You've so perfectly summed up my beliefs. The garden is beautiful without needing to believe there's fairies at the bottom of it.
Pure beauty, my friend.
Birdie
joined 1 year ago
Dude, THANK YOU. Really and truly, I thank you. You are doing more than my own family does.
I taught Sunday school and Missionettes, my husband taught Sunday school and Royal Rangers; we both taught puppet ministry. (All over the tri state area) And I am so freaking ashamed.
The purpose of the personality tests was to determine how you 'received' a teaching and how you would teach others. At least as far as I remember.
I've had every Covid vaccine offered. They aren't perfect, but I'm trying to balance risk/benefit. I'm a 70 year old, autoimmune person with lungs that formed scar tissue from my first go-round with Covid, before vaccines were available.
My lung function was great before Covid, it was normal for my age. But post Covid,.my lung function test shows that my lungs function at the level of a 5 year old...and I'm taller and bigger than a 5 year old, so that's a problem.
Scar tissue doesn't "participate" in oxygen/CO2 exchange. So I need to preserve every little alveoli I have. I'd rather die in my sleep with a smile on my face than for gasping for air, so I'll do whatever is offered to preserve the lung function I've kept.
Well, they call them 'personality types' which is a step up in their medieval mindsets.
So, before I 'saw the light' and realized all religions were based on an ambiguous, contradictory, flat out made-up-by-mankind fairy tales, I spent years in different sects of christianity. Catholic, Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal, Assemblies of God, Non-dom Evangelical, Messianic Jews (and ain't that an oxymoron!) These "teachings" were widely accepted in Pentecostal, AOG, and Evangelical churches. I scored roughly 33% sanguine, melancholic, and phlegmatic, lol. Nobody knew what to do with me!
As odd and crazy and backwards this seems to those of us who have beaten our way out of the wet-paper-bag-that-is-Christianity (or have never been in the wet paper bag, you lucky ducks), this makes total and complete sense to those who are still in the echo chamber of Christianity.
Total and complete sense, PERFECT sense.
They believe in this shit, like really believe in it.
She and her husband have been lied to and fooled, and I wouldn't give a damn, except that he is in a position of leadership in this country...and he's a true believer, one who will change our country into a theocracy if given the chance.
We'd better all hope Biden and Kamala survive the next few years, because this man taking on the presidency would set us back centuries. He'd take us to Gilead if he could.
Did you happen to write the ad? You seem to be very invested in painting it in a positive light.
It's going to be when Hilary called Trump supporters a basket of deplorables. They embraced that, it energized them, and it got them to turn out to vote for a POS.
I think this has the potential to do the same.
Calling names is a grade school level, low intelligence thing to do and it seems to me that they'd be stooping down to Trump's level to do that.
Not to mention that millions of Americans love the MAGA movement, and they'd see this as an endorsement.
It would be a stupid move.
This is a surprisingly good breakfast. I add a little dab of butter and a tiny sprinkle of brown sugar.
Well, I'm 70, and my childhood was spent in a French speaking area of Louisiana, and Louisiana isn't known for being very forward thinking. It's possible my experience was limited to my location. 😜
It was not just a riot. It was a (thankfully failed) insurrection. He wanted to delay the counting of the electoral votes, maybe never count them at all. And if that failed, he and his minions plotted to put fake electors in place to get the votes of blue states thrown out. He pressured the VP to ignore the constitution and declare him president via the fake electors. Had Mike Pence had a little less integrity, it would have worked.
Trump's loose lips that shared secret information with foreigners. We lost many operatives around the world following his spillage of state secrets.
It's the stealing and refusing to return top secret/compartmentalized documents. It's 91 federal indictments related to all the above. It's the fact that he's under indictment in more than one state.
If none of that is enough for you:
He dismantled the US pandemic rapid response centers, sentencing many Americans to death when Covid hit. He downplayed the virus, attacked the surgeon general & mocked him, refused to wear a mask or take any precautions at all. And he led close to half the country with him, causing Covid to hit us much more severely than it could have. He suggested using bleach and light internally as a cure.
He drew on a map with a sharpie, to show us all where we should make a hurricane hit.
He's a vindictive man who delayed/withheld aid to California after devastating wildfires because they had not voted for him. "If they don't like me, I don't like them."
He is a man who acts like a toddler with the vocabulary of a third grader...a truly stupid man with mob-like tendencies.
He's aligned himself with white supremacists.
He's bragged about seeing teenage girls nude in the miss teen america dressing room. He has bragged about kissing women without their permission, of grabbing them by the pussy, talked earnestly about how big his newborn daughter's boobs would get, talked about how he'd date her if she wasn't his daughter, cheated on all his wives, buried one of them on a golf course, failed to maintain the burial site...just to save a couple of tax dollars.
He fleeced the elderly and uneducated of this country by giving them fake coins and dollars in exchange for donations. He stiffed contractors and lawyers by failing to pay them after they've earned their pay.
He is, at best, a pig who lusts for power and if he gets it back, he'll not willingly let go.
So it's not just a joke riot. Trump did actual damage and is continuing to do so today by holding the entire GOP by the balls.