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My Tagline:
Theology is poetry explained by bureaucrats.

My Interests:
Digital SLR photography, classical music, opera.

My Favorite Books, Authors, Musicians, Movies, Preachers, TV shows, etc:
Mozart, Bach, Vivaldi, Beethoven, Chopin, Verdi, Donizetti, Puccini, Joan Sutherland, Leontyne Price, Mirella Freni, Martina Arroyo, Montserrat Caballé, Anna Moffo, Kiri Te Kanawa, Shirley Verrett, Fleming, Bartoli, Pavarotti, Corelli, Carlo Bergonzi, Richard Tucker, Robert Merrill, Pierro Cappuccilli, Samuel Ramey, Ingvar Wixell, Leo Nucci, Richard Bonynge, von Karajan, Solti, Segovia, John Williams (guitarist), Artur Rubinstein, Isaac Stern, Itzhak Perlman, De Larrocha, Ma, Rampal.

Who Inspires Me:
People who serve their art.

My organizations and affiliations:
Alcoholics Anonymous, Beliefnet Community Host for Discuss Catholicism & 12 Step Spirituality

My favorite spiritual activities:
Sitting quietly, doing nothing.

Who I'm praying for:
Cherubino and anyone else I don't like very much.

What is your current spiritual mood?:
Mindful

What's your spiritual type?:
Spiritual Dabbler - I'm open to spiritual matters but far from hooked.

About Me

I was a Trappist monk from 1959 until 1965, and then a devout & practicing alcoholic from 1965 until 1989. Now that I'm in recovery, I'm a hardnosed existentialist, a practicing ex-Catholic and a devout iconoclast.

On Mondays I'm generally a Taoist, by Tuesday a Zen Buddhist toying with Eckhartian syntheses, always an acerbic Emersonian on Wednesday, perched high & mighty on my Thoreauvian pumpkin on Thursday, slipping into existential nihilism by Friday, chucking it all on Saturday and reveling in wanton hedonism once again, and on Sundays I rest from my labors in Jungian introspection. I know it sounds terribly complicated, but to me variety is the spice of life, and as long as I don't drink I'm always rarin' to start again.

Favorite quote, from Michael Polanyi: "Our mind lives in action, and any attempt to specify its presuppositions produces a set of axioms which can not tell us why we should accept them."

My Basics

Gender: Male

Occupation: Retired

Relationship Status: In a Relationship

Faith Description: Existentialist, 12-Stepper, Iconoclast.

cherubino's Journal

Geezerism

Posted: Apr 29, 2008 8:03 PM

How do we know that everyone has the same aspirations for, and apprehensions about, the hereafter that we do? And why do we...

The End of what?

Posted: Feb 17, 2008 10:40 PM

I can imagine a time when half the population of Europe is wiped out by an epidemic. I can imagine a time when marauding armies wipe...

Remembering Hans Gerth

Posted: Jan 29, 2008 8:17 PM

I did my masters at UWisconsin/Madison in '69 - '71 under the aegis of a 1938 German refugee from the Nazis named Hans H. Gerth....

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DaisyHeadMaisie

Pssst...Hi Cherubino :-) - May 3, 2008 - 08:05 AM

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runningwolf

Greetings! - April 30, 2008 - 08:03 AM

I love your "days of the week" spirituality. I feel the same way - just ask me that day what my spiritual preference is and I will let you know. Though most days now they lean towards "Taoism" since it is so simple and deals with common sense. Have a blessed day, Runningwolf

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Granny's wish

LA PENA FOUNDATION - April 30, 2008 - 12:42 AM

"It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: 'And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!" "I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility and Union." "With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan - to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations." ABRAHAM LINCOLN

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savedamuziq

SAVEDAMUZIQ...LUV, PEACE, & CHICKEN GREASE! - April 26, 2008 - 02:10 PM

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Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible. GERONIMO|PRODIGY

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DaisyHeadMaisie

If Only I Had Known... - April 5, 2008 - 11:36 PM

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I would have known THEN what I know NOW! XO DHM

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