Ebert On McLuhan

I really enjoyed this Roger Ebert blog entry on Marshall McLuhan's understanding of culture and communications.  It's as good a take on the phrase "the medium is the message" as I've seen in awhile.  It's sentimental but realistic.  Money quote: 

It's that McLuhan has helped me understand it, and to see myself more clearly. There are times when I feel as if I'm occupying a closing scene in Spielberg's "AI: Artificial Intelligence." You know, the scene where the elongated, ethereal robots of the future study the artificial child David. They want to learn all they can from him, because "he's the last one who knew humans."

Untangling Cliché: "Bless," Blessing," "Blessed."

So for the Hebrew / ancient Israelite, "blessing" was the gift of the king.  Anything bad was the scheming of one of the god's less sympathetic entourage.

If you want to know what the "system" is, look not at your Bible but first at your life.  Is it embued with good things?   Or is it brutal and beset with difficulty?

Now consult your imagination: how do you see God? 

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