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[napoleonofnerds]

I think the Catholic habit of singing patriotic hymns on Memorial Day weekend and the first reading from Sunday (from Acts 8, the founding of the Church in Samaria, leaving out Simon Magus) form a good basis for talking about something that's been on my mind

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[l33tspike]

Hey. This is some pretty good writin'.

[napoleonofnerds]

Thanks. :)

[karcy]

Hey, how are you over there? I had a dream about you and felt that I needed to reach you. Reply?

[napoleonofnerds]

Sorry, I tried to reply to this earlier and must have closed the tab too quickly or something.

I'm alive. Not doing great, but I'm alive and unharmed.

[karcy]

:)

I intend to meet you RL one day. Hopefully, it won't be too long.

[napoleonofnerds]

That would be wicked cool.

[reginaterrae]

This post pretty much sums up why I would like to add you to my friends list (despite totally disagreeing with you on exempting religiously-based institutions from insurance coverage for birth control!). The content, and the thought process, and the way it's expressed. Also this sentence from the previous post: When you demand empirical proof for everything you eliminate most of what it means to be human; love, hope, beauty, attraction, longing, commitment, despair, delirium, delight, loyalty, outrage, justice, joy, honor, arousal, angst, duty, depression, trust, agony, ecstasy, awe, oratory, contentment, courage, pride, poetry, rage, horror, euphoria, dysphoria, weltzschmerz, friendship, serenity, desire, dreams, grief, guilt, and glory are all entirely without empirical warrant and none are subject to logical proof. I like you because you are a Catholic who is very intellectual, but who does not think all answers can be found - or maybe more to the point, practiced - by relying on the intellect alone. Also that like me,

[napoleonofnerds]

If agreeing politically is important to you in a livejournal friend, unfriend me. Seriously, my politics are zany, off the wall, and often change based on my mood, which is saying quite a lot when you're bipolar. You are totally welcome, I'd love to have you here, but if lack of strident dissent is important to you, turn back.

You'll also find quite a lot of entries related to mental illness. You may like them, you may not, but fair warning.

[reginaterrae]

I've had my own mental health-or-the-lack-thereof issues. Is this why so many of the people I am drawn to enough to add to my friends list turn out to be mentally ill? Yeah, it's OK.