No. Don’t let them dilute language like that. Poetry isn’t something that ‘invokes emotion’; any prose can do that. Poetry is a matter of meter- it has to be written in a manner that is distinct from normal writing. That doesn’t mean that all poetry is any good, but if it has a structure and if it follows that structure, then it can be called poetry.
This is a waste of time. Congrats, you’ll further dilute an already useless word, look like a cringy moron, and accomplish nothing.
Still, why would they? It weakens sexual morals and norms, which ultimately benefits the LGB movement. Why would they care about some collateral damage to children?
Why you do expect moral action from a community that decries morals?
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Wow sweatie, who hurt you? Why would you attack the taking of ownership of their bodies by strong front hole having people? Sounds kinda misogynistic to me. You should be more worried about the coof going around
Abominable Intelligences are heretical. Purge them in the name of the Omnissiah!
What is most sublimely idiotic about this is that, for millennia, different cultures have depicted Jesus in such a way as to be visually relatable to them. This you will have Him depicted as a Chinese sage, as an Ethiopian man, as an Egyptian, as a Russian etc. Christian art of Jesus has already depicted countless ethnicities. The fools who wrote this article couldn’t even begin to understand why what they propose is idiotic.
Chris-Chan? Is that you?
Yes. Not a shred of self aware recognition of MeToo or feminism in general though; that’s not what bothered all of them. It was the fact that it has a ‘White Savior’ in Atticus Finch.
Don’t worry, Strongbad saved up enough movements in F-Sack for them to learn HTML 5 and carry on. Strongbadia will stand!
As a new teacher, a sickening amount of my Masters program was dedicated to how to push SocJus. We spent a week discussing a documentary on Trans people in Hawaii. I sat horrified in a room of English teachers discussing why it’s too problematic to teach Huck Finn, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Great Garant in high school/ It’s a horrifying waste of time and priming terrible teachers. The only thing that kept me going was the fact that I could spite them all afterwards and teach my own curriculum. To unpozz this more people need to enter with that purpose.
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I see. That is pretty woke. However, as you say there is value to being with family, especially now. For looking around though, this is actually one of the better times to do so, since most churches have worked hard to be reliably online due to Covid. It’s not a perfect way of figuring them out, but it’s easier than ever to get a general idea of a church than ever before. Figure out what you’re looking for and then check around.
A word both on materials for further study and on church hunting:
I think you might enjoy a writer and thinker named GK Chesterton. He was a Christian public intellectual during the early 1900s, a time when most intellectuals were going quite mad in a manner comparable to the woke of today. He has a number of writings against all of the intellectual rot of the time that still hold considerable worth; I’d recommend Heretics and then Orthodoxy. I think you’d like him because he was of a similar opinion on limits being the essence of true art and understanding; there must be rules in order for things to be properly enjoyed. He also made a point to show that reason unchecked led often to unsettled intellects.
As for church hunting, I’d recommend simply trying a bunch. While the decentralized nature of Protestantism means that you won’t have a guarantee of certain things, it also means you can usually find some church that offers what you’re looking for. What would you consider to be too woke by the by? It would be important to nail down certain doctrines so you can know where to look.
Lastly, (and I throw this out only as a customary aside), if you are looking in Christianity for just an anti-wokeness, I’d caution you. While Christianity is supposed to be opposed to the world, that isn’t necessarily the primary ‘thing’ so to speak. Just fair warning to be clear what you’re looking for. I believe that Christianity offers a consistent counter to general wokeness better than anything else, but if used only for that purpose it will be lacking. It’s more than that, as you likely know. Just a caution. I’d love to help in any way I can.
If Amazon tries to put modern garbage into Tolkien's work there is a strong possibility that I try to hunt down Bezos (in Minecraft of course). I hope that if they fuck it up that the Tolkien estate removes their rights to everything.
We should have let Patton have his way; the future would have been better for it.
I am well aware. I teach poetry. Even Free Verse, properly understood, should be a poetry form in which you set your own meter, structure and rhythm. It is often taught extremely poorly, leading to what you’re talking about, but at root it is supposed to be a poetic model where you get to determine the constraints, in contrast to say a sonnet, which has its own rules. So ‘whatever you want’ but not in the way most mean.