Friday, May 15, 2026

Confront it (a #poem)

The blanket serves
as a symbol
for the weight of the world.

It's heavy.

But it's also an armor,
protecting
against ghosts from the past
and everyday jabs at one's self

Staying in bed feels safe
until you realise the blanket
consists of feathers in a bag,
you feel the world get lighter,
get out and confront it



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Thursday, May 14, 2026

Our own interests

Of course we all look after our own interests first. Unfortunately many are só selfish that they don't realise other people's interests are our own interests: food, shelter and attention. All of us want to feel safe. So, when a group is not safe, it's in our own interest to help them. People who refuse to help others, act against their own interest.

When on February 28th 2026 The United States of Israel started a war with Iran (the US because of the oil and to distract from the Epstein Files and Israel because they want more Lebensraum to create a Thousand Year Great Empire with Heim ins Reich and based on a Blut und Boden (don't click if you have a weak stomache) policy) it was definitely not 'to help the poor people of Iran'. Yes, they executed the fascist leader of the theocracy (and a former president) but also thousands of civilians. If you really want to liberate people, you don't tear their children to shreds. 
Donald Trump wants to be the best. That's it. That's all he wants. And it's all he ever wanted. Promise him he'll get some cheap plastic toy that's spray painted gold, call it a 'price' or 'award' and he'll do anything for anyone.  

The Mar-a-Lago resident is convinced he should do better than George W. Bush. That US president was responsible for over a million Iraqi civilian deaths, when he 'liberated' them from the tyrant Saddam Hussein. One of the excuses then was: "Iraq has weapons of mass destruction!" Which - as then Secretary of State Colin Powell later admitted - was just a cheap lie. 

A different excuse was: "Iraq is responsible for 9/11!" Even flat-earthers went: "Dude, come on. We believe jewish space lasers create changes in climate to make us think climate change is real and that an alien disguised as Bill Gates wants to kill us all by protecting us from a non-existing lethal virus he created in a Chinese lab in Los Angeles but even we know this is nonsense." 


At least the UN has the mandate to send diplomats and even send armed troups if international law is broken at the cost of civilian lives. Right? Sure. Indeed the UN saved lives by intervening in Korea, the Suez-crisis and Congo and don't want to be reminded of their huge failures in Somalia .Rwanda and Yugoslavia. 

Officially the UN (with UNIFIL troops) is helping to prevent civilian casualties in Lebanon from Israeli attacks since 1978. Not very succesful because Israel still murders Lebanese civilians on a daily basis. "Okay, but the UN most do sómething, right?" Sure they do. Whenever a regime breaks international law, the UN peace-council holds a meeting. As we all know facists dictators are terrified of people who hold meetings so immediately stop murdering civilians.
"Yeah, but I heard the UN peace council immediately called for a meeting when Israel and the US started bombing Iran!" You heard right. But maybe you didn't know who presided said UN peace counsil meeting. It was Trump. Melania Trump. That's right, one of Jeffrey Epstein's ex-lovers held a - barely understandable because her English has not improved since the immigrant started her business as a 'model' - speech about poor children in war torn countries. While her husband ordered a school to be bombed. 

Much to the delight of his klapvee. Which is Dutch and literally means 'applauding cattle'. The English expression is 'blind sheep'. MAGA will still cheer on their Orange Hero when they have to push their car to the food bank because they can't afford gas anymore because thanks to their Great Leader ('Führer' in German) Iran blocked the Straight of Hormuz causing international oil proces to rise to new levels.

In short: fans of fascism are stupid. Or - in English they will never understand - :

"The bourgeoisie's media and cultural tools are used to create a false consciousness among the working class. That's why many of us vote against our own interests."

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Thursday, May 07, 2026

What's 'living according to the Bible'?

A known problem when trying to live 'according to the Bible', is that there are many version and translations of that famous collection of books. Because the Bible is just that: a collection of books. And the patriarchy decided which books to leave out because they were displeasing to them. 

Left out Bible books contradict the story of Genesis, give details about the early life of Jesus church leaders don't want their sheep to know about, because apparently little Jesus was known for his capricious acts. The early church leaders left out Bible books that give details on historical events that don't fit the narrative they invented but also tell interesting tales about angels

The Lost Books of the Bible and the Forgotten Books of Eden contain quite a bit of writings that would unsettle evangelicals and a lot of other christians from any of the 45,000+ denominiations of christianity and the 7 main denominations of Judaism. Believers would seriously question their church leaders and the church leaders would not like that. 

So, if you got married 'according to the Bible', do you have 1,000 partners just like Salomon (1 Kings 11:3)? Or a wife, a concubine and a male lover like King David? Or a relationship like Lot had with his daughters? Who together fathered the founders of the tribes Moabites and Ammonites?

And did you know the Moabites once defeated the people of the tribe of Israel? 

I could go on and on and on. But the point is clear, I think: many people who call themselves 'christians' have no idea of what's actually in the Bible - let alone what's in the books their leaders left out on purpose - because they blindly believe (...) what their leaders order them to believe.

If you call yourself a true christian, you're probably reading this from a prison cell. Because you killed your neigbour for washing his car on Sunday 'because anyone working on the Sabbath shall be killed', as ordered to you in Exodus 35:2. 

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