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I have decided--or bout as far as I can decide--that I’m going to stay with the Roman Catholic Church for good.

One big factor in this decision was my answers to one of those “Top 5” surveys on “facebook.” This one was “My Top 5 Heroes.”

Number One was Jesus.

Number Two was Mother Teresa.

Number Three would have been Lou Jacobs, legendary circus clown, but I could not find him on the list of people I could name. Instead I typed in St. Therese of Lisieux.

Number Four was St. Francis de Sales.

Number Five was St. Francis of Assisi.

Detect a trend?

Besides Lou Jacobs, my heroes included the Savior, three Saints, and possibly the most saintly human being in my lifetime. That pointed me toward the denomination I should be.

I have decided--or bout as far as I can decide--that I’m going to stay with the Roman Catholic Church for good.

One big factor in this decision was my answers to one of those “Top 5” surveys on “facebook.” This one was “My Top 5 Heroes.”

Number One was Jesus.

Number Two was Mother Teresa.

Number Three would have been Lou Jacobs, legendary circus clown, but I could not find him on the list of people I could name. Instead I typed in St. Therese of Lisieux.

Number Four was St. Francis de Sales.

Number Five was St. Francis of Assisi.

Detect a trend?

Besides Lou Jacobs, my heroes included the Savior, three Saints, and possibly the most saintly human being in my lifetime. That pointed me toward the denomination I should be.

I was born a Catholic, but for years I seldom went to church. In the late ’90s I began going to Mass again. After a few months I started to have issues with the Roman Catholic Church, so I became a member of the United Church of Christ. Well, after a few years I began to have issues with the U.C.C. I spent most of the soon-to-be-passed decade fluttering between churches or not going to church at all. I even spent a few months being a Zen Buddhist.

But I’m back with the Catholic Church now, even though I still have issues with them.

 

 

I was born a Catholic, but for years I seldom went to church. In the late ’90s I began going to Mass again. After a few months I started to have issues with the Roman Catholic Church, so I became a member of the United Church of Christ. Well, after a few years I began to have issues with the U.C.C. I spent most of the soon-to-be-passed decade fluttering between churches or not going to church at all. I even spent a few months being a Zen Buddhist.

But I’m back with the Catholic Church now, even though I still have issues with them.

 

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"No matter how smart you are, you spend most of your time being an idiot." 
--from The Dilbert Future.

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If you do not make mistakes, you are making the mistake of being lazy.

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Two weeks have passed since Michael Jackson’s death. His life was a circus; what’s happened after death is even more so.

And I really don’t give a fig. The whole Michael Jackson death business is just a diversion, something to take our attention away from the economic situation, North Korea, or the latest crackdown in China. For one thing, everyone knew where the memorial service would be held, so reporters didn’t have to nose around for a story. And nobody can complain about coverage of Jackson's death being too liberal or too conservative. The media don’t want to report on hard news.

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Jackson’s funeral, from what I heard of it, seemed to be less of a funeral service and more of an entertainment. America has turned religion into entertainment, the way it has turned the legal system into entertainment. It has turned mourning into Dancing with the Stars.

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I will say one good thing about Michael Jackson: He was a great performer. His music wasn’t the “Whatever. Nevermind” garbage Kurt Cobain and the other grunge groups foisted upon the world soon , music that knock Jackson out of his throne as the King of Pop. The subtext of Cobain’s and his ilk’s music is “Nothing matters.” No wonder Cobain killed himself. He was just following his music’s rancid ideology. Either “We Are the World” or “Black or White.” is worth infinitely more than the entire Nirvana catalog--heck, the entire catalog of every grunge band that every recorded.


Why is life worth living? Because God made us! An God loves us. Were that not the case, Co

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The lovely and talented Sheila O'Malley (www.sheilaomalley.com) has an essay about the author of the kidlit classic GOODNIGHT MOON. To the best of my knowledge, I have never read that book, (but I have seen parodies of it such s the one on ANIMANIACS), But it's the favorite book of one of my all-time favorite comic strip characters.


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Argh!!!!! Can the conservative media please stop giving credence to the idea that Limbaugh is anything more than an entertainer!!!??? He's Paul Harvey with a terrible attitude.
--Jennifer Smedley, facebook.

Well, there is a reason the media--conservative and liberal--are giving credence to Rush.

He sells papers. He gets people listening to him. He makes news.

And what are the media? The media are businesses. Their goal is the same as Mr. Limbaugh’s: to make money, to get more people buying their newspapers or watching their newscasts or broadcasts. Especially now, with newspapers going out of business and umpteen cable channels vying for decreasing advertising revenue. Even National Public Radio broke the story about President Clinton’s relationship with Monica Lewinsky. If NPR had been as liberal as people say it is, it would’ve hushed the story. But it relies on money, in the form of listener donations.

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I seem to be spending most of this day asleep.  In one of my dreams I'm somehow back in my old house on Jackson Drive, back in Celina.  I'm in the kitchen.  I hear this voice telling me to get some water out of the faucet and drink it.  I try to find a cup.  I find a black cup with some writing on it.  I try to read the writing, but it disappears.  I draw some water out of faucet and try to drink it.  It tastes wonderful--better than anything I have ever tasted.  

Maybe there's some symbolism to this dream.  I don't know.  

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I just did two of those stupid surveys for facebook.  I listed five celebrities I wanted to meet.  In order:

1. Jesus
2. Dame Diana Rigg
3.  Richard Dawkins
4.  President Obama
5.  Osama bin Laden.

Then my imagination got to me.  I did facebook searches on Jesus and Richard.  Jesus' facebook page has more than 350,000 fans.  Dawkins' only 11,000.

Who says religion isn't dead. 

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1.  I wrote down a list of the five things I'd regret on my deathbed if I didn't change.

2.  I ordered two new sets of scrubs from the uniform shop.

3.  I picked up a set of my favorite pens.

4.  I bought a new pair of shoes at Payless.

5.  I sent a reply to a message sent by one of my MySpace friends.

6.  I did laundry  

7.  I finished the book I'd been reading--THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER by Zane Grey--and started reading a new one--THE TIPPING POINT by Malcom Gladwell.

8.  I had my prescription refilled at WalMart, where I also picked up some fruit bars.

9.  I walked about three miles or so. with a backpack on.

10,  I am recharging my mp3 player.

11.  I'm about to finish this blog entry and post it..  
 

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Do you ever have recurring dreams? If so, are they good dreams or nightmares?


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I have a few of them--usually nightmares.

1.  I come to class naked--or without having done all the assigned work.

2.  For some reason, I'm back in grade schoold because I have to make up a grade.

3.  I'm watching that soap opera from a few years back, PASSIONS.  And it is scaring the Hayley Mills out of me.  

4.  A dream about the Incredible Hulk.

5.  I'm riding down a road, I think I know where I am, but the road somehow seems different from what I thought it should be.  

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