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(DIR) Post #AnuOJISmR9Os5yAQ1A by taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org
2024-11-10T18:41:47.037405Z
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Has anyone else heard about Mother Teresa's true nature? Not many people seem to talk about this.Allegedly, she was extremely cruel and cold-hearted, and her centers in India where they supposedly "cared" for the poor and sick were actually lacking in basic sanitation, actively refused treatments because of "God's will" bullshit, and didn't even give people painkillers or anything.These were just places for people to go and die under the watch of Catholic fanatics doing nothing other than pray for them.
(DIR) Post #AnuOJJprKpSILpyMd6 by Gnomeshatecheese@spinster.xyz
2024-11-10T18:51:57.063039Z
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@taylan Christopher Hitchens did a whole film about this. It also included bits about Teresa's willingness to pal up to all kinds of dictators, as long as they gave her money she could then not put into her "hospices". Apparently the money went instead to "missionary work", or otherwise just the coffers of the Catholic church. Because converting people is so much more important than healing their bodies.
(DIR) Post #AnuPm0DfRgzfriLlGi by polarisera@spinster.xyz
2024-11-10T19:08:21.091175Z
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@taylan Faith-based Catholicism is pretty harsh. Your time on earth is meant to be full of trial and tribulation, and all rewards are in the next life, which in Catholicism is still very hierarchical, you're never going to escape the Popes in this life or the next. No birth control or abortions, no divorce.
(DIR) Post #AnuQ7vc7FZ2nx5EyYK by Gnomeshatecheese@spinster.xyz
2024-11-10T19:12:19.273902Z
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@taylan I don't know if this is the full version, or if there's a longer one out there somewhere, but this is what I can find on YT. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJG-lgmPvYA
(DIR) Post #AnuQ91gk9N9N57vdCq by taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org
2024-11-10T19:10:23.895608Z
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@polarisera In other words, a masochistic death cult. :blobcat-googly-trash:
(DIR) Post #AnuQ92CIG4O4eygpNo by Gnomeshatecheese@spinster.xyz
2024-11-10T19:12:30.810047Z
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@taylan @polarisera Aren't they all..?
(DIR) Post #AnuQmgdDrGQdMIC2c4 by Gnomeshatecheese@spinster.xyz
2024-11-10T19:19:41.274870Z
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@taylan Also, if I remember right, while her "hospices" barely bothered to give aspirin to people dying of cancer, Teresa herself had no combunctions about getting the finest medical care the rich west could offer, when she got sick. No, I do not much care for that woman either. Does it show?
(DIR) Post #AnuQrpntBTVNFkdZ1k by Klimsu@spinster.xyz
2024-11-10T19:19:00.019408Z
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@Gnomeshatecheese @taylan Hi. Attached is a pdf copy of The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice. It's not too long. The thesis is "Mother Teresa is less interested in helping the poor than in using them as an indefatigable source of wretchedness on which to fuel the expansion of her fundamentalist Roman Catholic beliefs," according to one reviewer of the book.
(DIR) Post #AnuQrr0Kih3MydT13w by Gnomeshatecheese@spinster.xyz
2024-11-10T19:20:36.987769Z
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@Klimsu @taylan I need to read that.Wouldn't even mind buying it as a proper copy.
(DIR) Post #AnuSAWy9XBPUIMuu7E by Klimsu@spinster.xyz
2024-11-10T19:28:32.653281Z
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@Gnomeshatecheese @taylan His language dazzles! He woos. He slithers. He adorns.Apparently, he insisted on writing as a subset of speaking. I wonder what he meant by this. Any thoughts?
(DIR) Post #AnuSAYLwOE24aR3Ppg by Gnomeshatecheese@spinster.xyz
2024-11-10T19:35:11.961304Z
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@Klimsu @taylan Interesting. Linguistics maintains (quite rightly) that spoken language is primary to written language. I suspect he meant a version of this sentiment. If one reads his prose out loud, it does sound like very eloquent speech. Going by that, I would suggest he thought writing should be as clear and immediate as spoken language. Much like a spoken utterance is a failure, if it has to be repeated or clarified in order to be understood correctly*, any written utterance which the reader must repeat to themselves can also be seen as failure. I've said for a long time now, that in the same way as drawing is about seeing, writing is about thinking. More precisely, clear writing requires clear thinking. Maybe Hitchens had a similar sentiment, but he was approaching the matter from the opposite end. *Looking at YOU Jordan Peterson. And NOT benevolently.
(DIR) Post #AnuTkDzff6aVp5D8u8 by Klimsu@spinster.xyz
2024-11-10T19:41:38.484455Z
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@Gnomeshatecheese @taylan Thank you very much! The drawing analogy is apt. I "see" it now.I always thought of it as almost physical, preferring pen and paper. And, you know, not wanting to in a way. You have to make yourself pick up that pen and put the words on the page. This is probably why Hitchens dazzles and woos while I bark and sputter!
(DIR) Post #AnuTkF7VTSRxJfsuky by Gnomeshatecheese@spinster.xyz
2024-11-10T19:52:51.348489Z
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@Klimsu @taylan Ha. Who knows! I do think clarity of thinking is the main stumbling block for people who are attempting to write. Unfortunately this includes many who write professionally, especially when they're writing textbooks. There was a wonderful quote on this in, I think, Usage and Abusage, but sadly I only have that book at the office. The point the writer made was that when writing, one should never assume that that which is clear to oneself, is also clear to the reader. It is a challenge to live up to that standard, but Hitchens always made it seem absolutely effortless. Of course when I say "clear", I don't necessarily mean "persuaded". I didn't always agree with the things he said, but even when he failed to persuade me, his meaning was still clear.
(DIR) Post #AnuvfNazKfdks58yqe by Raunchel@spinster.xyz
2024-11-10T19:27:31.351839Z
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@polarisera @taylan And yet, Catholicism has, to me, always seemed to be a relatively compassionate religion. At least, it isn't based on the idea that everyone is sinful and evil beyond salvation like the orthodox Calvinism I grew up in. I mean, there even is space for things like works and the like!That said, it's still horrible for women like basically any religion is, but it's not the worst one by far.
(DIR) Post #AnuwKlqI5WYLwc2Qwy by polarisera@spinster.xyz
2024-11-11T01:13:11.740073Z
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@Raunchel @taylan Catholicism is symbolic, liturgy and lifestyle based, and not word-based like the Protestants, who decided they only needed the Bible to the be the inerrant word of God in order to cast off the Catholic Church's dogma. Catholics claim to be direct descendants of Peter's church, by tradition and will of God. The Bible is just a small piece of the whole package in Catholicism, and how the priest interpret it. Protestants decided the Bible was in fact, some secret magical code book, that didn't require the Catholic Church for interpretation.