I want to see if this account is still current, so I am posting after a long long time off!
Peter

It has been four months and I have not visited here.
No one is missing me, I think!
I don't have much to say now either, except that I have a new blog that is available for anyone who would like to read it and continue the conversation. I will get you the address in just a minute.
Blessings to all.
Peter

noofnoof2
The year is 2015 and the air buzzes. It's been buzzing for years and people can't remember where it came from or what life was like before it existed. There is a scientific explanation for it, but the audience doesn't care because it's too busy sedating itself with bombastic colors and sounds and drugs to try and blot out the buzzing. ( Read more... )

Thursday, February 02, 2006
Happy Groundhog Day

This year, both Groundhog Day and the State of the Union Address fall in the same week.

As Air America Radio pointed out, “It is an ironic juxtaposition: one involves a meaningless ritual in which we look to a creature of little intelligence for prognostication, and the other involves a groundhog

In the Trinity, the Eternal Word is always emerging from the infinite silence of the Father and always returning. The persons in the Trinity live in each other rather than in themselves. The Father knows himself only in the Son, the Son only in the Father and the Spirit expresses their unity, bringing together into One relationships that are ( Read more... )

What is love ( Read more... )

There is an old Buddhist story which I'd like to relate here ( Read more... )

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060126/NEWS10/601260349
try this for an interesting story

well, my general time-tested observation (mixed with what I hope is not an overdose of cynicism) on those who use "jargon and/or arguments that objective reality doesn't exist (or discussions of whether it does)" is that under whatever intellectual pretext or paradigm they present, they often have a painful reason for needing to believe that ( Read more... )

If you consider that there have been an average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq theater of operations during the last 22 months, and a total of 2112 deaths, that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000 ( Read more... )