Facebook keeps serving up posts from two, or three years ago that are actually posts from 2004, fifteen years ago; now going on sixteen years. I used this doctored up pic for my profile pic. I enhanced it, a SELFIE- one of my few ever taken, because I am really bothered by the whole SELFIE thing. Before SELFIES, people used to engage someone on the street to get them to take a picture for them. It was a social engagement we seem to have lost.
Yes, there are plenty of freaks out there, but I don't think there are really anymore than ever before. It's just that with the immediacy by which we receive information now, we see more of them than ever before. Freaks have always been here, and to some degree, we're all freaks. Dolly Parton counts herself as a freak and loves freaks. After all, this is not a theocracy, and it never has been a theocracy. Therefore, we have all these Dolly Parton fans running around who love to dress up as her!
I'm not one of those kinds of freaks, but I understand freaks as part of the fabric of American society. What was it Mel Brooks said in the Producers... "Let's face it--without Jews, fags and gypsies, there would be no theater!" This reference makes no mention of freaks, except in a way. Certainly, Jews, homosexuals, and gypsies are a minority of our American population. Just as are people who have learned to think for themselves... I'm one of those who thinks for himself, only after absorbing and discarding information.
Garbage in, garbage out is ambiguous. It could mean, you are what you eat. It could also mean, you partly are, but you discard certain things you just can't agree with. Like my grandmother was quoted as saying in her high school yearbook, "Take it all in. Consider it. Believe as you please". Some people will gladly accept anything that's free, even if it's a sack of sh*t. Other people will not accept a sack of sh*t. Get it?
Nobody has a lock on the truth. Our forefathers came to this land escaping religious persecution, mainly because they seemed to think they had a lock on the truth. The Pilgrims were forced to leave the theocratic state and the Church of England. In some cultures, they would have just killed them. Instead, they put them on a boat to see if the earth was really flat.
What did we learn? There are people who still claim the earth is flat! After all that, we're still stuck in our ways of thinking as archaic as they may be. And, while we did have the Salem witch trials, we generally don't worry about witches anymore, and we certainly don't kill our gay people like they do in many theocracies around the world. What we do still do, is create the poor, and hand them a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and say, "Stay dry"! Or, "Stay warm", witchever applies for the day! And, then, finish it off with, "Now, go get a job and fend for yourself! Just look at the president! He's a self-made man"...
Well, you may, or may not agree with that. But, one thing is for sure. Everyone has a bad hair day. It's just that his happened to be on Armistice Day in France when he decided the weather was too bad for visiting the grave sites of fallen soldiers from World War I. The next day he went it alone, separating himself from the crowd of world leaders who cannot understand him anymore than any sane American can. How me maintains a base after all of his absurdities is not understandable. It seems to me it is a refusal to admit they were wrong, and will stick to their guns regardless.
The guilt must be overwhelming to have to stick to your guns against a populace that is largely unarmed, and doesn't feel the need to bear any arms other than the arms they were born with. Why is it the most ardent proponents of the second amendment seem to be carrying a huge amount of guilt for something? Is it for using the Pilgrims as guinea pigs? Or, is it for creating the Trail of Tears? Is it for believing in the myth of self-sufficiency? I mean, how self-sufficient are you if you wouldn't get on the Mayflower yourself before having it proven that the earth is not flat? How self-sufficient are you if you had to bring slaves to build the new world when you should have done it yourselves? When will you stop pitching and believing the lies of billionaires who won't even show up because of inclement weather?
Well, this presidency has certainly done one thing thing. It has brought to light that every individual, every generation, comes to a point where you either embrace bullsh*t, or you reject it. It is clear, that at least 1/3 of us embrace it. Remember that, when you walking down the street. One in three of us, AT LEAST, embrace bullsh*t. It is unclear what the non-voting crowd thinks. Many of them are Libertarian, and militia members who reject the US Government and it's system of law. I understand them, but I'm not a Libertarian.
Many of them are self-deemed Constitutionalists, which seems to take a fundamentalist view of the Constitution like Christian Fundamentalists take a view of the Bible, literally, and rigidly. Both the Bible and the Constitution are more than rigid, filled with room for interpretation, and even, in the case of the Bible with allegory, all too often taken literally. It is the message, the WORD, that matters. The WORD does not mean, "word" like these words I'm writing, or the words written anywhere else. That brings the literary aspect to the world's greatest book, which is a hard pill for someone to swallow, if they think that means you really have to swallow a pill.
It means, if you want to stop being crazy and willing to blow things up for your particular religious beliefs, you'd better be right against all thirty thousand flavors of Christianity on the globe, and against all other religions. Personally, I believe the WORD is above all religion, while it permeates all existence, and religion, in these things it leaves us with after we cannot answer all the questions, namely: love, joy, peace, patience, goodness, kindness, faithfulness, gentleness & self-control.
After all of your, and my, existence cannot explain everything, we are left with these things to live on. At first they are merely words, until they are born out from you to form the WORD in you. Like the left eventually meets the right and both see the center and begin clinging to one another. We find peace is in the middle, between the stomping of the gas pedal and the slamming on the brakes. So, what we have to get to in all of this mumbo-jumbo is manners and respect, for ourselves and for one another. If you want to dress up like Dolly Parton, go for it. Just don't come calling on me in a dimly lit bar one night! Unless it's a gay bar, and rest assured you're not going to find me in one of those, unless someone punks me!
And, if you want to go to church on Sunday, or Saturday, and not consume alcoholic beverages, don't think of yourself more highly than you ought just because you don't drink. The arrogant Christian is just as abominable as the homosexuality they tend to hate. Throw the first stone if you think your abstinence makes you superior. It's often your sons and daughters who are puking in the streets because they can't handle their Sake because they were sheltered from the wine that makes the heart of man glad...
Yes, we live in a nation, and even a world full of freaks. Religion makes freaks of us. Life itself makes freaks of us. And, in the end, God loves Hee-Haw. Yet, like capitalism, that horse, that donkey, that mule, needs bridles. Otherwise, it runs wild...
United States Soldiers pay tribute to the
8 million Horses, Donkeys, and Mules that lost their lives
during World War I, 1918, One Hundred Years Ago
8 million Horses, Donkeys, and Mules that lost their lives
during World War I, 1918, One Hundred Years Ago
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In Observance of Veterans Day
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Now, can we please escort the Horse's Ass In Chief out of the building and show him the streets where he can fend for himself in all his self-sufficiency? But, let him be forewarned, they don't serve steak at the soup kitchen, they very seldom have ketchup, and they will put you out in the rain even if you're a veteran.
Theatre?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1983/12/16/nazis-and-nonsense/8f028a93-904b-40da-a165-7ec8caf75a1d/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.0a136a4b9fa7
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BLAHG, BLAHG, BLAHG!
https://gabenewmanblahgs.blogspot.com/2016/11/dolly-2020.html
Now, can we please escort the Horse's Ass In Chief out of the building and show him the streets where he can fend for himself in all his self-sufficiency? But, let him be forewarned, they don't serve steak at the soup kitchen, they very seldom have ketchup, and they will put you out in the rain even if you're a veteran.
Theatre?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1983/12/16/nazis-and-nonsense/8f028a93-904b-40da-a165-7ec8caf75a1d/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.0a136a4b9fa7
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BLAHG, BLAHG, BLAHG!
https://gabenewmanblahgs.blogspot.com/2016/11/dolly-2020.html
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