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+Copied articles I like.
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+title: Do We Still Have School Tomorrow ?
+date: 2022-10-13
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+copied: ["Denshi", "https://denshi.org/blog/do-we-still-have-school-tomorrow/"]
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+{{< img src="https://denshi.org/blog/do-we-still-have-school-tomorrow/tomorrow.jpg" alt="earth exploding with the caption 'wait guys do we still have school tomorrow ?'">}}
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+I have this really vivid memory of when I was planning to take my GCSEs. I remember being quite stressed about the whole ordeal, not because I didn’t have faith in my own abilities as a student but because I was worried about any cataclysmic event that might happen that would disrupt my exams. I would be paranoid about something happening to me or someone I loved throwing me down a downward spiral of horrible feelings. Examples included relatives dying, me getting impaired in an accident, or some kind of collective societal “breakdown” like a political crisis or even a war.
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+Now the reason lil’ ol’ me was that worried about that happening was that the school had emphasized how not all students get to perform as they wish once they actually get to their important exams. We were given examples of how even some members of our faculty had familiar or medical issues arise that prevented them from completing their GCSEs. Funnily enough, by the time I actually got to my GCSEs, they were all canceled and replaced with evidence-based, in-school evaluations. I never actually got to sit any of the official tests, meaning I was lucky enough to avoid the aforementioned stress, safe in the knowledge that my teachers had collected enough evidence to justify grades to the exam board. **It’s in that moment I realized how I’d been tricked into being paranoid.**
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+## Anti-Social Reactions to Disasters
+
+Nowadays, whenever I hear students stress about unexpected occurrences during exam season, I always think back to the meme image at the top of this article: The Earth is in a state of pure disarray and yet people’s concerns are with the functioning of existing institutions rather then the protection and well-being of themselves and their loved ones. _**Just have a moment to think about how disgusting it is for a student to be seriously concerned about the effect the death of a relative may have on their examinations.**_
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+This is why I want to let all the young people (including myself) who read this blog to please let go of that mentality. There are many institutional things we find valuable in this world, like school, private infrastructure like websites and services, and just anything we associate with “everyday life”. I’ve seen variants of that Earth disaster meme referencing the development of video-games or the maintenance of video game servers, which makes sense considering how much of the youth regards online gaming as a daily, re-occurring activity rather than a novelty or occasional special occurrence. **In a way this is a form of brainwashing. One so effective to the point where, instead of concerning themselves with the emotional issue at hand, people are moreso interested in how it effects their daily lives.**
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+I really do regret worrying myself so much when I thought to exams, and I can gladly say that I no longer have such an attitude to unexpected events during periods of critical work. Be content to **drop everything** at any moment if something seriously bad happens; _**sometimes it’s good to just stop caring if it means living the rest of your life knowing you were there for others.**_
+
+## Or in other words...
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+{{< img src="https://denshi.org/blog/do-we-still-have-school-tomorrow/conclusion.png" alt="Earth flaming with caption 'I hope my family is okay'" >}}
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+_{{<sml>}}(This image was made by Eli Nelson Marsden. Thanks for the meme Eli!){{</sml>}}_
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+title: Planes Are Cool
+date: 2025-08-02
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+copied: ["zacoons", "https://zacoons.com/blog/2025-08-02-planes-are-cool/"]
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+Planes are very cool. You may not have been on a plane, but in doing so you will see the glory of God. You step onto a device which hundreds of incredibly smart men have worked to design, and hundreds more men have laboured to manufacture. Then after that, each aircraft must be diligently maintained by scores of engineers until it becomes unservicable and a new one must be forged. You think truth is relative? Try designing a machine which conquers gravity, and then you will see just how relative truth is.
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+Every take-off and landing is skillfully handled by a pilot (or two). Pilots study and practice for years, training to deal with whatever the chaos of nature might throw at them. They train so that they are able to fly you wherever you want to go. Every flight is a dangerous game played with forces that could snuff you out in an instant. Every flight is a defiance of nature, which seeks to destroy, while we seek to create. Every flight is a victory over sin and death. You think you can ignore reality? Try piloting a plane, and then you will see how well that serves you.
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+A single mistake from any of these people could lead to hundreds of deaths. Yet every day, even every hour, hundreds of planes take off, and faithfully carry their passengers wherever they please. The course for each individual person is coordinated with the courses of many others.
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+This complex machinery, skillful handling, and careful planning is made available to the service of anyone who has a couple thousand dollars to spare. Even if all they seek to do is visit a foreign country for fun. Isn't that amazing?
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+title: Queen of Beauty
+date: 2025-10-29T18:32:56+01:00
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+copied: ["Denshi", "https://denshi.org/blog/queen-of-beauty/"]
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+_This is a text adaptation of a [homily](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfRk1YUeUaw) given in 2011 by Fr. John Hollowell about beauty._
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+{{<img src="https://denshi.org/blog/queen-of-beauty/queen.webp" alt="Mother Mary, Queen of Beauty">}}
+
+School plays are for pansies; – Or so I used to think.
+Art is only for people who can paint; – Or so I used to think.
+I could care less about a well-cooked, home-made meal; – Or so I used to think.
+
+In high school, I loved to tell everyone that I had no artistic ability. It was like a badge of honor: I was proud to not be one of those “artsy” people. I was a math major, an athlete and a realist. I did join the show choir one year when I was a Sophomore, but that was only because Jamie Schroeder, the best looking girl in school, a senior cheerleader, decided to join the show choir too, so I thought that was my chance. When she graduated, I quit show choir. And I don’t think the choir director minded seeing me go…
+
+## Beauty Will Save the World
+
+I say all this because one of the most important revelations that I’ve had in my life happened about 10 years ago. And it was the realization that all people are called to be artists. And that yes, even I, am called to be one too. Pope Benedict XVI said several years ago, “Beauty will save the world.” Now if that’s true, if beauty will save the world, then we should be people that are in the beauty business. We should bring beauty to the words we write, to the food we cook, to the photographs we take, to the dances we dance, to the roles we act, to the songs we sing, to the music we play, to the videos we make, to the programs we use at Mass, to the little things. Even those things that maybe no one else will ever see.
+
+I know many people now would scoff at this. “How could beauty possibly save the world?” Mr. O’Malley or Mrs. Jackson must’ve paid me off to say that. But I want us to think for a minute about what Pope Benedict might’ve been saying: How could beauty possibly save the world? I think one of the ways is that beautiful things remind us that we are human, and that it is a special thing to be human. We live in an era that tells us it’s not a big of a deal to be a human person, but beautiful things remind us that it is.
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+People often say, “what’s the difference between animals and people?” and that’s really a pretty silly question: No cheetah ever sculpted an image of someone that they loved. No aardvark ever painted a picture of the queen of all aardvarks. And no non-human member of the animal kingdom has ever stopped dead in its tracks observing a sunrise or a sunset.
+
+## Beauty is Scorned by the Wicked
+
+We know beauty will save the world, because it’s what the devil attacks. The devil will strike at the offspring and those things that the Blessed Mother will produce. One of the ways in which we see beauty attacked in our own world is if we look at the regimes dominated by Communism. The very first thing that Communist leaders attack when they take over a place is beauty. Maybe you’ve see pictures of Russia, or other places that are ruled by Communist leaders, the architecture is bland, there are no songs other than military songs for parades, buildings have no windows, and everything is bleak and gray and gross.
+
+Beauty reminds us that we are human, and that it means something to be human. Maybe you’ve seen the movie The Shawshank Redemption, where a bunch of prisoners are milling around outside during their time off, ground-down by dirt and dust, and the wear and tear that comes after many years of not being treated as a human person. One day, one of the prisoners sneaks into the loudspeaker room and plays a piece by Mozart over them. The characters stop in their tracks. The prisoners stare at the speakers, and it’s as if you can see in their eyes the slow realization that they are actually human.
+
+One of my recent addictions is The Hunger Games. I couldn’t put them down, and I stayed up all night and finished them. It’s a fictional story about a futuristic society that is Communist in nature, and they actually pit people against each other to fight to the death, and it’s televised all over the country. And one of the things that ends up becoming a very important scene is that when one of the characters is killed, another person in the arena decorates her death with flowers and beauty. That become a pivotal moment in the entire trilogy. Why? Because it reminds people that they are human, and that they don’t have to fight each other to the death.
+
+## Beauty is not Subjective
+
+The “Gospel” of today’s society, if you will, is always telling us that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and we’re not supposed to question that, it’s just how it is. But surely a kid scratching out a Metallica song on his electric guitar in his mom’s basement is not of the same quality of the Ave Maria by Schubert, or Mozart, or Bach.
+
+A few years ago downtown we had to fund an art project that was a couple of a million dollars featuring black and gnarled leather that had been cut up and was sitting on a post. And you may remember a few years earlier when our downtown art project was women on an electronic screen walking in place. A recent art show in New York featured a bed with ruffled sheets stained with blood, empty bottles of Vodka, and so on and so forth, showing debauchery. A group of artists recently got together and voted on the most influential piece of art in the last century, and what won was a piece called “The Fountain”, a urinal that had been signed by the artist.
+
+Beauty is not in the eye of the beholder. Some things are more beautiful than others. and it is the stupidity that some would call a bloody bed or a urinal “art” that kept people like me away from art for so many years and away from beauty.
+
+## Beautiful People
+
+Now what in the world does any of this have to do with today? There are two levels: Firstly, We are called to produce and make things beautiful in our environment. Maybe that’s a lesson plan that we’re doing, or maybe it’s an art project, or any number of other things: We’re called to bring beauty into the world.
+
+Secondly, we ourselves are to become beautiful. How do we do that? We do that by living a beautiful life. By living a life that is not tarnished by sin. The less sin that is in our life, the more beautiful we become. And we ought to realize that if we don’t stand in God’s path and throw sin and obstacles in his way, then he will continue to chisel, mold and sculpt us as we grow older slowly working out our imperfections and continuing to make us more beautiful.
+
+We have a part to play in that: Are we going to confession? Are we receiving the Eucharist?
+
+Are we reading? Are we writing? Are we immersing ourselves in scripture? Are we engaging in real, authentic relationships, not based on using the other person, but based on letting the other person help us become more beautiful?
+
+Many people talk about how merely standing in the doorway at Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome or simply hearing a beautiful piece of music, or staring at a beautiful statue like Michelangelo’s Pieta has caused thousands and thousands of people to return to God. If that’s the case, if pieces of rock and architecture can do that, how much more can beautiful people call people back to Christ?
+
+That’s why we give thanks today for Mary and her sinless beauty. Her beauty, if we look for it, continues to inspire and lead people to her son, who is beauty in its truest sense. So I challenge you to make beautiful videos, beautiful pottery, cook beautiful food, sing beautiful songs, write beautiful poems and stories, draw and paint things that are beautiful, make all around you more beautiful. But most importantly, I challenge you to be beauty; through a life of virtue, that is free from the stain of sin.
+
+**Mary, Queen of Beauty. Pray that we may share in you and your son’s beauty this day.**