Posted on 01/29/2010 4:41:16 PM PST by NYer
And yes, it's pretty much always warm in St. Simons. They had snow there ONCE - some time in the early 80s iirc. People made videos and SOLD them!
Hope you're doing o.k. with the snow. We got nothing - only a cold rain. Need to call daughter & make sure she's having fun. She meant to take her sled back to college with her, but didn't . . . they'll probably all have to steal trays from the cafeteria.
Ralph McInerny, the mystery writer and philosophy professor, has died. Rats! He was only 81, should have taken better care of himself.
(my mom is 84 and my dad is 86, and they certainly have lived large!)
We used the cafeteria trays (on the Interstate ramps!) when San Antonio got the snow in, iirc, January of 1985. Davidson is hillier than my area. If they’ve got this ice-mix, they’ll have plenty of sliding.
We’re huddled inside playing card games and listening to Jimmy Buffett.
There is a huge hill right behind the Davidson 'Commons' a/k/a 'the cafeteria', it runs all the way down to fraternity row. I'm sure it's covered with undergraduates right now.
At least she took her snow pants back to school!
I know, I was joking. But people who write books I like should live longer.
I always felt that C.S. Lewis died too young and we could have gotten a lot more books out of him!
My daughter had to read it and hated it too. Nobody in her class liked it.
The best ones are almost paper thin, very delicate, but with enough ginger to clear your sinuses, lol. Just the right balance of sweet and burn. They don’t ship well, being so fragile. There are some pretty decent online recipes so you can bake your own, if you want.
The most evocative Moravian thing for me is their beeswax candles. That scent really transports me to a warmer, better place, safe and loved in childhood.
There were a couple of people on the obit thread saying positive things about it. Others liked some of Salinger’s short stories. Who knows, they might be good ... I’ve got other things to read.
I remember that snow. My dad was in Jamaica on business and it even snowed there; he called to tell us about the snow, and that they were ringing all the church bells down there, running around saying it was the end of the world.
You’re right about shipping...the ones I’m munching on are all broken. They are, after all, “The World’s Thinnest Cookies”.
And later, I’ll munch on the cheese thingys she sent. Makes me pine for NC from out here in CA.
You’re right about shipping...the ones I’m munching on are all broken. They are, after all, “The World’s Thinnest Cookies”.
And later, I’ll munch on the cheese thingys she sent. Makes me pine for NC from out here in CA.
Someone on WDTPRS called him the last of the Old Guard of Notre Dame Catholics.
***2” of ice? You’re very fortunate to still have electricity.***
About an inch of ice here and eight inches of snow. I still have electriciy, all I have to do is stick my head out the door, and if I hear the a hum of the wires I know that BipolarBob is on the job! (private joke).;-D
Where are you? I’m about 30 miles south of the VA border, northwest of Greensboro.
Largely, I do. Remember though that heretic means "one who disagrees with the Catholic Church". It is not a swear word, it is a technical term that I apply in its primary meaning.
Protestantism is heresy.
Now, there is a finer point sometimes made: that there is a difference between informed heretic -- one who sticks to a heresy while fully informed of both the correct teaching and the nature of the heresy, -- and a follower of a heresy who never had a chance or desire to learn and make an informed judgement.
This difference speaks to the culpability of an individual believer. The informed heretic leads into heresy; the uninformed one merely follows. But the belief is still either is or is not heretical. The moral obligation is still on the uninformed heretic to get himself better informed.
In America, as in most majority-protestant countries, it is difficult to become fully informed of the heretical nature of Protestantism, since it is only the Church that would be doing the teaching. The Church, however, is caricatured to the point beyond all recognition. As Archbishop Fulton Sheen once said on his TV program, (I paraphrase), very few Protestants disagree with the Catholic Church. Nearly all, however, disagree with what they think the Catohlic Church teaches. The problem is, the Catholic Church also disagrees with what the Protestants think the Catholic Church teaches. Since then, things went significantly downhill: it is hard to imagine a Catholic bishop having a regularly scheduled program on a major TV network today, while American society is on its way to losing its Christian character altogether.
Very often, in the process of conversion, the convert says: -- "How is this theology Catholic? I always believed that!"
So, to summarize, when I call someone whom I barely know a heretic, I of course have no way of knowing how well informed his adherence to the heresy is. If a conversation develops, for example, on FR, I often see great commonality of intuitive Catholic belief, -- that would be because Protestantism exists on a Catholic foundation, -- and I see a fierce resistance to a few poorly understood sticking points. So for the most part these are not well informed heretics, they just hold to heretical beliefs.
And the funny thing about it was that it missed Atlanta almost completely. Most of the snow was to our south and east, we just got a dusting while they were building snowmen in St. Simons.
***Where are you?***
NW Arkansas.
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