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World of Code: Stories, Games, Identity, and Parallel Universes

Geek Orthodox — Fri, 02 May 2025 20:55:22 +0000

Video: https://youtu.be/QKxNVGMAKWY In which we explore the impact of the World of Code on stories and games… and speculate about its resultant impact on current concepts of identity and even parallel universes! I had a lot of fun with this one—and, I could very easily keep on having fun with it indefinitely… which I may …

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How Postmodernism and My Weirdest Essay Helped Me See the Truth of Orthodoxy

Geek Orthodox — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 04:41:43 +0000

Video: https://youtu.be/-lPHuWCbvKk It’s story-time! In this first episode of a new arc that I’m going to entitle “WordPlay”, I tell the story of my weirdest, most intertextual essay ever and how it and Postmodernism and my studies of literary critical theory helped me to see the ultimate Truth of Orthodox Christianity. For the full text …

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This is Blasphemy

Geek Orthodox — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 19:15:59 +0000

Let’s be clear about what this casting of a female Aslan really is. Video: https://youtu.be/2B1U-Lqn4xE

World of Code: Reviewing the Data

Geek Orthodox — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 05:03:59 +0000

Video: https://youtu.be/QKxNVGMAKWY In which we review the characteristics of the World of Code we’ve covered so far, add “data” into the mix, and examine – by applying this understanding to a single simple and personal experience of it – how understanding the World of Code and its limitations can help us maintain our humanity.

World of Code: The “Embodiment” of Code

Geek Orthodox — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 21:09:16 +0000

Video: https://youtu.be/EcT4MqUTdKw To exist and to interact with the world around it, computer code needs to be “embodied” in (of course) computers, and, despite its virtually infinite extensibility (at least in theory), the nature of code’s embodiment has a limiting and determinative effect that we need to understand if we are going to fully grasp …

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Mining Play for Pearls: Experiential Theology and Life Lessons Learned as a Gamer and Minecraft Server Admin

Geek Orthodox — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 05:33:00 +0000

What value can we find in video-games? My talk at Doxacon Seattle 2025 mines my experience as a gamer, focussing on Starflight, and as a Minecraft Server Administrator for theological and experiential insights.

World of Code: Conditionals and Complexity

Geek Orthodox — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 18:19:44 +0000

Video: https://youtu.be/Msl3uV1yhB4 In which we continue our consideration of computer code with conditional commands, reflecting on the implications of the consequent complexity

World of Code: Beginning with BASIC

Geek Orthodox — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 22:32:27 +0000

Video: https://youtu.be/k27vb6kybEo In which we begin in earnest our engagement with the World of Code by reflecting on the basic (pun intended) principles of computer programming

World of Code “Bridge”: AI and The Deaths of Arthur

Geek Orthodox — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 01:39:34 +0000

In this introductory episode, we begin a second “season” of the Geek Orthodox podcast, “The World of Code”, with two new summaries of the first season: one generated by AI, the other by yours truly.

Biblical Echoes in Fantasy and Sci-Fi

Geek Orthodox — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 04:32:23 +0000

This guest-lecture at Simon Fraser University on Biblical intertextuality in fantasy and science fiction focuses on three excerpts from the works of J.R.R. Tolkien (Gandalf’s fight with the Balrog in The Lord of the Rings), C.S. Lewis (Chapter 20 of Out of the Silent Planet), and John Wyndham (an excerpt from The Day of the …

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