I think I’m in a negative news overload. I’m truly depressed this morning reading so many disturbing stories about what those in power are doing to those of us with little power or money. It’s sad to see the destruction of our society and the Olympic opening ceremony is a true reflection of what to expect when we walk out our front doors each day. 😢 It does not represent or include me and mine at all.
Btw Jenna, have you watched the opening ceremonies from 2012? Twelve years ago they showed us clearly what they planned: they were coming for our kids, and therefore our society, and our world. A rising black demon with a wand stands and waves it over children’s beds with weird gross childish transhuman? creatures in them and then black figures descend from the sky. I haven’t yet found what all that was supposed to be portraying, but boy oh boy hindsight is 20-20.
If I may suggest - Don't let yourself be depressed by all this. Have courage, claim your own identity and power. I deal with things by knowing I am a child of God, and that life is eternal (including after death - for which I am a witness to). Coming to know that, it has given me a LOT of power and strength, and has dismissed a lot of fear about what is to come. I honestly don't have words sufficient to adequately or properly describe the love that Jesus Christ has for each of us. I can only tell you it was so powerful that it flowed through me in ways I can't describe, and stayed with me for nearly two weeks after the event. (I could feel love for everyone around me in a similar way. Sadly, I only have a small remnant of that today, and look forward to being in His presence again.) The memory of that experience has been a rock by which I can build a foundation upon and not let others oppress or depress me.
All I can say is to have faith, look up, and seek for your own witness. He's SOOOO willing to share of His love.
Thank you Justin. We do need reminders of this and I needed one today. ❤️ We are but witnesses to this time and if we look through eyes like that we can somewhat disconnect from the sadness of it all so that it doesn’t interfere with our purpose. I know we are placed here to give love to others and be God’s arms and legs for service and hugs and His mouth for truth, but If I knew I was also placed here to give an accounting one day before God of what I am seeing and what is occurring, I can approach it more like a journalist and take it less personally, and feel less threatened. There is no threat to us here or in eternity when we have chosen to align with God and live for Him. I’m sure the Angels, when they came to earth in bodily form thousands of years ago on various missions from God, never once felt threatened or discouraged for the time they spent here. Disappointed and sad maybe at times, but never depressed. They had a much different perspective and one that we need to master: we are not of this world either!! I forget that. And we are children of the one true King, so what do we really have to fear from all these evil people? They can take away my freedom, heck they already took away my daughter and almost crushed my spirit with that, they can even take away my life if they are so bold and cruel, but they can never take away my soul or my eternity, or my place in God’s family. That’s out of their reach. What is being forced down our throats today is only possible here on earth, and most likely in hell, but it will never be allowed in our eternity. We need to pay attention with a critical eye as if we were plopped down in a moment in time, sent back from the future, to bear witness to what is happening and report back. That inspector frame of mind surely would stop my feeling so threatened by it all.
What it means, Kat, is that not everyone has the same beliefs or perceptions of reality. I myself respect the Bible and Christian beliefs. I don’t particularly feel respected as a person, however, when Christian beliefs about god, Christ, “the King”, are shoved down my throat. By this I mean when those beliefs are touted as the only and obvious truth. I think those beliefs are kinda cool and I especially like the idea of Jesus. But what I don’t care for is the rigidity and arrogance of feeling that one knows the truth of the universe and is free to unleash it as ultimate truth on those who may have another view.
Personally, I perceive ‘God’ as more an ethereal and transcendent energy. Is that a person? Unlikely, in my opinion, but who’s to say? I would feel that it’s unlikely that my human mind is up to the task of defining god, especially in such concrete and rigid ways, assigning personhood and even gender to what and whoever god may turn out to be.
And there goes Elise, speaking for god, no less. Kinda smug and arrogant if you ask me. But also childishly concrete.
Thanks for the clarification. I disagree with the “shoving down my throat” comment because that is actually your discomfort. I would say to analyze your discomfort.
At least, that’s what I do when I feel discomfort because there is a reason, and it’s usually my problem. Thanks again.
It would appear we are seeing an evil version of a great unveiling ("apocalypse" is the ancient Greek word for unveiling) of a movement that has quietly, on snake's bellies, moved into almost every niche of our society.
And try finding any news on the giant fire burning in Northern California. Or in the West. If you need to know, you have to go through the facebook. It is all sick sick sick. And they keep pushing. Pushing us to make more mean memes about them. Oh boy...are they in for it.
Apparently the 2012 ceremonies also had a bunch of dancing nurses. Oddly reminiscent of those weird videos of nurses dancing during Covid. Although it should provide great comfort that, according to Politifact😂, “The opening ceremony featured a tribute to the United Kingdom’s National Health Service and to British children’s literature that included images of doctors and nurses standing beside hospital beds as a large, hooded figure loomed overhead — Lord Voldemort from the Harry Potter series” So there! Uh-Huh.
But if that were true why would they use such grotesque caricatures of children? And what was so particular in that year to have a tribute to “UK’s” health service at a world Olympics? They sound like convenient excuses, or maybe they really are just more coincidences. But after the past four years and the current opening ceremonies it doesn’t feel coincidence. More like true evil using men and women as puppets to meet certain ends, and the men and women involved don’t see what they are really doing - so believe it’s really Harry Potter tributing and health care honoring? Idk. It’s just really disturbing to see it again after all these years with everything going on now.
Yeah, I don’t necessarily believe anything Politifact, or any other “fact checking” organization, says. I just offered that as a glimpse of the other sides response to the “predictive programming” assertion.
Couldn’t have said it better myself! Frankly, if the opening ceremonies were all about hookers or a bunch of twerking half naked women (or men!), I’d be just as disgusted and would still not watch. I thought the Olympics were about athletic excellence and achievement. Silly me, it has nothing to do with “Sports” apparently!
I cannot lower my standards enough for this to make any sense whatsoever. Here is another doozy reminder of all the BS out in the open from the opening of that tunnel in Europe 8 years ago as well.
I had forgotten how horrid that was. Every single ceremony these days is dark, disturbing and demonic. How people sat through that, and others just a bad, is beyond me. These people are not “artists” and this is not “art”. So, yes, when they tell you who they are, and they always do, we need to believe them!
Did you see the huge crowd of people at the Eiffel Tower the following day singing and praising Jesus? Maybe the extreme display the night before is what it took for Christians to stand up and show themselves.
It’s certainly time for Christians to stand up and defend our religion. I think we’ve been quiet too long and sadly the churches haven’t pushed back. I think the Olympic organizers have just insulted a huge portion of the world and I think there will be a price they pay.
I had to fast forward most of the opening ceremony. It was too weird for this 71 year old. Call me old fashioned but I liked the older way of the opening ceremony, simple and about the athletes. And why were they focusing on the Hollywood celebrities. Who cares that they are there? Not I…..
I talk about this a lot with my adult children. I am in my 50s and I remember when sport was simple and about the game at hand. The Super Bowl hype is now a week long affair, the drafts are now a Prime time spectacle etc etc. Our society is rampant with narcissism and debauchery. It’s all so depressing.
I get a wardrobe malfunction during a Superbowl halftime show. It's the NFL, for crying out loud. A crass act at best. But the Olympics? Is it too mean now to aspire to be your very best? There's not a snowball in hell's chance I would ever perform a sport at an Olympic level, even when I was young. Wasn't gonna happen and you know what, I learned to live with my unathletic body. But every day, when I write more of my fiction, I compete in my own words Olympics, trying my best to craft compelling prose and an attention-grabbing story. Guess I am being mean to someone somewhere who wants to be a bestselling novelist but doesn't want to sit down and write.
Some of the worst books I ever read were written by English teachers.
On the other hand, my younger brother was the class clown, sucked at English class but has written over 1000 songs, a bunch of Cowboy poetry, recorded over a dozen country music CDs and has backed up huge name recording artists with his band, has two good published western novels and several more he has sent me to proofread.
Incidentally none of his books published or as yet in the works have vulgar language in them.
So true. And the worst journalist I ever worked with had a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern, one of the top two J-schools in this country. (The best reporter I ever worked with never graduated from high school and spent 12 years in prison.) Back in the Jurassic era, I was associate editor of a Long Island weekly newspaper. Every week I read through the letters to the editor. Every letter I ever saw from a teacher or educator was chock full of writing errors. Your brother didn't suck at English. He was just bored out of his skull in English class. I am convinced the nation's so-called educators sign some sort of secret pact to teach every topic in as dull a manner as possible!
Grammar you can learn. What's your story? Even nonfiction writers tell a story of sorts. Stephen King was a so-so writer when he published Christine. But he was and remains one hell of a storyteller. No one better. And, he kept writing and got much better at the craft.
Of course not. The road to boredom is paved with adverbs. The road to hell is paved with lousy diction. I cannot tell you how books I read today that mistake discreet for discrete, and vice versa, etc. I was a newsroom copy editor for more years than I care to admit to, and stumbling over diction bloopers these days just makes me want to whip out my pica pole and do some hard pounding on someone's skull. If you don't know what a pica pole is, you are probably too young to care much about proper word usage. The road to tyranny is paved with poor language comprehension. Double plus ungood and all that.
My story…it’s a story about an incredible young girl who came to live with us from Haiti on a medical visa- that very quickly turned into can she stay with you forever? Our local hospital donated all her medical care for free and we provided a home, all her care and basically everything else for her. Her story is heart-warming and heartbreaking. There’s so much more but that’s the gist of it. Anyway, I wrote about 60 pages or so a while ago for a writing contest that I never submitted it to. I have tried Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird method but then I convince myself that I am just a mom, wife and nurse and it’s best to leave writing to writers. 😝
That’s a story I would read. Publishers are supposed to have editors that help prepare the text for publication. But the telling of the story is where the real skill lies for the writer. What you wronged above was enough to make me reread it and want to know more
And I'm just an aging dumpling with spiritual pretensions, if you want to put it that way. Your story sounds moving and heartwarming and we can use a whole lot more of that in this world. Write it from your heart to your readers, and you will never go wrong.
Honey, if I displayed any dangling bits in public, I'd end up having to pay those who saw my bits as trauma compensation. Nobody's going to pay me to expose some flesh.
How did you manage to get baptised twice? Be that as it may, the degraded opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games are just the latest symptom of the deliberate subversion / sabotage of Western Civilisation and Christianity that’s been underway for well over 100 years now... Oh, and by the way? That Grade 2 spelling bee you quoted? Strongly recommend you get a copy of John Taylor Gatto’s “The Underground History of American Education” (he talks about that subversion/sabotage A LOT)... wore my copy out, got to track down a new one, they’re getting scarce, but I digress.. I quote from same:
“In 1882, fifth graders read these authors in their Appleton School Reader: William Shakespeare, Henry Thoreau, George Washington, Sir Walter Scott, Mark Twain, Benjamin Franklin, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Bunyan, Daniel Webster, Samuel Johnson, Lewis Carroll, Thomas Jefferson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and others like them. In 1995, a student teacher of fifth graders in Minneapolis wrote to the local newspaper: ‘I was told children are not to be expected to spell the following words correctly: back, big, call, came, can, day, did, dog, down, get, good, have, he, home, if, in, is, it, like, little, man, morning, mother, my, night, off, out, over, people, play, ran, said, saw, she, some, soon, their, them, there, time, two, too, up, us, very, water, we, went, where, when, will, would, etc. Is this nuts?’ ”
I was born premature and needed emergency surgery, and my very Catholic mother insisted I be baptized first, lest I perish with that pesky original sin. ("Hang on, doc, while we super quickly administer this sacrament!") When I survived, she wanted to have the full ceremony/photo op, hence baptism #2. Bless her heart.
And yes, the dumbing down is egregious. As a journalist in the early 1990s, I was patently told to write for "an eighth grade education," and yes, I was writing for adults.
Twice baptized is common in another way. Born into a Catholic family and baptized as a baby. Then become a Protestant, or interdenominational, or non-denominational, (as so many have,) and believe baptism is after one consciously makes the decision for themselves to choose God and follow Him. Then the baptism is a proclamational ceremony celebrating that, like a wedding publicly proclaims and celebrates the choice made for a partner. So…two baptisms!
Well.. I suppose I got married to Wife #2 twice... First, a quickie Civil Service ceremony in her church's multipurpose room to make them happy.. Second, at St. Luke's Anglican to make both of us and God happy... 😇
I’d pay to watch a transgender Olympics where they burn the Quran, particularly the resulting aftermath. They know good Christians will turn the other cheek, but they are way too cowardly to burn the Quran. Paris would likely be on fire right now if they had insulted Muslims like they did Christians. 🔥
If you need another reason not to watch the Olympics, the Dutch Men’s beach volleyball team features a child rapist. He was convicted of and admitted to raping a 12 year old girl, was sentenced to 4 years, served 1 year and immediately was accepted back into his sport, after a serious talking to by counselors of course, and is now a member of an Olympic team that apparently signs pledges to be good role models.
As to the second grade spelling list, are you sure “sex” and “non-binary” haven’t made an appearance on the list yet, absolutely nothing would surprise me.
As a Jew I was never comfortable with BC (Before Christ) or AD (Anno Domini). These are both references to a messiah in which most of the world does not believe. Switching to BCE and CE makes much more sense for all of us. Maybe the progressive left is occasionally correct? Like a broken watch?
Don't worry about BC or AD, we'll be on the Chinese calendar soon. If that doesn't happen, maybe the Western (formerly for a good part) Christian world should abandon its calendar due to popular disapproval?
On the one hand I want to say "live with it" but that might be construed as bigoted and catty of me.😘 On the other? In fairness, The West's calendar should have stayed with the date of the (mythical) foundation of Rome, thus properly speaking this is the year 2777; especially since they didn't even get the year of Christ's birth right (±4 BC).
"Maybe the progressive left is occasionally correct?" After 8 years in and of the Woke Democratic Socialist Non-White People's Republic of Canuckistan of our Dear Leader Justine Castreau (Praise and Blessings be upon her name) and her Merry Men? Not a chance in Hell, Alison!
Alison , whether you believe that Jesus Christ is your messiah, he is an actual historical figure. ( as well as the messiah to many) I believe the change is more about erasing Jesus Christ from history books than any thing else.
Didn't France change the calendar to year 1 with their bloodthirsty revolution? Anyway, the birth of Jesus changed history, and reams of books have been written about what he brought to the world. Whether or not people believe in him or like it, that was the true revolution. Look up what the Romans believed and did and ask yourself if that's a world you want to return to. Because we are careening there faster than a runaway train.
King. A mob raided Notre Dame Cathedral, seized the large-print Bible from the altar, tied it to the tail of a jackass, dragged it in the streets to the city dump, then set it afire.
We're not careening to a level of civilisation worthy of the Romans, Lynn. Take the time to study the terror unleashed on Russia by the Bolsheviks. That's what The Powers That Shouldn't Be are truly aiming at: The utter annihilation of all normative standards of decency and civility; their replacement? Nothing. Except for perhaps the enslavement of humanity. Watch "The Chekist" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_RSDqBn0bA&t=2s) or view this presentation by Asha Logos: "The Bolshevik Revolution: Darkness Descends" (https://www.bitchute.com/video/XabVBNdZkINy)
As we were driving to a wedding,yesterday,my husband brings this very fiasco up. I DID NOT BELIEVE HIM! I don’t watch these things and had not looked at any emails,etc. He said “ I wish I WERE kidding “! Said,Well,I guess it’s just another public display of who they serve “. He looked puzzled as he does not yet get the truth. I said “A satanic ritual to mock the last supper”? So gross!
Attacking the Olympics is just another attack on Western Civilization. Woke/ Satanic opening ceremonies. Shutting down the main transportation system. I read last night that there was a major power outage. The radical Islamists will have their turn.
Am I the only one who finds it absurb that wokeism felt it necessary to promote their version of equity at an event that couldn't be fundamentally any more of a meritocracy than it is. It's a clear indication that their real goal was just to be noticed. great now go away and be pathetic elsewhere.
How does a rational, sane society protect its kids when specific perversion groups make a point of infiltrating schools with the intent of infecting kids with their mind virus & arranging the physical mutilation of kids. The kids go on from this to suffer years of emotional confusion & turmoil, ending very often in suicide during adolescence. Could there be anything more monstrous, graphic, perverse, sick to its core? What would be an appropriate punishment for such abuse. Death at a minimum. But they should suffer mightily before the blessing of death.
And we allow such utter depraved filth to turn the Olympics into a depraved sideshow reflecting their mental illness. Note that the Left, the execrable nation-destroying Left, celebrates such depravity & destruction & genocide, they embrace it & inflict it on us! Leftist political should be designated treasonous terrorist parties & their organizers arrested & tried for treason. Instead, of course, we give them carte blanche to subvert every value we used to treasure.
So as a society we do jack shit to deal with such abject vermin. So why don't ordinary citizens just start quietly terminating such exemplary citizens? There are thousands of ways of doing it. They intend to destroy us & our civilization, I know b/c they've said so. So it's a matter of survival, it's us or them. We should do this if only to protect our children.
I think I’m in a negative news overload. I’m truly depressed this morning reading so many disturbing stories about what those in power are doing to those of us with little power or money. It’s sad to see the destruction of our society and the Olympic opening ceremony is a true reflection of what to expect when we walk out our front doors each day. 😢 It does not represent or include me and mine at all.
Btw Jenna, have you watched the opening ceremonies from 2012? Twelve years ago they showed us clearly what they planned: they were coming for our kids, and therefore our society, and our world. A rising black demon with a wand stands and waves it over children’s beds with weird gross childish transhuman? creatures in them and then black figures descend from the sky. I haven’t yet found what all that was supposed to be portraying, but boy oh boy hindsight is 20-20.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=95rugObTMHE&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fkhmezek.substack.com%2F
If I may suggest - Don't let yourself be depressed by all this. Have courage, claim your own identity and power. I deal with things by knowing I am a child of God, and that life is eternal (including after death - for which I am a witness to). Coming to know that, it has given me a LOT of power and strength, and has dismissed a lot of fear about what is to come. I honestly don't have words sufficient to adequately or properly describe the love that Jesus Christ has for each of us. I can only tell you it was so powerful that it flowed through me in ways I can't describe, and stayed with me for nearly two weeks after the event. (I could feel love for everyone around me in a similar way. Sadly, I only have a small remnant of that today, and look forward to being in His presence again.) The memory of that experience has been a rock by which I can build a foundation upon and not let others oppress or depress me.
All I can say is to have faith, look up, and seek for your own witness. He's SOOOO willing to share of His love.
Matthew 7:7 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%207%3A7&version=NIV
Thank you Justin. We do need reminders of this and I needed one today. ❤️ We are but witnesses to this time and if we look through eyes like that we can somewhat disconnect from the sadness of it all so that it doesn’t interfere with our purpose. I know we are placed here to give love to others and be God’s arms and legs for service and hugs and His mouth for truth, but If I knew I was also placed here to give an accounting one day before God of what I am seeing and what is occurring, I can approach it more like a journalist and take it less personally, and feel less threatened. There is no threat to us here or in eternity when we have chosen to align with God and live for Him. I’m sure the Angels, when they came to earth in bodily form thousands of years ago on various missions from God, never once felt threatened or discouraged for the time they spent here. Disappointed and sad maybe at times, but never depressed. They had a much different perspective and one that we need to master: we are not of this world either!! I forget that. And we are children of the one true King, so what do we really have to fear from all these evil people? They can take away my freedom, heck they already took away my daughter and almost crushed my spirit with that, they can even take away my life if they are so bold and cruel, but they can never take away my soul or my eternity, or my place in God’s family. That’s out of their reach. What is being forced down our throats today is only possible here on earth, and most likely in hell, but it will never be allowed in our eternity. We need to pay attention with a critical eye as if we were plopped down in a moment in time, sent back from the future, to bear witness to what is happening and report back. That inspector frame of mind surely would stop my feeling so threatened by it all.
Give me a break.
He did, and you rejected it.
Indeed, Elsie!
Florinda is completely entitled to his/her POV and it would have been nice to actually hear the extended version.
“Give me a break.” What does that even mean?
What it means, Kat, is that not everyone has the same beliefs or perceptions of reality. I myself respect the Bible and Christian beliefs. I don’t particularly feel respected as a person, however, when Christian beliefs about god, Christ, “the King”, are shoved down my throat. By this I mean when those beliefs are touted as the only and obvious truth. I think those beliefs are kinda cool and I especially like the idea of Jesus. But what I don’t care for is the rigidity and arrogance of feeling that one knows the truth of the universe and is free to unleash it as ultimate truth on those who may have another view.
Personally, I perceive ‘God’ as more an ethereal and transcendent energy. Is that a person? Unlikely, in my opinion, but who’s to say? I would feel that it’s unlikely that my human mind is up to the task of defining god, especially in such concrete and rigid ways, assigning personhood and even gender to what and whoever god may turn out to be.
And there goes Elise, speaking for god, no less. Kinda smug and arrogant if you ask me. But also childishly concrete.
I hope that helps.
Thanks for the clarification. I disagree with the “shoving down my throat” comment because that is actually your discomfort. I would say to analyze your discomfort.
At least, that’s what I do when I feel discomfort because there is a reason, and it’s usually my problem. Thanks again.
It would appear we are seeing an evil version of a great unveiling ("apocalypse" is the ancient Greek word for unveiling) of a movement that has quietly, on snake's bellies, moved into almost every niche of our society.
That #SAVETHESURPRISE is certainly... interesting.
And try finding any news on the giant fire burning in Northern California. Or in the West. If you need to know, you have to go through the facebook. It is all sick sick sick. And they keep pushing. Pushing us to make more mean memes about them. Oh boy...are they in for it.
I read that a man was seen pushing a burning car into a ravine right before this fire started up.
I saw that. It was a lone flaming car pusher. Nothing to see here!
Apparently the 2012 ceremonies also had a bunch of dancing nurses. Oddly reminiscent of those weird videos of nurses dancing during Covid. Although it should provide great comfort that, according to Politifact😂, “The opening ceremony featured a tribute to the United Kingdom’s National Health Service and to British children’s literature that included images of doctors and nurses standing beside hospital beds as a large, hooded figure loomed overhead — Lord Voldemort from the Harry Potter series” So there! Uh-Huh.
Oh thanks for finding that! 👍
But if that were true why would they use such grotesque caricatures of children? And what was so particular in that year to have a tribute to “UK’s” health service at a world Olympics? They sound like convenient excuses, or maybe they really are just more coincidences. But after the past four years and the current opening ceremonies it doesn’t feel coincidence. More like true evil using men and women as puppets to meet certain ends, and the men and women involved don’t see what they are really doing - so believe it’s really Harry Potter tributing and health care honoring? Idk. It’s just really disturbing to see it again after all these years with everything going on now.
Unfortunately you are correct in your assumptions.
There are no coincidences
Yeah, I don’t necessarily believe anything Politifact, or any other “fact checking” organization, says. I just offered that as a glimpse of the other sides response to the “predictive programming” assertion.
I just watched that… 😳🤯
Couldn’t have said it better myself! Frankly, if the opening ceremonies were all about hookers or a bunch of twerking half naked women (or men!), I’d be just as disgusted and would still not watch. I thought the Olympics were about athletic excellence and achievement. Silly me, it has nothing to do with “Sports” apparently!
I cannot lower my standards enough for this to make any sense whatsoever. Here is another doozy reminder of all the BS out in the open from the opening of that tunnel in Europe 8 years ago as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-TKQaqml6k
Gotthard Base Tunnel opening ceremony
Celebrations on June 1 2016 marked the opening of the 57 km Gotthard Base Tunnel (Video: AlpTransit Gotthard Ltd).
I had forgotten how horrid that was. Every single ceremony these days is dark, disturbing and demonic. How people sat through that, and others just a bad, is beyond me. These people are not “artists” and this is not “art”. So, yes, when they tell you who they are, and they always do, we need to believe them!
Did you see the huge crowd of people at the Eiffel Tower the following day singing and praising Jesus? Maybe the extreme display the night before is what it took for Christians to stand up and show themselves.
That was awesome. Satan is very happy with Christians who are afraid and timid instead of bold like lions.
It’s certainly time for Christians to stand up and defend our religion. I think we’ve been quiet too long and sadly the churches haven’t pushed back. I think the Olympic organizers have just insulted a huge portion of the world and I think there will be a price they pay.
I do not like tunnels. When sleeping, I cannot have my nose covered. Freaks me out
This is probably why. No tunnels, thanks anyway.
I had to fast forward most of the opening ceremony. It was too weird for this 71 year old. Call me old fashioned but I liked the older way of the opening ceremony, simple and about the athletes. And why were they focusing on the Hollywood celebrities. Who cares that they are there? Not I…..
I'm not sure "old fashioned" is it. I'd be more inclined to say you're a rational, thinking, human being.
I talk about this a lot with my adult children. I am in my 50s and I remember when sport was simple and about the game at hand. The Super Bowl hype is now a week long affair, the drafts are now a Prime time spectacle etc etc. Our society is rampant with narcissism and debauchery. It’s all so depressing.
I'm 81 and pissed off.
I get a wardrobe malfunction during a Superbowl halftime show. It's the NFL, for crying out loud. A crass act at best. But the Olympics? Is it too mean now to aspire to be your very best? There's not a snowball in hell's chance I would ever perform a sport at an Olympic level, even when I was young. Wasn't gonna happen and you know what, I learned to live with my unathletic body. But every day, when I write more of my fiction, I compete in my own words Olympics, trying my best to craft compelling prose and an attention-grabbing story. Guess I am being mean to someone somewhere who wants to be a bestselling novelist but doesn't want to sit down and write.
You just described me! I want to write a book but I suck at grammar and all the things! 😂🤣
Some of the worst books I ever read were written by English teachers.
On the other hand, my younger brother was the class clown, sucked at English class but has written over 1000 songs, a bunch of Cowboy poetry, recorded over a dozen country music CDs and has backed up huge name recording artists with his band, has two good published western novels and several more he has sent me to proofread.
Incidentally none of his books published or as yet in the works have vulgar language in them.
So true. And the worst journalist I ever worked with had a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern, one of the top two J-schools in this country. (The best reporter I ever worked with never graduated from high school and spent 12 years in prison.) Back in the Jurassic era, I was associate editor of a Long Island weekly newspaper. Every week I read through the letters to the editor. Every letter I ever saw from a teacher or educator was chock full of writing errors. Your brother didn't suck at English. He was just bored out of his skull in English class. I am convinced the nation's so-called educators sign some sort of secret pact to teach every topic in as dull a manner as possible!
I learned from the best in the 40s and 50s. Teachers after that are indoctrinated Marxists
Grammar you can learn. What's your story? Even nonfiction writers tell a story of sorts. Stephen King was a so-so writer when he published Christine. But he was and remains one hell of a storyteller. No one better. And, he kept writing and got much better at the craft.
King’s On Writing is one of the greats… however I fervently disagree that the road to hell is paved with adverbs 🤣
Of course not. The road to boredom is paved with adverbs. The road to hell is paved with lousy diction. I cannot tell you how books I read today that mistake discreet for discrete, and vice versa, etc. I was a newsroom copy editor for more years than I care to admit to, and stumbling over diction bloopers these days just makes me want to whip out my pica pole and do some hard pounding on someone's skull. If you don't know what a pica pole is, you are probably too young to care much about proper word usage. The road to tyranny is paved with poor language comprehension. Double plus ungood and all that.
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Have no idea what it means
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My story…it’s a story about an incredible young girl who came to live with us from Haiti on a medical visa- that very quickly turned into can she stay with you forever? Our local hospital donated all her medical care for free and we provided a home, all her care and basically everything else for her. Her story is heart-warming and heartbreaking. There’s so much more but that’s the gist of it. Anyway, I wrote about 60 pages or so a while ago for a writing contest that I never submitted it to. I have tried Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird method but then I convince myself that I am just a mom, wife and nurse and it’s best to leave writing to writers. 😝
That’s a story I would read. Publishers are supposed to have editors that help prepare the text for publication. But the telling of the story is where the real skill lies for the writer. What you wronged above was enough to make me reread it and want to know more
Wrote!! Not wronged 😬 sorry autocorrupt
I hate autocorrect! Too often it puts errors into my text instead of taking them out.
I hate auto correct
Thank you so much! That is so encouraging. Maybe I will give it another try!
And I'm just an aging dumpling with spiritual pretensions, if you want to put it that way. Your story sounds moving and heartwarming and we can use a whole lot more of that in this world. Write it from your heart to your readers, and you will never go wrong.
Honey, if I displayed any dangling bits in public, I'd end up having to pay those who saw my bits as trauma compensation. Nobody's going to pay me to expose some flesh.
Good one.
PS I hereby declare Paris Olympics an adjective.
That ceremony was NUTS! 🏐🏐
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Some nut without any athletic ability just went to the Olympics to hang out.
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Didn't see it. I've studiously avoided the Olympics since 1972 Munich Olympics' False Flag at the ripe old age of 13...
"Not to brag, but I’d definitely at least take home a Silver." Priceless! Thanks!!
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How did you manage to get baptised twice? Be that as it may, the degraded opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games are just the latest symptom of the deliberate subversion / sabotage of Western Civilisation and Christianity that’s been underway for well over 100 years now... Oh, and by the way? That Grade 2 spelling bee you quoted? Strongly recommend you get a copy of John Taylor Gatto’s “The Underground History of American Education” (he talks about that subversion/sabotage A LOT)... wore my copy out, got to track down a new one, they’re getting scarce, but I digress.. I quote from same:
“In 1882, fifth graders read these authors in their Appleton School Reader: William Shakespeare, Henry Thoreau, George Washington, Sir Walter Scott, Mark Twain, Benjamin Franklin, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Bunyan, Daniel Webster, Samuel Johnson, Lewis Carroll, Thomas Jefferson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and others like them. In 1995, a student teacher of fifth graders in Minneapolis wrote to the local newspaper: ‘I was told children are not to be expected to spell the following words correctly: back, big, call, came, can, day, did, dog, down, get, good, have, he, home, if, in, is, it, like, little, man, morning, mother, my, night, off, out, over, people, play, ran, said, saw, she, some, soon, their, them, there, time, two, too, up, us, very, water, we, went, where, when, will, would, etc. Is this nuts?’ ”
I was born premature and needed emergency surgery, and my very Catholic mother insisted I be baptized first, lest I perish with that pesky original sin. ("Hang on, doc, while we super quickly administer this sacrament!") When I survived, she wanted to have the full ceremony/photo op, hence baptism #2. Bless her heart.
And yes, the dumbing down is egregious. As a journalist in the early 1990s, I was patently told to write for "an eighth grade education," and yes, I was writing for adults.
Twice baptized is common in another way. Born into a Catholic family and baptized as a baby. Then become a Protestant, or interdenominational, or non-denominational, (as so many have,) and believe baptism is after one consciously makes the decision for themselves to choose God and follow Him. Then the baptism is a proclamational ceremony celebrating that, like a wedding publicly proclaims and celebrates the choice made for a partner. So…two baptisms!
Well.. I suppose I got married to Wife #2 twice... First, a quickie Civil Service ceremony in her church's multipurpose room to make them happy.. Second, at St. Luke's Anglican to make both of us and God happy... 😇
Baptized twice. Once as a baby, and then as an adult
I’d pay to watch a transgender Olympics where they burn the Quran, particularly the resulting aftermath. They know good Christians will turn the other cheek, but they are way too cowardly to burn the Quran. Paris would likely be on fire right now if they had insulted Muslims like they did Christians. 🔥
If you need another reason not to watch the Olympics, the Dutch Men’s beach volleyball team features a child rapist. He was convicted of and admitted to raping a 12 year old girl, was sentenced to 4 years, served 1 year and immediately was accepted back into his sport, after a serious talking to by counselors of course, and is now a member of an Olympic team that apparently signs pledges to be good role models.
As to the second grade spelling list, are you sure “sex” and “non-binary” haven’t made an appearance on the list yet, absolutely nothing would surprise me.
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As a Jew I was never comfortable with BC (Before Christ) or AD (Anno Domini). These are both references to a messiah in which most of the world does not believe. Switching to BCE and CE makes much more sense for all of us. Maybe the progressive left is occasionally correct? Like a broken watch?
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Don't worry about BC or AD, we'll be on the Chinese calendar soon. If that doesn't happen, maybe the Western (formerly for a good part) Christian world should abandon its calendar due to popular disapproval?
In a word? "No"
Watch this vignette from Asha Logos, see if you're not weeping uncontrollably by the end for what has already been lost if not wilfully thrown away.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bpexd9GA7RA
On the one hand I want to say "live with it" but that might be construed as bigoted and catty of me.😘 On the other? In fairness, The West's calendar should have stayed with the date of the (mythical) foundation of Rome, thus properly speaking this is the year 2777; especially since they didn't even get the year of Christ's birth right (±4 BC).
"Maybe the progressive left is occasionally correct?" After 8 years in and of the Woke Democratic Socialist Non-White People's Republic of Canuckistan of our Dear Leader Justine Castreau (Praise and Blessings be upon her name) and her Merry Men? Not a chance in Hell, Alison!
To toot my own horn (actually it's an oboe) somewhat: https://captroyharkness.substack.com/p/big-pharmas-newest-product-abrain
As a former violinist/violist married to a tympanist/percussionist, I salute you. Great video and who cares what year it is?
In deference to my Chinese ex-wife whom I've not seen in nearly 20 years, it's The Year of the Dragon... 🙄
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuYqq7IAddA
PS Here's me playing English horn for my new wife's church's Christmas service:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uXxYG74Xvo&t=26s
Alison , whether you believe that Jesus Christ is your messiah, he is an actual historical figure. ( as well as the messiah to many) I believe the change is more about erasing Jesus Christ from history books than any thing else.
Didn't France change the calendar to year 1 with their bloodthirsty revolution? Anyway, the birth of Jesus changed history, and reams of books have been written about what he brought to the world. Whether or not people believe in him or like it, that was the true revolution. Look up what the Romans believed and did and ask yourself if that's a world you want to return to. Because we are careening there faster than a runaway train.
France did a lot of things after overthrowing the
King. A mob raided Notre Dame Cathedral, seized the large-print Bible from the altar, tied it to the tail of a jackass, dragged it in the streets to the city dump, then set it afire.
These might be worth the approximately two hours out of your life to watch:
💣 "The French Revolution: Blood in the Streets of Paris" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiZZRalHjHY
💣 "The French Revolution: The Death of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Tradition (and the rise of modernity)" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Wg2hC3qAeQ&t=41s
We're not careening to a level of civilisation worthy of the Romans, Lynn. Take the time to study the terror unleashed on Russia by the Bolsheviks. That's what The Powers That Shouldn't Be are truly aiming at: The utter annihilation of all normative standards of decency and civility; their replacement? Nothing. Except for perhaps the enslavement of humanity. Watch "The Chekist" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_RSDqBn0bA&t=2s) or view this presentation by Asha Logos: "The Bolshevik Revolution: Darkness Descends" (https://www.bitchute.com/video/XabVBNdZkINy)
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That's what's truly in store for us.
As we were driving to a wedding,yesterday,my husband brings this very fiasco up. I DID NOT BELIEVE HIM! I don’t watch these things and had not looked at any emails,etc. He said “ I wish I WERE kidding “! Said,Well,I guess it’s just another public display of who they serve “. He looked puzzled as he does not yet get the truth. I said “A satanic ritual to mock the last supper”? So gross!
I just love your articles, makes my day having a good laugh. Straight to the point with finesse!
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Attacking the Olympics is just another attack on Western Civilization. Woke/ Satanic opening ceremonies. Shutting down the main transportation system. I read last night that there was a major power outage. The radical Islamists will have their turn.
Am I the only one who finds it absurb that wokeism felt it necessary to promote their version of equity at an event that couldn't be fundamentally any more of a meritocracy than it is. It's a clear indication that their real goal was just to be noticed. great now go away and be pathetic elsewhere.
How does a rational, sane society protect its kids when specific perversion groups make a point of infiltrating schools with the intent of infecting kids with their mind virus & arranging the physical mutilation of kids. The kids go on from this to suffer years of emotional confusion & turmoil, ending very often in suicide during adolescence. Could there be anything more monstrous, graphic, perverse, sick to its core? What would be an appropriate punishment for such abuse. Death at a minimum. But they should suffer mightily before the blessing of death.
And we allow such utter depraved filth to turn the Olympics into a depraved sideshow reflecting their mental illness. Note that the Left, the execrable nation-destroying Left, celebrates such depravity & destruction & genocide, they embrace it & inflict it on us! Leftist political should be designated treasonous terrorist parties & their organizers arrested & tried for treason. Instead, of course, we give them carte blanche to subvert every value we used to treasure.
So as a society we do jack shit to deal with such abject vermin. So why don't ordinary citizens just start quietly terminating such exemplary citizens? There are thousands of ways of doing it. They intend to destroy us & our civilization, I know b/c they've said so. So it's a matter of survival, it's us or them. We should do this if only to protect our children.