DESAPARECIDOS

...And it's like I'm under water
or on an endless escalator
I just go up and up
but I don't ever reach the top

And it reads just like the bible
twenty centuries of scandal,
yeah, it all depends on how you interpret it

The word is love
The word is loss
The words are damaged goods that's what I am
A lifetime gets chalked up to an experience...

These are some lyrics to a song I was listening to this morning on a jog. In preparation to go to the London School of Theology, I am studying many books regarding Hermeneutics (the science of interpreting literature) and so I am constantly hearing "buzz" words like "word," "interpretation," "meaning," and "experience."

To never attain an end (an endless escalator) is what many Americans are bound to thinking and living like today. We simply wake up, go to work, listen to the same songs, and celebrate the same things (music, art, sports, entertainment) week in and week out.

Stout, Rorty, and Fish, are all so pragmatic in their thinking. They believe that texts are to be used for their own purposes, not in discovering a 'true' nature (texts don't have one.) Meaning is not contained in a text like a person contained in an elevator; rather meaning is found in whatever it is that gets us to be interested. Interested in what lies beyond the cover that tells us we need to find out what is inside on the pages.

Does this make sense?

Our intrests are the meanings.

Therefore, because of all of our 1/2 loves we continue to go "up and up and never reach the top." We cannot bridle our passions outside of Christ and find genuine meaning. If I am responsible for creating meaning for myself and there is no objective, I may as well accuse anything that claims to be objective (as the Bible does) as being "scandalous."

Oh wait, nevermind. It "all depends on how you interpret it."