Run Windows on Your Mac (PC Owners Ignore)
I think I have a good deal for someone who needs it! I'm trying to sell my copies of Parallels 6 and Windows Vista Business. They have worked admirably together on my iMac for quite some time (this software is guaranteed for dissertation production), but I no longer require their services. I'm trying to sell Windows and Parallels together for $79. I have checked the EULAs for both pieces of software and I believe it is perfectly legitimate to sell them as long as I give you all original discs...
C. S. Lewis on Epistemology
Do not be scared by the word authority. Believing things on authority only means believing them because you have been told them by someone you think trustworthy. Ninety-nine per cent of the things you believe are believed on authority. I believe there is such a place as New York. I have not seen it myself. I could not prove by abstract reasoning that there must be such a place. I believe it because reliable people have told me so. The ordinary man believes in the Solar System, atoms,...
Stanley Fish on Christian Worldliness
My interpretive community prefers to read this paragraph as a partial but excellent defense of Christian fundamentalism's separation from the world (in the Rom 12:2, 1 John 2:15–17 sense). My interpretive community prefers to read this as a spot-on description of mainline Protestantism: If we are worried about obsolescence and the loss of relevance, the surest way to court both is to become so attuned to the interests and investments of other enterprises ... that we are finally...
I Agree with Charles Hodge
Biographer Andrew Hoffecker describing Charles Hodge's time in graduate school: He eventually came to the conclusions that graduate students must make for surviving. First, one cannot master everything…. Second, he came to the realization that a fundamental feature of graduate education is learning where one can find information. Knowing the sources and having the tools of research prepares one for a lifetime of learning. —Charles Hodge: The Pride of Princeton (P&R, 2011), 48. Those are...