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If I faced execution, given a choice, I would definitely opt for firing squad or long drop hanging. I defo wouldn't ever choose any form of hanging. In the event that you don't die immediately, even if it "only" takes a few minutes, those few minutes can be some of your longest as you suf...

“No sight so sad as that of a naughty child," he began, "especially a naughty little girl. Do you know where the wicked go after death?" "They go to hell," was my ready and orthodox answer. "And what is hell? Can you tell me that?" "A pit full of fire." ...

Wow! That's a pretty insane way of reading what I said, so insane that it borders on dishonest. Fair, I will grant you that. As I said, I knew that's not what you were saying at all. It's just my internal feeling whenever cited this particular impression, because from the looks of it, if the bishop...

First and foremost, eradicate hamas. Every last member. Perhaps not the most Christian of sentiments. But when one's whole goal and purpose is to kill jews (or anyone, for that matter), I fail to see why they should continue to exist. Coursing along a similar vein of sentiment and logic, the Israel...

All the new cases discovered in the last few years are from decades ago often done by priests who are long dead sometimes for 20 years or more. You don't find very many cases among priests ordained since, to choose a purely arbitrary date, 1999. This shows that bishops are starting to take the issu...

I imagine a clergy that has no store of treasures and depends on providence to support their material needs. No temptation there for material gain and power. What's the definition of resolved? Will the Church ever be able to make it up to the victims? No. Will the Church be able to eradicate clergi...

My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier

If you take a calendar and start counting from Ash Wednesday as day 1 but skip every Sunday, your 40th day will land exactly on Holy Saturday.
(I've got too much time on my hands, yet not enough.)

Recently re-read an old favourite, Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand, and a new favourite, Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones.

For instance, here is how St. Augustin comments on Matthew 16:18 in his Sermon 229P:1 (The Works of Saint Augustine, vol. III/6, p. 327): “Christ […] built his Church not on a man but on Peter's confession. What is Peter's confession? You are the Christ, the Son of the living God. There's the rock ...

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Simply wasn't baptised into it. If/when I leave the Catholic Church, the Orthodox Church will be on the top of my list next to agnosticism. So long as I'm still stuck in Catholicism, though, from what little I know of Orthodoxy (is that the right term?), I feel that their disavowal of any head of th...

Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones

Riverboat wrote: ↑Mon Sep 04, 2023 6:10 pm “Was this really necessary?”

For a moment I though the question referred to the atomic bomb, then I read the parenthesis.

Obi-Wan Kenobi wrote: ↑Tue Aug 01, 2023 4:25 pm I don’t know German.

It's Polish, meaning What's up?

What's the news this month?

Death Note (2006-2007)

Umm, so far, so interesting..

My mother's recipe says, "Crisp piped savoury biscuits with crunchy celery seeds and a slightly cheesy flavour." If you're wanting some, you're not too late as they haven't happened yet. XD I mean, they sound quite tasty--how can you go wrong with a slightly cheesy flavor?. They're just n...

Zeno already made my point. States allowing rights for same-sex couples is part of our directive from the CCC (bold mine) 2358 The number of men and women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies is not negligible. This inclination, which is objectively disordered, constitutes for most of them a ...

Zeno already made my point. States allowing rights for same-sex couples is part of our directive from the CCC (bold mine) 2358 The number of men and women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies is not negligible. This inclination, which is objectively disordered, constitutes for most of them a ...