1. "'2 Thessalonians 3:10-13 is as good a retort as any to the "question" posited by Althouse.'" [Link to St. Paul's epistle added.] "Surely, Paul considered taking care of the household and the children within it as work! You think the reference to 'work' means holding down an income-producing job in the modern sense? That would be a nutty thing to believe."
2. "'Ritmo goes full Titus.'" [Reacting to this.] "No, Titus in his fullness would break free of whatever political obsession had its grip on the thread and give us real relief. You need a wild sense of fun and abandon to begin to replicate Titus."
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The question for women is what holds their interest.
Short answer, dancing - creating spaces.
Where can you do that?
I'm glad someone appreciates Titus.
(Actually not that glad.)
"had its grip" and "give us real relief"...
I think I know what Althouse is saying here.
I am Laslo.
Yesterday was a French Horn, today I hear Piccolo.
I am Laslo.
Matthew 6:24 - 34
(Actually not that glad.)
This blog would be pretty boring if everyone said the same thing.
Thanks for the link, Henry.
(Actually not that glad.)
This blog would be pretty boring if everyone said the same thing.
For some reason the Special Olympics comes to mind.
That quote in Thessalonians is almost certainly about spiritual work and spiritual "food" anyway.
I'm an atheist, and I know that. Why don't people who're pretending to be Christians know that?
I'm an atheist, and I know that. Why don't people who're pretending to be Christians know that?
I'm openly, admittedly just a pretender here - that's all any of us are, which is why we need grace - but it's almost certainly about both.
Time for Ritmo's next sockpuppet. This one's lost it.
"Surely, Paul considered taking care of the household and the children within it as work! You think the reference to 'work' means holding down an income-producing job in the modern sense? That would be a nutty thing to believe."
So: immaculate conception, water into wine, raising the dead--perfectly reasonable. Slightest deviation from feminist orthodoxy--nutty.
That quote in Thessalonians is almost certainly about spiritual work and spiritual "food" anyway.
No, it's about regular food. He's saying don't think that being a Christ-follower means sitting around on your tail end depending on benevolence.
Here it is in context:
6 In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we command you, brothers and sisters, to keep away from every believer who is idle and disruptive and does not live according to the teaching[a] you received from us. 7 For you yourselves know how you ought to follow our example. We were not idle when we were with you, 8 nor did we eat anyone’s food without paying for it. On the contrary, we worked night and day, laboring and toiling so that we would not be a burden to any of you. 9 We did this, not because we do not have the right to such help, but in order to offer ourselves as a model for you to imitate. 10 For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: “The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.”
11 We hear that some among you are idle and disruptive. They are not busy; they are busybodies. 12 Such people we command and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ to settle down and earn the food they eat. 13 And as for you, brothers and sisters, never tire of doing what is good.
It takes a pretty boring narcissist to have to front-page comments of hers that no one paid attention to the day before. But for anyone that cares, the correct response to her recycling of herself is to note that 70% of Titus' comments related pretty directly to nothing other than defecation.
So as I told Lady She-Trump in the original thread, her idea of "relief" must be pretty limited.
To the stupid, I'm sure every correction must sound like an "obsession". Althouse has a habit of being more wrong in her political predictions than Julius Caesar.
Surely, Paul considered taking care of the household and the children within it as work! You think the reference to 'work' means holding down an income-producing job in the modern sense? That would be a nutty thing to believe.
Most assuredly he did! But it's nutty to encourage both parents to take extended paid time off at the expense of any employer, which neither you nor your linked article made any effort to discourage.
No, Titus in his fullness would break free of whatever political obsession had its grip on the thread and give us real relief. You need a wild sense of fun and abandon to begin to replicate Titus.
Apparently, you fondly recall only the "real" Titus and not the "fake" Titus (to paraphrase discussion terms from long ago in the Althouse archives circa 2008). The "real" Titus who emerges more and more often (mostly at Lem's and before that on my blog's comments is/was vindictive and politically motivated. Sort of the way Shouting Thomas treats you. You just haven't noticed. :(
For the record, I frontpaged my own comments a few minutes after posting them, just before 6 a.m. this morning.
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