Abbey-Roads2

Or off my meds…

Stream of consciousness writing going on here today…

Politics

So what do you think of Obama and Biden?  I’m not voting this year.  Archbishop Chaput said that not voting in itself can be a vote.  My conscience, you know - won’t permit it.

Evil empires and sporting spectacles.

Yes I’m watching the Olympics and can’t wait for the closing ceremonies.  I BOYCOTT CHINESE STUFF AS MUCH AS I CAN BUT CHINESE SLAVES WORKED FOR NOTHING TO MAKE THEIR COUNTRY LOOK GREAT FOR THE OLYMPICS!  (I never realized when you use all caps people think you are yelling.  LOL!)  In China, as in the United States, the people are not the government and have very little to say about what goes on - in case you haven’t noticed.  Anyway - I’m watching to support the Chinese people.

The blogs ain’t what they used to be.

One thing I’ve noticed is changes in the blog landscape.  Haven’t you?  Not too long ago a certain west coast man of Austrian descent was the highest rated Catholic blog alive and now he has pretty much gone over to the the Nationalist American Catholic church and lost his millions of readers.  His wife has a PHD though.

Other bloggers have become gay-Catholics - I suppose it is like an exercise of inculturation for them.  Others have had online breakdowns and are never heard of again.  I’ve also noticed very little invective on line now - except for a few cats - I kind of miss that though.

Other blogs have shut down completely - what else needs to be said about that - except that maybe they are the wisest of all.

Then new blogs are showing up to save the day, unknowingly repeating insights already heard on the defunct, and sometimes, apostate blogs.  “Vanity of vanities… nothing new under the sun…” 

Carry on.   

“The matter is quite simple. The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly. Take any word in the New Testament and forget everything except pledging yourself to act accordingly. My God, you will say, if I do that my whole life will be ruined. How would I ever get on in the world? Herein lies the real place of Christian scholarship. Christian scholarship is the Church’s prodigious invention to defend itself against the Bible, to ensure that we can continue to be good Christians without the Bible coming too close. Oh, priceless scholarship, what would we do without you? Dreadful it is to fall into the hands of the living God. Yes, it is even dreadful to be alone with the New Testament.“  -  Soren Kierkegaard, Provocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard, ed. Charles E. Moore (Farmington, PA: Plough, 2002), 201

(Thanks to my friend Paula for sending it my way.)