...after having spent a number of days in a log cabin, with only a canoe for transportation. Hauling water in buckets is good for the soul. Who said "Civilization is a shipwreck, from which every man must swim for his life"? I'm thinking it was Tertullian, but I could be entirely mistaken, and I'm not going to google it right now.
the week w/o the city at johns farm, even with running water was like that.
Posted by: anthony | July 21, 2007 at 02:40 AM
I have come to the conclusion that even though the final vision - the new Jerusalem - is a city, the municipal life as we experience it here is much lacking...
Posted by: joseph | July 21, 2007 at 11:13 AM
the thing is, and this might be different context, is that i am looking forward to the urbanity of new jerusalem. i think humans gained a collective sense of selves in ur...
Posted by: anthony | July 21, 2007 at 03:19 PM
man is a political animal
Posted by: joseph | July 21, 2007 at 04:02 PM
i think we are more social than political, politics is one way (like religion or family or culture or war or sports) that we process that history
Posted by: anthony | July 21, 2007 at 07:00 PM
We are going to pack tent, four children, one dog, and two adults into our Kia Sedona and drive north for two weeks, and see where we end up.
Posted by: Mrs. Falstaff | July 21, 2007 at 08:03 PM