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Validity and other such concepts would still not lead me to participate in any religious activity with any Anglican "priest". Sitting in a pew, listening to the first sermon delivered by a priestess, unmoored me. Subsequent statements and actions by Anglican clergy,, coupled with conversat...

I vaguely recall this, but I appreciate the reminder.

BTW, this thread is really good.

Given recent events and those I see in local parking lots, grocery store lines, and Costco ... there is significant depth in this.

Thank you both.

I ask this seriously and without a desire to stir the pot. As a former Episcopalian, confirmed by a former Episcopal priest, and once in the Episcopal "Diocese" of Monsignor Jeffrey N. Steenson (initial ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter), I have followed the ...

Keep on keeping on.

I demur. What do you think starts all those forest fires every summer? Why should the trees suffer?

They forgot the latex gloves. In my experience.

Since a logical fallacy is being attributed ... whataboutism ... a new one to me, perhaps we should consider another ... cherry picking. Where the actions of a few, two in this case, are used to assert a broader population characteristic. It could be argued, I suppose, that a hasty generalization is...

When Trump misses, he misses. Reminds me of baseball, where a batting average of .300 is considered great. Trump bats about .600, perhaps the best ever. but he's not playing baseball.

"Service Animal"? Right. I gather that service animals now ride around stores in baby carriages. As I have seen.

Szlifuj swój polski. Yes, now that I look at it that way, it does.

Smart people without wlsdom, much of which is learned through experience IRL, are sure they are right. Act accordingly. Act effectively. With results like our contemporary universities and Marxist economics.

Exactly.

The Real Danger Isn’t Dumb People — It’s Smart People Without Wisdom

Saw this elsewhere. For me, it illuminates much of what we are experiencing.

There are vast landscapes of knowledge that I will never roam. Philosophy is one. Learning Polish is another.

What if the philospher's writing is read through the lenses of language, translation, era, and culture? The content might be seen through a glass darkly. HST, my attempts to read philosophers have been uniformly defeated ... probably my unwillingness to wrestle with the texts.

The core issue, I think, is the ongoing extinction of the old world order ... which began right after WWII ... and the ongoing suicide of the West which was ignited and is fueled by the inanities and outright economic idiocy of Marxism, modern liberalism, and the decadence of Western affluence. The ...

Let me paraphrase another post, read elsewhere, which echos my issue with the Pope ... and his predecessor. The post was made in response to the Pope laying a wreath honoring Algerians who drove the French from Algeria: If you have the time and inclination to honor the people who violently drove Cat...

I do.