xn3ct
January 20th, 2008
Well, I’m writing my first post here in this site. (I wrote “Acting as a Path to a Spirituality of Compassion” a long, long time ago. 2001? My brother Errol posted it here.) I don’t know much about blogging. All I know is that, at the very least, without meaning to be derogatory to those who do practice it, it could be some kind of an “online diary or journal.” Or simply, where one puts up the ramblings and rumblings of one’s mind. And heart.
I’ve had some posts in my friendster account: http://xn3ct.blogs.friendster.com/xn3ct/
And one of these days, I’m going to organize the writings I’ve done. Perhaps here.
For now, let me “talk” about the name of this site: xn3cts.com
I first thought of the name “xn3ct” in the 80’s. There was this song “Dear God.” (No, not the one by Midge Ure which has lines like “Give me… peace in a restless world…”) I’m thinking of the more scandalous (and for me then, probably heretical and blasphemous) song of the same title by xtc. (Some of the lines go like this: “Did you make man after we made you?” And this was way before I even heard of Marx and Feuerbach.)
Anyway, I thought the name of the band was clever. Instead of spelling “ecstasy,” they had “xtc.” And remember this was also the era of bands like the INXS (“In excess.”)
It was 1988, I was still in the seminary and I was thinking of a name for a band to form. I came up with “xn3ct.” Yeah, for “eccentricity.”