News of Navalyn's funeral, and weird juxtapositions therein?
Sorry, best head off to the Graudian ...
Here no news, no news here ...
News of the latest atrocity in Gaza or perhaps a story about what from the river to the sea really means?
You can find that as part of a much bigger story in The New Yorker ...The Israeli settlers attacking their neighbours... (paywall)
So what can the pond offer?
Not much, though the pond is proud to note that the pond was ahead of the Weekly Beast and the venerable Meade's belated honouring of the bromancer with her line ...
Of all the words published about Taylor Swift’s The Eras tour last month, you can’t go past Greg Sheridan’s analysis of the “cultural meaning” of the pop star for sheer absurdity.
Been there, done that already. Sheer absurdity is all that's on view here, and even that was in short supply this day at the lizard Oz, home to navel gazers and lint collectors... more like sheer, predictable, enervating tedium and ennui ...
No Navalny, no Gaza genocide, check, just nattering "Ned" perched at the top far right of the digital edition, an ominous warning of what would follow ...
Sure there were some comedy items in the "culture wars" section ...
Douglas Murray? Not even the pond's that desperate. Best stick to the local cesspool than import foreign cesspits ...
And so the pond's business must begin beneath the fold ...
It's a pretty dismal crowd this day, and that's how the pond ended up with the Angelic one, as Jennings yet again blathers into the void ...
Ah "climate change propaganda textbook" ... so that's what was happening when the doc suggested a change of diet after the heart attack.
BTW, how is the weather or even the climate these days?
Sorry, as well as not doing Navalny or the Gaza genocide, the reptiles never do the climate ... for that you need to head off to the Graudian ...
And so on and on ...and in response, what the reptiles do is what any meat-eating reptile would do ... offer snaps of prime beef that would titillate a croc and produce a death roll...
These are the beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts that are on the earth. Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat. Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the hoof: as the camel, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you. And the coney, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you. And the hare, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you. And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you. Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch; they are unclean to you.
These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye eat. And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you: They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination. Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you.
Phew, it must be tough for the Angelic following biblical injunctions about abominations.
No wonder she and her spawn are down for a good steak ...
Say what you will about the Angelic one, her ability to rapid fire a string of clichés would leave your average AI bot puffing for breath and struggling to keep up.
Elitest mindset, food faddism, the notion of sustainability as mere propaganda ... so speaks the Angelic one, and while not up there with the bromancer pulling a Swiftie, the pond was entertained and well prepared to tackle the legendary "Ned" Everest climb ...
This week's climb is particularly onerous and those who have eaten too heartily on the advice of Dr Angelic one are warned to avoid too much strenuous activity ...
It's not just bodies that might snap under the strain, brains might lose their way in the fog arising from an endless stream of brain farts ...
It's a break from the stolid diet of extra large snaps the reptiles use to break up a "Ned" sermon ...
You see? It's not just the bro that can do comedy, and as for the blather about Judaeo-Xian tradition, this week the pond noted another issue the reptiles have done their best to ignore ...
The pond realises it broke early, it understands that the cartoon cavalcade is usually reserved for the Sunday meditation, but really, when confronted with tedious snaps like this ...
Meanwhile, new ways for the Angelic one to add to the family and offer nutrition advice for growing spawn ...
Sorry, the pond's not sorry ... next up is a generous serve of tyke tragedy, as befits the Catholic Boys' Daily ...
... through Faux Noise to News Corp to the lizard Oz to "Ned"himself, such a portentous, pompous, self-preening bore and humbug, he might well be ultimate political symbol of the broken culture of News Corp drivel ... with inevitable consequences ...
Thanks to the pond's toon filibustering, there are just two gobbets to go ...
Without waiting for the final gobbet, the pond has voted this the most astonishing excrescence from the most tedious and sanctimonious bore seen in a decade of "Ned" watching ...
That set of references even puts Holey Henry in the shade ...
Meanwhile speaking of government shaping civilisational norms ...
If only "Ned" could achieve true enlightenment and at last leave the stage like others have recently done ...
The long absent lord help the county and the planet if this "Ned" dirge passes as a contribution to a lasting debate.
No wonder vulgar youff marvel at the way that the pond still dives into the cesspool, the murk, that is a feature of lizard Oz drivel ... and yet, truth to tell, "Ned" is just part of the whole loony tunes celebrated by TT ... and yes, it will leave the pond short of toons for the Sunday meditation, but in dire emergencies, needs must ...
Shorter Ned - “I don’t understand the world anymore - Nurse!”.
ReplyDelete"But that's ok, I never did really understand it anyway."
DeleteAt last a use for "Ned", with the pond spraying its muesli everywhere...
Delete'the pond has voted this the most astonishing excrescence from the most tedious and sanctimonious bore seen in a decade of "Ned" watching ...'
DeleteThank you Pond - an authoritative assessment of a truly astonishing work of verbage - at least, until next week. AG.
We do know what the reason for a fractured society is, because the likes of this enterprise that Ned works for who spread lies and support one side of politics around the world and are guilty of millions of people with their right wing agenda.
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ReplyDeleteJohn Hewson
The media’s political game
“At a meeting with the then editor of The Australian newspaper, I was told I needed to understand they had an agenda ... if I advocated off their agenda, I could expect to be chastised and criticised for doing so, and that was a certainty.”
From the Saturday paper
Nuddled Neddy: "...the country was split 61-39 per cent on a decisive moral question. When a country is fractured the obstacles to mobilising majority-endorsed change are immense." Yair, Neddles, yair; and it was your employers and co-workers and their running-dog lackey mates who did the fracturing. Or, like everything else, did you just not notice ?
ReplyDeleteBut hey, Ned, the Voice [capital V] isn't the only referendum that has been lost in Australian history is it ? And we didn't even have your brand of loonies for almost all of them. As for "social progressivism", did you - and your mates - vote against gay marriage ? Or against euthanasia in the Aussi States ? Or did you oppose no-fault divorce ? Or did you instead support some key 'social progressivism' in our country ? Other than by Shannahanna of course, but we know about the steak-fed lady: the 'culture war' is strong in that one.
Fukuyama via Ned: "The rule of law in Europe was rooted in Christianity." That's strange because there was the Roman law (and taxes) and the Pax Romana long before "Rome" became Christian - when Constantine made Christianity into, more or less, the religion of 'Rome' (though not formally until Theodosius I in 380 CE).
What did actually happen on Oct 7 ?
ReplyDeleteThe Nixonian New York Times Stonewalls on a Discredited Article About Hamas and Rape
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/new-york-times-intercept-hamas-rape/
Um - the Angelic ‘For ages we have been told eating meat every day is bad for your health, especially of your gut.’ Oh Angelic, surely you were listening when the man in the frock told you, repeatedly, that eating meat on one particular day was bad, really bad, for your immortal SOUL?
ReplyDeleteHow many of the horrors being visited on the world now are not down to those ‘progressives’, but to thoughtless Micks who - gasp - ate meat on Fridays? I am not sufficiently versed in the catechism to know exactly what the prohibition covers. In a quick attempt to revise now I read that Micks may eat eggs on Fridays - which, given the recent ruling of the Alabama religious court surely means that the church should revise that allowance. The consumer has no way of knowing if the egg they have boiled to make a sandwich for lunch had been fertilised or not, but, if fertilised, was already in the image of a chicken, therefore effectively warm meat, so proscribed.
It is not easy to keep up.
Oh - I did note that the Angelic numbered her offspring as 9 for her homily on feeding the family, so I guess that included the one from whom she had to suffer so much pain later, when she told him that he would have to accept that he was no longer truly a member of the family, for as long as he maintained a relationship with another male.
But obviously that offsprung just didn't eat enough good (red) meat and so his bio-psychology went seriously awry. However, the good Shanna didn't specify whether her meat was cooked or raw - though 'raw' is most risky with pork, hence the biblical prescription against doing it.
DeleteYes, Chadders and GB, the pond well remembers the days when it was warned that meat eating was a venial sin which might result in a stay in purgatory, only to head off on a Sunday for a bit of hearty cannibalism ...
Deletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasting_and_abstinence_in_the_Catholic_Church
... though it seems some elevate it from venial to mortal and to hellfire ...
Hi, guys —
Has the Vatican ever stated or pronounced that if you ate meat on a Friday it [is/was] a mortal sin and that Heaven would not be possible?
Charles
Hi, Charles —
Thanks for the question.
The Church does teach that during all Friday's of Lent we are required to abstain from meat.
As the Body of Christ, the members of the Church offer a mini-sacrifice during this penitential season.
Our Blessed Lord, through the Church, has always taught that there are three criteria necessary for a mortal sin:
It must be a grave matter (according to the Church)
done with full knowledge (they knew it was wrong but willingly did it any way), and
it was done with deliberate consent. (It was no accident.)
CCC 1857 — 1860
If one of those criteria is missing, a mortal sin has not been committed.
Unintentional ignorance can diminish or even remove the imputably of a grave offense. But no one is deemed to be ignorant of the principles of the moral law, which are written in the conscience of every man. The prompting's of feelings and passions can also diminish the voluntary and free character of the offense, as can external pressures or pathological disorders. Sin committed through malice, by deliberate choice of evil, is the gravest. (CCC 1860)
If someone has met all three criteria above, and still eats meat on a Friday of Lent, they would have to go to Confession to remove the [deadly/mortal] sin from their soul.
A person who dies with mortal sin on their soul cannot be saved, meaning go to Heaven.
https://www.askacatholic.com/_webpostings/answers/2009_09SEPT/2009SeptHasTheVaticanEverStatedThis.cfm
Oh, so only "of Lent". I never knew that - did you ?
DeleteGB - always happy to join you in coming here to learn things that we did not absorb (or have written in the conscience) in earlier parts of our lives.
DeleteWon't someone think us gut biota! We are evolutionary humans too!
DeleteThere's a heck of a lot of 'em to learn, Chad.
DeleteLooking at the likely Dame Slap for this day (and, as ever, thank you Dorothy for not going there), I did wonder if she has started to absorb some of what comes from Ms Ton-yee-nee, now that the latter is on this side of the island. It does look like identity politics; which is a second reason for not taking up whatever that Dame is offering.
ReplyDeleteWhat's also interesting is that following newspaper reports of Albrechtsen's many conversations with Sofronoff, it appears the Lehrmann issue has been left to Stephen Rice to do on his own.
DeleteForget the numerous research studies, tests and reports by scientists and the various physiological studies on human health. To really develop the healthy live style, take note of a mum with nine children. She knows best. Perhaps Dennis Shanahan could follow up with a supportive article about how he fed the kids, too.
ReplyDeleteNow, now Anony, pay attention. Dennis is not the lady of the house so he never has anything to do with feeding them. That's entirely consecrated woman's work which the Shannahanna well knows.
Delete" ....the pond was ahead of the Weekly Beast and the venerable Meade's belated honouring of the bromancer...." Well done!!!
ReplyDeletePaul Kelly: “An alarming number of people are damaged, lonely or depressed.”
ReplyDeletePaul Kelly’s readership must be bigger than I thought.
“Above all, there are too many competing moralities.”
There’s the essence of Kelly’s brooding; all those other religions and, worse still, secular morality.
“The rule of law in Europe was rooted in Christianity.”
Strictly speaking, Christianity simply replaced tribal laws with its own, many of which were as cruel as any tribal laws.
Unbeknown to Paul Kelly, other civilizations also existed outside Judeo-Christian beliefs and were only “fractured” (as Kelly keeps banging on about) when Christian societies arrived to subjugate those peoples using another set of laws.
Our current rule of law came about despite the powerful influences of religions to resist change.
Kelly seems to overlook that the revolutions in Russia occurred due to the fracture of those societies under the Tsars and the Chinese dynasties. The revolutions would have occurred whether Marx declared that religion was the opiate of the people or whether he didn’t. As for modern Russia, perhaps this might the problem:-
‘ “[Putin] really depends on the church for his legitimacy,” says Chrissy Stroop, senior correspondent for Religion Dispatches and a scholar in modern Russian history.
“He cannot entirely alienate the church because he has embraced...essentially a kind of Christian nationalist ideology as something to unify the Russian state. Just like in the Russian empire, before Soviet times.” ’
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-22/meet-patriarch-kirill-orthodox-church-leader-and-putin-ally/101858322
Mao attempted to suppress all religion, but in the modern China, to which Kelly refers, religions are allowed provided they comply with certain aspects of Communist rule, that is, CPC values. Given that Kelly argues that a society should not become fractured by differing values or moralities, one would think he has a lot in common with Xi’s position.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-04/religion-in-china-how-believers-keep-the-faith/101492456
"Marx declared that religion was the opiate of the people". In your dreams.
DeleteI Rupert declared religious news is the koolaid of my people!
Opiate/opium of the people/masses ...
DeleteNobody ever gets quoted correctly, do they.
Be careful whom you quote, Ned, you may disagree with them: (from https://rabbisacks.org/quotes/)
ReplyDelete“The choice is ours. If we continue to live as though God had only commanded us to subdue the earth, we must be prepared for our children to inherit a seriously degraded planet, with the future of human civilisation at risk.”
“If we see our role as masters of the earth as a unique opportunity to truly serve and care for the planet, its creatures, and its resources, then we can reclaim our status as stewards of the world, and raise our new generations in an environment much closer to that of Eden.”
“Most conflicts and wars have nothing to do with religion whatsoever. They are about power, territory and glory, things that are secular, even profane. But if religion can be enlisted, it will be.”
“Terror, the killing of the innocent and the sacrifice of human life in pursuit of political ends are not mere crimes. They are sacrilege. Those who murder God’s image in God’s name commit a double sacrilege.”
“The only people capable of threatening the future of the Jewish people are the Jewish people.”
“If Judaism, either in Israel or the diaspora, fails to win the admiration of observers, it will fail ultimately to win the emulation of Jews themselves.”
“The paradox of identity is that it is precisely when we speak from within our particularity that we strike a chord with others of different particularity. You don’t have to be French to love Flaubert, Russian to admire Tolstoy or Japanese to enjoy a haiku. Affirming our identity need not involve negating anyone else’s. I can say this is who I am, without saying or implying that this is the only way to be.”
What an excellent array of quotes. They're sure to come in handy ...
DeleteTrue, DP, especially the last one.
DeleteBut, "our role as masters of the earth" ? Really ? Now "the Earth" (capital E) is about 4.5 billion years old and has been inhabited by all sorts of creatures for at least a billion years of that (including at least 5 major extinctions) and we, homo sapiens sapiens, have been around on Earth for about 200 thousand. Some "masters" we are.
So what is it ? "Most life has nothing to do with religion, but if it can be enlisted in our own egotistic delusions, then it will be."
Journalists are just wonderful. Hed of an item in the Guardian (Aussie version):
ReplyDelete"Dunkley byelection: Labor’s Jodie Belyea triumphs but Liberals win modest swing"
"But Liberals win modest swing" ? It should, of course, read:
"Dunkley byelection: Labor’s Jodie Belyea triumphs as Liberals miserably fail to win anything approaching the 6.3% swing that was required".
Just enough TPP for a par-o-graph and not nearly enough FPTP to disproportionately demonise an unruly demos, then?
Deletehttps://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/2024/mar/02/dunkley-shows-the-liberal-partys-more-of-the-same-is-not-a-path-to-government
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/mar/01/extremists-trying-to-tear-us-apart-says-rishi-sunak-in-impromptu-no-10-speech