The Weekly Dormouse. (aka Bike, est. 2007) Part 3479 by Angharad Copyright© 2024/2025 Angharad

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This is a work of fiction any mention of real people, places or institutions is purely coincidental and does not imply that they are as suggested in the story.
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I had consulted with Daddy, Danni and Sarah about the course outline and they agreed it was on the right track and needed just a bit of tweaking to have it completed. I spent an hour on it after dinner and then moved on to rewriting the jokes in the welcoming speech. i could have spoken to Daddy about that, as he used to do it but he looked quite tired and I didn't want to bother him, beside, however much longer I spend here, I might have to write another one or two, so the practice may be good for me. It might have been, in the manner that ancient monks used to scourge themselves, because it was good for their souls, just like burning people - the religious community has never made sense to me, believing in fairy tales and killing anyone who tries to point out the absurdity of their situation. Most adults don't like being laughed at, unless they have deliberately elicited that response. Religious types, especially the very devout, will become very hostile very quickly. This applies to all religions, which I despise for all the bloodshed they have brought to this world while preaching the opposite, but they can't see the irony.

I suspect most of them are very unhappy souls who are looking for something which they won't find in the Bible or Koran, because they are hundreds of pages of platitudes relevant to the mediaeval period and obsolete now. I mean where do they mention about how to organise your fridge or wash man-made fabrics. And the 10 Mosaic commandments say, thou shalt not kill, tell that to Netanyahu, his god is supposed to have given them to Moses, not that I think either ever existed. Even, Jesus' two commandments of love thy God and love thy neighbour as thyself, runs aground on the very religious because they don't love themselves so how will they manage their neighbours unless it's his wife they fancy but then they break the commandment of not coveting all the neighbour's belongings and they treat the wife as one of his chattels. Religions seems misogynistic to its core, Early Christianity wasn't, they included women as missionaries and bishops but once the Church of Rome took over, they became very male dominated and women were subjugated. I suspect much of the misogyny in Europe and the US stems from that, which as they were also worshipping sky fairies, the other religions and sects adopted it too, God was male, period.

It's interesting that my experiences of religion moved on from attempted evangelical brainwashing, which signally failed, to atheism to the Goddess and the blue light. I still have issues but largely I accept the Goddess, the Shekinah, but that isn't quite the same as believing and I admit atheism suited me best, believing in humans causing most of the problems on this planet, so they have to solve them. Unfortunately politicians and religion have held back science, and even there some scientists are as megalomaniac as the other two groups. So as far as problem solving the planet's difficulties, only the pure hearted need apply, perhaps we'll include well-meaning Guardian readers too.

The British government purports to protect trans women while covertly plotting to eradicate them, the latest being ID cards or apps on your smart phone, which presumably will give name and sex and may well betray the way some of us are living. If they look in my knickers, I resemble a natural female, my birth certificate says female as does my passport but a transphobic ID card could give me away, and several of my daughters as well. It gives the government the ability to enact even more transphobic laws or actions or a subsequent party the authority to do so. Reform have already said they don't agree with transgender people, so if they get into power it will be like Trump in the US, the constitution and democracy is under threat to their empty promises and policies. Farage has said they would deport people who have a right to indefinitely reside in the UK. Perhaps his wife, who is German, I believe, will be the first to go. Farage is hardly a British name, so perhaps he could deport himself next. Trump is also modified to sound more Anglo-Saxon, but is also German in origin, so maybe ICE could deport him too.

The absurdity of politics and religion when taken to the next level is quite amusing, the 'hoist by their own petards' so to speak, but at the same time quite frightening in its normalisation of fascist policies and actions. These people are a danger to society but the society seems too stupid to see that believing what they read on social media rather than the truth. The future is undoubtedly going to be interesting, especially to vulnerable species like me. Add to that the genocide in Palestine by an evil Israeli government and the same potential in Europe by an equally evil Putin who I suspect would like to rebuild the Soviet Union, which if you remember came from war and could come from the same again. Another pan European conflict is possible, even probable because we haven't learned the lessons from the last century. The words of a US admiral come to mind, because the last war is a generation or two ago, there are some who think they can win one. Putin seems to be in this camp because he thinks Western Europe won't combine to stop him and the longer they take to stop him, the more confident he grows. 'All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing,' is a quote attributed to Edmund Burke, but may have its roots in the thoughts of John Stuart Mill, a philosopher, politician and economist from the C19th who was obviously an educated man and deep thinker unlike any politician alive today, they are all lightweights or morons focusing on their own needs rather than the country's. I despise them all and suggest the only thing they have in depth is shallowness.

Kennedy's quote about not thinking what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country, is today very relevant but only seems to provoke nationalism, which its practitioners suggest is patriotism but is actually self deception because their actions deviate from the foundations of a caring state, which cares for all in its borders, not in picking on defenceless targets like immigrants or transwomen. We seem to live in fear of ungodly Christians and Muslims, with India doing the same unpatriotic patriotism with ungodly Hinduism, like the US it is becoming a theocracy, and that didn't work hundreds of years ago. As George Santayana, suggested years ago, that, 'Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.' It seems that millions are deficient in their history of the recent past; they may be able to regurgitate notable dates or dynasties, but they haven't taken on board what it actually means.

It is frightening as an educator, that I am witnessing the decline in understanding of most democratic nations. They allow politicians to stir them up without thinking about what they are being told, much of which is total hogwash and propaganda, which Putin excels at, so the megalomaniacs Trump and Farage and Netanyahu, who seems to act and then defend his atrocities. Democracy is under threat from these people as well as the mobs they incite to violence and then claim innocence. When is the stupidity and apathy going see what is happening before their very eyes.

After thinking these thoughts of despair I left my study wondering what I could do to prevent them getting worse and felt very alone, a candle in a very dark night, despairing that we are leading up to a war, when millions of innocents will die all because of politicians and priests. I went to bed almost in tears.