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This Christmas my wife decided to put these big globes covered with tiny lights in the live oak tree in the front yard and in the vines over the swing. The effect was rather enchanting. I tried to take pictures of it but without a tripod I got a lot of blurring. Still… Click through…
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Second in a whenever series. I’m not so sure this one is true but it’s funny: Angst Is Not A Weltanschauung. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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…tell me our new president is not going to own a breed of dog known as the “labradoodle.” Why can’t he just get a basic all-American kind of dog? Like, you know, a German shepherd? Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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Still more from Ratzinger/Benedict’s Christianity and the Crisis of Cultures. The book is concerned with the implications of our modern attempt to create a civilization that denies the existence of God, but much of it applies to the individual as as well as to cultures. Even if I throw in my theoretical lot with agnosticism,…
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Of course everyone in the English-speaking Catholic world knows that “Father Neuhaus” is Father Richard John Neuhaus, editor of First Things and prolific writer, and that he died a couple of days ago. Francesca Murphy mentioned it in a comment (I’m not sure on which post), and I replied that I hadn’t posted anything about…
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At Amazon.com, 104 mp3 tracks, 10 cds' worth, of Ormandy-Philadelphia recordings for $9.99. The selections are not identified by composer but there seem to be a good many complete symphonies and other works, as well as the tidbits one might expect in a collection like this. If you're not a classical music lover but are…
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Mystery Roar from Outer Space The story doesn’t really quite justify the headline (not surprisingly), but it’s still interesting. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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The important word in the quotation in the previous post is the one in italics: rational. You can offer smoke, mirrors, and shouting as an explanation for anything, and a lot of people will be distracted enough by the spectacle to believe you. But you won’t convince anyone who’s thinking clearly. I’m not sure that…
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From a wonderful little book by Ratzinger/Benedict, Christianity and the Crisis of Cultures: It is an obvious fact that the rational character of the universe cannot be explained rationally on the basis of something irrational! It is obvious, though I don’t know that it can be proven, and yet there are many who would deny…
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The following dialog serves as a guide for the correct exchange of greetings between co-workers after the Christmas-New Year holiday break: A: Did you have a good break? B: Yeah, it was nice. How about you? A: Yeah, it was nice. No further information is required or desired, although a supplementary remark about the unpleasantness…
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