Sunday, 25 January 2026

Post No. 3,378 - Some interesting reading/viewing

I hope the following may be of some interest for you, Dear Reader: 

 

  • “Finn & Freddie: A 50 Year Autistic Story”   https://youtu.be/63imUZJjHuU   Stealth bullies, which I found very relatable - and some excellent insight into family dynamics      


  • “What Does Minnesota Today Tell Us About What Resistance Requires? - YouTube”   https://youtu.be/Fk9KGw-M7vY   “The problem with modern American resistance isn't bottom-up. It's top-down.   Minnesota is proving the will is there. Tens of thousands in 35-below wind chills. Businesses shutting down in solidarity. Neighbors delivering food to families too scared to leave their homes. Parents standing watch outside schools and daycares. Neighbourhood chats tracking ICE movements in real time. Hand warmers, coffee, legal aid — the unsexy infrastructure that keeps people in the fight.   This is what parallel institutions look like. And we've seen them before.   In the 1850s, when the Fugitive Slave Act turned federal marshals into slave catchers with the full backing of the Constitution and Congress, free state communities didn't wait for politicians to save them. They formed vigilance committees — networks of ordinary people who tracked federal agents, warned targeted families, provided legal defence, hid the hunted, and physically intervened when marshals came for their neighbours.   What's happening in Minnesota right now is the same work. Different century, same pattern. The same confrontation between communities and federal agents enforcing laws designed to tear families apart. The same choice: comply or resist.   The problem is that loyal opposition leaders — Democrats performing resistance while 149 of them quietly voted to fund the rest of this government the same day they made a show of opposing ICE — are absorbing attention that should go to the people doing the actual work. They're occupying the space without doing the job.   So look elsewhere. Real leadership is emerging in the neighborhoods, not on the Capitol steps. It's just not where you've been trained to look.   If you want to see how this worked the first time, read Steve Kantrowitz's More Than Freedom: Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic, 1829-1889 and Pauline Maier's *From Resistance to Revolution: Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition to Britain, 1765-1776.”  

 

From SubStack: 

  • Marcia Langton - “The complaint about Albo rushing the anti hate speech bill is a distraction. I have no doubt that Sussan Ley and David Littleproud were advised that Albo’s hate speech bill, if passed, would mean that their own racism - personal and political - would be criminalised. They calculated that they would lose a massive tranche of voters if they couldn’t punch down on Aboriginal, Muslim and any non white minorities. Their understanding of hate speech, racism and social cohesion is a derivative of the SkyNews outrage factory, Andrew Bolt and Alan Jones. I am not holding my breath for effective hate speech legislation. The Greens will ensure a substandard outcome with their performative politics. The cross bench and minor parties have a few sane people in their ranks and I will be looking at their contributions for some light. Everyone in Australian politics to the right of Neville Wran has opposed effective anti-racism and anti hate laws since 1975.”   https://substack.com/@marcialangton/note/c-201838731?r=5bvnrv   I consider there are genuine issues with the Bill, but I ALSO consider this comment a largely accurate generalisation.   
  • Dr Stacey Patton - “So Y’all wanna play around with MLK quotes. M’kay, I’ll bite.   “A riot is the language of the unheard.” From The Other America (1967)   “The principle of self-defence, even involving weapons and bloodshed, has never been condemned, even by Gandhi.” From Where Do We Go From Here (1967)   “Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. But it is a legitimate right of the individual to defend himself against violence.” From a 1957 essay “Nonviolence and Racial Justice” (published in Christian Century).   “The Negro has the same right to self-defence as any other American.” From an interview with Playboy (1965)   “I do not condemn violence in all circumstances. I cannot say that a man who is being attacked by a mob and who is being lynched should not defend himself.” From Stride Toward Freedom (1958).   So y’all can toss out that “only love can do that” quote all you want. But MLK believed in nonviolence as a strategy, not as a demand that Black people submit to being brutalised, and he never confused love with silence, submission, or the preservation of unjust order.   So stop your cherry picking!”   https://substack.com/@drstaceypatton1865/note/c-201815278?r=5bvnrv   



Possible flaws 

Where I can, I will try to highlight possible flaws / issues you should consider: 

  • there may be flawed logical arguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan  Myers’ free online course “Clear and Present Thinking”;  
  • I could be wrong - so keep your thinking caps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.

 

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Remember: we generally need to be more human being rather than human doing, to mind our Mӕgan, and to acknowledge that all misgendering is an act of active transphobia/transmisia that puts trans+ lives at risk & accept that all insistence on the use of “trans” as a descriptor comes with commensurate use of “cis” as a descriptor to prevent “othering” (just as binary gendered [men’s and women’s] sporting teams are either both given the gender descriptor, or neither).

#PsychicABetterWorld   and   may all that I do be of value and actively BPM used for and by the nonphysical  BPM  because   #KindnessIsThePoint   

Note that I am cutting back on aspects of my posts - see here, and Gnwmythr is pronounced new-MYTH-ear   

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Saturday, 24 January 2026

Post No. 3,377 - neochristianity vs. Christianity: a clarification

I have collated a fair bit of what I have written about neochristianity vs. Christianity at https://gnwmythrsglossary.blogspot.com/2015/05/neochristianity-christianity.html, but I have realised there is an additional point I wish to add, one which applies to other faiths as well. 

First, a key part from the above definition is: 

“I’m going to begin this by explaining that I make a strict division between:

neochristianity, in which group are those who have become rigid and unforgiving and covered with facades and all those who are greedy for power or materialistic influence, or abuse children, or in any way set limits or qualifications on Love,

and 

Christianity, in which group I classify people who follow Christ's two simple laws, about loving one's neighbour and loving Deity. (The late Archbishop Desmond Tutu is an example of a genuine Christian, IMO)”

There is another way of viewing this, I have realised: 

  • neochristians put their energy into either 
    • performative (pretend) demonstrations of “love” of their Deity; 
      or 
    • genuine “love” of their Deity, but without any (or without any genuine) observation of the other part of the key commandment, which is genuine spiritual love (agape) of people; 
  • those who are genuine in their faith, whether that be Christianity or some other faith, put their energy where their Deity puts it - so: 
    • people, in the case of genuine Christians as their Deity loves the world/people so much he sent his Son;  
    • the natural world, and people - who are a part of the natural world - in the case of Pagans.  

So ... if you’re wondering to determine how genuine someone is in their faith, consider: 

how closely does what they put their energy/“love” into match where their Deity/Deities put their energy/love? 

Just a thought ... 



Possible flaws 

Where I can, I will try to highlight possible flaws / issues you should consider: 

  • there may be flawed logical arguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan  Myers’ free online course “Clear and Present Thinking”;  
  • I could be wrong - so keep your thinking caps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.

 

If you appreciated this post, please share it. I am now on SubStack, Patreon, 
and you can support me at PayPal (or PayPal Repeating Support Options) or Ko-Fi 
Any and all support will be greatly appreciated, and will aid me in continuing this work 

 

Remember: we generally need to be more human being rather than human doing, to mind our Mӕgan, and to acknowledge that all misgendering is an act of active transphobia/transmisia that puts trans+ lives at risk & accept that all insistence on the use of “trans” as a descriptor comes with commensurate use of “cis” as a descriptor to prevent “othering” (just as binary gendered [men’s and women’s] sporting teams are either both given the gender descriptor, or neither).

#PsychicABetterWorld   and   may all that I do be of value and actively BPM used for and by the nonphysical  BPM  because   #KindnessIsThePoint   

Note that I am cutting back on aspects of my posts - see here, and Gnwmythr is pronounced new-MYTH-ear   

Copyright © Kayleen White 2007-2025     NO AI   I do not consent to any machine learning aka Artificial Intelligence (AI), generative AI, large language model, machine learning, chatbot, or other automated analysis, generative process, or replication program to reproduce, mimic, remix, summarise, or otherwise  replicate any part of this post or other posts on this blog via any means. Typo’s may be inserrted deliberately to demonstrate this is not an AI product.     Otherwise, fair and reasonable use is accepted under Creative Commons 4.0 on an Attribution-ShareAlike basis https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/  




 

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