Arun
He who fails to confront himself constantly fails to transcend his weaknesses.
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« Reply #650 on: May 13, 2011, 01:09:AM » |
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I've started reading HST's Hells Angels. Interesting insight, although I believe that their context has changed somewhat between the 1960s and the present day.
Recently finished two books by Dr Masaaki Hatsumi.
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It is my solemn and firmly held belief that the Cristeros were an entirely unjustified group of egomaniacal sociopaths and that Mexico would be a far better place today had they simply purchased Xbox360 consoles and lived out their ridiculous fantasies via an imaginary fantasy gaming realm Forget your lust for the rich man's gold/ All that you need, is in your soul/ And you can do this, oh baby, if you try/ All that I want for you my son/ Is to be satisfied All that we are is a picture in a mirror, with fancy shoes to grace our feet. All that there is, is a slow road to freedom; Heaven above and the devil beneath. We're all in this thing together, walking a line between faith and fear, this life won't last forever - when you cry I taste the salt in your tears. |
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« Reply #651 on: May 13, 2011, 06:05:AM » |
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Started reading Augustine and Evolution by Henry Words, SJ last night.
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"The only cause of any good that we enjoy is the goodness of God" - St. Augustine"Old-fashioned ways and men make Rome stand strong." - Ennius... St. Augustine on Twitter
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« Reply #652 on: May 14, 2011, 01:04:AM » |
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I'm reading this novel - the third one in the series, and the last two were fun reads. So I'm squeezing this in between reading FE and the DSM-IV. Also, I really hate the DSM-IV.  |
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Pax Christi in Regno Christi.
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« Reply #653 on: May 14, 2011, 01:25:AM » |
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« Reply #654 on: May 19, 2011, 11:02:PM » |
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I just finished today listening (Audible audio books) to The Song of Bernadette by Franz Werfel, narrated by Johanna Ward. It was both informative and inspirational and I would highly recommend it.
There have been some discussions here regarding the Divine Mercy Devotion and the diaries of Sr. Faustina (which I have not read, and they are not in the queue, really), and comments as to her not being “so bright”, and a “bit touched”. I’m not meaning to revive that topic, but interestingly the same things were said of Saint Bernadette Soubirous.
I do highly recommend The Song of Bernadette, if one has not yet read it.
With a long motor trip this weekend (well, 120 miles each way, with about another 100 miles of errands and running around while there – that’s long for me), and my mom’s big lawn to mow, my next “read” (again on audio book) is Getting Things Done by David Allen. I also downloaded a hard copy of it to my Nook e-reader.
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« Reply #655 on: May 20, 2011, 06:32:AM » |
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How is this? I've seen it for sale. |
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“I am a Catholic not like someone else would be a Baptist or a Methodist, but like someone else would be an atheist.” - Flannery O'Connor
Then again I asked him, "supposing the Pope looked up and saw a cloud and said 'It's going to rain', would that be bound to happen?"
"Oh, yes, Father."
"But supposing it didn't?"
He thought a moment and said, "I suppose it would be sort of raining spiritually, only we were too sinful to see it."
Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
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« Reply #656 on: May 20, 2011, 09:34:AM » |
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Giants in the Earth by Ole Edvart Rolvaag. I've always liked pioneer books, and this one's about immigrants, which is even more interesting. It was a toss up between this and the Emigrants by Vilhelm Moberg, and I laughed to see a foreword in Rolvaag's book mentioning the similarities that he and Moberg had noticed between the two works!
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“I will never abandon you, my child. My Immaculate Heart will be your refuge and the way that will lead you to God.”
-Our Lady of Fatima to Lucia
"All the good works in the world are not equal to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass because they are the works of men; but the Mass is the work of God."
- St. Jean-Baptiste Marie Vianney
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UnamSanctam
"I believe, O Lord. Help my unbelief."
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« Reply #657 on: May 20, 2011, 05:18:PM » |
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Tale of Two Cities is just a brilliantly written book. I seem to say this a lot about the books I have read, but I recommend it.
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"Everything that is not eternal, is nothing"
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« Reply #658 on: May 21, 2011, 02:14:PM » |
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I've got quite a summer list.
currently: The Pilgrim's Progress
up next: The Doctrines of Genesis 1-11
the tentative list:
1) The Divine Comedy (in Italian...with hope)
2) God: A Biography
3) The Peaceable Kingdom
4) The Origin of Species (paired up with a current evolution textbook) [maybe. this would be quite the project]
...and whatever else falls in line
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Arun
He who fails to confront himself constantly fails to transcend his weaknesses.
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« Reply #659 on: May 23, 2011, 05:58:PM » |
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Currently re-reading A Scanner Darkly by Phillip K Dick, which is incidentally one of my all-time favourite novels.
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It is my solemn and firmly held belief that the Cristeros were an entirely unjustified group of egomaniacal sociopaths and that Mexico would be a far better place today had they simply purchased Xbox360 consoles and lived out their ridiculous fantasies via an imaginary fantasy gaming realm Forget your lust for the rich man's gold/ All that you need, is in your soul/ And you can do this, oh baby, if you try/ All that I want for you my son/ Is to be satisfied All that we are is a picture in a mirror, with fancy shoes to grace our feet. All that there is, is a slow road to freedom; Heaven above and the devil beneath. We're all in this thing together, walking a line between faith and fear, this life won't last forever - when you cry I taste the salt in your tears. |
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