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 calmAside from eliciting a comment or two from me concerning the subject at hand, after I was finished reading and offering my input, the whole experience caused me to realise just why I believe that people on the internet need desperately to get outside their own heads once in awhile and look around at the world to see that they are not the be-all and end-all of existence.  As I mentioned previously in my own FO post (which got a lot of positive feedback at Lj) concerning a hassle I just recently had with an Lj user who fills pages and pages of her journal with her daily minutia, there is a whole universe of truth, beauty, talent, creativity and yes, even outrage, to look upon on the wide world of the web. I do enjoy reading about people's lives, their triumphs, failures, trials and tribulations. But sometimes you would just like to shake them and say, 'Look OUTWARD for a minute. What do you see?' (Image from Peachie's Collection) | ||||||||||
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 pensive I get these emails -- like little inspirations for thought. This was today's:'On this day of your life, dear friend, I believe God wants you to know... ...that you must be willing to lose it all before you can have it all. What does this mean? It means that until you can let go of everything, you will find it hard to hold onto anything. Detachment is the key. If you are so attached to something that you are deeply unhappy without it, then you are not simply attached, you are addicted. You will not have to think but a second to know exactly why you received this message today. Love, Your Friend...' | ||||||||||
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 happyAll my Deadjournal issues have now been sorted due to CRYO stepping in JUST in the nick of time to impede the progress of fullscale Oona Tragedy with accompanying hissy fit! So for that, I say thank you very much!  PLUS...I received 3 months' of extra paid time. Dun ask me why. I am still NOT going to send those pictures, Cryo.  lol | ||||||||||
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 annoyedFeck them! Their site is so slow for me that I myself can barely get there. I think it has something to do with my complaints about their stupid payment policy. | ||||||||||
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 stressedOf all the journals WITH ads, DJ is the least obtrusive--at least it was the last time I looked at it with a crap browser like IE6. All I saw were google text ads in the banners. The admins had gotten away from the Suicide Girls ads, thank God. I dun mind google text ads. I use Firefox with a bunch of add-ons, however, and it makes even Livejournal look good, and we all know Livejournal looks like shit. I have a paid account over there that my friend Tracy gave to me much to my surprise, but I do not see the point in giving a Russian company money so they can stick garish flash ads all over the damn place, so LJ willna be getting renewed by me. They only offer 30 userpics with a regular paid account, and it is $10.00 more per year than DJ, who gives you 50. The funny thing is at Inksome, which I guess is going under, a free account gets 150 userpics. Then we have Dreamwidth.org, the new site competitor to LJ run by some very cool admins who pay a lot of attention to details and are extremely responsive and generous. If I had to pay for my account over there, I believe it would be worth it, and when I get the money, I intend to do so. This leaves me here, however, with about 1,200 more entries than I have anywhere else on my personal journals -- and I have about 1,300 at LJ and DW, which lets you import effortlessly from LJ. I figure it would be in my best interests to take care of this DJ even though our promised perks have kinda failed to materialise. The layouts are still the same. I changed my layout today btw. It doesna even have the ability to make a tags list. I canny write styles from scratch, unfortunately, so I have to use what is offered. Not like it is earth-shattering or anything anyway. I'm just messing around. [EDIT: I changed it back due to the limitations of the other one.] So there it is in a nutshell, Oona's trivial life. | ||||||||||
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 Last night I found out that a former online friend of mine had slipped away from this life without my knowing it. I canny begin to tell you the sadness this has settled around my shoulders. I didna even know he was gone. This is because, for me, he had left earlier, and I had had to realise that people come into our lives like shooting stars. Their brilliance and warmth stays but a short time as they make their way through the sky. But we are forever changed by them. We are never the same again. Our hearts are filled with tiny sparks from their spirits that ignite great flames of passion and love. Then it is our job to go out into the world and be the light for others as well -- just as we have been taught. Dáithí Mac Bhurrais, thank you for imparting to the world your fenian faith, and thank you for your friendship. And my thanks to your family for sharing you with all of us. You were truly a shooting star. | ||||||||||
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This is how I look on forgiveness. If you do something heinous and later feel remorse or regret for having done it, then you should make amends and ask the one you wronged to forgive your transgression. If you dun ask, then you dun regret what you did enough, and you get no forgiveness. If you purposefully hurt a child or an animal in cruelty and wantoness because you are a bent human being, then dun bother asking me for forgiveness because I could not and would not give it. For that, you can talk to your god, if you have one.  | ||||||||||
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**Every day I have need to call upon St Anthony for help when I lose things, which I do constantly. As soon as I ask this blessed saint to help me, the article I was unable to find previously becomes visible. It happens every time. You dun have to believe me, because I know many of you are sceptical. I know that if St Anthony cares enough about me to help me find my lost keys, then he is my special saint to also ask for bigger help, and this I do. I ask him to watch over certain of my loved ones and to make sure they stay safe. He always comes through for me. This is not to say he is a god, for those of you not familiar with Catholic theology, but to illustrate that God's power works through St Anthony. If anyone is interested in Catholic stuff, I have another journal I have kept for years, and I will be happy to show it to you. :) St Anthony Shrine  Nearly everywhere St. Anthony is asked to intercede with God for the return of things lost or stolen. Those who feel very familiar with him may pray, “Tony, Tony, turn around. Something’s lost and must be found.”The reason for invoking St. Anthony’s help in finding lost or stolen things is traced back to an incident in his own life. As the story goes, Anthony had a book of psalms that was very important to him. Besides the value of any book before the invention of printing, the psalter had the notes and comments he had made to use in teaching students in his Franciscan Order. A novice who had already grown tired of living religious life decided to depart the community. Besides going AWOL he also took Anthony’s psalter! Upon realizing his psalter was missing, Anthony prayed it would be found or returned to him. And after his prayer the thieving novice was moved to return the psalter to Anthony and to return to the Order, which accepted him back. Legend has embroidered this story a bit. It has the novice stopped in his flight by a horrible devil, brandishing an ax and threatening to trample him underfoot if he did not immediately return the book. Obviously a devil would hardly command anyone to do something good. But the core of the story would seem to be true. And the stolen book is said to be preserved in the Franciscan friary in Bologna. In any event, shortly after his death people began praying through Anthony to find or recover lost and stolen articles. And the Responsory of St. Anthony composed by his contemporary, Julian of Spires, O.F.M., proclaims, “The sea obeys and fetters break...And lifeless limbs thou dost restore...While treasures lost are found again...When young or old thine aid implore.” St. Anthony and the Child Jesus St. Anthony has been pictured by artists and sculptors in all kinds of ways. He is depicted with a book in his hands, with a lily or torch. He has been painted preaching to fish, holding a monstrance with the Blessed Sacrament in front of a mule or preaching in the public square or from a nut tree.  But since the 17th century we most often find the saint shown with the child Jesus in his arm or even with the child standing on a book the saint holds. A story about St. Anthony related in the complete edition of Butler’s Lives of the Saints (edited, revised and supplemented by Herbert Anthony Thurston, S.J., and Donald Attwater) projects back into the past a visit of Anthony to the Lord of Chatenauneuf. Anthony was praying far into the night when suddenly the room was filled with light more brilliant than the sun. Jesus then appeared to St. Anthony under the form of a little child. Chatenauneuf, attracted by the brilliant light that filled his house, was drawn to witness the vision but promised to tell no one of it until after St. Anthony’s death.Some may see a similarity and connection between this story and the story in the life of St. Francis when he reenacted at Greccio the story of Jesus, and the Christ Child became alive in his arms. There are other accounts of appearances of the child Jesus to Francis and some companions. These stories link Anthony with Francis in a sense of wonder and awe concerning the mystery of Christ’s incarnation. They speak of a fascination with the humility and vulnerability of Christ who emptied himself to become one like us in all things except sin. For Anthony, like Francis, poverty was a way of imitating Jesus who was born in a stable and would have no place to lay his head. Patron of Sailors, Travelers and Fishermen In Portugal, Italy, France and Spain, St. Anthony is the patron saint of sailors and fishermen. According to some biographers his statue is sometimes placed in a shrine on the ship’s mast. And the sailors sometimes scold him if he doesn’t respond quickly enough to their prayers. Not only those who travel the seas but also other travelers and vacationers pray that they may be kept safe because of Anthony’s intercession. Several stories and legends may account for associating the saint with travelers and sailors. First, there is the very real fact of Anthony’s own travels in preaching the gospel, particularly his journey and mission to preach the gospel in Morocco, a mission cut short by severe illness. But after his recovery and return to Europe, he was a man always on the go, heralding the Good News. There is also a story of two Franciscan sisters who wished to make a pilgrimage to a shrine of our Lady but did not know the way. A young man is supposed to have volunteered to guide them. Upon their return from the pilgrimage one of the sisters announced that it was her patron saint, Anthony, who had guided them. Still another story says that in 1647 Father Erastius Villani of Padua was returning by ship to Italy from Amsterdam. The ship with its crew and passengers was caught in a violent storm. All seemed doomed. Father Erastius encouraged everyone to pray to St. Anthony. Then he threw some pieces of cloth that had touched a relic of St. Anthony into the heaving seas. At once, the storm ended, the winds stopped and the sea became calm. Teacher, Preacher, Doctor of the Scriptures Among the Franciscans themselves and in the liturgy of his feast, St. Anthony is celebrated as a teacher and preacher extraordinaire. He was the first teacher in the Franciscan Order, given the special approval and blessing of St. Francis to instruct his brother Franciscans. His effectiveness as a preacher calling people back to the faith resulted in the title “Hammer of Heretics.” Just as important were his peacemaking and calls for justice. In canonizing Anthony in 1232, Pope Gregory IX spoke of him as the “Ark of the Testament” and the “Repository of Holy Scripture.” That explains why St. Anthony is frequently pictured with a burning light or a book of the Scriptures in his hands. In 1946 Pope Pius XII officially declared Anthony a Doctor of the Universal Church. It is in Anthony“s love of the word of God and his prayerful efforts to understand and apply it to the situations of everyday life that the Church especially wants us to imitate St. Anthony. While noting in the prayer of his feast Anthony’s effectiveness as an intercessor, the Church wants us to learn from Anthony, the teacher, the meaning of true wisdom and what it means to become like Jesus, who humbled and emptied himself for our sakes and went about doing good. Franciscan Father Norman Perry (1929-1999) served as editor-in-chief of 'St. Anthony Messenger' magazine for 18 years. He was the anonymous friar behind the publication’s popular “Wise Man” column for the 32 years he served on the magazine staff. This excerpt is from the book Saint Anthony of Padua: The Story of His Life and Popular Devotions, which was published in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of 'St. Anthony Messenger.' “The sea obeys and fetters break And lifeless limbs thou dost restore While treasures lost are found again When young or old thine aid implore.” —Responsory of St. Anthony | ||||||||||
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