Mo' Dernity, Mo' Problems
Thursday, January 04, 2007
Looking for something besides Iggy Pop to listen to on your MP3 Player?
I've tried listening to a few of top rated podcasts, but found them all pretty dull. Instead, I would recommend the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin audio recordings of the Bible available here. Actually, I've only tried the Latin ones.
I also found out about Libri Vox, where you can download audio recordings of books and short stories for free. I've listened to a few so far, and would recommend "The Duplicity of Hargraves" by O. Henry... it's one of the stories in the first short story collection. Edgar Allen Poe's "The Black Cat" was trite, but there was one part that I want to quote here:
Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart --one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man. Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a silly action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgment, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?
It seems like this understanding goes against the Church's understanding of sin. Take a look at this, from the Catholic Encyclopedia:
A pure or entire privation of good could occur in a moral act only on the supposition that the will could incline to evil as such for an object. This is impossible because evil as such is not contained within the scope of the adequate object of the will, which is good. The sinner's intention terminates at some object in which there is a participation of God's goodness, and this object is directly intended by him.
Seems like the character in Poe's story disagrees with Church's teaching. But what do you expect from a guy who splits open his wife's head with an axe?
I've tried listening to a few of top rated podcasts, but found them all pretty dull. Instead, I would recommend the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin audio recordings of the Bible available here. Actually, I've only tried the Latin ones.
I also found out about Libri Vox, where you can download audio recordings of books and short stories for free. I've listened to a few so far, and would recommend "The Duplicity of Hargraves" by O. Henry... it's one of the stories in the first short story collection. Edgar Allen Poe's "The Black Cat" was trite, but there was one part that I want to quote here:
Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart --one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man. Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a silly action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgment, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?
It seems like this understanding goes against the Church's understanding of sin. Take a look at this, from the Catholic Encyclopedia:
A pure or entire privation of good could occur in a moral act only on the supposition that the will could incline to evil as such for an object. This is impossible because evil as such is not contained within the scope of the adequate object of the will, which is good. The sinner's intention terminates at some object in which there is a participation of God's goodness, and this object is directly intended by him.
Seems like the character in Poe's story disagrees with Church's teaching. But what do you expect from a guy who splits open his wife's head with an axe?
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
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