Folks, we’re fucked. Sorry to start things off so harshly on a Monday, but this is the reality that we live in today. I had to step away for a few days last week, because of work. I was juggling while trying to put out fires, and I am just not flexible enough to manage that and to write something coherent at the same time, so I had to let things go here. Since it’s only me and the Universe reading my posts at this point, I decided it was ok…lol…the Universe knew I needed a minute to catch up. Then, on Saturday, this happened…
Teen Girl Arrested After Allegedly Stabbing 3 Horses at Vegas Barrel Racing Show
…I get that mental health issues are real, probably better than most, but it takes a special kind of evil to intentionally stab three horses.
I was born horse obsessed. I got my first pony when I was two, and I can still remember trying to get out the front door with my mittens on (I could NOT grab the door handle…lol) to see what was in the trailer when my dad pulled in with him. I have now had horses in my life for over 50 years. I have crossed paths with a couple of real asshole horses over the years, but I have never intentionally harmed one, even when they asked for it.
I don’t know exactly when it happened, or why exactly, but people or coming unhinged. Young kids are being bullied in school so badly by their peers that they are committing suicide. Today, Karmello Anthony goes on trial for allegedly killing Austin Metcalf over a dispute about a seat at a track meet. People who disagree with other people about any random topic – though often it is political – are wishing harm and even death on each other. Doxxing wasn’t even a word, and now it’s everywhere. And the part that really gets me, is that the people who are exposing corruption – like Nick Shirley – the people who we should be applauding, are often times the ones that are being targeted. What the actual fuck is going on?!?!
And here’s a good one! The State of Oregon is trying to pass Initiative Petition 28 (IP28), also known as the People for the Elimination of Animal Cruelty Exemptions (PEACE) act. If passed, it would basically ban all hunting, fishing, and trapping, ban the slaughter of and artificial insemination of livestock, ban poultry farming altogether, and it looks like it even bans killing rodents with traps. You can learn more here…
…and for your reading pleasure, here’s an actual quote from the website:
“IP28 would also expand protections against animal sexual assault by classifying both the masturbation and impregnation of animals as sexual assault even when done for agricultural purposes (under current state law, the same actions would only count as sexual assault if done for the human being's sexual gratification).”
…so, theoretically, if this passes, residents of the State of Oregon could be criminally changed for artificially inseminating their animals, but IVF is legal, and for raising animals to slaughter for food to feed their families, but abortion is completely legal there as well. Someone, please, make this make sense!
I know that there is no easy answer to the when and why, but I do believe it has a lot to do with the systematic removal of religion from our society, and if these aren’t examples of Satan at work, I don’t know what is.
From the great Paul Harvey on April 3, 1965:
Paul Harvey - If I Were the Devil Radio Address (text-audio)
“If I were the devil.
If I were the Prince of Darkness, I’d want to engulf the whole world in darkness. And I’d have a third of its real estate, and four-fifths of its population, but I wouldn’t be happy until I had seized the ripest apple on the tree: Thee.
So I’d set about however necessary to take over the United States.
I’d subvert the churches first. I’d begin with a campaign of whispers. With the wisdom of a serpent, I would whisper to you as I whispered to Eve: "Do as you please."
To the young, I would whisper that, "The Bible is a myth." I would convince them that man created God instead of the other way around. I would confide that what’s bad is good, and what’s good is -- square.
And the old, I would teach to pray, after me, "Our Father, which art in Washington...."
And then I’d get organized.
I’d educate authors in how to make lurid literature exciting so that anything else would appear dull and uninteresting. I’d threaten TV with dirtier movies and vice- versa. I’d pedal narcotics to whom I could. I’d sell alcohol to ladies and gentlemen of distinction. I’d tranquilize the rest with pills.
If I were the devil, I’d soon have families that war with themselves, churches at war with themselves, and nations at war with themselves -- until each in its turn was consumed.
And with promises of higher ratings I’d have mesmerizing media fanning the flames.
If I were the devil, I would encourage schools to refine young intellects but neglect to discipline emotions -- just let those run wild until before you knew it, you’d have to have drug sniffing dogs and metal detectors at every schoolhouse door.
Within a decade, I’d have prisons overflowing. I’d have judges promoting pornography. Soon, I could evict God from the courthouse, then from the schoolhouse, and then from the houses of Congress.
And in His own churches, I would substitute psychology for religion -- and deify science. I would lure priests and pastors into misusing boys and girls, and church money.
If I were the devil, I’d make the symbol of Easter an egg, and the symbol of Christmas a bottle.
If I were the devil, I’d take from those who have and give to those who wanted, until I had killed the incentive of the ambitious. And what'll you bet I couldn't get whole states to promote gambling as the way to get rich?
I would caution against extremes -- in hard work, in patriotism, in moral conduct.
I would convince the young that marriage is old-fashioned, that swinging is more fun, that what you see on the TV is the way to be.
And thus, I could undress you in public, and I could lure you into bed with diseases for which there is no cure.
In other words, if I were the devil I’d just keep right on doing what he’s doing.
Paul Harvey: Good day.”
We must do better. Please, God, save us.
Much love to all of you, with Hope and Faith!