by ballistic 36 Replies latest jw friends
The WTS does say something, it told their members of all their members who had died and we affected, a very small number compared to the vast # of non-jws that were affected.
Simon, I agree with you that all the DEI nonsense going on ridiculous and in a lot of cases dangerous, but I don't know how much of that has affected the wildfire situation in California. I think that will take time to analyze but I do think a lot of people have woken up to the dangers of all the woke craziness that has been going on and that is why Trump is president again and why Pierre Poilievre will probably be the next prime minister of Canada. It's not because everyone on the right are Nazis as they keep saying. It's because they refuse to look at how far down the rabbit whole their own side has gone correct it. I think I'm getting a bit off topic.
I feel bad for anyone losing their home to a fire or for any other reason. But this section of California is a very affluent section of the state. They may have lost their home but they did not lose "everything". Virtually everyone affected still has money in the bank. And for most of them it is a lot of money. Many of these people own multiple homes. They will manage to get through this horrible situation. I truly feel very sad for their loss but I'm not donating to their relief efforts.
History teaches us when you have one party or system that is in total control, the government turns to shit. e.g. Democrats in CA.
Mother Nature is Caucasian, coincidence? She's hot, cold maybe tempermental, a sexist would say.
Even if housing was affordable, and we didn't live in a society that allowed us all to be privy to foreclosure and eviction because we got sick, and the cost of sickness has led us from the triage to a tent,
even if we lived in a society that didn't allow the degradations and deterioration of our material conditions to be hijacked, usurped, blunted, stunted, and transacted at the uncontested whims of billionaires, oligarchs, and plutocrats;
even if we didn't live in a society that demonized, ostracized, and vilified those clearly in need, those with a look, culture, or language different from our own;
even if we weren't told by certain politicians with certain agendas that "there be monsters!!!" where there are none, identifying enemies amongst those who have never done us harm;
even if our news media wasn't a miasmic, coughing, raging machine that billowed black fumes from high stacks—automated, mass-produced messages manufactured to make a mockery of us all by making us into mockingbirds, as we do our best to repeat a day's looping cycles of malignant mantras as though they were gospel;
even if Machiavellian ministers didn't sit postured behind news desks, appearing as mindful messengers—business-clad with perfect hair, gracing slack-jawed citizens with much-needed, pertinent information such as who was "woke" yesterday and how being diverse, equal, and inclusive are, apparently, the very things that brought down every civilization from ancient Sumer to modern-day Syria;
and even if we didn't reflexively regurgitate what they tell us to regurgitate upon our fellows, praise our shamelessness, encourage ourselves to be our worst, turn confusion into currency, profit from polarity, and divvy dividends through our division.There would still be climate change: record droughts, record heat, record tornadoes, record floods; hurricanes occurring 300 miles from a body of water in the North Carolina mountains; every summer the hottest on record; hundred-mile-an-hour Santa Ana winds; fire-nadoes.
Yes, all the things that scientists predicted 30 years ago, when I was still in school—or, more pointedly, these occurrences predicted by scientists commissioned by Exxon Mobil on the effects of the oil industry upon the environment and the climate and Covered up by exxon mobil because the findings were damning
_*All of exxon mobil's correspondence in regards to climate change with environmental scientist from the year 1977 to 2014[2]
So don't get caught up in the minutia. It’s not because of a lesbian or because of Gavin Newsom or a city official, this or “woke” that. It is because our climate, our conditions, and our environment have reached unprecedented extremes, and we don’t know what to do. We haven’t a clue, because humankind has never faced such harrowing, imminent woe before.
Again, do not take the red pill of confusion. It is a sedative, and it will make you feel as though there are answers that are easier, softer, more tangible, and malleable. But the fact of the matter is this: our climate, our conditions, and our environment have been altered in such a way that this is not the last time a city in the United States—or any first-world country—will go ablaze.
From here on out, every tornado or hurricane will be a Category Five. Expect more freezing temperatures in our southernmost states. Know that our water tables have fallen far below acceptable levels. The thawing permafrost is opening theaters of war, as precious resources sit beneath the tundra. Oh and cities are sinking such as Mexico City every coastal Floridian city and ooh, Venice, Italy. But let's not discuss any of these things let's talk about who is wearing a dress and what bathrooms they should go into let's talk about who is woke who's waking up who's awakened whose eyes are wide shut. Ironically trying to keep up with it all will leave you exhausted - which I'm sure is their plan
Mankind as a hole <----(* I saw the typo misspelling but I decided to keep it as is because for some reason it seemed appropriate. Mankind is at a lack, a void an emptiness is what seems to describe us presently) is the harbinger our need to be comfortable to move at a certain pace to live at a certain temperature to to carry all of our grocery items in bags, too always having to be at 71°F to absolutely needing our own personal disposable bottle of water multiple times throughout the day. To needing paper towels because rags are a pain in the ass to letting our cars run to thinking that just because we threw it in the trashcan we're not littering or spoiling the Earth. We need a carbon footprint and that footprint should be straight across our a$$e$. Because that's where nature is gonna be kicking for the foreseeable future.
Yes it is indeed a mad mad world. What a good idea the Democrats defunding the police force and the fire department. Such actions have consequences!
If there is a loving God who intends to bring to ruin those ruining the earth then it’s about time he did something about these deplorable conditions that each of us has to deal with daily.
Half the population here in Australia have their heads buried in their mobile phones and playing mindless games or texting some useless information. And consuming a steady diet of junk food and drinking a fair amount of alcohol or some sugary chemical laden soft drink. It’s like a slow motion train wreck! Funny thing is if you don’t participate in the madness people think you are weird.
