Something More Personal
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arisbeI ended my last more personal post with the rhetorical question, Wouldn't you rather be reading about Iraq? And one of you responded No!
Well, I will continue to post interesting things I find out there in Cyberspace, but I will also say something about my own little life.
First, some housekeeping. The pruning of my friends list continues. The criteria are the same. If you post a great many long, long entries without cuts, requiring me to scroll, scroll, scroll down to the next entry, you are history. If you are always posting images that either my family or my business associates might consider obscene or pornographic, easygoing as I am, do consider using cut tags. If course it's your right to post what you like, but it's also my right, and sometimes my preference or even my obligation, not to look at it at my office or my living room.
I finally made it to Master and Commander, though to my great frustration I missed the first five or ten minutes and don't know how the characters were established. I'm sorry guys, drop me if you like, but this was so much better than The Return of the King in every way. The use of music was particularly effective, especially the Tallis variations which provide the leitmotif for the more ultimate moments.
Yes, the Doctor was too young, and lighter and taller than I imagined him, and I don't see this conception being carried into films of the more interesting novels, in which he has a more leading role.
Sunday's Theosis class was called on account of foul weather, our discussion of The Unseen Warfare postponed until February. But at the coffee hour I was able to share my enthusiasm for a pamphlet of President Kelly of Earlham, Reality of the Spiritual World. I found the link Friday, while looking for something else -- in fact the pamphlet by Wilmer Cooper with the wonderful quotation on integrety I couldn't help sharing. Kelly's Testament of Devotion was a particular favorite of St. Michael's last web master, and this shorter work is quickly becoming a favorite of mine. I can only compare it with Evelyn Underhill's retreats and practical works, but Kelly's voice is somehow clearer, more vivid and passionate, reminding me of Josiah Royce's Sources of Religious Insight.
It seems odd that Kelly says he can make nothing of the doctrine of the Trinity, and so must leave it alone. Yet he conveys such a clear sense of God Transcendent, God Immanent, and the Cosmic Christ as somehow essentially related and somehow distinct, that I wonder what he thought the Greek Fathers were going on about.
But as I read Kelly's description of the habitual life of prayer, I realized that his sort of Quaker is some sort of Benedictine, an Oblate, to be precise, who follows Chrysostom's advice to live a truly contemplative live in the world. And I recalled that Dorothy Day, very much a kindred spirit to the Society of Friends apart from prefering St. Michael's to the meetinghouse, was, precisely, a Benedictine Oblate, of St. Procopius' Abbey, which was, in her day bi-ritual, that is, celebrating according to the Byzantine as well as the Roman Rite.
Recall that Archimandrite Lev Gillet, who wrote as "A Monk of the Eastern Church," referred to himself as "a Quaker of the Eastern Rite," and would attend Friends Meeting when he couldn't serve Liturgy at an Orthodox Church. A man after my own heart. Especially in view of his day job, working for the Younghusband Foundation on interreligious relations with the Hindu and Buddhist cultural worlds.
In other news, I am a single parent for the next week, as Maya is back in Texas sorting out the things her mother left behind.
Well, I will continue to post interesting things I find out there in Cyberspace, but I will also say something about my own little life.
First, some housekeeping. The pruning of my friends list continues. The criteria are the same. If you post a great many long, long entries without cuts, requiring me to scroll, scroll, scroll down to the next entry, you are history. If you are always posting images that either my family or my business associates might consider obscene or pornographic, easygoing as I am, do consider using cut tags. If course it's your right to post what you like, but it's also my right, and sometimes my preference or even my obligation, not to look at it at my office or my living room.
I finally made it to Master and Commander, though to my great frustration I missed the first five or ten minutes and don't know how the characters were established. I'm sorry guys, drop me if you like, but this was so much better than The Return of the King in every way. The use of music was particularly effective, especially the Tallis variations which provide the leitmotif for the more ultimate moments.
Yes, the Doctor was too young, and lighter and taller than I imagined him, and I don't see this conception being carried into films of the more interesting novels, in which he has a more leading role.
Sunday's Theosis class was called on account of foul weather, our discussion of The Unseen Warfare postponed until February. But at the coffee hour I was able to share my enthusiasm for a pamphlet of President Kelly of Earlham, Reality of the Spiritual World. I found the link Friday, while looking for something else -- in fact the pamphlet by Wilmer Cooper with the wonderful quotation on integrety I couldn't help sharing. Kelly's Testament of Devotion was a particular favorite of St. Michael's last web master, and this shorter work is quickly becoming a favorite of mine. I can only compare it with Evelyn Underhill's retreats and practical works, but Kelly's voice is somehow clearer, more vivid and passionate, reminding me of Josiah Royce's Sources of Religious Insight.
It seems odd that Kelly says he can make nothing of the doctrine of the Trinity, and so must leave it alone. Yet he conveys such a clear sense of God Transcendent, God Immanent, and the Cosmic Christ as somehow essentially related and somehow distinct, that I wonder what he thought the Greek Fathers were going on about.
But as I read Kelly's description of the habitual life of prayer, I realized that his sort of Quaker is some sort of Benedictine, an Oblate, to be precise, who follows Chrysostom's advice to live a truly contemplative live in the world. And I recalled that Dorothy Day, very much a kindred spirit to the Society of Friends apart from prefering St. Michael's to the meetinghouse, was, precisely, a Benedictine Oblate, of St. Procopius' Abbey, which was, in her day bi-ritual, that is, celebrating according to the Byzantine as well as the Roman Rite.
Recall that Archimandrite Lev Gillet, who wrote as "A Monk of the Eastern Church," referred to himself as "a Quaker of the Eastern Rite," and would attend Friends Meeting when he couldn't serve Liturgy at an Orthodox Church. A man after my own heart. Especially in view of his day job, working for the Younghusband Foundation on interreligious relations with the Hindu and Buddhist cultural worlds.
In other news, I am a single parent for the next week, as Maya is back in Texas sorting out the things her mother left behind.
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Date: 2004-01-20 11:45 am (UTC)As for Sir Kelly of Iowa supreme: the candidates, all of them, Kellysupreme included, can't seem to put their feet down on any singular issues, but jump about, here saying one thing, and there another--grotesque, really. Who can they please during this round of debates, how much prancing can they do and still get ahead in the votes. isscch.
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Date: 2004-01-20 01:18 pm (UTC)As long as she doesn't wake me up coming back from the pool hall.
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Date: 2004-01-20 11:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-20 01:01 pm (UTC)Watching computer generated people fight other computer generated people is just...boring. I think in the hour and half of battle scenes, there was one 15 second bit that actually made me go "Wow, that was incredible!"
As a kid who grew up on Star Wars and Indiana Jones, I hate to say it, but I really hope the fantasy/sci-fi blockbuster dies a quiet death soon. Surely they've almost mined that genre for all it's worth.
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Date: 2004-01-20 01:13 pm (UTC)M&C was not homoerotic at all (RotK very much so) in spite of a great many opportunities, not only with the two protagonists, but with the young midshipmen, two of whom are good friends.
What is truly remarkable is that the issues of shipboard discipline are handled without a trace of sadomasochism. Which is, now that I think of it, hard to imagine.
In the books Jack and the Doctor are quite sexually active, heterosexually, that is, and in the later books their illegitimate children appear as adults.
I think the film is very much worth a look, and the books are worth a reading, though the level of detail drives me up the wall.
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Date: 2004-01-20 04:22 pm (UTC)