“But there is no bargain, for here, what is, is what must be.” - Watership Down Catholic(a), Pilgrimage & Shrines • Folklore • Literature • ✍️ • The 🌊
…this realm, this England
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A pack of wolves walking through a forest in British Columbia, captured by a trail camera
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“When Kirk calls Zane to see how he's doing, Zane tells ChatGPT that his dad's calling him again and that he just let it ring.
ChatGPT responds, You're letting it ring? You're not ghosting. You're just not letting them schedule your healing arc.”
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The sobering reality is that few teachers today are actually teaching.
Most have relinquished their role.
What I'm increasingly seeing are adults working incredibly hard to plan activities and keep students occupied. At best entertaining them and placating them at worst.
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“This country’s planted thick with laws from coast to coast – man’s laws, not God’s – and, if you cut them down d’you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake”
“They buried him among the Kings”
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The fact that Germany laid down its arms on a day in the Church’s calendar that celebrates a saint who laid down his arms, choosing a life of peace rather than war, may seem like a remarkable coincidence. But the armistice timing was chosen deliberately —
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scheduled for the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. For centuries, St. Martin’s Day (also known as Martinmas) had marked a time of new beginnings in Europe
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Today is Martinmas, the feast of St Martin of Tours, a major festival in medieval Europe which heralded the approach of winter with fire and feasting.
St Martin is the patron saint of soldiers, often shown sharing his cloak with a poor man to protect him from the winter cold.
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2. He made this note as he was reading Wittgenstein (who he preferred to Heidegger) and seemed to be thinking about the notion that a language produces culture, morals, ethics, and not the other way around.
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I don't think society has run out of smart people. I think we've made it financially and socially dangerous for them to speak honestly.
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Today on ‘All Old Strange Things’ I review Rob Gandy’s remarkable book ‘Real Ghost Encounters’ – a genuinely painstaking Fortean enquiry that rises far above the usual paranormalist slop substack.com/home/post/p-222…
