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Jun. 26th, 2024 05:01 pmI know I missed some posts while I was gone, so let me know if you posted anything I need to know about over the last week.
I got another Etsy gift card, so I was able to get some silver and gold hair clips, a silver and turquoise bracelet to replace the one I lost about a year ago (yes, there is a theme to my Etsy gift card use), and writing gloves by Storiarts with text and graphics from A Christmas Carol. I also got a gift card to the Laurel Mercantile from
spikedluv and got Ouida's Garden hand soap (how could I resist with that name!) and some Garden Mint wax melts; thank you! Mom and Dad gave me various and sundries, including some moolah. Altogether a wonderful birthday haul!
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Quotes and Ideas of Interest from Shumway:
"By 'ideological,' I mean more or less what Althusser meant when he used the term to name that part of experience which we take so completely for granted that it becomes 'nature.' Ideology so defined is a '"lived" relation to the real' that has a powerful hold on the subject because it is largely unconscious. Thus, to quote James Kavanaugh, 'at stake in [ideological conflicts] are not different opinions, but different realities" (32).
"But both groups accepted the traditional Christian view of human evil and thus rejected the assumption common to both liberals and Marxists that human nature could be improved given the right social conditions" (230). This argument explains a lot about my personal experience of conservatism vs liberalism, that the evangelical Christian worldview denies the ability for improvement and progress in favor of focusing on universal and unremitting human evil.
I got another Etsy gift card, so I was able to get some silver and gold hair clips, a silver and turquoise bracelet to replace the one I lost about a year ago (yes, there is a theme to my Etsy gift card use), and writing gloves by Storiarts with text and graphics from A Christmas Carol. I also got a gift card to the Laurel Mercantile from
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Quotes and Ideas of Interest from Shumway:
"By 'ideological,' I mean more or less what Althusser meant when he used the term to name that part of experience which we take so completely for granted that it becomes 'nature.' Ideology so defined is a '"lived" relation to the real' that has a powerful hold on the subject because it is largely unconscious. Thus, to quote James Kavanaugh, 'at stake in [ideological conflicts] are not different opinions, but different realities" (32).
"But both groups accepted the traditional Christian view of human evil and thus rejected the assumption common to both liberals and Marxists that human nature could be improved given the right social conditions" (230). This argument explains a lot about my personal experience of conservatism vs liberalism, that the evangelical Christian worldview denies the ability for improvement and progress in favor of focusing on universal and unremitting human evil.