I actually have two responses which "sort of" fit here.
This one's the more political/religious complaint-ridden and vitriolic.
Next one's more personal.
(07-06-2015, 06:33 AM)Rayve Wrote: [...]
Best thing I ever did to help me avoid negativity and hate was deleting my facebook account. No lie. However, I do go to a specific conspiracy theory website and I just had to stop going there at least until this whole thing blows over. Every other thread there was just a giant circle jerk of hate on the issue with pages upon pages of people agreeing with it. It really knocked me back a couple steps when I saw it. And this is coming from people I have daily discussions on things like spirituality, feminine divine, relationships, and corruption. And of course some of my writings. It really makes me sad as I kinda miss the conversations. And you know if there ever was some grand agenda it is working by dividing us and just creating more hate and the sheep eat it up and get led around like the sheep they are.
I have to agree. It seems that some people just remove their head from the rear end sometimes.
I get that all the time - the Left thinks I'm Conservative, the Right thinks I'm a Liberal.
All I want is to be left alone to mind my own business and live my own life, WITHOUT everyone in my face and up my @$$.
Seems like we're surrounded by Fascists, mostly - whether right wing or left wing is irrelevant. Both sides want more government over "us" (e.g., gearheads; body modders; motorcyclists; entrepreneurs; small businesses; inventors; innovators; musicians; homeopathic medicine and naturopathic medicine practitioners; chiropractors; car manufacturers; software engineers; hackers, crackers, phreakers; psychics; homeowners; renters; manufacturers; small / family farms; chemists; physicists; teachers; media, especially alternative media - such as THIS SITE, yes it can be considered alternative media; etc, etc, etc, ad infinitum.)
Somehow, no matter who wins he election, America (the ideal of freedom) dies a little more with each successive regime.
They are passing laws now about body mods such as dermal implants. Can only be done by a DOCTOR licensed to perform such modifications....
Yoga pants, one town is trying to outlaw that (it makes for improper thoughts in a man's mind...)
Another wants to use the law to force people to pull their pants up....
Others against tattoos, or piercings...
And in our little community - the "drugs" we use re strictly regulated, and if we import them, we face prison. Not that any of us would break the law (Holy Government Writ of God).
Steroids are illegal, schedule 3 drugs... Worse than a few that are outright illegal, mind. (IIRC, Codeine is only schedule 2, which was a LOVELY little clusterf*ck when the girlfriend was sick - and the pharmacy wouldn't fill the prescription without the doctor's FDA number on it. The doctor's office wanted the pharmacy to call and get it, but the pharmacist refused, stating it would render the prescription void... the problem wasn't that it would be handwritten, mind, but that THE DOCTOR didn't hand write the number. And of course, the doctor doesn't want that number "in the wild" because then you can forge prescriptions... It makes almost as much sense as paying people to NOT farm corn, when we're facing FOOD SHORTAGES because the corn is being used for ETHANOL - which destroys engines, attracts water, and doesn't burn as well as gas, causing you to burn more fuel to go the same distance.... Again, CLUSTER...)
I really have begun to lose my faith in human beings. Or, perhaps, I'm gaining "negative" faith because we've encouraged the shallow end of the gene pool to thrive, while punishing those who save and prepare for a rainy day. (Not talking preppers - but did you know there was a law signed about a year ago, if there's a "state of emergency" declared, and you have "stockpiled" goods - e.g., food or paper towels - Uncle Sam believes it is his RIGHT to take that, WITHOUT paying for it - he's confiscating for the greater good. And what's the meaning of "stockpile"? You have enough food to last more than a week. Guess what? It includes hormones and the "drugs" like PM, RC, Vitex, SP, maca, etc.)
Whose business is it if I want (to be vulgar) tits? Between me, my lover, and God, if such a thing exists (and cares.) For that matter, if I have terminal illness and want to die, shouldn't that be MY business? Not the Government's? Not the Medical Establishments? (Multiple cases up here in Boston about the Children's Hospital, where even pre-existing diagnosis wasn't enough to prevent CPS from being summoned, because the child was OBVIOUSLY experiencing psycho-somatic symptoms, and needed a different course of action.... Removal of the home unit, the family - and being quarantined and force-fed drugs, while her condition declined, and IIRC 6 months later the family won a lawsuit and they finally wheeled out the child in a wheelchair... She had WALKED in, mind. Not unique...)
And then the "Moral Majority"... OH SO OUTRAGED we would DARE change the hardware that isn't working for us! "God don't make mistakes!" OK, well, religious warning, but:
If God doesn't make mistakes, he made Lucifer... So that's part of "the plan."
Yet, God is supposedly omniscient. And Omnipotent.
So God made Lucifer - an angel, who does NOT HAVE free will - KNOWING there would be a rebellion. KNOWING of the fall. KNOWING that when God created Adam and Eve, Eve would fail. And Man would follow, BY CHOICE. And he was going to punish us for that failing, too.
So there really IS no free will, and we're being punished by a 2-year-old's temper tantrum, stomping his Army Men because they didn't move when he said to (and they're fixed plastic, remember.)
He inserted us into abusive families. Gave us conflicting gender issues, maybe helped by he family - which he KNEW would do "X" to make things harder. And we're going to be held accountable for that - and our actions.
Remember (for Christians), Christ said, "If a man lusts after a woman, he has already committed adultery with her in his heart." So even the sinful THOUGHT shall be punished.
This from the creature who couldn't control his angels, which did not have free will.
I was raised a Catholic. My parent's big complaint about my schooling? Not enough nuns and corporal discipline. I.E., I wasn't Beaten enough.
The ruptured testicle from one of the bullies didn't matter. No, they'd get theirs on Judgement Day.
(Blech)
(End religion)
Those who claim to "accept diversity" on the left? Go home to their gated communities, mostly white. Living with mostly millionaires or better. C-level execs, high-ranking military (maybe), they insist WE LITTLE PEOPLE accept the MS13 gang-banger and the 'hood rat (complete with prison tats) as equals. And do so without any "weapons" (e.g., a rat-tailed comb, forget even a knife.) But they send their children to schools with armed guards and security details. So F*($ them.
But the forgiving, tolerant Right? Those who pray for strength, demand more police, preach LawNOrder, and forgiveness of sinners? Mostly middle class, mostly white, Asian, Jewish, or Hispanic of some sort....
THEY believe we should be stoned to death for existing. After all, WE are an abomination unto the Lord, and we're mentally defective, and hurtful, and only want to lead children to lives of sin and damnation.
So F*($ them.
What's left...? Where do we go?
Yet here, and on a Libertarian site I frequent, everyone is tolerant, mostly rational (I fail the most), and mostly we JUST. WANT. TO. BE. LEFT. ALONE.
We'll take care of ourselves, earn a living, have a life - no government or permission slips or special blessings required, from anyone.
But _WE_ are the problem. WE are the corruption. WE are the example of (fill in the favored bogeymen of whomever is talking.)
For God's sakes, we're considered TERRORISTS. By our government.
So I guess that accounts for over 80% of the population, as it's the Left, the Right, the Religious, the Government, and the Power-mad busybodies who must control us "for our own good."
Why can't we get to interstellar travel? I'll take an Ark Ship, a generational ship going somewhere. Anywhere - provided man can be free.
Oh, one last note: Most people are sheep, they don't want to take any chances, or face any consequences - so this isn't the first time we're seeing this cycle. Rome, Germany, China, Byzantines, USSR... We're overdue.