Had an email convo with a friend today. He asked me what mountains I am willing to die on at Westwinds. My response was lengthy but I can also boil it down to these things:
We fight for the Jesus stuff
We fight for the church worldwide
We fight for invention
We fight for non-complacency
We fight to dream
We fight to heal
We fight to participate with our people and our city
We fight for imagination
We fight to be permission giving
We fight for real, no BS community
We fight for accountability
We fight for Jackson
We fight for our people
We fight for the idea of what we can be
We fight for non- religiosity
We fight to create
We fight for authenticity (the real meaning of ethos)
We fight for our individuality
We fight for justice
We fight for the freedom to listen to God’s leading and try new things
We fight to hold it all loosely
We fight to not fight
We fight for the idea and the ideal of Westwinds.
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
What Do We Fight For?
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
LOST Philosophy
Tomorrow is the night. A new episode of LOST.
I have a few questions and observations going into it . . .
A couple of weeks ago we learned that one of the freighter-four newcomers to the island is named Charlotte Staples Lewis. I’m sure for most of us there was an immediate connection to C.S. Lewis (Clive Staple Lewis). I chuckled to myself thinking, “that is very intentional.”
The other obvious connection for me is in the character John Locke. The famous philosopher John Locke proposed the epistemological thesis Tabula Rasa (translated: scraped tablet/clean slate; btw Tabula Rasa is also a computer video game). Locke is also known as the philosopher of freedom. Tabula Rasa was also the name of one of the first season episodes.
In college, I was very interested in my study of Jean-Jacques Rousseau—the father of Romanticism. It was my favorite part of Ed Psych. Naturally, my mind went there right away when introduced to the character of Danielle Rousseau.
A latecomer to LOST (I watched 70+ hours of LOST since January 3rd to get up to speed), I realize many of you may already know the philosopher/thinker-character name association. (Although even if you were dedicated the last three years, CS Lewis is a new revelation to all of us).
I am pretty excited to find this all out. It has put me on a new path of discovery and a new obsession for tracking down LOST clues and trivia.
Thinking that these two were not the only people with namesakes, I did a little research. Yes, my discovery is not a new one. Now that I have read about it, I encourage you to do some Google searches and read other people’s homework on the philosopher/thinker connection.
Check out these other character : : : philosopher/thinker connections.
Desmond Hume : : : David Hume
Juliet Burke : : : Edmund Burke (fun fact—Juliet’s ex-husband is named Edmund)
Mikhail Bakunin : : : Mikhail Bakunin
Daniel Faraday : : : Michael Faraday
Richard Alpert : : : Dr. Richard Alpert (Ram Dass)
Can you think of any others?
