Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]1976, was an interesting year! That year I decided that doing photography was an irrelevant and trifling activity. I still had plenty of time left on my G.I. Bill. As photography, to me back then, was just another 99/100 monkey occupation, I decided to use the benefits before they expired. Like any other semi literate person, I thought that the academic field of art history/criticism was a natural extension of the applied arts themselves. Was I wrong! By now, most of the list knows of my almost pathological distaste for the field, and of its scurrilous practitioners. It wasn't that I had a traumatizing experience from that contact. It just became immediately apparent, within the scope of one full time semester, that screeching simians tossing leaves over their heads on the jungle floor were involved in a more relevant activity. Within the area of the secular study of religion, earthquakes were taking place in parallel with society's eruptions. As the societal landscape was, and still is, consistently being torn apart, no other area seemed as capable of grasping the subtext like this field of study. I think I came out of it a better photographer. Yep, 1976 was an interesting year! S. Dimitrov > From: Will von Dauster <vondauster@earthlink.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 21:56:55 -0700 > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Was ....SUMMILUX 50/1,4 Asph > > Interesting, this list. I took a class with John Cobb at The School of > Theology at Claremont in 1976. Small world... > > Will von Dauster > --------------------------------- > Boulder, Colorado > Personal Account > --------------------------------- > On Nov 13, 2004, at 8:42 PM, Slobodan Dimitrov wrote: > >> Familiar yes, on the mailing list no. >> John Cobb was there. I did get to see, and hear, the old gent engaged >> in >> discussions. I did not get any shots of him, even though I brought my >> R8/50 >> 'lux combo. Very lucid, to say the least. >> I did get several shots of Ian Barbour and David Griffin, in the campus >> kitchen, talking to each other. >> There is an exhibit at the Claremont library, 2nd floor, of artifacts >> and >> personal writings, of Charles Hartshorne. His surviving daughter was >> also in >> attendance at the seminar. There were lecture notes there from his >> stay in >> Germany. Lectures given by Husserl himself. I can't remember if there >> were >> any from his attendance of the Heidegger lectures. >> But, I'm not much of a fan of this particular school of thought. This >> drift, >> intriguingly enough, into a rigorous form of punctilious intellection >> does >> fit neatly with Methodism's contemporary face. >> My own interests are more along the lines of exploring the influence of >> Moravian pietism, the Byzantine world's reach into American religious >> life, >> through Wesley, et al. >> S. Dimitrov >> >> >> >>> From: Kenneth Frazier <kennybod@mac.com> >>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> >>> Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 22:03:31 -0500 >>> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> >>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Was ....SUMMILUX 50/1,4 Asph >>> >>>> Unfortunately, I had to attend a seminar, process theology and >>>> evolutionary >>>>> biology, that same day. >>> >>> Hmmmm...are you a member of the "Process Philosophy" mailing list? >>> Familiar with Cobb, et.al.? >>> >>> Ken Frazier >>> Weston, CT USA >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information