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	Moltmann, a late-modern crypto-semiotist/ -semioethician? http://essius.livejournal.com/689575.html semioethics, semiotics, uexküll, ecology, moltmann In God in Creation, pp. 147–8, Moltmann has a section entitled “The Creation of Spaces and the Space of Creation.” He writes, The modern Cartesian division between an incorporeal mental subject and a world of extended bodies in geometrical space is alien to the biblical traditions about creation. We come nearer to these traditions if we employ the ecological concept of space we have described: ever More... Published by :essius 2008-03-18 04:21:02.0

	My dear Nicodemus http://essius.livejournal.com/689060.html exhortative, cryptic My dear Nicodemus, why do you come to me at night? I speak of earthly things and you do not believe; how, then, can I speak to you of heavenly things? Listen, my friend: If you are born again—do not laugh, even if you are old and barren—you will have eyes to see and ears to hear. I know you can see, perhaps with greater depth of insight than others; but can you hear? More... Published by :essius 2008-03-17 09:23:33.0

	The last few days recounted with relative brevity http://essius.livejournal.com/688562.html houston, semiotics, conferences, umwelt, friends, uexküll, papers, moltmann, food If I wanted to be brief, what would I say? Wednesday morning Markos and I went to Cafe Artiste. I read his well and humorously written essay on Descartes on the way to Houston Hobby. After he dropped me off, I checked my bags and talked to so-and-so before boarding. I had brought with me a few books, only a few of which I actually read over the course of the Durham trip. So I read. I was hop More... Published by :essius 2008-03-17 07:08:14.0

	I could really use a Zooey right about now http://essius.livejournal.com/688239.html salinger, conferences, friends, love You know they say you always hurt the ones you love? Well, I suppose I am feeling really loved right now. Yes, this has to do with the conference. Theosemiosis indeed. I really want to scream right now, but it would be unproductive. So I am keeping my mouth shut. I am just going to wear a smile, and pretend I do not feel stabbed in the chest by the whole situation More... Published by :essius 2008-03-13 12:30:54.0

	Could have been easier on you http://essius.livejournal.com/687675.html youtube, music More... Published by :essius 2008-03-12 09:24:35.0

	I don't have the password, but the path is chainlinked http://essius.livejournal.com/687006.html youtube, music Word has it on the wire That you don’t who you are Well if you could jack into my brain You’d know exactly what you mean here More... Published by :essius 2008-03-10 06:56:44.0

	Silence http://essius.livejournal.com/686222.html words, excerpts, silence, language, truth, mystic, merton Words stand between silence and silence: between the silence of things and the silence of our own being. Between the silence of the world and the silence of God. When we have really met and known the world in silence, words do not separate us from the world nor from other men, nor from God, nor from ourselves because we no longer trust entirely in language to contain reality. —Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Sol More... Published by :essius 2008-03-09 07:38:13.0

	The pantheism of branches http://essius.livejournal.com/686074.html dialogical, poetic The branches remind me of the interconnectedness of life. The lonely leaves and assemblages of pods divide my mind into factions—individualism and collectivism. But the branches turn me again to the univocity of relations. They reach out, almost pleadingly, beckoning me—us—come hither. Sit down upon this out-of-place bench. Our brothers and sisters sacrificed themselves for you, it’s the least you can More... Published by :essius 2008-03-09 07:30:45.0

	If this were a stereogram, you might have a panic attack http://essius.livejournal.com/685599.html zen, freud, lyrical, quality, repetition, recollection, tetrachotomy, salinger, pirsig, actors/actresses If identifying with J. D. Salinger’s Seymour Glass is liable to send me into paroxysms of insanity, I reckon that entering the minds and hearts of more charming, less psychopathic members of the Glass family* is apt to result in small spurts of enlightenment leading toward a grasp of Pirsigian Quality whose Dynamic side will defenestrate my insides until my outsides correspond to a fall-made-flight dance that squande More... Published by :essius 2008-03-09 07:11:34.0

	First, check interpretants, then bless http://essius.livejournal.com/685469.html interpretants, christian, prov If a man loudly blesses his neighbor early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse. —Prov 27:14 More... Published by :essius 2008-03-07 09:57:57.0