareth and what would be orthodox and what would be heretical? How differently would history have been had Christianity remained a Jewish sect instead of a world political power? And every time there was a political or natural disaster there seemed to be gigantic shifts in thought with conservatives abandoning the silent God and liberal’s looking for a literal simplistic God to find comfort from.

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JBB’s Twitter Updates for 2010-03-09

• I wonder what the average lifespan of a living dream is. Two years? Three years? #

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ePad – Rockin’ It Like It’s 1987

You know you have something going right when the spoofs are spectacular…

Then we have this dream sequence/history of Apple’s computer designs. Beautifully done, but I don’t see how they could have left out the evolution of the iMac or iPod, except maybe they couldn’t get the curves of their virtual rendition to look right…

Finally we have the latest iPad ad, that debuted during Sunday’s Oscar broadcast…

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The Cat Piano & Random Web

I love the random web. A student referred a short film nominated in this year’s oscars, wondering how they got away with using so many logos and trademarked images in their film: logorama (which, interestingly, has a copyright symbol in their movie title!). So I went to YouTube to see the full video. It wasn’t on YouTube, just a take-down-notice. Damn. But then I found the above random video, thus proving the Internet axiom: “If it doesn’t play on YouTube, it doesn’t exist” (are you listening Murdoch?). BTW, Logorama won the oscar for animated short.

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JBB’s Twitter Updates for 2010-03-08

• So, Eden Bar, great spot but no TV, thus no watching Oscars from here. Ack. Plan B? #
• Plan B: cheesecake factory at the bar… Wonder if JenBispo has visited this branch B4 #
• @leolaporte is giving an iPad to a random follower of @LisaTickledPink! http://digg.com/d31Ku0A – right now she has 7,141, come on 1 million #
• @ShawnKing Elmer FUD link broke in reply to ShawnKing #

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JBB’s Twitter Updates for 2010-03-07

• @fittorrent u r going 2 kick ass in the AM, sleep well & then go 4th & conquer…. er, have fun! in reply to fittorrent #
• OMG I want 1, wait, is this 1987? RT @ChrisPirillo: I'm getting an ePad: http://youtu.be/JuA_5ApLD9U #

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JBB’s Twitter Updates for 2010-03-06

• Just saw oprah w/ Ocoee segment where she showed part of the video & talked live 2 the school. Check it out! Google "gotta keep reading" #

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JBB’s Twitter Updates for 2010-03-06

• Just saw oprah w/ Ocoee segment where she showed part of the video & talked live 2 the school. Check it out! Google "gotta keep reading" #

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