Jeremiah Bullfrog
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I mostly lurk, read and occasinally reply. I try to be constructive unless I'm in a bad mood.
I think popularist is McSweeney-esque triangulation and chasing after polls, and populist is it fashioned demagoguery?
Not 100% sure though
Not 100% sure though
December 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I think popularist is McSweeney-esque triangulation and chasing after polls, and populist is it fashioned demagoguery?
Not 100% sure though
Not 100% sure though
Do not let anyone explain it to you. It is too stupid to be worth your time!
December 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Do not let anyone explain it to you. It is too stupid to be worth your time!
lol. just googled him again. He is still a relatively prominant guy. I suspect and hope his schoolboy fascinations are well in the past.
December 10, 2025 at 1:44 PM
lol. just googled him again. He is still a relatively prominant guy. I suspect and hope his schoolboy fascinations are well in the past.
Right wing folk from outside this stratum tended (past tense perhaps unfortunately) to be more like your Grandad.
December 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Right wing folk from outside this stratum tended (past tense perhaps unfortunately) to be more like your Grandad.
He left our school in third year to go to Eton. Googled him a while back and I believe he was a bit of a big thing in one of Cameron's 'Big Society' organisations
December 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
He left our school in third year to go to Eton. Googled him a while back and I believe he was a bit of a big thing in one of Cameron's 'Big Society' organisations
I genuinely feel that this kind of genuine 'Hitlerism' is an upper-class / elite-private-school and people-who-aspire-to-that-status thing.
I knew a boy at school (non-private, but NI grammar school) who had a touch of this 'fascination' about him
(nothing as bad as is alleged of Farage). >
I knew a boy at school (non-private, but NI grammar school) who had a touch of this 'fascination' about him
(nothing as bad as is alleged of Farage). >
December 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
I genuinely feel that this kind of genuine 'Hitlerism' is an upper-class / elite-private-school and people-who-aspire-to-that-status thing.
I knew a boy at school (non-private, but NI grammar school) who had a touch of this 'fascination' about him
(nothing as bad as is alleged of Farage). >
I knew a boy at school (non-private, but NI grammar school) who had a touch of this 'fascination' about him
(nothing as bad as is alleged of Farage). >
Can we do the annoying gen alpha "6 - 7" thing, but with "52 - 48" instead?
December 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Can we do the annoying gen alpha "6 - 7" thing, but with "52 - 48" instead?
Barring any change in direction from labour, I agree. There is still the undercurrent of "our energy" "our oil" etc which resents any sharing of resources with the rest of the UK. If there is to be rightward drift, that is where it will start.
December 9, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Barring any change in direction from labour, I agree. There is still the undercurrent of "our energy" "our oil" etc which resents any sharing of resources with the rest of the UK. If there is to be rightward drift, that is where it will start.
As is discussed elsewhere in this thread (at least twice), Mary gives her consent *before* she conceives. She is not pregnant when she consents. She freely decides to participate, and then conceives a child.
I agree this is important for consent. That is why I say, in the story, Mary consents.
I agree this is important for consent. That is why I say, in the story, Mary consents.
December 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
As is discussed elsewhere in this thread (at least twice), Mary gives her consent *before* she conceives. She is not pregnant when she consents. She freely decides to participate, and then conceives a child.
I agree this is important for consent. That is why I say, in the story, Mary consents.
I agree this is important for consent. That is why I say, in the story, Mary consents.
With small country nationalisms, their tendencies are largely determined by what they define themselves against. For all their (currently sincerely held) centre-left credentials, if England became massively 'woke' I would expect to see the SNP drift rightwards.
So not likely to happen soon
So not likely to happen soon
December 9, 2025 at 8:07 PM
With small country nationalisms, their tendencies are largely determined by what they define themselves against. For all their (currently sincerely held) centre-left credentials, if England became massively 'woke' I would expect to see the SNP drift rightwards.
So not likely to happen soon
So not likely to happen soon
Normal. But not *good*.
December 9, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Normal. But not *good*.
Always appreciate feedback on my work.
December 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Always appreciate feedback on my work.
Sheesh.
Or Leader of the Greens (non-discriminatorily ambivalent)
Boom-tish
Or Leader of the Greens (non-discriminatorily ambivalent)
Boom-tish
December 9, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Sheesh.
Or Leader of the Greens (non-discriminatorily ambivalent)
Boom-tish
Or Leader of the Greens (non-discriminatorily ambivalent)
Boom-tish
I'll rephrase my comment:
Or Leader of the Greens (Laudatory)
Or Leader of the Greens (Laudatory)
December 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I'll rephrase my comment:
Or Leader of the Greens (Laudatory)
Or Leader of the Greens (Laudatory)
Or leader of the Greens
December 9, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Or leader of the Greens
Supporting the Ulster Workers Strike, 50 years too late, and without reading the wiki article.
December 9, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Supporting the Ulster Workers Strike, 50 years too late, and without reading the wiki article.
If you take the 'Christian Bible' and Pair the story of Adam and Eve in Eden, with the crucifixtion, the picture it paints is of a deity which would literally rather die than deny their creations freedom to choose.
December 9, 2025 at 8:50 AM
If you take the 'Christian Bible' and Pair the story of Adam and Eve in Eden, with the crucifixtion, the picture it paints is of a deity which would literally rather die than deny their creations freedom to choose.
Oh, I'm well aware of the Magnificat, and I love it, but it is a song of Joy, raher than the pre-conception consent we were talking about - But I was talking specifically of the 'let it be done' as Mary's response to the annunciation.
December 9, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Oh, I'm well aware of the Magnificat, and I love it, but it is a song of Joy, raher than the pre-conception consent we were talking about - But I was talking specifically of the 'let it be done' as Mary's response to the annunciation.
But her age is not mentioned in the text (her 'cousin' Elisabeth is mentioned as being 'very old') so we don't have anything but speculation on that point.
And that's before we get to the fact the gospels were not rigorous historical documents.
And that's before we get to the fact the gospels were not rigorous historical documents.
December 9, 2025 at 8:14 AM
But her age is not mentioned in the text (her 'cousin' Elisabeth is mentioned as being 'very old') so we don't have anything but speculation on that point.
And that's before we get to the fact the gospels were not rigorous historical documents.
And that's before we get to the fact the gospels were not rigorous historical documents.
She was undoubtedly a young woman, and I'm not really qualified to comment in detail on the family traditions of 1st century Palestine, but I think it comes from her being an unmarried virgin, and assumptions about what age she would be for that to be the case. The age I often see cited is 15-16.
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December 9, 2025 at 8:14 AM
She was undoubtedly a young woman, and I'm not really qualified to comment in detail on the family traditions of 1st century Palestine, but I think it comes from her being an unmarried virgin, and assumptions about what age she would be for that to be the case. The age I often see cited is 15-16.
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Not that I know of. But I agree such a story could be interesting if the author used it as a meditation on the nature of faith, God, motherhood, free will etc.
But it could only be those things if it took seriously the validity of Mary's 'yes' as a counterpoint, I think!
But it could only be those things if it took seriously the validity of Mary's 'yes' as a counterpoint, I think!
December 9, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Not that I know of. But I agree such a story could be interesting if the author used it as a meditation on the nature of faith, God, motherhood, free will etc.
But it could only be those things if it took seriously the validity of Mary's 'yes' as a counterpoint, I think!
But it could only be those things if it took seriously the validity of Mary's 'yes' as a counterpoint, I think!
The Catholics may have more formal celebrations/rituals/prayers 🤷
They take Mary's prayer of consent as a model for our free participation in the life of God
www.catholic.org/mary/pray.php
They take Mary's prayer of consent as a model for our free participation in the life of God
www.catholic.org/mary/pray.php
The Prayer of Mary - Mary, Mother of God - Catholic Online
'I am the handmaiden of the Lord; let it be done to me according to your Word.' This is the prayer of Mary, her acceptance of her role in God's plan to save the world from sin.
www.catholic.org
December 8, 2025 at 11:21 PM
The Catholics may have more formal celebrations/rituals/prayers 🤷
They take Mary's prayer of consent as a model for our free participation in the life of God
www.catholic.org/mary/pray.php
They take Mary's prayer of consent as a model for our free participation in the life of God
www.catholic.org/mary/pray.php
I'm not a Catholic myself, and ritualised devotion to Mary is much less prevalent in my denomination, but still I have heard sermons preached on the fiat, in the context of her full and free consent being a vital part of the story of the incarnation.
December 8, 2025 at 11:21 PM
I'm not a Catholic myself, and ritualised devotion to Mary is much less prevalent in my denomination, but still I have heard sermons preached on the fiat, in the context of her full and free consent being a vital part of the story of the incarnation.