Respect for Orlando

The news of the deaths in Orlando was shocking, both in the number of dead and the stupidity of the shooter..

We all have our views on the "lifestyles" of others but a community that only enjoys life should not be treated like one that seeks to control or harm...

A recent Facebook quote, shared by a friend, got me thinking on this subject...

Also hate the word Homophobia... not because of the word; or its meaning, but because of the, apparent, need for it...

Don't, totally, agree about the "you're an asshole", but it is well used in it's context...,  as disagreeing with someone's point of view is the reasoning behind many of mankind's advancements...

But if your disagreeing to degrade someone... Then you're an asshole...

Your not scared... Weeeellllll... yes, some, people are... often because of what is in the next paragraph...

I have always felt that Homophobia is a phobia... But it is a personnel one... Back in the 60/70's it was known as *****bashing... But the more I heard people bragging about it the more certain I was that they were not scared of Gay people... But the fact that they might be Gay themselves... And therefore beat up or degrade them at every opportunity was "necessary"to prove themselves not...

It was so surreal listening to idiots boasting how "manly" they were, watching how their eyes changed while talking... Going from an ego boosted glow at the start to a dim scared "I am not gay... I am not gay" look as they walked away...

You could say I lost a few friends back then... Gained a few to...

Being Gay holds no appeal for me but I respect those who genuinely are...

While individualism is allowed in the world... Groups, of all types, will both survive and have to survive tragedy... And I wish we could all have space and the freedom to, simply, BE

People from the top to the bottom of society still think.... "Why can't you live by my rules - There good rules" when, in fact, they are saying "If I cannot/will not do this then you cannot/will not either"..

Sure they live,love and carry on enjoying their own life... but any chance to boost their ego's by reducing it in others seems, to some people, as necessary as the two things you can do without concious thought... eating and reproducing...

Whether it's in the monetary sense of "socialise costs and privatise profit" to control and enjoy the riches while ensuring others don't

Or just in the good old fashioned "You WILL do as I say"... Because the fact that an individual CAN think for themselves really scares the elite... a fact taken to the extreme in some countries....

Control is what some people seem to think life is really all about... 

I feel ashamed for all who died or were injured...

I feel angry that someone felt they had to do this...

But I also feel pride that the whole community came together in support... And that all LGBT communities WILL live,  laugh, love and remember...

Time I posted something lighter..

A child doth scream in the isles…..

Its Parent just stand there and smiles…..

A watcher pulls a face of disdain…..

So the child screams even more, as in pain…

The parent just shakes their head…….

Any more of that and I'm buying Marmite instead…..

The child shuts up, walks over and says…

What sort of game machine is that….

Why is life like Star Wars

The Referendum, and the thought of living in a superstate, drives me nuts... VOTING IN OR OUT MEANS CHANGE... Everybody vying for their own point with little thought to how we got to this point in the first place...

Why does the Human race try so hard to either destroy or control itself...

Its like Star Wars offers the only life choices you can make...

You can either be with the Republic or with the Rebellion... There is no other choice..

You may think there is... But if you hide away in an Republic area you support the Republic by not opposing it... And if  you hide away in a Rebellion area you support that by not opposing it...

The mantra of "it's nothing to do with me" is the biggest blind truth you can ever tell yourself...

You could say... "well... at least the Rebellion listen to you and wants to help"

You could say... " well... the Republic has our best interests at heart"

Both end up being the same, in our self destructive nature...

The Rebellion, if they win, carry on down a path that leads to self destruction through corruption...

The Republic , if they win, carry on down a path that leads to self destruction through corruption...

(Corruption does not always mean monitory... Corruption through Ideology also destroys... Sacrifices to the God's only has an effect on population control, as any rain, increase in harvest or the sun rising is purely coincidental...)

And then the idiotic merry go round starts all over again...

How many great civilisations have there been in the millennia of mankind...

How many have survived past "the next latest and greatest of all time" regime...

Were the Incas the Republic until the Spanish came along to make them the Resistance...
 
Are you the Rebellion if you live in the jungle with a hard, but free, idyllic lifestyle and are hunted down, converted by the Republic ... even if means wiping out thousand by introducing viruses...  

The need to "own" and "have" seems to supersedes all... Why value people when you can value money and possessions

Why can "civilised" mankind just not "get "a life...

You want to know a fact...Things only cost more because you put the price up

I rue the day that some accountant worked out that if your product costs £1, you have to sell it for £2.50 to make 60% profit... and love the fact that if you use the 100% profit rule you buy an item for £1 and sell it for £2...