Tag Archives: Jesus

Re: Gnosticism, the human situation

Q: Use the Gnos­tic texts as provo­ca­tion and Philip K. Dick as inspi­ra­tion in explor­ing your view of the human sit­u­a­tion. What is the truth of our con­di­tion? (from Camille Roy) Our con­di­tion is a per­pet­ual quest for an impos­si­ble truth: the first-hand under­stand­ing of the universe’s total­ity and ori­gin, and to make sense of …

02.09.2012 – 3:26:PM | By Matt Carney | Posted in Blog | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)

9. Host Family (8.22.2008)

First expe­ri­ence meet­ing my Indian host fam­ily. Krishna’s birth­day cel­e­bra­tion ensues, plus inter­est­ing, clumsy cul­tural inter­ac­tion. I make a fool of myself by fail­ing to ring Krishna’s bell properly.

12.10.2008 – 10:19:AM | By Matt Carney | Posted in India | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

20. Fury (11.12.2008)

While con­sumed with research for my ethno­graphic paper (Which is online. And posted under “ethnog­ra­phy.”), I didn’t have much time for reflec­tion in my jour­nal. How­ever, after the state elec­tions, I was enraged by the pass­ing of Propo­si­tion 8. Though I con­tem­plated buy­ing a rifle and learn­ing to use it, or threat­en­ing some sen­a­tors and oth­ers, I wrote this thought­ful rant instead.

12.10.2008 – 10:03:AM | By Matt Carney | Posted in India | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (0)