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Here Be Sermons | Melting Asphalt
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Suppose you and I are listening to a physics lecture. Although we share the same goal — learning physics — we're pursuing it more or less independently from one another (and from all other students in the lecture). If you happen to fail the class, it's no real skin off my nose, and vice versa.
In contrast, suppose we're liste
... See moreNow, to really get our heads around why sermons are interesting, it pays to contrast them with lectures . Both take roughly the same form: a one-to-many broadcast. But they have different functions (moralizing vs. imparting knowledge), and — please bear with me here — in order to fulfill these different functions, they require different topol
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