;Posted on 09/22/2015 9:54:06 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell
;In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
(cumbrous) [ˈkʌmbrəs, KUM brus]
adjective
Definition :
heavy, weighty, ponderous, cumbersome mean having great weight. heavy implies that something has greater density or thickness than the average of its kind or class . To hamper, burden, or trouble. Jesus tells of the man who said to his vineyard-keeper, "Cut it down. Why cumbreth it the ground?" ("Why should it go on using the soil?" New English Bible)
Origin: Late Middle English (in the sense 'difficult to get through'): from cumber + -ous.
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ponderous
That’s a worthy picture! Thanks!!!!
Nope, not at all. It’s just sad how much people will sacrifice for a savior strongman.
good for you~! Kudos!`
how you feeling? you were AWOL for a bit!
truly i see far more derangement among his followers and fans than from those who don’t support him. Shrill inquiries as to WHO’S YOUR CANDIDATE, you are YEB LOVER, yada yada.
TY. Slow, but sure.
oh don’t you start that ludicrous BS, noe. i think you know soother and i well enough to know that we are not foaming, we are not BUTTHURT that the showman is at the top of the rung at this point, we are just honestly wondering where the sense has gone in those we have previously respected. Neither of us is pushing a RINO, we are honestly PERPLEXED as to what in the world people hear in the nonspecific platitudes. I think everyone should be required to READ and not listen to his answers to questions of substance, bc the sentences are not even diagrammable, let alone substantive.
that’s the healthy way to do it.
I guess, but I’m an impatient person. LOL I’m pleased with the progress, however. I didn’t gain it in a day, either.
Pope Frank has proven to not be terribly cumbrous. Fr Jonathon yesterday said that the Pope hasn’t watched tv in 30 yrs, reads a single [italian] newspaper for 10 minutes per day. We know he sleeps like a rock at night. He doesn’t appear to encumber himself with the cares of the world, other than worrying about capitalism and global warming.
your dr must be thrilled.
He is, and he’s set a goal much more generous than my personal one.
Awwwww....
I’m about 80% or so. Rough bug. Just slept for the past 2 days.
Like I said, you tally up the people and organizations who have been “written off,” the principles abandoned, the amount of omniscience and omnipotence granted to this one person and wonder what could people be thinking?
Now he’s threatening to sue people for running political ads against him? People who would have a fit if Obama did such a thing are all for it.
We thought it was the height of arrogance when Obama claimed to be a better writer than his writers, better at policy than his policy people, etc. Now we have Trump believers ascribing all manner of power to the Donald.
Did you see this one?
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/pope-francis-menace-or-farce_1033365.html
But as we try to sort out what Francis is, exactly—a menace to society and his Church, or a foolish, farcical dupe—it’s worth considering an amazing exchange he had with reporters last July during a flight from Asuncion to Rome:
Question: Holy Father, on this trip, we’ve heard so many strong messages for the poor, also many strong, at times severe messages for the rich and powerful but something we’ve heard very little was a message for the middle class, that is, people who work, people who pay their taxes, the normal people then. My question is why in the magisterium of the Holy Father are there so few messages of the middle class. If there were such a message, what would it be?
Pope Francis: Thank you so much. It’s a good correction, thanks. You are right. It’s an error of mine not to think about this. I will make some comment but not to justify myself. You’re right. I have to think a bit.
Pope: The world is polarized. The middle class becomes smaller. The polarization between the rich and the poor is big. This is true. And, perhaps this has brought me not to take account of this, no? Some nations are doing very well, but in the world in general the polarization is seen. And, the number of poor is big. And why do I speak of the poor? Because they’re at the heart of the Gospel. And, I always speak from the Gospel on poverty, no? Even if it’s sociological. Then, on the middle class, there are some words that I’ve said, but a little in passing. But the common people, the simple people, the worker, that is a great value, no? But, I think you’re telling me about something I need to do. I need to do delve further into this magisterium. I thank you for your help.
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And that was that. One gets the sense that the leader of the Roman Catholic Church understands neither the origins, nor the development, nor status of the middle class. He does not know who the middle class is, or what they do, or what challenges are facing them. By his own accounting, this 78-year-old man has never given this group of people—who comprise the vast majority of the developed world and are the ambition of the rest of the planet—any real thought.
It was an astonishing admission of provincialism. And in its way, it might tell us more about Francis than all the rest, combined.
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