For a great description of what I use the word "Saved" to mean - as in "Have you ever been Saved?" is from here page 12 and so on: http://books.google.com/books?id=y7yJP67BRz0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=josiah+royce+the+sources+of+religious+insight&source=bl&ots=jmPf7lVrXd&sig=Z1m44ruUvcqyaMNt73QQrenYKSk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=3rNWUOuPGq60igLuo4HYBQ&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=josiah%20royce%20the%20sources%20of%20religious%20insight&f=false

Continuing to read http://www.amazon.com/Religion-Human-Evolution-Paleolithic-Axial/dp/0674061438/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1347681435&sr=1-1&keywords=robert+bellah and meanwhile adding a dip back into Clifford Geertz http://www.amazon.com/Interpretation-Cultures-Basic-Books-Classics/dp/0465097197/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1347681552&sr=1-1&keywords=clifford+geertz+the+interpretation+of+cultures which is the predominant source for the introductory discussion on the nature of religion in RB's book (see page 90 in Geertz). This all ties in beautifully with my discussion piece in HUM 212 and my page http://wsjamison.uaa.alaska.edu/rel.htm Sorry for the nature of this blog of nothing but links but it should be pretty handy for me this week.

Typing this one. About three or four previous were dictated to the Nexus and posted as the Nexus interpreted my speech - so some of the text is obviously wrong. Today I am reading Robert Bellah's "Religion in Human Evolution". Starts with three nice quotations, one by T. Mann (from Joseph and His Brothers), one from Hegel, and one from Mencius. First point I'd like to note is a critique of Richard Dawkins (I love critiques of RD!) concerning his "The Selfish Gene" and how contemporary views favor the organism rather than the gene as the main unit of survival. But this critique immediately strikes me as a bit unfair - and I would rather argue both are simply models of what to notice in evolution rather than thinking one is right and the other wrong. The stronger interpretation is that both models are useful - and probably other models besides. But notice footnote 8 of the Preface RB says RD notes this as his point of view also in his next book "The Extended Phenotype".

reading Harold Bloom's new book the anatomy of influence. One of his quotations is the writing is the defense of melancholy. It seems to me that if writing is a defense off melancholy then that is 1 of the reasons that I do not write very much. when I was a kid, doing the first 3 years of my life, my mother use to walk me alternatively to the Philadelphia Art Museum or to the Philadelphia Zoo almost daily. We lived 3 blocks from the bridge that was just across from the Philadelphia Art Museum so it was a short walk from our apartment. Remember also that this time there were no TVs and as far as I know my family did not have a radio either. I remember the first time we got the radio in the house that would have been many years later since we were in the suburbs then and I remember the puzzling look on my father's face as he sat there listening to the voice coming from that little box. The TV arrived at the same house at about the same time and I remember that very clearly because it almost killed me.as I recall the TV installer had brought the TV and installed the antenna on the roof and was sitting on the couch explaining to my parents how the device work. Meanwhile, I was on the floor heading about on all fours I remember the great rug the walls and the vanilla looking cabinet of the large TV sitting on the floor. Next to the TV was a brown wire with 2 little metal leaves. I recognize it as electrical and thought it needed to be plugged in and I distinctly remember plugging the 75 ohm antenna lead into electric socket. This of course started electric shock coursing through my body and I remember hopping around and looking up at the 3 adults sitting on the couch. My parents we're completely focused on what the installer was saying and he set in the middle of the 2 of them. What I remember was his turning and seeing me and reaching down and grabbing it.but before all this happened we lived 1 Spring Garden Street just across the Schuylkill River from the art museum. And my mother said that she used to walk me they're practically everyday so I must have gotten an early it's a cation in art. That probably explains why even today when I visit the Philadelphia Art Museum I have a very strange feeling of comfort with the place. I somehow remember the feeling of the halls the steps the artwork very atmosphere of the place. Are you even remember the strange ancient elevator with its Gigantic brasss doors.

Okay so maybe it is pretty clear why we still write on paper most of the time since this clearly is not the perfect way of doing it, because it still gets mistakes. I will give it a try and edit the blogs that I've already posted so that they make a little bit more sense and don't say weird things. But I have to admit this is really pretty cool. (This has been edited later!)

this is the third block but I will write using just this text love speech to text device. I'm at the moment did the showing my daughter how this works. I think it's pretty cool myself however, it might bug the heck out of you if you are reading my blog. So my advice to you is not to read my blog if you don't want to see such screwy fryer oil fryer oil trial there you go he he he experiments amen.

this is the second blog that I will write using the speech to text feature of my next 7 I was amazed that I was actually able to publish the last 1 so the last 1 was just a test.but now that I'm actually fascinated with how well this works now I have to come up with something interesting to say we're even I won't want to read my blog. So what should I talk about, if all I'm able to think about at the moment is hell meet my new devices?continuing to give my blog a little bit more of something interesting to say I have to admit that occasionally some of the words do not come across exactly right. Like in the last sentence for example, I use the word how and instead of how the machine rotel route hell well not root cell wrote that's correct how very strange. Testing sprint sprint it's it to talkno someone else is talking this is a very funny machinepepsi.. Will come? Here's the real kicker it's he he he he he he he