Sunday Night Journal 1/14/2007

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Sunday Night Journal 1/14/2007

January 15, 2007 by Daniel Nichols

A Couple of Miscellaneous But Not Entirely Unrelated Items

Creary (as a Taiwanese professor of mine used to say) we need some more posts in here. I think Daniel and I are not entirely sure what this blog is about anymore.

–Maclin Horton

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on January 16, 2007 at 8:51 am | Reply Kitty

Well, one reason the late 60′s might have been so dark was the cloud from the 50′s and before hadn’t lifted. In honor of yesterday’s holiday, and because it is so apt for today, this link to Dr. King’s Vietnam address is enlightening. Seriously, it’s very important to avoid idolatry of the past. The “Golden Age” is a pagan myth, and a particularly pernicious one. The task is how to re-energize the good things from the past without their wicked baggage. Read the speech.
on January 16, 2007 at 10:47 am | Reply Maclin Horton

Kitty, your link doesn’t work. If you haven’t provided the correct one by later today I’ll see if I can find the speech at that site and fix it (don’t have time to do it right now).

I’m not sure if you’re suggesting that I’m engaged in “idolatry of the past” or not. I would take that as a pretty weird suggestion, but sometimes it can be surprising to hear the contrast between what I thought I said and what people think I said.
on January 16, 2007 at 7:56 pm | Reply Kitty

Sorry about the link. I’ll find the URL again later. Also, my comment wasn’t as carefully worded as I would have liked. I have never seen anything at your site to suggest you have an unreasonable and idolatrous view of the past. I am very sorry to have left that impression. (We’ve had an ice storm here in Austin, and my sons are going on their fifth big day indoors. Things are a bit, well, crazy around here.)
on January 16, 2007 at 9:59 pm | Reply Maclin Horton

This seems to be it. (I haven’t read it yet, though.)

Took me a second to figure out what was different in your URL–you have “.html” while the file is actually “.htm”.

Glad you don’t think I’m an idolater. :-) I agree that the myth of a perfect or near-perfect past is just that.
on January 17, 2007 at 8:55 am | Reply Robert Gotcher

Maclin says, “I agree that the myth of a perfect or near-perfect past is just that.”

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on January 17, 2007 at 10:01 am | Reply Maclin Horton

Post-Eden, of course. Does that help?