Not Today (a #poem)

Not Today (a #poem)

They call me

in the middle of the night

but it's really daybreak

and they wake me up

to start a new day

But as soon as I realise

a new day has started

I want the day

to be in my past

To leave behind

the pain and sorrow

Until I remember

I will see you again

some day

that's just not

today

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Should science be taught in church?

Science is usually not taught in church but I think it's a great idea: at every sermon taking a different Bible verse and see how that particular piece holds up to actual science. For instance: in ancient days the word 'seven' meant 'so much, it's almost incomprehensible'. When the number system was based on 6 and 60, '7' was really special. 

Many Bible books deal with the unexplained. Since science was in its infancy 500-3000 years ago, quite a bit that was hard to understand for people got explained in stories, allegories. Very interesting. From a sociological point of view. I really like some of the stories.

If the Bible is taught in schools, maybe science should be taught in church

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There is still a lot we don't understand. Like: "Why do a lot of people don't understand what most of us do understand?" It seems misunderstanding is the root of anger and frustration.

"Wouldn't we all be happier if we just accepted people

for what they are instead of being dissapointed

with them for what they're not?"

Claire Finn - 'The Orville'

Interestingly enough a lot of people that don't believe in science dó believe the stories in the Bible.

Conspiracy theories often hold a grain of truth. 

Yes, Jerusalem was a real place in the times the Bible stories were written. It by no means means those stories are true, although they contain wisdoms and interesting tales. But New York is a real place too. Does that mean the decades old stories of Spiderman are true? Perhaps they will be considered to be true in 3000 years from now. When people will be wearing a spider-symbol and not a cross or a Star of David.

And that's the problem: people 'think': "Hey, if part of the story is true, the rest of the story is therefore álso true." It's very simplistic 'thinking'. A bit like: "Eating only natural ingredients is good for you; a brick is 100% made from natural ingredients. That means eating bricks is healthy and the government and scientists are lying when they say you shouldn't eat bricks." 

You and I know better than thinking so simplistically of course but a lot of people need the warning DO NOT DRINK on a bottle of bleach. And they still did it. Because a certain President said it would help against COVID. It did: no virus can harm a corpse. 

It's true, even for those who don't believe in data. Like the conspiracy theorists who claim Wikipedia is not a reputable source but some Facebook page from an anonymous bunch of fellow conspiracy theorists ís:

It's hard to believe (...) but many believe the Theory of Evolution is 'just a theory'. They have no idea what the term 'theory' means in scientific terms; The theory of evolution is not "just a theory" in the sense of a random guess or speculation. In science, a theory is a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world, based on a large body of evidence that has been repeatedly confirmed through observation and experimentation.

In my opinion everyone should be taught some basic understanding of science. If only because it would help us understand each other better.

Safe Harbours (a #poem)

She was the wind 

and I was the sails 

She pushed my boundaries 

towards goals 

I had never imagined 

and guided me 

to safe harbours

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Why is 'religious zealot' synonym for 'hypocrite'?

The USA (335 million inhabitants) is the worlds number 1 food exporter; the Netherlands (18 million inhabitants) ranks second. These two countries also rank 1 and 2 respectively on the world wide distribution of child p0rn. Coincidence? Let's hope so. 

Fact is: both countries have a long history of religious conservatives. As a matter of fact: the USA was founded by ultra conservative calvinists who first got kicked out of England before they got kicked out of Holland before sailing to North America, exterminated the local population and created the US. 

The Pilgrims were prosecuted for their religion and became asylum seekers: the proud first illegal immigrants to the continent of North America. Raping, plundering and murdering the people who already inhabited the americas for generations before they showed up.

Creating the Land of the Free (except for women, poor people, slaves, indigenous people and immigrant workers) really took of when they opposed the tariffs ordered by the King of England. They even created their own language! By removing the letter u from colour and honour. 

Everyone cheering for King Donald for his tariffs is dissing the brave people who opposed King George by protesting his tariffs and starting the Civil War.

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It almost seems a law of nature: religious conservatives crying that every sexual deviant goes to hell. Only to be followed by the news that a religious conservative person sexually molested someone. 

Religious conservatives (the ex-comedian Russell Brand had himself baptised in 2025 by the famous hypocrite and liar Bear Grylls. Perhaps hoping to be absolved from his crimes by - at least on social media - turn to Jesus) love to lie and never take the blame for their actions: "I didn't lie, all the women who claim I r4ped them are liars!"

Instead of condemning criminal acts, conservatives celebrate criminals and their behaviour when they are a conservative too. 

S3xual acts that have been common for thousands of years were illegal in the Land of the Free until 2003. And I quote:

The consensual practice of an4l or oral s3x was legalised by the 2003 U.S. Supreme Court case of Lawrence v. Texas. It's a general rule: if something is forbidden, it becomes an exciting fetish. Hence you find more s3xual perversion amongst religious conservatives than in any other demographic group.

More often than not children are the victims of these s3xual predators. 

If a child gets s3xually molested, you can almost bet the perpetrator is a religious conservative; Catholic, Protestant, Jew...it doesn't matter; when the person is a zealot, the person is almost certainly hypocrite as well:

Hell is full of conservative religious people. So indeed, not a fun place to be. 

Nor was the actual hell, a place called Gehenna (aka Gehinnom but also Sheol. The King James Bible translated those words to the now familiar 'hell'); basically the waste dump just outside Jerusalem. Where not only the city's garbage was dumped but also the bodies of hung criminals. It was also the place where some of the first Kings of the Jews sacrificied children. For those who are wondering where the myth 'Jews sacrifice children!! comes from. 

Creepy people in the Bronze Age. And I really don't know what's the appeal for people in our time. Why worship and be proud descendants of people who didn't know toilet paper, slaughtered entire people for a bit of power and sacrificied children?

Personally I think it's a bit creepy that conservatives are really obsessed with genitals, children and - frightingly - the combination.

Why are conservatives such hypocrites? One of the theories is: they are incredibly stupid and uneducated. Most religious conservatives don't even know that lesbians are gay!

Should sane people educate religious conservatives or should we just let this type of human species die out and stop urging them to stop homeschooling and tell them to vaccinate their children?

Walk (a #poem)

Sometimes it seems impossible

to fold out your wings and fly.

As if you're stuck in a cage

which gives little room to move.

When you get out

you notice 

you are still unable to fly

because you haven't used 

your wings in a while

You almost feel paralyzed

until a friend tells you:

remember you can still walk

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Civilisation

Every once in a while anthropologists stumble upon a people that are completely oblivious to the outside world. Those groups of people are usually quite small and have developed customs that may seem alien to people living in 'our' world. 

Because they lack in numbers, it's not uncommon for cousins to have children. Making genetic defects like mental development issues not a rare occurence. They have lived like that for generations and seem overall content. In rural USA.

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All joking aside, it does seem that people living in small communities may seem simple minded to others and vote for politicians 'because they promised us a better life!" Apparently they can't comphrehend the notion there are people who would willingly harm others, just to enrich themselves and their so called friends. 

If you can't afford the $122 a month cable subscription in the US, 

your options to watch different TV channels are limited. And so will be your worldview. 

But that's okay, of course. There are tribes tucked away in dense forests that are perfectly content living in the exact same way their ancestors did 30,000 years ago. And - if poachers and corrupt government leaders don't ruin their habitat - they will probably outlive us. If only because they know how to live without electricity and supermarkets.

"Yeah, but those uncivilised tribes spend half an hour making fire!" Sure. Just like you at the yearly neighbourhood barbecue. Although you have matches. But even if they spend a few hours a day on collecting and preparing food, they have all the time in the world. They don't work 8 hours a day enriching someone else; they don't spend 3 hours a day watching TV and spend zero time mindlessly scrolling social media. They don't spend an hour a day discussing topics they know nothing about with people who don't care about their opinion because they already made up their minds. They don't waste time looking for gadgets they absolutely don't need but are told they can't live without. 

"Yeah, but they don't have money!"

If 'having money' is your best argument to call yourself 'civilised' (or 'civilized' if you're American), you may have to rethink your priorities.

A Final Dance (A #CirclePoem)

A Final Dance (A #CirclePoem)

A final dance

the last chance

to feel her fingers

toching his

To hear her breathing

and to see her smiling eyes

while her lips said no

the night

the curtains closed

after

a final dance

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Did human evolution stop? Maybe. For some.

Have we stopped evolving? Of course not. And there is plenty of evidence for that. 

Although it's true that a large group of humanoids (like Tiana and - for example - Marjorie Taylor Greene) never made it past the stage of the Neanderthaler, most of humanity has evolved and continues to do so.  It's true. Bigly.

Racists are a prime example of people who have yet to evolve. Sure, it's normal to be absolutely terrified of people who don't have the same colour skin as you do because you are only a small tribe and they might have diseases that your people can't deal with yet. But that was f'in 100,000 years ago.

It's time for racists to go extinct.

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People like Tiana and MTG are the reason I developed this theory: some time ago a branch of humans evolved into the Homo Sapiens Sapiens, 'the thinking man'. While a rather large group got stuck in the Neanderthal type of development: the Homo Lunatic Ludicrous, 'the really, really stupid man'. 

And remember (a #poem)

Sometimes the only thing that's left

is not right

but the past

that suddenly came instead

and won't last

as the charm that's now

a distant memory

that brings a smile

to those who still are

and remember

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Excuses

"But Hunter's laptop!", "But her emails!", "Yes, my Great Leader messed up and accidentally gave away top military secrets to the foreign power that pays him billions a year to spread misinformation but I read on Facebook once that someone on the left once accidentally gave his home- instead of work address when he ordered dinner so the left makes mistakes too!"

Why does the dumb right never take responsibility?

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If there's one group that rightfully can be called 'snowflakes' it's the radical right. Because fascists start crying when you call them fascists. Because the radical right mostly consists of cowards some 99% of them only dare to share their racist nonsense anonymously. Fascist cowards won't tell their names and hide their faces when their Great Leader tells them to round up people who speak out against fascism:

It happened with many more people than just with Tuft University student Rumeysa Ozturk. 

If you live in a country where people are violently silenced for exposing the truth about their fascist government, there's no longer any doubt you live in a facist state. 

"Yeah, but at least people don't get murdered for exposing the truth about their country's leaders!"

Think again.

What do you think are the signs you live in a fascist country?

To catch a Shadow (a #CirclePoem)

How to catch a shadow 

if you've never chased a dream?

On time moving on

without knowing it stood still 

or on promises broken 

by a night or the will 

to end the ability 

to describe an angel 

without ever having seen one 

or even heard of their existence?

Try to love 

without empathy and you'll fail.

Try to feel

without touch and you'll fall 

because you'll never know 

how to catch a shadow 

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Racists really don't understand racism

At a Greyhound bus terminal in 1988, somewhere in the Midwest. Nice conversation with an elderly, white, Christian lady. She said things like: "We should all get along, human rights are for every person and I don't understand racism." A (mixed) couple walks by..."What a shame they are going to hell. Everyone should stick to their own race!" She was right about not understanding racism.

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Racists come in all shapes and sizes. And I will never be able to understand them. Partly because racists themselves don't understand racism.

As in this sad example:

This sad story reminds me of a a Dutch zionist (simply a - former Catholic - racist who went to a Shul one day and decided to call himself Jewish so he could call people antisemetic if they called him out on his anti-muslim BS) who said he knew a lady in Israel who sometimes couldn't sleep at night because of warning sirens in the distance. 

Why are dumb right people of any kind such cry babies? 

Here's one crying that bars and clubs in an apartheid state deny him access because of his dark skin colour. 

What did he expect? I know for a fact that Israel - in general - is racist because the Israeli government itself hasted itself to state that they are not. 

"All the few dozen establishments this gentlemen tried to get into were actually full that particular evening. That you see that 80% of all seats are empty means that they were all reserved." Mein jee! I've heard better excuses from kids caught with their hand in the cookie jar. 

If a fascist says that he is not, would you believe him?

Land of Confusion (a #poem)

The day after

fading memories

of laughter, a dance,

and a kiss in the dark

Some confusion

when not only the lights

got turned on

and they agreed

to a walk in the park

After that

they lived

happily ever after

- although not together -

in the land of confusion

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Is your life based on lies or are you a decent person?

Suppose you get 2000 (dollars, pounds, euros) a month and by the end of the month there's 200 left. The 1800 is now in the hands of the bank or housing company, insurance companies, a telecomprovider, a streaming company, that nice guy from your favourite falafel stand, the supermarket and whatnot. Right? In short: money you had is now owed by someone else.

You may have less money now, but at least you have some actual friends. It must be hard to walk into a room and the conversations fall flat while everyone just smiles at you awkwardly. If they smile at you at all.

Elon Musk had over 400 billion dollars. After he appointed himself the head of a non-existing US government department he has some 300 billion left. Where did 100 billion dollars of Musk's money go to? Answer: nowhere because it never existed. 

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The story of Elon Musk and his fall from grace reminds me of the tale of The Emperor's New Clothes: he only has all this splendor and grandeur as long as people tell him he has. Until a little boy yelled out: "He is naked!"

In the case of the most famous South African since Nelson Mandela he only gets (he never actually earned anything. Except scorn and contempt) money in government handouts and bank loans as long as there are people believing he has billions in colletaral. The sad fact is: Elon's imaginary stockpile of money is evaporating faster than a cotton shirt in a nucleair blast. 

Once I believed the stories Elon told of being a self made man, working hard to reach the top, all the while being a nerd. Then holes in his stories started to appear that called him out as a liar. And I felt sorry for him. Than he showed his true colours and he turned out to be a lying fascist. And I stopped feeling sorry for him.

Now I realise it's not surprising that he doesn't have friends. Apparently Elon's dad hates him too and always preferred his brother Kimbal, a normal person. Fun fact: Kimbal Musk's wife used to be married to Skin, the lady from the band Skunk Anansie. Oh, and Elon's brother is a philantropist. For wappies: that's a difficult word that means he knows empathy. For instance: he put some of the millions he made with Zip2 into investments in sustainable agriculture and education. 

In short: the main difference between Elon and Kimbal Musk is that the first advertises himself as savior, while the latter actually helps people and the planet. 

But Elon's sister is their father's darling; daddy Musk loves his daughter só much, he got her pregnant. Twice. Okay, she's his former stepdaughter, the biological daughter of his ex. Would you date your partner's child from a previous relationship?

Probably only his mother loves Elon. Not surprising she loves someone who loves to lie to look rich and populair, considering she is close friends with a fake blonde who stole from a children's cancer charity (Ivanka Trump) and an actual Chinese spy who once dated an actual dictator before she left him for a right wing media mogul (Wendi Murdoch).

If you could choose: would you rather be a virtual, fascist billionaire or a likable person who actually worked for their money and has real life friends?

Stories (a #poem)

In the end 

all we have 

are stories

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Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)

Tens of million of US citizens are só incredibly stupid that they honestly believe that putting an end to fair treatment and treating everyone equally will somehow magically make that scary thing called 'woke' disappear. Besides: literally none of them can even define 'woke'. In the end every single one admits: "'Woke' is just everything my favourite right wing populist says that I should be against." 

What is your definition of 'woke'?

Of course, Musk and his worshippers are wrong. DEI is in fact good for business. Just like in nature, communities thrive on diversity; if a single organism is dominant, it will exhaust the soil and nothing ever will be able to grow anymore. Including that dominant species.

Elon Musk himself is a 'product' of diversity, being part African, part European and part North American. Really silly that a product of diversity himself, Elon Musk, is against diversity. 

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Without diversity we would never have heard from a man who was born in Canada, has a Cuban father yet calls himself 'real American!' and 'Ted Cruz'. Although he was born as Rafael Edward Cruz. 

Millions of 'woke' people couldn't help laughing when 'Ted' proposed a bill limiting the use of preferred names and pronouns. Leading to the silly situation that Senator Cruz will feel insulted if you use his birthname ánd will cry if you use his later chosen name. Typical for dumb right: they always find a reason to cry.