There Is No Such Thing As Original Thought

I recently lent my Season 4 of the Simpsons to my Pastor to see one of my favorite episodes where Homer stops going to church and starts his own religion because God came to him in a dream and told him that it was okay. My wife was surprised that I lent it out to him because the Simpsons are so liberal at times, but I stood by my thought that they are the most culturally and theologically relevant television show on t.v.. Even more so than Touched by an Angel and Seventh Heaven! <-- that's a joke.
She asked if I ever tell people that I got this thought from professors and instructors, and to this I reply no. Unfortuntaely there is no such thing as original thought, or at least it's getting harder and harder to be original. I find that most people I talk to on campus are just barfing up random facts that they learned in class and it reminds me a lot of that scene in Good Will Hunting when he calls the guy out in the bar with the facts that he's spitting out. I've even read books where a theologian said the same thing another theologian said, almost to the word, and never cited the other.
Maybe it's getting to the point where we wait and see who is going to say something that is going to blow people out of the water so much that we declare him the Anti Christ and then later on in history people will look at him as a true theologian; somebody like Martin Luther, John Calvin, Thomas Aquinas, Karl Barth or Paul Tillich. I wonder if we'll even recognize somebody as a theologian if they shake the tree of Christianity too much. It will be interesting to see.

out goes the brown kid

CD: Jimi Hendrix "Blues". I watched a DVD of Eric Claptons Blues Fest in Texas, and I was wondering what it would have been like if Jimi Hendrix would have been there. Would he be the super star that he is today, or would he come out as a guy like Joe Walsh where people only really remember his two "big" songs, but is an amazing guitarist at the same time.