Gaslighting Does Not Mean Simply Shifting the Blame

A certain James Bogle Esq. seems to have used the word "gaslighting" in the sense of "shifting the blame" to me here:

Correspondence of Hans Georg Lundahl: While the Debate May be Over, It is Yet to be Reviewed
https://correspondentia-ioannis-georgii.blogspot.com/2023/02/while-debate-may-be-over-it-is-yet-to.html

Michael Lofton used the word "gaslighting" in the sense of "shifting the blame" about Russians in relations to Ukraine here:

Did Ukraine Just Ban Orthodox Christianity?
Reason & Theology | 22.VIII.2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO7v3ifOPiA

It's a sad day when the word "gaslighting" is being so abused after about a decade ago being unknown, I had to answer the question whether that was even a word.

Yes, it is a word, and it does not mean "shifting the blame" it means shifting a very particular type of blamedness as to a very particular type of situation.

When the abusive husband in the film Gas Light wants his wife to conclude she is insane, the blame of insanity is not one belonging properly to him, and the blame belonging to him, that of very devious manipulation, is not one he wants to shift to his wife. He only is shifting the quality of being the person to blame, but he is not shifting a particular blame between the persons, he is exchanging one type of blaim for a very different one.

He wants his wife to conclude she is insane, he wants her to consult, be locked up, and use the incapacities that go with her (supposed) insanity to take care of her belongings so he can steal from her.

Gaslighting doesn't mean telling someone to take the blame that's really one's own, it means giving someone clues for concluding he or she is mad, and if any extension should be made, it's giving someone else such clues when the person concerned refuses to be fooled. I would suggest, psychiatry thrives on Dunning Kruger and Prejudice in its own personnel, on Stockholm syndrome in the patients, but also on gaslighting in third parties. If people abusing the term succeed in making it just a shorthand for "shifting the blame" it will involve my charge against psychiatry becoming incomprehensible./HGL

Elisabeth Tudor or Boleyn as Distributist and Luddite

Atlas Obscura often has a good story to tell. This one is from Tuder times (unless you prefer to consider Elisabeth as Boleyn)

A Machine That Made Stockings Helped Kick Off the Industrial Revolution
by Sarah Laskow September 19, 2017
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/machine-silk-stockings-industrial-revolution-queen-elizabeth

Sarah Laskow gave a subtitle:

Queen Elizabeth I wanted none of it.

Here is the quote that goes with it:

Queen Elizabeth had some sense of what mechanically produced stockings might mean, and she wanted none of it. “I have too much love for my poor people who obtain their bread by the employment of knitting to give my money to forward an invention that will tend to their ruin by depriving them of employment and thus making them beggars,” she pronounced.

Both Elisabeth and Oliver Cromwell persecuted Catholics. If Chesterton appreciated the latter for at least not banning beer, I think he would also have appreciated to mention this good side of Elisabeth./HGL

What Does Vladimir Mean?

Rus' matters. · Nearly Ten Years Ago I Was Probably Wrong About Fatima · What Does Vladimir Mean?

On the German Quora, I found this:

Stammt der russische Name Wladimir, wie in Wladimir Putin, von dem deutschen Namen Waldemar oder ist es ein slawischer Name?
https://de.quora.com/Stammt-der-russische-Name-Wladimir-wie-in-Wladimir-Putin-von-dem-deutschen-Namen-Waldemar-oder-ist-es-ein-slawischer-Name/answer/Stefan-Speck-1

Stefan Speck knows Russian.

So, Old East Slavic Володимѣръ and Old Church Slavonic Владимѣръ (pronounced respectively Volodiměrъ and Vladiměrъ) mean "rule-famous" or "might-famous". The newer and changed Slavonic version Владимир / Vladimir basically means "rule the world!" ...

Now a question or two or three.

• Does that sound like sth mentioned in the Bible? King Solomon was famous by his rule and someone else will (briefly, 3 and a 1/2 years plus possibly non-persecuting prequel) rule all nations (Apocalypse 13:7).
• Does ruling the world sound like sth that "Vladimir I" / "Vladimir A" / Lenin came close to achieving?
• Does ruling the world sound like sth that "Vladimir II" / "Vladimir B" could come to achieve, if the incompetence of those mainly opposing him* takes its toll?

Herzlichen Dank, Herr Speck!

Meawhile, trying to oppose Putin by promoting abortion or homoliberalism is idiotic. God will not be mocked. God will also not allow a persecutor into power, unless he's punishing someone else. Right now, he's not posing as a persecutor of Christians, but I don't think he's a Christian, or his Christian if at all faith is compromised, and that could one day very easily lead to tensions with actual Catholic Christians.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
St. Cajetan of Thiena
7.VIII.2024

* A competent opposition to Putin would have been one taking Vysehrad countries and especially Lech Lech Kaczyński as the moral lead.

Nearly Ten Years Ago I Was Probably Wrong About Fatima

Rus' matters. · Nearly Ten Years Ago I Was Probably Wrong About Fatima · What Does Vladimir Mean?

Here is what I wrote:

I sometimes feel that if Portuguese does not make the difference between Rus' and Rossia, Our Lady at Fatima by consecration of "Russia" might have meant Rus' rather than Rossia. Of course, she might have meant both.

Why was this wrong?

Because Kievan Rus' was already consecrated to Our Lady in the Middle Ages.

Fatima is probably about allowing Rossia to catch up with Kievan Rus'.

Ukraine is already consecrated since close to a millennium ago. It's time for Muscovy to catch up. Will try to add source later./HGL

PS, requesting the consecration of Russia could if so also be a hint She does not count Muscovy as heir to Rus', but regards the Dnipr state as the heir thereof./HGL