{"id":12719,"date":"2020-07-07T07:10:19","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T11:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/preventingrace\/?p=12719"},"modified":"2020-07-07T07:10:19","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T11:10:19","slug":"two-things-on-tuesday-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/preventingrace\/2020\/07\/07\/two-things-on-tuesday-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Things on Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Thing One<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is pretty interesting<\/a>. Wonder is good, of course, but not at the expense of truth and rationality. Gibbs explains:<\/p>\n

Students brought up in fundamentalist homes and churches may find college a place where\u2014 at last\u2014 the world is not constantly reduced to purely moral concerns. As Lewis argues in \u201cMan or Rabbit,\u201d morality is indispensable, and yet Christianity\u2019s greatest concern has never been mere morality, but piety, holiness, and theosis. Students who encounter the idea that there is something beyond right and wrong in college will intuitively feel the claim is true, although secularists are apt to tell Christians that the thing beyond right and wrong is simply power, which is a soul-crushing idea that leads to a life of constant bitter resentment.<\/p>\n

At the same time, students brought up in self-styled sensitive, artistic homes and churches may find college a place where their free creative spirits first encounter the inflexible spines of dogmatists who teach all manner of fundamentals and creeds, albeit Marxist ones. Students must be raised to believe that\u00a0some\u00a0<\/em>things are up for debate and that some things are\u00a0not<\/em>. Creativity and orthodoxy need one another like body and soul need one another.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And also:<\/p>\n

A good life demands both dogma and wonder, work and leisure, fences and freedom. Every school ought to assess its curriculum, architecture, d\u00e9cor, pedagogy, and staff along these lines. By itself, inspiring wonder is not enough. By itself, teaching dogma is not enough.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The piece is about educating children, which should be, of course, of deep concern to me\u2014though not at the end of the school year when I finally managed to turn in all of my reports. I thought it was quite interesting in a broader way. It\u2019s so difficult, all of us trying to say \u2018no\u2019 to each other, but without any agreed-upon parameters for the discussion, so that any \u201cNo\u201d feels personal, even when it isn\u2019t intended that way. When you encounter a whole generation of people who have always been told they are special and lovely, and then try, however meekly, to say that not everything<\/em> about the human person is special and lovely, the rage is telling. I think one of the greatest gifts a child can be given is to be able to hear a cheerful \u201cNo\u201d about something essential and discover that the experience is actually life-giving, rather than soul-crushing. It\u2019s counterintuitive, of course, but so much happiness is there for the person with self-control and forgiveness right at the fingertips.<\/p>\n

Thing Two<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you were wandering around wondering what to do with yourself today, and thought you might like to knock over a monument, here\u2019s how you could do it using science and stuff<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Holland says your average statue of a person tops out at around 3,500 pounds. (FYI: A horse statue is approximately 7,000 pounds.) Meanwhile, the\u00a0OSHA-mandated upper force limit for horizontal pulling per person is 50 pounds of force\u2014\u201cbut that\u2019s for working every day,\u201d he says, \u201cso you could probably do twice that.\u201d<\/p>\n

At 100 pounds of force, then, we\u2019re talking about a 35-person job to drag the statue, Holland says. But to pull it down, \u201clet\u2019s assume twice the force\u2014so you\u2019ll need twice as many people.\u201d So before you start toppling, you\u2019d better recruit 70 buddies with a bit of muscle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you\u2019re warry of using force, you could try using chemicals:<\/p>\n

Maybe you\u2019re operating with an even smaller team\u2014or toppling the statue all by yourself. In that case, your best bet is melting the damn thing. So let\u2019s make a thermite reaction.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe formula is very simple,\u201d says Chris Harrison, a chemistry professor at San Diego State University. \u201cIt\u2019s 3:1 by mass of rust and aluminum powder. You mix those together and use a piece of magnesium to use as a high temperature fuse. And if you don\u2019t have one, you could use a sparkler.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I\u2019m not going to be knocking down any statues or anything. I\u2019m still trying to understand the French government reshuffle or whatever it\u2019s called, and I\u2019m hoping to haul my children to some place with water so that they won\u2019t die from the heat. Have a lovely day storming the castle or whatever is on your to-do list!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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