tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post5719180000134217746..comments2024-03-27T22:53:43.943-04:00Comments on Daffey Thoughts: So there you goDavid Griffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06629314279592541401noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post-76837565744044183222021-05-07T10:30:17.051-04:002021-05-07T10:30:17.051-04:00Well "it's evil" is maybe the reason...Well "it's evil" is maybe the reason the schools are giving, but I was trying to say, once exposed to it, the younger generation was amazed and found it full of wisdom and good sense.<br /><br />Certainly you are right, there are plenty trained in the cult mentality of avoiding evil at all costs so you have to be clever in trying to get something past the habitual blockade.Nate Winchesterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00630873800235819300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post-1419089001280004832021-05-06T19:45:08.897-04:002021-05-06T19:45:08.897-04:00He certainly has changed since I ran into him many...He certainly has changed since I ran into him many years ago. But then, I notice those who swing left invariably do, and almost always in the same ways. And never for the better. I'm sure others going different directions can as well. It just seems far more consistent among those veering left of center. David Griffeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06629314279592541401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post-155658366512495802021-05-06T19:43:18.391-04:002021-05-06T19:43:18.391-04:00Word salad. I'd say. Again, it's so ridi...Word salad. I'd say. Again, it's so ridiculous I'm inclined to think it was meant as humor. Yet reading other things he's written over the last couple years, and especially regarding this issue, I can't help but feel it was at best humor used to cover rage. David Griffeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06629314279592541401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post-5963635034206805432021-05-06T19:16:57.276-04:002021-05-06T19:16:57.276-04:00"Word Salad".
There has been a plethora..."Word Salad".<br /><br />There has been a plethora of Word Salad Chiefs popping up these past few years in the Catholic blogosphere. Sam being a trailblazer that he is, living the American dream in Canada.Tito Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12218771096085701665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post-73354441243509658762021-05-06T14:11:28.371-04:002021-05-06T14:11:28.371-04:00It's the rhetorical equivalent of fire for eff...It's the rhetorical equivalent of fire for effect. He's marking the ground to see if he's close to hitting an enemy target. If no one reacts, he'll fire off another word salad volley.<br /><br />He should never be mistaken for a good faith interlocutor. DPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12249117106906577345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post-9579405973164816252021-05-06T07:14:26.962-04:002021-05-06T07:14:26.962-04:00Yep. Assuming it wasn't a joke, some specific...Yep. Assuming it wasn't a joke, some specifics might help. Though I don't know how much he's fighting to maintain the idea he's trying to preserve traditional culture. David Griffeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06629314279592541401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post-50662106413891169132021-05-06T07:13:29.629-04:002021-05-06T07:13:29.629-04:00That's what I said. It was so over the top I h...That's what I said. It was so over the top I had to think some of it might be playing for humor. But again, I check it with his savaging of Bishop Baron (often a fave of more progressive Catholics), and it makes me hesitant to dismiss it as a joke. David Griffeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06629314279592541401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post-47381578796821690142021-05-06T07:12:35.435-04:002021-05-06T07:12:35.435-04:00I think those kids aren't reading Kipling for ...I think those kids aren't reading Kipling for the same reason a fundamentalist wouldn't read Playboy. To them, it's altogether evil and unclean. Per my sons, the growing tendency in their college is to assume if it came from the West, it was white, which means racist, which means irredeemable deplorable. But just like the fundamentalist, they wouldn't attribute it to close mindedness, just good morals. David Griffeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06629314279592541401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post-66204812467139327032021-05-05T17:44:10.185-04:002021-05-05T17:44:10.185-04:00The move in response to this support of statement ...The move in response to this support of statement is to ask to see which works the right is supposedly ignoring.<br /><br />There's two possible responses:<br />-An honest list of classics which contains things that could get canceled, and thus put Rocha in trouble with the very cancel culture that he says isn't a problem.<br />-A list of leftist approved modern works that reveal that he isn't trying to preserve traditional culture.Rudolph Harriernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post-5798446397633688332021-05-05T15:25:42.430-04:002021-05-05T15:25:42.430-04:00The fact that Sam would unironically phrase his st...The fact that Sam would unironically phrase his statement the way he has is actually hilarious. What the heck is he even saying? It sounds like a parody. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10122492268910202737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post-50443975332908535432021-05-05T08:44:09.880-04:002021-05-05T08:44:09.880-04:00It's funny because I was on a random message b...It's funny because I was on a random message board the other day when a discovery of Kipling broke out. Some of us old-timers started quoting "Gods of the Copybook Headings" and the younger members all became amazed that such a poem was written not only a hundred years ago now, but even more of Kipling's writings as they were inspired to go and find more of his work.<br /><br />If reading was the purview of the left, then why weren't these kids exposed to Kipling in school? Why was it a more "open" environment, where conservatives and liberals both are allowed to speak and fight it out, that they finally learned something of old books?<br /><br />Like Shea it doesn't take long to realize that their strawman has nothing to do with reality.Nate Winchesterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00630873800235819300noreply@blogger.com