![]() To this day Ursula believes this and throws a little salt over her shoulder if she spills any…. She became convinced that she could indeed “whistle up a storm,” one which never came!” Laughing, he said that he would teach her, which he did. Being only 6 years old, Ursula hung on to his every word and explained that she didn’t know how to whistle. Talking about the lure of the sea, he explained to the children that they were never to whistle aboard any ship, for to do so would invoke the Gods and cause a terrible storm to toss them around. ![]() Apparently his job was to look out for the passengers’ safety, and he was a friendly sort. “What could best be described as an “old-salt,” was in charge when they were on the open deck of the ship. Walking under a ladder aboard ship insured bad luck! Breaking a mirror guaranteed 7 years of bad luck and whistling was verboten! When Ursula came aboard the QSMV Dominion Monarch, she was taught this lesson in a most emphatic way! ![]() “Seafarers of yore were superstitious lot and paid a great deal of attention not to invoke the ire of the Gods. Violence on a genocidal scale is required to even approximate to a practical egalitarian program, and if anything less ambitious is attempted, people get around it (some more competently than others).” Substantial equality has no relation to reality, except as its systematic negation. People are not equal, they do not develop equally, their goals and achievements are not equal, and nothing can make them equal. To absorb even the slightest fraction of all this and to conclude, in the only way possible, that it is either nothing at all, or a ‘social construct’ and index of oppression, is sheer Gnostic delirium: a commitment beyond all evidence to the existence of a true and good world veiled by appearances. Human inequality, in contrast, and in all of its abundant multiplicity, is constantly on display, as people exhibit their variations in gender, ethnicity, physical attractiveness, size and shape, strength, health, agility, charm, humor, wit, industriousness, and sociability, among countless other features, traits, abilities, and aspects of their personality, some immediately and conspicuously, some only slowly, over time. It might be unwarranted to believe in leprechauns, but at least the person who holds to such a belief isn’t watching them not exist, for every waking hour of the day. When you are in a Microsoft Teams call, click the three dots on the meeting settings bar Select show. “To call the belief in substantial human equality a superstition is to insult superstition. Follow these steps to enable virtual backgrounds.
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