Rosie Wench's Cottage

Jummah Mubarak ❤

We're not there to be 'friends' we're there to be colleagues. Even if we don't like each other, we need to work together for the benefit of these boys and girls.

If you go into education, then your pupils/students are going to have parents or guardians.

And because we as parents/guardians have the ultimate responsibility for our underage sons and daughters, then whatever is being taught to and done with them is 100% our business (unless there's solid evidence that abuse or neglect is taking place.)

Gaynor Sullivan née Hopkins, aka Bonnie Tyler

I forgot she was Welsh. I had it in my mind that she was a Scot like Sir Rod Stewart.

You didn't do it, and neither you nor others should hold you accountable.

Look into ancient history across the globe and barbaric violence was a norm, not an exception.

Different races, different cultures, both sexes. Human Nature is the common denominator, and it shows.

They were called the Southern Baptists because, virtually alone among Evangelicals, they weren’t abolitionists (they were too concerned, humanistically, with the secular interests of their region). The abolition movement in the Protestant world was almost exactly coterminous with the Second Great Awakening. Abolition also resulted from a Catholic revival, in their part of Western Christendom.

Also slavery was abolished twice in Western Christianity. The other time was in the 0640s AD, in a series of church councils: it was automatic excommunication for a Catholic to own or traffic slaves from then until now, except for a suspension from 1436 to 1551. Slavery came back along with a bunch of other pagan Greco-Roman bullshit in the leadup to the Renaissance—because humanism prioritizes the assumptions and preferences of the violent selfish ape it’s named after. (Spanish colonies became dependent on slave labor during that suspension of the excommunication, so they made it illegal to publish anything written by the Pope without the governor’s permission. See, sometimes he mentioned Catholics were forbidden to be involved in slavery.)

As for witch hunts…no, Christians did not begin witch hunts. They’re as old as humanity. The only pagan Roman emperor who didn’t execute any accused witches was Alexander Severus. China and Japan’s last executions for witchcraft were in the 1880s, the last ones in Korea were in the 1890s. In 1990, a South African Catholic, Benedict Daswa, was murdered by his animist neighbors for refusing to pitch in to pay the local witchfinder. Last time that I know of that a traditional Navajo murdered someone they thought was trying to witch them and got caught, was 1993.

In 0785 AD, at the Council of Paderborn, the Catholic Church declared it heresy to believe in witchcraft and imposed capital punishment for anyone who harmed an accused witch. The council was mostly just a series of condemnations of pagan practices that newly converted Saxons were continuing—one of which practices being witch hunts—because the council was convened during Charlemagne’s conquest of Saxony. That’s why the Early Modern witch hunts (belief in witches being another piece of pagan bullshit brought back by humanism) were almost all in Protestant territory. In Catholic ones, the Inquisition executed witch hunters.

What matters is what the religion as a whole has done about it.

Yes Christianity has had some rotten apples and been involved in some deeply disgusting business.

But is that stuff condoned today? Are we making excuses for why it was actually 'good'?

Not in the least. In fact many things have been completely outlawed over the centuries. And that's great to know.

More recent horrors like sexual abuse by priests and the infamous 'Magdalene Laundries' are out in the light, and whilst work no doubt is still to be done, there's no hiding or excusing possible any more.

tbh the ignoring honestly just feels worse than blatant antisemitism, like damn sorry for existing as a jewish person!!!! the indirect silent antisemitism is what pisses me off the most. and its not like them not knowing my cultural dishes or history is what bothers me, im more than happy to educate ppl! its the fact that they'll be, for over an hour non-stop, talking in the gc and then when i mention something to do with being jewish, the entire gc will go dead silent and not talk till someone changes the subject or they'll skip over my msg!!! being jewish and trying to exist in non-jewish spaces is so fucking hard and i am tired!!!!!!!

(this is also why dating as a young person is so fucking scary cause literally everyone in every political side hates jews and i feel like im only ever going to feel 100% safe in a jewish relationship but i also live in an area where i am 99% sure my family are the only jews and its sooooo fucking isolating. and also the nearest shul [which is quite far away btw like i have to train for over 2 hours to get there] only has old people or like extremely young people, even on holidays!!! i even went there for rosh hashanah and not even one njb my age!!!! [also all the honey cake was gone by the time i got through talking to everyone who greeted me and im still upset ngl] i also had to change unis cause the only uni nearby was flying the palestine flag everywhere and saying genuinely the most awful fucking things ab jews and israel(is) and i couldnt go there without having a panic attack so now im doing online uni and i literally never leave my house and i feel like im going a little insane #nothavingagoodtime)

#iamnotproofreadingthiscauseiamtiredandhungryandmildlyupset

We have Marjoram too (similar to Oregano) and bees can't get enough of the flowers.

Beauty isn't just 'looking, sounding, feeling pretty'. Beauty points us towards God, towards The Divine.

It doesn't necessarily have to be something 'nice'. It can be something heartbreaking and solemn.

But even if we can't put the words to it, we know Beauty, because of where it points us. Nature of course comes direct from the Hands of The Creator.

Great Music, Great Literature/Poetry, Great Paintings/Sculpture all have the same effect.

Wicked (2025) is not a remake of The Wizard of Oz (1939). Wicked is a film adaptation of a stage musical based on the same book The Wizard of Oz is based on. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) is not a remake of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971). They're two different adaptations of the same book by Roald Dahl.

The Parent Trap (1995) is a remake of The Parent Trap (1961). Even though they're both based on the same book, Lisa and Lottie, the 1995 version is a remake because it is not revisiting the original source material, it's using the earlier film as its source material.

I think the massive influx of Disney live action remakes has primed people to expect that any new version of a movie must be almost a shot-for-shot remake of its predecessor, and creates absurd criticisms because people feel betrayed when a new adaptation doesn't match the previous film adaptation.

Johnny Depp's performance as Willy Wonka is often criticized as not coming close to Gene Wilder's, but that's not what the movie is doing. Johnny Depp is not playing Gene Wilder's Willy Wonka. He's playing his own version of Roald Dahl's character and making new choices. You might dislike his take on the character, but the movie is not a failed remake of the Gene Wilder version. It's a completely different adaptation.

Likewise, when Wicked first came out, there were comments on practically any video of Margaret Hamilton's performance in the original MGM musical declaring that she was far superior to Cynthia Erivo. But Cynthia Erivo isn't playing Margaret Hamilton, she's playing her own version of Elphaba.

Same goes for Paapa Essiedu in the Harry Potter HBO show. So many comments (amidst the egregiously racist ones) denounce him on the basis that he will never be Alan Rickman. He's not playing Alan Rickman's Snape, he's playing his own interpretation of a character from a book, which is being re-adapted.

Credit to Disney, I enjoy both versions of The Parent Trap. It is possible to do two versions of the same story and have them compliment rather than oppose each other.

This is the major issue about the live action remakes. I can only think of Cinderella and Pete's Dragon that achieved this.

The rest are absolute travesties. 😖

I get that Johnny Depp was doing his own version of Wonka different from Gene Wilder. I have to say though, that comparing both films, I still prefer the Gene Wilder one.

I'm sure there are plenty of ridiculous comments about the HBO Harry Potter. As fantastic as Alan Rickman was as Severus Snape in the movies, it's the bringing of the book character to the screen that is the issue.

Now I hear that Paapa Essiedu is a very fine actor. And I don't doubt for a moment that he'll turn in an admirable performance.

But I saw a comment about the race swap in a video on YouTube by a very good quality creator. And I'm in agreement with her.

Young Severus at school is bullied for all kinds of reasons (none of which justify the terrible cruelty at work.)

The risk now is that whether intentionally or not, many people are going to see the bullying as straight up racism.

Bullying is bullying of course. It's wrong regardless of 'why and how', But just the same the dynamic will be changed.

I'm prepared to see how the performance comes across. It might well work out fine.

But I'm going to be watching out for potential dynamic changes.

As for Hamlet. The whole point is that different actors and directors will bring their own spin to the play and the characters.

You can have favourite performances, and ones that didn't work for you, of course.

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