"Sex is not biologically binary.
Our genitalia does not always align from the top to the bottom, and our brains do not always align with whatever genitalia we have.
It has nothing to do with gods or lack of gods, or morality or lack of morality, it has to do with DNA and Epigenetics and hormone expression and a plethora of other molecular processes."
SearingTruth
"Learning to Kill
It's odd the way that societies change. Time and time again historians and sociologists are taken aback in wonder and confusion at the sudden, dramatic, and often dangerous transformations of a people’s basic nature and identity.
When this occurs in individuals we call it insanity, and often look for psychological or biological illness to explain the anomaly. When it occurs in societies we call it inhumanity, and have yet to address its root cause.
There are of course the classic and well known transformations of good societies into those who embrace darkness, such as the Germans adopting the ideals of the madman Hitler, or the Italians adopting his lesser counterpart Mussolini. But there are unfortunately many lesser discussed and equally tragic examples of a societies transgressions against its own mores. From the ancient Greeks and Romans, to modern day Americans and Europeans, societies have shown a great propensity for suddenly abandoning their most cherished beliefs and morals, and in their stead, learning to kill.
To be sure, these transformations do not occur overnight, but are instead attended by a slow, steady, but ever increasing drumbeat of misinformation, dehumanization, beratement, and ultimate hysteria directed towards any perceived enemy. The voices of reason and dissent are routinely suppressed and discredited, the rule of law abandoned, and any possible sense of guilt muted by vague and overt appeals to absolute nationalism.
And so we find humanity today.
In the midst of the abandonment of our most basic precepts of all that is human, we stand bare.
Learning to kill.
It's not as difficult as we thought."
SearingTruth
"The reason evil always fails is that, after a short while, no one is pure enough.
If evil is based upon loyalty, and loyalty becomes the ruler, some will be found not loyal enough.
If evil is based upon greed, and greed becomes the ruler, some will be found not greedy enough.
If evil is based upon cruelty, and cruelty becomes the ruler, some will be found not cruel enough.
If evil is based upon religion, and religion becomes the ruler, some will be judged not religious enough.
If evil is based upon bigotry, and bigotry becomes the ruler, some will be judged not bigoted enough.
And on it goes, to the deepest depth of absurdity itself.
That's why humanity and compassion prevail, as they’re what save us, in eternal and overwhelming abundance."
SearingTruth
"The reason evil always fails is that, after a short while, no one is pure enough.
If evil is based upon loyalty, and loyalty becomes the ruler, some will be found not loyal enough.
If evil is based upon greed, and greed becomes the ruler, some will be found not greedy enough.
If evil is based upon cruelty, and cruelty becomes the ruler, some will be found not cruel enough.
If evil is based upon religion, and religion becomes the ruler, some will be judged not religious enough.
If evil is based upon bigotry, and bigotry becomes the ruler, some will be judged not bigoted enough.
And on it goes, to the deepest depth of absurdity itself.
That's why humanity and compassion prevail, as they’re what save us, in eternal and overwhelming abundance."
SearingTruth
"This is one of those many times in history when humanity must prove itself.
And no one knows for certain what it will decide.
A rare moment when theists and atheists alike must share faith in the same hope.
That nothing is certain, except that humanity is good."
SearingTruth
"Tyranny and tyrants do not change, nor does the character of those who defeat them."
SearingTruth
The problem is not a particular server fellow citizen Fedi.Tips, it's that Mastodon doesn't have threads.
And until it does it will not only be awkward and inaccesible for many who expect an integrated experience, but will also leave it vulnerable to large servers.
"One step at a time.
One atrocity at a time.
Evil nibbles at the toes, to dine upon the heart."
SearingTruth
"Humanity is not a certain color or religion or attitude.
It is believers in all of us.
So that together we are more than anything before."
SearingTruth
"A people’s revolution cannot be won by a foreign army."
SearingTruth
"Unlike our Founding Fathers, we are not asked to forge towards the defeat of some implacable enemy through fields and valleys awash with filth and blood. We are not asked to leave our homes, our land, and our families on an almost certainly fatal journey with little hope of return. And we are not asked to die the brutal and agonizing death of so many anonymous patriots, whose last anguished cry was freedom, alone on some cold and desolate battlefield.
No my friends, all we are asked to do is stand up and fight with our voices and our unaltered votes.
My fellow citizens, the truth is that the Constitution fails to defend itself, enduring only in the brave hearts of those who would uphold it."
SearingTruth, A Future of the Brave
"The primary goal of evil is to replace the hearts of both its advocates and its victims.
With a deep dark pit of horror."
SearingTruth
Trump has declared that he is our master.
And the rule of law means nothing.
ST
"Have you ever wondered how good was so easily destroyed by evil in the past?
And thought to yourselves how ignorant and unaware those people must have been?
Well, look around.
Because the past is upon you."
SearingTruth
"I see many ways to conquer the Earth, and few ways to save it."
SearingTruth
"If only we had a sister planet in our solar system.
With intelligent and compassionate beings that looked nothing like us.
Most of humanity's arguments would fall, suddenly silent."
SearingTruth
"Democracies are lost because the people that live within them, given enough time, forget how precious they are, and forsake the foundations upon which they stand."
SearingTruth
Must I sing again?
"What does America stand for fellow citizens?
That is the question the globe is asking.
Profit or people?
Fear or hope?
Or perhaps nothing at all.
At the very least they request that we stop making it up from day to day."
SearingTruth
"We are one species.
We are the human race.
And ultimately the fate of one part of us will be the fate of another.
Whether disease or politics or myriads of other untold misfortunes, we all suffer the same fate.
Together."
SearingTruth
"So long as our globe is morally imbalanced there will always be those fleeing immorality to morality.
And I do not speak of morality in ideological or religious terms, just basic human ones.
The rights to food, shelter, safety, healthcare, freedom of speech and association, and the election and petition of government.
In fact history clearly records that none of us can callously feast in a garden peered in upon by the suffering and starving and dying.
Instead there will ultimately be justice and compassion for all, or none."
SearingTruth