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EIGHT HUNDRED AND FRIGGING WHAT?
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On the upside, likely vaccination requirements in order to travel to and through Australia are going to keep away the stupid and the ideological in future. Sorry, we're full up on stupid and ideological; GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM!
This is particularly relevant given that today there are a number of protests going on around eastern Australia: I think the NSW Police shut down the Sydney antivax/antilockdown march, but apparently there was a class in Melbourne and another in Brisbane.
Funtimes, eh?
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I did quite a bit of gardening this morning: most of it not the stuff I planned to do.
1. Grafted two apples.
2. Set the driveway post.
3. Pulled up a plant that had overgrown one of the garden beds.
4. Planted the ranunculus.
5. Attached the chook wire to the new midpoint post.
And now I've just spent an hour on FB.
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As you can probably guess a lot of Christian groups in the western world are in a welter of feels about Afghanistan and the probability of Christians being persecuted. Also, various hoaxes are making the rounds: "229 Christian missionaries are about to be beheaded!" And there is no shortage of atrocities being reported, only not by the media. They're all "somebody told methat you had a boyfriend who looked like a girlfriend that I had in February of last year this thing is happening" or "such and such just got off the phone with..." They're never links to reputable sites, just screenshot text.
I wrote a grump on this:
Firstly, as Christians and people who claim to know the Truth, we should be emphatic about ensuring that what we spread is true happenings.
Secondly, this is not 'Christian persecution'. The Taliban is not specifically targeting Christians. They are targeting anyone who isn't 'yay the Taliban' or who isn't able to fake it. Christians fall into this category. So do atheist female Afghanistani lesbian journalists. (Yes, that was weirdly specific. Deal with it.) But, as Christians, it doesn't have to be all about us.
I'm also part of a group that's trying to do 24-hour prayer for Afghanistan: not just for Christians or churches but for all the situation, pretty much all over, thankfully.
But there's a lot of waffly Christian stuff in there, like God is gonna come riding out of the clouds on a mighty steed of white and put the Taliban to the sword (or, IDK, the AK-47? Who even knows). Like, no. Sorry, that's not how God works these days. If He wants to, then I am surely not about to gainsay Him. But this is pretty much a crappy situation of our own making (y helo thar colonisation, occupation, infantilisation, empire-building, and nationalistic ego: the five horsemen of the modern geopolitical apocalypse) and what we're seeing are the consequences.
We're not paying the consequences, btw. Afghanistanis are paying the consequences. We're just watching it play out and wringing out hands. And our politicians (the Aussie ones) are being complete wankers again. Then again, I guess they never stopped.
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Tomorrow I have zoom socials all day.
8am: Sam/Jack Horsewomen of the old days of Stargate SG1 fandom (only about half a dozen of us still talking nowadays)
10am: modern sewing group
3pm: weekly hockey social
I don't actually mind all the zomm interactions; it would be nicer to be able to see them in person but...that's not gonna be happening, so we make do.
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On the upside, likely vaccination requirements in order to travel to and through Australia are going to keep away the stupid and the ideological in future. Sorry, we're full up on stupid and ideological; GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM!
This is particularly relevant given that today there are a number of protests going on around eastern Australia: I think the NSW Police shut down the Sydney antivax/antilockdown march, but apparently there was a class in Melbourne and another in Brisbane.
Funtimes, eh?
--
I did quite a bit of gardening this morning: most of it not the stuff I planned to do.
1. Grafted two apples.
2. Set the driveway post.
3. Pulled up a plant that had overgrown one of the garden beds.
4. Planted the ranunculus.
5. Attached the chook wire to the new midpoint post.
And now I've just spent an hour on FB.
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As you can probably guess a lot of Christian groups in the western world are in a welter of feels about Afghanistan and the probability of Christians being persecuted. Also, various hoaxes are making the rounds: "229 Christian missionaries are about to be beheaded!" And there is no shortage of atrocities being reported, only not by the media. They're all "somebody told me
I wrote a grump on this:
Firstly, as Christians and people who claim to know the Truth, we should be emphatic about ensuring that what we spread is true happenings.
Secondly, this is not 'Christian persecution'. The Taliban is not specifically targeting Christians. They are targeting anyone who isn't 'yay the Taliban' or who isn't able to fake it. Christians fall into this category. So do atheist female Afghanistani lesbian journalists. (Yes, that was weirdly specific. Deal with it.) But, as Christians, it doesn't have to be all about us.
I'm also part of a group that's trying to do 24-hour prayer for Afghanistan: not just for Christians or churches but for all the situation, pretty much all over, thankfully.
But there's a lot of waffly Christian stuff in there, like God is gonna come riding out of the clouds on a mighty steed of white and put the Taliban to the sword (or, IDK, the AK-47? Who even knows). Like, no. Sorry, that's not how God works these days. If He wants to, then I am surely not about to gainsay Him. But this is pretty much a crappy situation of our own making (y helo thar colonisation, occupation, infantilisation, empire-building, and nationalistic ego: the five horsemen of the modern geopolitical apocalypse) and what we're seeing are the consequences.
We're not paying the consequences, btw. Afghanistanis are paying the consequences. We're just watching it play out and wringing out hands. And our politicians (the Aussie ones) are being complete wankers again. Then again, I guess they never stopped.
--
Tomorrow I have zoom socials all day.
8am: Sam/Jack Horsewomen of the old days of Stargate SG1 fandom (only about half a dozen of us still talking nowadays)
10am: modern sewing group
3pm: weekly hockey social
I don't actually mind all the zomm interactions; it would be nicer to be able to see them in person but...that's not gonna be happening, so we make do.
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