From the article:
Which brings us to the book nobody reads.
The Abolition of Man. Published 1943. Sixty-eight pages. Three lectures. The most important thing Lewis ever wrote.
It begins with an English textbook for schoolchildren. Lewis doesn’t name it. He calls it The Green Book and calls its authors Gaius and Titius. They’ve written a grammar text that casually, in passing, demolishes the idea that values are real. A student reads that a waterfall is “sublime” and the textbook explains that this isn’t a statement about the waterfall. It’s a statement about the student’s feelings. The waterfall is just water and gravity. The sublimity is in your head.
Lewis spends sixty-eight pages explaining why this is the most dangerous sentence in the English language.
If values are just feelings, they can be reprogrammed. If beauty is just neurology, it can be engineered. If the sense that certain things are sacred is just cultural conditioning, it can be deconditioned. And the people doing the reprogramming, the engineering, the deconditioning stand outside the system. They have no values of their own, because they’ve explained all values away. They are, Lewis writes, “men without chests.” People with intellect and appetite but nothing in between. No capacity to feel what is true before the mind has time to rationalize it away.
Good article, t/u.
😂😂😂 Labrador?
I don’t know anything about cats but for dogs coconut oil works amazing for fleas. Came home fr a trip to California with our dog covered in fleas (we don’t have fleas here, too dry). My dog had never had a flea on him and was like…what the h*ll is this all over me?!
Slathered the dog in coconut oil, combed/massaged it thru, left it on for 15 minutes, then pup got a bath. It coats/smothers the fleas and they all die. It’s good for their skin. Natural, safe for pets or people and they can even lick it cuz coconut oil is good for dogs.
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Do it outside or in the tub. It’s messy. We put an old sheet down to see the fleas coming off and dying.
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Start at the head and work backwards.
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Might have to do it again in two weeks or so if infestation is bad.
Costco sells cold pressed coconut oil in large jars…loooong shelf life (store in fridge for even longer), use for cooking, smoothies or skin care. Good stuff.
Soooo all that to say it should work for tics also. And cats.
Aw that’s hard. Prayers up for you and your family.
‘“Why even bring up the quote?” That is a good point.
But since this is just a clip, we didn’t get to see the whole context of his speech and what his point was in using this quote.
Even so, it was a really dumb thing to say. And may alienate US Christian support.
He’s quoting a statement (by the author) from a book…ffs. 🙄
The religion of peace.
Prayers just went up. Been where you are and it’s hard. But it will get better. It will. God never leaves us in the hard place. He is faithful.
A phrase that helped me during the dark days…
The God of the mountain is the God of the valley.
Hang in there. We’re all praying for you.
No sauce, just his opinion. Lara Loomer spit taking credit. See my post above. Her quote is from a Zerohedge article posted today.
L. Loomer
“If Tucker Qatarlson gets charged for violating FARA and or leaking information to Russia, Saudi Arabia Iran or Qatar, I’m taking credit,” she wrote, adding “Islamic sympathizers always project onto others what they are likely guilty of.”
She says she's has been “relentless” in lobbying GOP representatives, law enforcement, and the DOJ over Carlson’s alleged FARA violations. “You have no idea how relentless I have been in speaking to GOP reps and even reporting Tucker to law enforcement and the DOJ. I pray my efforts are successful,” Loomer posted. “Sounds like someone is trying to get ahead of a story. Lock him up!”
Loomer…pffttttttt.
Who is Drew Pavlov and where is his sauce? He’s an Aussie.
Several years ago…anons would have been screaming, “IT’S HABBENING!”
Now…we’re like…ya, okay, finally. Who’s next.
We’ve come a long way since 2017.
Read yesterday that he had lost a leg.
Prayers just went up for your gut issues, doctor’s wisdom and healing.
“I am John Perry Barlow, cofounder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, lyricist for the Grateful Dead. My most recent work is with the Freedom of the Press Foundation. Ask Me Anything.” (2013-ish)
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1kgmes/i_am_john_perry_barlow_cofounder_of_the/
https://www.internethalloffame.org/inductee/john-perry-barlow/
https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Perry-Barlow (👈🏼 Good overall article on who he was, what he stood for and what he was against.)
Lololol….try that on a small town.