It is paganistic crap and in this he agrees with the current Pope, who is filled with paganistic crap.
Thought For the Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
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I think it’s just a metaphor.
Denis Thatcher (who was an accomplished man in his mundane life) gave just one interview between his wife’s election to Parliament in 1959 and his death in 2003 (though he would occasionally given an off-the-cuff answer to a lobbed question or chew the fat with reporters). Harry, who has his own book but doesn’t have Denis Thatcher’s portfolio of skills, would do well to review the contents of that interview (a Q & A session between DT and his daughter) and why he took the stance he did to public life.
One gets the impression that Meghan Markle has one utility: she isn’t fazed by papparazi. It took Catherine Middleton years to learn to tune out those vultures and by some accounts Harry’s previous flames couldn’t manage it. The trouble is, she’s Hollywood (and comes from an…uh…interesting family).
I think it’s just a metaphor.
Disagree Art. I think a lot of these buffoons have so anthropomorphized the earth that they view the earth as a living creature. In either case it is sloppy, and erroneous, thinking, used as an argument for very bad policies.
In either case it is sloppy, and erroneous thinking, used as an argument for very bad policies.
A more salient problem is that (1) Harry has his skills, not anyone else’s skills; and (2) Harry has a certain position in public life. Both should preclude him from making controversial remarks on public policy; that goes for his wife too, on the latter count if not the former as well. His great-grandmother gave her first and last interview in 1922; rebuked by her soon-to-be father-in-law, she shut up for the rest of her very long life. It’s a pity he didn’t stay in the military. Nothing he’s done since his discharge seems to suit him nearly so well. His father has lots of opinions, but he tends to keep to subjects that are orthagonal to topical controversies and offend only odd little guilds (like architects). His aunt stays away from controversial topics and only abrades the public when she’s caught being rude.
It’s a pity he didn’t stay in the military.
Yes!
These people and those like them really believe in the “Gaia Hypothesis.” It permeates all of eco-wacko enviro-nazi nonsense. And it includes worship of the Pachamama demon goddess who that heretical Marxist Peronist Caudillo from Argentina embraces.
https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/24978/gaia-ecology-earth-is-connected-rex-weyler/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypothesis
It’s acceptable mouth-noises.
Sad, but….
” I think a lot of these buffoons have so anthropomorphized the earth that they view the earth as a living creature.” True.
It’s a strange age where people anthropomorphize their pets while purchasing meat from other animals nicely packaged in a supermarket. Know of past Ice Ages that covered the earth in solid ice unable to produce food, yet cringe in horror at the “possibility” of one or two degrees of average warmth. Maybe their disconnection with Nature was made concrete by their separation of sex from babies.
The funny thing is that people who have suggested COVID is a punishment from God for our sexual immorality are harshly criticized. And yet I first heard the nonsense Mother Earth explanation from the pope. As Chesterton said, “people who don’t believe in God, don’t believe nothing. They’ll believe anything.”
It’s a strange age where people anthropomorphize their pets while purchasing meat from other animals nicely packaged in a supermarket.
Dogs were domesticated > 10,000 years ago; cats, maybe 7,000 years ago. If you fancy it’s a strange age, it’s one that’s been going on for a while.
We’ve had pets for all of history. But has it been widespread in any previous age to refer to them like people even using such ridiculous terms as “fur babies?”
The only guide that I have for how people acted in the past is fiction written in various ages. Not exactly the most comprehensive way of doing it, but I have read fiction from the entire 20th century and scattered periods before that (obviously the less the further you go back). In older works you will sometimes get people treating pets like people, but this is basically always a “crazy cat lady” situation where the character is presented as very odd. I can’t think of any works where this behavior is treated as normal from before 2000.
It’s a very low bar. Harry Windsor and Greta Thunberg are among the more intelligent proponents of the climate hoax.
The Anti-Fairy Tale: An American media princess kisses a prince and he turns into a frog.
I can’t think of any works where this behavior is treated as normal from before 2000.
May I suggest you read James Herriot?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niy-jGyQgQU
Under the proper circumstances, I could see a mature Harry crying, “Once more into the breach!” Unfortunately, his life was broken at a critical stage, and he has chosen to play tennis. I still see the wounded child following his mother’s cortege, and I grieved for him as the icy gates of Windsor closed on him. That being said, he’s still a doofus.
Under the proper circumstances, I could see a mature Harry crying, “Once more into the breach!” Unfortunately, his life was broken at a critical stage, and he has chosen to play tennis. I still see the wounded child following his mother’s cortege, and I grieved for him as the icy gates of Windsor closed on him. That being said, he’s still a doofus.
Thanks for the incoherence. Very educational.
Oh, grow up, Art. Just because someone doesn’t agree with you is no reason to suddenly act like you have lost basic reading comprehension. That wasn’t even especially poetic. I hardly even follow the royals and I could figure it out.
Someone needs to invoke the Formusus Rule once again: throw the idols in the Tiber River!