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Post by cato on Sept 10, 2017 11:24:29 GMT
Lest we start a metaphorical witch hunt Antaine can I clarify I was being a little bit casual with my references to Wiccanism which as we may know does have links to the madder wing of the feminist movement. Miss Zappone as far as I know is primarily a feminist fundamentalist of catholic origin. She is I believe trained as a theologian, which says something sad about the state of liberal theology taken to an extreme. I apologise to all our Wiccan readers who may have taken offense at my comments. Some of my best friends are wiccans. You are forgiven. Dancing around a standing stone at dawn is deeply conservative. Peace out. Thanks sister. Peace of the running wave apon you. I am a former Druid but had a faith crisis and couldn't reconcile my beliefs with modern science. I miss my druidic certainties sometimes.
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Post by Séamus on Sept 10, 2017 11:58:40 GMT
Lest we start a metaphorical witch hunt Antaine can I clarify I was being a little bit casual with my references to Wiccanism which as we may know does have links to the madder wing of the feminist movement. Miss Zappone as far as I know is primarily a feminist fundamentalist of catholic origin. She is I believe trained as a theologian, which says something sad about the state of liberal theology taken to an extreme. I apologise to all our Wiccan readers who may have taken offense at my comments. Some of my best friends are wiccans. Kristina Keneally, American niece, through marriage, of writer Tomas Keneally (Irish famine history THE GREAT SHAME, also SCHINDLER'S ARK) served for about three years as Premier of New South Wales, having met her Sydney-sider husband at a World Youth Day in the 90s (at which she met John Paul, having had the intention of spraying him over women's ordination-she confessed in an interview that his persona made her lose her nerve). As a practising Catholic who had done some theology at NotreDame,U.S. and who was on the "liturgical roster"(quote) her position on some issues seemed highly ambiguous. I don't think there was any abortion vote in that state during her time. There was a bill concerning gay-couples being allowed to adopt. She read out the bishop's relevant statement during the parliamentary debate, I'm told, and then mentioned the big "but"... the Council stressed the primacy of conscience and she was voting in favour. Earlier, as a state minister, she'd lashed out at Pell's perceived interference during debate for the creation of embryos for use of stem cells. More recently, as a columnist, she stated that the Catholic Church has committed more acts of terror in Australia than all non-Christian religious combined. I SUPPOSE she's referring to cases of abuse in schools and orphanages, which all non-Christian religions have had very little reason to report abuse in, seeing that they've opened very few institutions of that nature.
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Post by MourningIreland on Sept 10, 2017 13:09:08 GMT
Lest we start a metaphorical witch hunt Antaine can I clarify I was being a little bit casual with my references to Wiccanism which as we may know does have links to the madder wing of the feminist movement. Miss Zappone as far as I know is primarily a feminist fundamentalist of catholic origin. She is I believe trained as a theologian, which says something sad about the state of liberal theology taken to an extreme. I apologise to all our Wiccan readers who may have taken offense at my comments. Some of my best friends are wiccans. Kristina Keneally, American niece, through marriage, of writer Tomas Keneally (Irish famine history THE GREAT SHAME, also SCHINDLER'S ARK) served for about three years as Premier of New South Wales, having met her Sydney-sider husband at a World Youth Day in the 90s (at which she met John Paul, having had the intention of spraying him over women's ordination-she confessed in an interview that his persona made her lose her nerve). As a practising Catholic who had done some theology at NotreDame,U.S. and who was on the "liturgical roster"(quote) her position on some issues seemed highly ambiguous. I don't think there was any abortion vote in that state during her time. There was a bill concerning gay-couples being allowed to adopt. She read out the bishop's relevant statement during the parliamentary debate, I'm told, and then mentioned the big "but"... the Council stressed the primacy of conscience and she was voting in favour. Earlier, as a state minister, she'd lashed out at Pell's perceived interference during debate for the creation of embryos for use of stem cells. More recently, as a columnist, she stated that the Catholic Church has committed more acts of terror in Australia than all non-Christian religious combined. I SUPPOSE she's referring to cases of abuse in schools and orphanages, which all non-Christian religions have had very little reason to report abuse in, seeing that they've opened very few institutions of that nature. That's really interesting. Notre Dame has been a Leftist Liberal stronghold for decades in the opinions of many people who study these things. With respect to the double standards of the Liberal Left in their propaganda campaign against the Catholic Church (which imitates a similar campaign by the Nazis in the 1930s), this is a very useful website: www.themediareport.com
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Post by Antaine on Sept 10, 2017 18:43:26 GMT
I don't have a problem with people doing their dances or whatever else it is they do at these things. What I do have a problem with, though, is posers, and some of those people in the pictures really do look like they're playing it up for the camera. I'm not saying everyone who is Pagan/Wiccan/whatever is an attention-seeker, but I'm usually pretty good at telling when someone is genuine or not, and I hate when people are not.
So, like cato, no offence to any Pagans/Wiccans/whoever else who may have taken offence.
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Post by Séamus on Sept 11, 2017 2:35:05 GMT
Kristina Keneally, American niece, through marriage, of writer Tomas Keneally (Irish famine history THE GREAT SHAME, also SCHINDLER'S ARK) served for about three years as Premier of New South Wales, having met her Sydney-sider husband at a World Youth Day in the 90s (at which she met John Paul, having had the intention of spraying him over women's ordination-.....etc.....in, seeing that they've opened very few institutions of that nature. That's really interesting. Notre Dame has been a Leftist Liberal stronghold for decades.....etc..... With respect to the double standards of the Liberal Left in their propaganda campaign against the Catholic Church (which imitates a similar campaign by the Nazis in the 1930s), this is a very useful website: www.themediareport.comTHE MEDIA REPORT looks like an interesting alternative for people to read about issues, thank you MrsMourning. PS you'll be relieved that Mrs Keneally did NOT have an Irish maiden name. Did I mention that she was a member of the Democrats before relinquishing her American citizenship? Did I mention also that Tom Keneally publicly announced he would no longer practice Catholicism due to the perceived "captain's call" appointment of George Pell to archbishopric of Sydney?
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Post by cato on Sept 11, 2017 9:51:46 GMT
Is George Pell's name in the Nicene Creed?
It always saddens me a little when people who get annoyed about something silly or wicked that a priest does , decide not to pray for that man but self righteously announce they are leaving the church putting their own souls in peril. It looks like they were only waiting for an excuse to stay in bed on Sunday and keep their 20 cents for the collection plate for more important things like themselves.
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Post by Séamus on Sept 11, 2017 11:13:49 GMT
Is George Pell's name in the Nicene Creed? It always saddens me a little when people who get annoyed about something silly or wicked that a priest does , decide not to pray for that man but self righteously announce they are leaving the church putting their own souls in peril. It looks like they were only waiting for an excuse to stay in bed on Sunday and keep their 20 cents for the collection plate for more important things like themselves. I think, as the time, it had more to do with Pell's views and policy as Melbourne archbishop than any perceived wrong-doing, as he had been exonerated of one accusation at the time and the recent accusers only came forward after he'd left Sydney and was resident in Rome. It would be interesting to know if the octogenarian author now attended the sacraments, as current archbishop, Anthony Fisher op, can hardly be labeled a drop-in, being Sydney-born, but is as equally or more outspoken as Pell on bioethical issues.
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Post by kj on Oct 8, 2017 15:47:28 GMT
London - a rant and rave.
I lived there for years and am back there for a week or so.
God, the emptiness and boredom of a wholly materialistic and secular culture. Utterly mind-numbing. All you see when walking around is people eating or people shopping. Completely dispiriting. It is not even despair- more a grey flat emptiness. This is the future of the world, it seems.
Plus it is probably the world's most global and international city - I met more New Yorkers in New York than Londoners in London - and I find that deeply dispiriting. A lot of automatons speaking a robotic kind of English and acting very pleased with life.
Yes, maybe I am being uncharitable, but hey, this is the rant and rave section!
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Oct 8, 2017 16:12:25 GMT
OK, I'm making a new rule. Moderation or qualification in the Rants and Raves thread is forbidden!
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Post by kj on Oct 8, 2017 16:30:26 GMT
Excellent! In which case let me state that my loathing, disgust, fear and hatred of the kind of ethos this city represents goes beyond all words. I hate it with a perfect hatred. And as before, it is the way of the future....
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Oct 9, 2017 14:42:32 GMT
People at shop counters, and at other counters, who dilly-dally over their transactions to an unreasonable degree, holding up the queue. Especially people who don't move away from the counter and THEN sort themselves out at their leisure, as I do. These people are pure evil. I believe that their dilly-dallying is pure passive aggression.
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Post by Mac Ardghail on Nov 22, 2017 5:23:35 GMT
There are also words which I use all the time myself, and which I irritate myself in overusing. "Just" is the prime example. I just can't stop using the word just, in speech. "Sorry" is another, as is "thanks". Don't get me wrong, I'm all for politeness, but I think one "sorry" and one "thanks" should be enough, and dislike the nervous compulsion which makes me overuse them. (I'm not alone in this bad habit; it irritates me in other people, too. I like to be thanked for a service or favour-- ONCE. After that, it's embarrassing.) "Just" used as a superlative -- e.g. "that's just wonderful!" -- is, it should be remembered, an Americanism. (Not that I, an American, am against all Americanisms in the English language! Though I'm certainly against jargon whenever I think I find it.)
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Post by ClassicalRepublican on Nov 22, 2017 11:14:27 GMT
The use of reflexive pronouns as honorifics.
"And for yourself, Sir: what can I get you?"
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Nov 22, 2017 12:14:49 GMT
The use of reflexive pronouns as honorifics. "And for yourself, Sir: what can I get you?" "Good man" or "good man yourself". "You're a gentleman", however, is something I delight to hear.
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Nov 22, 2017 12:15:24 GMT
There are also words which I use all the time myself, and which I irritate myself in overusing. "Just" is the prime example. I just can't stop using the word just, in speech. "Sorry" is another, as is "thanks". Don't get me wrong, I'm all for politeness, but I think one "sorry" and one "thanks" should be enough, and dislike the nervous compulsion which makes me overuse them. (I'm not alone in this bad habit; it irritates me in other people, too. I like to be thanked for a service or favour-- ONCE. After that, it's embarrassing.) "Just" used as a superlative -- e.g. "that's just wonderful!" -- is, it should be remembered, an Americanism. (Not that I, an American, am against all Americanisms in the English language! Though I'm certainly against jargon whenever I think I find it.) Ha ha. I have to admit I like this!
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