Good Morning & Happy Thursday Friends & Digital Neighbors! Hey there all you Conversants, Shy Lurkers and Random Visitors to the @ Padre's! I am glad you stumbled across this little space in your wanderings within Locals. It is a space I love and try to gently cultivate.
Community - oftentimes the simplest truths are the most durable. Today's quote is something completely lost on the Rabid Left and it Gospel of Retribution and Shaming Atonement. You know, the same people that brought your radical dishonesty and inhumane choices since the penning of the Manifesto. The Left is so proficient at crafting lies that please us, much of society has drifted Leftward toward the vortex of madness that finally has revealed itself in the West. How many people actually think "White Supremacy" is the greatest threat to our current chapter? Probably the same ones that think January the 6th was an insurrection surpassed only by the Civil War. Ya the Rabid Left has lies a plenty to sell you and they have mostly corrupted the rest of the Left who used to be proponents of the arts & liberties AKA Classical Liberals, a fair number of whom have drifted Right because the Rabid Left is polarizing, dehumanizing and permissive only of cultish obedience.
The Left (Rabid mind you) tears down, the Left demolishes, the Left delights in punishment, humiliation, and the annihilation of opposing points of view. How do you build a society worth sharing if that is your method and goal?
Sure I could go on about the Radical Right in all fairness, but are you FREAKING KIDDING ME?!?!?!?!?! You can go read that daily on 99% of any MSM sites, the landfill of Academia, the slave-bots of Big tech and the brain leeches of Entertainment. Hmmm, that felt good.
Their biggest Lie: MY BODY, MY CHOICE - I don't share this so readily among my more Left sympatric friends at Rubin Report or Phetasy since this debate is an emotional firecracker. If it was YOUR BODY, women could get pregnant at will with no help from a SPERM, as it is, that is a biological IMPOSSIBILITY. I am sorry we don't spawn, lay eggs in a nest, or hatch them out of our back (go look up the frog, a bit disturbing). We are mammals, and mammals carry their young within them. The LIE has cost the lives of hundreds of millions and has left a psychological wreckage that most have to just ignore, medicate, or worst case scenario, justify.
On to gentler things - Helping other rise. Happy Thursday Friends!
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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Quite apart from the fact that I utterly admire, even love, her, this is the best possible response to an idiot, who, in his defense, asked a pretty good question.
https://x.com/TBifford/status/2087992591279407133/video/1?s=61
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.”
