Cherry Picking Hypocrisy

Tattoos, they're not for me.  I feel very strongly that I should never put a mark on my body.  This is partly because of Leviticus, a little of Revelation. 

Sometimes, I hear the argument, "You do all these other things you're not to do.  You eat shell fish and pork and work on the Sabbath.  You can't just pick and choose what rules you follow you know.  You're being a little hypocritical."  But, isn't that like saying that if you break one rule, you should break them all?

Truth is, most of the rules I break, I also think I shouldn't be doing.  The difference?  Sometimes I can't help myself and I'm too weak to do the right thing.  With tattoos, I can do the right thing; I have no desire to get one.  Not wanting one, and believing it is wrong, I'd be pretty stupid to go out and get one anyway.

Are you going to Hell if you get a tattoo on your body?  No, probably not.  Besides the fact that you can always repent, you can always take advantage of the fact that we are freed from the law, according to St. Paul.  Why would we choose to re-submit to the law?  The law gives sin it's power over us and finds us guilty.  But, if I can resist something that I feel is wrong and have no desire to do it, why would I do it just to spite God? 

I also won't force my views on others.  Aside from my 11th Commandment--thou shalt leave thy neighbour the fuck alone--addition, I'm not their master or judge; I have no idea of the workings of the relationship between them and The Master.

Libertarian leanings aside, I think one of the greatest evils of history is mankind's uncanny drive to subjugate our fellow humans to our way of thought.  We're so good at forcing people to live the way that we think they should.

So, tattoo if you want to.  I choose not to do so.  If you have no problem eating meat, go ahead and eat it.

Strange Dreaming

Last night, I dreamt that somebody got a lengthy sentence for contravention of section 217 of the criminal code.  I thought maybe murder?  I looked it up, and it is obligatory duty failure.

Also, I dreamed that I could see a map of the Great Lakes and traditional Chippewa territory was outlined in yellow, which extended farther to the West and South in my dream from the lakes.  We decided to visit the Grand Canyon, which was in the state of Nebraska--pretty close to where it is in real life, the state not the caynon--and just outside Chippewa territory.  Actually, the Grand Canyon is in Arizona in real life.  I punched the GC into the GPS, and we started packing the new truck.

It was a big black truck.  I was playing with/having trouble with the four wheel drive.  And, while being packed, I accidentally let the truck roll forward.  It rolled while in gear with the parking break on, which was not enough to hold it in gear.

When I awoke, I looked up all this stuff to see if my subconscious was close:

👎s.217 of the Criminal Code of Canada

👍Traditional Chippewa Territory 

👍Nebraska 

👎The Grand Canyon 

👎The truck shouldn't roll with the parking break set

For once, I didn't start out by trying to figure it out.  I wanted to know if it was accurate.  🤣

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Diversity of Opinion

Everybody needs to have at least one friend whom they disagree with on major philosophical points without hard feelings rising up from discussion, that challenges us to broaden our intellectual horizons...or at the very least allows to understand the other side, without "unfriending".  We need to learn to live with and love those who are different, to be tolerant of diversity of thought and of belief. 

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Dog

When a dog is walking down the street on a leash with with it's master, watching strange metal cages on round rubber feet move toward and away from them, do they stress about understanding?  Do they need to understand?  How did the hard black ground get there that the cages run on?  Does that consume their capacity for thought?  Or, are they simply happy in the knowledge that they love their master and vice versa, simply excited at being out for a walk with new smells to sniff?

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She has beaten the odds, bit it is sad that she is being moved into a home.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=psalm+90%3A10&version=KJV

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I keep being g misunderstood and misrepresented on the lockdown issue.

I keep being misunderstood and misrepresented on the lockdown issue.  I never said or claimed the following:

● COVID-19 is a hoax

● The pandemic isn't real

● People aren't dying 

● I'm not at risk

● We should do nothing 

● I'm an anti vaxer

This is what I am accused of as soon as I open my mouth to speak.  I'm actually pro mask, in that I believe they help.

Here is what I believe:

● Masks help slow the spread

● There's a high probability COVID-19 is.          synthetic 

● The lock down does more harm than good because,

● It tracks up public debt while closing down businesses, and

● People's mental is suffering significantly 

● We are definitely over reacting

● The media is whipping us into a frenzy 

● This is Moral Panic

● The public is mostly fear motivated 

● The press conflates infections with danger

● The mortality rate is actually very low

● We need to do more to protect those at high risk

● I am not at high risk

● We need to put this in perspective 

● More people died from both heart disease and cancer in 2020

● Approximately 50 people died in Huron-Perth in 2020 from COVID-19 

● 16 000 died in Canada from COVID-19 in 2020

● 60 000 died from heart disease 

● Big Macs are not locked down

● The WHO reported there was no flu in 2020...at all (gone)

● The mortality rate is currently at about 2% in the developed world

● Fact:  There was a lab in Wuhan China working on mutating the coronavirus 

● Officials tell us there is no "proof " that the virus escaped 

● You're labeled a conspiracy theorist if you reference the lab

● You can't catch it twice

● Once vaccinated, you can't transmit it

● As it mutates, it becomes more contagious but less lethal

● We are weakening our immune systems 

● Post Modernist Neo-Marxists are using this to effect an economic system Reset on a global level to redistribute wealth

● Socialism has never worked

● Civil liberties and constitutional rights are being trampled on, no question that they are

● I'm not a conspiracy theorist 

● I don't want people to die

● I am not greedy 

● I'm looking at numbers and facts

● I'm thinking critically 

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Sad Day

An eighty six year old friend of mine has had her children decide to sell her house and put her in a "home".  It seems so undignified. 

She was such a strong conservative lady and friend, and it's all so sad.  She has to leave her beautiful home that her and her husband shared for fifty years. 

The Devil's Advocate in me asks, "is it only about money?  Is it because they won't care for her themselves?  Can't she do a stay at home program where a nurse visits?"  But, I don't know their motives...or her health for that matter. 

A generation ago, there were three generations living in the family farm house. Now, we shuffle off our old people.  Nobody wants them. 

I shouldn't speak. My own biological father is in a retirement home. I can say that it's because I don't have power of attorney and am estranged from my brother. I can say it's because he burned his bridges with my wife. The fact remains that he is there. Old. Lonely. Alone. 

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