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stephanie
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3 months ago
in Twitter Church on Vertizontal
I have a couple of thoughts on this.
Twitting your "religious experience" seems less like experiencing anything and more like just OBSERVING a possible experience....
Maybe that should be the gauge for tech stuff in church - if it makes you more engaged, more present, more incarnate it is good. If it makes you more transcendent, outside looking in, it holds the danger that technology always presents, the Walker-Percy-Lost-In-The-Cosmos danger of not living inside your life but watching it lived (like the fighter pilot bombing Iraq who came back to report "That was so realistic!")
Twitting your "religious experience" seems less like experiencing anything and more like just OBSERVING a possible experience....
Maybe that should be the gauge for tech stuff in church - if it makes you more engaged, more present, more incarnate it is good. If it makes you more transcendent, outside looking in, it holds the danger that technology always presents, the Walker-Percy-Lost-In-The-Cosmos danger of not living inside your life but watching it lived (like the fighter pilot bombing Iraq who came back to report "That was so realistic!")
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shameonyoko
And what is sitting and listening to a sermon and then going home like?
6 months ago
in 2008 on Gossip is the New Pornography
I know. I've been trying not to be too snotty about, say, Sufjan's xmas album. I was like "I don't want to play that this year, it's so two years ago" but disliking music just because it's ubiquitous is probably the ultimate musical snobbery wouldn't you say? I'm trying to recover. Air Supply's "White Christmas" is helping.
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chrisburlingame
Ha! That's a great start!
Who knows, though, Sufjan's Christmas album might be pretty good. ;-)
Who knows, though, Sufjan's Christmas album might be pretty good. ;-)
6 months ago
in 2008 on Gossip is the New Pornography
I love this post! I'm a recovering music snob who realized I have to embrace my love of Britney, etc. I love your list of best songs and I love how you said 'My favorite musical moments are when you someone says 'I actually really like that song' and the only possible response is 'so do i.'" Thanks for putting that into words!
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chrisburlingame
Thanks sooooooo much! It's funny, when I first started going to shows, I really thought I had to listen to the "right" bands and such but I found so many of them boring or pretentious. Plus, music snobs are rarely fun to be around at parties.
