A true patriot. It's surreal to me that a man seeking truth & justice for child rape victims would be reviled by anyone. I expect it from Muslims, because their so-called "prophet" was a pedo, but fellow White Brits? Shame on them. Don't any of them have children of their own?

Well, they complain that tyranny of the majority is such a terrible curse and then wonder why their community was reviled during the Christian dominant error post-Dark Ages until Progressive era (2026).

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy. Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the Earth Blessed as those who mourn for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called children of God. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied. Blessed by the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness sake for great is their reward in heaven Blessed are those who are reviled and have a manner of things said about them falsely for my sake. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad for show. The profits of old were also prosecuted.

You're going down a dangerous road conflating Jews with Israel because if you do that you're going to make Jews reviled around the world. This doubling down on the connection between Israel and Jews is fueling a firestorm of anti-semitism. Oh well, not my problem.

When Joseph had his first vision, after telling his family (who believed him), he went and told a minister. The minister immediately reviled him. Instead of treating him with respect and kindness, he denounced him, and spread malicious stories to others about Joseph. 1/2

nobody asked me but i also didn't ask to have my tl dominated by this attempted rehabilitation of an alleged abusive cult leader and cults are a special interest of mine after having lived in one and having nearly been captured into an even worse one (there but for the grace of god &c, &c) there's a lot of people who like to talk in and around scapegoating dynamics without ever understanding rene girard which is dumb. the essential point of girard is that for the type of culture we live in (which is anything larger than a sub-dunbar's number hunter-gatherer tribe), the scapegoat is LOAD BEARING. which is to say that the scapegoat mechanism functions independently of whether or not the perpetrator is guilty or innocent. some are, some aren't, and it's basically always a mix of the two. the revelation of the gospel accounts of jesus' scapegoating is that yes, the function runs independently of the guilt or innocence of the scapegoat. but the mechanism itself requires the community to be unified in the belief of the scapegoat's guilt. in fact it is the scapegoat's purported guilt that allows the mechanism to function in discharging the community's guilt onto the reviled one. this collective action unifies a fractured community, what girard calls "unanmity minus one." we now live in an age where the revelation that the scapegoat may be innocent has led to the conclusion that all scapegoats are innocent and actually unjust victims. this is false. the point is that the mechanism functions without respect to guilt or innocence. it will suppress signals of innocence and magnify signals of guilt. this is essentially what george's rehabiliation post gets at. brent is not as bad as they say, he says. the way that people are treating him is unfair, he says. he is not the devil he is made out to be. and yet brent is clearly not innocent. he appears quite substantially deserving of the place of shame he has been placed in, but nobody ever completely belongs there, because again, the scapegoat mechanism functions independently of guilt or innocence. it's the safety valve for a massively dysregulated community, as it is clear that brent was both sucked into, and catalyzed. the community who cast him out is not innocent, either, far from it. but it doesn't matter. he has been selected to bear the guilt. it's not fair. but somebody has to, until we learn a better way, and we clearly have not, yet. the scapegoat mechanism creates victims, definitionally. we have learned more recently in history that scapegoats are not as guilty as the mechanism requires them to be. but this does not automatically mean that all victims are innocent. sociopaths know this suspicion in good-hearted people by casting themselves as innocent victims. there are no innocent victims. or guilty ones. just a species who requires them. it's not fair. we do need to learn a better way that doesn't require scapegoats. this is the good part of george's post, the gesturing towards that, with language around epistemics that is insufficient to the moral and spiritual weight of the call. aside: it's weird that i'm seeing the lines being drawn differently than when chaosprime had his scapegoating moment, which, funny enough, brent was also involved in, much to his chagrin. he was very clearly not innocent, by his own admission. but he had defenders because nobody likes a witch hunt. so it goes. the moral community on the other side of scapegoating is calling to us. but we're here in samsara, not in the kingdom of the heavens. there are bad actors, but they are made of the communities that cast them out. nobody is innocent. so it goes. let us pray for wisdom.

reviled.

So they should have shot back after trying to run down a cop? Thank You for showing why your community is so reviled

I am the first to admit that I am a degenerate lowlife who is widely reviled, &c., &c., but what is also true is that I may just be the best aphorist and phrase-monger alive today, comparable to those enshrined in the canon. @ahaspel ranks alongside me, but my work is arguably more timeless, more complete, greater in scope and ambition. But I don’t even want to make it a competition, and in fact what motivated this post is that I wish I had more peers. It’s lonely at the top, &c. I hate myself for saying all this, because it is very vain and stupid, but I am driven by a burning wish and a nagging desire to defy my sense of lack and inadequacy with (deluded) protests of my genius and (hollow) arguments that I deserve more recognition. In other, related news, if anyone wants to see proof of these claims, I have recently knocked my manuscript into better fighting shape, and I would be happy to share it with you. Just DM me your email. May you be blessed! 🙏😃❤️😎

Not fooling anyone. He is reviled now. But we're glad he left Iran and Israel.

Abraham saw Jesus and was delighted. You saw Jesus and is disgusted. guess who else is reviled by the sight of Him? shaitan.

Coming from a former HOA president, the most reviled entity in the history of the US, I take that as a compliment.

I don't think I've ever met someone who hates 6 live and in person. Very surprised that people seem to think no one hates X when it was reviled upon release, though

John Thune, you are the most reviled GOP Senator--and among Republicans! No one gives a care about this. Pass the SAVE Act or shut up!

Recent 40 yr study shows that 1-3 cups daily lowers dementia risk by 30%. There is an increasing awareness that caffeine is a nootropic. Nicotine is another long-reviled "addictive drug" shown to have nootropic and other benefits

What do you expect? PRIDE is one of God's most reviled sins and they specifically chose that term to give Christians and God the finger. Any organization that promotes it should also be condemed. Why should we tolerate any of it? Remember : humility

it is a little frustrating that obama is so chastised on foreign policy when perhaps his two greatest foreign policy achievements—tpp & jcpoa—were reviled by voters and instantly dismantled by trump

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