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"Before the beautiful-no, not really before but within the beautiful-the whole person quivers. He not only 'finds' the beautiful moving; rather, he experiences himself as being moved and possessed by it."
- Hans Urs von Balthasar
"Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."
- Flannery o'Connor
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Sunday, July 16, 2006
Life updates
I had the craziest dream last night... a nightmare, more than anything. It was awful. :( Let's just say I don't ever want to kill someone... ever under any reason at any time. Seriously. In other news: I am getting paid tomorrow. That means I'll have an ipod by tomorrow afternoon... I am very happy for it. I certainly come off as a half brain dead fish because of it, but who really cares? I am listening to my music (which is all very good music by the way... this whole "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" is a bunch of subjective, pomo, wishy-washy, liberal nonsense. Come on, let's reclaim objective truth and say that my music effing rocks. Just do it, ya' commie...) and it makes me smile. :) Oh, I went to a family reunion this weekend. I was introduced to a bunch of redneck conservative-evangelicals as "liberal" (I am "moderate-ish-ly-liberal") "Catholic" (I don't know why) "weird" (I can't help it that they didn't like my Vans...) and not behind the general American/Israli cause (respectfully) I thought I was going to be shot. Good thing I can avoid arguments fairly well and talk my way out of any mess or else.... or else I would be a mess! Well, off to go work like everyone else who gets up at 5 am on a Sunday. I know you're out there...
posted by -mike- at 4:27 AM
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3 Comments:
Your music effing rocks.
And that's interesitng. I don't think I've ever been introduced as liberal, though I once was called a heretic. The guy had a weird definition of heretic though. It really meant 'unconventional', I think.
Your music effing rocks.
And that's interesitng. I don't think I've ever been introduced as liberal, though I once was called a heretic. The guy had a weird definition of heretic though. It really meant 'unconventional', I think.
Haha, what a bunch of 'tards!
:-P
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