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Christ's pain is essential to any traditional Christianity. How could God—at any rate, the Christian God of infinite love and compassion— not be infinitely pained by the state of the world, wherein all life is so utterly tormented? I take this occasion to quote Valentin Tomberg's Christological...

I've been where that girl was, except for the dope. In many ways, it was one of the richest times in my life.

Thank you, Mr McFate. Something about you impresses . . . as does, strange as you may think, your ‘nemesis’ here @Malarkey. Buck, I believe, is English but born in America. Sometimes I wonder not only how you lost your faith but what specifically that means for you. That is, does it mean...

With prayerful thoughts for Morrissey’s lonely, yearning tormented quest, as well as a sensitive, erudite and cultured soul on this forum who lost the faith . . .

Words are very hard right now. Just prayers for you, gratitude, deep gratitude . . . and love.

Prayers for you on the anniversary of your birth into this fallen world. There is, I believe, real meaning in all, but it is hard to bear for anyone as sensitive as you. Prayer helps, most especially the Eucharist but I am not a priest and so I only pray for you.

I don't have much time for this forum just now . . . but I post parts of an article that, tech-illiterate as I am, I cannot even fully understand! From the first paragraphs: If they can machine simulate Michael Jackson's voice, what would it take to machine simulate Morrissey's voice on a...

You're both right! I meant to put 100 million - each. Corrected now!

I'm a dying billionaire. Heirless, hoping to leave something behind to world culture and thinking that nobody approaches Marr in terms of music for Moz (though if Cobrin had written more, he might come closest) . . . I approach Morrissey and Marr and offer them 100 million each to reunite for...

Ah yes, you are right! I didn't see . . . Still. I don't mind throwing a little surrealism into this increasingly grey, colourless, utilitarian world—even if the surrealism was quite unintentional! ;)

If—to return to the example cited above —Marx and Engels had simply defended the interests of the industrial workers without having let themselves be carried away by their intoxicated imagination to make statements of universal historical significance, and even cosmic significance, such as the...

Weird question from a musical illiterate. Can you explain what you mean by that? In what sense is it derivative? Honest question. I trust your ears more than mine and like you lament the recent Tobias era. What Kind of People is a real high spot for me and I am curious in what sense it is a...

Nice dream. If only . . .

The tragedy of Ireland intensively occupies my thinking. Yes, abortion—but, as the video suggests, that is but part of a far greater tragedy by which Modern Capitalism of an Anglo-American provenance finally succeeded in battering this country to death . . . death on many fronts at once.

You're the One for Me, Person Living with Obesity.