I came to the realization that the use of the word "musings" for so many blogs and thoughts of people is far too common-place and somewhat hackneyed so I thought of something different. When I started this blog thing, I had no clue what it was going to be other than some place for me to write down unformed and protean thoughts at random. After doing this for some time, I think I have an understanding of where I am coming from and that is a place not only on the margins of what is often considered theologically normative, but always more or less off-center from orthodoxy. That is to say, I have a relationship to what is usually considered to be confessional or orthodox Christian thought, but there is always a centrifugal force that pushes me out from its center. I have a hard time accepting anything on the basis of an arbitrary authority alone and any authority requires some sweat equity to have sway. Just so happens that a lot of what is orthodox or confessional does not sit well with many of the conditions of our world. Rather than make experience conform to abstract laws and rules, I prefer to change the rules to bring them to bear in a more developmental relationship to experience. See: Piaget's understanding of cognitive development.
So I thought of a show that I used to catch on PBS called "Alive from Off-Center". I recalled a piece by Laurie Anderson on the show from the mid-1980's. It was always trippy and kind of freakish for me, but it always drew me in. I thought about all of my meanderings in postmodernity and all things equally repellant to both the liberal and the conservative and thought this was a catchy little title to go on… So here it is…
I am also going to be playing with various formats as well. The upgrade monster removed all of my tags and categories and my database is not as clean as it used to be. So I have some retro-fitting to do thanks to the cruel gods of WordPress and a relative neophyte technologist exchanging blows.
But, the Steelers clobbered the Bengals today. The Patriots are still scary even without the aid of a third eye from the sidelines.
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