Women are joining groups to fight back the misogynists. And here's how to do it.
Don't hate or insult anyone or anything. Yes the slave trade and witch hunts were despicable. Yes the gun trades are harmful. Yes the words that come out of some mouths are toxic. But life is so much more than any of these things.
There are no guarantees any of this will work but it's all I have. For now.
Yes Jesus suffered. Yes women have suffered. Yes children suffer. Yes the climate is suffering and our future is not bright even for the billionaires.
But first take care of your mental health because it doesn't look like bears are winning.
Remember women are born with the ability to nurture a fetus to its birth. It's dangerous as any life supporting life is.
I enjoy using the sciences that have been invented.
Looking at life in general I understand whatever is valuable is fragile. Life is hard then you die.
And we cannot choose who or what brings us into this world as hungry helpless babies. I understand why Hitler did what he did. I understand why some of us carry the anger that silences most into game-playing.
The gold true gold of life is power to get everything we want. Anyone who brags he/she can get everything they want and life itself bends down in adoration for us. When we can't get everything we want we become bitter and blame someone or something. We make fun of those who offer "answers" or alternate schemes. We often can't see how we become angry, lose hope and ridicule all who offer ideas for healing and hope. Rage enlarges rage, anger dismisses beauty.
While Hitler attempted to erase everything that didn't glorify his ideas he could not see how he was unable to see beauty in his world so he, and others who felt no hope for the future, decided to glorify violence.
A violent world is more than war, cruelty and lovelessness. I have grandsons who have amazing ideas about how to live, how to create a better world, but in the evening they watch TV dramas that glorify machismo, which would be okay if it was okay for men to be caring and invest in healing, but that would make a very complicated show.
So it's common for us to believe we must have power. Power over everything and everyone. I've never won anything with power. I help and support healing, kindness and love for all living creatures. Yes Jesus of Nazareth tried and lost his life because of it.
Women were burned at the stake as witches by trying to bring love (and other things) back into the world.
Parents suffer when they see the babies they gave birth to and nurtured for twenty years, as they struggle to feed and guide them. Worlds create wars because to watch the cruelty that power demands is too hard to take. So nations that have been successful seek ways to channel that power.
Yes we have entertainments. Battles played out on screens. Hate turned into religion. History turned into examples of how to win. Control played out as human nature.
And our world becomes more and more tangled in mystery.
What I have chosen to do is love everyone and hate no-one.
