Mainly interesting to my Oxford crowd

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Poking around some of my old bookmarks (yes, I'm displacing), I discovered that Gerv has finally succumbed, despite all his former protests, and is now keeping a blog.

It's called Hacking for Christ and the title pretty much sums up the content, as far as I've read: mostly highly technical discussion about Mozilla and other computery things that I don't even know how to classify, and quite a lot of that deeply offensive right-wing Christianity that Gerv does, but we still love him anyway cos he's Gerv and he's so very sincere and well-meaning. I'd syndicate it here but the feed is in a format that is too cool for LJ.

Edited 6.9.04: Now public, with permission from Gerv.

Comments

[robhu.livejournal.com]

Does your view point have a name? Is it a particular philosphy or is it something Buddhist? I'd like to know so I can read more about it.

[lisekit.livejournal.com]

;-) Buddhism, in its core expression, is a philosophy rather tan a religion - it does not have a God, and essentially is a route to self-soteriology. I wouldn't call myself Buddhist, but it's a way of thinking I have a lot of appreciation for. I've never met an unhappy Buddhist. Some books you could read are:

Gombrich, R. Theravada Buddhism: a social history from ancient Benares to modern Colombo. (London: Routledge, 1988)

Hinnells, J R. (ed.): A handbook of living religions. Harmondsworth: (Viking, 1984)

Saddhatissa, H. Buddhist ethics: essence of Buddhism. (London: Allen and Unwin, 1970)

Williams, P. Mahayana Buddhism: the doctrinal foundations. (London: Routledge, 1989)

The medieval philosophies of Kabir and Nanak (later Guru Nanak, the first Sikh Guru) which arose in response to mainstream Brahmanical Hinduism also interest me greatly - you can read these, alongside some more bhakti oriented writers, in the collection Songs of the Saints of India, ed. John S. Hawley and Mark Juergensmeyer (Oxford University Press, 1988).

[robhu.livejournal.com]

Thankyou.