Posted on 01/27/2007 7:29:03 PM PST by Rb ver. 2.0
K. posts all kinds of things that sound *really* deep. Although I have excellent reading comprehension, there are some things I simply can't grasp amid the turmoil of my daily condition.
In my Retirement Years, I will cultivate long hair and read the Greek Fathers :-).
I will endeavor to translate. Pat and James should be okay, but Vlad and Wednesday are on their own.
"K. posts all kinds of things that sound *really* deep. Although I have excellent reading comprehension, there are some things I simply can't grasp amid the turmoil of my daily condition."
Something which I have never posted is that man has a dual nature of any sort. In the great heresy list Pat is keeping, D is for Dualism and M is for Manichianism.
Well, you guys can sort it out. D was for Donatist, last I heard, but the alphabet is very flexible.
I need to bundle up in my shawl with five shades of orange and head off to Mass with Anoreth and Sally. Is there a heresy for "Oh, no, that hurts my eyes!"?
"Is there a heresy for "Oh, no, that hurts my eyes!"?"
In Greek we call it "Matti-ism"; it relates to giving people the Evil Eye. :)
Okay. I'll post it, but it won't exactly be an original thought.
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Man has a dual nature. He is, at the same time, animalistic in many processes. We eat and excrete, we live and die, we bring forth new life and witness the passing of the old.
No doubt many believe that is all there is to life, and seem motivated to grasp at everything they wish to possess, regardless of consequence.
What a limited world view! Man has another side as well. Even something so prosaic as the study of mathematics is a glorious accomplishment in comparison with the best of the animal kingdom.
I'd stack the Pythagorean Theorem up against enormous termite mounds or the great barrier reef any day.
Some of us even delve into this second nature to the neglect of the primary things. So-called ascetics who would rather explore mental and spiritual issues than partake of nourishing sustenance.
I would submit that our physical nature is a corollary to a vehicle which takes us farther and faster than we can proceed on our own. We provide the vehicle with the things needed for its proper functioning, and the fuel it requires, but otherwise, its purpose is to get us where we want to go.
So you always have to ask yourself, "Where do you want to go?"
Well put.
Do you make a rude gesture, like the Italians and Mexicans?
It seems you gentlemen disagree, but that's okay. Have some Cuban black beans and grilled plantain, and pray for the conversion of Fidel Castro!
K didn't say he disagreed with me, he just said he hadn't posted that thought. If we agreed about everything, we wouldn't need to talk.
I am hoping that Castro gets converted very soon, and that Hugo Chavez follows him soon after.
(Did you check your mail?)
I did, but just took a glance before I had to go wash up from the Cuban beans. YUMMY! I think five of us NC FReepers made Cuban beans this evening; maybe it's a political omen ...
I'll have to check my "Healthy Latin Cooking" book for Venezuelan recipes, so we can cook Chavez into a state of repentance!
Guess they will apologize to murders next.
That's the REAL apology that is needed--followed by repentance and an end to gaysbian/feminazi undermining!!!!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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