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Name: Rachel
Birthday: 9/5/1985
Gender: Female
Interests: music, typewriters, stammering in French, Italian, and German, trying to figure people out, cooking, reading murder mysteries and everything else in sight, the Middle Ages, good cheese and good wine, philosophy, poetry, the Brothers K, theater (especially Shakespeare), and trying to live life to the full!
Expertise: singing in weird foreign languages, expressing my political and philosophical opinions on the written page, listening to people's life stories, keeping my mouth shut most of the time, babysitting my seven younger siblings, falling in love with people in books (especially Lord Peter Wimsey), getting lost, acting like a Bacchante, eating chocolate ...
Occupation: Student
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Member Since:
6/26/2004
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| "We are therefore not required to bring a systematically conceived hell into harmony with the love of God and make it credible, or indeed to justify it conceptually as love (and not perhaps merely as the revelation of self-glorifying divine justice), because no such system could be constructed out of a possible 'knowledge' apart from or beyond love and at the same time related to it. We are required only not to let go of love, the love that believes and hopes and through both is suspended in the air so that its Christian wings may grow. Soaring in the air, I also necessarily experience the abyss below, which is only part of my own flight. Similarly, I can speak of hell only in relation to myself, precisely because I can never imagine the possible damnation of another as more likely than my own."
--Von Balthasar, Love Alone Is Credible
Take that, scholastics. | | |
| There is a time of youth
When you know
How all inadequate
Is the wineskin
For all of what should be
Put into it--
How, just as Eliot said
About Hamlet,
The problem is too small
For the feeling--
Which explains some suicides--
What do you do
With excess, exiled, excited wine? | | |
| The seventeenth century is eating my life. | | |
| Why is it that of all the people in this country who are very vocal and articulate about abortion as a moral issue--people like Dawn Eden and all the Catholics--there seem to be none who are also worried about war and the environment as moral issues, too?
And it is just as bad when you look at people who I would say have a thoughtful and ethical view of these last two issues--people like Noam Chomsky and Wendell Berry--these thinkers say almost nothing about abortion as a moral problem. Where are the writers, bloggers, etc. (Christian or not!) who are concerned both about "creating a culture of life," AND ending imperialism? This is very frustrating to me right now. | | |
| i think i have become dependent on brach's candy corn in order to get any work done.
this could be a very bad thing. | | |
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