I think you nailed something there, Moonie. I've just posted in another thread, describing a lunch I had with a friend, with my loud voice and my hearing aids turned off. We didn't think anyone was sharing that restaurant with us, but after talking about cars, we discussed the election. I remember one point that I made: Trump supporters either hate their lives or they hate their country as it has evolved socially, politically and economically over 100 years. IF not, they're totally ignorant as to what the circle of Trump's entourage have planned in their "Project 2025". As the two upset Trumpies left the restaurant, one attempted to tell me that I was ill-informed, telling me that "Trump did not take credit for the [book written by that entourage]." I barely got a chance to tell her "Of course not!" -- But what a stupid argument.
I think the most unsettling and offensive thing you can probably say to a Trumper who wraps himself in the Flag and calls himself "Patriot", is that they really must hate America to wish the rest of us to suffer under that sociopath and criminal.
I'm glad I didn't say this at lunch, though: I'd like to smack one of those people in the face for a plastic surgeon's nightmare. Harris and the Dems want to "embrace" them and insist on being "President for everyone". That's called "civility" and prudent election strategy. Biden sort of let the cat out of the bag today by calling them "Garbage" after the MSG remark about Puerto Rico.
I live in an incorporated city which is at least purple and growing more blue all the time. I feel comfortable here, despite the summer heat, or the real-estate taxes I could pay but for my house in a family trust designated to pay the old Prop 13 taxes.
I'm going to an All Souls Day mass at church on the 2nd, honoring my lovely old Moms and my brother who were buried a year ago. I know some of those Catholics helped to elect that Anti-Christ sumbitch. I'll just have to defer creating that plastic surgeon's nightmare. Harris and her campaign have remained civil. I completely lost my cool years ago.
I suppose if Harris gets her way about the Supremes and returning to Roe v Wade through statute, I'd hope we could publicly subsidize GOP voter abortions -- to improve human progress. And abortion was never a strong issue with me; I was indifferent until I examined the entire logical landscape against our history and similar issues. But Roe v Wade made it a human right, and you can't just "leave it to the states". We tried to do that about another moral issue around 1859. Can you imagine how the Trumpers would go ballistic, to call abortion a "moral issue"? That's because they have no understanding of the difference between religious moral law, and secular law. A human right is something separate from the former. When did the Bible or any religion prior to the Civil War promote The Bill of Rights for any others than white people?
Trump means so much less to me that the beautiful long suffering mind you have remains so bitter. The passion you put into your posts weigh me down like chains in a tomultuous river. You make me want to rage against the dying light.
I felt all that suffering long ago. My search for surcease took me to the edge of despair and I surrendered to my fate of inescapable unhappiness and just let go. A gust of wind hit my house and I woke up completely free of suffering at peace. In a flash I understood everything. The need for meaning is as meaningless as everything else, a need I felt that was self created. There is only me who creates the universe, the alpha and the omega. Life is when I am.
Before that timeI knew almost nothing. I understood all the fundamentals but had not integrated them. It is obvious to even a childish observer that people are conditioned, that they identify with isms that are dreams. I could see their dishonesty while I suffered from the callowness of their behavior and hated them for what they did to me and all of life. Why would they make me and all of life their victim? I blamed them and called them worthless. I was filled with and while my understanding has grown and do not suffer consciously by chance of grace, I harbor still all kinds of bitterness and self pity.
That is why the post you quoted in which you expressed a sympathy wills me with guilt. That post is full of my bitterness at the fact that people suffer needlessly because they will not see I have told them a million times why they are in pain and how to escape from it.
I know I nailed something in that post. I said what I always say a million times over, that the reasons we create a world full of misery and suffering is because of one simple thing, we hate ourselves. But it is not just the deplorable who do, it is all of us who feel rage, who have not freed themselves from emotional attachment to things, who suffer and strike out at others because we can’t remember and thus transcend the unconscious misery of our forgotten past.
My apologies for posting sarcastically because I am bitter at myself because I too can’t hear the truth I say.
But think, what can really explain self destruction of all of life’s bounty and joy of bringing were it not we had been told along the line that we are worthless. Why else would our life ambition be the will to rearrange someone’s face.
I don’t criticize you for feeling that. What I want is to do the same, to punish those who harm, to pay them back in more than full measure. But the realization that is all the result of having bought into the lies that I caused the misery of those who destroyed me out of their own misery have made me in their image. My desire to harm is there because I was harmed.
When I examined why I suffer I experience the bliss of grace. To be or not to be? To wish grace for others by bearing my cross, or acting out to get even for the pain I have felt. I have seen that everything I ever wished for and was taken from me as as undeserved pleasure, was only buried under a mountain of lies. When the door of truth stands open there is only love.