In 1911, Delafield was accepted as a postulant by a French religious order established in Belgium. Her account of the experience, The Brides of Heaven, was written in 1931 and eventually published in her biography. “The motives which led me, as soon as I was 21, to enter a French Religious Order are worthy of little discussion, and less respect” she begins. This account includes being told by the Superior that if a doctor advised a surgical operation “your Superiors will decide whether your life is of sufficient value to the community to justify the expense. If it is not, you will either get better without the operation or die. In either case you will be doing the will of God and nothing else matters.”
I grow old ever learning many things.
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
Another
#Another death. Another killing.
Another explosion.
Another shooting.
Another outrage perpetrated by those in power on those with none.
Another set of babble and bile from the privileged talking heads.
Another day of confused thoughts and feelings no one knows what to do with.
I dread hearing the word "another."
"Priory of Sion" in Portland OR
#In Portland OR, I saw the following chalked on sidewalks in different parts of the city:
In one or two cases, there was more of a message but we were typically walking too fast (even on vacation, we hurry hurry hurry) for me to read it or take a picture.
So, two questions leapt to mind.
What the hell is the Priory of Sion?
The Priory of Sion is a well-known secret-society hoax, according to Wikipedia, itself a secret society in some ways, but never mind that now. The world has Dan Brown’s novel The Da Vinci Code to thank for promoting the Priory of Sion to a higher profile. Google will lead you to many other sites.
Why is Priory of Sion appearing all over the streets of Portland?
That other conspiratorial place, Reddit, had a few threads, like this one, on the phenomenon. One of the posters sees this as the work of one person who has a history of posting messages all over town, and others responded saying they’d seen different guys chalking the sign on the sidewalk.
What does a society have to do to stay secret??
(via Wonder Woman’s Wintry Foe: The Blue Snowman - The Devil’s Tale)
Things to live by.
