tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post2979188678651713417..comments2024-03-28T02:54:46.537-04:00Comments on The TOF Spot: The Circle of LifeTheOFloinnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14756711106266484327noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-23500454604544767042014-08-05T09:46:33.905-04:002014-08-05T09:46:33.905-04:00Jimmy Akin (jimmyakin.org) Various topics includin...Jimmy Akin (jimmyakin.org) Various topics including early Christianity and the Fathers. Good on language issues.<br /><br />Mike Aquilina (www.fathersofthechurch.com) Not very active but good introductory information and books on the Fathers.<br /><br />Fr. Zuhlsdorf (www.wdtprs.com/blog) Various topics including the Fathers.<br /><br />Roger Pearse (tertullian.org, www.roger-pearse.com/weblog) Evangelical Christian from the UK, good solid info, likes making public domain Fathers books widely available and having things translated into English.Bansheehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12594214770417497135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-56927465582186175862014-07-30T16:24:06.560-04:002014-07-30T16:24:06.560-04:00Well, I asked you as you seem pretty active in the...Well, I asked you as you seem pretty active in the field of "Catholic knowledge" ( I often read you also in dr. Feser blog). Any other source, of any kind, would be appreciated, as, as I can see, most early Christianity historian I managed to find on the web are more or less non-Christian at all, and I have a couple of questions. In any case, thank you for your attention, you have a tenacious reader also in Italy. Please write in your blog whenever you'll be around here, if ever.Faronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-3441601796910295092014-07-30T13:43:37.593-04:002014-07-30T13:43:37.593-04:00Sorry. I don't know of any such blogs. Maybe s...Sorry. I don't know of any such blogs. Maybe someone else does? Anyone? Bueller?TheOFloinnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14756711106266484327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-26032375815978368032014-07-30T12:46:45.890-04:002014-07-30T12:46:45.890-04:00Dear TOF,
I know that is completely unrelated, bu...Dear TOF, <br />I know that is completely unrelated, but may you kindly indicate me a Catholic (or Christian, at least) blog (or something similar) on early Christianity? I can' find anything on the web. I already know Quodlibeta, which is however focused on medieval history , and Armarum Magnum, which is not Christian (not a bad thing itself of course, I'd just love a comparison). <br />By the way, I am a 24 years Italian Economics student, who is deeply in love with your blog both for its philosophy and for its statistics and check it multiple times daily. We don't have many interesting Catholic blog in Italian (well, not only catholic) <br />Thank you very much.Faronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-61312649507228707092014-07-27T21:06:42.874-04:002014-07-27T21:06:42.874-04:00I lived in south Texas for a time & it's a...I lived in south Texas for a time & it's a status symbol among monied ranchers to have rhinos. We drove past giraffes regularly and blackbuck antelope, which are quite attractive. Those were privately owned, not wild, but pretty happy in the climate. Emus went wild in Texas several decades ago--a major driving hazard for a while. But while I was down in S. Tx, a large, unidentified carnivore was loose for several months, killing cattle, dogs, and coyotes--very Hound of Horror, 'though no humans were attacked. The predator turned out to be an African lioness. It was eventually determined that a smallish travelling zoo/circus had "misplaced" a lioness while passing through the county and failed to report it. It was extremely not amusing--the Greeks and Romans were definitely on the ball, with great big dogs but no lions.Xena Catolicanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-59316884217063766312014-07-26T23:24:42.537-04:002014-07-26T23:24:42.537-04:00It was easier to romanticize because they were liv...It was easier to romanticize because they were living at one remove from it.thefederalisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17514099991587503764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-72145911691455993652014-07-26T23:14:51.693-04:002014-07-26T23:14:51.693-04:00I suppose that some species have indeed gone extin...I suppose that some species have indeed gone extinct in our lifetime, but I don't doubt that your experience is similar to mine. Did you see hawks perched along the highway when you were a kid? Last summer, driving home from a family reunion, we passed a doe nursing her fawn right along the shoulder of the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Sandhill cranes and elk have re-established themselves here in Michigan, and coyotes and deer live inside the Lansing city limits. Somehow, the cleverer elements of nature are adapting themselves to man's presence. Although I think the ancient Greeks and Romans were onto something when they drove lions to extinction in Europe.thefederalisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17514099991587503764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-50659512426902272242014-07-26T04:00:12.317-04:002014-07-26T04:00:12.317-04:00I've noticed a distinct concentration of "...I've noticed a distinct concentration of "Circle of Life" talk among apex predators and not so much among prey. It's always the lions, Mad Scientists, and eugenics types who give the grand speeches about it and never the zebra, experimental victims slated to be chopped up to make The Creature, or the members of the third world tribe slated for the next UN culling. I wonder why.Mark Sheahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17495972274286104221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-202151269231160892014-07-25T18:36:32.097-04:002014-07-25T18:36:32.097-04:00Mine is a second printing, 1967. New when bought i...Mine is a second printing, 1967. New when bought in the college book store. The teacher announced a the start that only God could achieve perfection and only Aquinas could score a 99, so the best we could hope for was a 98.TheOFloinnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14756711106266484327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-72903237397824075982014-07-25T18:11:11.017-04:002014-07-25T18:11:11.017-04:00It's a printing of 1967. My library borrowed i...It's a printing of 1967. My library borrowed it via Interlibrary Loan. Copyright was last renewed in '68, so maybe Project Gutenberg will do it in a few yrs.<br /><br />It's pristine, borrowed from a Dutch Reform college in NW Iowa. Xena Catolicanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-37489867025873851112014-07-25T14:54:30.271-04:002014-07-25T14:54:30.271-04:00An old used copy? Or is it still in print?An old used copy? Or is it still in print?TheOFloinnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14756711106266484327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-15614604017719061602014-07-25T14:19:18.151-04:002014-07-25T14:19:18.151-04:00Joseph, hawks usually kill their prey by the force...Joseph, hawks usually kill their prey by the force of their strike, so it's usually dead but nice & fresh when the hawk eats it. But hey, go wolves. Too bad it's Friday, or I'd be celebrating my own apex predator status at the moment.<br /><br />But speaking of being eaten alive and/or cute wolf pups, my copy of Brennan's "Thomistic Psychology" has arrived.....Xena Catolicanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-69148330654174392542014-07-25T13:54:38.340-04:002014-07-25T13:54:38.340-04:00But did the hawk disembowel and begin to consume i...But did the hawk disembowel and begin to consume its still-living prey? It's just not 100% circle of life compliant if not...<br /><br />Once caught a nature video of a wolf attempting to run down a baby caribou. The voice-over said that, so long as it kept its feet and kept moving, the caribou would most likely succeed in escaping, having more endurance than the wolf. The wolf, having evidently seen similar nature programs, proceeded, as far as it could, in making the caribou constantly change directions, the better to cause a slip. <br /><br />It succeeded. The little caribou fell. What happened next was somewhat unexpected: the wolf lay down with the caribou, lion and lamb style, one supposes. The pursuit had gone on for some time, and the terrified and exhausted caribou did not try to leap to its feet to escape - so the equally exhausted wolf decided to rest for a moment, too. <br /><br />And then the camera cut away. It's that disembowel your still-living (and small and cuddly-looking) prey that isn't so camera friendly. The only solution - I don't if they did this or not - is to show darling wolf pups, whose survival for another day had been secured by the caribou kill. <br /><br />So why, again, did Roseau and that crowd decide the state of nature was *better*? Joseph Moorehttp://yardsaleofthemind.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.com