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Vatican: "Aliens Could Exist"
Link from the BBC News website here.
My favorite part:
"Father Funes, director of the Vatican Observatory near Rome, is a respected scientist who collaborates with universities around the world.
The search for forms of extraterrestrial life, he says, does not contradict belief in God.
The official Vatican newspaper headlines his article 'Aliens ( Read more... ) -
This should be an interesting writing exercise.
Everyone has things they blog about. Everyone has things they don’t blog about. Challenge me out of my comfort zone by telling me something I don’t blog about, but you’d like to hear about, and I’ll write a post about it. Ask for anything: latest movie watched, last book read, political leanings, thoughts on tv, favorite type of underwear, stories ( Read more... ) -
All I can say is that my life is pretty plain
"No Rain" by Bind Melon
All I can say is that my life is pretty plain
I like watchin' the puddles gather rain
And all I can do is just pour some tea for two
and speak my point of view
But it's not sane,
It's not sane
I just want someone to say to me
I'll always be there when you wakeYa know I'd like to keep my cheeks dry today ( Read more... ) -
Ayn Rand on Objectivism
"My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute."
Atlas ShruggedMessy details aside ("potentially significant psychological hazards" in the practice of Objectivism, criticism of some ( Read more... ) -
He Said, She Said; or Things That One Learns From People When All One Does Is Listen, Really
It was all very simple in the beginning, maybe even boring. One of life's many formulas applies here: A Boy + A Girl. They started as instant snap-of-the-finger friends, as per the press release afterward ( Read more... ) -
These are a few of my favorite things
Yesterday I got to buy some sandalwood and hydrangea aromatherapy candles for the bathrooms that we're going to be subjected to on our planned backpacking trip through Cambodia (yay!). I thought of the word I picked up from an old Readers Digest issue last week.
bobo (n): bourgeois bohemian
In the evening Anna, Mark and I went to watch The ( Read more... ) -
Careening
I went to mass today. It's Ash Wednesday and that means that I today I got to walk around with a dirty face ( Read more... ) -
From listening to a friend on a random long-distance phone call received after hours, at work.
You know it's love when you rip out your own heart and lay it willingly on the chopping block and the knife never comes crashing down but still you wait, and wait, and wait.
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And now, a meme. (in evil Betty voice)
Stolen from Bunny.
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