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« Reply #120 on: October 05, 2009, 02:09:PM » |
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Agreed about Confession. You really need a companion to the work. Find the Cliff's Notes, it helps a lot. I rarely read old of complex literature without them.
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"And so, Lord, do you, who do give understanding to faith, give me, so far as you knowest it to be profitable, to understand that you are as we believe; and that you are that which we believe." -- St. Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109)
"But Christianity preaches an obviously unattractive idea, such as original sin; but when we wait for its results, they are pathos and brotherhood, and a thunder of laughter and pity; for only with original sin we can at once pity the beggar and distrust the king." -- G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist." Verbal Kint, The Usual Suspects
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Marc
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« Reply #121 on: October 30, 2009, 10:44:PM » |
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 More precisely, I've spent the last hour and a half flipping through the illustrations in Sister Wendy's Nativity (a recent library arrival).  |
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reverence, which one cannot
withhold, is
laid on lightly, with terror--as if
one were holding a dandelion back
into the sun.
~ A.R. Ammons
"When I depart from the city, and stretch out my hands, the sounds will cease." Exodus 9:29
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libby
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"does this bike make me look fat?" - VoxClamantis
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« Reply #122 on: October 30, 2009, 10:52:PM » |
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Marc!!
I've missed you!
(it's not a trick, i really missed you)
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Marc
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« Reply #123 on: October 30, 2009, 11:24:PM » |
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Marc!!
I've missed you!
(it's not a trick, i really missed you) Oh! Aren't you sweet...  For you, libby, the candy w/ extra Ritalin.  |
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reverence, which one cannot
withhold, is
laid on lightly, with terror--as if
one were holding a dandelion back
into the sun.
~ A.R. Ammons
"When I depart from the city, and stretch out my hands, the sounds will cease." Exodus 9:29
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libby
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« Reply #124 on: October 30, 2009, 11:31:PM » |
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Oh! Aren't you sweet... For you, libby, the candy w/ extra Ritalin. [/quote ooooooo.....
*yoinks*
......thank you, Mr. Markie.
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WhollyRoaminCatholic
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« Reply #125 on: November 18, 2009, 09:49:AM » |
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Words, words, words.
(Hamlet, 2. 2)
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Of course this land is dangerous! All of the animals Are capably murderous
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« Reply #126 on: November 18, 2009, 10:02:AM » |
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Millers guide to the disection of a dog. Third edition.
Don't ask
Sip
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"I do not like this word "bomb." It is not a bomb. It is a device that is exploding." - French ambassador to New Zealand Jacques le Blanc, regarding press coverage of France's nuclear weapons tests in the Pacific http://www.martinjetpack.com/http://www.mugshotmuseum.com/SIP I never trust a fighting man who doesn't smoke or drink. - Admiral William Halsey |
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Ignatius_of_Loyola
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« Reply #127 on: November 18, 2009, 02:12:PM » |
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2 Books:
On Food & Cooking by Harold McGee (if you've ever wondered about the science of cooking and why you should / should not do somethings, this is the book for you).
2nd Chronicles
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"Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage." --Charles Simmons
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Pilgrim
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« Reply #128 on: November 18, 2009, 03:40:PM » |
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I'm almost done witCrime & Punishment. Next up is probably the new issue of First Things and then, perhaps, Lion in the White House.
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"And so, Lord, do you, who do give understanding to faith, give me, so far as you knowest it to be profitable, to understand that you are as we believe; and that you are that which we believe." -- St. Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109)
"But Christianity preaches an obviously unattractive idea, such as original sin; but when we wait for its results, they are pathos and brotherhood, and a thunder of laughter and pity; for only with original sin we can at once pity the beggar and distrust the king." -- G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist." Verbal Kint, The Usual Suspects
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« Reply #129 on: November 18, 2009, 04:34:PM » |
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The Boer War, Thomas Pakenham.
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« Reply #130 on: November 18, 2009, 06:22:PM » |
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The Eyes of The Eagle: F Company LRPs in Vietnam, 1968 by Gary A. Linderer
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Marc
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« Reply #131 on: December 05, 2009, 01:40:AM » |
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Bump! We've all seen them but might have been too scared to enter: the house on the hill with its boarded-up windows; the darkened factory on the outskirts of town; the old amusement park with its rickety skeleton of a rollercoaster. These are the ruins of America, filled with the echoes of the voices and footfalls of our grandparents, or their parents, or our own youth. Where once these structures were teeming with life—commuters, workers, vacationers—now they are disused and dilapidated. Ghostly Ruins shows the life and death of thirty such structures, from transportation depots, factories, and jails to amusement parks, mansions, hotels, and entire towns. Author Harry Skrdla gives a guided tour of these marvelous structures at their peak of popularity juxtaposed with their current state of haunted decrepitude. Like a seasoned teller of ghost stories, Skrdla's words and images reveal what lies beyond the gates and beneath the floorboards. There are the infamous Eastern State Penitentiary and Bethlehem Steel factory in Pennsylvania, the Packard Motors Plant and Book-Cadillac Hotel in Detroit, and Philip Johnson's New York State Pavilion from the 1964/65 World's Fair. There is the entire town of Centralia, Pennsylvania, where a trash fire set inside an old mine in 1962 morphed into an underground inferno that incinerated the town from underneath; more than forty years later, the subterranean fire still rages. The town is empty now, just as the many other abandoned places in this chronicle. Ghostly Ruins is a record of the souls of yesteryear and a chronicle of America's haunted past. Soon: Guénonian Esoterism and Christian Mystery by Jean Borella
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reverence, which one cannot
withhold, is
laid on lightly, with terror--as if
one were holding a dandelion back
into the sun.
~ A.R. Ammons
"When I depart from the city, and stretch out my hands, the sounds will cease." Exodus 9:29
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Mac_Giolla_Bhrighde
Lead Arborist to the Tree of Woe
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« Reply #132 on: December 05, 2009, 04:19:AM » |
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Plowing through Jane Austen books and then Bronte sisters.
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Softly falls the light of day,
As our campfire fades away.
Silently, each Scout should ask
Have I done my daily task?
Have I kept my honor bright?
Can I guiltless sleep tonight?
Oh, have I done and have I dared
Everything to be prepared?
Duty is heavier than a mountain, death lighter than a feather
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« Reply #133 on: December 05, 2009, 06:10:AM » |
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A Christmas Carol.
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Joamy
Live Jesus and Mary!!
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« Reply #134 on: December 05, 2009, 11:11:AM » |
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Plowing through Jane Austen books and then Bronte sisters.
If you like Austen and the Bronte's try North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell. |
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Mater Divina Gratiae, ora pro nobis. Mater Boni Consilii, ora pro nobis. "I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, " and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us." (Lord of the Rings - Fellowship of the Ring) www.waffargo.comwww.tiberswimteam2006.com |
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