Conversation Between Myself and My Beloved Sister Kara

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Haller231 (4:46:43 PM): i actually have to go but i'll talk to you later this weekend

JaySilverheels86 (4:46:51 PM): haha...fair enough, c-ya

Haller231 (4:47:40 PM): by the way Lauren said she would have been your date for the wedding this weekend

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Hilarious Casebooks

I just read this passage from a casebook and found it incredibly hilarious:

"Austin cooked a continental dinner for a new acquaintance, Berwyn, served in candlelight and accompanied by excellent French wines. After dinner the couple sat on the sofa listening to Traviata and sipping Benedictine and Brandy. The moment came, as it must in every scene of this sort, in which Austin drew closer and with parted lips looked in Berwyn's eyes. A kiss was imparted and Austin's hand caressed Berwyn's neck. Suddenly, to the surprise of everyone, there was a snap as a vertebra in Berwyn's neck broke."

Whaaaa??

What I Have Learned

This is a small list of the top ten things I have learned in law school in the first couple weeks of class:

10. There are a lot of exceptionally bright people in my class
9. It is no longer cool to go to the bar where all the undergrads hang out
8. Despite what the professors say, stupid questions do indeed exist
7. Trashy TV has never felt so refreshing
6. The workload is like studying for a test every night
5. The Socratic method is terrifying at times, but necessary
4. Ramen noodles are the key to keeping loan interest at bay
3. Your loan money that goes towards tuition essentially disappears before you see it
2. Interest is insane and I have a new-found hatred for banks
1. The class elections are almost as hilarious to watch unfold as the presidential election

This Just In: Barack Obama was Conceived by Two Men

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

How Can McCain Get That Exciting Edge?

Meeting the Parents

This video really makes me laugh.

Have you thought about the effects of not recycling? Can you imagine if everywhere you went, light refracted when passing through water to reveal a spectrum of colors? This is what our world is coming to, and I posted this video as a reminder that we all have a responsibility, nay, a God given right to a clean world to live in and within which we can raise our children safely. In case you missed the message in this video, this means that we need a President that will rid our country of rainbows, or as I like to call them: 'Godless Marauding Killing Machines.' Can you imagine what would happen if someone had the audacity to build a prism?

UPDATE: This woman was later found dead of rainbow poisoning. Her survivors are in the process of suing the State of California.

I have decided to renew my attempts at blogging as a way for me to detach (or reinforce) my new life as a monk studying law. There are a lot of new tools to use, so I'm hoping this will be an easier way for me to post pictures, videos, and other such things, as well as provide an easier way to keep in touch with a lot of you. The new url will be www.crownofthorns.com. For my first couple posts, I'm revising a couple drafts that I had written a few years ago and never posted, just because it is fun to think of where I was then and how long ago it now seems. I have decided not to really change the name of my blog, simply because it still seems incredibly relevant to my life...especially if you add to the end of it, as coined in the Johnny Cash cover of a Nine Inch Nails song "I wear this crown of thorns, upon my liar's chair (watch above video). The only difference is that I have never been a drug addict and I'm not rich. The video is one of my all time favorites and definitely worth a watch. Other than that, keep checking back, I hope to write as frequently as I am able. God bless!

If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep a
tight rein on his tongue, he deceives himself and his religion is
worthless.
-- James 1:26


Not only do we not know God except through Jesus Christ; We do
not even know ourselves except through Jesus Christ.
-- Blaise Pascal

God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.
Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the
mountains fall into the heart of the sea.
-- Psalm 46:1-2

Faith, mighty faith the promise sees|And rests on that
alone:|Laughs at impossibilities,|And says it shall be done.
-- Charles Wesley

The LORD works righteousness and justice for all the oppressed.
-- Psalm 103:6

Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on
the Cross, had not love held Him there.
-- Catherine of Siena

Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let
your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near.
-- Philippians 4:4-5

Give everyone what you owe him: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if
revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then
honor.
-- Romans 13:7

Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily
occupation -- speak, act, work in peace, as if you were in
prayer, as indeed you ought to be.
-- François Fénelon

Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is
your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then
vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we
will live and do this or that."
-- James 4:14

Whoever strives to withdraw from obedience, withdraws from
grace.
-- Thomas à Kempis

Man is like a breath; his days are like a fleeting shadow.
-- Psalm 144:4

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, ... but
delight to be alone and single with Omnipresency... Life is pure
flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us.
-- Sir Thomas Browne

Hate evil, love good; maintain justice in the courts. Perhaps
the LORD God Almighty will have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.
-- Amos 5:15


Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in
God: for it is perhaps your own coldness and avarice and
mediocrity and materialism and selfishness that have chilled his
faith.
-- Thomas Merton

These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality,
however, is found in Christ.
-- Colossians 2:17

We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of
God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love
with which it is performed.
-- Brother Lawrence

We know also that the Son of God has come and has given us
understanding, so that we may know him who is true. And we are in
him who is true -- even in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God
and eternal life.
-- 1 John 5:20

Don't tell them that Jesus loves them until you're ready to love
them.
-- Author Unknown

Every person born in this world represents something new,
something that never existed before, something original and
unique.
-- Martin Buber