Selaphiel

I think that's the first time I've made you laugh.

I listen to jazz occasionally. I cycle through several types of music. I'm listening to some Louis Armstrong right now.

Yes they are. Thankfully it wasn't a bad case this time and I'm feeling mostly better now.

:shocked: You don't drive? I guess you are able to get by with no license by living in a big city? Where I live it would be extremely difficult to manage. It's nice you can take a smaller test. I imagine your car insurance will be less too, assuming you have to get that if you get a car. :crackup: I can just imagine the look on the instructor's face when Frank tells him he has to sit in the back seat during the lesson.

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You're a jazz fan, right? I just watched the first episode in Ken Burns' series on the history of jazz. It was pretty interesting. The first episode covered the roots and inception of jazz music and stopped right before Louis Armstrong. I believe it's a 10 episode series. I'm streaming it on Netflix.

Yes. And then used my credit card to buy a newer, bigger TV so they could watch today's games. lain: I'm glad that Spain played better today and went off on a high note. It was only against Australia, but still. It was nice to see Villa and Torres get goals in their last games.

The wedding was nice. It was outside and we thankfully had good weather. The setting was next to a pond. Very nice.

H&G offered to have some of their cousins that are still in Norway to go pay the shipping company a 'visit' to help expedite your books. lain:

I'm not feeling well at the moment. Have a stomach bug or I ate something sketchy. Not fun.

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I think we have a shot but I'm not very hopeful. Portugal is probably quite angry after their match against Germany and they may come out with a high intensity. :noid:

:crackup: That's funny.

Not a bad weekend. Went to a wedding on Friday evening. Watched lots of soccer. And I finished Tillich's Dynamics of Faith. It was very fascinating but it seems like a pretty big paradigm change and I still struggle with how he separates faith from any sort of doctrinal belief. I may make a post about it in the theology group. Or at least make another post to your page. I'm considering moving on to the first book in his Systematic Theology series because it may help solidify how his concept of faith works in Christianity specifically. Or I might go with Hart's Experience of God.

How was your weekend?

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:rotfl: I can just imagine an alpaca trying to get onto the field using a special vuvuzela that makes alpaca sounds.

I have mixed feelings about the US winning. On the one hand I'm happy because they're my country. On the other hand, I think that this means a lot more to Ghana than it does to us so it would have been nice for Ghana to win. Us beating them severely hurts their chances of getting through.

I missed the Belgium-Algeria game because of work but I saw much of Brazil-Mexico and I'm watching Korea-Russia now. The Mexican goalie made some great saves. :noway:

Yes I was reading a bit of the info on Amazon and it mentioned something about Christian non-violent resistance. Sounds like it could be good.

:chuckle: Yes it would be chaos on the pitch.

:chuckle: Shopping doesn't always work out how you plan. In getting a Jewish study bible I'm mostly interested in how they interpret and use the prophets and how their views compare to the Christian interpretations. So I'd probably like that Heschel book you mention. :think:

England v Italy was a pretty good game. Right now the Switz-Ecuador match is turning out to be a good one.

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Cool. :thumb: Is it bad I didn't know that Tolstoy wrote a theology book?

Yes that was a terrible game. Worst loss by a defending champ ever. H&G said their Brazilian cousins attempted to get a team together for the World Cup but weren't allowed. lain:

I bought a Jewish study bible today. It's the Jewish bible with commentary from a Jewish perspective. I've been wanting something like this for a while. My original plan was just to buy some new pants but then I went into the bookstore and saw that. here is a link

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I've never heard of that book or the author. Seems interesting though. If you do go with that I'll be interested to hear what you think of it.

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Part 3:

I'm not very far yet. A bit of what I've read so far overlaps with The Courage To Be. I may need to pick that up at the same time and re-read some parts. He is providing some examples of ultimate concerns beyond a god (nationalism, success) but I wish he'd give more practical application in certain parts. And more scripture. But more of that may come later.

Part 2: on Tillich

I've been enjoying Dynamics so far. He says that faith is the state of being ultimately concerned. He says man is driven to faith by his awareness of an infinite in which he belongs but he can't possess. It's a restlessness of the heart. He says that in the act of faith there are subjective and objective elements. The subject is the act of faith by a person. The object is what the faith is directed toward. He says that the difference between true and false ultimacy is that the true one will transcend the subjective-objective issue. And this is a point I'm having a little trouble understanding. He explains it by using mystics who say that their knowledge of God is the same as what God knows about Himself. And what Paul says in 1Cor 13 about knowing as he is known, as in being known by God. He says that idolatrous faith results in existential disappointment.

Yes I've enjoyed the few that I've watched. And I feel like I have to watch them since I spent the money on them. :chuckle:

I can imagine.

Thanks for the video. It does sound interesting. I'll try to watch it some time.

That clip is funny. :chuckle:

Yep, they have their soccer gear on. They were screaming 'GOAL' during the whole game, even if there wasn't a goal. lain:

How are you doing? :e4e:

GC are lectures on dvd given by professors. I have a few. The one I'd probably watch is basically a survey of philosophy.

Oh cool. Any reason?

Oh sorry to hear that. Hope you feel better. That's the worst.

My weekend was good. Saw a couple friends that I don't see often. Started Tillich's book Dynamics of Faith. I couldn't decide what to take on next so I chose that. It's short.

Evening Count. Hard to say at the moment although the level of outright insanity on here lately doesn't really help...

How are things with you?

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The books arrived. If I start one of them now it will be The Experience of God. I may hold off though. Still deciding on what direction I want to go in next. May read Chesterton's Orthodoxy. Or I may skip starting a new book and instead finally work my way through the 'Great Courses' that I bought a while back. And then spend time re-reading certain things in books I've already read.

Yes, I can't wait to find out what they have in store. :noid:

How is your weekend going? :e4e:

Oh hey, glad I was able to add to your workload. :chuckle:

You're welcome.

Well I'm so used to your eloquence in English that sometimes I forget you're Norwegian. :chuckle:

But that's interesting, that for us the two words sound the same and for you the two words look the same.

Just thought I'd mention it, hope you don't mind. It's one of those words very commonly switched up by native English speakers.

Thank you

I will elaborate on Jensen and comment on your previous post about church and politics soon.

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I can't give a full answer to what he means by creative suffering of God just yet, since that will be unveiled through the entire book. The impression so far is that he critically uses process philosophy, being skeptical of some of its core doctrines. He embraces a form of kenotic creation, namely that God willingly limits himself when creating to offer real freedom. So unlike in process theology, this freedom and the suffering that results from it, is not a metaphysical necessity but rather God's creative act. He then wants to place God at the center of this evolving community of organisms (rather than above it as in the hierarchical reality in medieval philosophy). God participates in sympathy with his creation.

It will be interesting to see how he will present the eschatological victory over suffering. The problem coulb be that if there is no good eschatology is that it can devolve into a sentimental and rather tragic view of reality.

Planet Earth is great. All of those BBC David Attenborough documentaries are amazing, "Life" is probably my favorite. Any insect documentaries?

That music is quite interesting. It is interesting that we enjoy music that reflects a mathematical structure of a phenomenon in nature. Going to download the entire thing and listen to it.