Hmm, Ry tagged me in a meme. Joyous.
1. One movie that made you laugh:
Dodgeball
2. One movie that made you cry:
Return of the King
3. One movie you loved when you were a child:
Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
4. One movie you’ve seen more than once:
Wayne’s World
5. One movie you loved, but were embarrassed to admit it:
None. I have no shame.
6. One movie you hated:
Battlefield Earth
7. One movie that scared you:
Pan’s Labyrinth
8. One movie that bored you:
The Painted Veil
9. One movie that made you happy:
I Heart Huckabees
10. One movie that made you miserable:
Hotel Rwanda
11. One movie you weren’t brave enough to see:
I am utterly disinterested in scary movies.
12. One movie character you’ve fallen in love with:
Arwen Evenstar (Lord of the Rings trilogy)
13. The last movie you saw:
Stranger Than Fiction
14. The next movie you hope to see:
The Dark Knight
Now I’m supposed to do that “tag 5 other people to play along” thing. I don’t play well with others. Play along if you want to.
As promised, here’s the question and answer session which followed my thesis reading. Various students and faculty members asked me a variety of questions.
Thesis Question & Answer
Feel free to chime in with any of your questions.
Next up should be a chronicling of my post-grad trip to NYC.
If anyone is still reading this blog, I plan on beginning to write on here again. Expect posts related to my just-completed B.A. Honours thesis called A Restless Faith Seeking Reason to kick off catch-up-with-Matt’s-life mode here. Let’s begin with this audio file of my thesis presentation.
The full and very descriptive title of my thesis is A Restless Faith Seeking Reason: An exploration of themes in postmodern philosophy as they pertain to understanding the relationship between faith and reason. I drew largely on the work of John D. Caputo, Merold Westphal and James K.A. Smith to show that philosophical postmodernism is far from the bogeyman that many make it out to be. Indeed, it says many things that we need to take to heart.
Below is a link to the audio file of the presentation of my thesis to the SSU community on April 17. I haven’t listened through the whole thing, but I think that I managed to clean it up decently. The introduction is done by my supervisor and all-around-great-guy Jeremy Wiebe (no relation), and my presentation proper begins at the 6:40 mark.
Thesis Reading of A Restless Faith Seeking Reason
I’m not going to post the pdf of the thesis itself here, but if anyone is interested, you may find my email address on my about page and ask me nicely that way. Also, if interest is expressed, I might throw up the QnA session which followed the reading.
So, here I am, packing up my home of the last 1.5 years, getting ready to hit the road. In the past two weeks, I’ve presented a graduating B.A. Honours Thesis, graduated from SSU with a B.A. (Honours, First Class), went on a 5 day trip down to NYC, and now I’m packing up to leave St. Stephen and head back “home” to Winnipeg.
The moving truck comes at 8am Wednesday morning.
Expect regular posting to resume after the move.
I’m on the verge of something, I know not what it is. I know that I’m leaving some thing behind: friends, community, my days as a B.A. student, my apartment, the thesis I slaved over this year…
And yet none of these things are clean breaks. Bits and pieces of all of these things will come with me as I go, meaning that this is not so much leaving as reconfiguring old pieces into a new puzzle.
I have so much to say that I can’t say any of it, which is why this blog has been silent in the wake of the end of school. It might take me a little while to warm up again.
Or maybe I’m just on the verge.
There’s an interesting new site out there called Dear God which is a simple collection of (often anonymous) submitted prayers. It’s kind of like Post Secret, but more healthy (in my opinion). Here’s the blurb:
Dear God is a global project for people around the world to share their innermost hopes - and fears - through prayer.
It doesn’t matter what your version of God is…Jesus, Allah, Buddha or simply a spiritual universal energy… praying to a higher power soothes and heals. It’s scientifically proven that people who pray are healthier, happier and more resilient.
Share your prayers here and help us create hope one prayer at a time. Simply send us your personal letter to your God and/or a picture that sums up your message visually. (Dear God will source a picture if you don’t have one).
I’m normally not a huge fan of vague notions of religion such as this, but at the same time I’m fascinated by the universal hopes and fears that are exposed when people turn to God in prayer. What do you think?
