tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post3065935720483148365..comments2024-02-26T00:59:26.907-08:00Comments on Ana the Imp: Welcome to England, your HolinessAnastasia F-Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comBlogger85125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-89607250381571163592010-09-20T16:10:29.225-07:002010-09-20T16:10:29.225-07:00Levent, it's a lot better than my Turkish. :-...Levent, it's a lot better than my Turkish. :-)Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-27095334569105928942010-09-20T08:15:47.032-07:002010-09-20T08:15:47.032-07:00Now I see. (My English) Thanks Brendan and Ana.Now I see. (My English) Thanks Brendan and Ana.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-36299364857284427592010-09-20T01:02:08.920-07:002010-09-20T01:02:08.920-07:00Mark, I think you and I would get on famously, apa...Mark, I think you and I would get on famously, apart from the fact that when I was your age I used to believe in as many as, oh, six absurd things before breakfast. :-))Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-38681447952551051662010-09-20T01:00:16.693-07:002010-09-20T01:00:16.693-07:00Rehan, I'm delighted. :-)Rehan, I'm delighted. :-)Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-21433477276070808682010-09-19T22:46:29.581-07:002010-09-19T22:46:29.581-07:00Ana I think maybe you missed my subtle humour! At ...Ana I think maybe you missed my subtle humour! At least I appreciate it. :)<br /><br />Or am I missing your subtle humour?<br /><br />I guess I'm a bit fixated on true and false - but what's so bad about that? Right and wrong you mentioned. True and false is important too.<br /><br />Seriously, I understand what you are saying, but part of it just makes me a bit uneasy. Like Tertullian's I believe because it is absurd.Mark Englishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03506844097173520312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-60109220058852163842010-09-19T22:45:14.198-07:002010-09-19T22:45:14.198-07:00You have a said beautifully what I had wished to s...You have a said beautifully what I had wished to say to a friend but couldn't quite discover in myself, how to say it. I shall forward this to him.Rehan Qayoomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02391797858691917631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-63834939524813598172010-09-19T16:04:17.170-07:002010-09-19T16:04:17.170-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Fletch's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16402507296202065300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-8823691853752721012010-09-19T15:45:34.486-07:002010-09-19T15:45:34.486-07:00Shermeen, was he in Burma in 1945, specifically on...Shermeen, was he in Burma in 1945, specifically on the advance to Mandalay? Thousands were, I know, but still!Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-50980452032761481982010-09-19T15:44:20.055-07:002010-09-19T15:44:20.055-07:00What a tongue twister that is Adam!What a tongue twister that is Adam!Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-89943677073062772832010-09-19T15:43:37.719-07:002010-09-19T15:43:37.719-07:00Brendano, I agree, saying is not enough. I also b...Brendano, I agree, saying is not enough. I also believe that Benedict means what he says. Still, we shall see.Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-41801280852724405392010-09-19T12:16:25.486-07:002010-09-19T12:16:25.486-07:00Ana
I remember you once mentioned your grandfather...Ana<br />I remember you once mentioned your grandfather fought in the Far East during WWII. That is where my dearest dad was as well. A young Muslim officer fighting for the Empire. Who knows, they may have met :)Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05117538638583507772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-69720393254779943762010-09-19T10:20:59.671-07:002010-09-19T10:20:59.671-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Fletch's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16402507296202065300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-28643290175798343312010-09-19T10:19:48.561-07:002010-09-19T10:19:48.561-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Fletch's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16402507296202065300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-16542294583687068162010-09-19T08:55:39.175-07:002010-09-19T08:55:39.175-07:00Regarding 'creative minority', I quoted so...Regarding 'creative minority', I quoted something from the <i>Irish Times</i> on MyT earlier, by the psychologist Maureen Gaffney:<br /><br />'We look to the church to be a life-enhancing community of equals, to make life better, nobler, more dignified, more full of meaning and love. Instead, what we are offered is an elite, remote hierarchy and a diet of dogma, restrictions and petty institutional rules.'<br /><br />I agree. I think 'creative minority' is a nice idea, but saying it is not enough.<br /><br />Spirituality is available for everyone, with or without a church, though the church may help. A church's role ought to be to lead us to water and help us to enjoy drinking it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-83685845941759644912010-09-19T08:26:09.503-07:002010-09-19T08:26:09.503-07:00Anthony, we must do as we must. I think it best, ...Anthony, we must do as we must. I think it best, though, never to walk alone.Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-32631962913001726382010-09-19T08:04:35.582-07:002010-09-19T08:04:35.582-07:00Adam, I think it best if I write a personal critiq...Adam, I think it best if I write a personal critique of Spengler. So, look to the future!Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-22403029020534996152010-09-19T08:02:39.932-07:002010-09-19T08:02:39.932-07:00Levent, I try to avoid predictions because I'm...Levent, I try to avoid predictions because I'm invariably right! I agree with your sentiments about the media. Rudyard Kipling wrote that the press had the prerogative of the harlot throughout history - power without responsibility, something I completely agree with! No, I would not dismiss your story. I know from my own family history just how important Muslims have been, both in prayer and practical action. My grandfather's life was saved by a Muslim soldier with whom he served during the Second World War. Creative minorities was a point made by Benedict himself, drawing on the work of Arnold Toynbee. We are all minorities in one way or another, some creative, others destructive. The Pope was simply saying that the Church had a role to play in the continuing advance of civilization, a creative minority, in other words.Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-62289352205639680352010-09-19T07:50:34.017-07:002010-09-19T07:50:34.017-07:00Shermeen, thank you, my dear friend. :-)Shermeen, thank you, my dear friend. :-)Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-11120483593447171382010-09-19T07:49:15.713-07:002010-09-19T07:49:15.713-07:00Mark, the next thing you will be telling me is tha...Mark, the next thing you will be telling me is that a bear really dies shit in the woods! Yes, he's a Catholic and Catholicism, in all its absurdity, is part of our civilization. People shall not live by reason alone, and in all it's irrationality the Christian and Catholic story has been a magnificent one. There is an early Anglo-Saxon poem, really just a few fragments, where the author wanders among the ruins of Roman bath full of wonder, believing this could not possibly be the work of any human agency but some divine process, 'weird' as he puts it. If our civilization collapsed like the late Roman Empire, if records and literacy all but disappeared, I can imagine some future poet wandering among the ruins of Saint Peter's in Rome with the same sense of wonder. A perfectly rational world, a perfectly atheist world, seems to me to be not quite human. It's faith, not reason, that moves mountains.Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-89929987815358172332010-09-19T07:40:44.147-07:002010-09-19T07:40:44.147-07:00Yun yi, big hug. :-)Yun yi, big hug. :-)Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-15712620227283502782010-09-19T07:40:15.988-07:002010-09-19T07:40:15.988-07:00Thanks, Brendano. I'll come and have a look a...Thanks, Brendano. I'll come and have a look as soon as I can.Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-47078074124407120712010-09-19T07:39:18.937-07:002010-09-19T07:39:18.937-07:00David, who can say what will happen in the flow of...David, who can say what will happen in the flow of time?Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-51490463957743274352010-09-19T07:38:22.699-07:002010-09-19T07:38:22.699-07:00RCP, you are tremendously kind. I shall do my bes...RCP, you are tremendously kind. I shall do my best. :-)Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-24984510051852946782010-09-19T07:37:20.215-07:002010-09-19T07:37:20.215-07:00Adam, of course I don't mind. I wasn't aw...Adam, of course I don't mind. I wasn't aware that there was a problem with the term Byzantine Empire, though I'm aware that it's a modern invention. The Empire itself to the end was still officially the Roman Empire - though so much had changed-, never the Greek Empire, and the Greek East simply does not cut it. What's the alternative? Besides Byzantium appeals to my romantic vision. :-)<br /><br /><br /><i>Once out of nature I shall never take<br />My bodily form from any natural thing,<br />But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make<br />Of hammered gold and gold enamelling<br />To keep a drowsy Emperor awake;<br />Or set upon a golden bough to sing<br />To lords and ladies of Byzantium<br />Of what is past, or passing, or to come</i>Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-75762232274982995882010-09-19T05:06:06.528-07:002010-09-19T05:06:06.528-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Fletch's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16402507296202065300noreply@blogger.com