Comments on: Randy’s Last Lecture http://blog.emergingscholars.org/2008/08/randy-pausch-the-last-lecture/ From InterVarsity's Emerging Scholars Network Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:32:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Seeking tips for international students at The Emerging Scholars Blog http://blog.emergingscholars.org/2008/08/randy-pausch-the-last-lecture/comment-page-1/#comment-41 Seeking tips for international students at The Emerging Scholars Blog Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:55:29 +0000 http://blog.emergingscholars.org/?p=16#comment-41 [...] Friday, I led an International Discussion Forum on Randy’s Last Lecture at U. of Pennsylvania, sponsored by InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, the Penn Graduate [...] [...] Friday, I led an International Discussion Forum on Randy’s Last Lecture at U. of Pennsylvania, sponsored by InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, the Penn Graduate [...]

]]> By: Micheal Hickerson http://blog.emergingscholars.org/2008/08/randy-pausch-the-last-lecture/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Micheal Hickerson Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:29:38 +0000 http://blog.emergingscholars.org/?p=16#comment-4 I had the good fortune of catching The Last Lecture on my local PBS station recently. I was extremely moved, and also challenged to regard the brick walls in my life differently. However, I wondered about the brick walls that don't go away or that overcome you instead of vice versa. In Peterson's <i>Under the Unpredictable Plant</i>, he writes about <i>askesis</i>, which he paraphrases as "voluntary disaster," as a path to a deepened life. He writes: <blockquote>Why wait? Why wait for an accident, an illness, a failure? Why not take deliberate steps now to rid myself of the illusions of being a god, study the limits of my mortality, and sink myself into the quite marvelous but sin-obscured realities of creation and salvation?</blockquote> I had the good fortune of catching The Last Lecture on my local PBS station recently. I was extremely moved, and also challenged to regard the brick walls in my life differently. However, I wondered about the brick walls that don’t go away or that overcome you instead of vice versa.

In Peterson’s Under the Unpredictable Plant, he writes about askesis, which he paraphrases as “voluntary disaster,” as a path to a deepened life. He writes:

Why wait? Why wait for an accident, an illness, a failure? Why not take deliberate steps now to rid myself of the illusions of being a god, study the limits of my mortality, and sink myself into the quite marvelous but sin-obscured realities of creation and salvation?

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