two reflections on this mailing list

James Forsyth james at bigbeing.com.au
Wed May 16 08:50:14 EDT 2001


Hi all,

When I consider Stephen Hawkin(s?) speaking ex cathedra on astrophysics and 
the like, I wonder whether such a way of speaking is only appropriate for 
fields such as his own.  Hawkins seems to ramble on and on about black 
holes and all things out there in the cosmos ad infinitum.  The New 
Testament has long been a closed canon (in some ways the Greek has been a 
closed canon for longer, in other ways shorter), on which one could only 
expound in a way that has either occurred before, or in giving a new theory 
to an old text.

Much of the conversation on this mailing list appears to be in the form of 
question and answer.  Great for an ignoramus like myself!  But very 
different to the aforementioned ramblings of the seated genius who has very 
few peers his equal that could keep him in check, and his finger 
continually on the agenda, just as it is on his joystick.

James Forsyth




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