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Deep Thoughts on Star Trek Day- LWIL: September 6, 2021- September 12, 2021

Deep Thoughts on Star Trek Day- LWIL: September 6, 2021- September 12, 2021

Last updated on: November 30, 2022 at 1:11 am by Mark Wilson

Deep Thoughts on Star Trek Day- LWIL: September 6, 2021- September 12, 2021 2022-11-30T01:11:09-05:00 Mark Wilson

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Last Week In Life:

September 6, 2021- September 12, 2021

Last Week’s SPECTACULAR STORY OF WEEK

Deep Thoughts on Star Trek Day

Steven D. Greydanus 55 years ago today, western civilization ended. Happy Star Trek Day. Aude perge quo nemo antecessit! Mark Shea

Deacon Steven D. Greydanus responds

For those who may have been wondering about Mark’s joke post on my wall yesterday (Star Trek Day):

In seminary I had a punctilious canon law professor who solemnly told us on the first day of class (in the process of setting expectations for the papers we would write for him) that September 8, 1966 marked the end of Western civilization, because on that date “Star Trek” debuted and split the infinitive “to go” in its title sequence (“to boldly go”).

I raised my hand and remarked that split infinitives had been used in English for centuries by great stylists like John Donne, Wordsworth, Benjamin Franklin, and Abraham Lincoln—and that, since the prescriptivist rule against them was based on Latin, style guides today agree there’s no reason to impose that limitation onto English. (Well, I may not actually have said all that, but whatever I said was convergent with this.)

His serious response: “I don’t care!” The nuns had taught him that infinitives were not to be split, and that, for him, was the end of it.

Mark’s “Aude perge quo nemo antecessit” is of course meant to be rendered “boldly to go where no one has gone before”—without splitting the infinitive because, of course, in Latin “to go” (perge) is one word!

Responding to Mark’s post, I wrote, “I wish to cheerfully raise a glass and toast my canon law professor!” (thereby, of course, splitting an infinitive!).

Now You Know!

Mark Brumley writes on September 8 at 11:55 PM ·

Maybe one of these days STAR TREK will boldly go where Roddenberry would never go and allow actual, serious questioning of some of Trek’s major axioms about what constitutes a “progressive” future. In the past we had relatively safe questioning, here and there, of the Prime Directive. But nothing truly challenging of the Status Quo Post.

I realize that as certain elements of Trek become Dogma that’s unlikely. And of course as “progressivism” is taken as coterminous with moral development, and Trek prides itself on being morally visionary, it’s all-but impossible it would consider a different perspective. Religions often don’t leave room for serious questions, even secular religions. Still, it would be … fascinating.

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Monday September 6, 2021

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The Central Labor Union observed the first Labor Day holiday in 1882 in New York City.
Labor Day marks the end of the summer season, the beginning of school and the start of football season.
According to the rules of fashion, Labor Day Weekend is the last official time where wearing white is appropriate.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. – Martin Luther King Jr.
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital and deserves much the higher consideration. – Abraham Lincoln

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Here is what else happened on this day in History.

1492 – Christopher Columbus sails from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic Ocean for the first time.
1522 – The Victoria returns to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan‘s expedition and the first known ship to circumnavigate the world.
1620 – The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England on the Mayflower to settle in North America. (Old Style date; September 16 per New Style date.)
1628 – Puritans settle Salem which became part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1803 – British scientist John Dalton begins using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements.

Tuesday September 7, 2021

Bishop Barron’s Homily of the Week

Here is what else happened on this day in History.

1940 – Cave paintings are discovered in Lascaux, France.
1953 – U.S. Senator and future President John Fitzgerald Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at St. Mary’s Church in Newport, Rhode Island.
1958 – Jack Kilby demonstrates the first working integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments.
1959 – The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the Moon.
1959 – Bonanza premieres, the first regularly scheduled TV program presented in color.
1962 – President Kennedy delivers his “We choose to go to the Moon” speech at Rice University.
1966 – Gemini 11, the penultimate mission of NASA’s Gemini program, and the current human altitude record holder (except for the Apollo lunar missions).

POPE FRANCIS’S FAMOUS LAST WEEK’S WORDS

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Urgent need please…we were about to loss some of our orphanage children after the toilet fallen down…We can’t live without toilet as it will bring several virus which causes diseases… please help as soon as possible to shift to new house with good toilet …Here it’s the link to Donate:https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/MercyForLifeCorp

Please if able make a donation, only $90 needed left to raise. Almost out of time to finish raising it. We have almost reached goal. Please share. Mark Shea

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Joseph taught us many things about kindness, love, and patience. He had no hate in his heart. His presence at PEP was exemplified by his unwavering belief in his faith, manifested with his angelic voice. Despite challenges, his constant smile and gentle soul were a blessing to his peers and an example to emulate.

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