Don’t get Lost.
Happy Post-Season Premiere Day. Unprecedented story from last night.
The first hour of the final season of ABC’s “Lost” has leaked online, and the reaction is not what industry insiders expected.Though preview content for heavily serialized dramas such as “Lost” is typically frantically consumed online, the sixth season of the ABC hit has managed to build to such an epic level of anticipation that many fans are doing the unthinkable: refusing to watch the leaks.
Via lostpedia.
File Under: Promise this wont become a Lost blog.
Frightened? You should be.
New music video from Frightened Rabbit. Rumor has it the new record should be out in March. Woot.
Via @dmcwatters.
On the purposelessness of architecture.
From an address by Ravi Zacharias:
I remember lecturing at Ohio State University, one of the largest universities in this country. I was minutes away from beginning my lecture, and my host was driving me past a new building called the Wexner Center for the Performing Arts.
He said, “This is America’s first postmodern building.”
I was startled for a moment and I said, “What is a postmodern building?”
He said, “Well, the architect said that he designed this building with no design in mind. When the architect was asked, ‘Why?’ he said, ‘If life itself is capricious, why should our buildings have any design and any meaning?’ So he has pillars that have no purpose. He has stairways that go nowhere. He has a senseless building built and somebody has paid for it.”
I said, “So his argument was that if life has no purpose and design, why should the building have any design?”
He said, “That is correct.”
I said, “Did he do the same with the foundation?”
All of a sudden there was silence.
You see, you and I can fool with the infrastructure as much as we would like, but we dare not fool with the foundation because it will call our bluff in a hurry.
Lifted directly from JT.
Fair warning.
File Under: I think the Island is not only a dream, but the dream of someone having a dream, in a dream. In Purgatory. But Dog Purgatory. Hence, Vincent.
Martin Twitter King.
Vanity Fair wonders what it would be like if Dr. King had Twitter way back when.
See the full article here.
Via @nataliedelconte.
10 theses from another Martin Luther.
File Under: Love, justice, forgiveness. Word.
The woman-anointer.
What [the woman who anointed Jesus in Mark 14] has done is going to be told in remembrance of her wherever the Gospel is preached in the whole world, and yet she is unnamed. This is more than “somewhat in tension with the point of the saying.” Commentators regularly notice the problem while offering no solution.
The solution to this anomaly in Mark’s text (reproduced also by Matthew) is Theissen’s category of “protective anonymity”. At the time when this tradition took shape in this form in the early Jerusalem church, this woman would have been in danger were she identified as having been complicit in Jesus’ politically subversive claim to messianic kingship. Her danger was even greater than that of the man who attacked the servant of the high priest [who is another an example of "protective anonymity"], for it was she who had anointed Jesus as Messiah.
[While many scholars would argue] Mark’s narrative “goes on to interpret the festal gesture in terms of death and burial rather than of messianic commissioning….” What happens in the story is that Jesus recognizes the messianic significance of the anointing but interprets it according to his own understanding of his messianic vocation as entailing to suffering and death. Just as readers of Mark know that Jesus’ riding into Jerusalem on a colt does not signify messianic triumph of the generally expected kind but constitutes a journey to his death, so the messianic anointing by the woman is redirected by Jesus toward his burial, coherently with the characteristically Markan (though not, of course, only Markan) connection between messiahship and the cross.
–Richard Bauckham, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses
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