Archive for May, 2005
Tuesday, May 31st, 2005
Injustice
I was pulled over by a Texas State Trooper while driving from Laredo to Austin yesterday afternoon. Dad and I were having a pleasant conversation, when I looked in the rearview mirror, and sure enough, a trooper had his lights on. I was on cruise control at 75 in a 70 zone, making me think [...]
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Tuesday, May 31st, 2005
The Real Treasure a Husband Has to Give to His Wife
Sometimes in moments of blindness to pride and vanity, I let my mind imagine how great I am and what a good potential husband I am for someone because I have a good job and have a good amount of money saved in investments. I contemplate meeting my girlfriend’s father and at the dinner [...]
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Monday, May 30th, 2005
Real Love
I just want to feel, real love, fill the home where I live in.
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Not too long ago, I looked at children and didn’t see amazing creations of God, but rather annoying inconveniences. (You can read more about my conversion from atheism on my personal site.) This view of children was the result of [...]
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Monday, May 30th, 2005
Movie Review: Chronicles of Riddick
I went over to a good friend of mine’s house last night, and after we ate dinner, we watched Chronicles of Riddick, a movie that is a few years old, but that I had not seen before.
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Vin Diesel is the main character, playing ultra-tough-part-alien guy Riddick, who is a virtually unkillable loner type. I [...]
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Sunday, May 29th, 2005
Game Review: Swat 4
I recently bought the game SWAT 4 for my computer. Some friends of mine invited me over to their house to play it, and since I won’t play games that are illegal copies, I went and bought it. I had trepidation about playing it because it looked like it might have some objectionable [...]
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Friday, May 27th, 2005
Free Catholic Education
If you live in Wichita, Kansas that is. The latest National Catholic Register (sorry the article isn’t online) reports how all Wichita diocese Catholic schools offer tuition free education. That’s right, tuition free.
How?
Through stewardship. Or to say it more plainly, through people freely giving the Church money. They accomplished this at St. Andrew the Apostle [...]
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Thursday, May 26th, 2005
Pope Lacking Theological Virtue of Charity
Disappointingly, it appears that Pope Benedict is “really lacking the theological virtue of charity”, according to one important journalist.
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(Holding my hand up to forestall indignant objections) Now now: There can be no arguing this fact, as Cokie Roberts herself has decreed it, and who could argue with her?
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What astounds me most about this statement [...]
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Wednesday, May 25th, 2005
More Thoughts on Marriage Consideration Factors
In a recent post, I talked about whether it was okay to exclude someone from considering them for courtship (and therefore marriage) due to a given set of factors. I wanted to develop those thoughts a little bit more, though I have still not solidified on any conclusions about the matter.
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One factor that comes [...]
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Wednesday, May 25th, 2005
Google Maps
Move over Yahoo Maps and Mapquest - Google Maps has you beat. Check it out here. You can easily scrolls side to side by just dragging the map around. Also, you can click on Satellite to get a real image. See a Satellite image of where Devin and I live. The directions aren’t bad either, [...]
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Tuesday, May 24th, 2005
G Is Given Posting Privileges
My roommate, the G, also known as gcubed (as in, g to the third power), has been given “ops” and can post on St. Joseph’s Vanguard. Get ready!
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Tuesday, May 24th, 2005
I have hacked the system
I have used my computer-hacking skills, second only to my bo-staff skills, to be able to post on this blog. That’s right, now you have double trouble with Devin and Gerardo blogging prowess. Hopefully, my affair with the blog will last longer than my previous attempt.
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Anyway, I’m glad to be here and thank Devin for [...]
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Tuesday, May 24th, 2005
Factors for Exclusion from Marriage Consideration
I had an interesting conversation today with a friend (who is a Catholic woman) about the difficulty of finding our future spouses. Would you exclude someone from consideration for any or all of the following reasons:
The person has a child from a previous relationship
The person is a smoker
The person comes from a divorced family
I [...]
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Monday, May 23rd, 2005
Angry Twins Lend a Hand
The Angry Twins blog is quite funny, so I emailed them and asked them to check out my blog. Andrew agreed and sent me this kind email:
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Dear Devin,
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Pax Christi! Thanks for your kind words. My brother and I really appreciate it. I took a quick glance at your blog, and it [...]
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Monday, May 23rd, 2005
Protest Clear Channel Communications
Disgustingly, DC101 radio station’s shock jock, Elliot Segal, hosted a show where he had people call in to see who has had the most abortions. This story is sickening. Please email Clear Channel Communications’ VP to protest this (Clear Channel owns DC101). Here is my letter to him:
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Mr. Thompson,
I recently learned about [...]
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Sunday, May 22nd, 2005
What Great Friends
So last night my friends G and Robert stayed up until 2 am chatting about stuff. We had all been roommates for a number of years until Robert transferred up to Dallas within our company, so now it’s just me and G living together. But Robert was in town this past week and [...]
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Sunday, May 22nd, 2005
Ladder 49 movie review
Last night, my roommates and I watched “Ladder 49″, a firefighter movie (like Backdraft et. al.). I was disappointed with it. There was little character development, sinfulness was portrayed positively, and it was very predictable. Here is a rundown:
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New fireman joins fire station and goes to “Confession” with a priest there.
The priest [...]
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Saturday, May 21st, 2005
Thoughts on Purity
I wrote a small article on my personal site about the struggle for purity. One of the greatest gifts that we can give to our wives and children is purity. It is a treasure in our bodies and souls that is precious to our Father and hated by Satan, which is why it [...]
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Friday, May 20th, 2005
Star Wars Revenge of the Sith Review
(image removed due to other sites linking to it excessively).
I just went and watched the Revenge of the Sith (Episode III in the Star Wars saga) with my two good friends, Robert and G. Overall, I rate it a seven out of ten.
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Opening:
The beginning of the movie is quite odd. Obi Wan and [...]
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Thursday, May 19th, 2005
Apparently things are up to God
So I have been praying for my future wife and family for a long time now. However, i am still single (no wife, no family). Okay, that’s cool, but sometimes often I get impatient with God and basically think to myself: “God, hello? I’ve been praying for a long time for [...]
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Thursday, May 19th, 2005
Could this be, the land of the free
Matt Redman, a Christian musician, says these words at the beginning of one of his renditions of “Did you feel the mountains tremble”, one of my favorite Christian songs. I intepret this question he poses “Could this be the land of the free?” as speaking to God about the United States, and asking them [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Catholic Life, La Musica by Devman
Wednesday, May 18th, 2005
Activist Judges Okay for Liberals
I have been loosely following the judge nomination issue where Democrats are very undemocratically not allowing these judges to be voted on. The ridiculous thing is that Democrats accuse the judges of being “activists” who are pushing their agendas. From abcnews.com:
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‘Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., called the Democratic blockade of seven Bush [...]
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Wednesday, May 18th, 2005
Canisius College Hosting GLBT Conference
Bishop Kmiec,
I was disappointed to learn about the Second Annual National GLBT Conference for Jesuit Colleges and Universities taking place June 9 – 12 of this year at Canisius College. Clearly from the Canisius college website about this conference (http://www.canisius.edu/ifa/), this conference is not about promoting the truth of homosexuality as taught by the [...]
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Wednesday, May 18th, 2005
Donna Lewis at Home Depot
I recently picked up a CD by Donna Lewis at Half Price Books. You can read more about Donna Lewis’ songs on my personal site. Much to my surprise, I went into Home Depot this weekend and did a double take when I heard a song start playing, “Without Love”. I [...]
No Comments » - Posted in La Musica, Uncategorized by Devman
Tuesday, May 17th, 2005
Equal Distribution of Resources
At Mass yesterday, during the prayers (intercessions?), the priest prayed “that the resources of our nation will be equally distributed amongst all people”. He said some other things with that prayer before saying “We pray to the Lord”, but that part of it bothered me. I don’t think it is Catholic teaching that [...]
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Monday, May 16th, 2005
G returns from Italy
My roommate, whom I call “the G”, returned from Italy tonight. This lucky dog got to go to Mass at St. Peter’s for Pentecost that Pope Benedict celebrated! He said when the Pope processed up the aisle to the altar, many people in the congregation were cheering, including religious.
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Sunday, May 15th, 2005
Take Away My Free Will God
The other day I was thinking about how I don’t like to offend God, but sometimes I do it anyway when my selfishness and other faults overcome my love for him. This makes me sad, and I appreciated even more how God respects the free will he has given me by not overriding it [...]
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Saturday, May 14th, 2005
My Conversion from Atheism to Catholicism through Protestantism
I posted a relatively short story of my conversion from being an atheist to a Baptist to a Catholic on my personal site. Gotta love those atheist conversions that God brings about!
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Saturday, May 14th, 2005
How to Make Friends Without Even Trying
I have been blessed with many good friends. Most of these friends I have met at church. People sometimes remark to me that I seem to know everyone at church, which I didn’t ever think about until they said something. After talking with them, I realized that many people don’t have so [...]
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Friday, May 13th, 2005
People Who Beg At Stop Lights
I live in Austin, Texas, which is a decent-sized city. On a given day driving around, I probably see at least two or three people begging for money on the side of the road at stop lights. Usually, I only get approached by them once per two days (due to the probability of [...]
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Friday, May 13th, 2005
John Paul II beatification beginning!
Pope Benedict XVI has waived the 5 year waiting period!
Our Church is so awesome. Blessed be God.