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Eleanor Nicolás 🐈⬛
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Eleanor Nicolás 🐈⬛
@loreoftherose
“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.” Grew up in 7 countries (TCK)• Catholic(a), Pilgrimage & Shrines • Folklore • Literature • ✍️
The British Isles 参加日 Ocak 2022
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Grim. My dad retired early rather than teach English literature degrees to students whose English would not pass at GCSE #highereducation theguardian.com/education/ng-i…
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@Michael_J_Matt Cardinal Tobin locked me out of his basilica so I prayed the rosary on the steps.
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This month marks the 5th anniversary of the Covid lockdowns. Remember when our Churches were closed, and labeled "non essential" while liquor stores remained open? God will not be mocked, and resistance is NOT futile.
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This is increasingly becoming an issue across the board. When I was teaching English, students often were not familiar with references to things like chicken little or the emperor’s new clothes because they were not read to as children. This makes it difficult for them to read classic novels, which are full of what were once common cultural references, it can be frustrating for both students and teacher. If we lose these ties to a common history and framework, we lose our identity and sense of self. I think a good deal of the lack of patriotism, the propensity towards self-flagellation is downstream of this.
FischerKing@FischerKing64
Not long ago @romanhelmetguy posted course offerings from Harvard today and 100 years ago, and what struck me was the near total elimination of introductory survey courses (eg "Modern Europe from 1500-1789" or "English literature from Chaucer to Shakespeare"). Instead they get highly politicized courses on very narrow subjects. So eburke here is right, but I would just add that Harvard makes little effort to provide a "common frame of reference." If the humanities courses must all be for beginners it's also because Harvard doesn't lay the groundwork for going deeper.
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@Avonleebythesea Every year a parent in our homeschool co op will argue against 3rd gr Biblical stories. Someone has to explain that, religious belief aside, familiarity with Eden, Noah, Red Sea, etc will be necessary when reading the classics. Same with fairy tales, euro myths, Shakespeare.
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@merrieenglander I worked with a woman who was a Baptist missionary in the Dalmatian coast. She told me how “a queer, little superstitious priest” once knocked on her door selling icons. What did she think kept the region alive through centuries of Ottoman oppression?
This is the type I mean
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@merrieenglander It’s not only evangelicals but lofty intellectuals
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When I was young I was always confused as to why people didn’t care that Christians were almost being wiped out. And then I realized it’s as simple and as petty as this.
The Aramaic Wire ܣܘܪܝܐ@AramaicWire
Evangelicals are partly to blame for the collapse of Middle Eastern Christianity. They are the biggest supporter of wars which destroy Christians. But it goes way deeper than that. They view Christians like Assyrians in Iraq as a pawn to expand their footprint as "authentic" Christians. They can be so brazen that they even set up local organizations & try to convert *Apostolic Christians* to *their* brand of American Christianity. Imagine destroying an Apostolic, Aramaic speaking Christian community which is 2000 years old. Then setting up an NGO to convert them to Megachurch Protestantism through bribery & handouts. Isn't that insane?
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Our lovely little holiday home in Cornwall. Our daughter asked if she could stay there with the kids this summer. Honey, we'd love to but it's booked on Airbnb all through August. £400 a night. We're not a charity. She earns £35,000 a year she can find a Travelodge.
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I also used to be amazed by this. But I now find walking around a modern British city is the same experience. We walk past grand old buildings, relics of our once great institutions, while our society crumbles around us and many people have no interest at all in their heritage.
Funes@Bulkington___
Always fascinated how people in the middle ages for hundreds of years just lived amongst the ever decrepitating Roman ruins. It was just a part of daily life for them.
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@merrieenglander And ‘earnest’ chatterings in the staff room
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@loreoftherose Well, there’ll probably be anti-rampage posters featuring cherubic white children.
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This time it did t need the police to shoot a gangster for ‘youths’ to go on a rampage.
GB News@GBNEWS
Hundreds of balaclava-clad youths descend on Milton Keynes in echo of Clapham chaos gbnews.com/news/milton-ke…
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@HannahWardEdu I noticed the ‘gotta teach them young” at the bottom of the video. What a creepy thing to be doing in a children’s section of a bookshop.
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"You parents are just being overprotective and paranoid. No one is out to get your kids."
maria 𝜗𝜚@13sluvrr
Whats this trend of putting the cover of a CHILDRENS’ book on Heated Rivalry..
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"Evangelicals are partly to blame for the collapse of Middle Eastern Christianity. They are the biggest supporter of wars which destroy Christians."
The Aramaic Wire ܣܘܪܝܐ@AramaicWire
Evangelicals are partly to blame for the collapse of Middle Eastern Christianity. They are the biggest supporter of wars which destroy Christians. But it goes way deeper than that. They view Christians like Assyrians in Iraq as a pawn to expand their footprint as "authentic" Christians. They can be so brazen that they even set up local organizations & try to convert *Apostolic Christians* to *their* brand of American Christianity. Imagine destroying an Apostolic, Aramaic speaking Christian community which is 2000 years old. Then setting up an NGO to convert them to Megachurch Protestantism through bribery & handouts. Isn't that insane?
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The opening of The Last of the Mohicans share.google/IWECNkwK0hLuub…
cinesthetic.@TheCinesthetic
What is the greatest character entrance into a scene?
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