“Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life, and it will produce thorns and thistles for you.”

So, no one promised you a rose garden :-D. https://youtu.be/tmxRjPvWKdA

Well, nerds are not too clever on life.

He was wrong on this one. The truth is divisive, and ‘violent’. By his logic, shall we not live by it?
Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the world. No, I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. I came to set sons against their fathers, daughters against their mothers, daughters-in-law against their mothers-in-law; your worst enemies will be the members of your own family.
Matthew 10:34-39
Jesus electrified the fence. Time for people to get off it.

‘Western church’? Not all churches are the same mate. Very different in fact. At my small church most of us are awake.

Still paying fraudulent council ‘tax’ to the councils they loathe..

Thanks for your insights. Chesterton is someone I keep meaning to read more of. You may have finally tipped the scales to actually do something about it. His “Eugenics and Other Evils” has been mentioned a few times in these forums. CS Lewis is an author that I’ve learned to appreciate more in later life, so perhaps the same will be true of Chesterton.

A Happy Easter Monday to you too!

Glad you noticed, I was trying to track down Chesterton’s keen comment about the risen Word then, GKC was/is a spirit quite lit up, wondering while wandering, as JL Borges put him down memorably (I read this in my teens in “Labyrinths” and it always stuck with me, while also causing me to reconsider Chesterton, whom I had too quickly dismissed the year before from my list, drawing swastikas all over a mandated book of his at military school, and then his books converted me a few years later, to my great shock, a similar routine that CS Lewis, F. Scott Fitzgerald and many others had run) this-wise:

“A monstrorum artifex….maker of monsters…and …. a demoniacal will held precariously in balance.”

That provocative profile led me from page to page of Borges, and then some other, and finally “The Blue Cross” the first of the Father Brown stories, and this magic line, which lit me up, much as he was:

“In short, there is in life an element of elfin coincidence which those looking for the more prosaic may perpetually miss.”

Encountering him through a few such lines made a very cool change that day in my body chemistry, as it addressed the depth of our problems, socially, especially in USA Inc.

I thought at first it was just me, or something I ate, perhaps accidentally ingested. But after more readings I began to understand why the very highly regarded and deep French Thomist, Étienne Gilson, called him, “one of the deepest minds of all time.”

He wrote, I’ll track it down sometime, about the first words from the risen Word “Don’t touch me, I haven’t yet ascended to the Father” something quite worth remembering more exactly (yet I turn 71 this Thursday, though the day right now is young! heh heh) something like, “…the fearful and terrible first words….”

GKC was quite struck by the mystic sense of what He first said to “the Magdalene”, in their solitary and resurrected encounter, and shuddered poetically at its mystery!

Happy Easter Monday, too!

Verweile doch, du bist so schon.

Shooting oneself in the head was a favourite pastime in the Sturm und Drang.

And there’s so much to be positive about! Well, maybe OG just likes to go a different direction. Thank God at least we have the MSM to give us all the happy news (when they’re not trying to scare us, that is).