#immorality

[theblehthatbloos]

I love being able to enjoy life but I definitely go through highs and lows. In either case where I'm in a relationship or have decided to be alone, it's been really nice to just be there for people in general and help them out when I can.

Would I like immorality? Absolutely not. If I had to endure that curse then I'd like to continue the same enjoyment of being able to help when I can and share whatever wisdom.

I'm not too old yet, but seeing others that you taught or have carried and even improved from the lessons you gave is so delightful. When any of my past students show up and take out an art book or folder they have, it's amazing to see how they took one thing you taught them and expanded it into their own masterpiece of art.

Helping with a local neighborhood by giving out food or pushing one of the floats for carnival and teaching chess one day or another, you'll bump into someone and they'll recognize you. And even if they don't then you get the same look of recollection.

It's all about seeing the impact you've done and then seeing you were able to be there for someone with their arts, their feelings or just being the one there. A lot of people need that and just being a kind person to talk to or help expand a skill goes so far.

People die, yeah, but I was taught that celebrating life is more respectful than the other option. I remember the people that have passed, the wrongs we have both done and the things that could have been. But, that's not the goal we should carry, it should be the time we enjoyed, the times we grew and the experiences we can pass along so others have an easier time traversing through life. No matter how long it is.

If my life is short, I'll do what I can

If my life would be eternal, I'll do what I can

it's always "immortals always lose the ones they love!" and never "this family has had this incredible, powerful, loving figure present through generations of their lineage, all because they are descended from someone the immortal loved long ago" and i think that's a shame!!

[stella-grier]

they are so funny 😄

[owlmam]

moral crisis

[tomorrowusa]

« This administration is profoundly evil; profoundly evil in ways that are difficult for Americans to comprehend. We have reached a stage of illegality, immorality, and depravity in a federal administration that no one could have ever thought possible. »

— George Conway on his podcast "George Conway Explains It All (To Sarah Longwell)" at The Bulwark.

A reminder that George Conway had originally been considered for an appointment to federal office by Trump during the first term. But Conway broke with Trump in 2018 over The Orange One's increasingly anti-constitutional drift. So attempts to brand him as a "RINO" are just more MAGA bullshit.

[hayquetenerpatience]

That's about right!

[thashining]

When you're too powerful to change!!

All Empires eventually fall

Are we great yet?

[just-a-moonflower]

"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."

Oscar Wilde — The Picture of Dorian Gray

[that-mf-under-your-bed]

Imma just say it now but yall are SLEEPING on the possibilities of making your ocs immortal.

So here are some things I’ve added to my immortal oc:

Immortalising them at a youngish age so they never really grow up

Immortal oc testing the limits of their immortality by killing themselves in almost every way possible

GIVE THEM SEVERE CPTSD PLEASE THEY ARENT GOING THROUGH ALL THOSE HISTORICAL EVENTS UNSCATHED

Making them know really weird things about history that sound fake but are actually just things time didn’t preserve

Make them really fucking careless and confident

Probably have killed (or slept with if your freaky like that) multiple historical figures

Has a love/hate relationship with immortality

ISNT ALWAYS FUCKING LONELY ALL THE TIME

Has probably fought in (or caused) multiple wars

Have them on the grid of society

GIVE THEM A SENSE OF STYLE PLEASE

[blissfulcabin7]

If your mind is vexed and troubled by the immorality in this world, remember this..

[stella-grier]

[glryb2gd]

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

1 Corinthians 6:18-20

But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

James 1:14-15

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

Galatians 6:7-8

[thashining]

Rhetoric

[corvianbard]

#7218

If you're in a damned society Of manufactured stupidity, Expect to find only immorality.

[sublimeobservationarcade]

American Zeitgeist: All I Care About Is Money

The archetypal American has jettisoned every concern apart from the getting of money. Donald Trump is the manifestation of this sole reason for living in the 21C. American zeitgeist: All I care about is money. Democracy is dying and withering on the vine via its neglect. Distrust is driving most folk to covert thy neighbour’s lifestyle. The shared world revealed by technology has opened a sewer of conspiracy theories and bitter political polarization. It reminds me of that study, where a group of individuals cannot feed themselves but must rely on others to feed each other – sadly this current bunch will be going hungry through their inability to put aside their individual orientation. Community has become an outdated and neglected concept in America.

Show Me The Money America

Trump and Musk represent a zero sum transactional approach to the economics of living. ‘Show me the money’ stands over and above all else. Moral concerns like right and wrong have gone by the wayside. The strong looking out for the weak. The wealthy caring for the poor. These quaint concerns are yesterday’s things. The reductionist model in favour at the moment has no time for the Enlightenment. Trumpian politics is a backlash against progressive political correctness ‘woke’. It embraces the brute force of blue collar machismo taking what it wants. F*** women. F*** DEI. F*** LGBTQI.

The American Love Of Money

American zeitgeist: All I care about is money. Electing Trump 2.0 is proof positive of this overarching concern. 70 million American’s voted for a convicted felon for President. Nothing matters more than making money to these folk. Their admiration for rich men knows no bounds. Their aspirational motivation towers above mere details like the Constitution and the rule of law. Their political masters reflect these American traits. The Republican party, the GOP, has morphed into a mob family under Boss Trump. The boss threatens his opponents with violence and modern Americans on the Right love this stuff. Give em guns and money. Fond family memories of Sunday lynchings. Bullying is a great American tradition upon which the West was won. Outgunning weaker opponents via wealth sponsored tech and weapons. The Church Of Hate Even Christianity in America has been warped into a religion that hates fervently. In the South, they defended slavery as an institution and essential way of white life. Their form of Christianity became an exclusive white religion with a fantasised  blue eyed Jesus. Jesus of Nazareth was actually a brown skinned Semite from the Middle East. Christian Nationalism in the US calls more upon the Old Testament, where the God of the Jews is a fiercer deity. Smiting opponents and slagging off sinners left, right and centre are the orders of the Israelite’s day. Fire and brimstone sermons accuse liberal enemies of treasonous sinning. Hating others keeps these religious houses from fading into obscurity in a money obsessed culture. “Christian nationalists are more likely than other Americans to see political struggles through the apocalyptic lens of revolution and to support political violence. A majority of Christian nationalism Adherents (54%) and 45% of Sympathizers agree that “there is a storm coming soon that will sweep away the elites in power and restore the rightful leaders,” compared with only 22% of Skeptics and 7% of Rejecters.” - (https://www.prri.org/research/support-for-christian-nationalism-in-all-50-states/)

What A Nation Admires Will Define That Country Money is seen as the bedrock of American civilisation. A man’s right to earn a living and all that sort of stuff. Wealthy business leaders are viewed as natural fits for high office. Whether that wealth and power has been achieved by hook or by crook is neither here nor there, apparently, in the minds of many Americans. What a nation admires will define that country. Corruption rides on the back of deregulation and unfettered business. Trump and Musk are slashing the civil service and doing away with the regulatory watchdogs. Stupid folk are celebrating this as good for business. Really are Americans the most stupid of us; as the cyclical nature of crises reveal financial crashes follow the regulatory behaviours of government. Too dumb to pay attention to history? “US President Donald Trump's late-night firing of inspectors-general at multiple government agencies has been criticised as illegal by Democrats and others and drawn concern from at least one fellow Republican. In what critics called a late-night purge, Trump fired 17 independent watchdogs on Friday. A person with knowledge of the matter told the Reuters news agency that the move cleared the way for replacing independent watchdogs with loyalists. “ - (https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/plainly-illegal-donald-trumps-firing-of-watchdogs-at-us-government-agencies-criticised/yy67o8khp) The Sucker Carrots For The Mob - Blame the government for everything. - Pin the tail on the bloated civil service donkey. - Demonize difference!!! - Piss in the pockets of the mob. - Make America white again. - Pick on vulnerable folk who can’t fight back. - Appear tough on crime & terrorism. Remember that Donald Trump has won the Presidential election twice – against women! The only guy he faced, a really old Joe Biden he lost. He would not admit this and told the Big Lie instead. America is electorally skewed in favour of rural low population electorates in the red states. These rural areas are conservative in nature regarding the role of women, white supremacy, and abhor big city attitudes to things like diversity, trans people and multicultural America. Gun toting folk that support their young men forming armed militias, who dream of shooting up America. Big Tech Backed Trump The crooks are riding on the tails of Trump extremists, as they carve out a kleptocracy. Big tech in the guise of Musk, Bezos, Zuckerburg and Thiele threw their digital weight behind Trump in reaction to the Biden administration’s attempts to impose some much needed regulation in this space. Big tech and its oligarchs are running the show in America – Amazon, Facebook, Google, X, PayPal, Microsoft and the burgeoning chip and AI corporations. “The millions that US tech companies invested in currying favor with Donald Trump seemed to pay off this week as the new administration issued a flurry of directives that relaxed regulations and dropped lawsuits previously aimed at holding the industry to account. Crypto, AI and social media companies, many of which made donations to Trump, are all expecting to benefit.” - (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/22/crypto-big-tech-trump) American zeitgeist: All I care about is money. This singularity within American hearts and minds makes it easy to manipulate them. Donald Trump promised every disgruntled voter to assuage his or her grievance. High inflation? Blame it on DEI policies. Losers who never went to college, whether they had good reason or not. Blame it on liberal ‘woke’ policies that favour elites. The lack of success in lives. The failure to amass big bank balances. Trump blames these things on the prevalence of refugees and illegal immigrants in the US. The GOP blames these grievances on LGBTQI folk. Pin the tail on the donkey – the DNC donkey.  Downward envy is fanned into flame via the blame game in American politics. Social media, which is an American invention, has made everything much worse. Trolls, bots and disinformation do the bidding of the lowest common denominator. Fake news is rife on social media. America has no standards when it comes to public discourse. Anything goes with Elon Musk’s X and Trump’s GOP encourages lies and misinformation. Trump Refocusing Americans On Houthi Bad Guys Trump is now refocusing American domestic attention on an international bad guy – the Houthis. After a period of negative reaction to his own policies he seeks to distract and divert attention. There is nothing like a war or military action to curry favour with the mob. Robert Sudha Hamilton is the author of America Matters: Pre-apocalyptic Posts & Essays in the Shadow of Trump. ©HouseTherapy

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