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A Blog, rather a IREM

Media, Media, Media!!!

So this is purely for irony:
I'm at a conference at the seminary on media, and the speaker just mentioned blogs so I decide to post since I lack impulse control:
http://www.kennedybrownrigg.com -> Our speakers website

posted by: nictitator at 17:31 | link | comments |

God Bless Google AdWords(TM)

(Ok this is my second post, but I figure since the purpose of a IREM(see first post), I mean Blog is to preserve for eternity in cyberspace all the stupid thoughts no one cares about, I need to get busy, since I have a lot of stupid musings)

I wonder what google thinks of me?
Looking at the profile of a fellow seminarian, I saw some adds, two for tridentine missals ( I wonder what Google thinks of me, after all it reads my email and remembers my seraches) and one that linked to this page:
http://everystudent.com/forum/difference.html

SO...

"Is there a difference between being Catholic and being a Christian?"

The site this link goes to is a protestant evangelical evangelization site, which answers politely that it depends on the person and their well personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
Although I'm glad to know I'm not a pagan, I'll now do some investigating, sophistry, to show that Christians are merely a subset of Catholics.

1. Ask the second most omnipotent being on the net (wikipedia) what is a Christian?
"A Christian is a follower of Jesus of Nazareth, referred to as Christ."

2. Jesus of Nazareth, henceforth know as Christ is not a Christian
All Christians are a follower Christ
Christ is not a follower of Christ (because to follow without a leader, to follow oneself  is a semantic contradiction)
No Christs are Christian QED

3. Christ is Catholic
"Christ is the head of the body, the Church" Col 1:18
so the head must be a member of the body, so Christ is a member of the Church.
The Church must refer to the Catholic Church.
Since Christ is not Christian it can not refer to the Christian Church since it is the Church of all Christians.
Jesus  is not Russian, Greek, or Byzantine, so that leaves out the orthodox churches, seems they are not universal, catholic, enought to include Jesus.
So Christ is Catholic

4. Some Catholics are not Christians
Christ is Catholic
Christ is not Christian
Some Catholics are not Christians  (This is what the article admitts)

5.All Christians are Catholic
 All Christians would claim to belong to the same Chruch Christ does,
Christ belongs to the Catholic Church
Thus All Christians should claim to belong to the Catholic Church

6. Thus Christians are a subset of Catholics
Albeit a large subset, but a lot of them protest too much.

posted by: nictitator at 03:55 | link | comments |

Blogs

So this is my Blog.

I do not like blogs, at least the name, blog, sounds to trendy, too froofy. I also do not like the word podcast, sounds like some sort of process involved in fishing with aliens.
IMHO (click for definition) Names of computer technologies should obscure what is actually going on, but should convey a clever masculine intrigue. An example is BASH, which when expanded from its acronym is Bourne Again SHell, which still does not let the neophyte know what it is, (which insures job security), but it sounds like something manly, something Chuck Norris might use. Other favoriate computer names are: ash, vim, awk, apt, zip, rss, cvs, DOS, GIF, C++, PL1, (three letters ensures optimal confusion) ssh, ping, daemon, ASCII, EBDIC,  http, ajax, telnet, apache, dd, kill, man, and because I'm a sucker for recursive acronyms GNU and lame.

Lets look at the history of personal expression on the net.
First there were .plan (dot plan) files.
Predating the world wide web a .plan file was a file which was requested by the finger command (note the cool name).  They were plain text, and used to tell your current plans, and thoughts. But they did not keep past information or allow comments Next comes
Geocities, tripod, lycos, etc. personal websites.
In a sea of contrasting colors, blinking text, and animated gifs, people could finally express themselves and their cat in a way the whole world could see. If you could find the guest book link you could leave your comments.
Now we have blogs, podcasts, myspace, and all the other WEB 2.0 phenomenon.

So what should we call blogs so they do not sound so lame?
.plan2.0 ,Geocities TNG, quadpod?
My suggestion is:
IREMvHP :Interactive Random Exhobitionist Musings via the Hypertext Protocal
or IREM for short pronounced either (irem) or I-rem if you need to be trendy.

So this is the first post in my IREM

posted by: nictitator at 21:04 | link | comments (8) |