FOUND APRIL 1945 MANILA:
I think John Underton said “The day always wants.” Now each day often necessitates more energy to help enhance recurring events. I say although several energy channels recur every time more energy starts substantiating, a greater energy is needed. This “heretical” entirety can reassure your private thoughts – or not – only might I convince our newer students that every precept here enlightens, no, solves our natural stoical thinking. Often our changing leans entirely “vertical.” Each recurring Other frequently allows windows reaching in to every researcher’s “notional Orthodoxy.” To think otherwise, I now conclude (lamely, unless Denial exists over new experiential notions) often will change a naïve Idea with insufficient trust. However, on “natural” leap years a bountiful energetic groundswell is necessarily needed: each repetitive kernel need only wait lest energy dissipate. Greater energy is never changed only diverted. Entire subsequent changes reaffirm all copied kernels in this philosophy. Redundant or basic attempts base leap year negations over the best Undertonian theories. I leave lesser sentiments entirely erroneous. Who here ever responded equally in coherence and novelty? Greater originality will, I think, harbor Truth hidden in Systematization.
[I know it’s stupid and simplistic but I just couldn’t help myself …]
Monday, October 13, 2008
Busy Weekend
Busy weekend. Way too busy.
* Balance checkbook, pay bills and file everything away. Shake head in disgust.
* Find hardcopy of second novel missing since basement was refinished.
* Drop bills off at the post office. Convince Little One to stay in car while I do this.
* Pick up and drop off dry cleaning.
* Gas up car; deal with surly attendant.
* Take Little One to the doctor for vaccinations and bloodwork.
* Take Little One to store for a treat for being good while getting vaccinations.
* Borrow parent’s truck to pick up Little One’s new furniture from store.
* Assemble three pieces of furniture. Bandage bruised thumbs as needed.
* Do a blog entry. After scratching head for thirty minutes thinking about what topic to blog on.
* Get take-out for Saturday night dinner.
* Grocery shopping, followed by the putting away of said groceries after the endeavor I call the Washing of the Fruit.
* Do laundry: towels and sheets. Fold or put back on mattresses and pillows.
* Mow front and back lawns. It’s October and I’m still mowing lawns???
* Return DVDs to library and to video store.
* Muddle through as many pages of Cryptonomicon as possible. (This is enjoyable.)
* Load and unload dishwasher twice. Ugh. Dishwashers save time, right?
* Tidy up house as quickly as possible every morning.
* Change Littlest One’s diapers and play with her while wife catches zzzzs.
* Keep the Older One as entertained as possible and out of her little sister’s face.
Missed blogging on Sunday, as well as a day earlier in the week, but I’ll make it up this week. Somehow. So much to do, so little time, as they say, especially all the time we waste treading water. Make that barely treading water. I keep telling myself it’s only a short season in Purgatory; soon the baby’ll be sleeping through the night … soon my wife and I will be doing something we both enjoy and making more money doing it … soon the children will be in school and all this running around won’t be as bad … soon we’ll be in a better part of the country where the livin’s easier …
Soon. Hopefully, soon.
* Balance checkbook, pay bills and file everything away. Shake head in disgust.
* Find hardcopy of second novel missing since basement was refinished.
* Drop bills off at the post office. Convince Little One to stay in car while I do this.
* Pick up and drop off dry cleaning.
* Gas up car; deal with surly attendant.
* Take Little One to the doctor for vaccinations and bloodwork.
* Take Little One to store for a treat for being good while getting vaccinations.
* Borrow parent’s truck to pick up Little One’s new furniture from store.
* Assemble three pieces of furniture. Bandage bruised thumbs as needed.
* Do a blog entry. After scratching head for thirty minutes thinking about what topic to blog on.
* Get take-out for Saturday night dinner.
* Grocery shopping, followed by the putting away of said groceries after the endeavor I call the Washing of the Fruit.
* Do laundry: towels and sheets. Fold or put back on mattresses and pillows.
* Mow front and back lawns. It’s October and I’m still mowing lawns???
* Return DVDs to library and to video store.
* Muddle through as many pages of Cryptonomicon as possible. (This is enjoyable.)
* Load and unload dishwasher twice. Ugh. Dishwashers save time, right?
* Tidy up house as quickly as possible every morning.
* Change Littlest One’s diapers and play with her while wife catches zzzzs.
* Keep the Older One as entertained as possible and out of her little sister’s face.
Missed blogging on Sunday, as well as a day earlier in the week, but I’ll make it up this week. Somehow. So much to do, so little time, as they say, especially all the time we waste treading water. Make that barely treading water. I keep telling myself it’s only a short season in Purgatory; soon the baby’ll be sleeping through the night … soon my wife and I will be doing something we both enjoy and making more money doing it … soon the children will be in school and all this running around won’t be as bad … soon we’ll be in a better part of the country where the livin’s easier …
Soon. Hopefully, soon.
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Thomistic Prayer
Was on a website a while ago that has a somewhat lengthy quiz which is supposed to reveal your “spirituality type.” Here is my result:
Your Spirituality Type: PATH OF INTELLECT (Thomistic Prayer)
About 12 percent of the population follows this path, using the syllogistic method of Saint Thomas Aquinas known as Scholastic prayer.
The main emphasis is on the orderly progression of thought from cause to effect. People of this prayer type prefer neat, orderly forms of the spiritual life, as opposed to the free-spirit, impulsive attitude of the Franciscan approach. Their spirituality is centered on the earnest pursuit of all the transcendental values: truth, goodness, beauty, unity, love, life, and spirit. Like Saint Teresa of Avila, they are willing to exert superhuman effort to achieve their goal.
Because of their disdain for second best, they seek total truth and authenticity in their lives and work hard to reach the whole truth about themselves, about God, and about sanctity. This intense pursuit of truth colors their whole spiritual life.
Books of prayer frequently call the Thomistic method of prayer ‘discursive meditation.’ In this type of prayer, one takes a virtue or fault or theological truth and studies it from every possibly angle. Change of behavior is an essential part of this prayer – it doesn’t stay at the intellectual level. There is generally a bias against this type of prayer today because it was so much in vogue before Vatican II.
Yikes! This is me! I have the Summa on my bedside table. I think I frequently get disgusted and frustrated with the state of the Church as well as the virulent strains of post-modern philosophy that color our secular world just because of this seeking of total truth. I stagnate spiritually and intellectually because, let’s face it, LE, you were probably born a hundred years too late.
Oh well. Once Transformation in Christ is done I have Chesterton’s St. Thomas on deck. I’ll probably keep that on top of the Summa in my bedroom for a couple minutes’ reading every night.
Your Spirituality Type: PATH OF INTELLECT (Thomistic Prayer)
About 12 percent of the population follows this path, using the syllogistic method of Saint Thomas Aquinas known as Scholastic prayer.
The main emphasis is on the orderly progression of thought from cause to effect. People of this prayer type prefer neat, orderly forms of the spiritual life, as opposed to the free-spirit, impulsive attitude of the Franciscan approach. Their spirituality is centered on the earnest pursuit of all the transcendental values: truth, goodness, beauty, unity, love, life, and spirit. Like Saint Teresa of Avila, they are willing to exert superhuman effort to achieve their goal.
Because of their disdain for second best, they seek total truth and authenticity in their lives and work hard to reach the whole truth about themselves, about God, and about sanctity. This intense pursuit of truth colors their whole spiritual life.
Books of prayer frequently call the Thomistic method of prayer ‘discursive meditation.’ In this type of prayer, one takes a virtue or fault or theological truth and studies it from every possibly angle. Change of behavior is an essential part of this prayer – it doesn’t stay at the intellectual level. There is generally a bias against this type of prayer today because it was so much in vogue before Vatican II.
Yikes! This is me! I have the Summa on my bedside table. I think I frequently get disgusted and frustrated with the state of the Church as well as the virulent strains of post-modern philosophy that color our secular world just because of this seeking of total truth. I stagnate spiritually and intellectually because, let’s face it, LE, you were probably born a hundred years too late.
Oh well. Once Transformation in Christ is done I have Chesterton’s St. Thomas on deck. I’ll probably keep that on top of the Summa in my bedroom for a couple minutes’ reading every night.
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