Justin D. Miller

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Just in time for the holidays.

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Think of most successful screenwriters. The norm isn't Quentin Tarantino-style dialogue, it's mostly direct, and carefully chosen, simply-worded language.

Successful communication bears with it an obligation to connect emotionally with your audience in a way complements the situation, when the emotion is key to the message.

I don't think its the words being insulted. Personally, I don't have anything against big words, but audience and circumstance matter. If we're talking about communicating with people, big words describing simple things *feel* weightless, lacking urgency and immediacy.

Sorry, meant this reply for Kronos.

The fact that this second group of people exists, however, is why you have to look deeper at the individual using it and what else they say to understand their true intention.
Because while the former use is foolish, (and often disingenuous), the latter contains wisdom that needs heeding.

They use the stark-cold reality of the situation as a reason to retreat, instead of those who see the same complexity and difficulty as a challenge to be overcome with patience and steady forward pressure - even if they don't live to see its complete fulfillment.

You're right. The context of how its used, matters. Many do indeed use it as a way to dismiss any change.

Episode 067 - "On the Waterfront" (1954) Movie Bones · Episode

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My buddy Ryan and I check out a Brando classic for the first time, this week.

If the guy was going to backslide, don't you think there'd be some other sign of it by now? Glenn Beck's recanting only lasted long enough to see his viewership drop and immediately reverted. Personally, I don't see how Joe hasn't demonstrated sincere goodwill by now. But maybe it's just me.

I remember when people were saying they wouldn't trust him until he switched party affiliation to "D". Now that in itself, is apparently cause for suspicion. As long as this kind of goalpost-shifting persists, trust will only ever be something people say they want, but never mean.

Where's my tiny violin when I need it?

Likewise a politician came to the place, and when he saw him, he passed by on the opposite side, yelling "So what, you're going to die anyway!"

I am truly distraught for the things some people say in the name of the Love incarnate.

And as a cradle Catholic, still practicing, I'm very excited, joyful and hopeful about Leo XIV's election.

Saw this floating around this afternoon. Seems relevant.

Oh, and we have a ratings system themed around Indiana Jones, so there's that too :)

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I have a podcast for those who are interested...

So if you're into older movies and wanna hear a couple friends be exposed to a bunch of pre-1975 flicks for the first time (from Tubi), well, today's your lucky day! Will probably post links to new eps here weekly. open.spotify.com/episode/5Vmh...

As a side note, I think our culture could benefit from more clear ways to separate and express feelings of righteous anger from the will to evil for the subjugation/domination of others. Sometimes its easy to intuit, but other times not so much, well, like I just failed to do!

Full disclosure: I come at it from my Catholic faith that defines love a little more specifically (ie: to will the good of the other for the other's sake) which naturally informs the concept of its opposite.

I think you've got a point re: the cultural understanding, which I suppose is why I felt the need to clarify my operating definition, just to check. Though I think at least one accepted definition includes "hostility" as a component.

To sum up my personal thoughts, I do not hate America, but am righteously angry at America and what is being done in our name. It is my desire to channel that anger constructively, in my own small way.

Now anger on the other hand, can be justified and even become productive and corrective of evil IF its energy is aimed rightly at the good of all, and away from thoughts of vengeance and retributive harm.

I think the problem is with holding hatred in the heart, full-stop.

Where hatred is defined as willing evil upon others. To the extent that hatred for America means willing the harm of flesh and blood people, this applies as well.

This can't be possible. If it works as a negotiating tactic, it fails to raise revenue because you've brought them to the table. If it works as a revenue tactic, then whether or not they come to the table is irrelevant. How have we arrived at this level of stupid? (he asks for the 10,000th time).

I had the terrible thought this morning that he'll tank the market so badly that even the Russians with their impoverished economy, could start buying us out. And then I remember that he didn't tariff Russia.

Everything he touches, dies. And there's sooo much more within reach for him now, that I can't think about it very long without shuddering.