Re(1): I am who I am

Hmm. So what does that do to my "I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together" philosophy? Seriously, my week from Sunday evening right up to the deadline Wednesday noon was spent writing a paper according to the guidelines of Harvard University on Stephen C. Pepper's exposition of contextualism--better known as pragmatism--and how it highlights the work of the contemporary theorist J.T. Fraser who has written (among his many books) Time, Conflict, and Human Values, an exhaustive treatise on the different levels of temporality as informed by both the fields of physics as well as philosophy. The current draft of that paper clocks in at sixteen pages and in that same number of days, I wrote and then cut another eighteen pages that did not seem relevant to the narrower scope of my topic. Coming in "off the road" like that--literally turning it in without having proofread it myself and then, after class, immediately starting in on the newsletter--you can well understand why something that was a little more down-to-earth would appeal to me. In fact, I had no idea what I was going to write but after committing the matter to prayer, I felt that my account was exactly what was appropriate: it was not "skimping" and yet it did not require hours and hours more of additional research and heavy thought.

Ironically, all the newsletters as of late have been somewhat inversely proportional to my life at large, which has been even more intellectual and academic than ever. They are, in some ways, my attempts to balance myself: to find normality in the insanity of theory piled on theory and the writing of books of which there is no end. Hence, you can see why designing websites would not only be a delightful diversion--a form of procrastination--but would offer me some excellent fodder to create an admittedly rather melodramatic recounting that says that though even religion often tries to force us in some kind of little box where we feel we have to clean ourselves up before God will accept us, the truth is that each of us is created special and unique and the best gift that we can offer to God or to anybody else is just ourselves, as we are, no frills pretended or strings appended. :)

That, then, is the "rest of the story" as Paul Harvey would say: the accounting behind the narrative account in Circles in a World of Squares.

God bless,
Eric

• Re(2): I am who I am - By Sara December 1, 2005 at 01:21:31 PM
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