Watching an Uncommon Knowledge interview with Paul Ryan. I like the man. I hope he survives the campaign as the same guy he is now.
Two white guys running for the Executive. Nice. Glad Romney didn't do race or gender pandering but chose someone focused on the economy.
Reading about the Groovy Nuns vs the Evil Bishops. The language each side uses is fascinating. The men are clear. The women create oceans of BS. The Roman Church, at bottom, is held together by a tri-unity of hierarchy, doctrine and sacraments reflecting the Father, the Word, the Spirit. Like it or not, never has it been anything else without also being that. These women have migrated out but refuse to acknowledge it.
The head nun said that they would not begin their "dialogue" by discussing doctrine. The nuns want to make it all about blind and deaf power-hungry old men vs their loving care for "the poor and marginalized" in "an open and honest dialogue of equals". Hey, girlfriend, doctrine --ideas-- is what this is all about, and in Catholicism, hierarchy. As in so many cases, the female feminist argument is basically emotional ad hominem. Irreconcilable opposites.
Read a really fascinating article about the moral, cultural and political uses of the Nazi war against the Jews. As I have long maintained, the liberal obsession with Nazism has served --purposely--to hide the even greater misery caused by Marxism, allowing the progressives to hobble the self-confidence of Western civilization. Parallel to the American historical game played when slavery and the Indians are allowed to determine the identity of the country.
A cultural narrative which places the Holocaust at the center of history, or even of Western history, can only contribute to the progressives' desire to unravel and destroy us. Just as making us believe that Blacks and Indians are the determinative centerpiece of American history can only serve a similarly destructive agenda.
No culture or civilization that allows itself to be driven by compulsively placating aggrieved minorities can long survive. In that paradigm, which unfortunately is our current paradigm, being a victim is an addictive source of power. We can never be allowed, no matter what we do, to move beyond the grievance.
On a microscale, take a couple where one of them commits adultery. If the other partner makes that event the centerpiece of the relationship forever after, it doesn't take a therapist license to predict the outcome.
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Two white guys running for the Executive. Nice. Glad Romney didn't do race or gender pandering but chose someone focused on the economy.
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Reading about the Groovy Nuns vs the Evil Bishops. The language each side uses is fascinating. The men are clear. The women create oceans of BS. The Roman Church, at bottom, is held together by a tri-unity of hierarchy, doctrine and sacraments reflecting the Father, the Word, the Spirit. Like it or not, never has it been anything else without also being that. These women have migrated out but refuse to acknowledge it.
The head nun said that they would not begin their "dialogue" by discussing doctrine. The nuns want to make it all about blind and deaf power-hungry old men vs their loving care for "the poor and marginalized" in "an open and honest dialogue of equals". Hey, girlfriend, doctrine --ideas-- is what this is all about, and in Catholicism, hierarchy. As in so many cases, the female feminist argument is basically emotional ad hominem. Irreconcilable opposites.
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Read a really fascinating article about the moral, cultural and political uses of the Nazi war against the Jews. As I have long maintained, the liberal obsession with Nazism has served --purposely--to hide the even greater misery caused by Marxism, allowing the progressives to hobble the self-confidence of Western civilization. Parallel to the American historical game played when slavery and the Indians are allowed to determine the identity of the country.
A cultural narrative which places the Holocaust at the center of history, or even of Western history, can only contribute to the progressives' desire to unravel and destroy us. Just as making us believe that Blacks and Indians are the determinative centerpiece of American history can only serve a similarly destructive agenda.
No culture or civilization that allows itself to be driven by compulsively placating aggrieved minorities can long survive. In that paradigm, which unfortunately is our current paradigm, being a victim is an addictive source of power. We can never be allowed, no matter what we do, to move beyond the grievance.
On a microscale, take a couple where one of them commits adultery. If the other partner makes that event the centerpiece of the relationship forever after, it doesn't take a therapist license to predict the outcome.
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