L.B. Neill
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“So much for Christianity only being Roman!”
Thomas More,
An interesting fact regarding ‘all roads leading to Rome’: Christianity is not a state of being Roman centric.
There was a survey of faith based communities conducted by the Atlas of Global Christianity (2010). It surveyed the extent and numbers of Protestant Christian groups. There are more than 38,000 denominations in Protestant denomination alone and over 4m congregations worldwide.
The idea that there is univocal interpretive stance in theology collapses the notion of a Roman only’ view… it is one only in a diverse and broad community of believers.
Imagine back in the early formation of Christian communities: there was greater interpretive freedoms… over time and perhaps with the modernist development of Theology, Scripture analysis began to sediment acts of interpretation- and yet diverse practices of everyday interpretations flourish.
Roman Church is only one of many discursive communities adding to the field…
… Back then and now!
Thought I would share this- I was, and was not surprised by the sheer volume of denominations.Sorry, Hannah, a moment of sheer frustration and a post with no clear statement-
Seems to happen a lot to me these days, covid cabin syndrome… james19, yes a meandering last post- but can I ask: what is tbh short for?
If I could distil my last post: I feel disheartened at times when people think Socialism is a pipedream- and I think I was trying to put a positive in it… what a spectacular flop in delivery!
Just call me LB. L.B. Neill sounds way too pomp 🙂They were right!- and is this tamper proof?
Education is the first process in bringing about Socialism in its proper form.
Can I alter ‘they were right” into “they where wrong”- are you okay with this- if not, why the hell post…
Yes we have BLM. Yes we have gender equity. Yes we have so many groups with an ethnomethodology focus.. yes all lives matter.
I will not surrender to: they were right- and who are they to say it was right?
Articles calling people ‘dumb’ is more Locke liberal ideology and has no place in the historical progression, ending the class struggle.
All the oppressions we call out unite us. The common protagonist, and the arch villain is the apex leadership that sees us as a divided herd- and exploits it.
Sad, is it not, very sad.
BLM and all forms of class, racial, gender, religious… and how many others… are not to divide us, but to unite us in our rich experience of being human.
‘They were right’ is akin to bowing in the dirt, turning our labour into sad and anxious offerings, then leaving nothing more than a dissipating howl at the end.
And that howl: it should be ours, or should be theirs.
We or they: they or we… collapse it. We vote it through the only suffrage common- parliament- educate and then vote.
Who are ‘they’?
Nothing more than ‘we’ and ‘they’. A simple binarism. Stop the support for the apex divisions, and know that socialism is the future organisation of society… evolving towards it.
Protest that triggers change: start with believing it will change…
Stop the defeatism- it is not socialism.
“They were right”- no… they are very wrong… very wrong.
You know, these attitudes and defeatist statements slow the whole thing down.
I am idealistic- and some say your ideal is a pipe dream- well ‘f’, tell women, and indigenous, and class communities that suffrage was an ideal.
Keep going- keep pressing ahead… or surrender to the boot that keeps us dead.
L.BThanks Alan,
War and commerce.. neither are needed. Both are a loss that we can cope with.
Hope is there, thanks, and the message continues in the most surprising of places!
Bloody hell, it is the eve of 2021- may our words flow.After all this time: still an issue.
I remember listening to the BBC World Service in the back of beyond and hearing the effects of the overthrow of the Shah and the institution of the Ayatollah.
Such a long time ago, and still the effects resound…
Oil was the first thing that I saw, heard, or conceived was contended (awakening for me) for in the world of wars. Ideology was next. Truth was the last- but then realised it was the first.Today… I fill up my car. This price today: that price tomorrow. How many lives for a price of oil. No question mark.
If only I knew back then, listening to the World Service, that I would drive on the bones of the dead. Tank full of it.
I don’t need a clever answer anymore… never did.
I wish that simple return- a kid who thought commodities was no reason to go to war.
Again, that same old smell boils up.
I am utterly perplexed- history repeating… and again.. and again. Again.
The labour relations contract is indeed being torn up- but by who and for who…
We start with casual contracts and the signifier used is casual employee.
But now we are in a relationship with our employer:Â business partner!
There are a number of gig economy jobs (you know them: ride share, food delivery, social care, right across the economic domain): but not jobs… no.
Get a business number. Grow your profits. Come on- make a squint! This is the new mantra.
So you do your own tax return, make your own balance sheet. But you are limited as to the shift you select, or get rated for… you are now self employed- a below the minimum wage capitalist.
Well done colleague, business partner: you are now a Charlie Chaplin capitalist, replete with rags and bowler hat- the cane, well it is for self flogging.
This new narrative of self employed employee should be the last alarm bell to ring for the ravages to come- but some of our comrades have lived this since the year dot….
So for who: by who- it depends on rule governed behaviour and agreeance with the hegemonic turn.
When Things Fall Apart– there will be no station in the Brave New World: Ragged and starving capitalists we: buying that same old dream. Let it go… time for a sea change in the social contract…
Awake, time to vote.
The “Great Reset” – another buzzword that seems to be doing the rounds on the various forums I belong to – a post COVID “stakeholder capitalism”. As if…
Hi robbo203,
During the Covid crisis, I have spent a little time reading up on the third wave capitalism in organisational psych- corporate social initiatives, corp- citizenship and the like. Stakeholder Capitalism has been a buzz word for a bit- we all have skin in the game (black Swan theory- don’t ask) and we invest our labour in the great theatre scripted by ‘the social contract’. Might I add a contract with a rule governed apex: start on top and end on top. Start lower end a little higher. Do your best to follow the rules. (know your place- or lose your place).
The great reset is like the rule of the rump- same again!
COVID has exposed the inequity of capitalism more so. And yet it has appealed to those most exposed to market failure. It has exposed it in so many ways- reset appeals appease, then things settle, them back in business ensues- but with even less protections for the working class. Crisis negotiation when there is a power imbalance is always weighted to those with controlling interests…
After COVID, I wonder how many worker rights would have been eroded for the sake of stay in business…
reset what- serfdom?
I have an image: reforming and resetting puts a little smily face on the boot pressing down on you fingers as you dangle from a cliff. You can see it, and you surrender to the fall. It is a depressing image, but who of us can say on this forum, or who read it, can say that they felt secure ? … Mercedes to food line-Â Next: who knows- gig life- live to breath or pay to breath, I feel we are alienated from our breath as regarding our life.
But despite NSW health authorities identifying 28 cases in just two days, no official lockdowns have been put in place and mandatory mask wearing has not been introduced.
The numbers may seem smaller regarding other societies- but ‘the mask’ and its use is toyed with…
Out of all the scientific advice: still introducing a mask up policy becomes a stutter.
The r will spiral if not taken seriously.
You are lucky that you fell one time, I have fallen several times and I survived, and those mistakes brought here
Bloody hell MS- I might kiss you for that remark. And it brought me here too- folly corrects us.
PS They re already selling fake coronavirus vaccines on the internet for $300.oo dollars, so be aware of that, How did I they learn about that? From a leftwing newspaper that I am subscribed to
MS, you put it into perspective… And yes we do a brain to discern- remember though, I fell for the Trotsky line once. Wiser now that I knew I was a fool once!
Point taken- it is important to scan disparate journals. I do too. Every now and then I can just have a brain snap regarding some reports. Hope you did not feel I was having a go at you… far from it.
I was reminded of how in a spin or in an alternative fact, there lies a lot of data between the lines- we cool?
MS, that is okay, I meant, I am tired of Trotsky, but not the facts the site may report.
But I did appreciate your comments, they reflected what I was thinking at the time. I am not into provoking reactions and being contrary. It is one of those days when a link just reminds me of my past reformism…
Besides, facts we uncover come from what you say “Washington post, the New York Times , Trotskyist or Stalinist’. They are facts.
And many other media outlets- just tired of some spin of late- we work together, not against one another.
It may depend on your circumstances. If you have a fairly healthy diet and lifestyle, live in a relatively low-risk area and are obeying the social distancing rules, it may be more rational to wait if you’re afraid of potential long-term side effects. If you have bad health and/or diet, live in a more high-risk area or do a high-risk job, it’s probably more rational to have the vaccine.
I think far more people will consider it reasonble to have the vaccine than to wait.
rodshaw, the rationality is complex indeed, and situational- newer did like rational logic as applied to human emotions…
But you do raise a point that I might share. I could take pains to decide to jab now, or to wait- oh, thinking makes it so.. I live in a jurisdiction that eliminated covid due to long lockdown, and yet…Â across the border, NSW, it comes back like a hurricane.
When it is available- I will let you know if I had tears… hate needles.
Ress-Mogg attacks the UNICEF for playing politics, that they (UNICEF) should help people elsewhere, but he couldn’t give a damn one bit about them!
This is nothing new- I lived in Britain for a short while as a kid.
Being an Irish Catholic it was tough- and I remember the abject poverty many of my class mates experienced- bones like barbed wire threatening to rip through skin. I would have craved a UNICEF lunch back then.
