tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49042425200020870712011-06-19T15:08:20.444-07:00C d chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04724779800081042035noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904242520002087071.post-65685552360030960712009-04-14T11:12:00.000-07:002009-04-14T11:37:14.943-07:00I decided to revive my blog, Textual-Edits, after a conversation I had with myself in a state of half-sleep last night. <br /><br />Blogging is a thank-less task. There are billions of blogs and that's liberating, but also intensely depressing. I revive Textual-Edits with a full awareness of the dreaded nothingness between a blog and the public.<br /><br />Therefore I would like to call Textual-Edits a column, not a blog. A column implies readership, and inclusion in the interest of a larger publication, even if neither actually exist. A blog rides alone in an ocean of uncertainty, a column is pushed forward by a tide or current in the waterway of written events.<br /><br />As a column, Textual-Edits has no dock or shore. But at least it is on a search for greater belonging with some publication of the future. For now it will simply be a "Column of the Internet".<br /><br />Textual-edits is hereby revived as a lost lonely "column" in search of place.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4904242520002087071-6568555236003096071?l=textual-edits.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>C d chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04724779800081042035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904242520002087071.post-69116965255220514722008-02-20T08:07:00.000-08:002008-02-20T08:18:09.903-08:00I: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080215151215.htm<br />????????????<br />(an article about people of faith rejecting nanotechnology on moral grounds)<br /><br />C: yeah, they're going to have a lot of say over it too<br />but...<br />how does God feel about really really small things<br />i know he liked children<br />and stones in the field<br />and grains of sand<br />and mustard seeds<br /><br />I: hahahah<br /><br />C: but those were just small<br />what about really really small things<br />chapter, verse on that?<br /><br />I: Yea, if thou hast faith even the size of a molecule, thou canst move very large hills, at least<br /><br />C: Thou shalt not make or take unto thine own a thing smaller than can be seen with thine eyes<br /><br />I: haha<br /><br />C: well, here's the thing though they say at a certain size properties of matter begin to change, so maybe faith is one of those properties<br />at a certain level the failth value of a particle of matter can actually reverse and act as anti-faith<br /><br />C: if thou has faith of a mustard seed, but no smaller than 3 microns, thou canst move small hills to mountains depending on the ratio of the size of faith you have in inverse proportion to the amount of landmass you wish to move<br /><br />I: I see. That makes sense. So nanotechnology is a direct assault on morality, then?<br /><br />C: yes, but only below a certain size level<br /><br />I: No wonder they won't have it in Kansas!<br /><br />C: at that threshhold faith begins to reverse, and you actually lose the ability to move earth, even with a shovel<br />huh? Kansas?<br /><br />I: I just imagine Kansas as a state full of obese white Christians gnawing at their fingernails and jumping everytime grandpa's ol' clock bangs out the hours. Jesus is coming! Did I do anything wrong today? I did not embrace nanotech, my lord, take me to heaven with you!<br />Thankfully, there are no mountains to be moved in KS!<br />Actually, shovels may soon be outlawed, as well<br /><br />C: hey now Kansas gave Obama his biggest win to date I believe. let's give them a 3 week pass at least<br /><br />I: Ha, okay, fair enough. Obama and Huckabee, right?<br /><br />C: Obama/Norris<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4904242520002087071-6911696525522051472?l=textual-edits.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>C d chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04724779800081042035noreply@blogger.com0