I’m a bit late, was gone the weekend.
Archive for July, 2008
Tuesday’s Comic Book Panel AND Random Internet Image
Posted in Friday's Random Internet Image, Monday's Comic Book Panel on July 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Partakers of the DIvine Nature: Theosis and Christian Perfection
Posted in Theology, Uncategorized on July 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Eastern Orthodox doctrine of theosis, or deification, is one that is alien to Christianity in the west, and to many observers may seem heretical at first glance. The closest western doctrine to Theosis may be the Wesleyan concept of Christian Perfection, a controversial idea in western Christianity which gained little traction. Theosis teaches that [...]
In Honor of The Dark Knight…
Posted in Monday's Comic Book Panel on July 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
More Tragic Gaming
Posted in Video Gaming on July 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A mysterious disembodied voice has commented on my Tragic Gaming post with something a bit too substantive for me to respond to in the comments box, so I’m going to do it here. Besides, it gives me more time to make up for… time.
As far as defining a tragedy goes, whatever definition you choose to give it [...]
Enough of That, Here’s a Funny Picture Someone Else Made!
Posted in Friday's Random Internet Image on July 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
One Last Thing…
Posted in Culture, Video Gaming on July 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It is interesting to note that a lot of our greatest tragedies come from quite moralistic times. Shakespeare is from the Elizabethian and Jacobian eras (and his greatness wasn’t realized until many years after). Death of A Salesman came out in the 50’s. And the works of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripedes were built to inject the masses [...]
Sense of Shame
Posted in Video Gaming on July 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
There are so many ways for me to take this topic I’m surprised I didn’t try it earlier. Forgive me for continuing so fast but I need to get this out of my mind.
The biggest problem the game industry has in terms of narrative is that it has bred a consumer without shame. Want evidence? [...]
Tragic Gaming
Posted in Video Gaming on July 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I suppose I’ve thought enough about this over the past two weeks to present something. First, we need to define what we mean by “Tragedy” then what we mean by “Video Game” after all, what we set out to do here is think way too much.
Let’s start with Aristotle’s definition of Tragedy and work from [...]
Monday’s Comic Book Panel
Posted in Uncategorized on July 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ll try to do as good of a job as CMM. But this will be difficult.
Bill Gates Email
Posted in Uncategorized on July 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I found this, though I have a feeling I may be a tad bit late on it:
So after more than an hour of craziness and making my programs list garbage and being scared and seeing that Microsoft.com is a terrible website I haven’t run Moviemaker and I haven’t got the plus package.
The lack of attention [...]
