Notices by Elric Wolfsbruder ✡️♿🇺🇦 (wolfsbruder@babka.social), page 2

@BeAware

Until the property next door was developed, I took care of a troupe for 20 years. For them, I was family, and they always came to me when they were hurt, hungry, or even lonely. Like emotional support.

A rabbi was asked by one of his students “Why did God create atheists?” After a long pause, the rabbi finally responded with a soft but sincere voice. “God created atheists” he said, “to teach us the most important lesson of them all – the lesson of true compassion. You see, when an atheist performs an act of charity, visits someone who is sick, helps someone in need, and cares for the world, he is not doing so because of some religious teaching. He does not believe that God commanded him to perform this act. In fact, he does not believe in God at all, so his actions are based on his sense of morality. Look at the kindness he bestows on others simply because he feels it to be right. When someone reaches out to you for help. You should never say ‘I’ll pray that God will help you.’ Instead, for that moment, you should become an atheist – imagine there is no God who could help, and say ‘I will help you’.”

— Martin Buber, “Tales of the Hasidim”

A small rant about how words mean things, apropos of current discourse:

"Zionism" means simply "Jewish nationalism." The idea, unthinkable for centuries, that Jews are a people, like any other, like the French, the Irish, the Sri Lankans, equal in dignity and the right to self-governance.

Zionism does NOT mean hatred of non-Jews, any more than "Black lives matter" means, other lives don't. It doesn't imply approval of all policies of the state of Israel or all warfare conducted by that country. Most of all, it does not mean some kind of imperialist aspiration. Israel, a country of 10 million people with no natural resources to speak of, is not trying to build an empire. You can tell that by how, despite military superiority, it has not attempted to conquer its neighbours. Not even after said neighbours tried to destroy it repeatedly.

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Needed to dig this out after dealing with a new potential PCP

Nope rejected them.

One, not masked and demanded I take my mask off.

Me: "No, the issue ISNT my weight, The issue is MECFS, the fibromyalgia, the POTS, the PEM, and Longcovid. The weight is BECAUSE of the other issues."

Dr: "Are you you a medical professional? No, no you are not. The issue is your weight, lose the weight and all the other problems will go away, and long covid is a hoax"

*SCREAM*

Dr: "You are being a problem, do I need to call security."

Me: "You are a fucking incompetent moron."

Dr: "And you are being highly abusive and refusing to listen to reality."

(yes I did file a complaint)

*edit* this is the same guy who wants me off all my meds, including my psychmeds

#NEISvoid #mecfs #fibromylgia #PEM #longcovid

We Gen Xers were so feral, there was a commercial to remind our parents that they had children.