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We used to vacation on The Cape when I was very young. Sorry to hear that you've had no electricity for so long! And thanks for your observations. @sma3
Glad the power is back. We never fully appreciate electricity, until it goes out. I have found myself reflexively flipping switches in the past. What you say about the Canadian and red state help is heartwarming.
Yes, the human side of things are indeed the worst casualties of this epic foolishness. And the BS being flung about, like we don't ourselves exist in glass houses, is unforgivable.
This destruction of CDC and NIH is indeed one of the worst tragedies. We are seemingly embracing the nineteenth century. Anyone who looks at what RFK is doing, and isn't disgusted, must truly hate the U.S.
And this disdain for our Constitutional standards is pure recklessness.
Where are the selflessness, generosity, and hospitality that were supposed to mark the lives of people who truly love God and country? Where are lives that replicate the willing embrace of the poor, huddled masses affixed to the very feet of Liberty? Where are the open-hearted people who emulate the radical love of disparate neighbors at the heart of the Gospels?
They’re gone, replaced by immigrant-hating wall-builders, blindly intolerant culture warriors, and violent anti-abortion zealots.
The words patriot and Christian used to cost something to claim. They were labels that once came with the expectation of a modicum of transformation; identifiers that previously required some measure of evidence displayed in one’s altered life.
The flag and the cross were once symbols of higher causes and better angels, visual reminders of who we might be as we embodied our Constitution and our creeds.
The MAGA crowd does not read the scripture to guide themselves on how to live their lives to be a Christian. Nor do they read the constitution or any other documents, like the Federalist Papers, to understand why the rights we have exist and why it is so vital to protect them. They just act as bigoted ignorant, selfish humans and call that Patriotism or Christianity. Bob Dylan had a line: “People don’t do what they believe in, they just do what’s most convenient and then they repent.” Sadly the repent part has been replaced with arrogance.
“People don’t do what they believe in, they just do what’s most convenient and then they repent.”
Peter Cook (as the Devil) had a similar line in the movie Bedazzled (1967);
George Spiggott [the Devil]: I've got last-minute repentance to contend with. Stanley Moon: That doesn't sound too much of a threat. George Spiggott: Not much of a threat? Do you realize I can spend 50 or 60 years working on a client making him vain, greedy, lustful, slothful, the lot and then just when he's breathing his last, he goes and bloody repents? I lost Mussolini that way. Stanley Moon: Really? George Spiggott: At the moment they're putting the noose around his neck, he says, "Scusi. Mille regrette." Up he goes.
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Glad the power is back. We never fully appreciate electricity, until it goes out. I have found myself reflexively flipping switches in the past. What you say about the Canadian and red state help is heartwarming.
Yes, the human side of things are indeed the worst casualties of this epic foolishness. And the BS being flung about, like we don't ourselves exist in glass houses, is unforgivable.
This destruction of CDC and NIH is indeed one of the worst tragedies. We are seemingly embracing the nineteenth century. Anyone who looks at what RFK is doing, and isn't disgusted, must truly hate the U.S.
And this disdain for our Constitutional standards is pure recklessness.
Where are the selflessness, generosity, and hospitality that were supposed to mark the lives of people who truly love God and country?
Where are lives that replicate the willing embrace of the poor, huddled masses affixed to the very feet of Liberty?
Where are the open-hearted people who emulate the radical love of disparate neighbors at the heart of the Gospels?
They’re gone, replaced by immigrant-hating wall-builders, blindly intolerant culture warriors, and violent anti-abortion zealots.
The words patriot and Christian used to cost something to claim. They were labels that once came with the expectation of a modicum of transformation; identifiers that previously required some measure of evidence displayed in one’s altered life.
The flag and the cross were once symbols of higher causes and better angels, visual reminders of who we might be as we embodied our Constitution and our creeds.
https://johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/good-people-have-had-it-with-faux?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2037902&post_id=189425321&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=x9qj&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Peter Cook (as the Devil) had a similar line in the movie Bedazzled (1967); https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061391/quotes/
video:
https://clip.cafe/bedazzled-1967/exactly-as-that-isnt-enough-ive-got-last-minute-repentance-contend-with/?srsltid=AfmBOoruBjELWhxyaBc0-5I1ussElVzDIn8z4LVJS1w2q3OVQC092a5x