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...stuck in a linear rut, imposing patterns of one-way flow on a universe that consistently moves in circles

28 February 2008   Jeff Gill

—John Michael Greer

This has stirred up my thinking about a bunch of different things that I hope to write about soon, but for now this will serve as a good reminder for me.


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Grids

13 February 2008   Jeff Gill

In which I neatly jump from graphic designers’ grid systems to the internet’s most famous archdruid to the historian Arnold Toynbee to a church in North Carolina to the bible to you.

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Image borrowed from Mark Boulton’s grid systems design tutorial

Graphic designers use grids…

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Ah, Spring. The sun is shining. The trees are blossoming. The druids are writing blogs.

4 April 2007   Jeff Gill

I don’t usually start the day wondering what The Grand Archdruid of the Ancient Order of Druids in America has to say, but you never know where the life (or the internet) will take you. A blog I read linked to this article about peak oil (basically, a so far accurate theory for predicting the rise, peak and decline of production in any oil field. This theory predicts that oil production for the whole earth will peak this decade.) The entire article was interesting, but this is what really caught my eye:

…human thought is mythic by its very nature. We think with myths, as inevitably as we see with eyes and eat with mouths. Thus any attempt to bring about significant social change must start from the mythic level, with an emotionally powerful and symbolically meaningful narrative, or it will go nowhere.

In other words, what really matters to people, what really creates change is

You cannot bring someone into the family of God through a rational argument. They must come through Jesus, a person who told stories that touched people’s hearts. He showed love in ways that were meaningful to first century people — healing, feeding, casting out demons. He made people think, oh yes, but even more he aroused great feeling in people’s hearts.

The Grand Archdruid’s article, The Failure of Reason is longish, but excellent reading. Go check it out.


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