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It was beautiful, but now it's sour
Dec. 26th, 2011 10:16 pm
Currently at Toronto Pearson: 1. High today: 4.
Today someone looked at my CV after googling "the Canadian society is bad". It amuses me how high in the google results for "philosophy CV" I am. Actually, I'm even higher for "CV philosophy", for some reason. [EDIT, Jan. 20: I have recently dropped like a rock. This bothers me to an embarrassing degree.] I'm not sure how I feel about the little philosophy grad students looking at my CV to see what a philosophy CV is supposed to look like. I think maybe I should put a disclaimer at the top: "FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY." Then again, they can see for themselves that I do not have an actual job. So maybe looking at my CV will just make them depressed. More so.
The Christmas Eve powerpoint sermon this year began with images of ads from an Episcopalian cajoling-and-jokingly-threatening campaign a couple of decades ago, followed by this year's Mary-with-pregnancy-test billboard from New Zealand. Somehow the sermon went on to be about the meaning of the incarnation (which is apparently that God camped out with us!), which was a shame, because if the Mary billboard really is great, as the minister said, because it gets you thinking and talking, what it really ought to get you thinking and talking about is how it depicts Mary having gone out and gotten a pregnancy test, and being shocked by the results, after being told by an angel that she's pregnant--and that this is a great symbol for the situation of the old churches, like the Anglican church in Canada, today: faith is impossible, because, as Sartre says, even if you are Abraham and an angel speaks to you (Sartre, who does not know the story, says: "You know the story: An angel commanded Abraham to sacrifice his son ... "), how do you know it's an angel, and how do you know you are Abraham?
Today someone looked at my CV after googling "the Canadian society is bad". It amuses me how high in the google results for "philosophy CV" I am. Actually, I'm even higher for "CV philosophy", for some reason. [EDIT, Jan. 20: I have recently dropped like a rock. This bothers me to an embarrassing degree.] I'm not sure how I feel about the little philosophy grad students looking at my CV to see what a philosophy CV is supposed to look like. I think maybe I should put a disclaimer at the top: "FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY." Then again, they can see for themselves that I do not have an actual job. So maybe looking at my CV will just make them depressed. More so.
The Christmas Eve powerpoint sermon this year began with images of ads from an Episcopalian cajoling-and-jokingly-threatening campaign a couple of decades ago, followed by this year's Mary-with-pregnancy-test billboard from New Zealand. Somehow the sermon went on to be about the meaning of the incarnation (which is apparently that God camped out with us!), which was a shame, because if the Mary billboard really is great, as the minister said, because it gets you thinking and talking, what it really ought to get you thinking and talking about is how it depicts Mary having gone out and gotten a pregnancy test, and being shocked by the results, after being told by an angel that she's pregnant--and that this is a great symbol for the situation of the old churches, like the Anglican church in Canada, today: faith is impossible, because, as Sartre says, even if you are Abraham and an angel speaks to you (Sartre, who does not know the story, says: "You know the story: An angel commanded Abraham to sacrifice his son ... "), how do you know it's an angel, and how do you know you are Abraham?
