tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post1355131792085188814..comments2024-03-28T20:04:20.286-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: The Endless Search for Questions to Our AnswersGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-48092107129522799442016-09-02T12:00:20.608-07:002016-09-02T12:00:20.608-07:00Julie, I am so glad you have a priest who is invol...Julie, I am so glad you have a priest who is involved in Bible study, etc. I often wonder who are the young men entering seminary that will eventually be the priests in our parishes. Vocations are not encouraged by any Catholic families I know. I also tried to put a focus on vocations in our school and parish, but I guess Malibu is Malibu ;)<br /><br />Our priest is a beautiful person, completely devoted to God and managing the whole parish virtually on his own. He is in his late 60's or so, and does every funeral, wedding, baptism, almost every mass and all the other tasks a priest would normally do. It's really inspiring. And he never phones in the homily. I don't always agree with some of his comments, but he is always fully committed to our parish and each of us.<br /><br />I would like to have apologetics at the Catholic school, but I know Fr. Bill truly believes that going to Mass every week is the best way to go. The community religious coordinator also agrees with this, so it's not just Fr. Bill.<br /><br />I'm going to have a chance to be a religious educator in the formal sense now that I'll be homeschooling the varmint. I have a lot of ideas, and now I've got a guinea pig to try them out on. (I will continue the MA program in the winter, to actually become qualified.) <br />If you have a chance to email, I'd love to hear about your Bible study.<br />Leslie<br />Leslie Godwinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11794375005614166921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-57306307037134804782016-08-31T17:44:58.967-07:002016-08-31T17:44:58.967-07:00Great quote!Great quote!tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07354048695798015131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-81875440879171362002016-08-31T15:58:04.817-07:002016-08-31T15:58:04.817-07:00Ted, that reminds me of a Confucian quote, "E...Ted, that reminds me of a Confucian quote, "Everything has been thought of before. The difficulty is to think of it again."Joan of Argghh!https://www.blogger.com/profile/14729682908266300507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-18175484409822949442016-08-31T13:47:06.590-07:002016-08-31T13:47:06.590-07:00God is a problematic issue so is his creations and...God is a problematic issue so is his creations and the human is charged with the task of understanding and find his way in this sea of complexity, In this sea he was not left without some guides. All prophets came as guides to remind the humans of the supreme unseen force that they needs to seek its help in fulfilling their tasks. Self-artistry as the product of the religious experience is the goal toward accomplishing the task. The paths to him are as many as there are humans, that is why we see all these different religions and in each religion there are so many sects and denominations. The decisive factor in all these inclinations resides in the honest and faithful yearning to accomplish His will and not the seeker personal will. One has to remember as there is faithful mysticism, there is commercial mysticism and the list of the various mysticism is too long to count. One of the basic component of his will is the trust in the lifeafter , a component that is omitted from our so-called religions that is why we see all this insatiable indulgence in the mundane life irrespective of the name we give it. Even the purpose of knowledge has been perverted from knowing god in his demand for truth and justice to the service of the humans in their greediness,exploitation and oppressive power. While we are writing or talking we should not forget the watching eye that will interfere when perversion reach its designated limit, both on personal level and collective and one should not think that god is not aware of what the oppressors are doing but the cycle has not reached its end. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02180761762279054000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-33493625586439449292016-08-31T13:36:52.136-07:002016-08-31T13:36:52.136-07:00"But to say that "X (e.g., science, phil..."But to say that "X (e.g., science, philosophy) is for truth, while religion is for Y (e.g., consolation, anxiety, meaning)," is to guarantee the development of Split Cosmos Syndrome. It creates an insurmountable bifurcation in the world and in the soul. One becomes an implicit or explicit cartesian, with no way to reunite body and soul, matter and psyche, subject and object."<br /><br />Yep. And, being that is Cartesian, you can also be sure that it is arbitrary - how else do you redefine Religion's historic (going back to Aristotle and beyond) concern with ultimate truth, into... whichever? Only via arbitrary doubts, assumptions, and assertions.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-44329277559585636062016-08-31T11:44:42.614-07:002016-08-31T11:44:42.614-07:00It is as if the right brain runs ahead of the left...<i>It is as if the right brain runs ahead of the left, the latter of which searches for confirmation of what the former has intuited.</i><br /><br />This is exactly what creativity feels like to me in my best moments. It's as if whatever I want to do is already conceived. I just need to fill the details in.tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07354048695798015131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-84288506814966759122016-08-31T10:31:44.204-07:002016-08-31T10:31:44.204-07:00Well said.Well said.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-57467667223911323862016-08-31T10:26:24.771-07:002016-08-31T10:26:24.771-07:00Reminds me of a song called Joy by Harry Nilsson:
...Reminds me of a song called Joy by Harry Nilsson:<br /><br />Now, if you haven't got an answer, you'd never have a question / And if you never had a question, then you'd never have a problem / But if you never had a problem, well everyone would be happy / But if everyone was happy, there'd never be a love song<br /><br />Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00911613613759942690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-67879843425518534742016-08-31T10:23:30.312-07:002016-08-31T10:23:30.312-07:00Paradoxically, to (explicitly) conceive a good pro...<i>Paradoxically, to (explicitly) conceive a good problem is to already (implicitly) perceive its solution:</i><br /><br />Like a puzzle piece; the shape and color of its empty edge tells you what the missing complement ought to look like, at least partially.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-18634404434397099472016-08-31T10:14:48.662-07:002016-08-31T10:14:48.662-07:00My wife tried to raise this issue with the parish ...<i>My wife tried to raise this issue with the parish priest (a very nice man), but he waved it aside, essentially saying that the heart is all that matters. </i><br /><br />That is really unfortunate. I've been truly blessed in the parish we have; there's a priest newly assigned to us who not only encourages, but actively participates in the Bible study whenever he can. He's talked about starting a Saturday morning study as well. One of the observations we hear there, over and over, is how even (or especially) people who have been Catholic since birth really didn't understand their faith. Even before Vatican II; back then, they just mumbled along with the Latin while composing shopping lists in their heads. It's heartbreaking, in a way; there is <i>so much</i> intellectual depth to be found, but who finds it in their church?juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.com