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After scanning its face again and again,
I began to scale it, picking my holds
With intense caution. About half-way
To the top, I was suddenly brought to
A dead stop, with arms outspread
Clinging close to the face of the rock
Unable to move hand or foot
Either up or down. My doom
Appeared fixed. I MUST fall.
There would be a moment of
Bewilderment, and then,
A lifeless rumble down the cliff
To the glacier below.
My mind seemed to fill with a
Stifling smoke. This terrible eclipse
Lasted only a moment, when life blazed
Forth again with preternatural clearness.
I seemed suddenly to become possessed
Of a new sense. My trembling muscles
Became firm again, every rift and flaw in
The rock was seen as through a microscope,
My limbs moved with a positiveness and precision
With which I seemed to have
Nothing at all to do.
My head knocks against the stars.
My feet are on the hilltops.
My finger-tips are in the valleys and shores of
universal life.
Down in the sounding foam of primal things I
reach my hands and play with pebbles of
destiny.
I have been to hell and back many times.
I know all about heaven, for I have talked with God.
I dabble in the blood and guts of the terrible.
I know the passionate seizure of beauty
And the marvelous rebellion of man at all signs
reading “Keep Off.”
My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive
in the universe.
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I’m gonna be praying, and praying hard, that the L-rd gives every one of these demon bastards cancer of the asshole so huge that their guts fall out and drag behind them; that their every joint swells with gout and makes them scream in agony; that the blood flow to their face stops and they die with a bare skull and hanging shreds; that the little prick Jamie falls down the stairs, crushes his cervical vertebrae and lies helpless for 30 years under the care of a sadist; that every traitor, every commie, every coward, and every smug son of a bitch falls under a harrow and is dragged across the field and shredded; that they boil in burning pitch.
Pain without end, Amen.
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no one is coming to save us.
I heed the words of Orwell in that closing shot. I am not allowing it to happen. I don’t wear a mask. I go into grocery stores maskless, sometimes I’m denied entry, but very seldom. I’m often the only one wandering around amoung 500 others. I tell everyone who inquires that this flu is total bullshit. I will not respect ignorance and cowardice. I’ve lost plenty of friends since February… friends who believe the bullshit. Happy slaves… or fearful slaves… they’re all slaves.
“Mask up, Buddy”
“F*CK YOU.”
End of discussion.
JWM
We have no one to blame but ourselves!
Gary Barnett has written an item that underlines the warnings of Huxley and Orwell, namely, compliance and mindless obedience will be the suicide of everyone. Stop obeying. The first and easiest thing to do is toss the masks. Start somewhere. tinyurl.com/1oolzox0
@ Lance That my friend is one of the greatest comments I have ever read at any site. There are many great commenters here at AT.
My wife and myself are non mask, free thinkers. Dangerous to commie society. No smart phones either.
I’m with you Terry. (And the Lance of whom you speak.)
jwm:
“Mask up, Buddy”
“F*CK YOU.”
End of discussion.
Not quite. Add: “Then get the f*ck out.”
@ Fletcher…. Get the f*ck out of where? The area the believers congregate? I’m not a believer, I’m a breather. You need the vaxx, Fletcher. We all could use more parking spaces.
I don’t wear a mask. Tried it, didn’t like it.
If a place demands I wear a mask, I have a thin black balaclava (ski mask with no nose or mouth holes) that covers all the way down to the base of my neck. Smoke-lens shooting glasses go over it “to protect my eyes from airborne germs.” And usually with black leather gloves on. (for the cold weather)
I actually enjoy wearing it, as it generates some pretty hilarious reactions- people see a 6’4″, (6’5″ in work boots) 224 pound guy dressed like that, and sometimes part like the Red Sea in the Ten Commandments movie.
What good is a “pandemic” if you can’t have some fun with it?
Nothing against prayers but torches, pitchforks, tar, feathers, decorated lampposts, ……
The mask tyrants include the support of two thirds of women. As a man said, women value consensus and will close ranks to strangle dissent. It’s how they are wired biologically. Our rulers understand this very well and have organized them to respond to their malevolent plans. I don’t think we’ve seen the bottom of this. In anything.
@james wilson
Dead on. It’s also why giving women the vote was the beginning of our demise. It’s also why merely stating this fact is so swiftly and viciously attacked.
There is nothing new under the sun. Today’s nonconforming contrarians morph into tomorrow’s enforcers and the former enforcers are reduced to resentful subversives plotting to take charge. The answers to what is faced, and what has been faced for as long as mortal man has existed, is found in religion and especially in Christianity but real religion and especially Christianity are very unpopular precisely because to sincerely engage in the practice is to chafe powerfully against one’s own pride and this is both humiliating and painful when first undertaken so most don’t even try and of those who do many abandon the effort as just too hard.
Once upon a time the majority in the west proclaimed their Christian faith and even fought wars in defense of it. But the simple fact is that never at any time have actual practicing Christians constituted more than a tiny percentage of the people. Most are, most of the time, actually practicing atheists who have no intention of any will being done but their own. It has ever been thus and it will continue as such until such time as our Savior makes his second entrance into this world. Those who have accepted Him as savior and king will find forgiveness and peace. Those who do not will receive their just reward.