(Nov 19, 2021 01:45 AM)confused2 Wrote: [ -> ]I am Mrs C2's second husband. I suspect the fist marriage was abusive - I've never enquired but that is what I suspect. I'm far from the nicest guy you might meet but she knew the signs and kind of forced me to become much nicer. If I hadn't loved her [Zadok the priest still looping] it could easily have been another toxic relationship. After nearly 40 years I guess I've been (mostly) ok. She'd been wonderful. The girl that became Mrs C2 wasn't a complete stranger - she had power before we even met - without that things [edit "might not" replaced by..] probably would not have turned out so well.
Peeping behind the music itself:
Zadok: "He was the High Priest of Israel during the reigns of David and Solomon. [...] The prophet Ezekiel extols, in the book attributed to him, the sons of Zadok as staunch opponents of paganism during the era of pagan worship, and indicates their birthright to unique duties and privileges in the future temple."
Well, at least the local community won't have to worry about any offspring from the C2 household keeping the Wiccans, the Knights Templar residue (Baphomet), heathen druids, and so forth in check.
(Yeah, yeah, I probably was wishing that it was a corruption of
Zardoz -- maybe would have been more tantalizing.)
With respect to other topic bits of conversation elsewhere in the thread...
Western incels (sans the violent, insane ones) sometimes seem like those who hate being potentially slotted as the equivalent of Japanese
herbivore men. And thus, to avoid self-loathing, flail about in vocally spastic ways so to appear mean -- to garner a semblance of primitive masculinity via spiteful speech or behavior.
The manosphere as a whole, OTOH, is apparently populated by a wide variety of male species. Including those with families (i.e., actually have a woman, even kids) who fit a classic mold of domestic patriarch -- some of which probably aren't monsters beyond wanting to be top dog. But accordingly can't refrain from voicing their dogma and motivated interpretations of the current world online.
We've all encountered people who "truly" fit the stereotypes disparaged, ridiculed, and marketed by extremist propaganda (from right and left movements). Though for many of them that's surely not their personality template 100% of the time, as well as from youth to death. Not everyone they interact with interprets them as _X_ or has engaged with that side of them.
But the reality engineering of a movement is, of course, exaggerating those examples as the majority -- abstracting a sweeping generalization about a population group from the few.
Exceptions are when a radical orientation or authoritarian culture does administratively dominate a population group or entire country. Where Citizen Average or Neighborhood Denizen has been pervasively conditioned to be _X_, and receives social or political consequences if not conforming to that mandated human model.
In some cases, a revolutionist (left) or fundamentalist (right) organization may contend in its literature and circuit promotions that it is not issuing sweeping, universal caricatures about a segment of people. That such is disinformation by their opponents. That it only targets legit, specific instances, exploitive agendas, etc. But usually, in actual practice or in effect over a period of time, that's just not the case. (Or there must be a helluva lot of rogues not following the dictates of the beliefs or leadership.)