So something is happening that has not happened since I've been alive.
The Pope of the Catholic Church is expounding on the "liberal" interpretation of Catholicism that I always harbored and always wished to hear, from the leaders of the supposedly one true Church, while I was still a Catholic. Not hearing it forced me to abandon my once genuine faith at the age of 16.
Where the fuck has this been this whole time?
I found the abortion-and-gay reviling version to be lacking in depth and also missing the main thrust of Christ's teachings.
Jesus the Christ wanted us to love one another.
A system built around the acquisition of profit does not engender love.
What I did hear when I went to church weekly/ more than weekly was "donate money to the Church" and "check out our new gold ornaments" and "sex is bad mkay" and "God will damn you for your sins" and "faith in God is the only salvation" and blah blah blah. I knew that this could not be truly the will of God and that this church was corrupted by profiteers and capitalists and people who never gave a damn about Jesus and only cared about what the invocation of Him could do to make them richer.
Pope Francis appears to be different.
While he still seems to be pandering to a political world he is expressing the idea, speaking for the single largest religion in the world, that what is ACTUALLY important is taking care of all of our brothers and sisters in God and not condemning people for their mistakes and forcing them to confess and pay money to be forgiven. This is a dramatic turn of events.
I really, really, want to see Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso and Pope Francis on the same stage having a conversation about the meaning of life and what our priorities TRULY should be. I feel like I almost need to see this. In my abandonment of Christianity and search for a source of virtue and direction I found Buddhism, as an ancient mystery that touches the soul in a way, equally divine and inspiring as any other, that can lead to salvation not only of oneself, but all others as well. Our leaders are corrupt and their goals are vain.
There can be no victory unless all are victorious.
Thank you Pope Francis, for restoring sanity to the Church, and giving a lot of people reason to look for satisfaction beyond the direct and the tangible.
Friday, November 29, 2013
Friday, November 22, 2013
On the great leaders...
So today's the anniversary of Kennedy's assassination. Let me start by saying that for a long time I looked into and was ready to believe conspiracies about what really happened, who was responsible, hoping we'd finally get the truth, etc etc. (Oliver Stone's JFK as the cartoonish example.) As an older man I see that it's really ultimately not important whose idea it was, who did it, was Oswald acting alone or with others, the significance of all this really is dwarfed by the significance of the actual event itself.
Also I'm hearing negative shit about Kennedy on the anniversary. I had to stop reading this stupid Slate article "Kennedy-shaming" (sorry), i.e. blaming him because hey, he was trying to have the CIA kill Fidel Castro, man!! So really he's the villain!! HAHA!! What a bunch of short-sighted morons. I'm defriending Slate. Right now.
OK. Done.
So. Maybe Kennedy could have gotten more accomplished. Maybe he could have done more to get us out of Vietnam before it became a full-scale war. Maybe he could have handled the Cuban Missile Crisis better. I don't know. Probably no one knows. What we have to respect is that these were impossibly difficult problems to confront, life-or-death-of-the-world-problems, and how could a human being be expected to know the right answer?
But this is true in life in general. We don't know what the right decision is ahead of time. We just have to decide as best as we can and live with the consequences. Unfortunately JFK did not live to see the results of his decisions, or get to complete an entire term of Presidential decisions.
On to today. We've got these so called leaders, who their best accomplishment is criticizing the president for the healthcare website not working perfectly right away, here's a Bill O'Reilly quote to give you the pure form of the bullshit: "I think his presidency is crashing and burning."
THE WHOLE POINT OF THE FUCKING PROGRAM IS SO THAT POOR PEOPLE CAN GET FUCKING HEALTH CARE!
So let's be real fucking heroes and just devote all of our energy to trying to sabotage it. And misleading people about what it is, does, will do, and so forth. I ask myself, what could be the motivation for doing this other than trying to help poor and working poor people? How can these assholes paint this as bad, and themselves as the heroes for trying to stop this devastating piece of legislation from being enacted!
Oh. Well Obama wants to take control of the whole country, of course. Comrade Obama wants to make all of your decisions for you. He wants to give the United Nations the power to make decisions for us. He wants to take away your guns.
By the way: ALL OF THIS IS TOTAL BULLSHIT AND ONLY A FUCKING IDIOT WOULD BELIEVE IT!!!
On the bright side, I just read an article about how they're well on the way to fixing the website, and enrollment is increasing dramatically. So, when it's running like a top, what are they going to go back to, Benghazi?
These fucking assholes.
True leadership is trying to help EVERYONE prosper, from the bottom to the top. And guess what? Rich people didn't get rich by giving their money to poor people. It's really fucking simple. The only defense these people with no resources have is the government. And it's the task of these fucking monsters to get the average person to believe that the wealthy are "job creators" and all good things come from them and blah blah blah blah. What a fucking hoax. And you'd have to be dumb as dirt not to see it. So if you're a Republican - FUCK YOU!!! And if you're a conservative voter... FUCK YOU, IDIOT! Or selfish asshole!!!
Leaders do things to help those they are leading. They don't sabotage attempts to do so. Kennedy tried to help powerless and voiceless people in this country get a chance at prosperity. Oswald and/or his conspirators sabotaged him and sabotaged America. And these fucking Ted Cruz and John Boehner motherfuckers are doing the same.
"Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country."
What has the GOP done for this country in the last 50 years? Ask yourself that. And if you have a good answer then please by all means let me hear it.
Also I'm hearing negative shit about Kennedy on the anniversary. I had to stop reading this stupid Slate article "Kennedy-shaming" (sorry), i.e. blaming him because hey, he was trying to have the CIA kill Fidel Castro, man!! So really he's the villain!! HAHA!! What a bunch of short-sighted morons. I'm defriending Slate. Right now.
OK. Done.
So. Maybe Kennedy could have gotten more accomplished. Maybe he could have done more to get us out of Vietnam before it became a full-scale war. Maybe he could have handled the Cuban Missile Crisis better. I don't know. Probably no one knows. What we have to respect is that these were impossibly difficult problems to confront, life-or-death-of-the-world-problems, and how could a human being be expected to know the right answer?
But this is true in life in general. We don't know what the right decision is ahead of time. We just have to decide as best as we can and live with the consequences. Unfortunately JFK did not live to see the results of his decisions, or get to complete an entire term of Presidential decisions.
On to today. We've got these so called leaders, who their best accomplishment is criticizing the president for the healthcare website not working perfectly right away, here's a Bill O'Reilly quote to give you the pure form of the bullshit: "I think his presidency is crashing and burning."
THE WHOLE POINT OF THE FUCKING PROGRAM IS SO THAT POOR PEOPLE CAN GET FUCKING HEALTH CARE!
So let's be real fucking heroes and just devote all of our energy to trying to sabotage it. And misleading people about what it is, does, will do, and so forth. I ask myself, what could be the motivation for doing this other than trying to help poor and working poor people? How can these assholes paint this as bad, and themselves as the heroes for trying to stop this devastating piece of legislation from being enacted!
Oh. Well Obama wants to take control of the whole country, of course. Comrade Obama wants to make all of your decisions for you. He wants to give the United Nations the power to make decisions for us. He wants to take away your guns.
By the way: ALL OF THIS IS TOTAL BULLSHIT AND ONLY A FUCKING IDIOT WOULD BELIEVE IT!!!
On the bright side, I just read an article about how they're well on the way to fixing the website, and enrollment is increasing dramatically. So, when it's running like a top, what are they going to go back to, Benghazi?
These fucking assholes.
True leadership is trying to help EVERYONE prosper, from the bottom to the top. And guess what? Rich people didn't get rich by giving their money to poor people. It's really fucking simple. The only defense these people with no resources have is the government. And it's the task of these fucking monsters to get the average person to believe that the wealthy are "job creators" and all good things come from them and blah blah blah blah. What a fucking hoax. And you'd have to be dumb as dirt not to see it. So if you're a Republican - FUCK YOU!!! And if you're a conservative voter... FUCK YOU, IDIOT! Or selfish asshole!!!
Leaders do things to help those they are leading. They don't sabotage attempts to do so. Kennedy tried to help powerless and voiceless people in this country get a chance at prosperity. Oswald and/or his conspirators sabotaged him and sabotaged America. And these fucking Ted Cruz and John Boehner motherfuckers are doing the same.
"Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country."
What has the GOP done for this country in the last 50 years? Ask yourself that. And if you have a good answer then please by all means let me hear it.
Monday, November 11, 2013
What are you all, fucking smoking crack??
Oh man. Gotta double check to see if I've already posted about this. One sec.
Alright, clear for takeoff.
Two words for you: Ben Ghazi. (I know it's really only one word.)
Seriously, you guys? In the future's history books, we'll be able to find info about the outcry over Benghazi under "grasping at straws" in the index.
So, this is an attack on an embassy (we haven't had any of those under any recent presidents, have we? I don't remember!!!). How could BHO have let this happen???? BLERGHHHHH!!!!! *throws up blood*.
Come ONNNNNN. COME ON!!!!
Ok, so I did mention this in my last post, I just checked again. But I think it's OK for me to talk about it twice, especially since I've had to hear about it probably a thousand million BAJILLION times since the election. I mean come on.
Maybe I'm being a little unclear. Let me be direct.
I want to know the details of what happened on September 11th, 2001. I think because it was such a terrible thing to happen to us, and a tragedy, and cost us the lives of so many, no one wanted to be divisive and ask questions and politicize. OK, great. But to then turn around 11 years later and have the republicans put up this enormous stink about an attack that cost 4 lives as opposed to 3,000? How can they look at themselves in the mirror, seriously? HOW???
I know I'm spewing words all over the page. I know this is hardly something that could be published and referred to as a legitimate source of information on anything. But do you know what? I don't care, because this is for me. And anyone who's on the level knows exactly what I'm talking about, so why do I have to dot and cross?
The frustrating bit is there's no way to get people to appreciate the absurdity of most of these attacks. And I can't believe that these politicians are such huge idiots, so the only answer must be that they're saying all these ridiculous things to get idiots to vote for them, and they know how full of shit they are, but you know what, fuck all of us! And there's no way to just get people to understand that. Fuck.
Alright, clear for takeoff.
Two words for you: Ben Ghazi. (I know it's really only one word.)
Seriously, you guys? In the future's history books, we'll be able to find info about the outcry over Benghazi under "grasping at straws" in the index.
So, this is an attack on an embassy (we haven't had any of those under any recent presidents, have we? I don't remember!!!). How could BHO have let this happen???? BLERGHHHHH!!!!! *throws up blood*.
Come ONNNNNN. COME ON!!!!
Ok, so I did mention this in my last post, I just checked again. But I think it's OK for me to talk about it twice, especially since I've had to hear about it probably a thousand million BAJILLION times since the election. I mean come on.
Maybe I'm being a little unclear. Let me be direct.
I want to know the details of what happened on September 11th, 2001. I think because it was such a terrible thing to happen to us, and a tragedy, and cost us the lives of so many, no one wanted to be divisive and ask questions and politicize. OK, great. But to then turn around 11 years later and have the republicans put up this enormous stink about an attack that cost 4 lives as opposed to 3,000? How can they look at themselves in the mirror, seriously? HOW???
I know I'm spewing words all over the page. I know this is hardly something that could be published and referred to as a legitimate source of information on anything. But do you know what? I don't care, because this is for me. And anyone who's on the level knows exactly what I'm talking about, so why do I have to dot and cross?
The frustrating bit is there's no way to get people to appreciate the absurdity of most of these attacks. And I can't believe that these politicians are such huge idiots, so the only answer must be that they're saying all these ridiculous things to get idiots to vote for them, and they know how full of shit they are, but you know what, fuck all of us! And there's no way to just get people to understand that. Fuck.
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