I’m not sure what to do with this website ultimately. I feel tripolar about it. First, I have all these random “state-of-the-union in-Ian’s-life” stuff, comprised of dreams and musings and incoherent nonsense. Some of the posts in this category are probably better off somewhere else, but I know that there’s probably someone out there that likes to read them.
Next I have the logic and math stuff, which I’m currently pursuing educationally. I love this stuff, but when I post about it I realize that just about no one is going to read it or understand it (unless they expressly came here to check out what I’m doing at Carnegie Mellon, which is a possibility). I do recommend that even if you don’t have any desire to learn anything about math/logic that you try to read one or two papers/posts anyway. Some of the ideas behind the papers are easily grasped and philosophically extensive. It’s good stuff, and wherever I end up in life I’ll always respect these disciplines.
Lastly, I have all this theology stuff everywhere, which is something I’m passionate about. But the people who are coming here to read about logic/math are probably not at all interested in reading about Christian concepts of absolute truth in the postmodern age. Alas, for now they’ll just have to sift through the muck, although from a philosophical and cultural point of view some of the theology writings and website links are extremely informative even for thos who hold no faith.
So there it is. My tripolar nature. And I don’t apologize about it. It’s just not externally consistent. I hesitate to split this up into three separate blogs, but I may have to do it. Any suggestions from anyone out there?


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October 23, 2005 at 10:01 pm
seth
Although I don’t offer an answer about splitting up your blog, I can understand your point. Most of the time I want to write about dreams or musings, my scientific endeavors (or lack thereof…), or something else be it theology, backpacking or complete randomness. Although it might be confusing, I think it tells a bit about the person in general. After all, since our lives aren’t segmented, and if these blogs are a reflection of the lives we live and the thoughts that occupy our minds, then it makes sense that these blogs should be similar. Besides, I like reading about math.
October 26, 2005 at 9:14 am
jeremy
I agree with seth, but I’ll offer an answer about splitting your blog: don’t do it. You are one person and probably the most interesting part of the blog is trying to piece each part together with every other part and see how part of you affecting another part of you. In other words: you understand math through your life and your life through your theology and around and around we go. Keep yourself together man.