October 31, 2007
On Holiness
As I began to include the following quote, an odd Christian family appeared at the door to bring me Halloween candy that is emblazoned with their Megachurch logo.
"There's no one in the world more obnoxious than someone really Holy"
Father Lester Bundy
Professor of Religious Studies
Regis University
An Orthodox Priest teaching Buddhism at a Jesuit College
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October 29, 2007
Another from the Quote Book
Game Theory researchers long ago pointed out that it is impossible to devise a strategy for successfully interacting with someone making random choices"
-James Kennedy, et. al
Swarm Intelligence
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October 27, 2007
A Lesson for Modern Diplomats?
If your holiness should inflict such a humiliation on the Order, then the is no way I can guarantee that then thousand Jesuits will not pick up their pens to attack this bull in a manner that is certain to prove detrimental to the prestige of the Holy See
Claudio Aquaviva, Superior General of the Society of Jesus to Pope Sixtus V
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