the dreaming tree

i hate studying. but i do like to learn. it’s kinda weird, i know. my favorite thing is to learn in a roundtable-type environment…as in discussion. talking about stuff with other people who actually know what they’re talking about…and i thought i was gonna be able to carry this thought a little further, but i can’t come up with anything. i think my brain is dead right now after the utter monotony of work. i did listen to a couple podcasts today until the mp3 player i was using ran out of batteries at 3 o’clock. certain podcasts are pretty great for learning stuff, too, i’ve discovered…and there’s also listening to interviews with the stars of lost, and insight from the producers of the show. the ones i listened to were: a) dr. os guinness speaking on the nature of truth in today’s world (http://www.veritas.org/3.0_media/presenters/18) and b) discussion by duke professor richard hays and unc-chapel hill professor bart ehrman on the da vinci code (http://www.divinity.duke.edu/news/noteworthy/060428davincicode). really the second one was less about the da vinci code and more about the concerns people have with the history of early christianity and its writings (aka, the gospels) because they read the novel. both were quite interesting, and had i not been able to listen to them, i probably woulda banged my head against the wall…multiple times. i might write some about the da vinci code stuff later when my mind recovers.