The Soundness of My Day

More and more, the soundness of my day- along with my emotional and mental stability- is related to the flow of information. The old adage, “Garbage in, garbage out.” is an allusion to this. It’s also what the writer is referring to; “As a man thinks, so is he.”

The types and amounts of info i receive are exhausting in any given day. (more on sabbath some other time?) They include the initial thoughts of the day, the office readings, email, advertisements on the way to work, radio on the way to work, txts, twitters, the music i choose, the interactions with coworkers, the language lessons, the development stuff i listen to, phone calls with friends, things that need to be done in the yard, the movie from last night, the neighbor having a garage sale, the “gas crisis”, the sites i visit for news on sports, world events, local stuff, weird stuff, stocks, blogs,  conversations of people in the offices next to ours, the ups man, the fedex man, the dhl man, the mail lady, did the tigers lose again last night? yes. 71-82 on the season. Fannie Mae is being restructed and up 8% on that news. Most of Nashville has gas again this morning. The clothing brand theory (all lowercase) was actually created by Elie Tahari… which is why the two lines are so similar. And it turns out Bunny was on vacation after all. 

Some of this information i seek out, some of it just comes to me without asking. The phrase, “A world of pain.” comes to mind- just because it’s been bouncing around in my head since yesterday, not because it fits. All of this gets jumbled and smashed together. The messages, subtle and overt, are so varied its unbelievable. Even mixed messages coming from similar places. For creatives, it’s really no different. You aggregate tons of info- purposefully channeling, sorting and foldering helpful stuff and rerouting distractions to spam. Discipline is the concrete for creativity. Hmm, isn’t there a bible verse about taking every thought captive? Too bad the ancient scriptures aren’t relevant today…

Our brains are master aggregators- taking in all kinds of information through the day. Through feeds and readers, to use the web analogy, we are connected to so much. I don’t think that’s a bad thing. I think the world at our fingertips can be, in fact, a really good thing. It comes down to filters. A chosen mind set each and every day. What messages will i accept and believe today? Is there a lie in my soup? Is there truth hidden in what i’ve read or thought this morning? The price of connectivity is time spent prayerfully sorting it all out. Can’t let it just pass through my mind unchecked. I need to have sniffer dogs at the borders. Antcipate the onslaught of info- read over the horizon.

Filed under: Blogging, Integral, Interdisciplinary Action, Theology , every thought captive, mh-53 pave low, oth, thought filters

Just keeps going…

Most of my writing energy has been used up in these little stories i’ve been writing. Finished yet another the other day and haven’t had any bloggy posts in that time. Creative stuff is all used up- i don’t think i’ve ever completed two seperate projects so close together.

Filed under: Blogging, Interdisciplinary Action, Recommends, Seemingly Random , father brown, father dowling, felix letier, fl., gk chesterton, james bond, solitaire, st. petersburg, wikipedia

The Mendoza Principle.

In the Simpsons‘ universe, there is a character by the name of Ranier Wolfcastle. He is the governor of the state the Simpsons live in and is also an action-movie star. In nearly every movie clip we see of Wolfcastle as action hero, McBain; his arch-nemesis has perpetrated a nefarious something-or-other and Wolfcastle/McBain is left alone, standing on a rubble of sorrow. He shakes his fist at the sky and shouts, “Mendoza!!!”, the name of his arch-nemesis.

Filed under: Blogging, Interdisciplinary Action, Psychology , expresso, Howard Schultz, McBain, Mendoza, Simpsons, Starbucks, Wolfcastle

Direct Link Learning, or, “Demand more from the people who run your life.”

I was in the kitchen/lunch area with two co-workers. No. Not you- someone else. Topic A (coffee origins or something) came up and one co-worker said to the other, “Just google it- you’ll find out everything you need to know about it.” I was surprised that this tech-savvy individual would recommend such a random shotgun method of research and I asked, “Do you still google stuff or do you just go straight to Wikipedia?”

Filed under: Blogging, Interdisciplinary Action, Seemingly Random , coffee origins, direct link research, Google, google maps, google tools, keith langlois, kmax, krista jahnke, robert goulet, searhc engines, smart church websites, smartsites, too many tags, user-generated content, web 2.0, wikpedia

Certitude, which is a word for saying out loud when one means something specific.

I read something today… to sum up the striking part for me: “We seek out certitude(s) in life and when we hear the gospel we project certitude into it. Really, the gospel is an invitation to fidelity- and certitude is not in the program.”

Huh.

That makes one think.

I mean, i hear that all the time- its not about me, its about Jesus, or others… all so vague and so i just slip back into my search for certitude.

What a great word: certitude.

I just like typing it.

Filed under: Blogging, Philosophical-Possibly Theological, Theology , certitude, fidelity, virtual abbess

…but go, and learn what this means: AFOL.

I don’t usually openly talk about lego here. But came across this post on ‘netiquette and thought it was relevant outside the world of colored bricks… mostly. Worth a read, regardless.

Filed under: Blogging, Interdisciplinary Action, Lego, Recommends, Seemingly Random

a word from the editor.

hi. here at metamoses content, clarity and cleanliness are highest priorities. we hope you’ve enjoyed the outlandish articles and pointless theories presented here. we would like to apologise at this time for our complete lack of understanding concerning the difference between emerging and emergent and capital E and lowercase e in each scenario. we don’t know what the difference is and use these terms pretty interchangeably thruout our posts. we just like emergence theory as applied to Church and think it serves as a lovely and very useful metaphor. regarding the emerging/emergent differentiation, we offer these words: whiskey tango foxtrot. can someone please clear this up for us? we dont feel like doing research we suspect will not be worth our time. seriously- where should we start?

Filed under: Blogging, Emergent Church

Blogroll Updated.

Formerly thought of as a man’s pastime, blogging is now a co-ed sport.

“Can’t be!”, you say? Well, its true.

I have seen women smoking, too, if you can believe it. With my own eyes!- but the picture wouldn’t link properly. This interweb will be the death of the our gender codes.

Please welcome two women to the blogroll who (to my knowledge) do not smoke. Bea and my wife, Cara.

Filed under: Blogging, Blogroll, Recommends , interweb