Miscellaneous

In today's idiom, it is common to use the word "it" when describing the sexual act or related things. It reminds me of beatnik hero in Jack Kerouac's On the Road named Rollo Greb, a “wild, ecstatic” man who “didn't give a

You can trace almost every Protestant sect today back to five branches: 1. Lutheran 2. Reform 3. Radical 4. Anglican 5. Pentecostal The first three were in existence within a few years after 1517 and had already started splintering among themselves a few years after that. Anglican in less than

H.I.F. A rumor on Twitter says Mister Rogers, a Presbyterian minister, took last rites from a monk. This article by Mike Aquilina [https://angelusnews.com/news/mike-aquilina/the-catholics-in-mister-rogers-neighborhood] offers details about Mister Rogers' extensive ties to Catholicism, but doesn't

I'm posting this simply because I really like the picture. It's pretty: > This is what happens when you don't renew @DavidWondrich [https://twitter.com/DavidWondrich?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]'s contract: @esquire [https://twitter.com/esquire?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] has the

From the Notebooks While returning to Europe with Sigmund Freud from a conference in the United States in 1909, Carl Jung had the most-famous nocturnal dream of the twentieth century. He dreamed he was in a medieval house. He went down into a vaulted Gothic room, then into the

NEW PODCAST EPISODE RELEASED: Detachment. The first rule of the spiritual life. [https://www.eudemonpodcast.com/the-weekly-eudemon/2019/7/14/episode-38-detachment]

> A quiet day at the mall. Walking around, unnoticed, until someone yells, “Hey, it's Pat Sajak!” Then pandemonium: handshakes, pictures, autographs. I'm almost sorry I yelled. > — Pat Sajak (@patsajak) July 15, 2019 [https://twitter.com/patsajak/status/1150866959212433410?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]

> On July 16th, 1212, at the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa, King Alfonso VIII “the Noble” of Castile led an outnumbered Catholic coalition to victory against the Almohad Caliphate–marking a turning point in the Reconquista. [https://www.reddit.com/r/Catholicism/comments/cdvqci/on_july_16th_1212_

Miscellaneous Rambling The French Revolution ate its own. Zmirak thinks the same thing might be happening with today's left [https://stream.org/justice-democrats-have-stormed-the-bastille/]. Let's hope he's right. Excerpt: > Ocasio-Cortez was put in place by the quasi-Marxist