February 2010
101 posts
My Friends
[name withheld]: So had a conversation about how amazing your whole stinking family is and I was thinking . . . Do you have any cute cousins you can [put me in touch] with?
January 2010
163 posts
“[A] theory is committed to those and only those entities to which the bound...”
– Willard Van Orman Quine, “On What There Is”
“Not only do we not know God except through Jesus Christ; we do not even know...”
– Blaise Pascal, Pensées
“Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.”
– St. Francis of Assisi
Fish Tank Post: Where Were We in Haiti? →
Here it is.
This Is the Title of a Typical Incendiary Blog... →
“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be...”
– Robert Lee Frost, “The Road Not Taken”
Divine Sovereignty and the Horror in Haiti →
The World of a 5 Year Old... →
Schnittpunkt
The German word for “intersection” is “Schnittpunkt.”
Self-Control and Peer Groups →
A Mentor by Mail →
“Our virtues are most often merely vices in disguise.”
– François de La Rochefoucauld, Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales
“It is understandable, therefore, that the movement to stop global warming has...”
– Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, Superfreakonomics, pg 170 (via jumonge)
Barcelona
Nine months after a big soccer game…birth rates in Barcelona go up 45%.
Ku'umba
Joseph: We should do Lily in the Valley.
Jeremiah: i don't know it. and what is this for? i can't sing.
Joseph: I thought you were in Ku'umba?
Jeremiah: no auditions lol
State of the Union Drinking Game 2010 →
I don’t endorse drinking games, but this is funny.
Panjandrum
panjandrum \pan-JAN-druhm, noun: 1. An important personage or pretentious official.
Overheard at Harvard
Anonymous Girl 1: What's your thesis about?
Anonymous Girl 2: It's constantly changing. It's probably about, like, AIDS.
The Strange Triumph of the Lamb (2): Jesus’ Veiled... →
Interesting connection with James and John’s mother.
360 View of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre →
(Hat tip to BiblePlaces Blog.)
A Walk with William James, Part 8: Introverts in... →
This is even further exacerbated by the fact that extraverts end up in leadership.
John Paul and Mortification →
Weird.
The Only Reason We're Friends
Joseph: I sometimes worry that girls just like me for my body.
Adam: that's the only reason we're friends
Faith, Doubt and Modernity →
Frank Benford's Discovery →
Whoa.
America's Curse on Haiti →
I knew I didn’t like Jefferson.
Cable News →
This is why I read Yglesias and Halden, though I could do more to reduce my rationalization.
“Do you think that inordinate desire is more powerful than the mind, which we...”
– St. Augustine of Hippo, De libero arbitrio
“All wicked people, just like good people, desire to live without fear. The...”
– St. Augustine of Hippo, De libero arbitrio
The Sinner's Prayer: It's in the Bible!
Well…it’s in the Contemporary English Version. The NIV, NASB, ESV, and pretty much every other translation I could find read a bit differently.
(Hat tip to $$.)
Bail Burden Keeps U.S. Jails Stuffed With Inmates →
Pathetic.
Power →
“In [Father Smith’s] opinion the leaders of the Church had grown so used to...”
– Claude Cunningham Bruce Marshall, The World, the Flesh, and Father Smith
“As a straight man, I am more attracted to Scott Brown than to Martha Coakley.”
– John Joseph Porter, Quincy Dining Hall, January 25, 2010 (via jumonge)
All Things to All People: What Is Paul Happy to Be... →
Gaga
Watch this starting at about 1:50 to when she screams (you can listen to the whole thing if you want); then, watch this.
The Best Way Nobody’s Talking About to Help... →
Faith Strong Among Scientists →
World Beard and Moustache Championships →
Awesome. (Hat tip to JAM.)
Doubt: A Diagnosis →
“We know enough of psychology to know that spontaneous unanimity in [collective]...”
– C.S. Lewis, “Miracles,” Undeceptions (via jumonge)
“The concept of nature itself is one we have reached only tacitly by claiming a...”
– C.S. Lewis, “Miracles,” Undeceptions (via jumonge)
“The ancient man approached God (or even the gods) as the accused person...”
– C. S. Lewis, “God in the Dock,” Undeceptions: Essays on Theology and Ethics (via jumonge)
“In prayer we express deep penitence and contrition for our shortcomings, using...”
– Arthur John Gossip, In the Secret Place of the Most High
Death and the Problem of Evil →