Godgrl Gomer
12-29-2007, 09:01 AM
I just finished reading THR3E & I was hooked from the first moment I began to read. I had an inkling at the very start of the book as to the 'reality' of Slater but I must admit, DekKer had me wondering and reassessing my instincts. I suspected Samantha early on too...but I was focused primarily on Slater.
Very Fight Clubesque:cool:
Ohh boy, this book is an English Professors DREAM!
I love it!
And DekKer even mentions Decartes! ;)
I certainly wonder how my Career would have eventuated had I found this book in 2000. You see, I turned down an offer for a PhD in English Literature. My specialities were/ are Psychoanalytical Theory and Post Modernism....aka Descartes.
I turned it down because my new found Christian faith was rubbing the Faculty the wrong way. I refused to give into their little games and join their club of 'big intellectual thinkers' analysing and theorising over a writer's art, specifying what they truly meant even when the author tells them they are dead wrong.....or have been dead for so long that no one can truly know what they were ultimately expressing......hmmm....I think I will step down from my soap box now.
The thing is, I was told, were I to take up the PhD, I would have to write on Existentialism....and in favour of it. I wonder if they didnt really want me there.:rolleyes: ;)
Besides, God asked me...."what do you want to teach, Joan? World's wisdom - Foolishness, or the Truth"?
So I guess then that had I come across THR3E, I would have still told them to shove....errrrr.....that I respectfully decline their gracious offer for I have been handed a far grander proposition.
Anyway.....enough about me...back to THR3E!
The Good. The what I would not. I.
Brilliant!
I think, therfore I am..... Smash that saying all ya want, but I have to tell you, thinking like this, this phrase (even though I didnt know it till I was older) saved my life.
Stay with me here....
Have you ever paused and realised that you ....who you are...is inside your body looking out? That YOU are driving your body....that you cannot see yourself except from the peep holes in what you term, your head....that thoughts are always being formed, everything is in relation to you....that you are ALIVE and that you exist apart from your body....that your physical body is simply a mode of transportation....
Perhaps I have thought about this far more than others because I have had to disassosiate myself from my surroundings.
Maybe I am crazy....;)
But having acknowledged this has helped me understand how our bodies are mortal and the soul is eternal....that all of this...all of what we are here on earth to do - Love God and spread the Gospel to others so that they too may be saved - all the more real and relevant and ultimately...eternal.
What are your thoughts?
Slater-Joan-Samantha
Very Fight Clubesque:cool:
Ohh boy, this book is an English Professors DREAM!
I love it!
And DekKer even mentions Decartes! ;)
I certainly wonder how my Career would have eventuated had I found this book in 2000. You see, I turned down an offer for a PhD in English Literature. My specialities were/ are Psychoanalytical Theory and Post Modernism....aka Descartes.
I turned it down because my new found Christian faith was rubbing the Faculty the wrong way. I refused to give into their little games and join their club of 'big intellectual thinkers' analysing and theorising over a writer's art, specifying what they truly meant even when the author tells them they are dead wrong.....or have been dead for so long that no one can truly know what they were ultimately expressing......hmmm....I think I will step down from my soap box now.
The thing is, I was told, were I to take up the PhD, I would have to write on Existentialism....and in favour of it. I wonder if they didnt really want me there.:rolleyes: ;)
Besides, God asked me...."what do you want to teach, Joan? World's wisdom - Foolishness, or the Truth"?
So I guess then that had I come across THR3E, I would have still told them to shove....errrrr.....that I respectfully decline their gracious offer for I have been handed a far grander proposition.
Anyway.....enough about me...back to THR3E!
The Good. The what I would not. I.
Brilliant!
I think, therfore I am..... Smash that saying all ya want, but I have to tell you, thinking like this, this phrase (even though I didnt know it till I was older) saved my life.
Stay with me here....
Have you ever paused and realised that you ....who you are...is inside your body looking out? That YOU are driving your body....that you cannot see yourself except from the peep holes in what you term, your head....that thoughts are always being formed, everything is in relation to you....that you are ALIVE and that you exist apart from your body....that your physical body is simply a mode of transportation....
Perhaps I have thought about this far more than others because I have had to disassosiate myself from my surroundings.
Maybe I am crazy....;)
But having acknowledged this has helped me understand how our bodies are mortal and the soul is eternal....that all of this...all of what we are here on earth to do - Love God and spread the Gospel to others so that they too may be saved - all the more real and relevant and ultimately...eternal.
What are your thoughts?
Slater-Joan-Samantha