| So I came back from Taiwan food to Viet Ai, then Tastee Subs on Sunday night. Then... dining hall food for lunch on Monday and I seemed to have lost my appetite for the next day. My, my slow descent, into alcoholism. The great thing about being jet-lagged is that I'm awake for my morning classes. Jen Wang says that she gets hallucinations whenever she sleeps in my bed and that I should clean it. I think she's in a lucid dream-like state. I should move my bed to the floor. I slept on a piece of plywood for a week, and now my bed is too soft. I have an amazing playlist:
http://eden.rutgers.edu/~joshwang/playlist.html |
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| But you still wear a cross,
And you think you're gonna get in. Modern American pop is so full of garbage. It's not like they listen to neo-classical. Or anything musical. Kenneth: i keep forgetting that people don't really read or listen to good music
but do courses on "business management"
or "business policy" (as i overhead yesterday)
and that humanities are shrinking, and will soon be the province (once again) of the elite |
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| From Tumblr. Instead of going to class, this is what I have learned. [Karl] Barth believed that “liberal theology” (understood as emphasizing personal experience and societal development) minimized Scripture, reducing it to a mere textbook of metaphysics while sanctioning deification of human culture. Just read that sentence. And then read it again. Now… think. And I wasn’t even reading about Barth either. Goodness. Now for the fun stuff. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution without personal confession. Here men still remembered that grace costs, that grace means following Christ. Here they left all they had for Christ’s sake, and endeavoured daily to practise his rigorous commands. Thus monasticism became a living protest against the secularization of Christianity and the cheapening of grace. And so we get the paradoxical result that monasticism, whose mission was to perserve in the Church of Rome the primitive Christian realization of the costliness of grace, afforded conclusive justification for the secularization of the Church. But God shattered all his [Luther] hopes. […] Monasticism had transformed the humble work of discipleship into the meritorious activity of the saints, and the self-renunciation of discipleship into the flagrant spiritual self-assertion of the “religious.” That was awesome. |
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| If people love Tim Be Told because it's local and grass-roots and whatnot, people should love Danielson. Indie Christian worship. One of his albums was his senior thesis for Rutgers too. "Did I Step On Your Trumpet" |
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| Jen Wang visited yesterday. I was very happy. :) |
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