Why am I completely oblivous when people are homosexual? I never figure it out ahead of time.
I've been going nuts over the past day trying to remember where I saw this statement because it was so insightful. Turns out it was in Larry Wall's interview!
"Systematic theology" is an oxymoron. God is not a system. Christians are fond of asking: "What would Jesus do in this situation?" Unfortunately, they very rarely come up with the correct answer, which is: "Something unexpected!" If the Creator really did write himself into his own story, that's what we ought to expect to see. Creative solutions.
That's exactly what I've told myself for as long as I can remember whenever I asked myself "What would Jesus do?". I can only answer, "I don't know, something way wiser than I would do, and probably something I wouldn't expect".
I don't believe systematic theology is an oxymoron though, but I can understand why he made the statement that way given the context. Systematic theology doesn't deal with what Jesus would do in a given situation. It's a systematic study of mostly the "whats", "hows", and "whys" of the Christian faith. How does Jesus's death atone for our sins? Why did he have to die? Predestination, Election, Original sin: these are all topics that a book on systematic theology covers, not "WWJD".
For instance, check out this page on theology which has a lot of great stuff, and for a great book, see Robert Reymond's A New Systematic Theology of the Christian Faith
For a PHP wiki, what do you think? PhpWiki or WikkiTikkiTavi? They decided to use Tavi for the Smarty wiki so one point for Tavi. Anyone else have any experience with either or both?
Oh, and speaking of Smarty, there's an article about Smarty from O'Reilly: Introducing Smarty: A PHP Template Engine (via PHPEverywhere).
Hmm, maybe I should consider TWiki which is like the king of wikis.
Via WHEDONesque, a list of TV premiere dates from Ain't it Cool News.
Important dates for me:
- Angel (WB) 9 p.m. Oct. 6
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer (UPN) 8 p.m. Sept. 24
- Enterprise (UPN) 8 p.m. Sept. 18
- Firefly (Fox) 8 p.m. Sept. 20
- Friends (NBC) 8 p.m. Sept 26
- 7th Heaven (WB) 8 p.m. Sept. 16 -- hahaha, just kidding
- Smallville (WB) 9 p.m. Sept. 24
- Will & Grace (NBC) 9 p.m. Sept 26 -- no
So, in order, that's
- Enterprise, Wed the 18th, ch 11, 8pm
- Firefly, Fri the 20th, ch 5, 8pm
- Buffy, Tue the 24th, ch 9, 8pm
- Smallville, Tue the 24th, ch 11, 9pm - man that's a good night
- Friends, Thu the 26th, ch 4, 8pm
- Angel, Sun, OCT 6th, ch 11, 9pm
I like my TV shows Everyone should watch Smallville!
Sunday, September 8, 2002
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