2/ I spent my 20s and 30s Confidently Having Opinions, and I still am inclined to think that many of those opinions were correctly, or largely correct, or somewhat correct I don't repent of the opinions I repent of the Confidence
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3/ stuff is often more complicated than you think, and almost never less complicated what's that one essay by Orwell where he talks about the middle class getting snooty about the poor coming home from a hard day of work and wanting some sweet jam on their toast?
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4/ Road to Wiggin Pier? Something else. That essay burned me when I read it. I realized that I had spent far too much time being the snot-nosed !@#-hole lecturing people who lived in a different world "If born into the lower working classes and short on money, I would SIMPLY
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5/ Yep. This. And similarly, folks who want to tell the poor to "simply do X" have never been poor. They may have been short of money at time (I was always broke ... while attending a good college). https://twitter.com/GeoGDF01/status/1418672184818552833 …
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6/ I have no love for the urban / black / low g / low conscientiousness poor working class ... but I also get annoyed by people from good homes lecturing them "just don't break the law", with zero idea of what it's like to be raised fatherless, with police who are aggressive etc
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7/ TLDR: humility is good. You'll rarely regret NOT having snarked at someone who made choices that struck you as odd in a situation that you never found yourself in.
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10/ The take that annoyed me the most was "no one is talking about how Evil this is". Sin is knowing what is good and what is evil, and CHOOSING to do the evil thing. People sin, sure ... but very few people are mustache twirling silent movie villains.
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11/ People are confused, and weak, and misinformed, and befuddled at least as much as they choose evil ...and from the outside, you'll rarely know what's motivating someone. It's great to talk about the Good and encourage it. That can be done without throwing the first stone.
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12/ "The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ No other commandment is greater than these." One interpretation of this is to be as charitable with others as with yourself. You know the Russel Conjugate?
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13/ e.g. "I make mistakes You make bad decisions He chooses to commit sins"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotive_conjugation …
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14/ so, one step towards "Love your neighbor as yourself." is "I make mistakes. You make mistakes. He makes mistakes."
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15/ or, heck "I sin. You sin. He sins." Both are fair.
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16/ ah, yes, it's just that simple I apologize for the above thread and retract it allhttps://twitter.com/CBSmith45987619/status/1418676616255840256 …
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