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I start my new job tomorrow, so I’ll be gone from 10AM to 5PM pretty regularly. Dunno how much blogging will actually get done. I’m a voter registration guy, which is ironic considering how antipolitical I am. Although if anyone knows any paying writer positions, I’m happy to look into them.
There’s an excellent piece at COSMOS-LITURGY-SEX on John Paul’s Theology of the Body and its relation to breastfeeding.
The theology of the body has become one of the principal hallmarks of modern Catholicism in the past decade or so, especially since the advent of the Internet has exposed so many more people to it than otherwise would likely have ever heard of it. The modern Catholic rebellion against the sexual revolution and its devaluing of the human body and its worth is Catholicism’s most visible countercultural movement, and a necessary one, intimately tied to the development of the culture of life. Human sexuality has, in being freed from the shackles of what is and isn’t acceptable, has only been stripped of its meaning and power. The Pill removed all potency from the act.
At the same time, John Paul acknowledged that sex isn’t only about reproduction; it’s a uniative act downright Eucharistic in its weight and glory. The sex of the married is nothing less than an icon of the Trinity, an expression of the interior life of God, which is based in love and its expression and supremely capable of the holy creation of life itself.
Imagine! For the past forty years, all we’ve heard is that sex is no big deal. Turns out its’ the biggest deal of all.
So, I think a lot about community life. I applied to be a Capuchin Franciscan about a year or so ago, and was rejected, but I can’t get the idea that I’m called to some manner of community life out of my head. Of course, it’d be easier if I had some form of community going that wasn’t just friends getting together now and then. I want my life to have a better rooting in the Scriptures and prayer, but I don’t know where to begin with that. I’ve made a couple of aborted attempts to involve myself in Richmond’s CL group, but it’s really small, and about forty minutes from me (and I don’t have a car!)
I want to be a better Christian, and thats a big part of what the Church is for. So why am I spending my days alone?
YHWH, have mercy.
Hulu has every episode of Journeyman online!
I adored this show, and watched every episode, first run, as often as I could (until they started messing with the schedule). Kevin McKidd is a fantastic actor, and the show had a very interesting take on time travel, a concept I love anyway (I own no less than five 1980’s teen time travel movies). Quantum Leap was almost without consequence; when Sam acted, the action rarely had direct bearing on him or his life. But when Dan changes history, it comes back to bite him in the ass, and the random nature of his jumps has a detrimental effect on his homelife, once endangering his young son.
Go watch this show.
IGN has a great article on the history of Super Mario!
I love unconventional histories. Someday, I’ll tell the story of how the death of Superman killed comic books.
I’m not much of a gamer; most of my friends are, which is unfortunate, because they’re all so much better than me. They say I’m a button-masher, someone who doesn’t worry too much about just what buttons he’s actually pushing. Action games have never been my strength; I tend to float more towards slower, meditative strategy games, like Victoria: An Empire Under the Sun, and The Movies. Regardless, I’ve been playing video games since I was four years old and all I had was Shinobi on the Sega Master System.
