Sunday Snippets -- A Catholic Carnival Post VI

This is for the weekly Catholic Carnival!

Be sure to visit RAnn at This, That and the Other Thing and check out some posts from other bloggers participating in Sunday Snippets this week. Why not join us and share a blog post or two from last week?

Question of the week:
Question of the Week:  How often do you go to confession?  Do you have a regular confessor or do you go to different priests?
I try to go at least every 3 months. I do not have a regular confessor.

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For the week of March sixteenth:

March 17-18 and 21
Commentaries on The Lego Movie
The Lego Movie Bad Cop Singing Danny Boy on Saint Patrick's Day
http://wonderingzygoteemeritus.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-lego-movie-bad-cop-singing-danny.html
The Lego Movie's Prophesying by Vitruvius
http://wonderingzygoteemeritus.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-lego-movies-prophesying-by-vitruvius.html
The Lego Movie and Tolerant Unikitty
http://wonderingzygoteemeritus.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-lego-movie-and-tolerant-unikitty.html

March 20
The Search for Spock and the gods of Genesis
http://wonderingzygoteemeritus.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-search-for-spock-and-gods-of-genesis.html

March 19
Wacky Wednesday Limericks on Silencing Pro-life and Pro-marriage views on Sanford University Campus
Silencing Debate at Stanford Wacky Wednesday
http://wonderingzygoteemeritus.blogspot.com/2014/03/silencing-debate-at-stanford-wacky.html

The Lego Movie and Tolerant Unikitty

***Spoilers Alert!*** It's was hilarious that The Lego Movie had multiple jabs against liberal agenda items. One was against Unikitty's "tolerance".

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In her cloud land, nice Unikitty made sure that the main characters knew that they could do whatever they wanted.

However, if they stopped or discouraged anyone from doing whatever they wanted...

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... bad Unikitty appeared.

The hippy-dippy, modern version of tolerance personified in a Lego character. Yea!

The Search for Spock and the gods of Genesis

***Spoilers Alert!*** Between Star Trek II and III, there were really three main people who wanted the Genesis device and its "secrets": Dr. David Marcus (Kirk's son), Khan, and Klingon Captain Kruge.

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The Genesis device was capable of bringing to life a dead planet or killing a live one for its "new matrix" (or creating a new planet all by itself from nebula matter some how). In either case, already existing matter had to be present to reorganize matter at the subatomic level.

Dr. David Marcus, Khan, and Captain Kruge wanted the power to create or destroy for themselves (for honor and/or "ultimate power"). It was like the battle of the Roman or Greek gods once again, except now, the mortals used science.

The battle raged between them until they were all dead.

On the other hand, God created the universe (or multiverse, etc.) out of nothing. He (not male, just subject placeholder) created all time, matter, and dimensions. The Book of Genesis describes this in a poetic manner, where the point is that God created it out of love, not domination.

For more on this see this video by Fr. Barron.

Silencing Debate at Stanford Wacky Wednesday

The limericks and meme below was inspired by the recent article by Jennifer S. Bryson, Ph.D. entitled, "Stanford, Marriage and Abortion Controversies, and the Mission of a University".

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http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/archive//ldn/2008/may/08050205

Silencing at Stanford

At Stanford, it was an oasis
For all points of view to have places.
But marr'age for now
Is under the plow
For burying Truth from some faces.

And tolerance is just a ruse
Of many who outright refuse
To look at the facts;
It may stop their tracts.
Their views facing facts, they may lose.

© 2014 Wondering Zygote Emeritus

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http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/archive//ldn/2008/dec/08122402
http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/archive//ldn/2008/may/08050205

In engaging in debates, there is a possibility that one's previous view(s) may change. The purpose of a debate is not necessarily to win or lose, it is to find the truth that is outside ourselves by reason and facts. The college is the ideal setting for such activity.

The Lego Movie's Prophesying by Vitruvius

***Spoilers Alert!*** So, Morgan Freeman's character Vitruvius (accent on "tru"; on the right in the picture below) revealed a prophesy in The Lego Movie that was pretty silly.

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Near the end of the movie, Vitruvius said that he made it up. (The specific prophesy of The Lego Movie will be looked at soon; in this post, just the silliness of the telling of the prophesy will be explored briefly.)

Looking to Jesus, there were many prophesies made about him in the Old Testament (Torah and other books). The ancient prophets of his Hebrew (Jewish) community said that there would be a person anointed Savior of Israel, to rule as a son of King David. There were many other prophesies about a new and eternal King of Israel that would deal with the enemies of Israel.

The thing is that if a prophet was found out to be a false prophet, or one who prophesied falsely, according to the Law of Moses (Jewish Law) that prophet should die. (That's one of the reasons that Jesus died, the Israel leadership believed that he was a false prophet.) This is one reason why the Hebrew community took prophesying seriously.

So, prophesying in the Hebrew world was not a light matter. Of course, the Lego world could take Vitruvius' prophesying lightly since they were just plastic who were filmed by stop action cameras (and/or CGI).

The Lego Movie Bad Cop Singing Danny Boy on Saint Patrick's Day

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

This week, The Lego Movie will be looked at. Yes, there are things to write about it.

For today, I looked for a clip of Liam Neeson singing "Danny Boy" on YouTube (etc.) but couldn't find one.

Image source: http://www.cinemablend.com/images/news/41545/_1391784396.jpg

I'll just leave you with a prayer of St. Patrick (Jesus is "Christ"):

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(I do not know about the Facebook link.)

Sunday Snippets -- A Catholic Carnival Post V

This is for the weekly Catholic Carnival!

Be sure to visit RAnn at This, That and the Other Thing and check out some posts from other bloggers participating in Sunday Snippets this week. Why not join us and share a blog post or two from last week?

Do you have any suggested resources for those trying to kickstart these last weeks of Lent?
Learning more about the faith is a very important thing to do and Lent is a good time to kickstart the process. A good resource online from Fr. Barron is his secondary YouTube channel playlist "Faith Seeks Understanding" (a phrase from one of the Christian Fathers) here: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL01F8772094235EC2

For the week of March ninth:

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March 10-11 and 13-14
Commentaries on Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
The Good Shepherd
http://wonderingzygoteemeritus.blogspot.com/2014/03/star-trek-iii-search-for-spock-part-i.html
Search for Spock to Godforsakeness
http://wonderingzygoteemeritus.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-search-for-spock-to-godforsakeness.html
Search for Spock and the Fall Guy
http://wonderingzygoteemeritus.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-search-for-spock-and-fall-guy.html
Search for Spock and the Other Vulcan
http://wonderingzygoteemeritus.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-search-for-spock-and-other-vulcan.html
The Search for Spock and the Secrets of Genesis
http://wonderingzygoteemeritus.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-search-for-spock-and-secrets-of.html

March 12
Wacky Wednesday Pro-life Limericks on Martin Luther King, Jr. and Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPC)
Wacky Wednesday Prolifers Go Beyond MLK's Dream
http://wonderingzygoteemeritus.blogspot.com/2014/03/wacky-wednesday-prolifers-go-beyond.html

The Search for Spock and the Secrets of Genesis

***Spoilers Alert!*** The Klingon Kruge had his mind sent on "ultimate power" in his pursuit of Genesis. He destroyed two vessels with their crew (including his love interest on a cargo vessel; the other one was the science vessel Grissom pictured below) and Kirk's son for its secrets for use as a planet-civilization-destroying weapon.

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Just like the devil in the Garden of Eden in the Book of Genesis, Captain Kruge wanted ultimate power and destruction of his enemies. He was jealous of what others had, here the Genesis device. The devil was jealous of the relationship humans had with God.

May we not turn into Klingons.