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Christians worshipping “pagan” gods without knowing it. (And this is why the appreciation of language and the history of words is worth while).
GODEN = Variant of WODEN (ODIN) the King of the Norse and Anglo-Saxon Gods. It is Odin you pray to whenever you say God.
TEUTATES = DEUS/DIEU/DIOS, the principal Celtic deity from whom we get the words DEUTSCH, DUTCH, TEUTONIC and TEUTONS. It is TEUTATES you pray to when appealing to DEUS, DIEU or DIOS.
I think involuntary celibates before the internet were mostly silent, excepting writers of novels, poetry and short stories, and artists. The unread and the non-artistic would keep it to themselves out of macho shame.
The internet has given voice to the sex-obsessed, which includes the lonely and the frustrated, who are not well lettered, and whose frustrations are expressed often in a violent and futile manner, and who also blame women instead of a system (capitalism) which alienates us from each other and produces a life full of hatred, loneliness and squalor.
I never said we did as a party. I just meant when referring to a populace in conversation with most, who use the word citizen.
Pretty Boy Floyd
Words and Music by Woody Guthrie
Contact Publisher – Woody Guthrie Publications/BMG ChrysalisIf you’ll gather ’round me, children,
A story I will tell
‘Bout Pretty Boy Floyd, an outlaw,
Oklahoma knew him well.It was in the town of Shawnee,
A Saturday afternoon,
His wife beside him in his wagon
As into town they rode.There a deputy sheriff approached him
In a manner rather rude,
Vulgar words of anger,
An’ his wife she overheard.Pretty Boy grabbed a log chain,
And the deputy grabbed his gun;
In the fight that followed
He laid that deputy down.Then he took to the trees and timber
Along the river shore,
Hiding on the river bottom
And he never come back no more.Yes, he took to the trees and timber
To live a life of shame;
Every crime in Oklahoma
Was added to his name.But a many a starvin’ farmer
The same old story told
How the outlaw paid their mortgage
And saved their little homes.Others tell you ’bout a stranger
That come to beg a meal,
Underneath his napkin
Left a thousand-dollar bill.It was in Oklahoma City,
It was on a Christmas Day,
There was a whole car load of groceries
Come with a note to say:“Well, you say that I’m an outlaw,
You say that I’m a thief.
Here’s a Christmas dinner
For the families on relief.”Yes, as through this world I’ve wandered
I’ve seen lots of funny men;
Some will rob you with a six-gun,
And some with a fountain pen.And as through your life you travel,
Yes, as through your life you roam,
You won’t never see an outlaw
Drive a family from their home.© Copyright 1958 (renewed) by Woody Guthrie Publications, Inc.
But using the present Iran/Israel crisis as an example: no government wants to ‘lose face’, either to rival states nor to their own electorates. So both sides are compelled to retaliate and thus escalate.
” I think you missed out the question mark.”
I really don’t see how the rival capitalist blocs can pull back at this point without ‘loss of face.’
Talk of smashing any country means supporting the mass murder of fellow workers.
“He who celebrates victory rejoices in killing.” (Lao Tsu).
So those Trotskyists are no different from the Stalinists who support war in Ukraine.
Russia could get drawn in.
