Music shall untune the sky

augiewinchester: oraldiarrhea: secretsbest: 8 month old baby...

Sat, 25 May 2013 11:29:59 +1000

oraldiarrhea:

secretsbest:

8 month old baby hearing his mother’s voice for the first time with cochlear implant

This is the most beautiful thing ever.

thank you science

THE BINKY JUST…….

DROPPED

IM
CRYING

Wrong. Religion is the binding that we take on to hold ourselves...

Sat, 25 May 2013 11:13:04 +1000

Wrong.

Religion is the binding that we take on to hold ourselves tightly to Jesus.

“Religion clean and undefiled before God and the Father, is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation: and to keep one’ s self unspotted from this world.” James 1:27

Maybe reword it - “Some denominations claiming to be Christian say…”

And differentiate between the sinful Christians and our Holy Mother Church, bride of Christ.

I’m going to have to think about this

Sat, 25 May 2013 10:57:58 +1000

I’m going to have to think about this

ironspy: Avengers Business Cards - Just because

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:00:31 +1000

ironspy:

Avengers Business Cards - Just because

thefrogman: [video] [h/t: cineraria]

Fri, 24 May 2013 10:56:15 +1000

thefrogman:

[video] [h/t: cineraria]

Photo

Fri, 24 May 2013 10:21:16 +1000

avalonprand: Princess Carrie

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:51:01 +1000

avalonprand:

Princess Carrie

avalonprand: Astaire in the air

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:50:40 +1000

avalonprand:

Astaire in the air

bigolclown: Study of Pope Benedict XVI, based on photo by Paul...

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:50:22 +1000

bigolclown:

Study of Pope Benedict XVI, based on photo by Paul Haring.

I was experimenting with a new painting medium and I was fairly pleased with the results, so I thought I’d share.

thefullnessofthefaith: “Sister Mary Kenneth Keller, from...

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:49:56 +1000

thefullnessofthefaith:

“Sister Mary Kenneth Keller, from Cleveland, Ohio, was one of the first women, and very likely the first woman, to receive a Ph.D. degree in computer science in the United States. Keller entered the Sisters of Charity, a Catholic religious order, in 1932 and professed her vows in 1940. Later, she studied at DePaul University, where she received a B.S. degree in mathematics and an M.S. degree in mathematics and physics. In 1965, she received a Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Wisconsin. Her dissertation work involved constructing algorithms that performed analytic differentiation on algebraic expression, written in CDC FORTRAN 63.

“As a graduate student, Keller also studied at Dartmouth, Purdue, and the University of Michigan. At Dartmouth, the university broke the “men only” rule and allowed her to work in the computer center, where she participated in the development of BASIC.

“After receiving her Ph.D. degree, Keller accepted an offer of a faculty position at Clarke College in Dubuque, Iowa. Keller founded the Computer Science Department there and chaired it for 20 years. She also established a master’s degree program for computer applications in education.

“Keller felt that women should be involved in computer science and especially in the field of information specialist. In her words, ‘We’re having an information explosion, among others, and it’s certainly obvious that information is of no use unless it’s available.’ Keller’s vision extended eyond education and reached toward artificial intelligence. ‘For the first time, we can now mechanically simulate the cognitive process. We can make studies in artificial intelligence. Beyond that, this mechanism [the computer] can be used to assist humans in learning. As we are going to have more mature students in greater numbers as time goes on, this type of teaching will probably be increasingly important.’ Sister Mary Keller died at the age of 71 but has left a legacy of computers and education at Clarke College.”

Quoted from: Gurer, Denise. “Pioneering Women in Computer Science.” ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 34, Issue 2. ACM Press, 2002.

Source

queen-yetta-rosenberg: Profession of vows

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:49:21 +1000

queen-yetta-rosenberg:

Profession of vows

faustinaszalewski: Reblog if you’re Roman Catholic because I am looking for Catholic blogs to...

Tue, 21 May 2013 03:16:48 +1000

faustinaszalewski:

Reblog if you’re Roman Catholic because I am looking for Catholic blogs to follow.

discardingimages: Fishcat vs. Spear Rat Pontifical of...

Tue, 21 May 2013 03:16:29 +1000

discardingimages:

Fishcat vs. Spear Rat

Pontifical of Guillaume Durand, Avignon, before 1390.

Paris, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, ms. 143, fol. 161v

hodgepodgery: Sisters rollerskating! From “Those Whom God...

Sat, 18 May 2013 02:56:24 +1000

hodgepodgery:

Sisters rollerskating! From “Those Whom God Chooses” by Barbara and Grey Villet. Copyright 1963 - 1966 Viking Press, Inc.

I had this book!

awkwardsituationist: 98 year old dobri dobrev, a man who lost...

Sat, 18 May 2013 02:47:54 +1000

awkwardsituationist:

98 year old dobri dobrev, a man who lost his hearing in the second world war, walks 10 kilometers from his village in his homemade clothes and leather shoes to the city of sofia, where he spends the day begging for money.

though a well recognized fixture around several of the city’s chruches, known for his prostrations of thanks to all donors, it was only recently discovered that he has donated every penny he has collected — over 40,000 euros — towards the restoration of decaying bulgarian monasteries and churches and the utility bills of orphanages, living entirely off his monthly state pension of 80 euros and the kindness of others.

Photo

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:56:31 +1000

I'm Roman Catholic.

Wed, 15 May 2013 07:20:44 +1000

awaitingmybeloved:

I’m Roman, Bible-reading, Scapular wearing, Pope-obeying, Eucharist-adoring, sin-confessing, Mass-attending, genuflecting, Communion-receiving, priest-respecting, Mary-venerating, Rosary-respecting, history-embracing, Tradition-keeping, fasting, abstaining, Advent-preparing, pro-life-supporting, pro-“choice”-disapproving, schism-abhorring, fundamentalist-frustrating, philosophizing, theologizing, heaven-expecting, Satan-rejecting, God-fearing, Jesus-loving CATHOLIC.

radioteopoli: Pope Suggests Invoking Holy Spirit at End-of-Day...

Wed, 15 May 2013 07:19:00 +1000

radioteopoli:

Pope Suggests Invoking Holy Spirit at End-of-Day Conscience Examination

“We should get into the habit of asking ourselves before the end of the day, ‘What did the Holy Spirit do in me?’ and ‘What witness did he give me?’” he said during daily Mass on May 6.

He explained, “It is in this way that we can see how Jesus worked in our hearts. It is the Holy Spirit that opens our hearts to know Jesus.”

thorhead: thorhead: I wonder if the young girls playing on the trampoline next door know that I...

Tue, 14 May 2013 22:11:15 +1000

thorhead:

thorhead:

I wonder if the young girls playing on the trampoline next door know that

I can see them

I can hear them singing You Can’t Stop The Beat from Hairspray

they are really bad singers and

I can probably get a YouTube-worthy video of them from my current position

gUYS I PUT ON MY COUSINS HOCKEY MASK AND STOOD AT THE WINDOW AND YELLED “STOP YOUR INFERNAL SINGSONG I’M TRYING TO MURDER HERE” AND THEY SCREAMED AND TRIED TO RUN AWAY AND ONE FELL OVER AND STARTED CRYING

they’re all mad…

thedoors-thedoors: digitalpapist: thegodlessatheist: Knowing...

Tue, 14 May 2013 22:05:37 +1000

thedoors-thedoors:

digitalpapist:

thegodlessatheist:

Knowing this should make you atheist or even agnostic rather quickly, but if you are a dimwit with the lights on and nobody home like people of faith tend to be, you’re going to have a hard time. <——- would make this a meme but waaaaay too long, lol.

Considering that Heaven and Hell are not mentioned in Genesis, I’m quite curious on how to make sense of that statement. But I’ll take both confused claims separately.

1. It is a common misconception that most religions postulate an extensively detailed afterlife. It’s actually quite rare. Most tribal/polytheistic religions have a fairly murky view of the afterlife, which was often quite pessimistic. In fact, it wasn’t even a common view even in Judaism that there existed anything but a shadow-like existence after this life until two centuries before Christ (the deuter-canonlical period). It’s why so many religions focus so intently on offspring, for that is the closest realization of living beyond oneself that you could be sure of.

The only mainstream religion that had anything remotely similar to Christian beliefs about the afterlife was Zoroastrianism, but the similarities are more in the eschatological than those strictly relating to the afterlife.

In fact, one could certainly read the first 7 Ecumenical Councils as combating an excessive appropriation of Zoroastrianism and Neo-Platonism into Christianity.

2. Read the creation accounts of Genesis and compare them with most of the Egyptian accounts or the Babylonian myth. Huge, huge differences. Take the Babylonian myth: Primeval chaos, violence as a inherent nature of deity and being, humans as slaves. Conflict, chaos, and hate were foundational upon all order, both created and uncreated.

Genesis is actually fairly unique in its geographical area. God “speaks” creation, borne out of the fundamental, ontological peace that the account postulates. Creation is “good”, a total, unnecessary, extravagant gift. There is no divine warfare, no celestial coups (both occur in the Babylonian account), no necessity in creation. That has always been the Christian reading of it.

But maybe I’m just a dimwit with the lights on and nobody home.

as soon as the word “dimwit” or any other similar term enters somebody’s argument, they immediately lose all credibility imo