Awenydd

I just lost my last post.  My login timed out.  As I was saying…I moved back to my campus apartment last night.  Rushed to class this morning, drove around the parking lot for 20 minutes looking for a space.  I always wonder why there are more spaces taken up on the first day of class than later in the term.  There should be the same number of students, right?

Anyway, the Shakespeare class that I am hoping to get into was canceled for today, so I’m here in the campus library blogging.  For another couple hours, at least.  Then I have my next class.  Modern and Contemporary Christian (lack of) Thought.  We’ll see how that goes.

Just got my new Flash MP3 player up.  Feel free to sample anything that looks interesting. I won’t insult you all by making it play automatically.  I only do that on Xanga.

In Talmud, none of the volumes ever have a page 1. This is supposedly to symbolize a sort of humility. It is supposed to teach us that we do not know the beginning, and to claim knowledge of the beginning is pride.

Emeth said she’d hate for my “post #1″ to disappear from my records due to inadvertant deletion, but I briefly considered deleting it on purpose and starting with “post #2″ in that same spirit of humility.

Then I realized that that would be a false humility. After all, we do know the beginning. The Torah, which the Jews claim, tells what that beginning is, and that beginning is reiterated for Christians in the Gospel According to John.

“In the beginning, God…”
“In the beginning was the Word…”

To claim in the face of this revelation that we do not know the beginning—that is pride. And so, I begin with post/page #1, to reflect what is revealed. We do know the beginning, and this blog is my testimony to it.