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This used to be a "private" entry, but now I guess everyone can read it.
Mannn, while snooping through facebook, I happened across Crecenzo Scipione's page. What a masterpiece. His political views read "Radical Leftist Revolutionary Communist Anarchism". I suspected that to be ironic, but it wasn't. Oh well. I suppose it is good for someone to have intense ideas and beliefs. I suppose it is good for someone to be well ( Read more... ) -
Idea #2 with doubts
Let's imagine two Catholics about to get married. This marriage they are about to go into is something specific. It's a sacrament within the Christian community under the authority of the [Catholic] Church; with its own distinct qualities, restrictions, and obligations. There are other things that the couple could imagine being called "marriage ( Read more... ) -
Verbal Isolation
"Cullinane is an activist with Sinn Fein, the small party seen as the political arm of the Irish Republican Army through the long years of civil war in Northern Ireland. Today Sinn Fein is a gathering point for naysayers.
These nationalists are joined by some ultra-conservative church members, who fear the possibility that abortion, currently ( Read more... ) -
wisdom
Interesting quotes from reading of the last month ( Read more... ) -
Forced March
In 1885 the U.S. manufacturer Parke-Davis sold cocaine in various forms, including cigarettes, powder, and even a cocaine mixture that could be injected directly into the user’s veins with the included needle. The company promised that its cocaine products would “supply the place of food, make the coward brave, the silent eloquent and... render the ( Read more... ) -
St Apollonia
Yesterday a kid named Mark was trying to decide what to do with his Friday night. "I'd flip a coin, to decide between these two things," he said, "but I don't have a coin." I suggested that he look on the ground and see if he could find a coin on our walk back from the student union to our dormitory. If there were more than one coin, then the ( Read more... ) -
I tried to think hard today.
"If I am a coward, I can claim that I am not responsible for my commitment- my childhood conditioning, my friends, my inborn temperament, my teachers are responsible for what I am and what I do. If I face my existence authentically, however, I must recognize that I and I alone respond, and the response I make is exactly my responsibility."
HMM.
