Bad religion

When I was a Dominican friar, I certainly did my share of damage while I worked out the various issues in my life. Looking back now, I certainly regret some of my actions.

But one of the most damaging things that happened to the Order of Preachers was the disastrous notion of the "Dominican Family" that allowed the friars to be swamped by the much more numerous sisters.

The kind of BS that characterizes the LCWR well characterizes the Dominican sisterhoods: they are really just eco-feminist Democrats in polyester pants suits (and now, with their aging, blue hair.)

On the website of the Order, we have this gem by a woman from the same sisterhood that taught me as a child. The bloviation is typical, starting from the title: What is Earth Asking of The Order?

Earth as a proper name.

And this resounding conclusion:

What if Earth is asking the Order—as its collective consciousness—to fashion regional, national and even international collective responses to global climate spinning out of control fashioned from/in the above silence? 

Far from being an escape from, or an evasion of action, the silence would be the matrix from which we, grounded in the Divine energy embraced in the silence, might respond boldly and creatively to the cries of people and planet with a timing, precision and energy which would be impeccable, if not always victorious. What if this is what Earth is asking of the Order?

Embarrassing.

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Can't help myself

A story too good not to post. (Details changed.)

A friend was having a drink at a downtown bar and fell into conversation with a Black guy sitting next to him. After a few drinks, politics came up and this is what the Black guy had to say: "The Whites are giving up their authority and the whole country is going to the dogs."

:)

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Synchronicity

For some reason I decided to watch, yet again, the Tales of the City movie series. Michael Tolliver/Marcus D'Amico is an archetypal type of mine.

Marcus D'Amico then

And now

While checking some of the characters' connections online, I find that Armistead Maupin has just published his ninth and final book in the series, The Tales of Anna Madrigal.

I loved the (earlier) books, and the filmed version. This was when I was a good gay liberal, of course. But his 2007 effort, Michael Tolliver Lives, was so majorly offputting that I skipped the next volume about Mary Ann. The reviews of this final work are such that I might give it a try.

I hope that Armisted has regained his affection for the human race, and not just the "LGBTQ" part of it.

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The Party Line

Ever notice how words and phrases like "fearmongering", "hate", "bigotry", "small-minded", "hard-liner" "inflammatory" "controversial" and my favorite, "divisive" are only ever used to describe the current non-Liberal position du jour?

If you don't agree with my current Party Line, you are "divisive."

As I've noted before, Liberals do not accept that there exist principled and rational positions in contradiction to their Party Line. You can only be evil and/or ignorant.

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Lawfare

"Steyn Doesn't Understand the Picture" :: SteynOnline:

One of the several striking and noteworthy characteristics of Harold Covington & Co's constitution for their post-American republic is that there is no judicial branch of government and lawyering is absolutely forbidden.



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Explains much

"Auster’s First Law of Majority/Minority Relations in Liberal Society: The more egregiously any non-Western or non-white group behaves, the more evil whites are made to appear for noticing and drawing rational conclusions about that group’s bad behavior. 

The First Law and its corrolary are intrinsic to liberalism. Once the equality of all human groups is accepted as a given, any facts that make a minority or foreign group seem worse than the majority native group must be either covered up or blamed on the majority."

In any conflict or disagreement between Whites and NonWhites, Whites are always wrong, and to blame.

Simple, no?

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Papa Blovius I

A very orthodox, Pope-respecting priest has this to say on his blog:

There are times when, try as I might, I have no idea what – or whom – Pope Francis is talking about.  I am not alone.

Amen.

One of his latest excursions into cutesy-ness turned out rather badly.

Heh.

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Distractions

Since I switched gyms in September and changed my eating habits over the last months, I am feeling better physically. More energy. That's a big plus. I even find myself now looking forward to the workout. That was something I did for almost ten years, til 2010 came along, with all its various losses and outrageous fortunes. I recover very slowly. But I do feel and look better of late.

Reading the Net this morning made me feel as if the entire world is having a nervous breakdown, so I thought I'd post something distractingly shallow instead. Like, which of Lady Mary's two suitors on Downton Abbey one would choose: Lord Anthony

or Charles Blake

but then I decided this was too shallow even for me. 

But Lady Mary? What do they see in that death-masked icicle besides an inheritance?

ps   Heterosexuality to me is sort of like jazz. I recognize that it is a complex and artful form of music --everybody says so, so it must be-- but its charms completely escape me. I am well aware that my complete tone-deafness to the allure of the female puts me in a very tiny human minority and so I usually give heterosexual men the benefit of the doubt. But sometimes the male-female thing completely baffles me. 

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iPhone rage

The thing works so well and so magically that when it fails to perform as promised, I go from annoyed to ready-to-smash in about six seconds.

It's not really the iPhone, but an app I just bought and the way the iPhone app store is handling it. Or not handling it.

When restaurants have things on the menu and then, when you order it, they tell you they don't have any...that provokes the same response in me.

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Ya think?

The PJ Tatler » This Is Starting to Look Like a Pattern of Political Moves and Prosecutions:

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