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« Reply #70 on: April 26, 2010, 08:40:AM » |
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Love God and love your neighbour, all the rest mentioned here are just trappings.
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« Reply #71 on: April 26, 2010, 08:41:AM » |
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oh and self-control. Learn how to control your emotions. Nothing worse than a man who is more hysterical than his chick.
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« Reply #72 on: April 26, 2010, 09:48:AM » |
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Love God with all your heart
Love your neighbor as yourself
be willing to lay down your life to protect those in your charge
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« Reply #73 on: April 26, 2010, 10:51:PM » |
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1) eschew boorishness & violence. 2) devote your free time to bookish pursuits and music. 3) observe strict continence/chastity. pray always. image Christ. 4) get a cat. a big fluffy one. Show the world that you are secure in your masculinity. I don't agree with #2 or #4. Sure, you should be intelligent, but whoever said that a "real man" had to be an intellectual or "bookish"? I am bookish and I can assure you that unless you spend at least some of your free time doing explicitly mannish, physical things, you won't progress toward being a "real man." And cats . . . what? If John Wayne himself walked around with a big, fluffy cat, I'd question his masculinity. If a man gets a cat, it's because he doesn't want to pay for mousetraps. |
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« Reply #74 on: April 26, 2010, 11:04:PM » |
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Also, dude, you're 18! And you sound like you're still living at home. So you don't have any right to write off the chance that you'll get married some day. Get a job. Or train for one. Then do your job to the best of your ability. And move out of your parent's place if you haven't already. Get a roommate if you need to. Move to America or Australia or some other country if you need to do that in order to find decent work that can support a family. When you have some money, eat at diners and cafes and flirt with the waitresses. They literally can't avoid engaging in small talk with you, so learn what will make them smile or laugh. Or, if you stay in Berlin, ask your younger sister (once she gets to the appropriate age) to invite you along on outings with her friends. Then talk with her female friends. Don't start out "trying to flirt." Just talk -- and listen. Don't try some stupid pick-up line. And don't desperately suck up. Just listen and respond in a way that shows you're listening and that you're comfortable doing this. What if you're not comfortable doing this? Tough -- pretend you're comfortable until you actually are comfortable, or at least until you can persuasively pretend to be comfortable.
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« Reply #75 on: April 26, 2010, 11:18:PM » |
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The Pope has a cat.
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« Reply #76 on: April 26, 2010, 11:21:PM » |
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The Pope has a cat.
God has lots of them. In fact, they are all His; we just borrow them. |
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I n N omine P atris, E t F ilii, E t S piritus S ancti "The practice of the Church has always been the same, as is shown by the unanimous teaching of the Fathers, who were wont to hold as outside Catholic communion, and alien to the Church, whoever would recede in the least degree from any point of doctrine proposed by her authoritative magisterium" (Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum, no. 9, June 29, 1896). “Wherefore, brethren, labour the more, that by good works you may make sure your calling and election. For doing these things, you shall not sin at any time” (2 Peter 1:10).
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« Reply #77 on: April 26, 2010, 11:30:PM » |
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The Pope has a cat.
God has lots of them. In fact, they are all His; we just borrow them. A beautiful truth simply put. |
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"THE LORD is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear? The Lord is the protector of my life: of whom shall I be afraid?" (Psalm 26:1)
"And we, too, being called by His will in Christ Jesus, are not justified by ourselves, nor by our own wisdom, or understanding, or godliness, or works which we have wrought in holiness of heart; but by that faith through which, from the beginning, Almighty God has justified all men; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen." — Clement, bishop of Rome
"I love truth," says he, "and not sects. I am sometimes a peripatetic, a stoic, or an academician, and often none of them; but—always a Christian. To philosophise is to love wisdom; and the true wisdom is Jesus Christ. Let us read the historians, the poets, and the philosophers; but let us have in our hearts the gospel of Jesus Christ, in which alone is perfect wisdom and perfect happiness." — Petrarch
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« Reply #78 on: April 26, 2010, 11:42:PM » |
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The Pope also wears silk and lace and velvet. I'm not going to recommend that this young man seeking to become a "real man" go out and wear those things. *AFTER* he's proven that he's a "real man" (to himself, if to no one else), then he can buy a cat. But not a fluffy one.
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« Reply #79 on: April 26, 2010, 11:53:PM » |
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 or  yeah, that's a tough one. what kind of a man... |
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The Church is intolerant in principle because she believes;
she is tolerant in practice because she loves.
The enemies of the Church are tolerant in principle because they do not believe;
they are intolerant in practice because they do not love. Timorem Domini docebo vos. |
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