Shot rugby practice today. Was pretty interesting… Didn’t even know we had a rugby team, to tell you the truth. And even though I don’t really understand the game, it was really really fun to watch. A bit quicker paced than football and a lot more action than soccer. I might have to shoot a rugby game sometime.
First three will most likely be in the Maneater, on a one-page feature article. Sweetness.
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Your Life Path Number is 8
Your purpose in life is to help others succeedYou are both a natural leader and a natural success. You are also a great judge of character. You have a head for business and finance. You know how to make money. A great visionary, you can see gold where other people see nothing.In love, you are very generous - with gifts, time, and guidance.
You love to inspire people, but it can be frustrating when they don’t understand your vision. Great success comes easily for you. But so does great failure, as you are very reckless. You are confident, and sometimes this confidence borders on arrogance.
So, I was offered a spot to shoot the Mizzou basketball game tonight, against Iowa State. Was really really really excited since getting the press pass, lol. Took about 300 shots (2.8GB because I shot RAW+JPEG) had about 30 that were in decent focus of something actually happening, and maybe like 10 that were pretty cool, and I narrowed the best to these four:
For my first sports assignment, I think I didn’t do too bad at all… Mmmm…
The 82-58 loss was Mizzou’s worst loss at home since 1961.
Now to actually write about stuff that nobody (well, maybe only a few) cares about. lol
I’m constantly amused by the ironic circumstances that happen to me.
A few days ago, I’d fallen into this sort of contemplation of faith, religion, love, lust, etc.
And now, I find on Wikipedia:
Deus Caritas Est (Latin: “God is love”), the first encyclical of Pope Benedict XVI, is published.
There’s a good article on The Telegraph (UK)
The encyclical, a papal letter to bishops that sets out Roman Catholic policy, discusses the relationship between “eros”, or erotic love, and “agape”, a Greek word referring to unconditional, spiritual and selfless love.
“It is not totally negative on eros,” a Vatican source said. “It argues that eros under the right circumstances is OK.”
But the Pope issues a warning in the document, entitled Deus Caritas Est (God is Love), that eros risks being “degraded to mere sex” if it is not balanced with spiritual or divine love founded on the teachings of Jesus.
The Chicago Sun-Times also has a decent article on this.
George expects the new pope will try to explain that erotic love, eros, and unconditional love, agape, are both inherently good in God’s eyes in his encyclical titled “Deus, Caritas Est,” Latin for “God is Love.” An encyclical is a pope’s most authoritative document, a pastoral letter circulated to the universal church.
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The pope, who is said to have begun work on his first encyclical last summer, is a scholar of St. Augustine, who famously had a hard time reconciling erotic and divine love.
“Maybe he’s going to try to repair Augustine a bit,” Senior said, adding that he has not seen the encyclical and had expected it to be solely about Christology, or the study of Christ.
The pontiff’s “focus is so much more dogmatic. Nevertheless, he does have a very emotional way of speaking. In his homilies and stuff, people have been noting that they’re all very rich in imagery and much more affective than cerebral,” Senior said. “Bavarians are very sentimental and romantic.”
Hell, just read the encyclical.
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It’s a pretty big thing, having just read Augustine’s Confessions and having had the whole religion thing floating above my head like a dark cloud.
I mean, it’s not that I don’t like this or that, it’s just that I want to be one of those people who actually believes what they say they do, whether it means changing what I say I am or not.
I dunno, this was a more interesting discussion in my head, heh.
i am complaining about shit that nobody cares about
My fake MySpace begins. It’s fake, so don’t be alarmed at things I say or things about my profile there. Let’s see how bad it can get.
