The gate of Dachau reads, “ARBEIT MACHT FREI.” It means, “work will set you free.”
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“Not yet. Not yet, Ben,” I tell myself. I can feel the tears welling up. “You’ve still got more to see.”
Only 20 minutes ago did I walk through the gate marked Arbeit Macht [...] Read more »
Denise reaches out to touch the idol of Santa Ana at Biba Fiestan Santa Ana in Agat, Guam.
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The word fiesta has a very Mexican image in my mind. Perhaps it’s my love the Three Amigos and El Guapo’s birthday that causes me to associate fiesta with pinatas, mariachi [...] Read more »
One thing I love about Boulder is that it’s prime ogling territory. In Boulder, the ratio of beautiful and healthy people is incredible. If I’m not getting my facts wrong, Boulder remains the skinniest city in the skinniest county in the skinniest state in the country. And while often that means the women wandering around [...] Read more »
Change is necessary.
Sometimes, all it takes is a former Catholic priest telling you the answer to all your problems is more hugging.
And sometimes hearing that just creeps you out.
You were in the same class as Cardinal Law, right? Great… Read more »
More and more, I’m finding that my creative juices are better used when other people inspire me. For instance, I just adapted Joan Osborne’s One of Us to be about cell phones in a thread about a nun on a cell phone in the <a href=”http://metaquotes.livejournal.com/”>metaquotes</a> community.
Phones For All of Us
(Sung to the tune of [...] Read more »
There we were, our eyes glaring at the screen in concentration, waiting to see if we could do it; hoping we could, and would, become the next pope.
You remember the Last Starfighter, that phenomenal 80s film in which a small town boy gets to become a starfighter because he got a high score on the [...] Read more »
Wouldn’t it be hilarious if the Pope dying was just a big April Fools joke?
Pope: “Argh. I’m dying.”
Vatican: “Oh my, he’s dying!”
Crowd Outside the Vatican: “GASP!”
Pope: “Durrrrrrr!”
*Pope Dies*
Vatican: “Oh my, he’s dead!”
Crowd Outside the Vatican: “GASP!”
Vatican: “Dear Lord and savior. Please let this great man’s soul rest in Heaven.”
God: “HAHAHA! Fooled you!”
*Pope comes back to [...] Read more »
As seen on CNN.com…
ROME, Italy (Reuters) — Homosexual marriages are part of “a new ideology of evil” that is insidiously threatening society, Pope John Paul says in his newly published book.
In “Memory and Identity,” the Pope also calls abortion a “legal extermination” comparable to attempts to wipe out Jews and other groups in the 20th [...] Read more »
So Dante outlines his 9 circles of hell, and I think that’s great. It’s tremendously uplifting knowing which level I might be stuck in. In fact, thanks to that, I think I could plan out my vices and aim for a specific circle. But beyond hell, I think there are 9 circles of hell on [...] Read more »