Today is the liturgical celebration of Candlemas / Presentation of Christ in the Temple. It is called candlemas after Simeon's phrase "light to the revelation of the Gentiles" describing Jesus and so people lit candles starting in the 11th century (allegedly, who knows when really) this tradition.In practice of my Latin I'll post the Vulgate and then my terrible … [Read more...]
Random Ramblings
Today we watched the majority of "The Madness of King George" and I thought it was an excellent film. Some interesting things I noted from it, were George III's love for clergymen, and his comment at one point he referenced "the Liturgy of our Lord and served at the Lord's table" and used the title "parson" which all seems to indicate to me the Reformed/Calvinistic nature of … [Read more...]
Anarchy, Life a Joke?, and Thora Birch
I talked with my dad about politics tonight after dinner. It was the first conversation we've had where we didn't fight since January. I didn't say it, but I finally realized that I'm basically an anarchist or at the most a socialist when it comes to State authority. I think the institution of the State is a joke. What pretended authority could it have? I actually think … [Read more...]
Names
I've been thinking about names recently and what it means to be 'branded' with one. I tried to Latinize mine. Andrus Petrus Cottrillus in the nominative (I made Andrew ; Andru so that it was a 4th declension noun, there's now 'ew' ending nouns in Latin). I was looking up names I saw in the Twilight Saga, and found the meaning of some like "Esme" being the old French for "To … [Read more...]
A Cold Walk, Twilight/New Moon, Wikihow, and Unfinished Homework
I was home alone tonight and I sat down to watch Top Gear with some Butterscotch ice cream. When I looked down at myself. I was feeling particularly obese, so I threw my ice cream out...all of it. I went through the act in my mind to evaluate it ethically. It was objectively a bad action (wasting food) but the motive (moderation) was good and the situation was good (I'm … [Read more...]