Racial Intolerance

I hard, in the past few days, a person on WABE assert that racial intolerance had increased. 
Really?  Is that so?  

Or,

do we choose these days to acknowledge it's existence.  

By 

acknowledge it's existence many of us can take the responsibility to denounce it and to denounce and condemn those who practice it;    

I refuse to believe that no matter how frightened those white policemen may have been their only reourse l;ay in gunning down the person. I will not believe that.  
Those police people live in

 bourgeois  false consciousness.  

Christmas Day

One need not believe, i. e. subscribe to, the doctrine of the Virgin Birth in order to understand the power that lies behind the doctrine.

First consider the time of year.  The old is past.  Future time  the unknown, lies before us. It has a virginal.  Our time belongs to us to shape. 

The child represents ourselves in oour new beginnings.  For some, it does imply laying aside old habits which limit growth.  We thus free ourselves to cultivate better habits that foster improved well being. 

All this applies whether on accepts the historical rality of the Birth Of Jesus or not.  

Other points. 

This particular statue by Bernini, bears some resemblance  to the East Asian Quan Yin  which symbolize mercy.

A friend of mine once asked why people from Asia did not have apparitions of Mary. Easy!  Nothing in their culture has predisposed them to see Mary:  Quan Yin yes. 

Christmas Eve

I was 14.  My brother had gone of somewhere with his friends.  Mother and I went to her friends house to eat our way through Christmas Eve.

Some time before 10:30PM I began ti gyrate and bounce as a lot of un medicated ADHD people do.  The neighborhood friend guided me into the bedroom that had the second tv.

I went channel  surfing and came accross Midnight Mass from St. Patrick's in the big apple.

Theatre!  Wow!

Tsk Tsk you say.  Nay Nay say I.  What is it that a Christian does when they go to church.  They retell the reason for thier hope as Paul says.

It's just that some people need more tinsel than others. 

Bah & Hum - Bug

This guy and a few like him hold that the present form of the Roman liturgy is invalid.  Aside from the fact that most reasonable people wouldn't know a valid liturgy if one ran them down in trafic, one might ask what does all that mean anyway.

But, l;et us move on  to the pointe.   They insist that the older Tridentine liturgy from the council of Trent remains The Roman rites only valid litrugy.

At last, we come to the pointe.  Why isn't the Sarum liturgy O. K..  Or, its predecessor in the area near Salisbury, the  St. James liturgy.  And don't forget the Mosarabic.   Why that tired old thing from Trent?

Trent really aimed at imposing Romes way od doing things on everyone else.  They used the excuse of uniformity.  Bah and hum-bug .   

What is a town hall meeting?

We go to a town hall meeting. 

• Everyone there knows everyone else. 
• I say something that somebody else does not like. 
• The next day, that somebody does not come to my store and buy what I sell.  
• Instead they go elsewhere  -- Walmart.

So I live in an environment where my political stance has economic conseuences.

How is publishing Names and addresses different?
Discuss.

History And Men

Men?  What does Jix;eu  mean here?  He speaks of the whole of man kind.  He speaks as if we in the West should discover some truth and as if by magic all other men in all other cultures will see it and conform to it.  

It doesn't work that way.  People don't change their culture that way.  

Each  parent bears the responsibility for rasing a child to adulthood in such a way that the child can take up a mature role.  Yet, all too many parents  -- if one can actually use that word in so many cases --  fall short of that mark.  I'm sure that they do not do so deliberatly.  Circumstances, lack of knowledge, and a host of variables produce a small number of folk who fall behind.  or don't get it. 

History and it's study does not fix this.  Good parenting does. 

Why Paris?

Why Paris. 

· [1]It’s France.

· Yes!  The same France the received Syria as a League of nations  mandate at the end of World War I.

· And no.  It was not a good experience. 

· Just ask Ho Chi Min about how it was to live under French domination.

· Shh,  don’t say Algeria.

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[1] I spell checked this.  I really did.   I think.  Let’s see.