Tuesday, June 13, 2006
(7:48 AM) | Anonymous:
I confess to worrying about the length of my confessions and the fact that I now need to categorise them!
Weblog related confession:I confess to not having read The Weblog for a long time because I became tired of reading the words "Nancy" and "Agamben" when I had no intention of reading either of them or desiring to know what they had to say.
I confess to not having read the Weblog because I have no language skills and no likelihood of acquiring them any time soon.
I confess to not bothering with The Weblog for ages because my interests are theological and everyone here seems interested in theorists who are not overt theologians.
I confess that I probably would not have read the Weblog even if it had been stuffed full of theological material, but would have found another excuse.
I confess to being annoyed that Adam took me off of his blog roll even though I didn't post for ages.
I confess to realising that Adam didn't take me off of his blog roll, but I logged in with the wrong blogger account.
Anglican related confession:
I confess to desiring that Anglicans had some form of Magisterial guidance whilst at the same time despising whatever it would be that Anglicans would come up with to perform such a job.
I confess to considering that I quite like living in an Anglican theocracy, and considering that maybe I'd like to somehow defend such a perspective. I confess that I can't think of any better kind of government to live under.
Theological related confession:
I confess to a general irritation that I still think in terms of "conservatives" and "liberals" whilst having developed more than enough nuance to think beyond such terms.
I confess that I still have a very love/hate relationship with "conservatives" and a hate/hate one with "liberals".
I confess that I still consider "conservative" theologians to make better arguments than "liberal" ones, and I also confess that this winds me up.
I confess to hating that I have become the kind of theologian that I would have hated to become ten years ago.
I confess to figuring that fifteen year olds probably aren't the best models from which to decide whether this really matters.
I confess to finding books about sexuality and gender far more interesting than books about better distribution of the world's income.
I confess to being annoyed that I have a really bad memory, and I confess to being annoyed that I can't name all 7 agreed ecumenical councils with a brief summary of what was decided at each. I confess that I am more annoyed that I'd like to be able to name all 14 ecumenical councils, but never either bothered to learn them or heard a series of lectures about all of them.
I confess that I still think confessional theology is the best way to teach theology in both schools and universities. I confess that I consider a lot of confessional theology to be really bad.
Liberalism and religion related confession:
I confess to really hating to hear people speak of "multi-culturalism", "diversity" and "tolerance" because of the refusal to acknowledge that such a perspective is quite violent. I confess that despite objecting to tolerance, I have no better alternative. I confess to being supremely irritated about this, and scowling in a corner looking intolerant whenever anyone speaks of tolerance.
I confess that I have quite come to enjoy thinking that the best perspective from which to critique a perspective is from within a perspective, with the knowledge that such a perspective comes from outside the darned perspective.
Confessions pertaining to books
I confess to coveting books from Amazon.
I confess to writing lists of all of the books that I want to get hold of on little post-it notes and then losing them and having to start the whole thing over again, with the added annoyance that I know I'll have forgotten some of them.
I confess to failing to read as much as I'd like, even though I know that if I had more time, I wouldn't read.
Confessions about life in general
I confess to having finally given up thinking that life might somehow improve when I grow up.
I confess to attempting to extend my degree into another year because I have entirely given up any desire to do academic writing, and consider that putting it off is the best thing.
I confess to not confessing on a Friday and feeling bad about that because it's somewhat of an individualistic option. I confess to being annoyed that I have been shaped enough to know how to behave communally and yet I still fail!
I confess that I hate arguing with people who know less than I do. I confess that I hate arguing with people who know more than I do. I confess that I am bored with arguing with people who know about the same as I do.
I confess to adopting ideas that I've not really thought through because somebody else has, and I trust their judgement.
I confess that I have downloaded lots of music from Itunes, even though I hate their conspiracy to prevent ordinary MP3 players being able to play their music.
