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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 Katılım Ocak 2022
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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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Cat amongst fairies, c. 1860
John Anster Fitzgerald (1819-1906)
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Five years ago I was telling people: "There are going to be mass conversions to Catholicism in the next several decades," and people said I was out of my mind.
Now we have many dioceses that have more than doubled the number of converts they received last year. Some are up as high as 150% year-over-year. The pattern is consistent and it is global: people are coming back to the Catholic Church in stunningly high numbers.
Why? Because every other structure for making sense of the world has FAILED in the West.
Mainline Protestantism went liberal and entered a death spiral. Evangelical Protestantism is fractionalized into thousands of incoherent and conflicting denominations. Modern secular liberalism has offered an utterly barren materialist philosophy of life and its purpose, has worked to de-sacralize life and promote nihilism -- and has ultimately been the handmaiden of neoliberal capitalism and the confusing miasma of a "post-truth" world. Eastern Orthodoxy remains disunified, doctrinally confused, and unable to convene an ecumenical council for the last 1200 years. New Age and Eastern faiths remain obscure and vague.
What remains? The Catholic Church remains.
It's the only institution still in existence that has retained a coherent moral theology, a sound and well-reasoned doctrine, and a definite claim to Apostolic authority. It's teachings are consistent and clearly congruent with a functional Church that really does "make disciples of all nations." Its sacramental theology honors the actual teachings of Christ.
But most of all: the Catholic Church is not "making it up as it goes along."
Expect more of this. We are just getting started with a revival that is going to completely alter the course of the twenty-first century.
Joe McBride@McBrideLawNYC
Over 100k people are becoming Roman Catholic tonight in America. The number across the world is estimated at over one million. Adults become Catholic after 1 year of serious study often go on to be learned and devout. God’s Army is Growing. Long live the Catholic Church!
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