Rosie Witchs Cottage

I Hope We've Managed To Stay Buddies?

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Granted our UK governments have tended towards being steaming piles of 'doings'. 🙄

Almost all the friends I had 15 years ago are now estranged: all the strains of Leftism behave exactly like a cult, with zero tolerance for any dissenting views, shunning all unbelievers.

No, I'm very close with my family, who have always been much more conservative (and religious) than I. The friends I had in my youth were fairly easy-going liberals who became more intolerant of other views as time went on. For me the big split was when I began questioning the feminist narrative I'd once supported and pointing out the hate for men it routinely represented. Almost overnight my closest companions cut off all communication with me and I had to strike out and make a new life alone.

Since then I've noticed many more expired foods on the Woke smorgasbord besides the rancid feminist guacamole, but I'm kind and tolerant to everyone I meet and actively try not to talk politics with those people unless they make glaringly false claims about reality that they then expect me to agree with.

I still generally prefer hanging out with liberal folks than flag-waving conservative types, but they're increasingly hard to get along with or to even grasp the reality they're perceiving through that particular ideological lens.

"Nobody cuts off an entire person for no reason"

That doesn't mean it's a GOOD reason.

Serenagold's rationalizations and hallucinations suggest she's the exact sort of person who would cut off someone they supposedly care about because of a wildly misinterpreted belief.

Also, this brother didn't just go "I personally won't talk to you", he went out of his way to poison the whole family against OP.

They apparently never bothered to ask OP about OP's own opinions, only listened to someone who has every reason to lie or engage in motivated reasoning.

Here's a woman who falsely accused ten men of rape, and Reece Lockett's parents disowned him and went NC.

People have ended up in jail on false accusations of sexual assault from family members. Just slapping a crimethinker label on someone is a lot easier.

It's always a good plan to get an idea of what people believe differently to. ourselves.

If nothing else it reminds us that mostly, these are just people like ourselves who want the best for those around us.

We can disagree with each other on our beliefs and theories.

But it is very unhelpful to assume that everyone who believes differently is some dangerous, extremist lunatic.

Most people close to me are further to the left that I am on some matters. If I had to put a label on it, I'd call my position socially conservative.

Though as I'm solidly on the side of Lesbian and Gay Rights, even that has flexibility.

By and large most people close to me know that I'm old fashioned, I'm pro our Constitutional Monarchy and I'm deeply supportive of upholding Tradition and Culture.

They may see me as a quaint eccentric. But they look upon this as my 'little ways' and leave me to it.

I'll support other Peoples practicing their faith and culture within British Law and Values, precisely because I want to uphold the Culture and Traditions of My Own People as well.

Now. I've found that whilst there are people who completely disagree. They would happily throw British Culture and Tradition to The Four Winds.

They are not most people, though.

Many more will differ on some details, like the technicalities of Immigration, Monarchy and 'Colonialism'

This film started shooting that month (almost certainly before the actual stabbing), and wrapped by October.

So they already had the script written, and there's no evidence they altered anything.

These details matter and should be spelled out. 👍

Although, I'm still not prepared to let the powers that be off the hook completely.

Yes, this show was written before the crime in Southport (and from what I've heard from people who've seen it, written very well.)

But we can look at the timing of airing the show, and the unholy glee of The Powers that Be in suggesting that this is demographic that is particularly dangerous.

Now. I'm not suggesting that there are not white, working class teens who are an unholy terror, because there certainly are, and they need far better guidance than they're currently getting.

No arguments here.

In the earliest days of The Ramones and The Stooges and The Sex Pistols, Punk was entirely apolitical or anarchistic only in the vaguest sense: the joyless Marxists were being rebelled against as much as the rest of the status quo and the progrock dinosaurs of the past. It was a year zero in which the youth of the 1970s were able to temporarily redraw the rulebook of the musical and cultural slop they were being given.

Listen to them talk about it, however and their reasoning is clear, whether one agrees or not.

It just tells me that they've got the wrong end of the stick when it comes to being 'counter cultural'.

If they think that it means that they have to believe one set of political ideas, then they're not the rebels and free thinkers that they believe themselves to be.

I've more time for those who will look at the 'acceptable' beliefs and raise two fingers to it.

What am I doing getting in a state about this?

The Creator of All, The Source of Being

Yes, there's evil, People have free will and that means we'll sometimes choose evil.

But God's there, in the midst of it, bringing out whatever Good is possible.

The people: Mary there’s no more wine, what do we do?

Mary: JESUS!!

Jesus: yes mom?

Mary: there’s no more wine

Jesus: no no I’m not doing this it’s not my time yet

Mary: yeah it is. Hey servers! Do what Jesus tells you to do

The servers: what do we do?

Jesus:

Jesus: ok so go put some water in these barrels and—

She never said 'no' to God and she was 100% 'With' her Son for His Earthly Mission, even the parts that she knew were going to cause her pain.

And she followed through. Just as she was there when He took His first breath as a human infant. She was right there by his side when He let go His last agonised breath on The Cross.

No doubt she was there rejoicing when He Rose Again and when He Ascended back to Heaven.

She was there with His Apostles to receive The Holy Spirit.