The healing journey of a widowed, unschooling badass in Delaware.
Found on Facebook:
I would never abandon a friend for sharing thoughts that I found to be deplorable. I would listen with a compassionate heart and try to understand.
Shutting down conversations before they start makes people feel alone and neglected. It traps people in their own heads when they need to work things out with others.
I am where I am because I listened to people I disagreed with and cared about.
As a minority voter in a state like Delaware (also, most U.S. states), there is really no purpose in voting in a national election. That said, I’m more interested in the deep conversation over the principles behind whether to vote or not. Although I lean into Christian arguments against voting, these two conversations are entirely secular in their approaches.
I agree with Tom Woods and Dave Smith on most political issues, but I’m not convinced by their encouragements to vote in this election:
Alec Zeck and Derrick Broze discuss a freedom mindset that doesn’t entertain voting:
The medical/government complex that has staked its success on promoting poisonous “solutions” to problems we’ve always had cures for.
FDA gives cover to food producers, clothing manufacturers, and others to use these poisons.
It is in government’s interest to have a sickly population dependent on a healthcare system they control.
Department of Defense.
War is the health of the State. They waste money, destroy civilization, kill and maim human life, and damage the environment more than any other organization.
“Security video from Walters’ home shows the 15-year-old boy kicking the trooper’s door about 8:30 p.m., then running away. According to the Delaware Department of Justice, after reviewing the security video, the trooper’s girlfriend called Walters at work and told him what had happened.”
“Deputy Attorney General Dan McBride said audio of that call makes it clear Walters knew his home had been pranked and that there was nobody trying to enter his home, that kids had kicked his door and there was no emergency.”
“Walters called in his girlfriends’ report as an “attempted home invasion,” which saw a swarm of police bearing dogs and long rifles, as well as a helicopter, descend on the area.”
Walters then pulls an uninvolved 17-year-old from his home and attacks him.
“…Walters also lied to investigators about using a police database to pull the teenager’s address. The boy had nothing to do with the prank, was held in custody for several hours…”
The manhunt, wasting tens of thousands of dollars of public assets, finds the 15-year-old culprit and Walters goes to the location where police have the child “under control.”
“He turned off his bodycam, but the camera stays on for 30 seconds after being turned off. Footage shows Walters going to the police cruiser, shouldering another officer aside and striking the kid.
The 15-year-old, who had a concussion and fractured eye socket that required 11 screws and a mesh to repair, remained unattended in the police SUV for nearly an hour, according to the teen’s attorney.”
Walters and his fellow officers go on to cover up their abuses.
It seems that only Walters has faced consequences.
This question is for the men who read this far: What do you call a man who stands by while a handcuffed child is beaten?
The officers who assisted in this assault are losers and pussies who don’t deserve the title of “man.” They are tools of a violent system. Their job has turned them into mindless enforcers with no intent “to protect and serve.”
At least 126 journalists have died in IDF attacks on Gaza.
Recently, Jeffrey Loffredo of The Grayzone was beaten and arrested at an Israeli checkpoint.
“The soldiers… illegally requested that the journalists hand in their phones, and when they refused, the soldiers pointed a gun at one of the journalists, hit him with their hands and the barrel of a gun, then dragged him out of the car and slammed him onto the concrete. When lying on the ground, they pointed 2 guns at his head. The rest of the journalists exited the car and the military raided it, confiscating phones, cameras, and personal items,” said @the_andrey_x.
This story is no where to be found in major US media outlets. The US State Department has also been silent.
The abuse that Israel is committing against journalists must be brought to light.
Government is never too small to be evil.
Stop voting for these people. Stop voting for your own oppression. Stop validating the Little Caesars who would ruin your life to keep their jobs.
Anything can take you away from God, if you let it. Addiction is possession.
Nothing can take you away from God if you don’t allow it to do so.
I do take these things seriously. Jonathan Pageau is one of my favorite living thinkers and he disagrees with me, to an extent.
The key for me is ignorance. We are ignorant to the depth of meaning in Christian rituals, but that doesn’t mean that we are misusing them. It does mean that Christian rituals can be distorted to worship false gods. Just look at any church during playoffs.
Because these are meant to be spaces dedicated to the worship of God and emulation of Christ, I end up leaving as soon as there’s a celebration of government holidays, local sports teams, or innumerable secular idols.
Whether it’s a jiu-jitsu, yoga, Lego, grocery, retail, museum, arboreteum, etc., etc…space, I know it wasn’t designed with God in mind and isn’t run with Christ at the center. That doesn’t make me fearful. I know God is in these spaces and my intention is to be aware of Him and and align my actions, words, and thoughts with His Will as closely as I am able.
Banned Books Week is a scam to sell books that are not banned.