Girard442
Girard442's JournalA Merry Christmas to all the other atheists here.
Yes, I know it's a religious holiday, but all cultures in the Northern Hemisphere have a Winter festival of some sort, to celebrate the days getting longer, the sun being higher in the sky, and the anticipation of better days ahead.
As an atheist, it is good at this time of year to humbly acknowledge the existence of higher powers that have helped me through some of life's darkest days -- my fellow human beings, who have given help without any expectation of benefit to themselves. I can't repay them directly, but maybe I can pay some of the debt forward. It's large. I doubt I'll be around long enough to retire the whole principal. One does the best one can.
I have learned that I can enjoy gospel music by hearing it as aspirational and not about a concrete reality. Religion can be good that way. One can always hope that the good will persist and the bad will fade away. That's more aspirational than a concrete reality, but there's always hope.
Happy Holidays everyone. Spring is coming!
I know we imagine Insurrection II as a bunch of pudgy cosplayers...
...with their tricked-out squirrel rifles vastly outnumbered and outgunned by a loyal professional military.
But...what if the military truly can't figure out what to do? What if the Trumpite candidate takes the White House through smelly state politics that are still blessed by the SCOTUS? If we rose up against that, wouldn't the military be compelled by law and custom to put us down?
If the politics were rank enough, the military might actually split, which would have a pretty much guaranteed bad outcome.
Anyone out there with their finger on the pulse of the right wing know what they think of 1/6 now?
Do they think what happened was cool and heroic and can't wait for the next coup attempt? Or are they in deep denial that anything happened at all?
When Roe is overturned, expect OB/GYNs to flee the Red States.
The logic is brutal: when a pregnant patient is in a crisis (think ectopic pregnancy) a doctor may be forced to choose between terminating the pregnancy and facing law enforcement or comitting malpractice by doing nothing and unnecessarily risking the patient's life.
Better to go practice in a sane state.
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