12,662. RUDIMENTS, pt. 1,001

RUDIMENTS, pt. 1,001

('deliver us from evil?')

Is this the time we should

thank local officials, while

they try to keep everyone

apart, for building cheek-

by-jowl, low-class housing

projects? Is the time ripe now

for us to thank them for investing

so much debt and money into

new schools and 'physical'

plants for non-learning except

as baby-sitting, and enforced

social conditioning, and then

having them all closed up?

Had we a more normal, strong

and individualistic system of

home learning in place, with

half-intelligent parents and

non-distracted, not sugared-up

kids, railing at walls and windows

while clutching their electronic

distractions and TV minefields,

there would be stronger people

growing to maturity, rather than

the maniacs and shoppers we have

now, brawling and screaming for

their paper-products, candies and

jellies, and restaurant poisons.

Yes, let's give them all a real

hoo-hah.

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I wonder how and if we've

changed, as a peoples (Humanity);

in light of out responses thus far,

I say not much. When I read the

daily plague-press, and see the

insipid and dumb, medieval,

reactions of peole, still and

unchanged from 700 years ago,

I cringe to realize that a belief

system such as that can continue.

"Some Egyptian Muslims expressed

certainty on social media that God

was smiting non-Muslim countires

by giving them the virus..." Oh, sure,

that'll work as a thought-process.

We thught it was them; they're saying

it's us? How do you find the truly

bad guy, dear God? In India, on the

other hand, they refuse to abide by

the new ruiles of no congregating,

and the rulers of the country are

letting the annual festival for Rama

go on. "People are getting the

opportunity to have glimpses of

Lord Rama (at his birthplace, the

festival), 'It's not appropriate to

deprive them of this opportunity."

OK. God, may all the sightings

be healthy ones. Shiite Mulsim

shrines in Iran, one of the countries

hardest hit, with two popular shrines

finally shuttered by the reluctant

government, were answered with

headlines that read, "The President

Is Wrong to Do That." As in America,

Mr. Mustafa, damned if you do and

damned if you don't. May they all rot

in Hell, and the good lord take them.

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Here in America, "Rabbi David Lau,

the Ashkenazi chief rabbi in Israel,

called upon Jews to say 100 blessings

daily, as King David did when 

confronted with a plague. The Sephardic

chief rabbi, Yitzhak Yosef, urged Jews

'to petition the Almighty to stop the

epidemic and to leave his throne of

judgment and sit instead on the

throne of mercy.' The Coptic patriarch

of Egypt, Pope Tawadros II, said

the 'pandemic was a wake-up call

to repent.' And lastly, in Italy, where

people are not supposed to leave home

except for emergencies, Rev. Gaetano

Ceravolo said around 40 pilgrims

had trekked up to the shrine in the

Sicilian city of Palermo, to the

mountain sanctuary of Saint Rosalia,

who is believed to have saved

Palermo from a plague in 1625. 

"For us," said Francesco Tramuto.

"she's a friend, a  point of reference.

Others may be devoted to the Virgin

Mary, but for Palermo, she is the

expert in plagues."

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OK, folks, really, this has to stop.

It's not the 1300's. The universe had

had a few forms of redefinition, sort

of since Galileo. Other realities come

first; magical thinking, gems, tiaras,

and crowns won't do it. What truly

irks, me, within all the wickedness

and iniquity of the world, is how 

these very same people pray and 

wail for things to return to 'as they 

were.' What the heck is with that?

For things to return to what they 

were? What God would want that?

We were in a shitload of trouble a

long time ago and just making it

worse years after year. Clamoring

for false kingdoms and lucre and

all that stuff. I would think any

God worth its salt would be glad

to thrown certain things overboard,

and even start again  -  as was shown

to have been in the Bible once or

twice, and that doesn't even include 

Sodom and Gomorrah. Pillar of 

salt indeed.
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'Some sought earthly remedies
inspired by higher powers (
[the same ones that let Hindus
slaughter Muslims, and vice-versa,
and Christians slaughter Jews
and all the rest too]. Video emerged
last week of Hindu activists in
India drinking cow urine to stave
off the coronavirus. At the
Lebanese government hospital
where infected patients are being
treated, a woman recently arrived
carrying a mixture of holy water
and dirt dug from the mausoleum
of Saint Charbel, who is revered
among Lebanese Christians. Some
Christians were said to be drinking
similar solutions as a precaution.
Hospital administrators tested
the soil and, finding it unlikely to
cause any harm, consented to keep
it for any patients who might find it
comforting. Who were they to judge?,
a hospital official said. It was high
time, in any case, for a miracle.'
Let's ring up Saint Risible, Patron
Saint of Kool-Aid drinkers.
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I never thought I'd live to see such

a bullshit era as this, Yet, for now,

here I am. Let's fuck up a few more

rivers and streams, and let's cut 

down a bunch more trees, before 

I go. Lets build more scrunched

in a jumble ghetto compartments

for people to live in. That ought

to do it. Business as usual.