{"id":147452,"date":"2021-08-10T18:10:22","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T23:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=147452"},"modified":"2021-08-10T18:10:22","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T23:10:22","slug":"miscellany-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/miscellany-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Illustration from The Traditional Catholic Weeb<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Clarissa<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I\u2019m writing this because I think it\u2019s time for everybody to figure out their hard limit in the creeping totalitarianism we are experiencing. I\u2019ve thought about mine, I have figured out what it is, and it\u2019s very calming to know it. I highly recommend thinking about where you stop accommodating the totalitarians. What is off limits? We are all different, and everybody will put their boundary in a different place. That\u2019s OK as long as we all find the boundary.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Morgan Freeberg<\/a>:<\/p>\n

When we know something is *not* so, there\u2019s no need to censor it. There\u2019s no need to censor phlogiston theory. There\u2019s no need to censor \u201cThat wrestling match was totally legitimate.\u201d There\u2019s no need to censor \u201cThe moon is made of cheese.\u201d The need for censorship exists when the message is provably true, or open to question with an outright refutation being impossible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Joseph Moore<\/a>:<\/p>\n

History is full of Richard Richs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The Z-Man<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The thing is, Alex Jones claiming the vaccine will alter your DNA is no nuttier than much of what is in the mass media. In fact, a ridiculous claim is far less harmful than the plausible, but inaccurate claim. Few people will think the vaccine will turn you into Big Foot, but most people will believe we need to make kids wear masks. Far more people have been harmed by official lies than by goofballs on the internet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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J Greely<\/a>:<\/p>\n

There are two kinds of people who say, \u201cdon\u2019t tell your parents what we did today\u201d: child molesters and woke teachers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Okay, maybe that\u2019s just one kind of person.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Notes on fairy tales from a Chesterton conference<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Some modern renditions of Cinderella replace the \u201c…and they lived happily ever after\u201d for things like, \u201c…and they lived and had their ups and downs, sometimes angry with each other, sometimes sad, and sometimes happy.\u201d But this destroys the point of the tale, which is that Cinderella and her prince (in Grimm\u2019s German literally, \u201cthe king\u2019s son\u201d) are an image of Christ and us, and that the “happily ever after\u201d is Heaven. In an effort to make it more realistic they unwittingly make it less realistic since Heaven is, in fact, happiness ever after.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Welcome to the new dark age<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The history of the computer is the destruction and replacement of record making and keeping systems by newer ones that are not backward compatible. Computers destroy history. Future historians (if any survive, 2525) will label our current era as a dark age, because there will be no records of what happened.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Bonus: a B. Kliban record cover from 1977.<\/p>\n

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*** Clarissa: I\u2019m writing this because I think it\u2019s time for everybody to figure out their hard limit in the creeping totalitarianism we are experiencing. I\u2019ve thought about mine, I have figured out what it is, and it\u2019s very calming to know it. I highly recommend thinking about where you stop accommodating the totalitarians. What … Continue reading “Miscellany”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-and-fall"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-Cmg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147452"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147457,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147452\/revisions\/147457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}