There's a line in a movie I love that's "let them rest, for in dreams we enter a world entirely our own, let them climb the highest mountain and swim in the deepest ocean" (HP:POA). An apologist once said to me the in the post-modern era man is not content to survive in or conquer the world, but wishes to create a world of his own. I think dreams are a perfect anti-thesis to … [Read more...]
Guernica: Picasso and the Spanish Civil War
So I watched something on the history channel a while back about famous bombings where many civilians were killed, and alot of it horrified me. There was one bombing in the Spanish civil war that was terrible. Thousands were killed and even in the rubble they were bombed. I just found out Pablo Picasso painted a work called "Guernica" (which I think was the city's name) about … [Read more...]
Things I really want to do today but won't be able to
I've been wanting to update this blog more frequently but I don't ever seem to have anything insightful or funny to say, so i'd try this. In History we have to examine lists of all the crap people owned and then tell about their life. So if historians of the '2008-(whenever it ends) Depression' they might use this for kids to be forced to read. Plus I just feel better about … [Read more...]
Marriage
As a kid and a teenager I always assumed I'd get married, but in the last year I've actually for the first time thought about the probability that I will be single or celibate. I have to say that marriage doesn't seem as amazing in many ways as it used to. Everytime I thought about marriage in the past the selling points were always 'sex' and 'someone either bringing in money … [Read more...]
groaning spirits
"In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words with out a heart." - John Bunyan"The best prayers have often more groans than words." - John BunyanI think these two might be the same passage but translated from middle english differently."the moment we get tired in the waiting, God's Spirit is right alongside helping us along. If we don't know how or what to … [Read more...]
