Comments for Breaking Silence http://www.breakingsilence.org a time has come for us all Fri, 24 Jul 2009 21:15:40 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 Comment on Shu Takeyama and the Atomic Bomb by emptym http://www.breakingsilence.org/?p=67&cpage=1#comment-6 emptym Fri, 24 Jul 2009 21:15:40 +0000 http://www.breakingsilence.org/?p=67#comment-6 Wow, I may have known this Shu. I would have met him at a summer program at Denver University called Rocky Mountain Talent Search, in 88 and 89. He had recently come from Japan. His dad worked for Aiwa, I think, or maybe Sony or Panasonic. He gave me his Aiwa walkman. A great, great guy. He never wanted to be called "Show" since his that was his grandmother's name, I think. Love your website too. I'm a theology professor at USF. Mark Wow, I may have known this Shu. I would have met him at a summer program at Denver University called Rocky Mountain Talent Search, in 88 and 89. He had recently come from Japan. His dad worked for Aiwa, I think, or maybe Sony or Panasonic. He gave me his Aiwa walkman. A great, great guy. He never wanted to be called “Show” since his that was his grandmother’s name, I think.

Love your website too. I’m a theology professor at USF.

Mark

]]> Comment on Sun god by Darin http://www.breakingsilence.org/?p=87&cpage=1#comment-4 Darin Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:28:23 +0000 http://www.breakingsilence.org/?p=87#comment-4 When I first read Kent's posting, I wasn't sure how to understand the meaning of "sun god," a seemingly antiquated pagan conception of divinity, associated with ancient civilizations, but not modern America? A deity so far removed from us? Yet, as I read through Kent's posting, I began to see how well the term applies to our modern lives, lives that obsess over sunglasses, suntanning, and the glow of television, movies, and celebrities' white teeth. The sun god is not an historical artifact afterall but is a thing exalted, pursued and praised even today, even as we may say otherwise once a week. Can one find the meaning to sustain onself and others from this shimmering simulacra illuminated daily by the sun? Inevitably, the sky becomes dark, the seasons change and turn cold and the suntan fades and becomes leathery, and then what? The void, always present, resurfaces, and then what? As Kent says, we need to search and explore other dimensions -- the moutaintop, the dark, the heart. When exploring these areas -- areas not so visible when the sun is shimmering -- how does one break through the surface and find something deeper. Paul Tillich says, That depth is what the word God means. He says, If that word (depth) has not much meaning for you, translate it, and speak of the depths of your life, of the source of your being, of your ultimate concern, of what you take seriously without reservation. Kent, thanks for pointing to this depth, residing above and below the surface. When I first read Kent’s posting, I wasn’t sure how to understand the meaning of “sun god,” a seemingly antiquated pagan conception of divinity, associated with ancient civilizations, but not modern America? A deity so far removed from us? Yet, as I read through Kent’s posting, I began to see how well the term applies to our modern lives, lives that obsess over sunglasses, suntanning, and the glow of television, movies, and celebrities’ white teeth. The sun god is not an historical artifact afterall but is a thing exalted, pursued and praised even today, even as we may say otherwise once a week. Can one find the meaning to sustain onself and others from this shimmering simulacra illuminated daily by the sun? Inevitably, the sky becomes dark, the seasons change and turn cold and the suntan fades and becomes leathery, and then what? The void, always present, resurfaces, and then what? As Kent says, we need to search and explore other dimensions — the moutaintop, the dark,
the heart. When exploring these areas — areas not so visible when the sun is shimmering — how does one break through the surface and find something deeper. Paul Tillich says, That depth is what the word God means. He says, If that word (depth) has not much meaning for you, translate it, and speak of the depths of your life, of the source of your being, of your ultimate concern, of what you take seriously without reservation. Kent, thanks for pointing to this depth, residing above and below the surface.

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