Ha! I just love the Holy Spirit. I can be so dark and gloomy, all confused, full of angst, misery, and woe, ready to just tell people to get off my lawn, and the Lord will say something so simple like, are you eschewing evil? Why yes, yes I am! What a refreshing drink of water that revelation was! Not only am I right on schedule, I am right where I am called to be. Doing exactly what I was designed to do.
I love that word eschewing. I cannot “hate” it just makes me bitter, cynical and rots my soul, but I sure can eschew, or shoo it all away if you prefer.
I am just up to my neck in evil right now and doing my best to shoo it all away.
The photo by the way is real, it is Wenatchee high school band practice. This is one of many foolish and disturbing things going on in my world. The other day I got tangled up with my mask and glasses and managed to put my mask over my eyes, my glasses over my mouth, and I thought, this is really quite sensible! I do not want to see all the all the things I am seeing right now. Just wake me up when it’s over.
I should mention that Wenatchee is on the more right leaning side of the state. This is where you flee and seek refugee status, peace when the blue dot of the cartoon rabbit hole has totally overwhelmed you, except apparently we’re just all mad now.
So, even in the midst of the crazy, God is at work. I know this because He is clearly at work in me.
This is pure evil, folks. How we are treating one another is evil. The damage we are doing to our children is immeasurable. The psychological harm that comes from treating people as if they have cooties, as if they are a potential serial killer, a contaminant is phenomenal, significant, far reaching. Worse, they are learning that those around them are complete idiots, unworthy to protect them, powerless, foolish, and that the things they thought they could count on no longer exist. We are not creating a kinder, gentler world that cares about grandma, we are writing some dystopian science fiction, the stuff of nightmares.
Heck, that’s what it’s all doing to me! Young people are even more vulnerable to the messaging.
It’s really evil and I’m angry about what is happening to people.
See, there's this thing called biology... 
Absolutely correct — stupid scared shtless governments and the hideous knee-jerk psycho lying politicians that form the gestapo governments have become insanity incarnate. That band practice photo is proof enough. Life will never return to anything close to normal until we rise up and tell the governments to fckoff. Florida and North Dakota are two states that have the right approach — common sense will keep you healthy and business as usual.
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Hear hear!
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Thanks. This kind of isolation insanity makes me crazy!
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Join the club. I opposed the shutdown from the get-go, even before we learned that the virus we’re all quaking in our boots about has a 99.7% survival rate.
I’m retired and almost never have to go anywhere I don’t want to go, and I’m an introvert and a natural recluse, so if the shutdown has been hell for me, I can only imagine what it’s been like for extroverts and people who have jobs (and can’t work from home).
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Right you are. It’s out of control because of no-nothing politicians and so-called medical talking heads who lie in the name of Big Pharma.
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And don’t leave out South Dakota; they never bought into the Scam-demic nonsense in the first place.
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I’d move there if I could.
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Yes, South Dakota. I love the Dakotas, good tough Americana, often thought of moving there.
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South Dakota is okay, but cold in the winter. America’s high plains are no place anyone who isn’t tough as nails.
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I have been in Florida for the past month, and it has been glorious! Church where people can smile and sing without masks (they’re optional), Bible studies where we can sit together maskless and not be afraid of Covid, because we’ve all had it, and plenty of opportunities to be outdoors in fresh air and sunshine, living a normal life. Tomorrow we drive back to the other place, where to be fair, everyone does seem to care, just in all the wrong ways.
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I have an opportunity to move from NY to central Florida, I think I’d better take it.
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“they are learning that those around them are complete idiots, unworthy to protect them, powerless, foolish, and that the things they thought they could count on no longer exist.”
Yes, and hopefully they grow to understand the power grab and infringement of our rights that is happening under the guise of this disease.
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Nail in the head!!!
And thank you for clarifying that that photo is actually real— I thought it was from cocoon
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Thanks Julie. I know this stuff is real and yet I still had to go research it, I still thought, nah this is just a senior prank or something. Nope, it’s real enough.
It’s also really dumb, because you’re far more likely to get sick in a vinyl enclosed space with high moisture and poor airflow. It’s just a germ lover’s paradise, the perfect environment for spreading viruses.
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My friend, who recently retired from decades of being a nurse anesthetist, agrees with what you said in a past post, that masks are like petri dishes on your face. Lunacy!
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I reposted, with due credit to insanitybytes, Thanks.
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Thank you, much appreciated.
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OMG! What are we doing to our kids?! My son (a freshman in high school) was supposed to go back to school next week (hybrid – 2 days a week at school, 2 days a week remote, one day a week asynchronous) until I saw the ridiculous measures they are taking under the guise of keeping them “safe.” It was downright depressing. Needless to say, he’s staying remote and socializing with his friends outside of school. I’d rather he be mentally stable, than put through that crap!
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Right? Some of this stuff is absolutely terrifying and many people aren’t even aware of it.
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I just wrote a post to educate some parents. They need to know what “going back to school” looks like.
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BTW, I stole your picture and posted it to my FB. Already got one of my “scared” friends who sees this as the school protecting their children. Agreed to disagree. What that friend doesn’t realize is though she sees it that way, and her kid may be able to handle it, but she doesn’t see how it takes away MY CHOICE for my kid. She can have her “protection.” I’ll keep my freedom.
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“and many people aren’t even aware of it.” Where have they been??? I always say that if you stick your head in the sand, that makes other parts of your anatomy vulnerable.
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“…that word eschewing – ” great postscript to your earlier post about “IN”.
These verses from an old Eagles song played in the background of my mind as I read this piece.
Weaving down the American highway
Through the litter and the wreckage and the cultural junk
Bloated with entitlement, loaded on propaganda
And now we’re driving dazed and drunk
Been down the road to Damascus,
The road to Mandalay
Met the ghost of Caesar on the Appian Way
He said, “It’s hard to stop this binging, once you get a taste.”
“But the road to empire is a bloody stupid waste.”
Behold the bitten apple – the power of the tools
But all the knowledge in the world is of no use to fools
And it’s a long road out of Eden….
Not exactly Scriptural, but I sense some supernatural inspiration in an Orwellian kind of way.
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Thanks for the song, mj! Quite a bit of scripture going on there.Sometimes I find it reassuring to remember there is nothing new under the sun. 😊
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@MJThompson – the Eagles have quite a few songs that point out society’s downfall. I think the most fitting for the past few years is from “Dirty Laundry.”
We got the bubble-headed bleach-blonde who comes on at five
She can tell you about the plane crash with a gleam in her eye
It’s interesting when people die, give us dirty laundry
Can we film the operation? Is the head dead yet?
You know the boys in the newsroom got a running bet
Get the widow on the set, we need dirty laundry
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Yay! I love the word! We need to be eschewing a LOT of insane things going on today. Eschew the overreaching, disturbing lockdowns that have only made everything worse. (We need to eschew Dr. Fauci!) We need to eschew mentally torturing our kids with Zoom/School and doing crazy things like your photo shows. And eschew the MSM and social media in general. All these things are making us mentally disturbed, anxious, depressed, and obsessed with fear over Covid. I pretty much can guarantee that the (healthy) people most afraid to go out of their house are the ones glued to MSM and social media.
Our state is relatively open. We physically meet for church, our kids are in school, stores and restaurants are open for indoor dining. I can’t imagine living in locked up California or NY. My brother lives in NY and it’s driving him nuts. He wants to eschew Cuomo. 😛
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“This is pure evil, folks. How we are treating one another is evil. The damage we are doing to our children is immeasurable. The psychological harm that comes from treating people as if they have cooties, as if they are a potential serial killer, a contaminant is phenomenal, significant, far reaching. Worse, they are learning that those around them are complete idiots, unworthy to protect them, powerless, foolish, and that the things they thought they could count on no longer exist. We are not creating a kinder, gentler world that cares about grandma, we are writing some dystopian science fiction, the stuff of nightmares.”
So, what you’re saying is, we were dead wrong about “as you sow, that shall you also reap” not being all about getting what we deserve, in spades, good and hard, until it grinds us to powder?
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Lol! Well, we could have a great theological debate about Divine will and whether or not God allows evil. I usually prefer the idea that, “He works for good ALL things.” Grace for example, is unmerited favor and not a case of reaping what you sow.
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You’re right, Wenatchee is in a very ‘Conservative’ part of Washington, and once again, we see the Conservatives rolling over and playing dead. And they wonder how this sort of thing happens:
https://www.rt.com/usa/516451-gallup-poll-sexual-identity/
Conservatives and Christians are as much to blame for the disaster we’re facing as the Left. The only difference is that the Left is active while the Right passively accepts defeat without even putting up a fight. It’s not as if nobody was warning the Right for all these years that our culture was badly corrupted and the young were especially going to be impacted by it; but that was usually laughed off or ignored. We may not be ‘reaping what we’ve sown’, but we’re reaping what we sat back and let others sow in our fields.
It isn’t so much a matter of God allowing evil, it’s more a matter of Liberals welcoming it and Conservatives pretending it isn’t there. We’re doing this to ourselves.
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Spot on, as always!!
It was interesting for me to read your comment here:
“We are not creating a kinder, gentler world that cares about grandma, we are writing some dystopian science fiction, the stuff of nightmares.”
Between the cold snap, vehicle troubles and just plain living in the boonies, we have been out and about even less than usual. These days, just thinking about going out among others has increasingly causes feelings of dread. At one point I found myself thinking of how glad I am that we live in the boonies, because if we were constantly surrounded by faceless people all the time, I would be going insane. Being surrounded by masks is the stuff of nightmares. In hiding our faces, we have wiped out our very humanity.
And yet, it’s when people can see our faces that is causing “problems”. Yesterday I made a trip to a small city Walmart; a location where I knew it was safe for me, with my medical exemption to mask wearing, to shop. I do wear a Mingle Mask, just to keep people from flipping out. It is a clear plastic shield that rests on the chin, and is held in place with ear loops. I can breathe in it, for the most part, and it doesn’t get in the way like a face shield does.
When I got to the checkout and started loading my items onto the belt, the cashier asked me if I needed bags. I said yes, and then she suddenly said she had to get someone else to serve me and left. I thought it strange that my needing bags meant someone else had to serve me, but I continued unloading and another cashier logged onto the till – then asked me if I needed any bags.
It was only later that I realized that the first cashier left, not because I asked for bags, but because I wasn’t wearing a muzzle. She was wearing a mask, was behind a plastic barrier, and I had a plastic shield over my mouth and nose, and yet it wasn’t enough.
What have we done to ourselves?
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I’m so glad you still have the option of a medical exemption or a face shield! In my county the local health dept banned them both months ago. It’s really disturbing.
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They banned medical exemptions?!?!? How utterly insane!
Our mandate specified exemptions, but few places honour them, no matter how ludicrous. One of the exemptions is for people who cannot put on or take off a mask in their own. Yet a woman was denied service for not wearing a mask, even though she had no hands, nor could she bend her elbows. Even the police are getting insane. Just recently, I read about a guy who had the police show up at his house because he had been reported for not wearing his mask “properly”.
It is disturbing on so many levels.
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“Worse, they are learning that those around them are complete idiots, unworthy to protect them, powerless, foolish, and that the things they thought they could count on no longer exist.” Of all the nuttiness that abounds us and the many, many ways we are failing kids, I had not thought of that aspect IB. It’s very true and very evil as you say. I don’t like it much either.
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Reblogged this on Citizen Tom and commented:
I tend to be unemotional and happy with my own company. Still, like everyone else, there is a point where I crave human contact. That is why I look upon this masking and social distancing with a certain horror. That is why I decided to reblog this post.
Is the photo real. Yep! https://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/coronavirus/back-at-school-pandemic-continues-but-life-goes-on-at-wenatchee-and-eastmont-highs/article_b9d7ae06-762e-11eb-abef-bbb60008f62a.html?fbclid=IwAR2qXj4gmSVq6J91Tj12o7uvNq06FzpxVntUWGrrxpEXFnKJKvuZca8rrpA
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Reblogged this on boudica.us.
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Can I add something to make your blood boil? True story. A few days ago we became aware of a man in hospice. 90 years old give or take. COVID they say.
Wife of 55 years cannot visit said facility. Gotta keep u safe doncha know. So the idiotic zoom crap was issued so they could say ‘goodbye.’
WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE????????
Where is the voice of reason that says’NO!!!!!!’ You have no right. Maybe I don’t want to be safe! Maybe I want to die with my husband instead of living under the suffocating insane rules of a transgendered world where nothing is right, and the wrong is promoted.
Enough already.
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Arrrggg. Yep, lots of that kind of insanity going around. It is inhumane, evil, and totally unnecessary.
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The ones who are cranking this evil dynamo are well aware that in order to achieve their Totalitarian Not-You!-Topia, they must destroy real faith in God, the family, history, the very concept of absolute truth, critical thinking, and all vestiges of common sense (now mostly uncommon). The most loving thing we can do is to keep speaking the truth in love, no matter the cost.
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Brilliant. Simply brilliant. And TRUTH as always. God bless.
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