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ken taylor's avatar

Well.. until Pope John XXIII said it was okay to understand the Bible in one's own vernacular (Latin:vernaculus; home-born, as in verna, a slave born in a master's home) the catholics were supposed to only understand their teachings from the vulgar (Latin:vulgate) version of the scripture,

A bit weird because the vulgar was the contemporary vernacular when Jerome translated from Greek to Latin in the vulgarness of the language spoken by the people who thought their homes vulgar (common) places and the vernacular was emphasized by the verna who belonged to the home but were not vulgar people but luminare homines (lesser humans, not common) and since presidents are luminaries of course they cannot be common and should not speak in the vernacular since luminaries are a lesser (specification).

So of course the motherfucker should be crucified for daring to believe himself, a mere luminary to be able to speak in the vulgar vernacular.

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Rohn Kenyatta's avatar

Priceless, truly, priceless; even when uttered to the child of a lesser god.

Oh, the exquisiteness of it all!

Spectacular, I say!

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Karen Scofield's avatar

I get what you've written,Rohn. To be honest, when Smitty said Fuck on the law of the White House,it did not shock me at all. His vocabulary is, after all, very limited. Don't know if you saw his pathetic performance at the NATO summit?? you want to talk about a complete idiot unable to cobble out anything that sounded intelligent , there he was, in front of the World, displaying the above and as you've written so well here today. Thank you, for sharing your Brilliance 🙏

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Rohn Kenyatta's avatar

But Madame, and I say that to YOU with a respect you have earned throughout your life, my greatest worry is that all continue, whether pro or con, to focus on the man, the entity, that is Smitty Trump himself.

Were this an intelligent society, whatever embarrassing latency, the focus would be on the system that produced him. That is my biggest fear because it shows intellectual cowardice. The nations that have the most intelligent populaces are the new "superpowers." "US" ain't one of them because it is a sociopolitical model based on mass ignorance perpetuated by the greatest instrument with which to do so: education and media.

THIS is the global paradigm shift that threatens idiots.

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Karen Scofield's avatar

You are Awesome 😎

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Rohn Kenyatta's avatar

Sometimes.

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ken taylor's avatar

especially what goes for education...the regurgitator gets the A's. The questioner stands in the corner of the principal's office and get their soma doses so their minds can remain in the broom closet (neurosurgeon David Eagleman's coinage) of their intellect, unable to connect with reality.

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Kristin Haapa's avatar

More digressions that are progressions if you please, that’s a perfect description of your prose!

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Rohn Kenyatta's avatar

One step backwards, two and a half steps forwards.

Whole step, whole step, half step. But there ain't no half-steppin'. Not if one wishes to be major in scale.

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Ed Jordan's avatar

If you value truth-telling, discomfort, and an unapologetic human voice representing personhood that happens, through some cosmic accident, to be a Black voice you are moving in the right direction.So let’s get that bullshit out of the road. What I can assure you is a literary experience.

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