I've had enough of being labeled as hateful for not going along with the often self-destructive delusions of a small portion of society. Encouraging this kind of behaviour is not "love", "tolerance", or "kindness"; it's harmful and destructive to both the people in question and society.
If a person was suffering from anorexia and claimed they were overweight, would you encourage them to lose weight?
If a person was schizophrenic would you tell them that the voices they hear are real and should be listened to?
If a person was severly depressed would you encourage them to spiral down even further?
I'm willing to bet you answered "No" to all three of those questions, as any sane person would. If you actually did encourage any of these people to embrace their delusions and disordered thinking it would be anything but kindness. Doing so would be cruel, exploitative, and inhumane. It would show a lack of compassion and empathy for your fellow human beings who are clearly suffering from mental illness.
When I reject the transgender lifestyle I dont do so because I hate or despise these people; I do it because I have genuine sympathy for the people that are suffering from and being exploited by this lunacy. The idea that I'm the one harming these people while others encourage them to do permanent damage to both their bodies and minds is absurd. Encouraging their delusions is not kindness; it's a bizarre form of assisted suicide.
He loves you and wants what's best for you and for all of us. There are problems in this world that man cannot hope to fix, but He can, and He will. The truth will be revealed in time.
God wins no matter what, never forget that.
...And that's at a minimum!
Charging insane sums of money to mutilate a persons genitals or cut their breasts off is madness. This is irreparable damage in most cases and these poor people are promised that it will finally cure them of their mental illness. You don't need to look too far in the trans community to see horror stories of lies, botched surgeries, and lives that are ruined. The whole thing is so disgusting and predatory that it sounds like it came from fiction.
Lock these people up! Anyone that would even consider doing such things should not be allowed to practice any kind of medicine and belongs in a nut house.
A crude subject, but seriously, why? I've never understood the appeal of anal sex acts, but some of these people base a huge part of their life and personality around abusing a one way street. They collect anal toys the same way I collect fishing lures, except they actually use them.
It's just all so weird and repulsive, like the majority of their behavior. Degeneracy being treated like virtue is a huge problem in our society and it's going to have to change if we want this mess to get better. I know I'm not supposed to judge, but people spent their stimulus checks on dragon dildos and that bothers me on a fundamental level 🤮
So, I went in for my annual checkup at my local health center today. I fully expected to have the vaccine pushed on me and wasn't looking forward to the bullshit. Turns out, my expectations were wrong.
After checking in I met with a nurse. She immediately began making mask jokes and talking about how crazy everything is. She said it felt like living in a Twilight Zone episode. She took my vitals and left, so I sat and waited for the doctor. He came in a few minutes later and looked exhausted. Asked how I was and i said I was doing good despite the world going nuts. He looked at me and said "Tell me about it, this whole thing is ridiculous".
He proceeded to lament about all the insane restrictions and protocols they have to follow. " At one point I had to wear a plastic face shield like I was a salad bar " he joked. There was no mention or discussion of the vaccine at all. This is a guy who pushes the flu shot like it's candy and here he is ignoring the covid vaccine entirely. After some brief examinations he said we were done. As I was leaving he stopped me and said "Keep exercising and getting sunlight, you're doing it right". I laughed, said I would, and told him to have a good day.
I left the building feeling kinda refreshed and positive. It was nice to see that people are waking up to the bullshit of it all. More people are waking up every day, despite what the media and government are trying to say.
My cousin passed away suddenly today. Any prayers for her and my family are greatly appreciated. God bless.
Edit: Thank you so much for all the love and support everyone, my family and I really appreciate it. This community is wonderful and I feel lucky to be a part of it.
Marcus Aurelius was the emperor of Rome from A.D. 161-180. He was regarded as a philosopher king and one of the last good emperors of Rome. He was an avid Stoic and practiced the philosophy regularly.
His private writings and thoughts still survive today and are known as the Meditations. These were never written with the intention of being seen by an audience and they offer a fascinating glimpse into the thoughts and principles of a man who was, at the time, the most powerful person on the planet.
The following are some quotes from Marcus and the Meditations that reflect the wisdom of the philosophy and the man himself.
" When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. "
" You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. "
" The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. "
" The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. "
" Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. "
" It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. "
" I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others. "
" The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. "
" When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly. They are like this because they can't tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own - not of the same blood and birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine. And so none of them can hurt me. No one can implicate me in ugliness. Nor can I feel angry at my relative, or hate him. We were born to work together like feet, hands and eyes, like the two rows of teeth, upper and lower. To obstruct each other is unnatural. To feel anger at someone, to turn your back on him: these are unnatural. "
" Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. "
If you enjoyed these quotes and would like to read more, I highly recommend the version of Meditations translated by Gregory Hays. It's a more modern translation that is very readable but still retains the spirit of the original work. It also has an introduction about the life of Marcus and the Stoic philosophy. Fantastic book, you can get a copy for like $10 last I checked.
Here's some more writing from the Stoic philosopher Seneca. In this letter he writes to his friend Lucilius on the nature of virtue and how it can be a refuge from worldly troubles. It's too long to post here in text form, but the link is worth reading. It contains wisdom that's just as profound today as it was when it was first written nearly 2000 years ago.
https://www.lettersfromastoic.net/letter-74-on-virtue-as-a-refuge-from-worldly-distractions/
The writings of the Stoic philosophers, to me, are a profound source of wisdom second only to the Bible. Seneca is my favorite of the big three ( the others being Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius ) so I thought I'd share some of his writings.
This was one of the many letters he wrote to his friend Lucilius, consoling him on philosophy and the way of the world.
*You are doing an excellent thing, one which will be wholesome for you, if, as you write me, you are persisting in your effort to attain sound understanding; it is foolish to pray for this when you can acquire it from yourself. We do not need to uplift our hands towards heaven, or to beg the keeper of a temple to let us approach his idol’s ear, as if in this way our prayers were more likely to be heard. God is near you, he is with you, he is within you. This is what I mean, Lucilius: a holy spirit indwells within us, one who marks our good and bad deeds, and is our guardian. As we treat this spirit, so are we treated by it. Indeed, no man can be good without the help of God. Can one rise superior to fortune unless God helps him to rise? He it is that gives noble and upright counsel. In each good man
A god doth dwell, but what god know we not.
If ever you have come upon a grove that is full of ancient trees which have grown to an unusual height, shutting out a view of the sky by a veil of pleached and intertwining branches, then the loftiness of the forest, the seclusion of the spot, and your marvel at the thick unbroken shade in the midst of the open spaces, will prove to you the presence of deity. Or if a cave, made by the deep crumbling of the rocks, holds up a mountain on its arch, a place not built with hands but hollowed out into such spaciousness by natural causes, your soul will be deeply moved by a certain intimation of the existence of God. We worship the sources of mighty rivers; we erect altars at places where great streams burst suddenly from hidden sources; we adore springs of hot water as divine, and consecrate certain pools because of their dark waters or their immeasurable depth. If you see a man who is unterrified in the midst of dangers, untouched by desires, happy in adversity, peaceful amid the storm, who looks down upon men from a higher plane, and views the gods on a footing of equality, will not a feeling of reverence for him steal over you, will you not say: “This quality is too great and too lofty to be regarded as resembling this petty body in which it dwells? A divine power has descended upon that man.” When a soul rises superior to other souls, when it is under control, when it passes through every experience as if it were of small account, when it smiles at our fears and at our prayers, it is stirred by a force from heaven. A thing like this cannot stand upright unless it be propped by the divine. Therefore, a greater part of it abides in that place from whence it came down to earth. Just as the rays of the sun do indeed touch the earth, but still abide at the source from which they are sent; even so the great and hallowed soul, which has come down in order that we may have a nearer knowledge of divinity, does indeed associate with us, but still cleaves to its origin; on that source it depends, thither it turns its gaze and strives to go, and it concerns itself with our doings only as a being superior to ourselves.
What, then, is such a soul? One which is resplendent with no external good, but only with its own. For what is more foolish than to praise in a man the qualities which come from without? And what is more insane than to marvel at characteristics which may at the next instant be passed on to someone else? A golden bit does not make a better horse. The lion with gilded mane, in process of being trained and forced by weariness to endure the decoration, is sent into the arena in quite a different way from the wild lion whose spirit is unbroken; the latter, indeed, bold in his attack, as nature wished him to be, impressive because of his wild appearance, – and it is his glory that none can look upon him without fear, – is favored in preference to the other lion, that languid and gilded brute.
No man ought to glory except in that which is his own. We praise a vine if it makes the shoots teem with increase, if by its weight it bends to the ground the very poles which hold its fruit; would any man prefer to this vine one from which golden grapes and golden leaves hang down? In a vine the virtue peculiarly its own is fertility; in man also we should praise that which is his own. Suppose that he has a retinue of comely slaves and a beautiful house, that his farm is large and large his income; none of these things is in the man himself; they are all on the outside. Praise the quality in him which cannot be given or snatched away, that which is the peculiar property of the man. Do you ask what this is? It is soul, and reason brought to perfection in the soul. For man is a reasoning animal. Therefore, man’s highest good is attained, if he has fulfilled the good for which nature designed him at birth. And what is it which this reason demands of him? The easiest thing in the world, – to live in accordance with his own nature. But this is turned into a hard task by the general madness of mankind; we push one another into vice. And how can a man be recalled to salvation, when he has none to restrain him, and all mankind to urge him on?
Farewell.*