Good Morning Digital Neighbors! Hello again ADD Irregulars and all Visitors and Vagabonds to the WSN that is this little cul-de-sac in the internet. MOAR Oxymoronica for your Thursday exploring!
He has delusions of adequacy. - Walter Kerr, on a contemporary actor
The chorus did everything to perfection except to sing. - George Bernard Shaw, in an 1889 Review
A sweetly vicious old lady. - Tennessee Williams, on Truman Capote
It is always fun to listen to others engage in some trash talking. I guess the question is how much and directed at who? Good humor dances on the blade between humorously exposing the absurd & hypocritical and inciting rage and riot. How many people possess no sense of humor, I think Scott Adams believes it may be as much as a a quarter or third of humanity might be truly humorous. How many more have joined the ranks for the humorless because they are filled with self-righteous pretensions?
Self-righteous pretensions used to be the sole property of the overly religious for centuries. With the rise of massive political movements since the French Revolution and the advent of Marxism now anyone can be a self-righteous dolt. I feel I have lived long enough to see the LEFT grab that ball of religiosity and make up for centuries of lost time. Extremists of any kind are a menace to the community that fails to marginalize and quarantine them to the outskirts of social engagement. That WOKE, CRT and other humorless philosophies have flowed out of Academia and taken root in the repeat cycle of so many thoughts is alarming. One used to be able to use humor against such absurdities, and one of the successes of the WOKENSTIENS and CRT aficionados has been to suffocate humor within their own ranks and to try and limit in the culture as a whole.
I am sure there are still plenty of self-righteous on the RIGHT, but they are marginalized, quarantined and often sufficiently mocked. For our thought controllers in the Enemedia, finding one example of a nut-bag on the Right is indicative of the an underground movement of millions. I still remember the days of hunting for gun-toting Tea Parties who were waiting to shoot up the Nation.
That is why there is such outrage among the WOKENSTIENS against Libs of Tic-Toc which just lets the nuttery of the LEFT speak for itself. While the nut-bags on the Right are currently few, there is copious evidence for the virus of "higher education" infecting countless people in the cultural Cabal. Well enough ranting, back to laughing, it is far better for your mind, heart and relationships to be a person of humor and not a person of offense. Happy Thursday my friends!
Farmstead in South Dakota
Today marks the three hundred and thirtieth birthday of the Frenchman François-Marie Arouet, better known by his nom de plume, Voltaire (1694-1778).
Born into a bourgeois family during the reign of Louis XIV, the “Sun King” (r. 1643-1715), Voltaire suffered tragedy at a young age when his mother died. Never close with his father or brother, Voltaire exhibited a rebellious attitude toward authority from his youth. His brilliant mind was fostered in the care of the Society of Jesus, who introduced him to the joys of literature and theater. Despite his later criticisms against the Church, Voltaire, throughout his life, fondly recalled his dedicated Jesuit teachers.
Although he spent time as a civil servant in the French embassy to the Hague, Voltaire’s main love was writing—an endeavor where he excelled in various genres, including poetry, which led to his appointment as the royal court poet for King Louis XV. Widely recognized as one of the greatest French writers, and even hyperbolically referred to by ...
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Happy Friday, Digital Neighbors!! Slept in a little this morning. Woke up at my ordinary time, hit the hour timer, and wandered back into short, incoherent dreamland. It was a good hour to try and get a little more rest after a long day yesterday. We had a good staff team-building day with personal prayer and then looking at the DISC tool as a way to appreciate our gifts as we work together for the good of our parish family.
Had a meeting in the evening to explore using our auditorium for an Emergency Overnight Shelter in the winter for the homeless and unhoused in our local area. Lots of potential, lots of work if that is to come to fruition. As I mentioned last night, this is where the rubber hits the road on personal charity. People feel comfortable giving money to support charities, but the possibility of hosting and staffing one is way out of the comfort zone for most. Prayer and time will tell.
Off to some “ifferisms” for your Friday cup of Joe.
If you get gloomy, just take an ...
The Beautiful
Said the Disciple to the Lover, “Sir, before I left the world I heard certain men who were held in high esteem and thought to know the will of the Beloved say that those who loved the Beautiful did not love the Beloved but loved idols, yet in the Garden of the Beloved we are ever striving to create beauty for the pleasure of the Beloved. Were they then speaking the truth?”
The Lover answered, “Those who said this had never glimpsed the form of the Beloved nor ever truly sought Him, for all beauty is but the reflection of the beauty of the Beloved, although seen very dimly as in a dark and faulty mirror, even as all goodness is a dim reflection of the goodness of the Beloved. So it is that those who love beauty and goodness recognize dimly in them the form of the Beloved and though often in ignorance those who are seeking the Beautiful and the Good are seeking after the Beloved.”
