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PBL on the Tridentine stance against progressive optimism

http://pblosser.blogspot.tw/2014/08/rod-dreher-on-why-latin-mass-is-treated.html

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What does it mean when X is a friend to Y? It means X feels what Y feels. “Two minds with but a single thought.”

In this scene, the fox spirit and the boy are both feeling despair, but the boy wants the fox spirit to go and the fox spirit wants to stay with the boy. On one level, they feel the same way, … Continue reading

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when we get a gift from the spirit, we don’t choose which gift we get, and we don’t design our own blueprint

Vulture writes: Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. To one there is given through the Spirit a message of wisdom, to another a message of knowledge by means of the same … Continue reading

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What I watch influences me. Each anime has an important story to tell, if I’m willing to listen.  Is this not magical? [Awesome post plus a link to awesome excerpt]

We live in a skeevy, modern, globalized society. It’s easy to program our minds with commercialized entertainment. It’s easier to memorize advertising jingles rather than laws, doctrines, or even your friends’ phone numbers. It’s easy to regard porn as normal … Continue reading

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A Christian view of Kill la Kill!

http://medievalotaku.wordpress.com/2014/01/15/kill-la-kill-and-putting-on-the-new-man/ has a remarkable perspective on a show that I often regard as a solid treatment of rather trite themes.  Perhaps Kill La Kill! contains deeper ideas than I had given it credit for.

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