I can barely walk right now. I absolutely would love help with the healing. Please.
Thursday, May 08, 2025
Wednesday, May 07, 2025
Time to look up some videos to help with the walking.
Time to pray when people are acting unwell and also time to pray when bodies are acting unwell, huh?
Time to get over an injury again.
I'm very stiff and feeling pain in the lower back today. I rewarded myself with a juice delivery.
What if he can do better?
The Fraternity Brothers really like him better than other kinds of people, don't they?
What if, in his recent life, your brother, or father, or a bunch of the people they know, were trained to cater to the very people who were really very insensitive in regards to the harms caused by racism and sexism and also others kinds of prejudices?
And maybe that really is not a sentence that describes the harms very well. But some people got trained to actually act as if x types of people and y types of people are not as fully human as other kinds of people, and that's really sad.
Some people have certainly abused their privileges or acted like they needed to belittle others as a part of a survival strategy for themselves, and they were not particularly good at taking other kinds of human beings into account when they did so, because they weren't taught to take those kinds of human beings into account.
What makes it worthwhile for them to change when they got rewarded so much for the other stuff already?
Oh wow, he's already on his way to his next life.
I looked up Windschuttle.
"Aboriginal Identity: Sally Morgan and My Place."
This is just one of the many very nice articles about him.
"Keith Windschuttle’s Vital Importance - Quadrant"
https://quadrant.org.au/news-opinions/tribute/the-vital-importance-of-keith-windschuttle/
I'm SO glad I met THOSE guys.
The ones who are SO great at distracting everybody else from all the sexism and racism and awful things happening to their humanity.
That's almost like...a job you could get paid for, you know?
Finished rereading my library book!
What's next?
"Sally Morgan - Writer and Artist - Life On The Job"
https://www.onthejob.education/life_job/famous_people/Sally_Morgan.htm
"Morgan wrote a play Sistergirl that was first performed at the Festival of Perth 1993. Sistergirl is the story of two elderly Aboriginal sisters, one of whom had a child taken from her and who is now dying in hospital, an institution which frightens the life out of Aboriginal people in general and old ones in particular. 'I am very interested in older Aboriginal women. A lot of them have had very different life experiences,' she says. 'It sounds depressing, but it is actually very funny and also deals with old women's attitudes to men. There's a lot of rude jokes.'"
Hmmm.
"Aboriginal Identity: Sally Morgan and My Place"
"Windschuttle contests the authenticity of My Place completely and denies the stolen generations ever occurred. He supports the Drake-Brockmans in their accusations of falsity towards My Place. 'Rather than a tragedy of white racists stealing children and exploiting Aboriginality, the real Daisy’s story was one of fulfilment within white society.' (Windschuttle, The Fabrication of Aboriginal History: Vol 3, p. 320) . Not only does Windschuttle critique My Place and its authenticity, he goes further to question whether there is an Aboriginal heritage in the Corruna family at all."
And that's why toxic positivity just doesn't work well for everyone.
I'm sorry, I've suffered and felt oppressed by stupid patriarchal behavior patterns, but you know, I do try to be a little bit more honest about it than maybe the average person, who wants to pretend everything's fine when it's not, as a very selfish, coping mechanism to get by on, for now. And it's not helpful. Meanwhile, a whole bunch of people are being treated way worse. Right now. How is that going to magically just stop happening?
Patriarchal shallowness is not helping.
"The statement related to who the perpetrator is was purposely created to incite hatred of immigrants: 'One of the leading causes of sexual violence over the last 4 years has been the invasion of illegal aliens at our southern border.'
The truth is that for over 90 percent of women survivors of sexual violence, the perpetrator is someone they already know.
But why normalize violence against women? Because just as MAGA wants you to believe that all immigrants are dangerous criminals, they also need to frame white men as the real victims of gendered violence. But MAGA’s white male victimhood narrative collapses under the weight of reality."
~ Rita Smith
"How Trump’s America Is Normalizing Violence Against Women"
https://msmagazine.com/2025/04/28/trump-violence-against-women-pete-hegseth-politics/
Being sexist is such a lazy and pathetic coping mechanism.
"Under Trump’s America, violence against women isn’t just ignored—it’s become a deliberate political strategy."
~ Rita Smith
"How Trump’s America Is Normalizing Violence Against Women"
https://msmagazine.com/2025/04/28/trump-violence-against-women-pete-hegseth-politics/
What can some real people eat today?
Like, "immigrant workers – undocumented or not – play an indispensable role in our country’s food system"
~ John Rodgers
'Commentary: On the detention of migrant farmworkers"
The Bible also makes much of "the fatherless," hmmm.
“The Lord watches over the sojourners; he upholds the widow and the fatherless.” (Ps. 146:9)
“Thus says the Lord of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another, 10 do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart.” (Zech. 7:9–10)
“He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing. 19 Love the sojourner, therefore, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.” (Deut. 10:18-19)
“For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly execute justice one with another, 6 if you do not oppress the sojourner, the fatherless, or the widow.” (Jer. 7:5–6)
See also Deut. 14:29; 24:7; Job 29:12-17; Jer. 22:3; Mal. 3:5; Ruth.
"Loving the Sojourner..."
https://indycrowe.com/2020/02/27/loving-the-sojourner-reflecting-gods-heart-for-immigrants-refugees/
Dear reader...
"Love the sojourners" is definitely not the same as "Only love the more financially well-off women and men who do not seem to care about what's happening to anyone else."
Just read the part where a black cat got some pets.
And there was a witch, too.
"Gladys Corunna's Story"
"My Place (An Australian Classic)" by Sally Morgan
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1144682.My_Place
It can make one shiver. And more than that...
It's not just that people were mean in the past. It's that they're being mean right now. And acting like it's no big deal. How can that be their normal way of getting through life? Oh it's awful. People who know people who know how to be better than that are the ones who can help us, but so many just don't want to admit it's a real problem that they're having. They're like drug addicts, but socially acceptable ones who still get rewarded for caving into the old addictions. I just don't see how it can last forever. It just isn't possible.
Pray to Jesus for the Unwell Ones.
I think there really are no good excuses for choosing to dehumanize others. But I guess maybe people get trained to become very frightened, and perhaps there can be some, I don't know, good way to ask the universe to help people learn how to get better again.
It really is so painful to know that people get convinced to become a part of a warped and unwell culture.
"Cut off from their own vibrant communities, Gladys and Daisy spent the whole of their lives as ‘fringe dwellers’ on the edges of white society"
~ Alison Thorne
https://socialism.com/fsb-article/my-place-the-fight-for-an-aboriginal-identity/
Tuesday, May 06, 2025
A poet has PCOS.
"A week ago I went in..."
~ Bernadette.kirwan
https://www.instagram.com/share/reel/BAHMJ_o30E
Seems that maybe she's a thin cyster. I've been the kind who had a little bit of trouble with skin issues, but more with weight gain. However, I see in the bright light that I do have quite a bit of scarring on my skin, but it's not immediately noticeable from far away.
There's different forms of it. They should rename it.
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