@PaulPortesi I have an old friend who used to say “the only watch I’d wear is the one that says IT DOESN’T MATTER on it” and then laugh hysterically to himself.
A nice metaphor for the fact that socialism and liberalism are cut from the same cloth.
Under the social contract, the state can justify any leviathan measure as the only way to protect life and liberty, while citizens can justify anarchy to the exact same end. The result has been a war of attrition the likes of which man never sees in the state of nature, the brutalities of which the social contract was supposed to defend him against.
There are no get-success-quick schemes. Self-justification is in vain. Any attempt to control the narrative is in vain. Truth is beautiful & falsehood is ugly, independent of any proximal outcome you may seek or attain. You cannot cheat your way to the living, lasting truth.
La encíclica del Papa no tiene opción en latín.
Antes todas las encíclicas se escribían originalmente en latín, ahora no hay ni la opción de leerla con la lengua de la Iglesia.
@DrMichaelBonner My guess is that it is a dead language, and he prefers to serve life than to preserve dead things. I say good on him. Many problems arise from treating Latin as a sacred language, which it isn’t.
@DfxionAmatoriae Some years ago, my tree lopper was using a handmade pala espadón to migrate a few plants after the cutting was done. I asked him where I could get one from? He just gave it to me. I don’t enjoy digging, except with that shovel.
@bernardtjoy Very good. One can just as well consider the future-oriented aspect of this: The presentist, who at times looks upon the struggles of the past with an air of contempt, finds it hard to imagine that the beliefs and customs of his own generation may seem foolish to his descendants.