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Anyone but her!
SoreShoulder
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I had an unusual feeling which could have just been a daydream that a certain very important person was looking at me with her mind's eye from a distance, with flattery that I estimated to be insincere. It was not an actual hallucination of them being in the room, just a slight notion that I was on their mind.
It persisted for several hours and I even thought I daydreamed that she was sending me kind little bits of advice, taking an interest in the little things I did as I puttered around at home, went to the grocery store, etc.
It got even a little intrusive. I began wondering what was going on, and what I should do about it. Someone else seemed to want to advise me to second guess my estimation that the flattery was insincere. They thought I should ask her out.
The very moment I even considered the notion, it seemed she noticed what I was thinking, and bam. Flattery over. I almost thought I heard her say, "it is too bad you resisted our schoolteacher track." The oppressive feeling that she was looking at me vanished like a puff of smoke.
I then felt one of the most powerful women in our community was simply showing everyone else an example of how they are to treat me. When you realize I didn't donate my career to the Church, all your interest in me and any attention you are showing me must instantly vanish.
I then remembered I had had the feeling she was investigating my business years before. She was an important Catholic in a large city near mine and it seemed she had wanted to know why I wouldn't teach for Catholic schools since my career in a different degree field just wasn't getting off the ground.
I then remembered I had had the feeling she was investigating my business years before. She was an important Catholic in a large city near mine and it seemed she had wanted to know why I wouldn't teach for Catholic schools since my career in a different degree field just wasn't getting off the ground.
I had decided that if they want schoolteachers, let them pay qualified professionals a wage their work is worth, but it would be immoral for me to take their money because I couldn't shake the suspicion that it had been planned for me to not be able to get work in my degree field. I don't know by whom. If there is a secret cabal within our church which plans to hold certain people back in order to cheapen their schoolteaching or ministry, they don't advertise themselves.
I had begun to suspect for example that they kept track of who was exploitable and how. Some party or other at my home parish in another state had, for example, noticed that I was a little obsessive so they steered me toward daydreaming about explaining things with clarity and precision and I wasted many a useful hour obsessing over putting things clearly. They'd probably be all like "I didn't tell you to practice all the time. What, do you think I know anything about why you would want to?"
Some "strong Christians" do believe in slavery and may simply be advancing their cause when they try for public office.
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Picking your own mushrooms requires a little training.
Brad Steele
Edit: I am not referring to support for the Confederacy but to a practice which I suppose exists unofficially within some churches, which makes sure that some people wind up teaching or doing ministry.
Edit: I am only sarcastically referencing the Confederacy. I am not referring to Christians who support white supremacy or the Confederate states of America but to a practice which I suppose exists, which makes sure that some people wind up teaching or doing ministry.
Combat Vet VN
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I'm going with they realized they didn't really need the North because they were the side of the country making all the money.
Lincoln was not the start of everything. His personal positions don't prove terribly much about all the people who elected him.
I suppose that sometimes the hierarchy of a parish or diocese is lacking in courage because they are financially dependent on the rank and file parishioner. In some cases they might prefer to kowtow to the needs of their parish instead of exerting leadership based on what they say the Church derives its authority from, i.e. scripture and tradition.
I suppose that a coalition of the more established families of the parish can start to exert influence which channels other members into tracks which benefit the main families. The priests can serve to validate the authority of the "core gang" by providing quasi-moral justifications. For example, there is a teaching that need makes right but it can be abused to mean that if they need lower teaching bills then they are justified in trying to pressure the donation of one's career.
They could also use the bond we all share as members of the same faith, to go around and demonstrate how holdouts are to be treated, such as by showing that when it becomes clear I didn't donate my career, all attention being shown to me must vanish.
It's easy to assume that when Tony Iommi tried to be a factory worker, they saw to it that an accident mangled one of his hands, to block him from a secular life and further trap him in ministry, and oh, look at that, they drove them all the way out of the Church.
Why did they become Satanists? Perhaps because none of their former friends would speak to them anymore if they didn't donate their lives to ministry in order to apply pressure? And perhaps the Anglicans around them have an understanding with the Catholics not to interfere? I don't know if they're even former Catholics but it's easy to assume based on the surname of the lead guitarist.
Perhaps the core families of their parish did not see these guys becoming a big part of anyone of their lives or contributing in a big enough way, so they were set aside for service? Perhaps they were experimenting with drugs or alternative lifestyles or something else which rendered them unsuitable in the eyes of the parish to marry and raise kids? Or perhaps those stumbling blocks were deliberately cast in their path to render them unsuitable for marriage and family so the parish would feel justified in having their way with them?
The "Faithful image of another man" lyric may refer to their distaste at being required by their parish to act as a stand-in for the Savior, which is what a priest is supposed to be.
The way I feel is the way I am
I wish I'd walked before I started to run to you
Just to you
What kind of people do you think we are?
Another joker who's a rock and roll star for you
Just for you
The faithful image of another man
The endless ocean of emotion I swam for you
Yeah for you
The shot troopers laying down on the floor
Are you metal, are you man?I wish they'd put an end to my running war with you
Yeah with you
You've changed in life since you began
Yeah began
Ladies digging gold from you
Will they still dig now you're through
Yeah you're through
You bought and sold me with your lying words
The voices in the deck that you never heard came through
Yeah came through
Your folly finally got to spend with a gun
A poisoned father who has poisoned his son, that's you
Yeah that's you
I beg you please don't let it get any worse
The anger I once had has turned to a curse on you
Yeah curse you
All of the promises that never came true
You're gonna get what is coming to you, that's true
Ah, that's true
Are you Satan, are you man?
You've changed in life since it began
It began
Vultures sucking gold from you
Will they still suck now you're through
(Cats, Rats)
The search is on, so you just better run
And find yourself another way
Probably dead, they don't feel a thing
To keep them living for another day
(Rats, Rat)
You are nonentity, you have no destiny
You are a victim of a thing unknown
A mantle picture of a stolen soul
A fornication of your golden throne
Not Confucius
Brad Steele
Late Lament
Breathe deep the gathering gloom
Watch lights fade from every room
Bedsitter people look back and lament
Another day's useless energy is spent
Impassioned lovers wrestle as one;
Lonely man cries for love and has none
New mother picks up and suckles her son
Senior citizens wish they were young
Cold-hearted orb that rules the night
Removes the colours from our sight
Red is grey is yellow white
But we decide which is right
And which is an illusion
With this quote, I can only add that the world we live in today is ...... ..
No, No, No, No, No.
When there is no pebble tossed
Nor wind to blow
If your cup is full may it be again
Let it be known there is a fountain
That was not made by the hands of men
Between the dawn and the dark of night
And if you go no one may follow
That path is for your steps alone
When there is no pebble tossed
Nor wind to blow
Brad Steele
"Ritalin is pretty, Ritalin is good, seems like all it ever wanted was a market."
The lone dissenting judge was Barrett. In a 38-page dissent, she argued that history and practice from the founding era showed that the Framers did not intend to deny gun ownership to all felons, just those who could be dangerous. “Neither Wisconsin nor the United States has introduced data sufficient to show that disarming all nonviolent felons substantially advances its interest in keeping the public safe,” she wrote. “Nor have they otherwise demonstrated that Kanter himself shows a proclivity for violence. Absent evidence that he either belongs to a dangerous category or bears individual markers of risk, permanently disqualifying Kanter from possessing a gun violates the Second Amendment.”
Federal appeals courts are bound to follow the Supreme Court’s precedents in any given case. But when it comes to the Second Amendment, those precedents are far from settled. In the 2008 case D.C. v. Heller, the court ruled for the first time that the Second Amendment protected an individual right to bear arms unrelated to any militia function. Two years later, in McDonald v. Chicago, the court held that the Second Amendment’s protections also apply to state laws. The two decisions marked a sea change in how the courts interpreted the right to bear arms and cast doubt on a wide swath of gun-related restrictions nationwide.
By incorporation through Due Process, Heller and McDonald have transformed the 2nd Amendment (substantially) into a collective right. In the highlighted section above, Barrett has succinctly expressed the individual liberty ensconced in the 2nd Amendment, and puts her on a much higher plain than her mentor, Scalia.
Brad Steele
What if the voters could throw them out of their job if they didn't get the low cost help they want?
Are you asking why someone who was basically well off did what you imagined she did based upon your assessment of her motives?
I am confused here.
Well someone is confused here.
Probably me.
Maybe not.
Brad Steele
If it truly goes on, it may be conducted in order to maintain the thing which brought her to power.
In 1964 Congress passed a Civil Rights Act which set racial hiring quotas for employers designed to make them hire the same proportion of each race which was present in the community in which a given company operated.
Remember Thin Lizzie? A rock band, completely from Ireland, which clearly had a black member.
There's people like that all over Europe. I believe some units of the Buffalo Soldiers (19th century African-American cavalry) were assigned uniforms which included pickelhaubes in order to poke a little fun at how black some German people look.
Anyway, how do you get more of your people to get fine jobs in the big city? Well, if some of them show clear traces of African heritage, then you make sure there's enough money to make room for more black people to get educated and try to get jobs. The ones in the big city already during the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 were qualified for manufacturing jobs, but you don't want those, you want to get in to the industries which support manufacturing. Preferably from a classy office.
You also know that most adherents to your religion favor a stable family life and obedient children who will study if told because they want to become responsible adults and get married and have a family.
So you make sure the public education system has more money than it needs by making sure your religion's private schools have teachers at a rate the average person can afford. Especially in light of the fact that the parents will be still together and will get involved and make sure their kids study.
Soon there are lots more African-Americans vying with whites for college admission, scholarships, jobs, etc. Maybe because of racism or because the public school teachers are in too big a rush to get their money spent and don't do the best job, but not everyone wants them working in their office.
So they hire the darker European-heritage people because they can credibly claim they're black, thus giving our friend's people a boost. They are then obliged to help the less African-looking of her people and faith.
Anyway, the point is they got into better schools and fancier jobs by using their blackness. She might have been in a lesser position if she and her people hadn't been able to milk this Affirmative Action thing.
The role marked out for me was barely paid schoolteacher. I don't know anything about it, but I suspect that before 1996, they were told to collect welfare and were housed in former convents and fed donated food. Some of them were probably recruited from the welfare office, maybe because someone leaned on them like they m ay have done to Blasey-Ford. Those probably mostly taught at schools which were for future schoolteachers, or maybe they were designed to give the more family-oriented church members a leg up over their peers. So the elite families of the church maintain and strengthen their grip on power.
I sometimes suspect the present unrest is caused by the genetic findings of the last few years, which prove almost all European-heritage people have significant East African DNA, so there is no longer any benefit to forming political coalitions with blacks if you are from one of the European ethnicities which show blackness more. So the blacks lost coalition partners which may formerly have acted as a stabilizing influence which favored less radical reforms.