From jupiterj
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people can listen or just move on
Ibsen, eh? I read some of his plays when I was pretty young (teens?) and was impressed with them. Haven’t read much of him lately, though. I do recommend the book, “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,” by Michelle Alexander. I know it’s not obviously related to Greenpeace and living in China, but it is a meticulous analysis of the racism and classism in the US today. I am finding it very helpful in understanding how we got here and how we persist in this.
From David
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finished completely or descending back into chaos at home
Everything looks great. Glad everything worked out and you all are getting back to routine.
David
From jupiterj
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finished completely or descending back into chaos at home
Thanks. I put these kinds of posts up because I think you, Elizabeth and Sarah might be a bit interested. Hope you and fam are well.
love from Dad
From Mark
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The Feeling
I’m not sure I would say that the Church of God, Anderson, really qualified as a fundamentalist church. There were, of course, fundamentalists who were members of the ChoG. There were even fundamentalist clergy. But I think of it as a Holiness Movement Church. Conservative and Wesleyan in its core belief / doctrine. I have no idea of what they’re like today although a Nazarene colleague tells me that there have been conversations between the Nazarenes and the ChoG about merger. Nazarenes are conservative and Wesleyan in their basics. At least that’s what this guy says. He’s not a fundamentalist. But there’s not a lot that he and I agree on other than Bowen Theory…
From jupiterj
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The Feeling
I guess I’m really thinking of my own experience especially in Greeneville. Three services a week, altar calls, testimony services, long sections in services (usually at night) where most everyone was on their knees and praying out loud at the same time or at least praying, “Thank you Jesus,” or some stock phrase.
I get what you are saying and I think you are right about the way the leaders like Dwight L. Moody (is that the guy?) probably thought about themselves and their church.
What I’m getting at is Berger’s idea of certitude which while not universal in the people I knew growing up was certainly present in a way I found (and still find) off putting.
I’m just making experiential statements and trying to process my own experience.
(Thanks for reading!)
From Mark Jenkins
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fuzzy jupe, road trip, & more pics (!)
Hey… Looking at your kitchen pics reminded me that Leigh recently discovered that they make mini-dishwashers that take up about half the space of the regular ones. We were thinking that, if we ever have to buy one again, a smaller one would probably suit the two of us just fine. I know you us yours for counter space but I thought I would mention it…
From jupiterj
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fuzzy jupe, road trip, & more pics (!)
Good to know. We have a vague idea of someday renovating the kitchen. A built-in dishwasher was part of it. But your idea might end being what we do. I have been developing a habit of getting up and doing dishes by hand while the coffee water boils. That and the fact that our lives have been so disrupted by this project has meant I have been running the dishwasher less.
Life is good. I have been meaning to find time to call and chat. Will do so soon. Maybe next week.
From Rhonda
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it happened again
That picture of Craig is totally cool. Tell him I said that too. (if he just had the page turner out of the way, it would be even better – though there is something interesting about the intent look of is page turner, maybe the page turner needs to be there for the picture, on second thought)
From jupiterj
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it happened again
I just found it by google-image-searching.I thought it was pretty neat also. That’s why I used it. It looks like a professional shot to me.
From Rhonda
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jupe, wife and colleague's little adventure
It occurrs to me now that it’s probably CENTRAL German in style, the T&B, and not Southern. Not that anyone but me cares, but still, no point in not being correct about this kind of stuff, when I’m being quoted as the authority! I’m pretty sure it’s somewhat modeled on the Silbermann style (who was central German).
From jupiterj
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jupe, wife and colleague's little adventure
That makes sense and I think you may not have actually said Southern Germany. I may have sort of made that up. heh.
From Mark Jenkins
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jupe, wife and colleague's little adventure
Was at a diocesan training session today for Safe Church trainers. I was asked to do this and, since I bitched about how bad the old training was, I figured I had to say yes. At any rate, one of the other attendees is a Roman Catholic, married to an Episcopal priest, who sang in Gale’s choir when she was a student at ND. A friend of lots of ND organ grads. She enjoyed hearing about your trip to visit Craig’s new organ. Looks like a fun way to spend a Friday.
From jupiterj
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jupe, wife and colleague's little adventure
Yep. It was a bit traumatic to be back at Notre Dame. It has changed a lot. For instance, the building where the organ is housed is all new and sits where there was once a field between the college and a road. But it was memories that troubled me. But just a little. Rhonda was very helpful because German organ building is one of her passions.
From David
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barking dogs of hate or the voice of the rejoicing poet
It’s funny you mention decisions and rationality in your post. In some circles rational choice is based on behavioral assumptions that are arguably predictable. Specifically, there is a school of thought that assumes two things: 1) that people know their preferences, can rank them and this will influence choice 2) that collective decisions that lead to action is the culmination of individual decisions and that the collective has no particular sole properties. There are also those that criticize rational choice since it couples ideas such as market value with democratic worth and vice verse deeming them compatible, but this is arguable as well considering these two ideas are in conflict. I know your ideas about democracy and would tend to agree with them in this sense. Just writing out loud really, there is no actual point to this post. It was just what I was thinking when I read your post for the day.
David :?)
From jupiterj
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barking dogs of hate or the voice of the rejoicing poet
Kahneman definitely represents a certain school of thought in decision making. He and his colleague, Amos Tversky, developed the “prospect theory” which he writes about at length in the book I’m reading. It’s hard to synopsize but it’s mostly about understanding how people weigh things when they decide. They received the 1982 Nobel prize in economics for it. Thanks for letting me know what you’re thinking. All comments welcome. Love from Dad
From Elizabeth
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being busy AND invisible
I love you.
From Rhonda
on
no stress here
Why do I look like someone put the “funhouse mirror” lens on the camera for that photo? The original does not look that way! Must be “the Internet”. Or that little guy in the computer who messes things up.
From jupiterj
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no stress here
just pulled it off the web… no intentional distortion, although I do like the distortion and it is one of the reasons I used that one…
From Sarah
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being busy AND invisible
Yeah. Love you. And i’d like to hear the whining…. X x
From David
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things that bug me about tech
Hello.
I can relate somewhat to your intollerance of technology. Im a gen X guy who has continued to struggle with tolerating lame technology given such advances. Case in point the prior sentance grammer corrected me by putting a period between give and such. I had to retype it twice on my iphone. My opinion is that technology should work in an effective and efficient manner, make things easier and should not be so presumptious (or i guess the people who design it should not be that way).
I did not know your thumb scare prevented u from things. I could not tell the way you play piano so well. Hope ur well.
David
From jupiterj
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things that bug me about tech
The texting is the only thing I have noticed that the thumb scar affects. I actually have a bit of a problem using my fingers in general for some touch screen things, so it might be also an old guy thing or just getting used to touch screens. We are well. We are planning to do something for Catherine’s birthday. Sneaked up on us during a busy time. Love to all from Dad.
From Cindy
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the introvert speaks
A favorite comedian of mine, Tim Bedore, often quotes : ” Minnesota, where the introverts stare at their shoes and the extroverts stare at your shoes”
From jupiterj
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the introvert speaks
Heh.
From Mark
on
thinking about my Father
What you have thereof Dad’s sermons are, if I’m not mistaken, the results of my having taken a number of days to sit and read through 30+ years of his work. I tried to sift out those sermons that had family or personal stories in them. I found doing so to be, at times, cathartic and, and other points, ennervating.
If you decide you don’t want them, let me know. Maybe, when I retire, I can take some time and scan them into the computer. I can’t imagine keeping them forever but, if I did a good job of sorting, most of them should have some interesting passages (at least they must have been to me otherwise I would have pitched them).
And, at least for me, Dad is present in my daily life for good and ill… Sometimes just looking in the mirror can be a real trip.
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