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Let us glaze our arses…
Sometimes, our brains race ahead of our ability to communicate with human language, and words get switched around in a sentence. It is something akin to the order of letters in words being inverted, yet they are legible if the … Continue reading
Hanged by the neck until dead
There is a discussion on capital punishment on The hanging judge… and Death, part two… I think I have discussed this moral problem to an extent on this blog. Just type keywords into the search box, or look at the … Continue reading
Et in Arcadia Ego II
It just goes to show… I tend to regurgitate old stuff and add subtle things to old posts. See Et in Arcadia Ego. At my age, I tend to go on with the same fundamental thoughts. I arrived at Fr Montgomery’s … Continue reading
With the passing years…
I have been delighted to find this video on Fr Quintin Montgomery Wright, which dates from 1988. Two indicators, his age of 74 and the controversy in that year over the four episcopal consecrations conferred by Archbishop Lefebvre. No one … Continue reading
The Conservative Rhetoric
Perhaps if I didn’t read it, I wouldn’t get steamed up about it… Perhaps this applies as much to me as to the conservatives who are hammering on about abortion, euthanasia, same-sex “marriage”, transsexualism, etc. Going round some of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Conservatism / Liberalism, Moral questions, Pastoral matters, Reflections, Spirituality
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Apparitions
Rad Trad has just put up a posting on apparitions – Josephology Appendix 1: Apparitions & Visitations. It is often a tiresome subject when people for whom faith, belief and religion are an external mask that affirms their personal agendas. … Continue reading
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Tagged Apparitions, Mysticism, Reflections, Religious pathology, Science, Spirituality, Transcendence
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Fashion
My attention has sometimes been attracted to a phenomenon called Steampunk, and I got something of an exposure to it when I visited Jules Verne’s house in Amiens. Fascination for things from the nineteenth century is a two-edged sword. One … Continue reading
Flattering…
In my statistics page, I have found sailing forums in Italy and Australia referring to my page on the Huntingford Helm Impeder. It is a simple home-made device for holding the helm of a boat when the skipper needs both … Continue reading
Rapture!
I follow on from my previous article on anti-intellectualism. It is obviously not a new problem, nor is it American. There are many fascinating themes in the works of the recently deceased Umberto Eco. The one many of us know … Continue reading
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Tagged Conservatism / Liberalism, Psychology, Religious pathology, Romanticism, Spirituality
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Anti-Intellectualism
I noticed a posting by my fellow priest Fr Jonathan Munn – Biblical Balderdash on the question of Christians who call themselves “Bible-believing”. I have tended to beat a drum about fundamentalism and other “diseased” forms of religion, and was … Continue reading
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Tagged Conservatism / Liberalism, Philosophy, Politics, Reflections, Religious pathology
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The Blue Flower 