While growing up Presbyterian, I always felt a bit ripped-off. It's probably one of the lamest branches of Protestantism. Your post reminds me of this fact.
More importantly, your post reminds me of a sunny late-1980s lunchtime during which you and I spent kicking dirt on one of the many baseball diamonds in the park beside the high school. You were telling me about an "LA Law" episode you had seen the previous night, where a guy, engaged to a Jew, was considering converting to Judaism. He asks his Lawyer, "What's it like, to be a Jew?" It was something about the _delivery_ of the line that totally cracked you up, and the fact that it cracked you up in turn cracked me up, too. How did the Lawyer respond? I can't remember, but it probably wouldn't have been as heavy as Rushkoff. You start ranting about the Talmud on "LA Law", and people gonna change the channel to "Night Court."
Oh yeah, the whole "cold is merely an absence of heat" analogy [I guess the Physics degree wasn't a total waste of time] totally influenced the way I grew to think about evil, or rather the absence of good. Further direct application of this thought allowed "God is energy" to spin in my mind for years...
Good Friday? Hell, it's a _Great_ Friday!
More importantly, your post reminds me of a sunny late-1980s lunchtime during which you and I spent kicking dirt on one of the many baseball diamonds in the park beside the high school. You were telling me about an "LA Law" episode you had seen the previous night, where a guy, engaged to a Jew, was considering converting to Judaism. He asks his Lawyer, "What's it like, to be a Jew?" It was something about the _delivery_ of the line that totally cracked you up, and the fact that it cracked you up in turn cracked me up, too. How did the Lawyer respond? I can't remember, but it probably wouldn't have been as heavy as Rushkoff. You start ranting about the Talmud on "LA Law", and people gonna change the channel to "Night Court."
Oh yeah, the whole "cold is merely an absence of heat" analogy [I guess the Physics degree wasn't a total waste of time] totally influenced the way I grew to think about evil, or rather the absence of good. Further direct application of this thought allowed "God is energy" to spin in my mind for years...