Friday, July 06, 2007
(12:00 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
Friday Afternoon Confessional: Vegan Insomnia
I confess that I continue to suffer from insomnia in any non-routine situation. I confess that The Weblog continues to receive occasional hits from the link to my commentary on a New Yorker cartoon encaptioned "Vegan Insomnia, from this site. I confess that I am functionally a vegetarian except when I eat out, as a result of a series of more or less arbitrary dietary decisions unrelated to a moral objection to eating meat.I confess that on Thursday I bit my lip so hard that the person I was eating lunch with said that it became immediately swollen. As a result, I bit the same spot again later in the meal. I confess that I sometimes discuss extremely trivial matters in the Confessional and the Hatred.
I confess that I have been offered an opportunity to give a lecture in the class I'm TAing, but I can't decide what topic would be best (there's no listing for the Trinity, my favorite theological topic). I confess that I would really like to get a chance to teach either History of Christian Thought or Systematic Theology at CTS; the latter seems like more of a longshot.
I confess that so far, Hildegard of Bingen is not very interesting to me. I confess that when I hear the term "Open Theism," I reach for my gun. I confess that I have an idea for an awesome combination of Whitehead with Zizek's analysis of brain science, and best of all, it's totally theological, since Whitehead is now an honorary church father, and the Zizek stuff is about free will. I confess that, more generally, I have a desire to do some work with Whitehead, but to never mention the existence of process theology. Sadly, though, any peer reviewer for a paper on Whitehead would be "process" and would try to force me to mention that stuff.
I confess that I take perverse pleasure in claiming to advocate the Ptolemaic model of the universe and in dismissing as mere "superstition" the idea that "the brain somehow 'houses' our consciousness." Once when someone followed up on some comments of mine along those lines, I said, "Whatever happened to the soul? And the pineal gland?" I confess that 90% of what I say depends on people not following up on it.
