Liam Out Loud: 

 

The social justice and neo-Marxist policies marketed as compassion have produced no tangible benefit.

In fact, many have had disastrous effects.

The policies built on so-called empathy have a record now, and the record is disastrous. 

Safe supply programs worsened addiction and homelessness. 

Lenient bail and sentencing reform arrived alongside a crime wave. 

Mass migration fragmented communities, drove up the cost of living, and suppressed wages. 

Billions of tax dollars administered on behalf of Indigenous communities have not improved material conditions on the reserves. 

Teens with gender dysphoria were given life-altering hormones on an evidence base that was never established in the first place.

So while the failure of each individual policy is now undeniable, the worldview that produced all of them remains in full effect. 

Until we strip the moral cover of empathy away from that worldview, it will keep conjuring new ways to destroy the status quo and marketing them as compassion.

From Liam Out Loud.

Original thinker:

(Many thanks from Digital Anvil.)

Big - Tech Censorship ?

 

Where have the viewers gone? 

While watching the on-line Babylon Bee speech at ARC 2026 in  London, i was quickly reminded of my situation about the apparent loss of my top three nations' viewerships for the 4th consecutive month. Without any other solid reason for the complete disappearance of their views  from the top 3 nations with not one view among them since.

 I remembered that recently a young, savvy Chinese woman commenting "there is only one explanation, "You've been banned." An explanation that initially, I did not  believe. Could that be the reason?

 Has Google shaped my

'pipeline' to exclude the normally highest ranking nations from my Blog/Website ? Can a left turn become a right? Could the right be left behind?

Enjoy the silent compliment, my loyal readers.

By Digital Anvil.

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 Puzzle:

 

  Here the famous puzzle posed by China’s Master Chuang in the fourth century B.C.,

 

 “If when I am asleep I am a man dreaming I am a butterfly, how do I know when I am awake that I am not a butterfly dreaming I am a man?”

from Digital Anvil.

 The Supreme Fool-Maker

  This point i am about to make leads us right to the third type of fool in the Bible—the fool maker.

  The fool maker is the person who (once again) is not a fool at all, but who is prepared to be seen and treated as a fool, so that from the position of derided folly, he or she may be able to bounce back and play the jester, addressing truth to power, pricking the balloons of the high and mighty, and telling the emperor that he has no clothes.

 This, says Paul,the great Apostle, is what God did on the cross. 

If Jesus was the supreme fool bearer, God is the supreme fool maker. He simultaneously shamed and subverted the vaunted wisdom, strength and superiority of the world through the cross—shaming and subverting the world’s wisdom through folly, the world’s strength through weakness and the world’s superiority through coming in disguise as a nonentity.

 by Os Guinness, Fool’s Talk:

 

Final Comment:

Its been my kind belief that GOD has a sense of humour. Even tho there are some instances of satire and sarcasm in the Bible. 
My best example of GOD's humour is found in the story of Balaam's Ass , when Balaam,the errant prophet was in a hurry to curse Israel,the nation, on behalf of a wicked King. 

His loyal donkey or mule stubbornly refused to move forward when confronted by an invisible Angel brandishing a glowing sword in the narrow mountain path. After being beaten several times by the annoyed prophet, the ass turned his head and spoke... 'who is being stubborn now,you or me ?' Balaam,the prophet, knew that he was doing disfavour to Israel, he knew that Israel was God's chosen nation, but money and fame turned his head to near infamy of stupidity.

( there are in modern life numerous examples of sense -of- humour moments like Babylon Bees headline: Prominent Muslim Leader resigns.
Another instance is that senior cleric reveals that in theocratic Iran they were forced to close 50K mosques due to lack- of- interest in a nation of 75K mosques.)

 

by Digital Anvil 

 

 HOLY FOOLS:

 

To follow Jesus is to pay the cost of discipleship, and then to die to ourselves, to our own interests, our own agendas and reputations. 

 

 For all its profundity and pathos, the role of the fool bearer would not seem to help us much with communication, and its main significance has always been for discipleship.

 To follow Jesus is to pay the cost of discipleship, and then to die to ourselves, to our own interests, our own agendas and reputations.

 It is to pick up our crosses and count the cost of losing all that contradicts his will and his way—including our reputations before the world, and our standing with the people and in the communities that we once held dear. It is to live before one audience, the audience of One, and therefore to die to all other conflicting opinions and assessments. There is no room here for such contemporary ideas as the looking-glass self, and no consideration here for trivial contemporary obsessions such as one’s legacy.

Os Guinness, Fool’s Talk 

 

 Final Comment:

Given that the role of " Fools for Christ " is the  appointed yet truly rich definition to wear in this timeframe, where our supposed lack of common sense, our non- self -aggrandised state and out- of- popularity standing,would deny our humble status. Remember that God's foolishness is (still) higher than our ways and our thoughts.

 

Any comments, drop by...and drop your thoughts below 

Respect:

Quote:

When it comes to relationships,everything begins with respect, with the attitude to place value on other people.

Unknown.

 Postmodernism:

 

 A Quote.

 Postmodernism has made our own age as crazily relativistic and as worldly today as at any age since just prior to the Reformation. The result is a severe crisis of authority that leaves the church in many Western countries sounding as either a mumbler, a mute, a hypocrite or someone speaking out of several sides of his mouth however loudly he tries to speak.

Os Guinness,