Yup, I’m old enough to remember the first time that I heard damn used on national TV.Remember when, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn," was downright shocking?
(Actually, I heard about it much later...)
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Do we need to be harsh?
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When I used to do street preaching sometimes I would ask people to mind their language. I find it most offensive when people use reference to my Saviour and my God as expletives. The vast majority of times guys would oblige but women were the least obliging.
Yep. People here will call fire down on your head for saying something harsh or using a blacklisted word (the list is phantom, btw), and then turn around and artfully express the same sentiments with flowery phrases and receive accolades and hearty agreements, or code the same expletives with special characters or mime them with misspellings which everyone understands, and they get the nod of approval partly for who they are and partly because they theoretically didn't touch any sensibilities current to this particular group. It's the hypocrisy, double standard, and outright lie of it all that troubles me. People like that will slander you to your back because it's improper to say it to your face. People like that who speak as mice and not as men are the reason we are, as a whole, tongue-tied today. Beyond the outright lie that is this whitewashed speech, the truth itself cannot flourish in such an environment. Censoring speech censors the mind. We are afraid to think or do certain things because it is considered taboo by other people who drilled into our heads the same. Ironically, the screwball notion that it's a Christian thing to police speech is exactly how we arrived at this:
For those of you who don't know, this is the next step (not the first step...you already did that for them) in banning the Bible, which is the next step in banning Christians. When it happens, I will have told you so.
Christians have been incrementally banning His Word without any outside help through centuries of purposeful mistranslation.
Scotland already has such law.
Anyway, let's check Spain:
Spanish Socialists Try to Ban Praying the Rosary; Catholics Respond with More Prayer - The Libertarian Catholic
This Monday, following orders from the government delegate in Madrid, the socialist Francisco Martín Aguirre, the Police threatened to fine a group of Catholics for praying on the stairs of a church on Ferraz street, near the national headquarters of the Socialist Party... Continue Reading →
thelibertariancatholic.com
Good articles about narcissts manipulation of language:
aghostinthemachine.substack.com
chrisbray.substack.com
Guerilla Morality
On the DARVO tactics of narcissists, psychopaths, and Leftists
aghostinthemachine.substack.com
Uncivil
"a world-concealing layer of diversionary and illogical and internally inconsistent noise"
chrisbray.substack.com
Good article, although I have to point out (a) that everyone has become an armchair psychobabbler, and thus 'narcissist' has become nearly meaningless, because (b) our whole culture is ate up with self-centeredness.
Another good one, but all I have to say about it is that the time of those two governors would be better spent performing my favorite love language on each other.Uncivil
"a world-concealing layer of diversionary and illogical and internally inconsistent noise"chrisbray.substack.com
This would perhaps be the thing I would most recommend anyone watch on X from the month of November.
As @The Revolting Man would say, it's about time for us to all become ungovernable, or as I would say that would more closely approximate Mr. Musk's language: it's time to tell people who are either destructive or standing in the way of ending that destruction to go uncover their own nakedness.
Sometimes, yes, we do need to be harsh. To shrink from it is to become part of the problem by omission.