tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32807657.post757885068205350978..comments2023-11-25T10:15:54.593-06:00Comments on The Holmes: Liveblogging theology classAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06381359915367648550noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32807657.post-76127950090999813162007-10-18T05:42:00.000-05:002007-10-18T05:42:00.000-05:00This is a great post. There are a few points that ...This is a great post. There are a few points that I sat here saying "YEAH HOLMES!" out loud while I read it!Bubblewenchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13138352865911195593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32807657.post-9648079228377901702007-10-14T18:17:00.000-05:002007-10-14T18:17:00.000-05:00Hey Holmes, First time reading your blog, and, wel...Hey Holmes, <BR/><BR/>First time reading your blog, and, well, you know how I got here. My ex-boyfriend is a seminary student, and was when we dated, and it was always this interesting thing to me. I started our relationship as a devote atheist, but since dating him, I'm...hmm...spiritual. Something like that. Anyway, dating him taught me a lot about religion and I realized that as an overeducated liberal, I had pigeon-holed all Christians as fundamentalists. It was a good experience for me in a lot of ways.<BR/><BR/>I'm looking forward to reading more about your education and seminary experience.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32807657.post-22097989398210725212007-10-11T20:58:00.000-05:002007-10-11T20:58:00.000-05:00I love the back row. I sit there too during my cla...I love the back row. I sit there too during my classes. Not a bad idea to live blog, however, 9 hours of blogging in one day could exhaust me.<BR/><BR/>Btw, wasn't sure how to email you, but thanks for the comment the other day. I'm past it and feeling much better about my choices in life.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04542013102975641899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32807657.post-27208070231668724892007-10-09T13:31:00.000-05:002007-10-09T13:31:00.000-05:00This was, by far, the best liveblogging of any eve...This was, by far, the best liveblogging of any event that I've seen online. <BR/><BR/>Seriously. It drives me nuts when people liveblog dumb shit like their favorite TV shows ("When Michael from The Office did that funny dance, I just HAD to scream. I do that too!") Ugh.<BR/><BR/>By the way, would it be such a bad thing to try and work the system from the inside? We need some undercover agents inside the cults!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32807657.post-74417544261248036232007-10-08T17:56:00.000-05:002007-10-08T17:56:00.000-05:00I'm not sure whether you meant you should RE-read ...I'm not sure whether you meant you should RE-read you some Steinbeck, or whether you meant you've never read Steinbeck. If latter, you absolutely must read East of Eden. Several times.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32807657.post-84667588399088411812007-10-08T14:17:00.000-05:002007-10-08T14:17:00.000-05:00If you want to host your seminar in my living room...If you want to host your seminar in my living room (or your old play) come on over!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32807657.post-77825340696393249942007-10-08T09:37:00.000-05:002007-10-08T09:37:00.000-05:00So many things!1) Class on Sunday night?? Three ...So many things!<BR/><BR/>1) Class on Sunday night?? Three hours no doubt...glad there were snacks.<BR/>2) You're going to be a great therapist! Of course spirituality has to the a part of the journey, or your patient would be dull.<BR/>3) Hmm...livebloggingBitsy Parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13964739899503840034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32807657.post-54920669159270539152007-10-08T09:34:00.000-05:002007-10-08T09:34:00.000-05:00I can't even imagine what I'd be doing instead of ...I can't even imagine what I'd be doing instead of taking notes if we were allowed to have laptops in the classroom when I was in school. I had a hard enough time taking notes on paper instead of doodling.Jeff and Charli Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13868852480996815442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32807657.post-2730473902023140512007-10-08T07:51:00.000-05:002007-10-08T07:51:00.000-05:00ooo! I love me the posts that make me think.Inter...ooo! I love me the posts that make me think.<BR/><BR/>Interesting blog from a spiritualish counselor in Vancouver: moritherapy.com<BR/><BR/>Love what you say about imposing our perspective on people from history. Too often we forget that. Hell, too often we forget that the living aren't just like us, too.Karenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07303799102284806242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32807657.post-2189159044553225572007-10-06T23:36:00.000-05:002007-10-06T23:36:00.000-05:00This was my favorite part:"We can't write history'...This was my favorite part:<BR/>"We can't write history's people off as just wrong, assuming that our present ways of being are self-evidently right."...<BR/>Quotes by others:<BR/><BR/>Pearl S. Buck: <BR/>Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.<BR/><BR/><BR/> <BR/>Aldous Huxley: <BR/>At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.sybil lawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13629349319977383547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32807657.post-32835033225863759702007-10-06T21:20:00.000-05:002007-10-06T21:20:00.000-05:00In college I ALWAYS sat in the very front. Does t...In college I ALWAYS sat in the very front. Does that make me weird?yer mamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01572361309349906929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32807657.post-51571710571823371292007-10-06T16:42:00.000-05:002007-10-06T16:42:00.000-05:00I have real issues with religion, specifically org...I have real issues with religion, specifically organized. <BR/><BR/>I would feel like I was the enemy on the inside.Whithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14818211552756821661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32807657.post-86834825992933340932007-10-06T13:35:00.000-05:002007-10-06T13:35:00.000-05:00I just looked up 'spirituality' in the dictionary ...I just looked up 'spirituality' in the dictionary and I have to concede that its proper meaning does appear to be connected to religion in all cases. <BR/><BR/>However, I wish we could stop automatically associating the two. Religion to me is cruel; art and nature seem far closer to 'the spirit' although I have no literal belief in such an entity.<BR/><BR/>Hey, I'm livecommenting!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32807657.post-13082385005404145852007-10-06T13:33:00.000-05:002007-10-06T13:33:00.000-05:00Literally city *is* a drag sometimes.Literally city *is* a drag sometimes.Jonathon Morganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08442322427062128683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32807657.post-885962262450130252007-10-06T12:35:00.000-05:002007-10-06T12:35:00.000-05:00"I just think that religious types who place their..."I just think that religious types who place their faith in politics in an attempt to reinvent the world into their own heavenly vision have lost sight of whatever it was they were seeking."<BR/><BR/>Amen.CamiKaoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15802013252571263847noreply@blogger.com