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Eric Scheske

From the Notebooks

Good Christians are many, if it weren't for all those people: the whiners, the manipulators, the crooks, the liars, the heretics, the greedy. But Christ put up with all of them and remained sinless. The Bible recounts disciple buffoonery and selfishness, yet Christ communed with them, loved them,

From the Notebooks

I liked Napoleon Dynamite. I found it funny, at times hilarious, both in its scenes and the utter inanity of it all. Yet people I respect (and who used to respect me, I gather) can't fathom its humor. They're simply in awe that anyone, much less

From the Notebooks: Feature Piece

Theology for the Acquisitive Culture "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and decay destroy, and thieves break in and steal. But store up treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor decay destroys, not thieves break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there

Something for Sunday Morning

"Sad looks spring from egoism, from thinking about oneself to the exclusion of others, from laziness in one's work, from lack of mortification, from the search for small self-indulgences, from carelessness in one's relationship with God." Francis Fernandez

Brews You Can Use

Christmas tree made up of Heineken beer bottles in Vietnam last year [http://www.realbeer.com/holidayblog/?p=132]. [http://www.realbeer.com/holidayblog/?p=132] __________ [http://www.realbeer.com/holidayblog/?p=132] The best reason to diet yet: So you don't have to drink this stuff. A

From the Notebooks

There seems to be two types of voluntary seclusionists, the hermit and the loner. The hermit is the person who seeks solitude for religious reasons. The loner is his secular counterpart, a person who seeks seclusion but not for religious reasons. I am mostly interested in the loner because there

Wednesday Miscellany

Smile: You're not an island, and sin is not isolate. What you do makes a difference, whether you know it or not. Science is beginning to get it: happiness is contagious [http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/christakis_fowler08/christakis_fowler08_index.html] . > "We found that

From the Notebooks

The Catholic Evolutionist on LSD I was there when It happened, back when history really started, when memories began to do more than log instincts, when art started and language took its first steps to bridge minds, when evolution ended and living began. Don't ask me how I

Something for Sunday Morning

"God also asks us to live without ostentation, without wanting to be heroes. He wants us to lead simple, ordinary lives, trying to do good to everyone and carrying out our duties honestly." Francis Fernandez

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