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Events That Changed My Life

I decided to do a little review of things that changed my life. Some for the better, and some that were a mixed blessing. One of the earliest really big moments in my life was falling in love for the first time. Really falling in love, not just some "hey I'm on a youth camp and this girl looks...

Posted to Life, Universe And Everything According To Dirk (Weblog) by Dirk on 08-26-2005
Will this madness never stop?

Today's pile-up in the final corner of the Tour de France stage pales in significance against what happened in London today. My thoughts are with the families who lost people - will this madness never stop? The easy answer would be to strike back at the terrorists. That's what the USA did after...

Posted to Life, Universe And Everything According To Dirk (Weblog) by Dirk on 07-07-2005
7 Habits - Mission Statement

I recently read the next chapter of 7 Habits, describing the Second Habit: Begin with the end in mind. Powerful stuff, I got to admit. After reading the first habit I thought "well, mastering the art of thinking between impulse and reaction will be difficult, but once I manage that things will get...

Posted to Life, Universe And Everything According To Dirk (Weblog) by Dirk on 06-22-2005
Excercise your Right to Choose

I started reading Stephen Covey's Seven Habits of Highly Effective People last weekend. I stopped after the first habit, because I want to make a habit out of this habit before I go on with the second habit. Maybe this is just a play about words, but I don't think that Covey's name for the...

Posted to Life, Universe And Everything According To Dirk (Weblog) by Dirk on 05-18-2005
About the Critical Analysis

I read part of the critical analysis which I mentioned in a previous blog entry. The interesting part is that while I shoot down Dominus Iesus because I deem it too conservative, Donald J. Sandor basically shoots down the text because it is not conservative enough. He even goes as far as to explicitely...

Posted to Life, Universe And Everything According To Dirk (Weblog) by Dirk on 04-22-2005
My take on Dominus Iesus

Dominus Iesus (as I understand it) conveys three lines of thought: It states that the Catholic Church wants to be open and respectful towards other religions It establishes what constitues (in Ratzinger's opinion) Catholic faith The revelations, workings and salvation of God are not limited to the...

Posted to Life, Universe And Everything According To Dirk (Weblog) by Dirk on 04-21-2005
Dominus Iesus

One of the things that were mentioned time and again on CNN during the days leading to the election of the new Pope, was that Cardinal Ratzinger had written a document called "Dominus Iesus" ("The Lord Jesus") in which he allegedly says that Roman Catholicism is the only true religion...

Posted to Life, Universe And Everything According To Dirk (Weblog) by Dirk on 04-21-2005
Habemus Papam

The Roman Catholic Church has a new Pope, and I am not happy. I counted myself among the "Anybody but Ratzinger" crowd. Ratzinger has been very conservative during his tenure as Dean of the Cardinals, and I don't agree with that stance. A person like Cardinal Danneels, who is moderately...

Posted to Life, Universe And Everything According To Dirk (Weblog) by Dirk on 04-20-2005
Pope John Paul II: R.I.P.

I guess most people know by now that Karl Wojtyla, better known as Pope John Paul II, Supreme Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, died on April 2nd, 2005. There's a couple of things I need to get off my chest about this: Many people talk about a great loss, being sad, mourning ... Especially shocking...

Posted to Life, Universe And Everything According To Dirk (Weblog) by Dirk on 04-04-2005
One Right and One Duty

Every human being has one fundamental Right, and one fundamental Duty: Every human being has the Right to make their own decisions about what to say or not to say, to do or not to do. Every human being has the Duty to live with the consequences of their decisions.

Posted to Life, Universe And Everything According To Dirk (Weblog) by Dirk on 03-01-2005

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