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Monday, December 02, 2002 |
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I find myself often resisting by default the categories I have set up, feeling as I often do that I can't really categorize some things as "theological" (and thus in the "Theoblogical" category) and others , well, NOT. I noticed that on Martin's Blog Flow, he links to my Theoblogical Category, and so I wonder if he's seeing any of what I have been writing lately since I tend to post things solely to my Front Page or "uncategorized".
Then "Theoblogical" also has several "SubCategories", but Radio doesn't provide me a way to do that unless I am missing out on some plugins/add-ons that someone has written. Sub-Theoblogical categories like "Online Community" aren't really "Under" theoblogical, since they overlap into several at once.
I like the Outliner style that Martin has, but does that "hide" things from Google Search? I'm not sure. The whole XML world is just clear enough to me that I feel excited by its possibilities, but still feeling a bit left behind in my abilities to programatically hook into it. I want to explore using XML tags in the process of writing, so that sections of postings can be "available" at any moment in any other posting, as a link, or as a "Data-driven" insertion into a new context, or a way to list other "related" , relevant instances of exploration of the topic.
12:01:58 PM 
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Things of and from the Church of the Saviour model have led me to renew thinking and pondering The Church of the Saviour Vision and the Weblog in Weblogs, COS Style
11:17:36 AM
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From the above link to Kevin Kelly's article in WIRED December 2002:
From this perspective, computation seems almost a theological process. It takes as its fodder the primeval choice between yes or no, the fundamental state of 1 or 0. After stripping away all externalities, all material embellishments, what remains is the purest state of existence: here/not here. Am/not am. In the Old Testament, when Moses asks the Creator, "Who are you?" the being says, in effect, "Am." One bit. One almighty bit. Yes. One. Exist. It is the simplest statement possible.
10:16:15 AM
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From my article: The Social and Spiritual Realities We Ignore
Many times, I would imagine, we can discover things about people who are already "in our midst" in a physical community to which we have attached but not yet discovered our common call. This would seem to be more likely as Churches begin to discover the value of "Intranets" (the local expression with online information, interaction, and storytelling and sharing) joined to ExtraNets (connected to larger bodies related to them such as denominations) joined to the THE INTERNET (a part of the human family in a deep ecumenical sense, where missions of the Church and human welfare projects of all kinds can join people who can join forces.
9:40:47 AM
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I read another of the articles in the December Issue of WIRED about studies on the effects of prayer on the sick. The fact that intriguing relationships were found caused me to think about the implications of studies like this for suggesting that perhaps online community could have more backing from those who insist that face to face is the only way to receive purely spiritual communion. If prayers from distant people with whom I am unaquainted can postively affect my health, how much more can communications of support from people with whom we can converse via the Net might be of truly "spiritual" value. I needed no convincing of this, but the analogies of prayer with online communication are interesting.
9:21:21 AM
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Some Good stuff from WIRED on Science and Theology, like The Pope's Astrophysicist which describes a Vatican research group led by Jesuits (those often pesky free-thinkers within the authority of the Church who often seem to push the boundaries of the "confines" of theological thinking)......here they explore the physical boundaries of the cosmos for "clues" of divine design that pose the most interesting questions.
9:18:35 AM
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