Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@M_David_Osborne @VividVoid_ An absolutely crucial observation, Mike. Never mind calumny, most folk are a mass of unconscious shadow projection, also largely unaware how commonly speech seeks to establish a chain of alienation in the innermost heart of another, to tear apart the fabric of relations itself.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 3 May 2023

@KangJesseJames @nealjclark1 Yes, 'gossip' can be "a fire set by hell itself", the primary, everyday means we unconsciously visit great violence upon our world but, equally, the central social locus for a conscious, deliberate alchemy fostering "dwelling in peaceful habitation." Our Word as peace alive. /end

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @RDGStout 1/2 Yes, destroyers of worlds, too. Proverbs 26: 17-28 exposes 'sins of speech' in this regard. Indeed, the 'evil disguised as good' of calumny - speech "set on fire by hell itself" (James 3:6) - typifies the deliberate (and often, _only_ available) mode for murdering the good.Quoted by@RDGStout 1/2 Yes, destroyers of worlds, too. Proverbs 26: 17-28 exposes 'sins of speech' in this regard. Indeed, the 'evil disguised as good' of calumny - speech "set on fire by hell itself" (James 3:6) - typifies the deliberate (and often, _only_ available) mode for murdering the good.