Reading List
It’s about time I have a recommended reading list. If you want to get inside my head (why would you want that??!!), this is what you need to read. Non-fiction: The Physics of Immortality (Frank Tipler…
Extras & Experiments
What is Transhumanism?
Transhumanism is the ethical use of technology to extend human ability, and to improve the human condition. Transhumanism holds that we should not be limited by the way things are, or by the way they …
Incoherent Essays: Words Written Half-Awake
You too can receive incoherent essays from the morning scrawlings of my sleep-addled mind! For the past few weeks, I’ve been waking up every morning to write 500 words. I’ve heard from so many sources…
Influential books & movies
“Kingdoms of the wall” - a novel about meeting the gods at the top of a mountain “I am David” - a new movie that is based on a book I once read From earlier reading list The Physics of Immortality The…
Notes: Will Wright mapping personal data
http://lifestreamblog.com/will-wright-plans-to-gamify-our-lifestream-data/ http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2012/07/mf_iconswright/all/ Some interesting talk about visualizing your past and personal hist…
Walter Wink
Walter Wink is primarily significant to me for his work in defining the concept of The Powers and tying that together with Christus Victor atonement theory. Briefly put, his idea is that the scriptura…
Escaping Google
Recently Google has changed its privacy policy, causing a lot of people to feel uneasy about the amount of search history that Google has on them. Lifehacker and the EFF have put together guides for r…
Theistic Reality
Theistic Reality is a term I coined (for myself, anyway) to refer to the set of expectations we would have about a reality in which God exists. Since it is nearly impossible to define what “God” means…
Panentheism
Panentheism is the understanding of God as intimately connected to, and yet beyond, the universe we experience. This is distinct from pantheism, which sees the universe as equivalent to God. Panenthei…
Non-Metaphysical Christianity
The understanding of Christianity and the scriptures as speaking directly to experienced realities, rather than trying to map metaphysical existence. This view was inspired here, and is explained here…
Historical Narrative Interpretation
The idea that the scriptures should be understood as stories and conversations arising within particular circumstances in world history. As such, they should not be interpreted as if we were reading a…
Who I am
I write about life on the curve of accelerating change, christianity as the anti-religion, and my attempts at adventures and excursions in the new world. I currently run two emails lists, one for my r…
2012 week-by-week changes
Read the setup here. These are my [changes for 2012]. Week 1: Drink no soda. If anything, this experiment had a negative impact on my life. But I discovered that I really didn’t need or miss it. Week…
How to contact me
I care about my interactions with people more than almost anything else. But I’m not very good at keeping up with all kinds of different communications technologies coming at me at the same time. As a…
Notepad
Today I decided to experiment with writing and sharing my thoughts as they came to me, using this post as a sort of notepad of constant updates. Here’s what resulted. A lot of people say that you kno…
What I want in my backpack (list)
So here’s what I want in my backpack. 5 t-shirts. Various shades and textures of gray and black. 2 pairs of jeans. One for nicer settings, one for longer commutes. 1 belt. 1 pair of general purpose s…
The beginning of thought: Writing like a wiki?
In exploring the edges of my ability to write and explain myself cohesively, I’ve sometimes sketched out thoughts without full explanation or analysis or defense. And I’ve been surprised to see those …
The beginning of thought
This is an ever-changing launching point for various ideas I’m working on. The universe bends towards order and complexity. Far from being opposed to the laws of thermodynamics (entropy), this move …
Reading List
Here are the books that I consider foundational for me. Not because I agree with all of them, but because they are all part of me. The Physics of Immortality The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakd…
Belief Inventory
I have stumbled onto some unusual beliefs in my life, and thought it’d be interesting to try to catalog what they are. fulfilled eschatology (preterism, transmillennialism, post-apocalyptic) christus…
Protocols: Milk Crates
I’m starting to publicly document the techniques I use for going about things, not because my ways are the best, or I am some kind of authority, but because improvement comes when previously unacknowl…
Protocols: Files
I’ve decided to begin putting down my own personal approaches to things as “protocols”, both for myself, and for anyone who might derive some utility from this bizarre practice. File naming: By defau…
Tools
Tools for your digital life Dropbox - all your important files, backed up to the cloud as you work. The most seamless and understandable solution. Simplenote - store all your plain text files and sni…
Parallels
Inspired by “Everything Must Change”, by Brian McLaren, here is a list of parallels.Thinking you can avoid the result of sexual promiscuity through abortion, and…Thinking you can avoid the result of e…