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Monthly Archives: October 2006
TBTM20061029
busy busy busy
Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist
Interesting watching this one night after the alternative. You can tell that Renny Harlin is an adolescent, whilst Paul Schrader is an adult. This one was flawed, but of significantly higher quality.
GOP20061027
As you didn’t get a TBTM today, here is a GOP instead (= Gratuitous Ollie Picture) taken on his afternoon wander.
Hauerwas on right worship
“One reason why we Christians argue so much about which hymn to sing, which liturgy to follow, which way to worship is that the commandments teach us to believe that bad liturgy eventually leads to bad ethics. You begin by singing some sappy, sentimental hymn, then you pray some pointless prayer, and the next thing you know you have murdered your best friend.” — Stanley Hauerwas, The Truth About God: The Ten Commandments in Christian Life, p.89
Sam laughs manically in the background ‘ yes yes yes….’
HT: Alastair
(This is, by the way, the topic of one of my Learning Church sessions. It’s gratifying to find a Hauerwas quotation that makes the point so well.)
The End of Suburbia
No TBTM today – because I forgot to take a picture! My mind was wholly engaged with this morning’s Learning Church session, which I was quite pleased with, on the whole. It was essentially an overview of the first two chapters of my book (chapter 2 in particular) – which you can read here.
BTW An abbreviated version of ‘The End of Suburbia’ – one of the best documentaries about Peak Oil – can now be viewed online here.
Exorcist: The Beginning
Much better than I had expected (tho’, be warned, my expectations were quite low – it’s directed by Renny Harlin).
But there is a sequence of, say, 15 minutes within the last half hour, which I found quite compelling – as Merrin recovers his faith, and kisses the stole of his fallen colleague. That really got to me.
TBTM20061027
If someone said to me that he doubted whether he had a body I should take him to be a half-wit. But I shouldn’t know what it would mean to try to convince him that he had one. And if I had said something, and that had removed his doubt, I should not know how or why.
(LW)
Some Peak Oil links
For those who are still new to this stuff:
– an excellent introduction to the present state of play, giving an expected peak date of 2010 can be found at the Oil Drum here;
– some slides from Robert Hirsch (.pdf) can be found here (via John Robb);
– the image above is stolen shamelessly from Aaron here, with whose comments I completely concur.
Zen and the art of tunnel maintenance
OK. Go watch this.
Bear in mind:
1. The animator has been offered a job by the people who brought you Wallace And Gromit.
2. The animator had to turn it down as he is only 14 years old.
3. The animator has been Home Educated.
4. He doesn’t have a television.
Hmmm.