Territorial Bloggings

A Cogent Mélange of Lutheran & Pop-Culture Punditry
March 10, 2008

History vs. Nostalgia

Posted by : ghp
Filed under : general

In the interest of having a non-AI posting, here are some not-quite-random musings based on something that occurred to me recently…
In the course of cleaning my office area in a sub-basement of the palatial Schloß T.B., I realized that I’ve got a whole bunch of stuff. One might even say, you know, crap. And it [...]


December 21, 2007

Orders of magnitude

Posted by : ghp
Filed under : zeitgeist

A thought occurred to me today regarding money, one dealing with orders of magnitude.
How much more money would it take to alter the perception of what “a lot” means?
For example, for me $1 is trivial. The next order of magnitude up is $10. Being honest, that’s not what I would consider “a lot”.
$100? Now that’s [...]


December 18, 2007

In my head

Posted by : ghp
Filed under : general

I felt good walking out of work this evening.
Sad thing is, I caught myself doing it.
That’s probably not a good thing, is it? Not trusting that the good thing/feeling will continue if you acknowledge that it actually happened, that is…
Inside my head can be a, shall we say, odd and often unpleasant place to be. [...]


February 20, 2007

Perpetuating pastoral propaganda

Posted by : ghp
Filed under : theology

So, I check the mail upon returning from a wonderful spa weekend at Casa de big sis and what do I find but the Feb 2007 edition of the Detroit Lutheran (Serving Michigan Since 1941 ). And what is the top headline of the periodical that chronicles the activities in the tri-county [...]