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We’ll, because if no one ever pays for comics, the industry goes under. But, if anything, you can DL the ones you bought. It might be a pit illegal, but I think it is a better moral stance.

Also, I would not be surprised if they are not offered soon after the release.

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So, as I am sure you all know, the iPad iTab was announced today.  It has a 9.7 inch screen and for all intents and purposes is a gigantic iPod Touch and runs all of the apps the iPhone runs… such as the Kindle App.

Last week, my Kindle 2 arrived in the mail.  I love reading on it.  But is the iTab a better ebook reader?  Should I return my Kindle 2 and buy the iTab?  Sure is costs more, but one gets the same functionality plus a touch color screen, access to just about any ebook store instead of just Amazon’s, what is guaranteed to be better handling of PDFs, support for cbrs, etc.  And that is just the stuff right now.  That is not to mention any future publishing enhancments.

hhhmmm…

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The life of man is not the life of Yag, nor is human death the death of Yag. Let me be free of this cage of broken, blind flesh, and I will once more be Yogah of Yag, morning-crowned and shining, with wings to fly, and feet to dance, and eyes to see, and hands to break."

One of my favorite short stories is The Elephant Tower by Robert E. Howard.  In it, the indomitable Conan of Cimmeria attempts to steal the (wait for it….) legendary Elephant Heart jewel from the wicked wizard Yara, who had used its power to enthrall the nation of Zamoria and keep its king drunk for fear of Yara’s power.

A chance joining journeys with Taurus, famed thief of Nemedia provides Conan with a way to bypass the terrors of the courtyard and a means to scale the jeweled tower.  Upon reaching the top and surviving that which tore from Taurus life, Conan makes his way down through the tower’s terrors until he reaches the room where the Elephant Heart jewel is kept. 

  The Elephant’s heart is encased by Yag-kosha, the last member of an ancient race of beings from Yag, a planet on the far edge of our galaxy.  A refugee after a failed rebellion, Yag-kosha and his failed compatriots came to earth in ages past and watched the rise and fall of civilizations.  One by one, the exiles succumbed to time until only Yag-kosha was left to remember the deep secrets.

It was a lonely Yar-kosha who took a budding wizard under his wing and taught him the white ways; though the wizard was not satisfied and wished to learn the dark as well.  In a moment of weakness Yara bound Yar-kosha to his will, enslaving him.  Through torture Yara made Yar-kosha an instrument of his power and feasted upon the power provided.  Blinded, withered, and saddened by the evils pressed through him by Yara, Yar-kocha is found by Conan, who hears of Yar-kosha’s plight and is beseeched.  Unwillingly, Conan agrees to do his bidding and plunges his sword deep into the Yar’s scarred chest separating the ancient alien heart from his frame.

Here we begin our reading:

…Holding the still pulsing organ over the blazing jewel, he pressed it with both hands, and a rain of blood fell on the stone. To his surprise, it did not run off, but soaked into the gem, as water is absorbed by a sponge.

Holding the jewel gingerly, he went out of the fantastic chamber and came upon the silver steps. He did not look back; he instinctively felt that some form of transmutation was taking place in the body on the marble couch, and he further felt that it was of a sort not to be witnessed by human eyes. He closed the ivory door behind him and without hesitation descended the silver steps. It did not occur to him to ignore the instructions given him.

He halted at an ebony door, in the center of which was a grinning silver skull, and pushed it open. He looked into a chamber of ebony and jet and saw, on a black silken couch, a tall, spare form reclining. Yara the priest and sorcerer lay before him, his eyes open and dilated with the fumes of the yellow lotus, far-staring, as if fixed on gulfs and nighted abysses beyond human ken.

"Yara!" said Conan, like a judge pronouncing doom. "Awaken!" The eyes cleared instantly and became cold and cruel as a vulture’s. The tall, silken-clad form lifted erect and towered gauntly above the Cimmerian.

"Dog!" His hiss was like the voice of a cobra. "What do you here?" Conan laid the jewel on the great ebony table.

"He who sent this gem bade me say, ‘Yag-kosha gives a last gift and a last enchantment.’"

Yara recoiled, his dark face ashy. The jewel was no longer crystal-clear; its murky depths pulsed and throbbed, and curious smoky waves of changing color passed over its smooth surface. As if drawn hypnotically, Yara bent over the table and gripped the gem in his hands, staring into its shadowed depths, as if it were a magnet to draw the shuddering soul from his body. And as Conan looked, he thought that his eyes must be playing him tricks. For where Yara had risen up from his couch, the priest had seemed gigantically tall; yet now he saw that Yara’s head would scarcely come to his shoulder. He blinked, puzzled, and for the first time that night doubted his own senses. Then with a shock he realized the the priest was shrinking in stature –was growing smaller before his very gaze.

With a detached feeling he watched, as a man might watch a play; immersed in a feeling of overpowering unreality, the Cimmerian was no longer sure of his own identity; he only knew that he was looking upon the external evidences of the unseen play of vast Outer forces, beyond his understanding. Now Yara was no bigger than a child, now like an infant he sprawled on the table, still grasping the jewel. And now the sorcerer suddenly realized his fate, and he sprang up, releasing the gem. But still he dwindled, and Conan saw a tiny, pigmy figure rushing wildly about the ebony tabletop, waving tiny arms and shrieking in a voice that was like the squeak of an insect. Now he had shrunk until the great jewel towered above him like a hill, and Conan saw him cover his eyes with his hands, as if to shield them from the glare, as he staggered about like a madman. Conan sensed that some unseen magnetic force was pulling Yara to the gem. Thrice he raced wildly about it in a narrowing circle, thrice he strove to turn and run out across the table; then with a scream that echoed faintly in the ears of the watcher, the priest threw up his arms and ran straight toward the blazing globe.

Bending close, Conan saw Yara clamber up the smooth, curving surface, impossibly, like a man climbing a glass mountain. Now the priest stood on the top, still with tossing arms, invoking what grisly names only the gods know. And suddenly he sank into the very heart of the jewel, as a man sinks into a sea, and Conan saw the smoky waves close over his head. Now he saw him in the crimson heart of the jewel, once more crystal-clear, as a man sees a scene far away, tiny with great distance.

And into the heart came a green, shining winged figure with a body of a man and the head of an elephant –no longer blind or crippled. Yara threw up his arms and fled as a madman flees, and on his heels came the avenger.

Then, like the bursting of a bubble, the great jewel vanished in a rainbow burst of iridescent gleams, and the ebony table-top lay bare and deserted –as bare, Conan somehow knew, as the marble couch in the chamber above, where the body of that strange trans-cosmic being called Yag-kosha and Yogah had lain….

- The Elephant Tower, by Robert E. Howard (Illustrations from Conan #20-22)

The story closes with Conan fleeing the crumbling tower, the very symbol of Yara’s perversion of the natural order, as Yar-koshba, now the liberated Yogah, ascends into the sky:

This week saw my obtaining of an Amazon Kindle.  I might post my thoughts on it later, but it has seen my reading shoot up this week.

Books

A Primer on Postmodernism

This week my Kindle came in the mail.  It’s not flashy, but what is does, it does well.  Also, I travel 30 miles to teach three days a week, and the Kindle’s text-to-speech feature saves me from listening to pop radio or Sean Vanity.

A Primer on Postmodernism by Stanley Grenz – The late Grenz was a fantastic Christian scholar who took the trajectory of Modernism and Postmodernism seriously without succumbing to either’s sly.  In this work he traces that trajectory up through Rorty. 

In the last section of the work, he looks at the common ground between postmodernism (as a secular body of philosophy) and Christianity and sketches out how Christianity needs to rip is frozen flesh from the static ice-block of Modernity and embrace and reject element of Postmodernity.  I cannot recommend this enough to people.

Short Stories

Asimov’s Science Fiction

In the last six months I have developed a keen love for short stories.  You enter a world, look around, and in space of a few cups of coffee, you bid it adieu.  You are not committed to a seven year contract at the end of which you get a Leah or a Rachel.  So, back to my point.  I started a guest subscription to Asimov’s Science Fiction.

My favorite story from this month’s issue was Stone Wall Truth by Caroline M. Yoachim.  It is the tale of Njeri, an African “Surgeon of the Wall”  The Wall was an ancient obsidian edifice which exposes and releases a person’s shadows when they are placed flayed upon it  The surgeon would entrap the soul of a person in a mind stone, flay the body, pin it to the wall, reconstitute the body, and with the soul restored, send the person to the healer.  In this story, Njeri confronts the ethics behind her occupation and discovers the truth about the wall.

Reading the Conan graphic novels turned me on to the genre of short stories, for that is how Robert E. Howard first published his stories of his Cimmerian hero.  Since getting the Kindle, I have been loading some his short stories.  This week I read a few of my favorites, such as The Frost Giant’s Daughter and The Elephant’s Tower.  I’m currently finishing up The Hand of Nergal.

As with all of Howard’s works that I have gotten my hands on (including the comics), these stories are great.  I love Howard’s critique of civilization through the eyes of Conan (his long standing debate with Lovecraft over the nature of civilization turn me on to this).  In the Elephant’s Tower, we see such a critique, after Conan has been ridiculed by a fellow thief:

The Cimmerian glared about, embarrassed at the roar of mocking laughter that greeted this remark. He saw no particular humor in it and was too new to civilization to understand its discourtesies. Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

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I live in RSS hell; subscribing to 273 different feeds will condemn you to having your Google Reader constantly over 1000+ articles.  There was too much information and I wasn’t ever reading anything in my RSS feed, I was only skimming headlines.  The affects on my concentration and focus were worse than watching TV for the same amount of time. 

So, this morning, after answering some student emails, I took out my weed-whacker (pictured right) and went to whacking.  I was able to whack off 178 feeds, leaving me with a paltry 95 feeds.  Here are some of the feeds that didn’t make it:

Denny Burk – Sorry, but throwing up Jesus [1] all over biblical studies and mimicking big Al verbatim gets you whacked.

Al Mohler – I understand why you are an important voice, and I’m glad that you stand up for 1/3 of the pro-life issues, but your desire to make Xianty the Civil Religion of America, bloodlust for war, and hatred of immigrants warrants a whacking.

Dr Jim West – Where did you, Cotton Eyed Joe?  Seriously, Jim, I loved/hated your blog till it was shut down amidst that controversy a month or so ago.  You were like a crazy old grandpa.  Sometimes mean, sometimes crazy, but also laid bare some great gems of knowledge and insight.  I actually miss your blog, though seemly 88% of your posts were you complaining about the young’ens.

Heeb – I don’t even remember how I subscribed to this blog.  I think I downloaded bloglines 3 or something and it auto-added suggested sites. 

Debunking Christianity – Danny showed me this one.  For a while it was cool, but it just never stuck.  I ended up rolling my eyes at most posts because he writes from a Modernist Atheistic viewpoint which is quickly fading away (so is Modernist Xianity, btw) and he really seems to be asking the wrong questions… and he’s kinda and ass.

Look at this cussin Hipster – Hipsters are like pimples.  But after a while, you’ve made fun off all the hipster molds and your feeds are cluttered.  Also in this category were things like Bluetooth D-Bag.

Anything with a thousand posts per day – All the deal sites, gone.  All sites with a similar posting to day ratio – gone.

Here are some feeds that I kept.

Everyone that I know personally that has a blog. – If I know you, I wanna keep in touch with what you have to say.  If you are Modernist Atheist and asking the wrong questions, but I know you, I am genuinely interested in what you have to say.  If you are a fundamentalist Xian and asking the wrong questions, I am genuinely interested in what you have to say. 

Biblical Studies Blogs that actually post on-topic content – Thanks, that’s why I read you.  I know posting during the school year is hard, but to see you all engaging the latest news, methods and the like is great and allows me to do the same.

Theological Blogs by good writers.I dropped most of the calvinist blogs and kept most of the arminian ones.  I was just skipping over the calvies because of the types of questions they were asking.  But, if you wrote meaningful, engaging posts, I kept you anyway.  My number one recommendation? Quadrilateral Thoughts.

Comic Blogs – I needs me some downtime. 

Technology Blogs – I needs me some techno-nerd.

Well, I’d write more, but this little diversion has eaten up most of my time.  Oh, and I don’t consider this blog to be anything follow-worthy along the lines of my complaining above.  I post the froth of my thoughts when I get the time and that’s about it.

1. and by Jesus, I mean 1950’s inerrancy Baptist theology [↩]

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• I think he should do it!!!! RT @graceisunfair: @hundiejo LOVED the beard blog. Challenge accepted! (Not really… I don't think.) #
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• What's your answer to my "Ethical Icebreaker"? http://bit.ly/5sz6To #
• Hopefully Watching #HIMYM_100 in a bit w @meredith_imler after Heroes with @tiffanymalloy and @jakemalloy … then the passing out happens #
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• Aristotle, on the origins of Philosophy :: http://bit.ly/6lcePA #
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• Oh man, following Enterprising Young Men with Everybody Hurts will put you into a coma. #
• Reed is fading fast. Wonder if @meredith_imler will get here in time. Stay tuned to the "nonexistent show" for updates! #
• Russell defines philosophy as "the space between science and religion" and his work suffers for it. It undergirds and converses with both. #
• Just figured out how to set up a gradebook on eCollege #
• After the first 75 pages of A History of Western Philosophy, I wanna bring Russell to an Intro. to Religion or my Lived Religions class #
• I either really like or really hate this lecture. #
• Best Thing that could have happened to Spider Man 4 http://bit.ly/6NZY0v #
• DL'ing Adobe Reader to help a student w/ a question. #
• BRB Explaining twitter to students #
• As bad as Tornado Theology RT @jaredcwilson: RT @gposey: Really? Satan helped Haiti beat the French? Gargamel and Skeletor were too busy? #
• Leno, Conan and Cracked (Lang?) http://bit.ly/85CinN #
• Beyond a vague assumption that Imperialism had probably screwed Haiti somehow…. http://bit.ly/6vjaGu #
• just started playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Wanna join him? http://raptr.com/hundiejo #
• Discovery : 1st Cup from the pot – bitter. #
• Was that a twig breaking somewhere? RT @graceisunfair: @almightygod Criticism does that, too. You should know. #
• It is really interesting to watch Twitter to see people wrestle with the quakes in Haiti and so see it turned to their own ends. #
• & we aren't talking w/ Humans ;) #
• Finding that I work in a type of moderate feminism into each of my classes. #
• Dude next to me is rocking the sweats…. i needs to do that sometime #working_at_coffeeshops #
• Done setting up the gradebooks! #
• Just finished the lecture schedule! #
• Imlers not spared #
• First @meredith_imler , then dad (me), and now Reed. Poor lil guy yacked for the first time. We are trying to recreate the moment on video #
• Reed just woke up dry heaving. Poor lil guy; poor parent's hearts. #
• … and he's back asleep…. #
• the dangers of branding on social networks http://ow.ly/WGxg HT @ Cathlimergent #
• Can I has pass out now? #
• And that was a long night. #
• Someone is playing hauntingly beautiful music on the piano next to the adjunct office. #
• Right now my strength is in fostering discussion rather than lecture… but I'll try to work out a balance. #
• Thinking of writing all my comments in couplets on student reflections. Yeah, I was up all night, kinda getting goofy to stay pleasant. #
• "A bale of hay is a bale of hay is a bale of hay." – One student's response to the metaphysicial question here : http://bit.ly/4tQO81 #
• I'm seriously holding my breath with GV Mobile 2. I hope it gets approved. I don't wanna JB my phone! #
• Seven hour streak is over. Reed OBLITERATED @meredith_imler!!!!!!!! #sick_kid. Anyone wanna run some pediolite over? #
• Wow, coffee really does make your day go better #
• Religion and Science are just as compatible with one another as Philosophy and Science #
• just started playing BioShock. Wanna join him? http://raptr.com/hundiejo #
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• "Don't let the excitement of youth cause you to forget your Creator. Honor him in your youth before you grow old http://read.ly/Eccl12.1.NLT #
• Long night with coughing and bad sleep decisions. On a couple of hours of sleep. Trying to write. Not going well. #
• I love when 5% of a group comes prepared. #
• …as if to linger *in* the movie… http://bit.ly/4QuKpR #
• Totally just wrote 09 on my son's daycare app, always mess up the 1st date. #
• Fringe… The blight #
• RE: @14892060 where did you find this? http://disq.us/82i98 #
• So, I just found out I am teaching online at State Fair Community College as well teaching Lived Religion. #
• Hoping that #Heroes is good this week. #
• ??????? RT @thuggee: @hundiejo when was the last time it was jw #
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  Great questions! I was hoping you or someone would eventually ask them. Most of them are in posts that I … http://disq.us/8423j #

• "So we'd all be getting our science from the Creation Museum. In Spanish." Read it :: http://bit.ly/8Jf8nb #
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• This tickles me a bit – Anti-whaling group says Japanese vessel rammed and sank its protest boat in Off Antarctica http://bit.ly/4MZa2R #
• Just finished up my meeting with SFCC, now overhearing two college students w/ no grasp on reality #
• Much props to @tiffanymalloy and @jakemalloy for backing me up on my paper needs – day saved! #
• Those students have dawson's creek syndrome #
• Continue the discussion of Loan Words and the Lord's Will here :: http://bit.ly/4E0Vdi :: if interested. #
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• I love it when preachers play social scientist. #
• I really, really wish I could use the Russian Reversal more. It is so hard to pull off. #
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• In what ways does your Xianity need to be challenged? What culture do you mistake for the gospel? Are you able to critique your traditions? #
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"It wasn’t that I didn’t want to do comedy. It’s just that I would only get offered girlfriend parts in guy comedies, which aren’t exciting to me, or those offensive roles in romantic comedies where the woman has to have a job in fashion so that she can have nice clothes, and her goal is always marriage."

Exactly. HT:HP

3.5 seconds after I read the panel I blogged about last night, I saw this one – and I wept with laughter. And to be honest, 5-7 years ago, I was a huge fan of Beck.  Used to watch his show back before it was on FoxNews and subscribed to his podcast for a while (a paid cast, mind you), but a variety of factors shifted my attention away from him.

I just opened up Siege Embedded #1 and saw Marvel’s version of Glenn Beck on the their version of FoxNews, the Patriot Network:

We gave Reed some apple puffs. He tries to eat them. The last half is the best half.

Message: I-70 at standstill in the westbound lanes at the 129 mile marker east of I-70 and HWY 63 @komunews

As I was getting paperwork together for my job at SFCC and getting his daycare stuff together, Reed said", “Forget this waiting for Dad to come into my field of vision; I am lookin out this crib like it ain’t no thing:

I awwed.

Hank,

Great questions! I was hoping you or someone would eventually ask them. Most of them are in posts that I have not taken the time to write out. This won’t replace the content of those posts, but perhaps serve as a preview.

First, in rejecting Modernism, we don’t throw out everything. We reject certain central tenants of Modernism, but don’t kill the patient. For instance, I reject the Foundationalist method of constructing knowledge. We’ve seen it go awry in the scholaticism of the late Medieval Church and in the recent scholasticism of Evangelicalism (e.g. inerrancy is the wrong answer to the wrong question).

However, this does not mean that we reject having system of knowledge, we just replace it. So, while I reject “truth as the correspondence of individual assertions with the world, each of which is thought to be true per se and unalterably”[1] It does not mean I reject truth. I do realize that what we think is truth is actually a constructed, power-laden, and situated assertion. So we search for an alternate epistemology.

What I go for instead of the grand, objective correspondence and foundationalist epistemology is erecting a “web of belief” where all propositions stand, not on a unshakable foundation, but in their relation to the whole. Kind of like a game of Don’t Break the Ice. There are problems with this method, but there are serious problems with all methods we have come up with so far.

We can’t pierce the veil, all conversations are language games, revelation is unprovable, all assertions are historically conditioned and situated. Those individual “objective” assertions from above are now parts in a mosaic, not toothpicks and marshmellows.

So, as a belief mosaic, the idea that all truth is God’s truth is a central and large piece in the mosaic. It is supported by my whole view of the world and my whole view of the world is supported and makes sense in light of it. They mutually support each other, though one is more important than the other.

Ehrman and “Tripping Atheists” are right, in a sense. They play by our rules and point out that there are problems. By the strictest inerrant test, the Bible is false, because if not each verse absolutely historically true and in perfect alignment with each other true proposition (verse) then the whole thing falls apart. And Foundationalists/Foundamentalists, in turn, have to completely answer each and every objection or their entire faith is threatened.

This is a major sticking point in my blogging and I certainly am biting at the chomps to articulate it here. There are so many things that I want to talk about. The liberal-conservative divide, the postliberal and postconservative branches of evangelicalism, etc. I just need to take the time to do so.

Hank, I know you are swamped with classes and work, but I can’t recommend enough Beyond Foundationalism and The Character of Theology. Both books are either written or cowritten by Reformed theologians/philosophers. I know, I was surprised too. lol. I’ve read several really good reformed works this semester, though they don’t have that New Calvinist stench on them.

[1] Beyond Foundationalism, p. 38.

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As I am filling out form after form for Reed’s day care and my new job at MACC, I keep wondering why we have to input the City name if we are inputting zip codes.  Its like describing genitalia after writing down one’s sex. [1]

Yorick is found out for the first time in Y: The Last Man #2. (All male mammals have been killed off with the exception of Yorick and his pet monkey)

1. Oh Lord, is this post gonna get spammed [↩]