the bots were destined to take over

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Social media is a virtual world
 that is filled with half bots, half real people.
You can’t take any tweet at face value.
And not everything is what it seems.


                               Rami Essaid




















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the truth inherent in conscientious dissent

I find nothing in the language or history of the Constitution to support the Court's judgment. The Court simply fashions and announces a new constitutional right for pregnant women and, with scarcely any reason or authority for its action, invests that right with sufficient substance to override most existing state abortion statutes. The upshot is that the people and the legislatures of the 50 States are constitutionally disentitled to weigh the relative importance of the continued existence and development of the fetus, on the one hand, against a spectrum of possible impacts on the woman, on the other hand. As an exercise of raw judicial power, the Court perhaps has authority to do what it does today; but, in my view, its judgment is an improvident and extravagant exercise of the power of judicial review that the Constitution extends to this Court.




                 Supreme Court Justice Byron White

there is no scientific disproof of the existence of god

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you can't use data from within the cartoon
to disprove the cartoonist.   it's impossible.


                             I heard Robert Spitzer SJ state this on a youtube












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memory lodged in dirt stone trees and grass

when you see the sacred black hills
you must remember me, 
a defender of my people and of this land


                                                tasunke witko








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political tone poem by kirby the whirby olson

Obama cares a lot and Fauxcahontas goes on the warpath. Streams of mascara from Harvard Crimson. Hail and brimstone. The media blackened the skies with printed arrows against Trump. No one believes a word except Stu who says global warming is a thing. People turn a cold shoulder. On Arapahoe Boulevard in Boulder the hippies say ok. Trump is back in the saddle and that Injun is injured. Sad! Fauxcahontas yelled for babes and aborted fifty bazillion full term babies while shrieking war whoops of morality and contagion and lesbian love licks but the people sayeth, Give us Trump. Trump is a champ and the lady is a tramp.

cash in day for de gustibus

One of the first issues of America magazine, in fact,
featured a lengthy commentary on this new development
in religion.

The new movement, it said,
seemed to hold that
 “the God of the Christians is not big enough,

nor liberal enough, nor wise enough
 to deal with the Twentieth Century conditions,

and so they have to create one of their own
who will make man free,
give to him unlimited liberty,
endow him with great wealth,
 confer on him a vast amount of power

 that will enable him to rule the spiritual

as well as the material world,
a God who will deify man and make him

cease to be a subject being.”.......

...I lifted this from a  doctoral thesis  (pdf)



     I suppose the roman catholics
 just sit back
 and humbly accept
 this new secondary status


















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la fuerza cosmica de raza mestizenas

. the leaders of Latin American independence ... 
strove to free the slaves, 
declared the equality of all men by natural law; 
the social and civic equality of whites, blacks and Indians. 
In an instant of historical crisis, 
they formulated the transcendental mission 
assigned to that region of the Globe: 
the mission of fusing the peoples ethnically and spiritually.


                                                    Jose Vasconselos








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we'll get to the bottom of this problem yes we will

feminism
 is mixed up with
the muddled idea
that women are free
when they serve their employers
 but enslaved
when they help their husbands




                                 gk Chesterton










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augustine proved it is important to master time

How can the past and future  "be" ,
 when the past no longer is,
and the future is not yet?


As for the present,
 if it were always present
and never moved on to become the past,
it would not be time, but eternity.




                             Augustine of Hippo














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it's important to attain proper perspective

 










The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long,
That she had her head bit off by her young.




                                       Erasmus  (?)












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kirk's determined balance of things

I am a conservative.
Quite possibly I am on the losing side;
often I think so.
 Yet, out of a curious perversity
I had rather lose with Socrates,
 let us say,
       than win with Lenin.












                                                                  Russell Kirk

red repeating digital messaging security found poem in the house of jonah

 KILIAN STANDING  -- ROOM 207 ---           




(ETC. ETC)














.....an old poet caught standing
we don't know how we know these things but indeed
we know these things now










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i genuflect

if  Jesus is not Lord
then he is either a liar
or a complete lunatic




                   I heard Peter Kreeft use this phrase








                 echoing C.S.  Lewis


















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what's needed is perspective

Noi viviamo sommersi nel fondo d'un pelago d'aria.


 (We live submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air.)






                                                      <sup>Evangelista Torricelli  -     1644












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thin epistemological ice

The moment the individual accepts
the language of ideology, he allows his mental world
and his sense of self-respect to be hijacked 
along with the language. 
No matter how inadvertently he may have stumbled 
into the use of the official vocabulary,
 he is now part of the ideology, and has,
 in a manner of speaking,
entered into a pact with the devil.


                                                                   Alain Besancon










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