Comments on: It’s a mad mad mad mad world: US is the lone vote in the UN Security Council against a ceasefire in the Israel/Palestine war https://thenewneo.com/2024/02/20/its-a-mad-mad-mad-mad-world-us-is-the-lone-vote-in-the-un-security-council-against-a-ceasefire-in-the-israel-palestine-war/ A blog about political change, among other things Thu, 22 Feb 2024 11:15:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Richard Cook https://thenewneo.com/2024/02/20/its-a-mad-mad-mad-mad-world-us-is-the-lone-vote-in-the-un-security-council-against-a-ceasefire-in-the-israel-palestine-war/#comment-2724853 Thu, 22 Feb 2024 11:15:10 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=132531#comment-2724853 AesopFan

Indeed. We also describe ourself as a hospital for souls emphasizing care of the soul and repentance and confession.

I am navigating a spiritual jungle. I remember the old African movies where Bwana guided the Great White Hunter in the jungle. My priest is my Bwana in the spiritual jungle. He tells me “don’t go that way it’s quicksand, go that way!”

]]> By: Rufus+T.+Firefly https://thenewneo.com/2024/02/20/its-a-mad-mad-mad-mad-world-us-is-the-lone-vote-in-the-un-security-council-against-a-ceasefire-in-the-israel-palestine-war/#comment-2724842 Thu, 22 Feb 2024 08:36:23 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=132531#comment-2724842 om,

A wonderful novel. Such a shame about John Kennedy Toole.

]]> By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2024/02/20/its-a-mad-mad-mad-mad-world-us-is-the-lone-vote-in-the-un-security-council-against-a-ceasefire-in-the-israel-palestine-war/#comment-2724761 Wed, 21 Feb 2024 22:30:32 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=132531#comment-2724761 @ Richard Cook > “Our existence here is temporary.”

I’ve seen that expressed as “We are not mortal beings occasionally having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a mortal experience.”

]]> By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2024/02/20/its-a-mad-mad-mad-mad-world-us-is-the-lone-vote-in-the-un-security-council-against-a-ceasefire-in-the-israel-palestine-war/#comment-2724706 Wed, 21 Feb 2024 19:18:31 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=132531#comment-2724706 US to Israel:

Unconditional surrender for me, but not for thee.

]]> By: IrishOtter49 https://thenewneo.com/2024/02/20/its-a-mad-mad-mad-mad-world-us-is-the-lone-vote-in-the-un-security-council-against-a-ceasefire-in-the-israel-palestine-war/#comment-2724705 Wed, 21 Feb 2024 19:12:00 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=132531#comment-2724705 Thanks. Interesting.

]]> By: Richard Cook https://thenewneo.com/2024/02/20/its-a-mad-mad-mad-mad-world-us-is-the-lone-vote-in-the-un-security-council-against-a-ceasefire-in-the-israel-palestine-war/#comment-2724682 Wed, 21 Feb 2024 17:25:55 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=132531#comment-2724682 IrishOtter

We have a long history of being persecuted by Islam and invaders and communists. Monks and Saints and the secular have left behind accounts of living the spiritual (and physical) struggle. Mother Maria of Paris during WW2, St. John of Damascus, apologist to the Muslims when he lived in a land conquered by Islam are examples. These accounts have diffused in the Church over the centuries and is part of our life blood.

The physical world is temporary and transient. Our existence here is temporary. The emphasis is always on the eternal and loving your enemies. Consistently developing your spiritual life with your father confessor and working towards union with God which we call thesis. Besides this we have The Church that guides us (no independent interpretations of the Bible, the Holy Fathers and the Church have done that. I surely do not trust my own interpretation of a book written thousands of years ago, by a culture that uses language differently than we do and whose culture is radically different.). If you boiled it down, using the Church and Holy Tradition our emphasis is the experience of God in our lives as we work towards theosis using as a guide my priest and the Church Fathers. We have been around since 33 ad.

Please forgive my rambling. If I am not clear please let me know.

PS. My priest has already planned for persecution and has entrusted certain of us what to do when this happens to preserve the church. And I don’t mean the building.

]]> By: om https://thenewneo.com/2024/02/20/its-a-mad-mad-mad-mad-world-us-is-the-lone-vote-in-the-un-security-council-against-a-ceasefire-in-the-israel-palestine-war/#comment-2724665 Wed, 21 Feb 2024 15:26:31 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=132531#comment-2724665 Rufus T Firefly:

I had wondered where “A Confederency of Dunces” came from after reading that sublime novel of the same name.

]]> By: Kate https://thenewneo.com/2024/02/20/its-a-mad-mad-mad-mad-world-us-is-the-lone-vote-in-the-un-security-council-against-a-ceasefire-in-the-israel-palestine-war/#comment-2724664 Wed, 21 Feb 2024 15:25:39 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=132531#comment-2724664 Melanie Phillips was actually quite fair to the prince. He didn’t outright call for an Israeli loss. He danced around it. But it’s clear that Prince William lives in the British aristocratic bubble, and gets news, if at all, from the BBC. He and his father have both been vocal about CO2 suppression policies which are negative for the well-being of the British people (and all other people).

I think he’d have to do more to be as dumb as his brother, through, miguel.

]]> By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2024/02/20/its-a-mad-mad-mad-mad-world-us-is-the-lone-vote-in-the-un-security-council-against-a-ceasefire-in-the-israel-palestine-war/#comment-2724660 Wed, 21 Feb 2024 15:05:30 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=132531#comment-2724660 Perhaps it’s more like solidarity…
Or he may be in a semi-comatose—AKA Yikes!—state due to his father’s cancer…
(IOW, he’s “on deck”—don’t know what the cricket term is…next up?)
Whatever, he’s in a tricky situation…though Cameron is the last person he should be listening to. (OTOH, this is all mere conjecture on Farrage’s part….)

]]> By: Miguel cervantes https://thenewneo.com/2024/02/20/its-a-mad-mad-mad-mad-world-us-is-the-lone-vote-in-the-un-security-council-against-a-ceasefire-in-the-israel-palestine-war/#comment-2724655 Wed, 21 Feb 2024 14:33:39 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=132531#comment-2724655 Is he trying to be stupider than his brother

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