Comments for Late Night Wanderings http://latenightwanderings.wordpress.com "Not all those who wander are lost." - J.R.R. Tolkein Sun, 17 May 2009 00:04:42 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Zalantine day’s repercussions by Youssef http://latenightwanderings.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/zalantine-days-repercussions/#comment-34 Youssef Sun, 17 May 2009 00:04:42 +0000 http://latenightwanderings.wordpress.com/?p=109#comment-34 "The description given by St Augustine is an elucidation of what love is as a gift means." It is not. It's the exact opposite. A gift is always measured; St Augustine says love shouldn't be measured. Did Paul talk about the relation between love and pity? “The description given by St Augustine is an elucidation of what love is as a gift means.”
It is not. It’s the exact opposite. A gift is always measured; St Augustine says love shouldn’t be measured.

Did Paul talk about the relation between love and pity?

]]> Comment on Zalantine day’s repercussions by Peter Gadalla, nSJ http://latenightwanderings.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/zalantine-days-repercussions/#comment-33 Peter Gadalla, nSJ Mon, 06 Apr 2009 01:45:58 +0000 http://latenightwanderings.wordpress.com/?p=109#comment-33 I enjoyed reading your piece as you called it. I want though to clearify two points on the object discussed: first, you praised the Catholic principle of describing Love by St Augustine (a Doctor of the Church), and few words later refused the Catholic teachings which expresses Love as a “gift”. The description given by St Augustine is an elucidation of what love is as a gift means. Second, you said love is not charity, for charity “love as a gift” is pity. St. Paul (1 Corinthians 13:13), usually called charity the third and greatest of the Divine virtues, defined: a divinely infused habit, inclining the human will to cherish God for his own sake above all things, and man for the sake of God. I enjoyed reading your piece as you called it. I want though to clearify two points on the object discussed: first, you praised the Catholic principle of describing Love by St Augustine (a Doctor of the Church), and few words later refused the Catholic teachings which expresses Love as a “gift”. The description given by St Augustine is an elucidation of what love is as a gift means.
Second, you said love is not charity, for charity “love as a gift” is pity. St. Paul (1 Corinthians 13:13), usually called charity the third and greatest of the Divine virtues, defined: a divinely infused habit, inclining the human will to cherish God for his own sake above all things, and man for the sake of God.

]]> Comment on The Gaze by Pajama Girl http://latenightwanderings.wordpress.com/2009/03/21/thegaze/#comment-31 Pajama Girl Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:58:34 +0000 http://latenightwanderings.wordpress.com/?p=133#comment-31 As for Goddard, I'm not sure that the gaze has collapsed... i would say it has been fractured into many little snap-shots that we remember like short, snappy advertisements (hence commercial i suppose). and yes, those adverts produce the gaze and what it sees - so that your fairy tale understanding is fed again by romantic comedies (what you see) till you expect things that way (gaze)... but i think that is all too simplistic too. there are many great things out there too, and it's too easy to say poo-poo commercial world.. you could easily say here's a cream, or you could look at it as "selling civilization in a jar" ya3ni. As for Goddard, I’m not sure that the gaze has collapsed… i would say it has been fractured into many little snap-shots that we remember like short, snappy advertisements (hence commercial i suppose).

and yes, those adverts produce the gaze and what it sees – so that your fairy tale understanding is fed again by romantic comedies (what you see) till you expect things that way (gaze)…

but i think that is all too simplistic too. there are many great things out there too, and it’s too easy to say poo-poo commercial world.. you could easily say here’s a cream, or you could look at it as “selling civilization in a jar” ya3ni.

]]> Comment on The Gaze by Pajama Girl http://latenightwanderings.wordpress.com/2009/03/21/thegaze/#comment-30 Pajama Girl Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:44:32 +0000 http://latenightwanderings.wordpress.com/?p=133#comment-30 Absurdist: Explain this! Reminded me of an entrance exam someone had that asked, "What is the bravest thing you've ever done? Write an essay." One person just wrote, "This!" and got in. Love them stories. Absurdist: Explain this!

Reminded me of an entrance exam someone had that asked, “What is the bravest thing you’ve ever done? Write an essay.”

One person just wrote, “This!” and got in. Love them stories.

]]> Comment on The Gaze by Topics about Arts » The Gaze http://latenightwanderings.wordpress.com/2009/03/21/thegaze/#comment-29 Topics about Arts » The Gaze Sat, 21 Mar 2009 10:36:53 +0000 http://latenightwanderings.wordpress.com/?p=133#comment-29 [...] Late Night Wanderings put an intriguing blog post on The GazeHere’s a quick excerptYou could also call it “Knowledge and explanation through reason, faith, or feeling (the mind, the soul, or the heart) in space and time” but my editor wouldn’t like that too much. Somewhere in the common space connecting philosophy, religion, science, and art lies an earnest search for a sensible worldview. There is a gaze. On the most basic levels, there are two questions: What can we and do we know? How do we and can we explain what we know? This is MY post-structuralist summary of w [...] [...] Late Night Wanderings put an intriguing blog post on The GazeHere’s a quick excerptYou could also call it “Knowledge and explanation through reason, faith, or feeling (the mind, the soul, or the heart) in space and time” but my editor wouldn’t like that too much. Somewhere in the common space connecting philosophy, religion, science, and art lies an earnest search for a sensible worldview. There is a gaze. On the most basic levels, there are two questions: What can we and do we know? How do we and can we explain what we know? This is MY post-structuralist summary of w [...]

]]> Comment on Zalantine day’s repercussions by Youssef http://latenightwanderings.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/zalantine-days-repercussions/#comment-28 Youssef Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:05:33 +0000 http://latenightwanderings.wordpress.com/?p=109#comment-28 The element of blindness is perhaps the fact that not even lovers can see (let alone understand) each other perfectly, hence imperfection of communication. The element of blindness is perhaps the fact that not even lovers can see (let alone understand) each other perfectly, hence imperfection of communication.

]]> Comment on Noontime Desert Wandering by Youssef http://latenightwanderings.wordpress.com/2009/02/21/noontime-desert-wandering/#comment-27 Youssef Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:01:53 +0000 http://latenightwanderings.wordpress.com/?p=113#comment-27 Awesome ya Koty. Awesome ya Koty.

]]> Comment on Good jokes are not easy to quit by Good jokes are not easy to quit « Late Night Wanderings | fortmill.info http://latenightwanderings.wordpress.com/2009/02/22/good-jokes-are-not-easy-to-quit/#comment-26 Good jokes are not easy to quit « Late Night Wanderings | fortmill.info Sun, 22 Feb 2009 23:14:46 +0000 http://latenightwanderings.wordpress.com/?p=118#comment-26 [...] Good jokes are not easy to quit « Late Night Wanderings [...] [...] Good jokes are not easy to quit « Late Night Wanderings [...]

]]> Comment on Noontime Desert Wandering by Caroleen http://latenightwanderings.wordpress.com/2009/02/21/noontime-desert-wandering/#comment-25 Caroleen Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:46:11 +0000 http://latenightwanderings.wordpress.com/?p=113#comment-25 I love it !!! I love it !!!

]]> Comment on Zalantine day’s repercussions by Pajama Girl http://latenightwanderings.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/zalantine-days-repercussions/#comment-24 Pajama Girl Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:47:58 +0000 http://latenightwanderings.wordpress.com/?p=109#comment-24 "And the blindness is perhaps the imperfection of communication? " please explain. “And the blindness is perhaps the imperfection of communication? ”

please explain.

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