Coinage

After last night's Milton class, I felt inspired to coin a new phrase- "Necrohippic Sadism". This term names a disorder characterized by obsession with a certain idea, and the inability to approach a new idea, or even to approach the same idea from a different perspective. The result is an endless solipsistic conversation which continually attempts to say the same thing over and over.

Mathematical Philosophy

So...I was thinking as I was talking to Whiskey the other day, there must be some place where mathematics, philosophy, and theology intersect. I feel that someone with the right type of brain could some fascinating work with the nature of infinity. Now my own abilities here are limited, but their have some moments whereI've been able to use math in a philsophical context, i.e. one infinity = any number of infinities. This is useful in establishing the worth of the individual, and in getting out of those ethical scrapes that involve killing one to save another, or many others. But i know there must be thousands of ways math applies to God andHis nature. For those of you with math-oriented brains, have you ever had a Eureka moment, when you saw some truth in math and some truth in philosophy overlap or support each other. Let me know...

Memed

So before I begin my seven by seven, what exactly is a "meme?" Is it some sort of plural for memo? Is it named that because its all about me? Squared? Is it the operatic warm up you give your throat before you answer a meme? These questions need answers...

Also, sometimes I needed to cheat, and squeeze extra things in...consider it following the "spirit" if not the "letter" of the meme.

7 things to do before I die

1) Live!
2)Travel to the sites of the seven wonders of the ancient world
3) Found a dynasty...er...start a family
4) Create something (i.e. a poem) that people (other than my friends and family) think is beautiful, and universal
5) Act in a movie
6) Learn how to navigate a boat by the stars
7) Four words: running of the bulls

7 things I cannot do

1) Keep my mouth shut
2) Pass up an adventure
3) Wear glasses (things near my eyes bug me)
4) Hold a grudge
5) Math
6) Kiss a girl who smokes (tried it once...felt like I was kissing death)
7) Remember peoples names the first time they tell me

7 things I like about my other half

1) She's mysterious ( I hardly know anything about her)
2) She plays hard to get
3) She's not afraid to have "alone" time
4) She doesn't mind long distance relationships (Forget space, she doesn't even mind being separated by time)
5) She's patient
6) She's better than I imagine her to be
7) She's got great taste!

7 things I say

1) "How's life?"
2) "Can I get a ride?"
3) "man" as a suffix to the last word in any given response to a male
4) Too often, whatever comes into my head
5) "I don't know" said in a sigh, somewhere near my wit's end
6) compliments
7) "see ya" "later"or "take care"

7 books I love

1) The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
2) OED
3) David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
4) Manalive by G. K. Chesterton
5) Crime and Punishment by Feodor Dostoevsky
6) TLOTR by J.R.R. Tolien
7) The Book of Kells (I'm just happy that it exists)

7 movies I love

1) The Princess Bride
2) Goonies
3) Krull
4) Glory
5) The Quiet Man
6) Singing in the Rain/ American in Paris
7) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

7 people to meme

I think everyone's memed already. How about "7 people I would like to send this meme to"

1) My other half
2) The Pope
3) Mark Steyn
4) Tony
5) Dr. Esolen
6) Richard Wilbur
7) God ( Just picture it)