I post my third regimen of suppression of external expression, at least anger wise. I had an incident, wherein a fairly large button was pushed. I was able to suppress my external reaction, regarding appropriate behavior, and move into another scenario, the post of which I am still learning about.
So it seems to have taken me a couple of days to finally be free of the initial reaction. I did well, but how to minimize this. How to go with the flow, and not let my 'identifications' with whatever that is stored in my brain take over. This was different, in that it was low level active, staying in my system for a couple of days. It is gone now, I now no longer have the need to 'resolve' this. I just move on. Small footprint.
And I am hooking this into my go with the river thing, and watch for the opportunities. I am tuning in to the universe, or whatever, and it presents the opportunities. The ones I strive for are where I don't need to go. The smokes were an interesting one. Two smokes, enough for the pot, out of thin air. Handed to me. Just like that. And on I go. So i don't worry about the incident thing, i just keep on keepin' on, doing what i got to do and it will all unfold just right. Arggggh. It's easy to lose sight of this.
Addendum - seems that this incident is not over, and I have ended up deciding to force the issue. Why, because emotionally, it is eating me up. And this is a lesson learned re the rules of conflict avoidance thing I am learning at VAMP. I totally caved, accommodated as it were, as i thot I could live with that, that that was the mature thing to do, and I have found that I can not. And I have suggested collaboration, or at least a working solution that includes me in my role as a stage manager.
Friday, 9 March 2012
Monday, 5 March 2012
Another malignant, bigoted, talking hed exposed: Kirk Cameron
February, '12
Kirk Cameron Tells Piers Morgan Homosexuality Is 'Unnatural,' 'Ultimately Destructive'
Kirk Cameron Tells Piers Morgan Homosexuality Is 'Unnatural,' 'Ultimately Destructive'
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/03/kirk-cameron-piers-morgan-homosexuality-unnatural_n_1318430.html?ref=mostpopular
Well there you have it, another moral moron spews zer's* bigoted, hateful and prejudicial opinion around for anyone to hear. You'd think these people might have an inkling about how transparent and disingenuous they appear, using biblical talking points like they meant something to anyone that doesn't particularly believe in that unsubstantiated collection of opinions.
What's 'destructive' to society Mr Cameron is prejudical and ignorant (of empirically substantiated) attitudes such as yours that incite, divide and exclude. We need tolerance and understanding in society, not blind allegiance to out dated and fallacious ideologies that hinder people from forming a consensus based in some kind of mutual, systematically verifiable accord.
The open minded, are real Mr. Cameron, and are not going away. How can they? They are what they are, not what you think they're supposed to be. And as far as I can tell, anyone who has a 'moral' problem with some one else's lifestyle is either a fucking nazi, or a secret admirer of that lifestyle. So either come on out of your closet with your best frock on or drop your need to impose your beliefs on the rest of the world. Join the community of the open minded Mr. Cameron. You'll feel a lot better, and you won't be such a pain in the ass.
Wake up and smell the Armageddon. It's coming wether you like it or not, and your beliefs are no more valid with regard to that than anyone else's.
March 6th
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/06/kirk-cameron-homosexuality-piers-morgan-controversy_n_1324195.html
Kirk Cameron Responds To Criticism For Homosexual Remarks
"I should be able to express moral views on social issues, especially those that have been the underpinning of Western civilization for 2,000 years -- without being slandered, accused of hate speech, and told from those who preach 'tolerance' that I need to either bend my beliefs to their moral standards or be silent when I’m in the public square.
"that I need to either bend my beliefs to their moral standards." No one is trying to do this. What the open minded are trying to do is give everyone a fair shake down the line. That means agreeing upon the things that we can agree upon, like drinking glasses, tables, Copernicus's assertions, or contraception. Everyone should have the same right to take it or not take it. And that means that everyone that operates under the same governmental umbrella plays by the same rules. You, or your boyfriend, oops, did I say boyfriend, silly me, don't have take contraception if you don't want to. Just don't hide behind your dogma to block others from exercising their right to self determination. We are, after all, all Gawd's children.
Well there you have it, another moral moron spews zer's* bigoted, hateful and prejudicial opinion around for anyone to hear. You'd think these people might have an inkling about how transparent and disingenuous they appear, using biblical talking points like they meant something to anyone that doesn't particularly believe in that unsubstantiated collection of opinions.
What's 'destructive' to society Mr Cameron is prejudical and ignorant (of empirically substantiated) attitudes such as yours that incite, divide and exclude. We need tolerance and understanding in society, not blind allegiance to out dated and fallacious ideologies that hinder people from forming a consensus based in some kind of mutual, systematically verifiable accord.
The open minded, are real Mr. Cameron, and are not going away. How can they? They are what they are, not what you think they're supposed to be. And as far as I can tell, anyone who has a 'moral' problem with some one else's lifestyle is either a fucking nazi, or a secret admirer of that lifestyle. So either come on out of your closet with your best frock on or drop your need to impose your beliefs on the rest of the world. Join the community of the open minded Mr. Cameron. You'll feel a lot better, and you won't be such a pain in the ass.
Wake up and smell the Armageddon. It's coming wether you like it or not, and your beliefs are no more valid with regard to that than anyone else's.
March 6th
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/06/kirk-cameron-homosexuality-piers-morgan-controversy_n_1324195.html
Kirk Cameron Responds To Criticism For Homosexual Remarks
"I should be able to express moral views on social issues, especially those that have been the underpinning of Western civilization for 2,000 years -- without being slandered, accused of hate speech, and told from those who preach 'tolerance' that I need to either bend my beliefs to their moral standards or be silent when I’m in the public square.
And there it is, just to reiterate. Your beliefs are based on the bible, which as I have said, is nothing more than a conglomeration of unverifiable and uninformed opinions. There a whole lot of other people out there who have their own beliefs, and yours are no more valid than theirs, or mine. That's why we have the idea of separation of church and state. Because beliefs are like assholes: everyone has one, and no one's is any more 'right' than any one elses. And just because you hold the bible in such great esteem doesn't make it the grand arbiter of morals that you think it does. Same as "especially those that have been the underpinning of Western civilization for 2,000 years" thinking that just because something has been around for a long time makes it right. Beating women was, and still is for some, something that has been around for a long time too. Doesn't make it right. How about the earth is flat thing. Flown over the edge of the world lately? Grow up and quite trying to make the world in the bible's image. It ain't gonna float, and I'm just a little bit sick and tired of you guys, and you know who you are, telling everyone that everyone else who's not in your little club is ruining everything. And screw off with the "I should be able to express moral views" thing. Whiner. You;re not expressing moral views, you're prosletyzing: that is, promoting a moral absolute pertaining to your own, narrow and bigoted beliefs. Fuck off and take some LSD, get a grip on reality for fuck's sake. Or just go away and practice your own beliefs and leave everyone else alone. That's what we're doing. Just because we don't try to shove our beliefs down your throat, doesn't mean we don't have any.
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*he she, zee, it; him, her, zer; his, hers zers. gender neutral pronouns
Sunday, 4 March 2012
Separation of church and state
Work in Progress (March 10'12/nb)
Rick Santorum and the religious right: an analysis
So I heard Rick Santorum on Hardball the other night and zee said something that points out exactly what is disingenuous about his position vis a vis the separation of church and state. Zee has taken Kennedy's "I beleeve in an America (sic) where the separation of church and state is absolute...," interpreting it to mean that faith based people have no say. Not at all what the Catholic Kennedy had in mind. Santorum takes a statement which is about an equal playing field where all get to have their say, regardless of a leader's personal beliefs, and incorrectly twists it into a statement that put limits on people of faith. And that is patently just not true. For one, just because people do not believe in Rick Santorum's version of what happens when we all die doesn't mean they don't have faith. Everyone has some kind of faith. It's just not necessarily the same as any one else's. Santorum then continues; "Where people of faith are out of bounds." And this is where zee really turns the egregious screw, because it is here, as zee talks to his evangelical, Christian base, that zee makes it sound like the evangelical, christian faith is the faith that is being limited. Because as sure as I am that I am sitting here writing this, I am sure that the Rick Santorum is not talking to any of the other 'faithful' out there other than zers own. Because in zers eyes, as in many of the elitist, bigoted and prejudicial 'faiths' out there, zers is the only faith, because of course, everyone else is wrong, and need to be brought into his fold. And that is where he is ded wrong, and the separation of church and state is what saves us from the dark ages of religious intolerance.This is where no one's unverifiable and personally held 'religious' viewpoints are held up to be the arbiter of all without some sort of universally agreed upon vetting system, and that's where science, and it's empirical method of evaluation comes in. And that's the problem I have with Santorum, because he is an intelligent man, an educated man, and he should know better. And that poses a big question. Does zee know better, which makes zer no more than a rabble rouser and a dishonest man, or does zee indeed actually not see this.As in, is incapable of seeing this. And what does that mean, personal development wise, for to not be able to see this point indicates, at least to me, an immature psyche. A hubot: one who is run by subconscious programs over which the conscious has no control. And I'd just as soon rather not have an incomplete or out of control person at the wheel of the greatest nuclear power on the planet.
There are beliefs we all share, and there are beliefs that we don't share. The ones we can share, we see and use every day. Soap, air travel, twinkies. These are what we can agree upon and regulate to the satisfaction of all. To the others, beliefs and such, these are personal domain, debatable, and of nobody's business but the owner. These we can not regulate. The Rick Santorums of the world don't want to acknowledge this. Why. Who knows. The point is, zee* has not a leg to stand on, other than the sheeple who know no other way in life but to follow. The problem arises when those who think their beliefs (i.e. things theoretical which they can not substantiate by anything more than faith and blind obedience to that faith), are more right than someone else's, and try to impose those beliefs on others. The contraception issue is one, and more on this. In order for it all to work, everyone has to have equal rights. That means that churches etc, have to be subject to the same rules as everyone else. I can't help feeling that Obama fucked up with his decision to let churches off the hook. It's absurd, and they do nobody any service when they behave this way. That they can't live and let live is, well, one of the conundrums of life I guess.
*he she, zee, it; him, her, zer; his, hers zers; they, them, zem: gender neutral pronouns
Rick Santorum and the religious right: an analysis
So I heard Rick Santorum on Hardball the other night and zee said something that points out exactly what is disingenuous about his position vis a vis the separation of church and state. Zee has taken Kennedy's "I beleeve in an America (sic) where the separation of church and state is absolute...," interpreting it to mean that faith based people have no say. Not at all what the Catholic Kennedy had in mind. Santorum takes a statement which is about an equal playing field where all get to have their say, regardless of a leader's personal beliefs, and incorrectly twists it into a statement that put limits on people of faith. And that is patently just not true. For one, just because people do not believe in Rick Santorum's version of what happens when we all die doesn't mean they don't have faith. Everyone has some kind of faith. It's just not necessarily the same as any one else's. Santorum then continues; "Where people of faith are out of bounds." And this is where zee really turns the egregious screw, because it is here, as zee talks to his evangelical, Christian base, that zee makes it sound like the evangelical, christian faith is the faith that is being limited. Because as sure as I am that I am sitting here writing this, I am sure that the Rick Santorum is not talking to any of the other 'faithful' out there other than zers own. Because in zers eyes, as in many of the elitist, bigoted and prejudicial 'faiths' out there, zers is the only faith, because of course, everyone else is wrong, and need to be brought into his fold. And that is where he is ded wrong, and the separation of church and state is what saves us from the dark ages of religious intolerance.This is where no one's unverifiable and personally held 'religious' viewpoints are held up to be the arbiter of all without some sort of universally agreed upon vetting system, and that's where science, and it's empirical method of evaluation comes in. And that's the problem I have with Santorum, because he is an intelligent man, an educated man, and he should know better. And that poses a big question. Does zee know better, which makes zer no more than a rabble rouser and a dishonest man, or does zee indeed actually not see this.As in, is incapable of seeing this. And what does that mean, personal development wise, for to not be able to see this point indicates, at least to me, an immature psyche. A hubot: one who is run by subconscious programs over which the conscious has no control. And I'd just as soon rather not have an incomplete or out of control person at the wheel of the greatest nuclear power on the planet.
There are beliefs we all share, and there are beliefs that we don't share. The ones we can share, we see and use every day. Soap, air travel, twinkies. These are what we can agree upon and regulate to the satisfaction of all. To the others, beliefs and such, these are personal domain, debatable, and of nobody's business but the owner. These we can not regulate. The Rick Santorums of the world don't want to acknowledge this. Why. Who knows. The point is, zee* has not a leg to stand on, other than the sheeple who know no other way in life but to follow. The problem arises when those who think their beliefs (i.e. things theoretical which they can not substantiate by anything more than faith and blind obedience to that faith), are more right than someone else's, and try to impose those beliefs on others. The contraception issue is one, and more on this. In order for it all to work, everyone has to have equal rights. That means that churches etc, have to be subject to the same rules as everyone else. I can't help feeling that Obama fucked up with his decision to let churches off the hook. It's absurd, and they do nobody any service when they behave this way. That they can't live and let live is, well, one of the conundrums of life I guess.
*he she, zee, it; him, her, zer; his, hers zers; they, them, zem: gender neutral pronouns
The Politix of Subterfuge
I think I'm getting the hang of this. Basically, I have been looking for a way to be able to see both sides of the political polarity, USA wise, and the recent fuss over contraception in the USA is a perfect example.
Rush Limbo, the republican rabble rouser, has fanned the flames with his incendiary and insulting rhetoric. Faced with basically a lose lose primary situation, facing an incumbent president who's fortunes are on a positive trajectory election wise, the republicans are looking for any issue that will muddy the waters, and make the election story about anything other than what is working for Obama. Enter red meat issues, like contraception, and religious 'rights' etc.
And where I am now learning to see, is how the democrats fall for it, time and time again, letting the republicans set the agenda with their incendiary, rabble rousing histrionics. Incredible. I can see both sides, as Lucy fakes holding the ball once more for Charlie Brown. And Obama has fallen for it too, making allowance for 'religious' scruple, giving churches an exemption on a 'right' that is for everyone. Let's see this cat out of the bag.
Rush Limbo, the republican rabble rouser, has fanned the flames with his incendiary and insulting rhetoric. Faced with basically a lose lose primary situation, facing an incumbent president who's fortunes are on a positive trajectory election wise, the republicans are looking for any issue that will muddy the waters, and make the election story about anything other than what is working for Obama. Enter red meat issues, like contraception, and religious 'rights' etc.
And where I am now learning to see, is how the democrats fall for it, time and time again, letting the republicans set the agenda with their incendiary, rabble rousing histrionics. Incredible. I can see both sides, as Lucy fakes holding the ball once more for Charlie Brown. And Obama has fallen for it too, making allowance for 'religious' scruple, giving churches an exemption on a 'right' that is for everyone. Let's see this cat out of the bag.
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