Comments | bama_muaddib: up from the grave he arose

bama_muaddib

up from the grave he arose

Mar 28, 2005 13:53

lots to report, relatively speaking. most joyously and importantly, i am now gainfully employed! though i interviewed at davis-kidd and would have loved a position there, the manager kindly got back to me and said a more part-time candidate fit their needs. no matter; bread & co. has promptly absorbed me into their preservative-less world of ( Read more... )

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carolinebishop March 28 2005, 13:09:29 UTC

Ah, the obligatory I'm-at-home-so-I-have-to-go-to-church mode. As someone who has become increasingly atheistic, I share your frustration. I'm of a mind to find a nice liberal Episcopalian church I can go to this summer to placate my parents (maybe Christ Church Cathedral downtown?). Got any ideas?

reply imaginationryan March 28 2005, 17:49:06 UTC

Ah, the obligatory I'm-at-home-so-I-have-to-go-to-church mode. As someone who has become increasingly atheistic, I share your frustration.

I was too lazy to write it on my own. Thanks C-dog. (May I call you that?)

Ryan

Re: reply carolinebishop March 28 2005, 20:13:53 UTC

Of course! But be forewarned: dogg is spelled with two g's. :-P

bama_muaddib March 29 2005, 08:42:14 UTC

believe it or not, i've actually considered attending a meeting of the society of friends...somewhere in nashville there is a group that convenes. i don't know if the service would be appealing, but they seem a tolerant and peaceful people.

but, should that not come to fruition, let us explore! (with denominations being of negligible or no relevance)

katherinemorrow March 28 2005, 14:37:08 UTC

Aw, Bethlehem. The sermons themselves are like Easter candy - sweet but not all that nutritious or filling. But I miss that place.

jgalloway March 28 2005, 22:28:20 UTC

Until you have gone back in time and attended Sweet Gum Head Church of Christ for your entire pre-collegiate life, I will have no choice but to laugh at your complaints. The minister has been there since my dad was a kid. I can't remember the last time he delivered a fresh sermon, and I can remember buying my first Transformer when I was three. He recycles the same scriptures week in and week out, insists that every service begin with a woeful rendition of "Holy, Holy, Holy," and opens every Sunday school with a very tired prayer that I can recite word for word. You Methodists have it easy!

Congrats on the Job 05matt March 29 2005, 14:31:09 UTC

I just read Barthes Mythologies (1957) Lec 1,2,3. Whats your opinion of a socially constructed reality which is passed off as natural? Thanks, Matt

Re: Congrats on the Job bama_muaddib March 29 2005, 20:29:02 UTC

argh...had a lengthy reply but browser ate it.

to put it shortly, i think that all social groups employ tools to divvy up the universe into units that make sense. reality is likely in fact unmitigated, continuous "stuff" without boundaries or differentiation. as such, any categorization, language, or other tools used to make sense of reality are not themselves less real, but certainly they are products of a creation often unknown to those who use them.

connotatively, i have no opinion about this phenomenon. it seems necessary to have ways of "getting at" reality. perhaps more people could become aware that a certain way of looking at things isn't necessarily the way things really are, but that's probably a pipe-dream. hegemony is ensured by passing off such realities as natural.

does that begin to answer? my primary familiarity with barthes is in terms of myth and other literary analysis, as opposed to sociology, strictly speaking.

cheers,

drew