February 2012
219 posts
So many thoughts, and words that pile up at the end of my fingertips, and then I don’t remember what I was going to say. The snow is falling! There is actual snow here. It’s strange to be excited about it. I spend a lot of these evenings alone down in this green chair, listening to the dishwasher. This house is a break from anything, like I can just sit here, and think about the...
Why can't watching Doctor Who be a scholarly...
Questions like, salvation, and what is with first declension masculine nouns? These days end up being stranger than I thought. I wrote earlier that it is like standing somewhere in between and close. But where and to what?
It’s late and I always end up sleeping more than I want. Things should go slower. Tomorrow I’ll read Augustine or Wright and work through adjectives and 1st decl....
Benedict Cumberbatch looks strangely like my ex.
I think it always throws me off a bit.
But other than that bit of strange observation, this show is friggen amazing. And soon! I’ll have Doctor Who Series 6 all for myself! What am I going to do when I don’t have any British shows left?
I really like that Benedict Cumberbatch (what a name) is playing Smaug, and the Necromancer. I...
I started watching Sherlock
and I’m two minutes in and already completely in love.
Today is a Greek day. Taking my time, learning passive voice and feminine first declension nouns. I love working through words and flipping through pages, internalizing definitions and getting closer to being able to read Scripture.
I wish time would stop going by so fast. Yesterday we talked about our future families in at a table in a Costco, somewhere near the interstate in Madison Heights....
The best thing about taking religion and culture courses, is the fact that I can use scripture to back up my arguments.
I really like that, it makes me excited for things to come. Right now, it is the history of blood sacrifice, post-Temple Judaism, and post-blood sacrifice religions. Interesting stuff.
I’m so close to finishing. And that means Greek, and Augustine, and things that warm...
Replacements for "Cool story, bro"
raycholle:
Fascinating discourse, chum
Riveting fable, comrade
Intriguing anecdote, brethren
Perpetuating argument, colleague
Sweet saga, yo
Waste of time, jerk
Spellbinding reiteration there, my chummy
Phantasmagorical novelization, oh great one
Interesting intellect, imbecile
Trepidating bore, fetus
Ballin’ gossip, dawg
I wonder about academic writing that I actually don’t care about, believe in, or have any motivation to complete. Are those three things necessary for writing? I always just assumed so. Write what you know, they say. The thing is, I know this. I know how the almost-sacrifice of Isaac represents violence. I know about dehumanization, I feel like they are doing it to me. Take the human out of...
I’m not a good debater.
And is it all doctrine, or is religion really what Chesterton would have it be, that is to say a love affair?
I think I prefer that to arguing about the role (and existence) of sanctifying and actual graces. I learned more theology and doctrine tonight than I have in the majority of my life.
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today
I did no work, up until this point. Well, work that actually counts for grades. Today I learned about:
Catholicism and justification
grace, and its many meanings
Mariology
intercessory prayer
Eucharist
infallibility
that it has not been just me who feels called to the Catholic church, but it seems that the majority of the convert stories I read or hear start with a description of a clear...
home home
There isn’t any snow here! Oh, southern Ontario you are strange.
Reading so much about Catholicism, telling my parents sometime this week. That’s perhaps the most worrisome.
It’s good to be home.
In London, lying on the floor of my grandmother’s art studio. She paints oils and it smells like art in here. It’s that kind of smell that comes loaded with things past.
The train ride, the strain of my mind to explain, make sense of, and I wish I could make known everything that I thought of in that empty train car.
I wish I were back in my cave because it’s surprising how...
