Tag: reality
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Tough Questions for Thinking Faith
Why is there still an ongoing feud between “the creationists” and “the evolutionists”? I know there is one. I know that some people are deeply invested in one side or the other of this argument, to the tune of having written whole books, or built whole expensive and unaccountably popular theme parks down the road…
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Reality, Shared and Unshared
I deeply appreciated this post by Seth Godin, which outlines a schema for distinguishing “shared objective reality,” “shared cultural reality,” “unshared objective reality,” (think of Copernicus) and “unshared cultural reality” (think of Picasso). His four-fold table arranging shared and unshared by objective reality vs. cultural reality clarifies a lot! I think he simplifies “shared objective…
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Isn’t Hermeneutics Too Abstract to Matter in Real Life?*
I misread the situation at the intersection by the grocery store. I paid attention to the oncoming car’s turn signal (“There’s nothing like a turn signal. And that was nothing like a turn signal.”) instead of the fact that they were in the left turn lane. So I waited for the “oncoming traffic” before I…
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A Big Fat Lie About Postmodernism
A year or two ago I took a course online about debunking popular misconceptions about things. What you are NOT supposed to do, when debunking a popular misconception, is start with the popular misconception, and then say that it’s incorrect. What will stick in people’s heads if you do that is the misconception. Research has…
Matters of Interpretation 