Friday Ephemera
I think there may be a word missing. (h/t, Julia) // How does your urologist lean? // Mrs Peel and other things. // Reversing the Avengers. // The Voder, 1939. // Miracle breakthrough in vertical bacon cooking. // Brutalist colouring book. Because concrete needs colour. // The cure for crying toddlers. // Feminist art. Because women are all about dirty pants, apparently. (h/t, SJW Nonsense.) // Feminist prose: “Your boner is a symbol of a world that is trying to destroy me.” // Eye robot. // Chocolate bolts. (h/t, Matthew) // Submarine tourism didn’t catch on. // Unexpected news. // They’re gaining on us. // Selfie culture. // The thrill of yarn. // Throaty notes. // Please take a moment to think of Maria. // And finally, improbably, “A woman flew through a tornado in a bathtub and survived.”
Glorious Noo Yawker heckler incursion at the “He shall not divide us” wall – https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/825079016256307200
“We’re marching because [Trump] wants to take all of the things that we hold dear away. All of the things that we’ve been fighting for for generations.
Who says Progressivism is all projection and splitting? That it deals in nebulous subjectivities and rhetoric? Who says Progressivism isn’t rigorously intellectual?
evangelicals and similar do a considerable amount of the “action”.
Reason was lost when postmodernism was given equal billing. The pro-life movement loses when it tries to counter the anti-life movement by its own means. This is why protests are bullshit on both sides.
The right lost whole nations by adopting this national “conversation” the left is shrieking about endlessly.
The right is codependent. It refuses to own its property and throw the violent alcoholic out on the street. This will not change.
Not sure what Hal or Ten’s points are but just to clarify, it was not my intention to criticize the God aspect of the evangelicals’ efforts. In fact I believe it is their greater willingness to address the poverty of the soul, as opposed to the materialism of government and other secular organizations, that makes all faith-based actions more intriguing and, from my perspective, more likely to succeed.
My aim wasn’t to cast any negativity on faith-based efforts per se, wtp. It was to severely challenge the notion that any effort should counter utter dysfunction on it’s own playing field. Seeing pro- and anti-life rally crowd sizes compared – not here, elsewhere in the popular press and commentary – is perhaps the most superficial triviality there could be when the aim is ostensibly to end the commercial blight of dismembering the unborn.
In fact, even having pro-life rallies is lunacy. As if a demonstration is what, democratic, a counter-measure, an intellectual stance against a profoundly anti-intellectual amorality, a political force?
…it is their greater willingness to address the poverty of the soul, as opposed to the materialism of government and other secular organizations…
Indeed. The two are as different as – as I believe it’s put in Britain – chalk and cheese. More, actually. It’s not an argument, that. It’s a realization and a horror.
…it is their greater willingness to address the poverty of the soul, as opposed to the materialism of government and other secular organizations…
Indeed. The two are as different as – as I believe it’s put in Britain – chalk and cheese. More, actually. It’s not an argument, that. It’s a realization and a horror.
Right. There is faith, and then there is religion which is pretty much the opposite of faith.
So the faithful will argue over what interpretation to ascribe to which lot of random bullshit someone cooked up several centuries back, where each new recruit only shares the same read of whatever the text, or the same text and whatever that new recruit’s read. Or sometimes the text isn’t several centuries old.
Religion, in turn, remains the practice of someone who will just Shut Up, listen, and look for the actual experience—there doesn’t get to be a lot of claims of The Shared Text, but then each individual remains unique.
Oh dear. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/827112633224544256
The apocryphal threefold chinese curse comes to mind: “May you live in interesting times, may you come to the attention of the powerful, and may some of your wishes be granted.”