Hiatus

So ... I've been playing a lot of Dwarf Fortress lately - and ... am otherwise completely occupied with the Rehab program. And I don't think that's going to change anytime soon.
I don't think of what I'd be working on as all that important right now anyway. I suppose ... being torn as to whether or not it's worth putting the effort into it, going half-way on it is fair enough for now.

And yea ... . Working on it, or these things, is different to just ... well ... basically shitposting as the urge and the opportunity arise. I mean, I'd just write about stuff I deemed important - mostly day in and day out - and that was good enough, for the most part, for me to feel productive. To say that I wouldn't feel like I didn't do anything, and that way a year or two would easily come to pass. And so, yea. Maybe it'll take a half year before I can see an end to my current ongoing projects - keeping the fingers crossed that I'm not stumbling upon a few more.
As it stands, there is however personal development that has been happening, which I have to resolve before I can properly get into "this or that" - and stuff like that. So, I also don't feel like I'm supposed to be done already.

Revisions/Retractions/Corrections?

So ... slowly a trickle of things I maybe could have put better - thinking of the extensive introduction - creep into my mind. There's also the thing about things I had thought of differently than I ended up writing about them - but the most 'urgent' mistake I've made, as far as I care, is that I've miss-spelled [Shark3ozero]'s name/alias.

There's a thought to that however.
So - the odd thing about feeling like you're missing something is, that you wouldn't feel that way if you knew what it was. And looking for it, is like looking for that misplaced key. You focus on all the things, look everywhere - but it's nowhere to be found. Certainly not under the sink or behind the couch. So, however conscious of probable mistakes I've been trying to be, well, there's like two minor cases of ... m'well ... but I couldn't even properly verbalize those at this point. So ... nah. I suppose what I might be missing is also out of context and then probably enough of a thing of its own than being troubled over the connotations of singular sentences.

A rant about Trans-sexuality, or CISHETS more to the point - or whatever

Well. For starters: I'm not saying that if you happen to have any of the beliefs that I oppose here, you're a bad person. However, ask yourself this: If you endorse the words and subsequently walk in lockstep with an evil agenda, does that make you an evil person?

Well - it may be somewhat iffy to propose that, because, by that measure, as soon as you have ANYTHING in common with the Nazi's of Nazi Germany, you're a literal Nazi. But - I believe that we are at a point in time where we have to be thorough with those things. For: Without a serious resolution to the political (and religious) polarization that is going on, the same is only going to spiral further and further out of control.
I would there then like to believe that you - or so the vast majority of "you" - see themselves on the side of the good. The righteous. The heroes that stand in the center of this death-spiral, trying to hold on to sense ... and truth and logic and reason and all that, for else this death spiral is to explode into something horrible.
If you however lack the ability or will (or opportunity) to self-actuate to the point of standing in that center, you're part of the forces that seek to tear everything apart.

If you then want to bring up God - please be sure to make it so. Because: if God to you is a hypothetical or abstract representation of a set of beliefs you're already holding (or predisposed to endorse) - that's really just "being wrong" with extra steps.

And to be real: These things are not quite actually up to debate. Just acceptance. And honestly: There shouldn't be anything controversial about this. For, let's be clear: 'The Truth' should be a pretty dang obvious thing to stand in for - while otherwise not worth throwing a huge hissyfit over. Saying that if you have the energy to throw your entire life behind a cause, you should also have the energy to at least think about that cause enough to not be wrong about things. And if the demands of empirical knowledge are too much for you, you shouldn't pretend otherwise.

To be harsh. And perhaps a bit hypocritical, understanding that I certainly don't have perfect knowledge - nor so about everything. [There's a song that comes to my mind ... . "Haltet die Welt an" by Glashaus, as the Chorus goes: "Halt the World! A piece is missing!". Oh my ... it's 14 years old. At least ... . But yea.]

I don't know ... I've kinda lost my thread here ... .


But so, recently, I've had to wonder somewhat frequently: "In what world are these people living?". Which obviously is a consequence of the truth having been bent so hard ... by some people ... that them maintaining their lies creates this ... harsh, might I say: Orwellian degree of dissonance. I would assume that their agenda consists of "being razor sharp" in scathing by truth while telling nonsense - but, over time so much has been scathed off that the razor got slowly blunted trying to rip into the hard core. Where it is so.
And when I go over these things, in my head, monologeuing about them, it often enough seems useless to try and be specific. Arguing that "they WON'T get it", no matter what. Or if they don't get 'it' - no amount of explaining it would do.

And from what I have been working on - if there's a thought worth sharing at this point, it pertains to the matter of the Sons being guilty of the Sins of their Fathers. Ezechiel 18 comes to mind. And yea, perhaps it's also kinda on point here.

5 But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right,
6 And hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbour's wife, neither hath come near to a menstruous woman,
7 And hath not oppressed any, but hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;

But more so was I thinking about guilt by ... let's call it 'cultural attitude'. Or so, people left and right keep on harping about "the harm of media/entertainment" - and in that they seem to pretty much agree (as TJ Kirk/The Amazing Atheist has pointed out in his response to the Critica! Drinker (The Critical Drinker Is Fake Critic Who Makes Third-Rate Content For Pusillanimous Crybabies" [Amazing Atheist])) although that agreement tends to stop when it benefits the other side.
But yea, that's a behaviour I would call "Ground-keeping" - where one's feelings care about the facts in a very one-sided manner. "Facts for me but not for thee" as it were. But that then also pertains to that aforementioned razor, where people would so do their darndest to meander around the consoling truths.

Anyhow ... I was so thinking about ... "what to do", or demand. And the issue with the pronouns is possibly the simplest one. I mean, "they" argue that it's this act of authoritarian harassment, to expect people to adhere to individuals' gender expressions - or to so: Not discriminate based on gender - and what that has thus far produced is a really toxic trans-phobia that has further spawned demands of certain violence against the likes of me. And while it is here certainly the individual that is guilty of their actions, that attitude has been nourished - largely in catering to what should be outdated opinions of the past.
Ever so often these conservatives would agree with that, throwing in the occasional "Live your life bro/baby! I don't care" - but nothing they follow that up with confirms that statement, as they move on to withdraw all support and respect from people doing so.

Let me then put it this way: "Brutal Misgendering" as a concept is something everyone should be aware of. It's not just some accidental oopsie slip of the tongue; But a pro-active, targetted harassment - often well knowing that it goes against the individuals sensibilities or even mental and emotional stability. I don't think that anyone doesn't get it - although I believe that not everyone who engages in it can properly relate to how it affects those they target by it. Yet I can't see how one who does that, does so without the intention of causing harm.

And so is there the prime Lunatic Dipshit at this point - telling depressed people to kill themselves while all the other dipshits make it about "just a political opinion bro" - Just GO FUCK YOURSELVES!
Clinical Psychiatrist my ass!

Perhaps he should write a paper about why it is that he thinks his actions are justified - so we might, you know, understand this peculiar behaviour!


Eventually, at some point, I also wanted to throw in, that there was a study or experiment ... it was an experiment I believe ... that has been conducted somewhere in the Skandinavian countries - where they would basically withdraw gender-typical toys from kids. And it didn't go so well, where returning to let them play with whatever had things go better. Obviously I'm paraphrasing. The thing is, it's just one of many instances in which we see gender confirm itself - to maybe then go and say "It's OK to be cis/straight!". And what they tried to do is no different to trying to force a trans-kid to act and behave against their gender. Like ... duh!


Anyway - to wrap this up: Using inclusive language, or at least trying to not be a douche about it, helps change what is ... well, normal. Future generations will have an easier time fitting in and taking it from there; As opposed to dealing with an increasingly polarized political space in which everyone is constantly on the edge and stressed to engage in mind-numbing groundkeeping. I'm sure there are better ways to put it, but I don't think it's all that complicated. Maybe dissonant, but ... one way or the other - I believe - we have to get over it!

And yea, before blindly believing what "dissenters" have to say, maybe spend a moment trying to understand why the consensus is what it is!