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Post by Séamus on Nov 4, 2024 3:09:41 GMT
' A Garda spokesperson said the event will not be investigated as "no criminal offences were disclosed".
"An Garda Síochána advises that members of the public always verify any information online regarding upcoming events from trusted and reputable sources.
"Public information on major events including traffic management, transport and public safety advice is often available on the Garda website, Dublin City Council website and from other relevant stakeholders," they added. '
A more relevant date for a misinformation happening won't be found, the possibilities of people following artificial intelligence or erroneous information,originating from any corner of the earth,is possibly the greatest horror story of our time.
Last week I came across a section of a filmed Sting concert, held at Durham Cathedral of unknown date; the performance of traditional All Saint's Eve ballad Soul Cake. Even with subdued vocals it was easy to make connections between old ritual, to perform charitable acts for the dead, and commercial Halloween today. Door knocking might be a primitive communication but it is reliable.
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Post by cato on Nov 4, 2024 9:21:27 GMT
We had a whole week of Halloween this year. It along with Pride seems to be the main liturgical feasts in post Catholic Ireland.
All Saints and All souls seem to have faded away in popular consciousness. Part of me is tempted to say the witches have triumphed in the land of saints and scholars but perhaps lslam will put manners on our worn out decadent selves.
November with its honouring and remembering of our ancestors is a profoundly conservative month but the old rituals and observances are fading away. Mind you most of us have never known anything but radical change and constant decline.
I was in my 30s when I first heard of the old Irish custom of giving up drink for the month. Not for Movember but for the Holy Souls. It's now a personal annual devotion. Visiting the historic graveyards of Dublin is another favourite activity in this dying month of the year. Graveyards are at their most Gothic and eery in November. Remember man thou art dust and onto dust thou shall return.
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Post by Séamus on Nov 6, 2024 2:03:57 GMT
We had a whole week of Halloween this year. It along with Pride seems to be the main liturgical feasts in post Catholic Ireland. All Saints and All souls seem to have faded away in popular consciousness. Part of me is tempted to say the witches have triumphed in the land of saints and scholars but perhaps lslam will put manners on our worn out decadent selves. November with its honouring and remembering of our ancestors is a profoundly conservative month but the old rituals and observances are fading away. Mind you most of us have never known anything but radical change and constant decline. I was in my 30s when I first heard of the old Irish custom of giving up drink for the month. Not for Movember but for the Holy Souls. It's now a personal annual devotion. Visiting the historic graveyards of Dublin is another favourite activity in this dying month of the year. Graveyards are at their most Gothic and eery in November. Remember man thou art dust and onto dust thou shall return. The O'Connell Street crowd did look remarkably tame - no-one in Bambie thug makeup- but perhaps that was computer edited or generated also. |
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Post by cato on Nov 7, 2024 12:18:50 GMT
br]The O'Connell Street crowd did look remarkably tame - no-one in Bambie thug makeup- but perhaps that was computer edited or generated also.[/quote]
The media tended to moan about the dangers of social media and the risk of a fascist style coup to bring us back to the 1980s.
Normal folks I spoke to wondered how could so many people be so thick.
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Nov 8, 2024 12:07:31 GMT
We had a whole week of Halloween this year. It along with Pride seems to be the main liturgical feasts in post Catholic Ireland. All Saints and All souls seem to have faded away in popular consciousness. Part of me is tempted to say the witches have triumphed in the land of saints and scholars but perhaps lslam will put manners on our worn out decadent selves. November with its honouring and remembering of our ancestors is a profoundly conservative month but the old rituals and observances are fading away. Mind you most of us have never known anything but radical change and constant decline. I was in my 30s when I first heard of the old Irish custom of giving up drink for the month. Not for Movember but for the Holy Souls. It's now a personal annual devotion. Visiting the historic graveyards of Dublin is another favourite activity in this dying month of the year. Graveyards are at their most Gothic and eery in November. Remember man thou art dust and onto dust thou shall return. I've never actually heard about that custom! Interesting. I tried to go to the family grave on All Souls' Day but I couldn't find it. I could find the area but not the grave. It was getting dark so I just said a prayer and left. |
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Post by Séamus on Nov 15, 2024 12:08:50 GMT
br]The O'Connell Street crowd did look remarkably tame - no-one in Bambie thug makeup- but perhaps that was computer edited or generated also. The media tended to moan about the dangers of social media and the risk of a fascist style coup to bring us back to the 1980s. Normal folks I spoke to wondered how could so many people be so thick. [/quote] * * * * * Perhaps a dimension of thickness, but we do, or will soon have, a generation completely wired to sourcing everything from a screen; you'd imagine they can sort themselves out and become equally objective to the cyber world? Just as historians are adding realism to Constable's Hay Wain- in the early days of industrialism the real river would undoubtedly have been polluted, more than once dead animal floating by they say, we possibly need to see current progress in all aspects. I heard a tap on our door at an unusual hour last Sunday night. A not-young lady had locked herself out of a parish building and, without car keys or phone at hand, walked for an hour in dusk and dark to the closest house she knew with keys (Sunday public transport is impossible in the area, even if you struck a driver willing to give a free ride and, as this is an extraordinary form church, few people live close and there's no resident priest). As we drove her back I considered the differences from the '80s that some Irish commentators were seemingly concerned about returning to. While none of us would wish to go back to the old system...the phone booths were then readily existent and one could at least call emergency services. And they had phone books;unlike our mobiles most of our house phones were included. Even, had she borrowed a phone from someone in McDonald's, roughly half way down the track, there was no way of finding a number on the internet: none of ours are listed anywhere. Years ago most people could rattle off one or two landline numbers from memory, even someone allergic to anything numerical and mathematical (like me). We've lost that. And we're looking at the prospect of easily losable and breakable screens becoming our Batman utility belts- without them we realise how vulnerable we are. On the subject of digital media,we could also go into the many politicians and public figures, particularly those now in foreign offices around the world currently scrambling for cover now that the masses take public interest in the many times they rubbished Mr Trump on the internet,finding that cyber-comments are as difficult to erase as a McGregor-torso of tattoos. |
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