05-26-2016, 07:50 PM
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carpe musicam
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Les Barricades Mystérieuses
Posts: 7,710
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Originally Posted by mordwyr
Only my wife and I, together, in our room.
It is highly philosophical.
Yes, indeed! We should all strive to be more like Him. He is perfection, and He has called all of us to be perfect (which, of course, we cannot attain on our own strength). It is the struggle--the journey--that forms our character. Let us be benevolent; let us be merciful; let us forever learn, for, since the Divinity is infinite, there is always more to know of It. We can never reach the end of knowledge because we can never reach the end of the Divinity.
When the infant Jesus was born, He was temporarily transfigured (meaning He appeared to His Mother in a glorified, non-terrestrial form), and Sts. Michael and Gabriel held their God before Her. Jesus said, "Be like me." And that was it; then He didn't talk again until normal human children start to talk.
That story blew me away. "Be like me." He said that to His Mother, who was and still is, by the grace of God, perfect. How much more, then, do His words apply to me, who is grievously imperfect!
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Everything about Christianity is philosophal, in the true since of the word. It is the love of wisdom.
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Originally Posted by mord
Actually, I like you a lot, Nea. That's why I treat you like ****. It's the MB way.
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"it counts in our hearts" ?ºº?
“I have nothing to offer anybody, except my own confusion.” Jack Kerouac.
“If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.” Aristotle.
"If you tried to give Rock and Roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'." John Lennon
"I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous." Keith Richards
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