Old Dog
New Trick
You're never too old to learn that you can't teach an old dog new tricks!
Of course, I could be wrong . . .
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posted by Horace Jeffery Hodges @ 12:01 AM
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Gypsy Scholar
Brainstorming about history, politics, literature, religion, and other topics from a 'gypsy' scholar on a wagon hitched to a star.
Sunday, April 30, 2017
You're never too old to learn that you can't teach an old dog new tricks!
Of course, I could be wrong . . .
About Me
- Name: Horace Jeffery Hodges
- Location: Seoul, South Korea
I am a retired professor. I last taught at Ewha Womans University, mostly composition, research writing, and cultural issues, but also the occasional graduate seminar on Gnosticism and Johannine theology and the occasional undergraduate course on European history. My doctorate is in history (U.C. Berkeley), with emphasis on religion and science. My thesis is on John's gospel and Gnosticism. I'm also an award-winning writer, and I recommend my novella, The Bottomless Bottle of Beer, to anyone interested. I'm originally from the Arkansas Ozarks, but my academic career -- funded through doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships (e.g., Fulbright, Naumann, Lady Davis) -- has taken me through Texas, California, Switzerland, Germany, Australia, and Israel and has landed me in Seoul, South Korea. I've also traveled to Mexico, visited much of Europe, including Moscow, and touched down briefly in a few East Asian countries. Hence: "Gypsy Scholar."
8 Comments:
I was wrong once. Back in 1976, I thought I had made a mistake.
Boy, you can't get more wrong than that! But that was just the foolishness of youth. I, for instance, used to be conceited, but now, I'm perfect.
Jeffery Hodges
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You are also unique!
Perfection is a mathematical construct that does not exist in the real world. There are, of course, pseudo-perfections (as in a "perfectly" pitched baseball game), wherein the "perfection" is defined in terms of a finite and a countable list of attributes.
Apparently, I do not exist in the real world. But is my nonexistence an imperfection? Hmm . . . we seem to be drawing close to the old ontological argument.
Jeffery Hodges
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The "old ontological argument" is my personal definition of "mental masturbation". As a physicist, I much prefer the physical variety.
Shh . . . there're kids present. Use a euphemism, e.g., "Bat Masterson."
Jeffery Hodges
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oops ... so sorry.
Actually, I felt embarrassed when I was a kid if I had to say the name "Bat Masterson," which I knew sounded like something unmentionable, though I didn't know what the unmentionable something was.
Jeffery Hodges
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