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Na, it's a graven image.
Tom: It's fine actually, I only use the image as an aid to edification, and any honour that I pay to the pen is transferred to the essence of pen-ness that it represents.
Acutally its an image "graver", and a nice one too. I find the smooth chrome a little hard to hold at times, which is why I use the Black Titanium Nitride coated version.
...and any honour that I pay to the pen is transferred to the essence of pen-ness that it represents.
You're worshipping a Platonic essence? Idolater!
You're worshipping a Platonic essence?
Must be because I was reading the first chapter of Roger Penrose's Climbing Mount Unreadable, erm, sorry, I mean, The Road to Reality last night (I'm having another crack at this one, having ground to a halt about 100 pages in, in my first attempt at reading it), in which he lays out his Platonic views about the reality lying behind mathematical concepts. (Though he seems to dither a bit between whether Platonic essences really are "out there", or whether it's just another way of saying "objectively true".)
Aslan commands you to take that pen and smash it under a hammer, as a test of how much you truly love Him.
Rob had a Space pen, which we lovingly called the "Swisher Face Pen." Olivia lost it some where in our old apartment before we moved.
And I have washed more than one of his "hipster PDA"s in the washing machcine. I know all of his good ideas are gone when there are flakes of crusty white paper falling out of the dryer on laundry day.
Good ideas... but not for people with toddlers and wives who don't check pockets before dumping laundry into the machine.
Must be because I was reading the first chapter of Roger Penrose...
Is pen the essence of Penrose?
I worked for Fisher Pen in the 1970's as a summer job at their original plant in Forest Park, Illinois. I mostly attached metal things to plastic things and squeezed them, so I don't have any input into how technically cool those pens are, but they were beautiful and we used to absently run our hands through a tray of them while we talked, just for the pleasure of the shape and smoothness of the finish.
I saw the photo and jumped - small world!
Well, Thereze S, you've proven it. Lutheranism is just a pen fetish... "Nulla pen-a sine [L]ege", as JH no doubt argued before the Court of Queen's Bench some time this week...
I believe my fellow pen-fetishist is actually a Roman Catholic rather than an Augsburg Catholic (or whatever Josh has decided we're called this week 
).
But then again, my Reformed/evangelical friends will tell me that Lutheran tolerance of images is just a hangover from medieval Catholicism, Lutherans are only "semi-reformed", etc...
What is it with men and sticks?
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