The Right has always been pretty open about its intent to pack the court to undo Roe. I can see the bad faith in McConnell’s tactics re: declining to forward Obama’s pick being “bad faith.”. But none of this should be surprising. They’re doing what they said they’d do–undo Roe by any means necessary. For the religious Right, their religious beliefs trump their sense of adhering to basic societal and governmental norms. After all, for them “eternal life” is at stake. The political Right doesn’t play fair in anything else, why would we have expected them to with this?
What they don’t understand is that an omniscient god — which they say they believe in — is not ignorant of which ‘souls’ go into fetuses due to be aborted, and thus must have some long range plan that mere humans can’t understand, so they are overriding their God’s will. Judgement Day will not go well for them.
And they do this shit all the time…
As a pretty committed Taoist with some Buddhist backsliding, it’s hard for me to understand their nuance. While I do sympathize with some of the vague ideas behind their intent, I agree that they’ve got it all wrong.
In middle school I had a particularly vicious Catholic nun as a teacher. My only [and horrible from a karmic stance] solace is that after she passed away I’m pretty sure she was surprised to find that she didn’t end up where she thought she’d end up.
They’ve been using Kansas as a political battleground since the early 70s, and their tactics have always been reprehensible. It was inevitable that it would lead to something like this…
Church members said anti-abortion protesters have shown up outside the church on Sundays regularly.
“They’ve been out here for quite a few years. We’ve just become accustomed to it. Just like an everyday thing, you just looked over and see them and say, 'Yup they’re back again.”’
Jim Bakker doesn’t even think God knows what you are saying behind a cloth mask. I think their god is a little less than omniscient.
They speak for god. They ARE god.
I know it’s not the point, and that is really high blood pressure, but everytime I hear about someone’s high blood pressure I have to tell them that I once had blood pressure of 200/120.
I hope you do not get that again.
And I hope you didn’t, and will not get, a stroke.
Y’all, I’m trying to find some rest, but I suck at it. And reality bites. Interventions are rather not going forward as I would like to. Anyway, there are uplifting moments: kid just got a negative PCR. Waited 24h for the result. Still sick, but considering the circumstances quite on top of it.
Thanks for your kind words. I’m trying not to spend time on the BBS when I should be working, sleeping, or doing social stuff. I often come here when I should probably be meditating, or doing something else to calm my mind. I come here for you guys and for the general feeling of a community. Thanks for that.
Honestly, as helpful as meditation is, feeling part of a community is a basic human need. So glad you feel that way here.
@LutherBlisset It’s a relaxation/meditation/concentration trick of mine, but I love well written ambient music. Top quality work is always great to find; I’ve focused on a couple of composers: Grove of Whispers and (it’s a slightly hippie name, but…) Wings of an Angel. I’ve played enough music that I can’t listen to stuff that doesn’t have good compositional strength, but these guys’ work was a brain changer for me. WoAA especially has serious classical Russian musical training, and is very generous with his musical output. Also check out Scott Lawlor. I’ve chatted with all of them over email and on-line and they are good folks.
My Bandcamp profile is easy enough to find 
though there’s more heavy stuff there right now because some days I just need to crank the tunes…
Edit: … and this is more Good Stuff than F**k Today stuff but this is one thing that helps me through it all…
Like the song says, “‘Cause they know if you’re doing the pointing, nobody’s looking at you.”
