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Henry Imler May 30th, 2008
Ben Affleck Harrison Ford was the bomb in Phantoms Frantic, but this clip is just plain weird.
Is the man that sexy, that we compare the loss of his chest hair to the loss of rain forest?
Update: The original vid was pulled, but now works.
Backstory for the commercial:
Henry Imler May 24th, 2008
Scott, over at Grace is Unfair, is is reading through When War Is Unjust by John Howard Yoder and looking at Christians and Just War theory. Please go check out Part I (Stances towards war), Part II (Selective Objection), and Part III (Training for Peace). I have yet to see local congregations talk openly and honestly about the stance of the body of Christ to war beyond the “we support out troops” rhetoric. A discerning and nuanced stance may be there, I just have not seen it (but I have been blind plenty of times).
S4Ep12 - There’s No Place Like Home, Part One from Long Live Locke. If you are a Lostee, you need to be reading this website.
A tantalizing taste of Firefox 3: testing RC1from Ars Technica. I have suffered through the last three Firefox 3 beta releases and RC1 is the real deal. It is soooo much quicker than FF2, looks better, and now most of my favorite extensions work with the release. Download Firefox Release Candidate 1.
I put together a desk and two bookcases and sorted through a bunch of books since 1:30AM. I am not quite sure how to sort through my books. I have a section for languages I am working on and a section for thesis. After that is where it gets a bit hairy. There are philosophy, science, the study of religion, devotional scholarship, devotional books, theology, history, Christian history, ancient Christian scholarship, comics, novels, and political thought.
The problem is that most of these categories overlap. On top of all of that, I have had fantasies of going dewy decimal with my books ever since I saw my brother in law Casey’s library at his church. Anyone know of amateur ways of doing this?
With that, I may just now go to bed.
Listening to: By Babylon by Psalm from Waking up the Storm
Henry Imler May 23rd, 2008
Wanna know the perfect storm of staying up late?
That will leave you over-rested, caffinated, lonely, and antsy. That is why it is 1:30 AM and I am working on my brother in law’s site. Not cool.
Playing: Providence by TV on the Radio
Henry Imler April 11th, 2008
One of my favorite comic series of all time is Kingdom Come. It tells the story of a superhero community run amok and Superman’s attempt to right the community. The great Alex Ross did the art work for the series. The special thing about Alex’s work is his attention to detail. For example, take a look at the following section from page 103, where Superman is talking with Orion, who has usurped Darkseid’s throne and know tries to rule Apokolips justly.
The above panels only take up a minor portion of the page (see below), but Ross nevertheless makes sure to keep the person speaking in focus. When Superman is talking to Orion, he is in focus and vise versa. The effect is subtle enough that I did not notice it the first time through. But it did influence the way I read the comic. I did not realize it the first time through, but I did the second time. When I did finally realize this, I was blown away. I think the reason I did not catch the effect is because of how natural and life-like it was.
Henry Imler April 8th, 2008
Batman and the Monster Men is part of the retelling/modernization of Wayne’s first year as the Bat-Man. Overall, it is pretty good. In the scene below the Bat-Man is about to crash a monster mash at a gangster’s house. Previously he has wrecked the first incarnation of the batmobile, which was essentially a beefed up sedan. Needing another mode of transporation, he is preparing to use the batmobile mark II:
Just below this scene Alfred makes a snide remark as only he can.
The subtle turn of Bruce’s head followed up by Alfred’s quip is priceless. And sure enough in Batman and the Mad Monk the batmobile is rocking the fins.
Henry Imler April 7th, 2008
Remember that opened spaceship filled with hero doppelgangers? I don’t think that situation will be resolved peacefully.
HT: Hank.
Honzo April 3rd, 2008
I hope Beast is a Skrull so we can go back to non-cat Beast.
Henry Imler April 3rd, 2008
Secret Invasion hit the streets yesterday. I grabbed a copy this afternoon. (I did not go to mininova.org and search for Secret Invasion and download it and neither should you. Just go out and buy the comic - it is pretty cheap.) It is pretty tight. Here are the highlights along with some scans of the comic.
The issue opens with Stark revealing the invasion to Hank Pym and Reed Richards
As Stark finishes discussing how the shape-shifting Skrulls are undetectable by means of magic, mutant powers, and current technology, a Skrull spaceship crashes into the Savage Lands. The Mighty Avangers can’t get there quickly, so Spider Woman makes a call to Luke Cage and the Secret Avangers and tips them off to what is happening. Durring the call, Luke Cage looks suspicously like a Skrull (this comes into play later). The Secret Avangers steal one of Stark’s quinjets and head off to the Savage Lands to intercept the first wave of the invasion. Not long after this, the Mighty Avangers assemble, realize that the quinjet has been stolen, and take off after both the Skrull ship and the Secret Avengers.
The Mighty Avengers catch up to the Secret Avengers right as the Secret Avengers locate the crashed Skrull ship, which is still sealed up. Because of that, there is some speculation as to the contents of the ship - is it the first wave or is it escaped heroes that have been kidnapped and replaced? Before anyone can open the ship, Stark plays policeman and “places” the SA under arrest. Cage tells off Stark and rips open the ship’s door. As a result of this, a presure plate goes off and several events are sparked.
First, the Skrull-Dugan blows up S.W.O.R.D.’s base orbiting the earth. Then Skrull-Jarvis uploads a virus into Stark Tower’s computer mainframe, taking out every computer hooked into Stark’s network. This means the Iron Man suit, all Stark/SHIELD satellites, even all of the Helecarriers. Then a man touring the Baxter Building morphs into a copy of Susan Storm and teleports the Baxster Building into the negative zone.
(Click for larger images)
With Earth’s defenses down and the hero community in disarray, the real Skrull fleet invades.
As of this is occurring, we are taken back to the crashed Skrull spaceship. Out from the ship pours a bunch of heros all acting as though they have escaped and have finally made it back to Earth, most of whom are wearing old school costumes.
Which Luke Cage is the real Luke Cage? Which Spiderman? Thor? Wolverine? Captain America (remember, there is the dead body, the possible clone at Red Skull’s, and the one that just stepped out of the spaceship)? I don’t know and neither do you.
Also, am I the only one who can’t get enough of the pimptastic old school Luke Cage?
He was gonna say “Sweet Christmas.”
Now, back at Stark Labs, Reed Richards has figured out how the Skrulls are able to mask their identities and the following happens:
Pym is a Skrull as well - and shoots Richards before he can share the secret.
The Skrull invasion has begun - and is proceeding as planned.
Henry Imler April 2nd, 2008
In the Roman world, within the household, the position of child is the lowest in terms of power and hierarchy. Taking this into account, consider Mark 10:15:
I tell you the truth, anyone who doesn’t receive the Kingdom of God like a child will never enter it.
Rather than assuming our standard in pouring of innocence and naiveté into the phrase “like a child,” perhaps we are better served with assuming a Roman view of children, of powerlessness over others, into this phrase.
Also consider Luke 22:25-27
Jesus told them, “In this world the kings and great men lord it over their people, yet they are called ‘friends of the people.’ But among you it will be different. Those who are the greatest among you should take the lowest rank, and the leader should be like a servant. Who is more important, the one who sits at the table or the one who serves? The one who sits at the table, of course. But not here! For I am among you as one who serves.
Here again we see the same theme - the relinquishment of dominance as a command of Jesus to his followers, to the members of the Kingdom of God.
If we do not relinquish culturally inherited claims of dominance over others and see them as true equals then ours is not the Kingdom of God.
Seeing people as the imago deis involves the complete removal of claims of dominance and superiority. This must be applied in terms of race and gender. It is a command to give up our claims of dominance over others.
Henry Imler March 31st, 2008
I, like a lot of the Christian side of the blogosphere, have taken more than a fleeting interest in the Enns/Westminster controversy. Westminster Theological Seminary has suspended Professor Peter Enns effective at the end of this school year and will take steps to terminate his employment because of a book he wrote back in 2005 entitled Inspiration and Incarnation (review), which calls into question more conservative models of scripture while remaining wholly “[apologetic] and assum[ing] an evangelical faith in scripture from the outset.”
Christianity Today has a write up on the suspension :Westminster Theological Seminary Suspends Peter Enns.
To say on top of what people are saying about this situation, check out Google’s Blogsearch and Technorati’s watchlist.
For a run down of what the hub-ub is all about, check out Kingdom People :: The Peter Enns Controversy:
- Enns has been criticized for emphasizing the human nature of Scripture over against the divine.
- Enns has written that the first chapters of Genesis are firmly grounded in ancient myth, which he defines as “an ancient, premodern, prescientific way of addressing questions of ultimate origins in the form of stories.”
- Enns claims that Scripture is inspired and inerrant, however the way he describes Scripture seems to counter that belief.
- Enns does not seek to harmonize seemingly-contradictory parts of Scripture because he believes the diversity of Scripture is complementary.
- Enns rejects the idea of objective unbiased historiography.
Here is an exchange between Paul Helm and Enns about Helm’s review of Enns’ book.
Here is an interesting (and instructive) review of Helm’s review by Cdero’s Weblog entitled Bible Monopoly. Here are the central tenets of Bible Monopoly:
* An unwillingness to deal with the plural complexity of interpretation
* A failure to wrestle with the difficult matters of Biblical scholarship
* A failure to see the provisional nature of scripture
* An obsession with turning honest interaction with extra Biblical data into an evil foe of orthodoxy
* A tendency to use past theologians (the one’s they agree with) as the standard of Biblical interpretation
What do you think about the suspension? I know we have bloggers and readers that range from each end of the conservative to liberal spectrum when it comes to the verbal inspiration of scripture.
IMHO I don’t think that he should have been suspended at all, but then again, I tend to lean towards academic freedom and exploratory hypothetical theology which is left up to the students and readers to discern. I have not been in a position of power where Jesus’ words about causing one of these to stumble really apply as it would as being dean of a seminary. However, our view of scripture is not without its problems and it sounds like Enns has taken an honest and subtle look at the problem… and he is punished for it. Now, it is highly likely that this controversy will only boost his employability and sales of his book (my copy is on its way right now), but he now has to move his family, tear up his roots in a community, and evangelicals get a black eye from our own hand.
All of this reminds me about the unnecessary perils of venturing into the academic realm of evangelicalism. I want to be an evangelical scholar. We, as a community, are in desperate need of good scholarship if we are to both remain relevant and respected (listened to). But, if I teach or even consider that which is out of line, I am out of a job and perhaps blacklisted amongst the communities I wish/am called to serve. All of a sudden teaching at a small liberal arts college does not seem all that bad.
Henry Imler March 18th, 2008
Clarke, thanks for the good books! My favorite parts of 2010 were Clarke’s descriptions of the indigenous population o Jupiter and the attack on the Tsien.
Henry Imler March 4th, 2008
This one comes from my good friend LaRue:
And then I was like, “Mr. Dawkins, the 1950s called; they want their logical positivism back.” And he was like, “You worship leprechauns.”
Henry Imler February 26th, 2008
Henry Imler February 25th, 2008
“I don’t like the world… It’s not pretty. I won’t draw it pretty.”… “No, no. You must not dislike God’s world, Even if it is unfinished.” … “I hate the world…” … “”You must not hate, you must not hate. You must try to finish.” - Asher Lev and his mother Rivkeh
That brought me to tears tonight. It is from the book, My Name is Asher Lev. I am only 30 or so pages in, but the book has been so moving that I went ahead and bought a used copy of it (right now I borrowing a copy from a friend).
Henry Imler February 22nd, 2008
1474. The person for whom something is or is done, or in reference to whose case an action is viewed, is put in the dative.
Oh yes, I finally got my Greek Grammar by Herbert Weir Smyth. I also picked up my “Middle Liddell” while I was at it.
Henry Imler January 9th, 2008
I am still working through the reason why I believe. I talked earlier about how modernist conceptions are not adequate for judging the merits of a particular religion because we don’t have access to the data needed to verify the claims of religion. In the second installment, I try to talk about another way of viewing this problem, from the postmodern perspective.
Theology for the Masses :: What is Postmodernity?
I basically claim that it is possible (and I think more profitable) to engage the world through a postmodern framework while remaining true to the tenants of Christianity. The post is explorational for me, over there I am kinda feeling my way around - if you decide to read it and have any insights or problems with what I am saying, please let me know in the comments.
The next post in the series will deal with the topic of narratives, why they are important and how they interact.
Henry Imler December 25th, 2007
A while ago, I was asked why exactly I believe. I have been pondering this the last few days and I think I can give a semi-intelligible answer.
I have posted the first part over at Theology for the Masses. I have moved the comments over there as well, in the interests of fostering a larger conversation.
Henry Imler December 8th, 2007
As the semester winds to a close, I find myself eagerly looking forward to typing out why I accept or reject Christianity’s claims, a challenge taken up recently by Kyle and Danny (Danny’s reply to Kyle). I simply have not had time to work up in the specific my answer to that question.
However, I did stumble across an interesting post that attempts to refute Russell’s critique of Christianity: Atheism Presupposes Theism: “Why Bertrand Russell should have been a Christian.”
I have just skimmed the post and all I can say is that I need to read it closely after this Friday.
Henry Imler November 25th, 2007
As screwed up as some of Rand’s philosophic ideas are, David Bernstein points out a redeeming quality of her work:
First, she indirectly persuaded me that caring about the
success of strangers on sports teams that happen to carry the name of
my city or school is a waste of time. This freed up thousands of hours
for other endeavors more directly related to my own life. (I’m not an
evangelist about this; if you enjoy rooting for sports teams, and think
the opportunity costs are worth the enjoyment you get out of it, more
power to you.)
That about sums up my thoughts on it.
With that said - GO HEAT and MU BASKETBALL TIGERS! (don’t you just
love contradictions? everyone wants to get rid of them, but they are
everywhere - actually, my opportunity costs of following the Heat and
select college basketball teams are worth the enjoyment I get out of
them, so I don’t really think there is a contradiction here.)
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