Conrad Blog:

A late thought.

Another Pentatuech class revelation, stolen from my class notes as of 10-26-04.

In the OT days, there wasn't much to *know* about God. You just worshipped and followed him. Now we are so far removed from that pure simplicity. We spend our church services debating what exactly they meant, experienced. Another layer of abstraction. Seemse they did fine learning from other sources. I have been thinking lately that this is very underrated today. We want to make the Bible into "self-help." (I saw the Bible in the Self-Help section of Walden Books the other day. I kinda disturbed me.) "Many things were taught that were not written down." Perhaps these things can be found inside "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" or a Radiohead album, rather than extrapolating it from something that maybe wasn't intended to tell us that.

And scrawled at the top of that page in my notes I wrote this passing thought that my life may be made up of long periods of "boredom punctuated by strange noises." This is, of course, pretty inaccurate, but still amusing enough that you almost want it to be true.