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"I do not see what more can be desired than poverty linked with an active
leisure." Albert Camus
Eric Scheske
On Mirth
When humor returns, sanity comes with it. Maybe the insane era of political
correctness is nearing an end. Not only have comedians been poking fun at it for
a few years, but even academicians are getting into the act. To wit, The Mirth
of Nations by sociologist Christie Davies, who
The Paradox of Wealth
When is a person monetarily wealthy?
The question is inherently relative. A person living in a housing project or in
the poor hills of Appalachia is wealthy compared to the average person in many
parts of Africa. A person considered rich in my small town of Sturgis, Michigan
would probably
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"In order to arrive at having pleasure in everything, desire to have pleasure in
nothing. In order to arrive at possessing everything, desire to possess
nothing." John of the Cross
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"I suppose I divide people into two classes: the Irksome and the Non-Irksome.
Yes and there are the Medium Irksome and the Rare Irksome." Flannery O'Connor
Devil's Feast
Excerpted from my article in the March/April 2001 issue of The Catholic Answer:
The full terror of Jesus' death is well magnified by looking at it through the
prism of diabolic vengeance: Jesus took Satan's beating. Jesus, Full Being
incarnate and therefore Full Goodness incarnate, was
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“We cannot live without ascribing some meaning to our existence, or act without
ascribing some goal to our activity; when philosophy no longer provides men with
satisfactory answers to those questions, the only means they still have to
escape skepticism and despair are moralism, or mysticism, or some combination of
After Forty Days
"Jesus brought Satan to a standstill. He alone was able to stare him down. To
the extent that we succeed in looking with Christ's eyes, we too shall see him;
to the extent that Christ's heart and spirit become alive in us, we shall
dominate
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A woman wrote to me the other day in response to my article on the f-word. She
wrote: "I think most of the seemingly perplexing uses of fuck can be explained
in this way: Fuck is an intensifier. It delivers a thought in bold italics, or
all caps,
Silence
"Silence puts man to the test."
"That is what silence itself is: holy uselessness."
"The mark of the Divine in things is preserved by their connection with the
world of silence."
"The man who lacks the substance of silence is oppressed by the