So . . . my husband and I were talking the other night, and he pointed out some inconsistencies which are very interesting.
How is it that my studies, centering mainly around philosophy and theology, gave me a Bachelor of ARTS degree? Heeeeelllllooooooo people - arts, by definition, are ordered to MAKING, and it's not like I spent four years learning how to construct truth or fabricate a God. Sciences are ordered to KNOWING, and that's what philosophy and theology are ordered to - knowing things. Not making them.
And, now, what really gets me: so, if I was to go get a degree in, say, architecture, they'd give me a Bachelor of Sciences degree. Now, there's no way in heck you're going to convince me that architecture isn't ordered to making things.
What idiot is responsible for this, huh?
It's a bunch of B.S. - that's what I say.
(I know, I know, that really hurt. I'm sorry . . . )
And in order: 1. My final end, the sum and source of all that is good. He whom I was created to know, love and serve. The one, the only, GOD. 2. The love of my life, whom I treasure and adore. I will never cease to wonder at the gift God has given to me in granting me his love and companionship. 3. Gilbert Keith Chesterton - his ideas, his writings, his life, his philosophy, and most importantly, his common sense.
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- Emily
- "You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd." — Flannery O'Connor
4 comments:
my gosh, your blog is full of verve these days after years of neglect...
Dom Forte agrees with you that architecture is an art and he has a degree in it from Notre Dame. I am of the humble opinion that architecture is both a science AND an art, but what do I know.
I have met few artistic architects.
They are dragged through the code kicking and screaming - especially by 978 square foot ranches with a walk-out basement.
The last one I saw said: "you want what??"
BTW, I have a "Batchelor of Science" degree in "marketing" - I am a remodeling salesman....
Oh, I know, JohnnyJoe. That's another weird one. Since when is the rhetoric of sales and marketing a SCIENCE? Whatever. OBVIOUSLY the person who thought up these degree titles was a filthy modernist.
Yeah, tasik, I suppose the blog has some verve these days . . . heck, my blog has more verve than yours this week. Whatsupwithat? ;)
Up with that? Lack of imaginative juices, that's what. This week, anyhow.
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