Posts Tagged ‘life’

A lot of things all in one post here, I guess.

Through slightly more careful observation, I’m speculating that the “first cousins” on my Ancestry matches page may be my mother’s (half-)sisters. Neither of them have responded to my messages, so it is what it is… for now. They may or may not know that she exists, or existed, if that is the case. Her father was never really in her life to begin with and actively avoided supporting her, although if I remember correctly my late grandmother had one picture of siblings that she had through him, and my mother told me that he died in the mid-nineties. But I have been talking to a more distant cousin of mine on Ancestry, and she dislikes organized theistic religion as much as I do, which is great. I intend on sending her a friends request on Facebook once I can, once I am done with this most recent post block and comment block. (And ironically, for Mark Zuckerberg kissing Trump’s ass not being willing to take a harder line against the shit he says on social media, a lot of people are quitting Facebook, which I think is good. Maybe Facebook will stop being popular.)

And since I’ve joined so many Discord servers, I’ve actually left some of the ones that I didn’t chat as much in to cut down on the amount of ones that I am a member of, because I couldn’t juggle all of them at once. It was (and is) nothing personal to the ones that I did quit! It’s just that I can’t juggle being in so many servers.

It all seems to be a matter of control here…

It always seems to impress (Christian, religious) apologists whenever someone who was formerly atheist, or non-religious, converts to their religion, but it always seems to anger them, or incense them, when someone refuses “the call to conversion”, does not want to convert “in the face of evidence”, or turns from being someone that was particularly religious to someone that is no longer religious. I’ve become equal parts amused and worried by that as the years have gone on, although I would have to say that the “worried” part of it comes along more when it is men in positions of power exhibiting anger or feelings of incense or ire. It’s like their playbook, or rule book, doesn’t have a section in it for these kind of people — the “feel-good people” that “find God” or who “see the evidence before them”. And a lot of them actually say that “God has a plan for everyone,” and that “God will eventually call you to (church of their choice)”, so these are the very same kind of people who get angry when you continually reject their “call to conversion”, do not convert to the religion of their choice and… don’t come back to convert to their religion. They get even angrier when you speak out against it and do advocacy against the religion in question, or in my case, organized theistic religion as a whole. Maybe that’s why me finding Satanism when I did happened when it did. That’s not bad.

I can get behind the George Floyd protests, and even the riots, even though as a parent to two children who would be devastated if something happened to me I am neither actively protesting nor rioting (at least two people have actually lost eyes in these protests/riots alone, one being a journalist, and that’s frightening to simply type out… like, who thinks it’s a good idea to shoot someone’s eye out during one of these?!). I think I would make a good medic, though. Seriously. Police men need to stop killing black men. I hope to see these protests and these riots change the face of that, and for black men to stop dying at the hands of police men.

Especially in this country. Where it seems to be the only major problem, along with… oh, lack of gun control.

This isn’t an entirely bad thing, actually. I mean…

I have joined the “esteemed” ranks of those who are blocked on both of Onision’s Twitter accounts.

He’s gone back to his fake “positivity”, so he’s blocking anyone who dissents with him or brings up the fact that he and his spouse’s neglect of their daughter led to him falling through her second story window and cracking her skull on the driveway pavement in multiple places… which was something that should never under any circumstances have been allowed to happen. She should have been watched by at least one parent, her bedroom should have been structured window, and her window shouldn’t even have been possible to open, let alone open like it was in the time period leading up to this accident. But all of this actually happened (and how they still have custody of their children continues to boggle my mind), and it was an inconvenience to him because he had to escort her to the emergency room, where he proceeded to literally send a barrage of BDSM Tweets from his phone as she lay there in emergent services, hurt and in pain. His children mean nothing more to him than results of his actual impregnation fetish and a way for him to control his spouse and keep them around. The writing on the wall is clear to almost everyone at this point.

George Floyd’s life really did matter.

I’ve been continuing to keep an eye on the news since I found out that this happened, and I’ve been reading about the protests and the riots. I’m on the side of the protestors and the riots. This shouldn’t have happened. This shouldn’t keep happening. People may be having to take to the streets protesting and rioting during a global pandemic, but this is what clearly has to happen if we are ever going to see any real change.

Do I even need to explain this block? I do?

This summer — which I didn’t know about until now — I got blocked by the casting director of a few shows, to include Big Brother, because I expressed concern over the fact that one of the HouseGuests had admitted on live feeds that prior to being cast, he was addicted to drugs (particularly Xanax), was scoring them “off of the streets”, was not procuring them legally, was also admitting that production was helping him win crucial competitions to stay in the game, and that when he was one of the show’s “Have-Nots”, he snuck potato chips into the shower away from the cameras to eat it when he was supposed to only be eating slop and we never saw the show name “Have-Nots” again. Not only did they pander to this dude and ensure that he won (and he wound up being the winner), but there was the high likelihood that he could relapse $500,000 richer, which production should seriously have seen coming. On top of that, he admitted that he lied on a lot of the questions asked of him on one of their questionnaires before he even came on the show “because they wouldn’t have cast him if he’d told the truth”, which he also said on the live feeds! He got away with all this!

Bringing up these concerns over the span of various Tweets to the casting director, along with the many other people that… you know, did this too, and expressing concern over the show’s declining quality over recent seasons just got me blocked though. Clearly production had another pet here they wanted to pay…

I mean, this doesn’t surprise me at this point.

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2020/05/06/coronavirus-survivors-banned-from-joining-the-military/?fbclid=IwAR0lc2TBOEb-yIvWhbL7gXjg6l1GSjHHKjy9piaAfN-ZfWKkicFKOAIE3gI

Apparently if you’ve tested positive for COVID-19, or been diagnosed with it by a clinician, you are now barred from enlisting in the military… and it also looks like you won’t be able to serve in the military as well. Given the source of this news, I’m inclined to say that this is fairly accurate. We’re talking about something that is known to cause lung damage in a large percentage of those that it does infect, and the very same something that actually caused a global pandemic. This is one of the (comparatively) few illnesses that causes what’s called “ground glass opacity” in a high percentage of cases, or at least those that warrant hospitalization. You also tend to see that in chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD), lung transplant rejection as it advances — oh, and SARS. You saw that in SARS too. So for people to downplay how severe this actually is… they need to stop. People who tout the conservative party line of “99.7% of people survive this and get over it without any problems!” need to really shut up about this because well… that isn’t true.

I know that I had seen this mentioned in other news articles, but this practically confirms all of this.

And yet there are still people out there that insist that this is not actually as severe as it is. Still. Seriously.

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