K C Sunbeam

Originally, 1:4 warned of a hill's steepness in the 1970s UK, before being replaced by road signs saying 25%.  This formerly most common of hazardous inclines meant that every four units of a road's horizontal distance had one unit of vertical rise.  Then in the late 1980s, British media began a misguided campaign to accentuate mental problems, by declaring that *one in four* people suffered mental illness at one time, imitating the road sign warning. Later, others copied this idea, publicly declaring that *one in four* women suffered ongoing domestic violence and *one in four* women were sexual assault victims. Then in 2025 I saw an ad saying that *one in four* Jewish Americans were victims of hate last year.  I acknowledge that such abuses have sometimes occurred, and I denounce such abuse of women and Jewish people. However, these supposed statistics make men look terrible, and Gentile people terrible. That is, everyone not Jewish. Also, this would reflect on Christian...

                                         Heresy, originally defined, was a religious doctrine contrary to dogma established by the Church, or which implied denial of revealed truth. That is, heterodoxy. A heretic would be one who dissents from established Church dogma or deliberately and obstinately disavows a revealed truth. That is, a deviationist. Principles of avoiding heresy and condemning it are indeed scriptural.  But it also came to mean departure from a dominant doctrine, practice, or theory in any field.  That is, innovation. A heretic came to mean anyone who dissents from an accepted doctrine, opinion, or theory of any kind, or who opposes generally accepted beliefs.  That is, a nonconformist. In other words, don't you dare defy popular opinion.   For lauders of popular opinion to be logically consistent, they should allow ant colonies to take over...