Originally Posted by RichieLion

Hey, thanks for the heads-up on the weather. I bailed out on the golf. Hope it clears up for tomorrow morning. My Sunday morning gang are a trip. Funniest bunch of conservatives I have ever met. We should do a round?

I think; therefore I am.

Originally Posted by DaleMN

I think; therefore I am.

Ah, a fan of the devout Roman Catholic philosopher Rene Descartes. Very good.

Originally Posted by RichieLion

Ah, a fan of the devout Roman Catholic philosopher Rene Descartes. Very good.

Read Teilard ( I think that is spelled wrong) des Chardin's Alpha to Omega. A Jesuit Priest. I went to Loyola and most of my prof's were Jesuit priests. Great teachers...

Originally Posted by ladydoc

Read Teilard ( I think that is spelled wrong) des Chardin's Alpha to Omega. A Jesuit Priest. I went to Loyola and most of my prof's were Jesuit priests. Great teachers...

I also had Jesuit teachers and either forgot or slept through this. Google tells me his name is Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and he has many great quotes.

One that applies to we Villagers is:

"Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed"

A favorite of mine, now that I'm reading them is:

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Very good Ladydoc.........thanks for the suggestion.

Originally Posted by RichieLion

I also had Jesuit teachers and either forgot or slept through this. Google tells me his name is Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and he has many great quotes.

One that applies to we Villagers is:

"Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed"

A favorite of mine, now that I'm reading them is:

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Very good Ladydoc.........thanks for the suggestion.

That's him. When I was at Loyola, way back in the dark ages, if you were Catholic you had to minor in Religion. If you were not, you had to minor in philosophy. So I minored in philosophy. (Of course no 18 year old has had enough life experiences to comprehend appreciate most philosophers.) Chardin was my favorite. Alpha to Omega is about how a Jesuit priest, who was a trained scientist, made peace with the knowledge of evolution and the story of Adam and Eve. Brillant scientist and spirtual at the same time. What a guy!!