Category: A Sampler of Posts
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The Dawkins delusion.
Amy has a link up to a debate between Richard Dawkins, atheist author of The God Delusion (yes, I know, he is also a biologist author of many excellent books about evolutionary science, including one that I like very much, but when you write a book called The God Delusion, you must be speaking either…
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Hot air.
My husband is being haunted by the ghost of Buckminster Fuller. I admit I didn’t know that much about the guy. If it weren’t for buckyballs, I might never have really noticed or cared that he is credited with the invention of the geodesic dome. I suppose that, up till a couple of days ago,…
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No experiments here.
I was helping Hannah pack boxes in her living room when I came across a plastic box containing what looked like someone’s forgotten snack. "Ew, what’s this?" She came over and peeked in the box. "Oh, it’s the mummification project!" I looked at her quizzically and she took it from me and showed me how…
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I wish I had been able to do this when I was studying for my oral prelim.
Going through our homemade phonics flashcards today: ou, ie, th, ck, ch, oy, oe, or, ar. ou as in "pronounce" was a new one, introduced yesterday. Oscar turned it over and stared at it for several seconds. I started to give him the answer and he held up a hand to stop me, screwing up…
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A desecration.
In Lynn, Massachusetts, just north of Boston, the Eucharist has been stolen: "It is gravely sacrilegious," said [Rev. James] Gaudreau, after learning that the thieves made off with communion hosts. "We believe (the hosts) are the body and blood of Christ," Gaudreau said. The hosts were locked inside the tabernacle located on the first floor…
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A very surreal self-discovery.
Happy Catholic links to an article about synesthesia and also to an earlier post about her daughter Hannah’s type of synesthesia: I was at out with my daughters, Hannah and Rose, recently when Hannah suddenly turned to us and said, "When I hear words it means a kind of food in my head." We said,…
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Three things that become or are equated to body, or flesh, one way or another.
Genesis 2:24: …a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife, and the two of them become one body [some translations: "one flesh."] John 1:14: And the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us… John 6:51, coupled with 1 Corinthians 11:23-24: …the bread that I will give is my flesh…
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What it might mean to love Jesus.
When I read this meditation from Our World and Welcome To It, I knew I had to blog it—just so I wouldn’t forget it: But what does it mean to love Jesus more than yourself? …[h]ow would one really know that they love Jesus more than themselves? Do you love Jesus more than your spouse,…
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Gotten, and begotten.
I’ve been obsessively checking Chez Miscarriage for weeks, hoping I wouldn’t miss her baby’s birth story. It’s up now; look now, because it may be gone later. The author keeps no archives, so I’ve pieced my understanding of her history together from snippets I read in the comments. From what I can tell, the author…
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Better to give than receive—this stuff anyway.
I wish I could take out an advertisement in every church bulletin in the archdiocese with the following message: Dear well-meaning person, Please do not donate any clothing that you, yourself, would not want to be seen in. Also refrain from donating broken toys. Thanks ever so much. Sincerely, Your Favorite Charity Today, at the…
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Short Communication: “On Toast.”
It is unquestionably evident that the peanut butter toast must be bisected twice along the diagonal. This produces four (4) isosceles right triangles, in the case of square toast. (Applying this method to rectangular toast produces two obtuse and two acute triangles, which does not affect the following analysis.) Experiments indicate that the triangles are,…
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Who was that Melchizidek guy again?
Mark and I are in a couples’ study group associated with our former parish. We are reading the Catechism of the Catholic Church, in chunks rather than in a progression through the book; so, for example, we just finished a study of the seven sacraments. Holy Orders was tough for us to understand, in part…
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