Thursday, July 8, 2010

The Red and the Blue...

Should be treated as apolitical. Basically this is a thought I've had laying around since my Senior year of college, at least. Now it comes out! Hopefully the graphs do all the talking so I won't have to. The case I didn't visualize, where the faith community is off on its own tangent, and the red and black lines converge, is definitely in some "bad" category. Where would you put it?
More graph-themed posts will be coming!

5 comments:

Kev said...

You know my protest... How can you know?

Dan Lower said...

I actually have no idea. Not sure how I'd know.

Kev said...

Hmmm....

Luke Stager said...

What is the fundamental difference in the graphs labeled 'Worse' and 'Awful'?

As to your question in the post, I would put said graph between the 'Bad' and the 'Good' graph, as ultimately it is good that you are going toward what God wants you to be. I would classify it as 'Okay' or perhaps 'Somewhat Good'.

Dan Lower said...

Worse is when the faith community X and the person Y have the same vision for the person, but God (G) has a different vision.

Awful is when the X, Y and G all have different visions--that is, not only does God disagree with both the community and the person, the community and person don't even agree with each other. Which I guess might make it better than the "worse" situation in terms of how fixable it is.

I would place the graph between 'bad' and 'good' also, I think. Naming it's another matter because it seems much better for you and God than the community, and all three factor into the situation; as such, if the community is bad, I feel weird calling the situation 'good'--'okay' would be the most I'd give it.

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