Category: RLST 245
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RLST Post #4: Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
Buddhist Mind When I was in high school, a group of Tibetan Buddhist monks visited our campus for a week, bringing with them bags of colored sand and an assortment of brass tools. School administrators marked off an area of the great room with ropes, and provided a large flat board to the monks. Over…
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Hacker’s Manifesto from 1985
Since we’re focusing on computer culture in the early days of personal computing, I wanted to share this hacker manifesto (that, coincidentally, I got off of Hacker News), which I found poorly written but insightful. Hacker Manifesto from 1985 If this isn’t charged with religious undertones, I don’t know what is.
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RLST Post #3: Be Observant
My homeroom teacher for all of middle school was a man named Mr. Martin. As I remember him, he was of average height and stature, and wore a kind beard. He was the kind of man who had eyes that twinkled when he smiled, and betrayed the depth of his mind. He taught English, History,…
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RLST Post #2: Aaron Swartz
I cannot pretend that I knew Aaron Swartz except through the articles written about him, as well as the fruits of his labor: YCombinator, Reddit, the RSS specification. And yet when he took his own life on Jan 11, It only took a moment for me to realize that the world had lost yet another…
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RLST Post #1: Lifehacking with Hotkeys
[Editor’s Note: These blog posts are from a class at Lawrence University, RLST 245: Apple, Google, Facebook, which examined those companies from a religious studies viewpoint. We were required to keep a blog for the class. The class was taught by Martyn Smith, and I highly recommend it to any Lawrence student.] “Similarly, the relatively…