So I had this story all written out about what happened, but I realized by writing it for the 2 or 3 odd people who read this blog, it would really just be me letting off steam and being passive agressive, so I'm not publishing it in full. ... In short, a person who I was very close to has unfriended me on facebook and blocked me as it were from seeing her posts, etc, and … [Read more...]
Circle of Death
I was watching "Planet Earth" the other night with my mom, we'd just bought it, and it was fascinating how everything in the ecosystem eats each other. The eagles will eat the baby foxes and the foxes will be eating the eggs of the eagles, etc and at one point I saw a fox with 4 baby birds in it's mouth at once to bring back for its children to eat. I was thinking that it … [Read more...]
Aristotle and Aquinas part 1 of many
So I've tried praying for help etc, I've had other people try to give advice and prayer, but in the end God doesn't say anything to me. That's cool, I'm lucky to have revelation at all, but right now it appears my approach to God will always be through the sacraments, reason, and revelation rather than a personal interaction boasted about by most evangelicals I know. But … [Read more...]
Filling the God Shaped Hole with Rum, Porn, and Warcraft
I have far more respect for Muslims, Jews or Protestants who know what they believe and defend it than failed, former or flimsy Catholics who still boast of their Catholicism, but don't know the teachings and reject what they know. It is hypocrisy and arrogance. … [Read more...]