Posted on February 23, 2007 by Jason Barr
This is part of a discussion I’m having on a Facebook group, via the group’s wall, which only allows 1000 characters per post, so it’s not terribly well-developed, but I think it’s a decent framework for a beginning.
I have a lot of beginnings of ideas, if you hadn’t noticed.
The group is called “Post-Emerging [...]
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Posted on February 23, 2007 by Jason Barr
It’s funny… I remember when I was younger that FOX was trumpeted, at least in the circles to which I had access, as being this great socially subversive “liberal stronghold” that presented programs that undermined traditional morality. The Simpsons is the example that most readily comes to mind, but there was also Married… With Children [...]
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Posted on February 17, 2007 by Jason Barr
J. Richard Middleton’s The Liberating Image: Imago Dei in Genesis 1 is an excellent exegetical look at Genesis 1 and particularly the “Image of God” section in vv. 26-28. The book was written, I believe, for the completion of his Ph.D at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto. It is divided into three parts, [...]
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Posted on October 3, 2006 by Jason Barr
[Anything which] is a living and not a dying body… will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive to grow, spread, seize, become predominant — not from any morality or immorality but because it is living and because life simply is will to power… ‘Exploitation’… belongs to the essence of what [...]
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Posted on September 1, 2006 by Jason Barr
Or, see the bit on my About page, “The revolution will not be televised, instead it will be analyzed and sold back to the ones who start it. And the rest of the world can watch via podcast.”
The tendency of the pop-culture market is to take that which is on the fringes and make it [...]
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Posted on August 28, 2006 by Jason Barr
this is a brief thought on some thoughts I have swimming around up there that I’m not entirely sure how to articulate. If anyone has any idea how to help me articulate some of this, I’d really appreciate it.
Basically I’m trying to synthesize ideas from three books I’ve read, all three with which I basically [...]
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