it was God all along

The US Army fires over 1 million rounds of ammo at striking coal workers

around 100 workers were killed, nearly 1000 were arrested over the strike, some were tried and imprisoned for years

Some people say a man is made out of mud. A poor man’s made out of muscle and blood, Muscle and blood and skin and bones, A mind that’s weak and a back that’s strong.

They want people undereducated so they can just use them as replaceable cogs in the workplace and make money off them. Keep them poor, keep their options limited, and you’ve got servants.

The governor of Nevada pushed a plan last year to let tech companies start “innovation zones” where, if they owned enough land outside of city limits, the company could develop their own local government, essentially, take over duties and control from the counties. Fortunately, it got enough attention that they withdrew it. But you know they’ll try again.

Taking effect July 2022, the US Suicide Prevention Hotline will change from 800-273-8255 to the three digit code of 988. Especially with families and communities reeling from back to back tragedies, it is super important to share this information!

It’s July 16, not just the start of July.

988 can not only be used as the suicide hotline, but for any sort of mental health or substance use crisis situation. As opposed to 911, the goal of 988 is that when dispatch is necessary, you’ll be met with a trained crisis response team rather than the police. The police will only be involved if there is an immediate threat to safety, which has almost never occurred in pilot programs - in one of the most well-known, Denver STAR, (which a lot of y’all seem to be familiar with) the police has actually never been called for backup. We’re hoping that this is going to get more individuals directed towards help rather than a prison cell. 

In the garden, humans were naked (formless?), vegan only eating from plants, always mindful of and present with divinity (”walking with god”), able to communicate with the other beings there… like does this not sound like the spirit world?

Then the fall (of our frequency?) happened and we’re kicked out of the garden. Being kicked out, our awareness is honed in on the physical realm and we’re blind to the spirit realm, and it’s literally a curse. Having to work hard to survive, kill and eat other beings, die ourselves.

And the fact that patriarchy is part of this curse is just chef’s kiss because that means it’s not actually good and holy and is spiritually unnatural.

Some experts believe that human’s capacity for higher thinking is because humans have abnormally large brains. These large brains, in turn, make childbearing a uniquely difficult process for humans compared to most other animals. (x)

i don’t want to. talk about gun control here because it’s a whole can of worms and i’ve got a lot of opinions on it. but this is literally why one of the earlier forms of gun control in california was put in place, the black panthers were patrolling with guns, and walked peacefully into the capital, while reagan who was the governer at the time visited some students out front, if i remember correctly. there are MILLIONS of legal documents i had to read through that talk about disarming these people because the police felt threatened- gun laws were put into place because of it! specifically to target black militants who wanted to protect their families.

Me: oh my god.

How dare you leave this in the tags

People have been employing words and images for the Divine that move beyond the masculine from the very start. I thought I’d compile some examples chronologically. 

Links in any of the points lead fuller explanations or excerpts. Feel free to add on to this timeline!

First Century: 

Paul himself, right there in the canonical Bible, implies that God is pregnant with all that exists! And he’s not pulling that image out of nowhere, but from his own Jewish scriptures.

100s:

“In his ineffable essence he is father; in his compassion to us he became mother. The father by loving becomes feminine.” - St. Clement of Alexandria .

There’s a long complicated history around Sophia being identified sometimes as the Spirit and sometimes as Jesus in Christian history, about which @fierysword has many posts, but Theophilus of Antioch is one of the early figures to describe the Trinity as being God, the Word (logos), and Wisdom (sophia), so that the Holy Spirit is described in feminine language because sophia is feminine. Meanwhile, see here for information about Jesus being identified with Woman WIsdom.

200s/300s:

“Come, secret Mother; Come, You who (fem.) are manifest in your deeds; You who (fem.) give joy and rest to those who are united to You (fem.)” - The Acts of Thomas .

”She is the kind and heavenly mother…” - Symeon of Mesopotamia (speaking of the Holy Spirit) .

St. Barbara envisions both God and those who follow God as Saints as being beyond the human gender binary

300s-400s:

the earliest Syriac Christians frequently employed feminine language to all three members of the Trinity, including Mother language for God and sometimes using She pronouns for the Holy Spirit .

“He who has promised us heavenly food has nourished us on milk, having recourse to a mother’s tenderness. For just as a mother, suckling her infant, transfers from her flesh the very same food which otherwise would be unsuited to a babe…so our Lord, in order to convert His wisdom into milk for our benefit came to us clothed in flesh.” - St. Augustine of Hippo 

1000s-1100s:

“And you, Jesus, are you not also a mother? Are you not the mother who, like a hen, gathers her chickens under her wings? …. And you, my soul, dead in yourself, run under the wings of Jesus your mother and lament your griefs under feathers. Ask that your wounds may be healed and that, comforted, you may live again.” - St. Anselm of Canterbury  .

“In Hildegard’s day there were other traditionally feminine theological ideas: for instance, the Cistercians feminized the language for God by replacing ‘God’ with ‘God is love’, and, because love (caritas) was a feminine noun, God could be denoted as ‘she’.” - Andrea Janelle Dickens For more on Hildegard’s feminine conception of God as Caritas, see here. .

“Our good mother Charity loves us all and shows herself differently to each one of us, cherishing the weak, scolding the restive, exhorting the advanced. But when she scolds she is meek, when she consoles she is sincere…” - Burgundian Abbot Bernard of Clairvaux

1200s:

“What does God do all day long? God gives birth. From the beginning of eternity, God lies on a maternity bed giving birth to all.”  - Meister Eckhart, German theologian (c. 1260 – c. 1328) .

St. Francis of Assisi envisioned the Trinity as a group of three women (who give him a feminine title!): “Three poor women appeared by the road as Saint Francis was passing. They were so similar in stature, age, and face that you would think they were a three-part piece of matter, modeled by one form. As Saint Francis approached, they reverently bowed their heads, and hailed him with a new greeting, saying: ‘Welcome, Lady Poverty!’” .

Poet and mystic Hadewijch wrote in Middle Dutch about God as Minne, or Lady Love (and it gets pretty gay; see this excerpt) .

“Even if you gave me everything that you possess in Heaven and on earth, I would not consider myself satiated until I had you, because you are the life of my soul, I do not have a father and mother outside of you.” - Marguerite d'Oingt

1300s:

“As we know, our own mother bore us only into pain and dying. But our true mother Jesus, who is all love, bears us into joy and endless living.” - Julian of Norwich  .

In various places in medieval Europe starting around 1320, Jesus’s side wound was frequently depicted as a vulva. Scholars have suggested various reasons for this depiction, including: making Christ androgynous as androgyny was seen as more holy than belonging to an earthly (binary) gender; and helping women see themselves in their Lord (birthing girdles were even made bearing Christ’s wounds so that one could imagine their labor pains in parallel to Jesus’s pain on the cross) - See my #androgynous Christ tag for more info + scholarly sources

1400s-1500s

Madre Juana de la Cruz in Spain imagines the Trinity as working together to weave divinity and humanity into one being (Jesus), just as a seamstress sews a shirt. She also envisions God the Father as having a womb, and, speaking in the voice of Jesus, said: “And all those who seek in me a father, will find in me a father. And those who seek in me a mother, will find in me a mother. And those who seek in me a husband, will find in me a husband. And those who seek in me a bride, will find in me a bride. And those who seek in me a brother, or a friend, or a neighbor, or a companion, likewise will find in me everything they desire…” .

A convent in Belgium commissioned a painting of Jesus in which he has breasts  .

God cares for us with an everlasting maternal heart and feeling.” - Martin Luther, who also pictured scripture as God’s womb.

1800s:

1800s: “My Father, my Mother, it is in You that I sleep, it is in You that I breathe. Awaken!” - Saint Mariam Baouardy (1846 – 1878)

these posts fucking suck and we see them like once or twice a month at this point like

yes actually if you are allegedly a leftist of some sort addressing peoples concerns is kind of the point. we live in a time of increasing repression and brutality and when people get curious about anarchism or marxism or any other kinda leftism thats like, a good thing. we want that

when people have questions about how will we do this, how will we do that, fucking TALK about that, even if we dont have a 100% set in stone concrete answer like come on are you fucking kidding me?

this “ask not what your country anarchism can do for you but what you can do for your country anarchism” shit fucking blows like

no fucking wonder western leftism continues to be such a fucking joke when it boils down to jacking off over being more enlightened like good fucking lord

that shit in particular, the jacking off over homebrewed meds always gets to me cuz like. fucks sake just look at insulin, weve seen what happens when people try to scrimp and save and use off brand insulin and like. a lot of them just die. like thats it

stuff like the shortage of insulin is no major manufacturing concern preventing it from widespread production, its a pricing and distribution stranglehold, but people get attached to this idea of sidestepping the issue with bathtub insulin and other meds instead of fixing the fucking problem at the source like. its this same wank over decentralized [x] where the decentralized solution is presented as like more ideologically desirable regardless of practical considerations for the previously more centralized [x], energy concerns, scale of economy, for meds shit like guarantee of consistent and known properties like

this shit MATTERS you cant just handwave this shit away

these are concerns that most people are barely, if that, getting met in the first place right now, of fucking course people are gonna want to know how that might work under some other proposed social system like come ON

We *need* centralized manufacture and distribution of medicine and medical supplies. We need to guarantee to people that the drug they’re taking is safe and effective. We need to guarantee that if you come in for surgery, you’re getting clean tools, not whatever Jerry had in his shed and sterilized with boiling water.