The colossus of anxiety where the odor of burning clock oil wafts from the tiny gears of the ancient Doomsday Clock as, nanoscond-by-nanosecond, it painfully grinds its way to the obliteration of the footsteps in the radioactive sand, which formerly marked the chaos -- the legacy of the supposedly intelligent species who blinked here.
Israelis saw the genocidaire coming from miles and miles away,
but they couldn't stop him.
Haaretz
April 7, 2021
<BLOCKQUOTE>
The chairman of the far-right Religious Zionism party, lawmaker Bezalel Smotrich, wrote on Wednesday that he will make sure that Arabs who do not recognize the Jewish people's legitimate rule over the Land of Israel “will not remain here.” </BLOCKQUOTE>
It is a timeline of events beginning with November 2, 2022
when Netanyahu returned to power.
Israelis saw the genocidaire coming from miles and miles away,
but they couldn't stop him.
<BLOCKQUOTE>Haaretz | Opinion
<B>May 16, 2017 </B>by Tomer Persico| Why Religious Zionism Is Growing Darker
Certain people in this camp, Betzalel Smotrich among them, turn to Jewish identity and use a mythic narrative to enlist support for anti-liberal ideas</BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
At a gathering of religious Zionist public figures two weeks ago, Deputy Knesset Speaker Betzalel Smotrich talked about his diplomatic plan, which he dubbed “The subjugation plan.” The purpose of the plan, he said, was “to erase all Palestinian national hope.”
Under the plan, the Palestinians will be given three choices – to leave the country; to live in Israel with the status of “resident alien,” because, as Smotrich made sure to note, “according to Jewish law there must always be some inferiority,” or to resist, “and then the Israel Defense Forces will know what to do.” When the deputy Knesset speaker was asked if he intended to wipe out whole families, including women and children, Smotrich replied, “In war, as in war.”
Smotrich presented the Book of Joshua as the source for his remarks. According to the Midrash, Joshua sent the residents of the land of Canaan three letters in which he set out the three aforementioned conditions. Maimonides explains that if the non-Jews do not flee, they must have limitations imposed on them “so they should be despised and lowly, and not raise their heads in Israel.” If they resist, he says, “not a soul must be left among them” – in other words, kill them all.
...
Certain people in the religious-Zionist camp, Smotrich among them, turn to Jewish identity and use a mythic narrative to enlist support for anti-liberal ideas. In a situation in which liberalism is perceived as opposing identity, or in a situation in which there is no answer defending liberalism that’s based on identity, they will succeed in drawing many after them, first and foremost those who are deeply connected to tradition. Only a position that emerges from one’s identity toward liberalism, that reunites nationalism and liberalism (and even religion and democracy), can prevent many religious Zionists and others from being drawn to the insane ideas of Smotrich and his ilk.
The fact that Smotrich is a dangerous fundamentalist who seeks to give the Palestinians a choice between transfer, apartheid or genocide is horrifying. It’s hard to complain to the Palestinian Authority about their encouragement of terror when the deputy Knesset speaker of the State of Israel supports this type of “subjugation plan.” He should be removed from his post and thrown out of the Knesset.
But even if this were to happen, the important question is what kind of response we, the religious and secular Zionists, proffer to his ideas. Until there is such an answer, he will continue to move from the margins to the center.
Daniel Blatman, May 23, 2017 | The Israeli Lawmaker Heralding Genocide Against Palestinians
Tomer Persico quoted remarks that MK Bezalel Smotrich (Habayit Hayehudi) made recently at a conference of religious Zionists, where he presented his plan to offer the Palestinians three options: leave the territories, continue to live there with second-class status, or continue resisting, in which case “the Israel Defense Forces will know what to do.” <B>These are chilling words that are liable to lead Israel into committing the horrific crime of genocide.</B></BLOCKQUOTE>
[emphasis, mine]
<BLOCKQUOTE>
It’s hard to believe that an elected representative of a party in the governing coalition could raise the option of genocide if the Palestinians don’t accept the terms he’s willing to offer them: either emigration, or life under an apartheid regime based on principles of Jewish law, which would be even worse than the one that existed in South Africa. Smotrich, a deputy speaker of the Knesset, is the most senior government figure to date to say unabashedly that the option of genocide is on the table if the Palestinians don’t agree to our terms – and it’s clear they won’t agree.
Smotrich relies on the biblical Book of Joshua as his model. Researchers of genocide in the ancient world have already determined that the Book of Joshua is an important document for examining the characteristics of genocide in the ancient world. Some of its components differed from the genocides of the 20th century, but the Book of Joshua describes actions that were explicitly defined as genocide in the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. The convention defines anyone who commits such acts as someone who committed crimes against humanity and must therefore be put on trial.
This is how the Book of Joshua describes the conquest of the city of Ai (Joshua 8:24-29): “And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, even in the wilderness wherein they pursued them, and they were all fallen by the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all Israel returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword. ... So Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, unto this day. And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until the eventide; and at the going down of the sun Joshua commanded, and they took his carcass down from the tree, and cast it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised thereon a great heap of stones, unto this day.”
Anshel Pfeffer, <B>Feb 10, 2022 </B>| British Jews Condemning Far Right Racist Bezalel Smotrich Is Just the Beginning
British Jews rightly, and very explicitly, told Israeli politician and Jewish supremacist Bezalel Smotrich to get lost and go home. For Diaspora Jews, the era of sitting on the fence, and not just about Israeli racists, is ending</BLOCKQUOTE>
Once again Caitlin, simultaneously beautiful and heartrending. I am sadly convinced that it’s time for what we euphemistically call Humanity to GO.
Perhaps a reemergence of the Plague? Or something that will kill off humans and leave the rest of our beautiful species intact? Who would be the next dominant species? Big cats…elephants…dolphins…?
Cockroaches would be better stewards of the Earth than Homo sapiens. So far as I know, cockroaches have never carpet-bombed anyone 🤔
Hi gypsy, Just not a species that relies on alpha males -- because it's that intrinsic narcissism factor that seems to confer the possibility for exceptionalist / chosen people mentality. Perhaps we need hive mind direction from a colony species like honeybees where the one dominant individual is a genetic progenitor female. Just a speculation. Does this make me a communist or just a collectivist?
Killer females all, Brrrr. But my larger point was the collective / colony mind, actually a society functioning like an advanced complex adaptive system. That poison queens exist in the world is clearly not my fault, and you need mention only Killary. She drives the point home for me all by her lonesome.
Here at least we have Cori Bush, Ilhan Omar, Summer Lee and Rashida Tlaib. And many of us are fighting hard to put Dr. Jill in power!
Additionally I’ve heard many women in the Irish Dail speak very powerfully. We just need to give the real average woman a CHANCE— not women who are hand-picked by the establishment.
And if you’ve never heard a speech by South African politician Mrs. Naledi Pandor, I beg you to do so. That woman should be president of the world!
I like her too. I saw her speaking on something and she stands with the Palestinians and believes they should be sovereign just like what had to happen in her country of South Africa. Yemen, South Africa and Ireland identify with the Palestinians.🇵🇸☮️
I think you are somewhat premature in seeking the end of humanity.
We are best seen as ‘a work in progress’. We have been here only one to two hundred thousand years and for much of that time, indeed most, we were not the apex predators we are now.
Okay, we are capable of doing great evil. But we can adapt and learn.
We have been here for several thousands of years and we have learned. Learned to kill on a huge scale, to lie to ourselves and everyone else, to rape,pillage and burn with no effort, and to presume to call on GOD for help in those endeavors.
Although, texts may refer to a god as a sort of Sun deity; in actually, I think that they actually refer to the two minds that most of us possess within our one mind.
A fair percentage of species go extinct because the competition between the males for an opportunity to mate doesn't promote the survival of the species as a whole; indirectly, isn't that the situation with our species?
In all of nature, it is ALWAYS the female who chooses her mate. A male cardinal will construct up to five nests and allow his paramour to select the one she prefers. Guys, are you listening? 😉
Except for humanity. Pitifully, a young woman will wait around for some guy to give her a ring and propose marriage 🙄 WTF is wrong with a woman proposing marriage? In the old Pagan days, it was always the woman who selected whom she wanted to father her children.
Not to worry, there are evil people attempting to do just that. All the wrong people for all the wrong reasons. Euthanize 6 or 7 Billion people so they can control all that remain. Truly "A Brave New World"- as Huxley warned us was part of the plan.
I would do nothing to save this empire. But one reason the United States is so fucked up is that there are a significant number of dumb fucks that support that shit for brains, Biden. I would never support Trump, either.
That is to say Bach, da Vinci, Sorolla, Gandhi, Schubert, Ellsberg, Toni Morrison, Eleanor Roosevelt, Madame Curie, Alice Neel, Martha Graham, Jane Addams constitute the one eye of the one fish in the I
Ching symbol (the book of changes) - In either the white fish with deep velvet black eye - or the black fish with the open light-filled eye. The "eye" matters.
Well, you know there was an article just that today; so, we all know what toxoplasmosis is? Cat poop disease? It can totally mess with human minds and make men both violent and impulsive, bad enough for someone with a loaded gun; but, they've discovered now, that that pathogen is itself also infected with a number of viruses that also causes mental imbalances. What a cake mix. Fruitcake anyone? So your son was probably right on and way ahead of his time.
One third of the earth's population has toxoplasmosis gondii, many violent males never want to get rid of it. Almost any outdoor sand box is likely to be infected, infants are especially prome to infection, besides mild mental disturbes there, are few symptoms, clean hands is no guarantee against infection, but your statement concerning deserving infection, reminds me of Ronald Reagan, who said that HIV, AIDS was God's punishment for gays. Isn't everything in life all about punishment? Why we live in the sort of world that we that we do? Armageddon would also be our just desserts as well, no doubt.
I wouldn't say those were his dreams. Only his learning about viruses and comparing them to people. In any case, he has grown up and changed like all of us do.
During this difficult time, I look towards the stalwart Palestinians for strength. They are the loadstar for humanity, a testament of resilience, perseverance, spiritual strength and graciousness. Even when amongst the rubble with empty bellies, they studied and celebrated the birthdays of their children. We will see a Free Palestine (free from the nefarious tentacles of occupation) and a Free humanity will prevail. We must remind ourselves, what a wonderful world it could be, IF psychopaths and their minions weren't at the helm.
We amputated our sacred connection with nature and land. The sacredness has disappeared, now there is only the mundane - crass exploitation of all life, and ego domination by the worshippers of Materialism.
Their parents, and their parent's, parents. In my case my grandmother died in an electric chair; my mother was a sociopath or a psychopath, because she was both good and bad, then again the good part could just be tactical; my siblings eventually ended her life and just like any good psychopath would attempted to place the blame on me for not having approved of the killing. In think that they're both serial killers now, but obviously, after their numerous attempts on my own life, I stay in contact with them to know for sure just what exactly it is that they're doing; and that's where they come from and they tend to hang together with like minded people, and do insane sort of things like the present administration.
I think what I was trying to say is that all of us share some responsibility for the state of our civilizations. As the Dalai Lama often responds to a difficult question : "I don't Know"... Are we to blame for people with psychopathic tendencies... but even the word itself is more blurry than not... I don't really know what a psychopath means anyway, except that it sounds out of kilter with the rest of society. Maybe there's a potential for all the ills of the world inside each of us, and maybe not. I only asked the question, I don't know the answer.
Caitlin, I feel you. I hear you. This poem is a perfect expression of our horrible dilemma, and of our improbable hopes. It’s gripping and moving cautionary tale of a vision of phoenix rising versus inexorable stagnation. Exceptional!
Today I was in tears because of all this that we are living: Gaza, the provocation for a third world war, the ecological destruction, and on top of that, I am Argentinean and we have Milei. It is difficult to express the rampant evil that we are witnessing not only in my country but in the world, and it is being very difficult for me to understand what is happening! And I try!
And I think that what you have expressed here is the only thing that makes sense. To continue with the practice and from the ashes of what we are provoking, a new way of inhabiting the Earth and inhabiting ourselves will emerge.
"This is the manger in which Christ consciousness will be lain." Amen
Awesome Caitlin, just awesome.
How can sadness, deprivation and despair be portrayed so beautifully. 🙏
The colossus of anxiety where the odor of burning clock oil wafts from the tiny gears of the ancient Doomsday Clock as, nanoscond-by-nanosecond, it painfully grinds its way to the obliteration of the footsteps in the radioactive sand, which formerly marked the chaos -- the legacy of the supposedly intelligent species who blinked here.
<B>The Devil Is Smarter Than You</B>
Israelis saw the genocidaire coming from miles and miles away,
but they couldn't stop him.
Haaretz
April 7, 2021
<BLOCKQUOTE>
The chairman of the far-right Religious Zionism party, lawmaker Bezalel Smotrich, wrote on Wednesday that he will make sure that Arabs who do not recognize the Jewish people's legitimate rule over the Land of Israel “will not remain here.” </BLOCKQUOTE>
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/elections/.premium-netanyahu-ally-israel-belongs-to-the-jews-arab-who-don-t-recognize-that-won-t-stay-here-1.9690443
https://archive.ph/pk3nx (archive)
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Here is a recent timeline and you will find Bezalel Smotrich's power soar as he is added to Netanyahu's coalition.
Bezalel Smotrich wanted the post of Defense Minister !!
He was given the post of Finance Minister and responsibility for overseeing the building of settlements in the West Bank.
https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2023/11/24/countdown-to-genocide/
It is a timeline of events beginning with November 2, 2022
when Netanyahu returned to power.
Israelis saw the genocidaire coming from miles and miles away,
but they couldn't stop him.
<BLOCKQUOTE>Haaretz | Opinion
<B>May 16, 2017 </B>by Tomer Persico| Why Religious Zionism Is Growing Darker
Certain people in this camp, Betzalel Smotrich among them, turn to Jewish identity and use a mythic narrative to enlist support for anti-liberal ideas</BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
At a gathering of religious Zionist public figures two weeks ago, Deputy Knesset Speaker Betzalel Smotrich talked about his diplomatic plan, which he dubbed “The subjugation plan.” The purpose of the plan, he said, was “to erase all Palestinian national hope.”
Under the plan, the Palestinians will be given three choices – to leave the country; to live in Israel with the status of “resident alien,” because, as Smotrich made sure to note, “according to Jewish law there must always be some inferiority,” or to resist, “and then the Israel Defense Forces will know what to do.” When the deputy Knesset speaker was asked if he intended to wipe out whole families, including women and children, Smotrich replied, “In war, as in war.”
Smotrich presented the Book of Joshua as the source for his remarks. According to the Midrash, Joshua sent the residents of the land of Canaan three letters in which he set out the three aforementioned conditions. Maimonides explains that if the non-Jews do not flee, they must have limitations imposed on them “so they should be despised and lowly, and not raise their heads in Israel.” If they resist, he says, “not a soul must be left among them” – in other words, kill them all.
...
Certain people in the religious-Zionist camp, Smotrich among them, turn to Jewish identity and use a mythic narrative to enlist support for anti-liberal ideas. In a situation in which liberalism is perceived as opposing identity, or in a situation in which there is no answer defending liberalism that’s based on identity, they will succeed in drawing many after them, first and foremost those who are deeply connected to tradition. Only a position that emerges from one’s identity toward liberalism, that reunites nationalism and liberalism (and even religion and democracy), can prevent many religious Zionists and others from being drawn to the insane ideas of Smotrich and his ilk.
The fact that Smotrich is a dangerous fundamentalist who seeks to give the Palestinians a choice between transfer, apartheid or genocide is horrifying. It’s hard to complain to the Palestinian Authority about their encouragement of terror when the deputy Knesset speaker of the State of Israel supports this type of “subjugation plan.” He should be removed from his post and thrown out of the Knesset.
But even if this were to happen, the important question is what kind of response we, the religious and secular Zionists, proffer to his ideas. Until there is such an answer, he will continue to move from the margins to the center.
</BLOCKQUOTE>
https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2017-05-16/ty-article/.premium/why-religious-zionism-is-growing-darker/0000017f-e13a-d804-ad7f-f1faf5f90000
https://archive.ph/3g4sK (archive)
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Haaretz | Opinion
Daniel Blatman, May 23, 2017 | The Israeli Lawmaker Heralding Genocide Against Palestinians
Tomer Persico quoted remarks that MK Bezalel Smotrich (Habayit Hayehudi) made recently at a conference of religious Zionists, where he presented his plan to offer the Palestinians three options: leave the territories, continue to live there with second-class status, or continue resisting, in which case “the Israel Defense Forces will know what to do.” <B>These are chilling words that are liable to lead Israel into committing the horrific crime of genocide.</B></BLOCKQUOTE>
[emphasis, mine]
<BLOCKQUOTE>
It’s hard to believe that an elected representative of a party in the governing coalition could raise the option of genocide if the Palestinians don’t accept the terms he’s willing to offer them: either emigration, or life under an apartheid regime based on principles of Jewish law, which would be even worse than the one that existed in South Africa. Smotrich, a deputy speaker of the Knesset, is the most senior government figure to date to say unabashedly that the option of genocide is on the table if the Palestinians don’t agree to our terms – and it’s clear they won’t agree.
Smotrich relies on the biblical Book of Joshua as his model. Researchers of genocide in the ancient world have already determined that the Book of Joshua is an important document for examining the characteristics of genocide in the ancient world. Some of its components differed from the genocides of the 20th century, but the Book of Joshua describes actions that were explicitly defined as genocide in the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. The convention defines anyone who commits such acts as someone who committed crimes against humanity and must therefore be put on trial.
This is how the Book of Joshua describes the conquest of the city of Ai (Joshua 8:24-29): “And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, even in the wilderness wherein they pursued them, and they were all fallen by the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all Israel returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword. ... So Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, unto this day. And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until the eventide; and at the going down of the sun Joshua commanded, and they took his carcass down from the tree, and cast it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised thereon a great heap of stones, unto this day.”
</BLOCKQUOTE>
https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2017-05-23/ty-article/.premium/the-israeli-mk-heralding-genocide-against-palestinians/0000017f-e2ae-d804-ad7f-f3feb9200000
https://archive.ph/JjiCp (archive)
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
Haaretz | Israel News
Anshel Pfeffer, <B>Feb 10, 2022 </B>| British Jews Condemning Far Right Racist Bezalel Smotrich Is Just the Beginning
British Jews rightly, and very explicitly, told Israeli politician and Jewish supremacist Bezalel Smotrich to get lost and go home. For Diaspora Jews, the era of sitting on the fence, and not just about Israeli racists, is ending</BLOCKQUOTE>
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2022-02-10/ty-article-opinion/.highlight/british-jews-condemning-far-right-racist-bezalel-smotrich-is-just-the-beginning/0000017f-e6a5-dea7-adff-f7ff98260000
https://archive.ph/uURm9 (archive)
<B>The Devil Is Smarter Than You</B>
Israelis saw the genocidaire coming from miles and miles away,
but they couldn't stop him.
Once again Caitlin, simultaneously beautiful and heartrending. I am sadly convinced that it’s time for what we euphemistically call Humanity to GO.
Perhaps a reemergence of the Plague? Or something that will kill off humans and leave the rest of our beautiful species intact? Who would be the next dominant species? Big cats…elephants…dolphins…?
Cockroaches would be better stewards of the Earth than Homo sapiens. So far as I know, cockroaches have never carpet-bombed anyone 🤔
Hi gypsy, Just not a species that relies on alpha males -- because it's that intrinsic narcissism factor that seems to confer the possibility for exceptionalist / chosen people mentality. Perhaps we need hive mind direction from a colony species like honeybees where the one dominant individual is a genetic progenitor female. Just a speculation. Does this make me a communist or just a collectivist?
It makes you nothing because the females species has not learned anything YET.
Look at all the women we have had in power?
most of the women we have had in power just imitate male behaviour. Human women and men belong to the same species.
Killer females all, Brrrr. But my larger point was the collective / colony mind, actually a society functioning like an advanced complex adaptive system. That poison queens exist in the world is clearly not my fault, and you need mention only Killary. She drives the point home for me all by her lonesome.
Dear Jenny
Here at least we have Cori Bush, Ilhan Omar, Summer Lee and Rashida Tlaib. And many of us are fighting hard to put Dr. Jill in power!
Additionally I’ve heard many women in the Irish Dail speak very powerfully. We just need to give the real average woman a CHANCE— not women who are hand-picked by the establishment.
And if you’ve never heard a speech by South African politician Mrs. Naledi Pandor, I beg you to do so. That woman should be president of the world!
I like her too. I saw her speaking on something and she stands with the Palestinians and believes they should be sovereign just like what had to happen in her country of South Africa. Yemen, South Africa and Ireland identify with the Palestinians.🇵🇸☮️
Yes, Smoky, that beautiful, imposing woman is wonderful!
Killary Clinton,Gina Haspel at your cervix s’il vous plâit.
I kinda like your idea, Vin 🙂
Thanks, it took a lotta heat for the poison queen aspect
Hi Vin, wolves have an intelligent and sophisticated society and they are lead by females.
Right you are! My avatar is a wolf head; my second fave species behind desert Junipers.
Wolves rock! And so do junipers of all types! 😁
We have a plague here now. We have internalized disease and called it ideology. It is ideology that needs to go, not the host
"I am sadly convinced that it’s time for what we euphemistically call Humanity to GO."
Too nihilistic. It is possible that intelligence and integrity can win out. But doesn't appear to be likely in the United States.
I think you are somewhat premature in seeking the end of humanity.
We are best seen as ‘a work in progress’. We have been here only one to two hundred thousand years and for much of that time, indeed most, we were not the apex predators we are now.
Okay, we are capable of doing great evil. But we can adapt and learn.
We have been here for several thousands of years and we have learned. Learned to kill on a huge scale, to lie to ourselves and everyone else, to rape,pillage and burn with no effort, and to presume to call on GOD for help in those endeavors.
Although, texts may refer to a god as a sort of Sun deity; in actually, I think that they actually refer to the two minds that most of us possess within our one mind.
A fair percentage of species go extinct because the competition between the males for an opportunity to mate doesn't promote the survival of the species as a whole; indirectly, isn't that the situation with our species?
Hi TMW
In all of nature, it is ALWAYS the female who chooses her mate. A male cardinal will construct up to five nests and allow his paramour to select the one she prefers. Guys, are you listening? 😉
Except for humanity. Pitifully, a young woman will wait around for some guy to give her a ring and propose marriage 🙄 WTF is wrong with a woman proposing marriage? In the old Pagan days, it was always the woman who selected whom she wanted to father her children.
I believe this BUT we have to go through a WORSE cycle. NOTHING yet has been as bad as it is now.
Tony, but probably not before climate change wipes us out.
Not to worry, there are evil people attempting to do just that. All the wrong people for all the wrong reasons. Euthanize 6 or 7 Billion people so they can control all that remain. Truly "A Brave New World"- as Huxley warned us was part of the plan.
OR Ladybirds!
Outstanding. I didn’t know you were a poet…no wonder your writing is so good.
Plaintive, passionate zeitgeist poetry. Beautifully written from the heart of darkness. Humanity must prevail.
I would do nothing to save this empire. But one reason the United States is so fucked up is that there are a significant number of dumb fucks that support that shit for brains, Biden. I would never support Trump, either.
When my son was about 8 or 9 he came stomping into my room declaring that humans are viruses and the world would be better off without us. Hmmm.
That is to say Bach, da Vinci, Sorolla, Gandhi, Schubert, Ellsberg, Toni Morrison, Eleanor Roosevelt, Madame Curie, Alice Neel, Martha Graham, Jane Addams constitute the one eye of the one fish in the I
Ching symbol (the book of changes) - In either the white fish with deep velvet black eye - or the black fish with the open light-filled eye. The "eye" matters.
Well, you know there was an article just that today; so, we all know what toxoplasmosis is? Cat poop disease? It can totally mess with human minds and make men both violent and impulsive, bad enough for someone with a loaded gun; but, they've discovered now, that that pathogen is itself also infected with a number of viruses that also causes mental imbalances. What a cake mix. Fruitcake anyone? So your son was probably right on and way ahead of his time.
Anyone who doesn’t wash their hands after scooping kitty litter deserves what they get.
One third of the earth's population has toxoplasmosis gondii, many violent males never want to get rid of it. Almost any outdoor sand box is likely to be infected, infants are especially prome to infection, besides mild mental disturbes there, are few symptoms, clean hands is no guarantee against infection, but your statement concerning deserving infection, reminds me of Ronald Reagan, who said that HIV, AIDS was God's punishment for gays. Isn't everything in life all about punishment? Why we live in the sort of world that we that we do? Armageddon would also be our just desserts as well, no doubt.
How old is your son just now ??
Hopefully NOT in a powerful position so he could make his dreams come true ...
I wouldn't say those were his dreams. Only his learning about viruses and comparing them to people. In any case, he has grown up and changed like all of us do.
Wow. Beautiful. It gave me shivers… thanks.
During this difficult time, I look towards the stalwart Palestinians for strength. They are the loadstar for humanity, a testament of resilience, perseverance, spiritual strength and graciousness. Even when amongst the rubble with empty bellies, they studied and celebrated the birthdays of their children. We will see a Free Palestine (free from the nefarious tentacles of occupation) and a Free humanity will prevail. We must remind ourselves, what a wonderful world it could be, IF psychopaths and their minions weren't at the helm.
Dr....
"IF psychopaths and their minions weren't at the helm."
Where do you think psychopaths come from? Aren't WE the psychopaths? How do we avoid that path? Psychopaths were once children... what happened?
We amputated our sacred connection with nature and land. The sacredness has disappeared, now there is only the mundane - crass exploitation of all life, and ego domination by the worshippers of Materialism.
Jehovah happened. YHWH happened. Moloch happened.
Their parents, and their parent's, parents. In my case my grandmother died in an electric chair; my mother was a sociopath or a psychopath, because she was both good and bad, then again the good part could just be tactical; my siblings eventually ended her life and just like any good psychopath would attempted to place the blame on me for not having approved of the killing. In think that they're both serial killers now, but obviously, after their numerous attempts on my own life, I stay in contact with them to know for sure just what exactly it is that they're doing; and that's where they come from and they tend to hang together with like minded people, and do insane sort of things like the present administration.
I think what I was trying to say is that all of us share some responsibility for the state of our civilizations. As the Dalai Lama often responds to a difficult question : "I don't Know"... Are we to blame for people with psychopathic tendencies... but even the word itself is more blurry than not... I don't really know what a psychopath means anyway, except that it sounds out of kilter with the rest of society. Maybe there's a potential for all the ills of the world inside each of us, and maybe not. I only asked the question, I don't know the answer.
Who put them at the helm ??? ....
DEMOCRACY !!!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I would add the Yemeni's.
I also need to add... reading your followers comments also makes me know I am not alone seeing the world as I do...
truly we are together with our grief
Beautiful! I can visualize our Landfill Empire exactly as you've written it.
My favorite part:
In the future, if there is a future,
maybe the humans figure things out
and create a healthy world.
But that world is not our world.
That world is not where we clocked in to do our daily work.
Here's hoping that we all take ourselves "off the clock" and start working on creating that healthy world.
Caitlin, I feel you. I hear you. This poem is a perfect expression of our horrible dilemma, and of our improbable hopes. It’s gripping and moving cautionary tale of a vision of phoenix rising versus inexorable stagnation. Exceptional!
Poetic word smithing, genuine talent.
Thank you Caitlin
Today I was in tears because of all this that we are living: Gaza, the provocation for a third world war, the ecological destruction, and on top of that, I am Argentinean and we have Milei. It is difficult to express the rampant evil that we are witnessing not only in my country but in the world, and it is being very difficult for me to understand what is happening! And I try!
And I think that what you have expressed here is the only thing that makes sense. To continue with the practice and from the ashes of what we are provoking, a new way of inhabiting the Earth and inhabiting ourselves will emerge.
"This is the manger in which Christ consciousness will be lain." Amen
Hauntingly poetic and beautiful wrapped up with the horror of the truth and maybe a bit of satire! I couldn’t imagine better writing.
You bring me to tears ... You get my mind on paper without me writing or painting ... your work is so profound