https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollyanna#: Pollyanna is a best-selling 1913 novel by Eleanor H. Porter that is now considered a classic of children's literature, with the title character's name becoming a popular term for someone with the same very optimistic outlook.[1] Also, the subconscious bias towards the positive is often described as the Pollyanna principle. The book was such a success that Porter soon produced a sequel, Pollyanna Grows Up (1915). Eleven more Pollyanna sequels, known as "Glad Books", were later published, most of them written by Elizabeth Borton or Harriet Lummis Smith. Further sequels followed, including Pollyanna Plays the Game by Colleen L. Reece, published in 1997.Pollyanna has been adapted for film several times. Some of the best-known are Disney's 1960 version starring child actress Hayley Mills, who won a special Oscar for the role, and the 1920 version starring Mary Pickford.
"When you look for the bad in mankind expecting to find it, you surely will."
Although a quote similar to this was attributed to Abraham Lincoln and inserted by the director into the 1960 Disney movie version of the story, it is actually, as written here, from the original book and not attributed.
As a result of the novel's success, new terms were coined, e.g., the adjective "Pollyannaish" and the noun "Pollyannaism" to refer to a personality type characterised by irrepressible optimism evident in the face of even the most adverse or discouraging of circumstances. It is sometimes used pejoratively, referring to someone whose optimism is excessive to the point of naïveté or refusing to accept the facts of an unfortunate situation.
This pejorative use can be heard in the introduction of the 1930 George and Ira Gershwin song But Not For Me: "I never want to hear from any cheerful pollyannas/who tell me fate supplies a mate/that's all bananas." (cf. song performed by Judy Garland in the 1943 film/movie Girl Crazy)
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To: Jon W.
Sent: Jun 30, 12:15 pm
Hey Jon,
This is Jim Ed "Carrie" from this past Sunday.
"It appears I've learned how to loop God into a circle and hang him from around our necks like an albatross."
~(Simply Jim: Methodist Fag the Political Catalyst)~
I apologize if I've upset u with my albatross reference; but still hoping you are willing meeting with me.
Although I'm wanting this dialogue to be one on one, invite anyone u like to join us;
could use the witnesses.
Can of my own self do nothing
:
as i sense, i judge
:
and my judgement is just;
not because i seek my own will but the will of thy collective unconsciousness which cometh before us.
John 5:30
will work the same with you as well.
However...
it's ones intention creating the realities.
And...
it only takes one ruining what would have been another good day?
I'm wanting to discuss and compare (Rev.) Josh's 6 young men in jail up against the young man in South Carolina facing a possible death penalty.
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To: Jon W.
Hey Jon,
This is Jim Ed "Carrie" from this past Sunday.
"It appears I've learned how to loop God into a circle and hang him from around our necks like an albatross."
~(Simply Jim: Methodist Fag the Political Catalyst)~
I apologize if I've upset u with my albatross reference; but still hoping you are willing meeting with me.
Although I'm wanting this dialogue to be one on one, invite anyone u like to join us;
could use the witnesses.
Can of my own self do nothing
:
as i sense, i judge
:
and my judgement is just;
not because i seek my own will but the will of thy collective unconsciousness which cometh before us.
John 5:30
will work the same with you as well.
However...
it's ones intention creating the realities.
And...
it only takes one ruining what would have been another good day?
I'm wanting to discuss and compare (Rev.) Josh's 6 young men in jail up against the young man in South Carolina facing a possible death penalty.
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From: Jon W.
Jun 30, 7:19 pm
Hi!
I didn't mean to rapid to you. I'm slammed this week with work. I can next week possibly. I'm not sure what you are wanting to discuss? I really don't have an opinion on the death penalty. I'm kind of like Switzerland.
LOL
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To: Jon W.
Sent Jun 30, 11:03 pm
No...
an opinion on diffusion of responsibility.
You cannot be neutral on a moving train.
If silence equals consent, dead or alive, I'm thinking dialogue must equal purgatory;
dead or alive.
Remember that painting I had shown you Sunday after your presentation,
two beings merged into one face;
did life not begin the day we all be "Cain" witness to death however briefly "Abel" a witness to life?
Again,
you cannot be neutral on a moving train.
You said you had a lot of Facebook friends?
Going to quote a Frenchman:
"A truly virtuous man would come to the aid of a distant stranger just as quickly as he would a close friend. Then again,
a truly virtuous man would have no friends".
“A truly virtuous man would come to the aid of the most
distant stranger as quickly as to his own friend.
If men were perfectly virtuous, they wouldn’t have friends.”
~(Montesquieu)~
As I have no friends,
I'm having lots of free time on my hands reflecting on the meaning of life.
It's not enough to be busy, so are the ants.
The question is...
what are we being busy about?
Loving friends?
https://www.opendemocracy.net/transformation/zoe-samudzi/dylann-roof-is-terrorist-but-he-is-not-extremist: While Dylann Roof’s manifesto was unspeakably racist and admittedly painful to read, white self-identified liberals or progressives should read it. The description of white supremacist racial processes is surprisingly astute (though his understanding unfortunately led him to violence rather than an active challenge of their legitimacy and function). In particular he takes to task white liberals who move to areas to attend better schools. His criticism of “white flight” to suburbia points out that many white liberals are not vastly different from him in their internalization of white supremacy (though their expression differs drastically).
While all non-Black people of color must address anti-Blackness in their own communities, white liberals should very carefully analyze their own politics and the ways in which their white privilege ultimately maintains structures of racial oppression.
There are some very tangible things that white liberal and progressive allies can do to challenge white supremacy in the spaces they occupy.They can stop allowing casual racist jokes and comments to go unchallenged. They can share anti-racist narratives from Black people and people of color rather than simply similar comments made by white liberals. They can be mindful of the demands that they as “allies”make from Black people (e.g. demanding support and information, which takes away a person’s time and energy).
But the most crucial thing white people can do is to engage mindfully with people of color in discussions of racism: to recognize the assumptions they carry as a result of socialization are likely steeped in white supremacy to some degree, and to really listen to and trust what people of color tell them about racism. Only through honest discussions about white supremacy and actively taking responsibility for identity-privileging structures can white Americans play their role in upending and ultimately dismantling still existing settler colonial structures.
Actually I'm standing up for both the young men crashing (Rev.) Josh's picnic and the young man killing 9 members of a black Methodist church
bible study/prayer meeting.
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The film received two Academy Award nominations, one for Sissy Spacek in the title role and one for Piper Laurie as her abusive mother. The film featured numerous young actors – including Nancy Allen, William Katt, Amy Irving, and John Travolta – whose careers were launched, or escalated, by the film. It also relaunched the screen and television career of Laurie, who had not been active in show business since 1961.
Carrie was the first of more than 100 film and television productions adapted from, or based on, the published works of Stephen King.
PLOT
While in the showers after gym class, Carrie experiences her abnormally delayed first period. Having no prior knowledge of menstruation, Carrie believes she is bleeding to death. The other girls, including Chris Hargensen and Sue Snell, add to her shame and humiliation by pelting her with tampons and sanitary pads. The gym teacher Miss Collins intervenes and as Carrie becomes more frantic, a light bulb bursts in the showers.
To Carrie's surprise but according to Chris and Billy's plan, she and Tommy are named prom king and queen. As the two approach the stage, Sue discovers Chris holding a rope attached to the bucket. Before Sue can warn Carrie, Miss Collins forces her out. The crown is placed on Carrie's head, then Chris pulls the rope and Carrie is drenched in the pig's blood. Chris and Billy escape the gym laughing, as Tommy is knocked unconscious by the falling bucket. Carrie hallucinates that the whole room is laughing at her.
Carrie snaps into a cold rage, and telekinetically seals the exits. She manipulates a fire hose and uses it to blast the students with water. The water makes contact with the electrical wiring and ignites a fire that consumes the gym. Nearly all of the students and faculty are killed as Chris and Billy witness the carnage from a high window. Carrie leaves the gym and begins walking home, covered in blood. Chris and Billy attempt to run Carrie over with Billy's car, but Carrie telekinetically flips the car over and causes it to explode, killing them.
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To: Jon W.
Sent: Jun 30, 11:27 pm
My schedule wide open. The choice is yours.
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Garland had a large fan base in the gay community and became a gay icon. Reasons given for her standing, especially among gay men, are admiration of her ability as a performer, the way her personal struggles mirrored those of gay men in America during the height of her fame and her value as a camp figure.
"I couldn't care less. I sing to people."
~(Judy Garland)~
In the 1960s, a reporter had asked how she felt about having a large gay following.
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After Jon W. had given his presentation to the "Interactive" Class at St. Mark UMC this morning, a coming-of-age story about his relationships with different members of his family and community while growing up in South Carolina, I approached him wanting to talk about a concern of mine.
But a woman had gotten to him first.
And this woman talked , and talked, and talked, and kept on talking; the whole time me standing right there by to two of them making it clear to others, and her, I intend to be next.
Finally she stops abruptly.
Without even waiting for this worman being out of audible range, in frustration, I quickly jump in with:
"I was already having trouble keeping short what I'm wanting to talk about. Not even going to bother now!"
Do not remember word for word what I said to Jon, but asked if possible for us arrainging a meeting to talk? Then asked of Jon to imagine we were in a gym; a prom.
All of a sudden the doors slam shut; the room catches on fire:
"I'm Carrie.
And...
let's see if you as Pollyanna can talk her way out of this fire? Is this something you be willing to try?"
Upon Jon agreeing to this meeting, I then followed up with:
"It's appears I've learned how to loop God into a circle and hang him from around our necks like an albatross."
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