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Chelles's avatar

Ha! You had me chuckling at "equal opportunity earther". Isn't that refreshing? To not be a slinger of pejoratives? It's certainly refreshing to read.

I appreciated this article on guilt. I think that's one of the things that frustrates me most. Is people flinging vitriol about issues without actually caring, or in such a manner that shows how little they care. I've been a tree hugger in the most Anne of Green Gables way for ever so long. I love creation! And that's why I do not want to litter, and want to reduce plastics, and want our air/water/land clean (also for my sake, and my children's sakes, and my grandchildren's sakes, and your sake, and your children's sakes, etc...). So when my (sheepy) husband says to me "You'd love this book, it's about climate change and wolves' migration paths altering...." I'm immediately just hearing "blah blah blah", because, ah, you DON'T know me. Enjoy your guilt and your entertaining propganda, maybe I'll listen someday when you're enthralled with creation! I've tried to be part of local nature groups, encouraging planting native plants and being a little wild in our home gardens - some of which I even helped start - but when it starts out with members saying how much they hate humans, I'm done. There's no point in enjoying nature with someone who literally hates...me...herself...all people. Yuck!

This line stood out powerfully: "Rid yourself of your reprehensible repugnance through vaccine purification." And really brings out the essence of what most of this is - religion. People who reject God, the Creator, must worship something. It's how we were deigned. So they worship the created. But because it's missing the core of truth - which is the Creator himself - then it all goes amiss, and the love is not true.

I thought you might appreciate this poem I wrote in 2021. It was given to me while walking down the street (ironically to get Ivermectin from my local pharmacy before they stopped carrying it) and observing all the signs in everyone's yards:

New Faith

(June 22nd, 2021)

The brick and mortar their cathedrals

Purified with the incense of antibacterials

The doctors the priests

The nurses the acolytes

The janitors the thurifers

The white coats the vestments

With stoles of stainless steal about their necks:

Their authority to listen to the secrets of our hearts

The papered and wheeling beds the altars

Where we bow down and splay ourselves before them

The first bath and ointment:

The baptism and anointing

The shots the Host dwelling within us

We sacrifice our children

In this blind faith we follow

Offering them up

To this God of Medicine

The policies the Tradition

Regardless of what the (cherry-picked) Gospel says

We picket our homes

With our newfound creeds:

“We believe…!”

And THIS is our new faith

We have awakened to the power

That only these Godmen can save us

Forever and ever

World without end

Amen

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Gwaihir's avatar

Like most things, I think the green movement is mostly bullshit. If corporations really cared, they would insist on making things that last - like appliances from 40 years ago. But now, even major appliances come with a one year warranty. The only thing green about the green movement is money.

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