sick society

[mellowtigger]

A Christian pastor says on a radio interview that gay people should be killed (because the Bible tells him so) and other things.  He's a professional pain in the ass, though, as he also spends his time giving grief to border patrol.  I want to try to understand the point that these scary people are making, but I try to listen and end up just

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[grimmbear]

As one of those people who is dealing with depression and has turned to medicine to help alleviate the problem I have to say that what would make me not need them is to live in a place that treats me as a valued member of society and not a second class citizen.
I agree with you 100%. I am sick of America as it is but it's better to keep your enemies close and have SOME say in how this country is run than leave and have no choice in what is done by the government. If we all leave for greener pastures we leave the country in the hands of the lunatic Right and they would only use it to further their own agendas, forcing their sickness on the rest of the planet and then where do we go?

For whatever reason I am going through revisiting my past by being reintroduced to people in my past and it's helping me with my feelings to find out I'm no where near the looser I have been thinking I was/am. Maybe a fresh perspective on your past is what you need?

[bitterlawngnome]

I dunno how it works for anyone else, but when I'm depressed (I mean really deeply) I'm not thinking clearly enough to come up with ways to save the world, or even myself.

[pink_halen]

I took antidepressants for a while. I didn't like they way they made me feel. They supressed my little friend. While I was nominally happy I wasn't haven't sex. I finally decided that I was better off without chemicals.

I've been working with a group called "The Mankind Project" that has allowed me to work on some of the depression and to view the world differently. I have yet to solve my problems but I understand them better now. I know I must stop making judgements about other and stop critizing myself but it is a very difficult task.

I am told that people like the preacher upset us because the represent a disowned part of ourselves that we don't like to look at. Our disgust is a projection on them. I still have a hard time believing that and working on that part of me that is in shadow.

Our society is "crazy making" but I don't think it will change soon nor do I think I can do much to change it. It will take something monumental like the great depression to break people of their belief in entitlements.

Hugs

[fingertrouble]

No repressed 'disowned' part of me; I'm just severely learned-misanthropic it seems...been trying to get on with most of humanity for 36 of my years, they mostly with a few exceptions don't get me, so I now feel likewise.

I like human contact don't get me wrong, I like talking to people...just 99.99999% of people don't observe the most simplest of civility or politeness and thus I cannot be bothered. For those who take the time, I always have time. I've gone from eager-likeme! likeme! rather deperate dogness to just growling at people in the last 10 years cos I can't see the point, and people just took advantage. :-(

So living as a hermit on an island it is.

[pink_halen]

Growling at people has it's consequences as well. It causes them to growl back. I don't think the "eager-likeme" part of you has departed. Somewhere in there is a happy medium. A balance. People are your mirror. Use them to examine yourself.

I'm sure you are a worthy person. From your profile here I can see that you are an interesting person. If it weren't that you were over 5000 miles away I would enjoy an afternoon of conversation. But I warn you. If you growl, I"ll growl back.

Sadly the world is growing more uncivil and less polite. But there are fewer and fewer mountain tops and desert islands to move to.

Warm hugs from Denver

[mellowtigger]

Town hall meetings, congressional address by the president, and.... Wal-Mart.

"I hate queers"
http://peopleofwalmart.com/?p=3346

swastika
http://peopleofwalmart.com/?p=931

[otterlover01]

That christian pastor fell short. Check this websitë: http://www.evilbible.com/Murder.htm

Big, antidepressant hugs to you Terry! Luis.

Re: Self-correcting religion?

[mellowtigger]

Interesting. Another way of stating, "If you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha."