(0532)(0615)

 

My morning so far, at 0532

Blogger Tom Paine, of my blog vintage the class of 2006, had The Last Ditch and I had N.O., as long time readers know. He and most of my friends and colleagues of the day were Libertarian, whereas I had a foot in that camp … Rousseau for example … but also in historical Christianity rather than just tub thumping bible bashing of fave verses to shore up positions.

One of the main feeder streams has come from the U.S. deep south and it’s rare to find a similar mind which wishes to explore what is, rather than be harangued by some theologian … you get the idea.

All right, I awoke around 0430 this Wednesday morning with zero idea what was coming, went to the mailbox and cleared that (post box, mail box, whatever), went to you tube front page (mine, not theirs, with all the recommendeds) and they had redone it (they periodically do) and the first words which came to mind were “utter schlock” … I was after shorts for the next few days but almost all were trashy Millennial, dire culture pap.

All right, back to Tom. He and I had lunch once in Chester and he observed … I’m not sure if critically, think it was … that I’m a social conservative, am I not? Plus I blog from a personal perspective? As if that means it’s not “just the facts, ma’am”.

My response is yes, why not, why not give context, the antecedents of an issue? And so our blogging continued, both, until for me, the analogy of the tavern at the point of the promontory, with the lighthouse and grounds, not just tavern but chapel too … it underpins Unherdables HQ, it’s a nice model to explain how I try to be at a crossroad of ideas … yet at the same time, reject recognisable evil, e.g. Wokery, bad symbolism (IYE and I are both on that), plus all the rest of it.

Trouble with that approach is it stands at a slight distance from all the devoted, specialised cultism, which is human reaction to various truths … the historian in me wants to know about how it all happened, why. Yes, I am Christian, western, British cultural pool, as many here are but I’ve also many friends outside of that and I come back to being (almost) a tavernmaster or chapelmeister at this crossroads. I did study the ancient Greek philosophers decades ago, the middling ones like Kant and Hegel … and so on.

One rich experience was getting the eastern Orthodox view of how it all happened, along with the Roman Catholic, as well as southern bible belt US and then, around 0528 my time, I saw Toodles’s email, which had one of her longs, a tour de force, to which I replied:

“You have hit on an important aspect and I’d love to take the text and make it a third part of a three part piece starting with this I just found:

He was pretty impressive, think he’s from either north or south Carolina but nevertheless “bible belt” and he brings together two worlds … the western and eastern, at Constantinople.

You know another I like is “the young Scot” but he’s more simplistic, being young.

Obviously dear old Arnold.

This Ryan I like as a part-historian as he cuts to facts and figures.  I myself can supply details from the dark side, e.g. the Merovingian Franks and how the dark side finally split the church from both west and east.  Similar to how Isr. was rejected from Above.”

All right. How on earth to approach all this with the blog readership we have here? Phew. There might be four or five who won’t guffaw and click away but that’s about it. Again, this is the “tavern model” again. I can imagine me being in the tavern, pulling pints, I go over to the chapel as I see a light over there … and suddenly, the two youtubes appear.

So I skim through, then think … er, have to get back to the tavern and here I am, chaps and chapesses, and DAD arrived at 0552 my time. I must get going. How to handle that mass of history in one hit? Especially as he gets straight down to to dates and events in a visual way … I need to give m’sel’ time today (and Toodles has just replied at 06:13).

I was once asked do I get bored? Chance would be a fine thing. Ok, Wednesday has started, folks, it’s fine out there, temperature moderate. Have a good one.