Finding our way to The Way one situation at a time. I don't know how great it will be, but I expect it will be interesting, and I look forward to it going on past all reason because wonder is just that way. Are you coming or not?
Sea Stacks in the North Atlantic — Along the Cabot Trail, Nova Scotia
Kindlessness is Cruelty. Is Atrocity. Is Brutality. Is Abomination. Is Inhumanity.
Kindlessness at the top is Kindlessness all the way down.
Donald Trump! I'm talking to YOU!
You and your MAGA patrons are creating a culture of the inhumane and atrocious. And you don't care because that is what you intended from the start.
Fascism is a thing. A big, toothless, mindless, heartless thing. And nothing can be done about it, as Work War II shows. So, what to do? Trust no one. Assume everyone is a fascist. Give no one the benefit of the doubt. Even Communities of Innocence are hermits at heart. Leaving us to strive for "most of the time" and not "all of the time."
Most of the time we are gentle, loving, decent and kind. All of the time we are not.
On average, we can be trusted to do what is right by everyone. 100% overlooks those occasions when we are "dammed if we do and damned if we don't." Even Jesus fried the fig tree for not bearing fruit out of season.
Averaging us all out, are we mostly the kind of person we would like to be, or mostly the kind of person no one would want to be (Except those who are mean, horrendous, hateful, heinous, abhorrent, vile and disgusting, etc.)?
I'm retired, and still finding my way--but now, I don't have to pretend that I know what I'm doing.
I retired after 40.5 years as a minister in the Presbyterian Church USA, serving churches in Louisiana, Mississippi and North Carolina. I graduated from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, in Austin, Texas, and Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. My wife, Judy, and I have three daughters, five granddaughters, one great granddaughter, and a great grandson on the way, within about ten minutes from where we live--and are enjoying our retirement as much as we have ever enjoyed anything.
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