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Comment on Managerial malevolence. by Brown

Sat, 03 Mar 2018 01:30:13 +0000

The Woodpile report is a consistently lovely thing with beautiful art and interesting photos from American history among the gloomier things.

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Comment on Three cheers for the papists by Brown

Fri, 02 Mar 2018 18:32:28 +0000

An old minister I know refused communion to a bloke that turned up one Sunday with his mistress rather than his wife. The minister’s view was that the man, a regular church goer, was flouting his sin and was unrepentant. The minister got called to Wellington after a complaint was made but there was enough rank and file clergy support for the refusal to back the relatively liberal Bishop into a corner and the discipline that had been proposed never got to take wing.

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Comment on Three cheers for the papists by hearthie

Thu, 01 Mar 2018 15:57:22 +0000

And there’s a problem with big churches… who even knows who you are, much less how you’re living life? (Said from a woman in a big church). We are warned not to take communion in sin, but it’s left up to our own conscience.

Not just the big churches. You need enough elders — married men, preferably — and a habit of visitation and talking. Because in any church over 200, no one knows if you are a dog. Home groups are the modern version of this, but they lack the discipline required: the sheepdogs have been replaced with miniature poodles.

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Comment on The death spiral starts. by mik

Wed, 28 Feb 2018 15:57:40 +0000

I tried to switch to DDG and Startpage, but I don’t care for either and they aren’t much of an improvement IMO.

This week I found a new search engine based in the UK, called Mojeek, which seems more fair and unbiased. For example, do a simple search for “2nd amendment” there and every first page result looks neutral or positive, https://www.mojeek.com/search?q=2nd+amendment

Do the same search on Google, DDG, and Startpage – I’m seeing in the top 5-10 results, hits like “What Would It Take To Repeal The 2nd Amendment? : NPR” or “Repeal the Second Amendment – The New York Times” or “The NRA shouldn’t twist the true meaning of the 2nd Amendment” – ridiculous! Bing results do look more neutral, but not necessarily for other queries.

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Comment on The death spiral starts. by Looking Glass

Wed, 28 Feb 2018 10:55:44 +0000

I switched to DDG a while ago. Ad & script blocking are also the way to go. DDG mostly works better than the others, at this point, but I don’t think a search engine will ever top Google circa 2003. It really was just miles better than everyone else at that point.

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Comment on The death spiral starts. by Gunner Q

Wed, 28 Feb 2018 01:52:28 +0000

Okay, I’ll switch to DuckDuckGo and test it out. The database-building by TPTB has been freaking me out for years now.

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Comment on Hell and Incest. by Looking Glass

Tue, 27 Feb 2018 19:28:26 +0000

For as much “discussion” as there is over the marriage passages, I always note a fine ability to skip the issues the Corinthians were dealing with because of their own duplicity. And the reality that almost everyone is prone to it.

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Comment on The dying divorce industrial complex, again by Cecil Henry

Sun, 25 Feb 2018 18:59:35 +0000

This article by Roger Devlin remains a very important analysis of the problem:

Rotating Polyandry—& its Enforcers
https://www.counter-currents.com/2011/06/rotating-polyandry-and-its-enforcers-part-1/

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Comment on Suicide risk and working relationships. by Brown

Sun, 25 Feb 2018 03:11:42 +0000

The scary thing about this is that people feeling depressed etc … will be be easy targets for the death with dignity brigade looming on the horizon and their option will be so convenient. I would venture that preventable deaths by way of a genuinely kind word and a guiding hand are many but it will become too old fashioned to attempt to save them.

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Comment on The dying divorce industrial complex, again by Scott

Sun, 25 Feb 2018 02:19:36 +0000

To fairly attribute the quote, that was from the Fabius Maximus article I shared along with it on FB.

Although it is precisely what I fear will happen.

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