Thank you for this foray into the history of faith and language, I learned a great deal.
I'd merely add one more facet: it's not 'merely' that these lingo 'games' are intentional (they are the essence of Postmodernism) but they are intentionally used to deceive.
Much like that silver coin the Pope had minted with the modRNA poison/death juice recipient who was described as 'awaiting to receive [the jab]'.
I always tell people to read up on marxists.org--specifically the glossary, which contains many more of these 'lingo games'.
Thanks for reading, and for the recommendation. From a Church perspective, the exact language used to describe the precise nature of God's revelation to man was the subject of several Ecumenical Councils and these attempts to pervert meaning and doctrine are certainly nothing new. St Basil the Great has an apposite point: 'Those who are idle in the pursuit of righteousness count theological terminology as secondary, together with attempts to search out the hidden meaning in this phrase or that syllable, but those conscious of the goal of our calling realise that we are to become like God, as far as this is possible for human nature. But we cannot become like God unless we have knowledge of Him, and without lessons there will be no knowledge. Instruction begins with the proper use of speech, and syllables and words are the elements of speech. Therefore to scrutinise syllables is not a superfluous task. Just because certain questions seem insignificant is no reason to ignore them. Hunting truth is no easy task; we must look everywhere for its tracks." - From On the Holy Spirit Chapter 1. There can be no doubt that the Pope is not Christ's vicar, but in fact just another minion of Satan.
[26] The fairies are not to be seized on, and brought to answer for the hurt they do. So also the ecclesiastics vanish away from the tribunals of civil justice.
[27] The ecclesiastics take from young men the use of reason, by certain charms compounded of metaphysics, and miracles, and traditions, and abused Scripture, whereby they are good for nothing else but to execute what they command them. The fairies likewise are said to take young children out of their cradles, and to change them into natural fools, which common people do therefore call elves, and are apt to mischief.
[28] In what shop or operatory the fairies make their enchantment, the old wives have not determined. But the operatories of the clergy are well enough known to be the universities, that received their discipline from authority pontifical.
[29] When the fairies are displeased with anybody, they are said to send their elves to pinch them. The ecclesiastics, when they are displeased with any civil state, make also their elves, that is, superstitious, enchanted subjects, to pinch their princes, by preaching sedition; or one prince, enchanted with promises, to pinch another.
[30] The fairies marry not; but there be amongst them incubi that have copulation with flesh and blood. The priests also marry not.
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Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan: with selected variants from the Latin edition of 1668. Ed. Edwin Curley. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1994 . . . Part IV. Of the Kingdom of Darkness . . . Chap. xlvii. Of the Benefit that proceedeth from such Darkness, and to Whom it Accrueth . . . https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/leviathan-part-iv-of-the-kingdom
Epic!
Thank you for this foray into the history of faith and language, I learned a great deal.
I'd merely add one more facet: it's not 'merely' that these lingo 'games' are intentional (they are the essence of Postmodernism) but they are intentionally used to deceive.
Much like that silver coin the Pope had minted with the modRNA poison/death juice recipient who was described as 'awaiting to receive [the jab]'.
I always tell people to read up on marxists.org--specifically the glossary, which contains many more of these 'lingo games'.
Thanks for reading, and for the recommendation. From a Church perspective, the exact language used to describe the precise nature of God's revelation to man was the subject of several Ecumenical Councils and these attempts to pervert meaning and doctrine are certainly nothing new. St Basil the Great has an apposite point: 'Those who are idle in the pursuit of righteousness count theological terminology as secondary, together with attempts to search out the hidden meaning in this phrase or that syllable, but those conscious of the goal of our calling realise that we are to become like God, as far as this is possible for human nature. But we cannot become like God unless we have knowledge of Him, and without lessons there will be no knowledge. Instruction begins with the proper use of speech, and syllables and words are the elements of speech. Therefore to scrutinise syllables is not a superfluous task. Just because certain questions seem insignificant is no reason to ignore them. Hunting truth is no easy task; we must look everywhere for its tracks." - From On the Holy Spirit Chapter 1. There can be no doubt that the Pope is not Christ's vicar, but in fact just another minion of Satan.
[26] The fairies are not to be seized on, and brought to answer for the hurt they do. So also the ecclesiastics vanish away from the tribunals of civil justice.
[27] The ecclesiastics take from young men the use of reason, by certain charms compounded of metaphysics, and miracles, and traditions, and abused Scripture, whereby they are good for nothing else but to execute what they command them. The fairies likewise are said to take young children out of their cradles, and to change them into natural fools, which common people do therefore call elves, and are apt to mischief.
[28] In what shop or operatory the fairies make their enchantment, the old wives have not determined. But the operatories of the clergy are well enough known to be the universities, that received their discipline from authority pontifical.
[29] When the fairies are displeased with anybody, they are said to send their elves to pinch them. The ecclesiastics, when they are displeased with any civil state, make also their elves, that is, superstitious, enchanted subjects, to pinch their princes, by preaching sedition; or one prince, enchanted with promises, to pinch another.
[30] The fairies marry not; but there be amongst them incubi that have copulation with flesh and blood. The priests also marry not.
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Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan: with selected variants from the Latin edition of 1668. Ed. Edwin Curley. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1994 . . . Part IV. Of the Kingdom of Darkness . . . Chap. xlvii. Of the Benefit that proceedeth from such Darkness, and to Whom it Accrueth . . . https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/leviathan-part-iv-of-the-kingdom