I think the problem that I have with committing my life to a “ministry” of sorts like working on a brand / label like "Fair Trade" is the level of indirect agency associated with it. I think that we are to be more directly involved with the objects of our love. I could be incorrect about this since the Samaritan himself eventually leaves the robbed and beaten neighbor in the hands of the inn keeper, funding his care and continuing about his business. I just think perhaps there should not be an organization between us and our neighbor; that something like exploiting a brand or marketing or even a global financial system puts too much indirection between us and our neighbor, or is too similar to a passive charity model. Then again, people cure diseases and invent teaching methods and pass laws that set people free in very real ways.
How long am I going to let philosophical distinctions stop me from loving my neighbor at all?
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Sunday, November 1, 2009
I thought I had figured out what the soul was...
...but then I fell asleep. The thing I thought the soul was went away until I dreamed, or until I woke up. If you have a soul, do you know it?
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Post the first...
My life was full of frenetic activity before I went through The Door. It hasn't really slowed down on the Other Side...
Just to review, so that I don't forget:
February 2006, Graduate from Bethel University in Computer Science. Start first full-time C. S. job with web start up company with cool Spinal Tap related name immediately after.
June 2006, finish last two classes at Bethel, and start new job with The First Video Game Company, working on A.I. for an absurdly controversial game based on the 2nd Battle of Fallujah in 2003.
March 2007, Our Daughter is born.
February 2008, go through The Door: leave Minnesota for the second time for Raleigh, North Carolina.
April 2009, The Japanese Publisher With No Shame drops the game.
July 2009, interview in New York City with The Second Video Game Company.
August 2009, visit Minnesota; receive, haggle over and accept offer from The Second Video Game Company; move to corporate housing in New York City's East Side; start job.
October 2009, move in to apartment in the Upper West Side; decide to start blog.
I just want to be able to remember everything that has happened to us and how we feel about it at the time. I hope to share that with any who are interested, but are too far away now to have over for dinner. The view from this side isn't something I want to forget or keep to myself.
Just to review, so that I don't forget:
February 2006, Graduate from Bethel University in Computer Science. Start first full-time C. S. job with web start up company with cool Spinal Tap related name immediately after.
June 2006, finish last two classes at Bethel, and start new job with The First Video Game Company, working on A.I. for an absurdly controversial game based on the 2nd Battle of Fallujah in 2003.
March 2007, Our Daughter is born.
February 2008, go through The Door: leave Minnesota for the second time for Raleigh, North Carolina.
April 2009, The Japanese Publisher With No Shame drops the game.
July 2009, interview in New York City with The Second Video Game Company.
August 2009, visit Minnesota; receive, haggle over and accept offer from The Second Video Game Company; move to corporate housing in New York City's East Side; start job.
October 2009, move in to apartment in the Upper West Side; decide to start blog.
I just want to be able to remember everything that has happened to us and how we feel about it at the time. I hope to share that with any who are interested, but are too far away now to have over for dinner. The view from this side isn't something I want to forget or keep to myself.
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