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John's avatar

Ireland is a nation of Zeligs.

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Conor Fitzgerald's avatar

How do you figure? Blend in with whatever’s going on at the moment?

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John's avatar

Yes. It seems to be our main trait. And culture being downstream of language accelerating it.

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Grace Lee's avatar

Thank you for your observation. In post-Catholic countries, people still bathe in Catholic cultural traditions and get ambivalent about some value systems. Not so much in post-Protestant countries where people will just join its substitutes, namely radical social justice movements.

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F Kelly's avatar

"the heat from a fire that may have already gone out"

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Conor Fitzgerald's avatar

there's a cure lyric "the fire's almost out and there's nothing left to burn" which I thought about quoting but i wasn't sure how that would go down lol

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F Kelly's avatar

Well. There's nothing new under the sun. As the fella sez. I thought the line read very well, and the notion of a comforting but now dead fire apt.

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