Dorothy DayThe contradiction of the picture in the posting last night made me think about another contradiction and how to show it in a picture. The contradiction I choose is the fact that Marquette is the only Jesuit Catholic University in the country to host base schools of the Army, Navy/Marines and Air Force. Yet Marquette also hosts the archives of the Catholic Worker and Dorothy Day. The challenge was to put together a picture of Dorothy Day, a pacifist and co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement, with a picture that symbolizes the military training for war taught at Marquette University. You can see the results in this picture and answer the question yourself “What would Dorothy Do?” (WWDD). Contradictions are probably best expressed in pictures.
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Dave Kruschke — 04 December 2010, 09:29
Let A represent Marquette hosting the military.
Let B represent Marquette hosting Dorothy Day archives.
I believe that just focusing on A is much better than focusing on A or B but not both A and B. Otherwise, one might say, “fine, let’s just get rid of A and then we won’t have a contradiction.”
As a young person, I remember Catholic teaching about certain apparent contradictions; “Oh, don’t be concerned, these are just “Mysteries of the Faith.”
Later I remember hearing of Walt Whitman, “Do I contain contradictions? Yes. I am large. I contain multitudes.” More recently, I’ve heard of Derrida, master of deconstruction, who declared that if one writes long enough, this writing will contain contradictions…
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