This song is on high rotation.
Be yourself
Give your free will a chance
fact?
The word fact derives from the Latin factum. It was first used in English with the same meaning: “a thing done or performed” – a meaning now obsolete outside the law. The common usage of “something that has really occurred or is the case” dates from the mid-16th century.
Wikipedia: Fact
Fact, truth, real, information, evidence are not synonyms.
Love
What’s the one luxury you can’t live without?
Love!
Tagline
If humans had taglines, what would yours be?
I have a tagline on this blog so that might be it for the moment:
The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
my silent rebellion
work of the soul
Abba Theodore of Pherme once complained: “When I was in Scetis, the work of the soul was our real job (ergon), and our handiwork we thought of as a sideline (parergon). But now the work of the soul has become the sideline and the handiwork has become the real job.”
just what if?
… the most dangerous of errors hitherto has been a dogmatist error–namely, Plato’s invention of Pure Spirit and the Good in Itself. … But the struggle against Plato, or–to speak plainer, and for the “people”–the struggle against the ecclesiastical oppression of millenniums of Christianity (FOR CHRISTIANITY IS PLATONISM FOR THE “PEOPLE”)
Nietschze
What if, just what if, there is truth in the above? Has the Christian tradition baptised Plato’s world view? Where is the encounter with Jesus? Where is contemporaneity/presence?
solitary and the “church”
In the carliest, least structured stage of monasticism the lines of “control between the church and the desert monks of Egypt seen to have been highly tenuous, after which their gradual imposition can be traced. Initially, retirement from the world entailed also retirement from the body of the church, since the earliest mont were solitaries. There is evidence too of a strong charismatic tendency among these ascetics which on occasion to served by-pass an important aspect of the authority nexus in the primitive church which was located in the dispensing of sacraments. So of the Egyptian hermits claimed to have received a miraculous distribution of the eucharistic sacraments, and this was representative of a more general devaluing of the church’s sacrame control which was the logical corollary of, if not the general practice of, the desert solitaries.
The Religious Order, 22
John?
In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea, and saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Matthew 3:1-2
By what authority does John the Baptist preach?
burial of the dead
Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.
Book of Common Prayer
In the midst of life we are in death: of whom may we seek for succour, but of thee, O Lord, who for our sins art justly displeased?
Yet, O Lord God most holy, O Lord most mighty, O holy and most merciful Saviour, deliver us not into the bitter pains of eternal death.
Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts; shut not thy merciful ears to our prayer; but spare us, Lord most holy, O God most mighty, O holy and merciful Saviour, thou most worthy Judge eternal, suffer us not, at our last hour, for any pains of death, to fall from thee.
a fool and his prayer book 