What Year Is It? 1984?

 

Today was a very blah day for me. I worked from home and had two meetings, but I never left the house because it was so hot. Around five I thought about stepping outside, since it had cooled off a bit, but it was drizzling, and now it's storming out. Travalon had bought me a necklace holder for my rosaries, so I put some of them on it.

As you can see, it's not full yet, but it already weighs a ton. This isn't anything like all my rosaries - I will need at least two more of these things. What I'm hoping to find is a commercial-sized one like they display necklaces on at department stores. Maybe then I can take these off of this smaller holder and use it for actual necklaces, since I have quite a few of those too.

One of the craziest things I've seen in the last few days is the number of people who said on social media that Dear Leader was the only logical choice for president because he wouldn't get us into a Mideast war now saying how smart they think he is for getting us into a Mideast war. To be fair, there are still people on the right who are angry with him for bombing Iran, and I have a grudging respect for them, but man does it feel like we're living in 1984 - of course we've always been at war with Oceania, not Eastasia. Until next week, when it will switch around again. Weirdly, Dear Leader, who is an atheist who only worships himself, gushed about thanking God for bombing Iran. If anyone wonders why Christianity is declining in this country, I give you Exhibit A: Why Would Anyone Follow the Religion This Guy Claims to Profess? Stealing from the poor to make the rich richer? Bombing countries that were following their treaties? Mocking the disabled and dehumanizing women and minorities? It's the antithesis of Christianity as taught by Jesus, but I'm not going to claim the "no true Scotsman" fallacy and say these people aren't true Christians, because if they say they are, then that is what Christianity is here and now, in our country. Ugh. It used to not be true of Catholic churches, but lately Catholics are moving to the right of Evangelicals, so I go to a church where nobody discusses politics, and I keep my head down. Once upon a time my old parish downtown used to have people to the left and to the right of me, but after the pandemic all the leftists bolted, so what's left of that parish seems to be these far-right Qatholics, people who get their news from randos on the internet because even FAUX News is not far enough to the right for them. There may be people like that at our new parish, but I have not run across them, and there's a lot going on there about donating to the poor in other countries and taking care of the environment. It's very focused on the group, not the individual. After all, if I were not going to be part of a religion that cares for all of us, what was the point of being a human during this lifetime? I might as well have been a panther again.

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