Born Again

Well since I'm sitting here on Power Outage Watch, ready to wake up and pack up the family to relocate to a location with electrically-independent heating sources, instead of getting the sleep I'd like to be getting (even though, in all honesty, I could probably chance it) and also not exactly in the mood to try working on one of these literature-related projects (sleepy thinkmeat = not goodly wordings) I thought I could at least take a shot at the first post of the new I, Krotukk.

Mandatory possible offensive content warning.

By now, if you have managed to locate this (or both of these) blog(s), I'm going to take a moment to wager that you're at least vaguely familiar with my stances on several topics that I ofttimes end up on massive ranting sprees that typically end up infuriating me beyond belief mid-write. At the top of the list, in no particular order, we have religion, politics and human rights. Since I posted the first article on either of the two blogs, hardly anything has changed in the landscape of any of those three topics. I can't honestly express any surprise, either.

I want to know, to an extent that I would almost bet absolutely nobody else understands, just what is so hard to understand about the concept of peaceful coexistence. Somebody doesn't believe in the sky bully you believe in? Fine. Keep it to yourself. You don't think a woman has the right to make decisions about her own body, her own child, her own future? Fine. Keep it to yourself. You don't think two guys have just as much right to get married as a man and a woman? Fine. Keep it to yourself.

Do you know why I say keep it to yourself? Because those people that you don't agree with are not you and you have ABSOLUTELY NO right to attempt to dictate any aspect of their lives. You have no right to dictate any aspect of anyone's life but your own. Sure, if you wander into parenthood, you have the right to lay down rules and regulations in order to help that child or those children grow into the best possible adults they can be. But, again, keep your personal opinions and beliefs TO YOURSELF.

I cannot abide these pictures of children carrying the ignorant hatred of messages like "GOD HATES FAGS" on signs around their necks, spreading a message they don't even understand in any way other than "Mommy said this so it must be true." because the pathetic adults in their lives can't understand the concepts of 1) actually USING that brain in your head and 2) general decency. You want your children to grow up and share your faith with you? Fine. But you KEEP IT TO YOURSELF until they are old enough to make their own decisions. Do not start brainwashing them with your idiocy from the moment they first display recognition and understanding.

You cannot even begin to argue with me that teaching children religion or political stances is not brainwashing. It is. It is brainwashing in its purest and most damaging form: Filling the minds of the uneducated innocent with ONLY the views you want them to have and insisting that anything else is wrong, bad, sinful or whatever other terrifying adjectives you can think of. If you think that's not brainwashing, then you're just a moron.

As long as you keep your opinions to yourself, that's fine. Fantastic. Wonderful, even, no matter how hateful or ignorant or bigoted you are. But when you start trying to force that shit down the throats of other people, especially children, you have no right to complain when someone hauls off and smacks you across the face with a petrified, flaming 5-ton dinosaur turd. Because fuck you. Mind your own goddamn business and stay the fuck out of everyone else's. It's pieces of shit like you that tear families apart with unnecessary wars and political disagreements. Seriously, fuck you.