Like Looking For Cleanliness in a Pigsty

Submitted by aka.attrition

Source: The BlogMire – https://www.theblogmire.com/like-looking-for-cleanliness-in-a-pigsty

 

“The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot even to the head, there is no soundness in it, but bruises and sores and raw wounds; they are not pressed out or bound up or softened with oil.” (Isaiah 1:5-6)

The rottenness, bankruptcy and general degradation of Western societies used to be something that only crazed conspiracy theorists like me could apparently see. Yet as the speed of the clown car has picked up pace year by year, week by week, day by day, no doubt even some of the “respectable” folks out there are finding it harder to ignore the obvious signs that we’re now in Wile E. Coyote mode, flapping our arms in the air in a desperate attempt to defy gravity, before gravity inevitably defies us and sends us hurtling to the ground at the bottom of the cliff we just leapt off.

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Alternative and Private Search Engines

Guest Post by aka.attrition

There are several alternative web search engines that you can use instead of Google. No doubt most readers are aware of Brave Search (https://search.brave.com) and DuckDuckGo (although DDG has fallen out of favour with some privacy advocates due to actions it has recently been involved in). However there are others and this article gives a brief introduction to several of them while keeping it as short and sweet as possible.

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The Stirrings Of Conscience

Author: Quintus Curtius

Source: https://qcurtius.com/2022/10/08/the-stirrings-of-conscience/

The etymologists tell us that the word conscience is derived from the Latin conscire, meaning to know well, or to have an intimate knowledge of something.  This verb could be used in two contexts:  conscire alii (to know something along with someone else), and conscire sibi (to know something with oneself only).  Time and modern usage has given “conscience” the meaning of an internal conviction, a mental recognition of something.

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