Word: comprehend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What are we to make of all this in practical terms, philosophical terms, even spiritual terms? How to comprehend an age in which, suddenly, we find ourselves enmeshed in a huge information-processing system, one that seems almost to have a life of its own and to be leading us headlong into a future that we can't clearly see yet can't really avoid...
...endeavors of others seem useless to me. Maybe that's why I'm so sympathetic to consultants and investments bankers--they're no more useless than anybody else. I guess if I wanted to go all out with this particular "-ism," I'd spend all my time trying to comprehend "the void" and despairing at the futility of modern existence. I have a feeling that it wouldn't be long before I said, "Screw this, I want a Porsche. Where's the number for J.P. Morgan...
...still suspect fragment from the Secret Gospel of Mark, may also contain scraps of genuine memory, but lacking complete originals, we have only the shakiest grounds for assessing their reliability. The disappointing fact seems to be that most of the surviving New Testament Apocrypha arose in legitimate attempts to comprehend realities about which the canonical Gospels are mute, and any dogged attempt to read them is apt to leave the reader with one prime reaction--those 2nd and 3rd century Christian editors who decided on the final contents of the New Testament were, above all else, superb literary critics...
Bonfire is one of the most important traditions at A&M, as evidenced by the fact that 75 students were up at 2:30 a.m., hauling logs and constructing the Bonfire as a testament to the pride of the school. We cannot even comprehend such school spirit, and in suggesting that a school get rid of one of its most important traditions is ludicrous...
This whole event was tragic,and I cannot even comprehend the feeling of loss at A&M, except through my friends who knew the injured and dead, but stopping this tradition would say to these students that Bonfire was really not important at all and the students would have died in vain. They did not, and no one should ever suggest that was the case...