Christmas ‘08 With My Family
Should I feel bad about things?
When something feels this good, w/o causing harm to others, why not just enjoy it?
Through talking to others over the years, I’ve learned that what I think of as my “conscience” is very different from the ordinary person’s conscience. While it is true that I do feel badly about certain things from time to [...]
Total Recall
Fully aware of the irony inherent in my picking up litter whilst sipping tea from a styrofoam cup, I searched intently for the thoughtlessly thrown nonbiodegradable detritus. Only moments earlier, Russ had come in to dinner, exclaiming a renewed distaste for TKEs (one of the campus frats), because as he was walking to the cafeteria, he noticed [...]
St. Joseph’s Chapel (or: Reason vs. Doctrine: A Schizophrenic Debate)
What a beautiful chapel we have on campus. The marble floors and the vaulted ceilings are nothing when put up against European standards, but the flamboyant tresses and angelic figures make up an impressive facade next to the other buildings in olde towne Mobile, Alabama, much as Hamlet shines next to the crap of modern writers, despite [...]
On The Jewish Question: But What Exactly Is The Jewish Question?
The following is an assigned essay which was completed for a grade. Unfortunately, some formatting has been lost in the transition to LJ.
Eric J. Herboso
11 September, 2003
On The Jewish Question: But What Exactly Is The Jewish Question?
In Karl Marx’s essay entitled On The Jewish Question, Marx explores the question of how to emancipate the Jew. [...]
On The Relevance Of Minutiae
Ugh — I hate my theology class.
I mean, my professor, Father Harmless, is a wonderful teacher. I have learned quite a bit in his class (though not all that I’ve learned is the same as what he intended as the most important to be taught). And I really don’t mind the idea of learning the [...]
An Interview
So there I am, reading racist periodical literature on the couch in Carpe Diem, when I overhear two people meeting for the first time at the table beside me.
One of them is a reporter for some paper that I hope is obscure (if not, then the public is really in trouble), and the other is a seemingly nice [...]
Dear Man Walking
Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ, the author of “Dead Man Walking” gave a speech tonight. I helped with setting everything up before the speech and I did all the post-speech work as well. I’m not sure… Either that is the kind of thing I do all of the time, or else I’d ordinarily never help out [...]
A Jesuit Astrophysicist?
I went to the annual Rimes Lecture last Thursday night. Their speaker this year was William R. Stoeger, SJ, an astrophysicist from the Vatican Observatory Research Group. It was the first time I’d ever heard a speech* by a physicist who is also a priest for the Catholic church. Hearing his views on things was [...]
Analysis of Augustine’s Confessions
The following is an assigned essay which was completed for a grade. Unfortunately, some formatting has been lost in the transition to LJ.
Author: Eric J. Herboso (EricJHerboso@yahoo.com)
Class: THL 101.03 (Western Religious Heritage)
Professor: William Harmless, SJ; Dept. of Theology
Assignment: Analysis of Augustine’s Confessions
Confessions VIII.i.1 (Chadwick, p.133), Rearranged In Verse:
My God,
in my thanksgiving
I want to recall
and confess your mercies over [...]
