[Magdalen] neat comparisons

[Joseph Cirou]

I agree with all this but it makes the Mystery of the Incarnation even more
wonderful!

Joe

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 2:35 AM, James Oppenheimer <oppenheimerjw at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I recalled this fascinating clip on Nietsche.  Enjoy. (or -- well, whatevuh
> ...)
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5GFgulByuM
>
> James W. Oppenheimer
> *“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better
> for people coming behind you, and you don’t do it, you're wasting your time
> on this Earth.”  -- *Roberto Clemente
>
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <ichthys89 at comcast.net>
> wrote:
>
> > interesting words today in "The  Writers Almanac"  .... considering the
> > ways this thread has been discussing stars and black holes...
> >
> > It's the birthday of philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (books by this
> > author), born in the Prussian village of Röcken (1844). He was a
> > philosopher who loved literature, and he experimented with different
> > literary styles to express his philosophy. His most famous book, Thus
> Spake
> > Zarathustra (1883), describes a prophet who comes down from the mountains
> > to teach people about the coming of a new kind of superman, but the
> people
> > he speaks to only ridicule and laugh at him.
> >
> > He's perhaps best known for claiming that "God is dead," but most people
> > forget that he actually said, "God is dead ... and we have killed him!"
> He
> > thought that the absence of God from the world was a tragedy, but he felt
> > that people had to accept that tragedy and move on. He wrote that God was
> > like a star whose light we can see, even though the star died long ago.
> > Much of his philosophy is about how people might live in a world without
> > God and without absolute morality. At the time of his death on August 25,
> > 1900, almost no one had heard of him, but after his work was republished,
> > it had a huge impact on the philosophers of the 20th century.
> >
> > He said: "[W]e should consider every day lost on which we have not danced
> > at least once."
> >
> >
> >
> > Lynn
> > website: www.ichthysdesigns.com
> >
> > When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have
> not
> > a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave
> me."
> > attributed to Erma Bombeck
> >
> > Thomas Merton writes, “People may spend their whole lives climbing the
> > ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder
> is
> > leaning against the wrong wall.”
> >
> > "What you seek is seeking you." - Rumi
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------
> > From: "Jay Weigel" <jay.weigel at gmail.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2014 10:02 PM
> >
> > To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Magdalen] neat comparisons
> >
> >  I get pretty annoyed with the creationist types, but at the same time I
> >> pity them because their vision of God is so small. I don't worry too
> much
> >> about what or who may be "out there" either.  After all, if God made the
> >> universe, God made them too in all their glorious forms, no matter how
> >> "non-glorious" they may seem to us. The psalmist said, "When I consider
> >> the
> >> heavens you have made, what is man that you are mindful of him?"
> >>
> >> On Tuesday, October 14, 2014, Lynn Ronkainen <ichthys89 at comcast.net>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>  David Strang:
> >>> The real thing, as it unfolds year by year  is much more wonderful than
> >>> Genesis.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Well said, David!
> >>> Lynn
> >>>
> >>> website: www.ichthysdesigns.com
> >>>
> >>> When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have
> >>> not
> >>> a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave
> >>> me."
> >>> attributed to Erma Bombeck
> >>>
> >>> Thomas Merton writes, "People may spend their whole lives climbing the
> >>> ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the
> ladder
> >>> is
> >>> leaning against the wrong wall."
> >>>
> >>> "What you seek is seeking you." - Rumi
> >>>
> >>> --------------------------------------------------
> >>> From: "Cantor03--- via Magdalen" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
> >>> Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2014 9:14 PM
> >>> To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
> >>> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] neat comparisons
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> In a message dated 10/14/2014 7:41:00 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> >>>> ichthys89 at comcast.net writes:
> >>>>
> >>>> Knowing  more and more about our vast universe makes brings me even
> >>>> closer
> >>>> to
> >>>> the  concept of a loving God and God's  creations.
> >>>> Lynn>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> There is this, and it's what keeps me going.
> >>>>
> >>>> It also makes me cross to have so many in the USA, at least,
> >>>> insist on the literal biblical creation stories as the only
> acceptable
> >>>> and "gospel" truth.  The real thing, as it unfolds year by year  is
> >>>> much more wonderful than Genesis.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> David Strang.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
>