It's Good Friday in the parts of the world shaped by the Christian story...or stories, since the messenger's teachings inspired many variations of forms available to susceptible humans, whether to enlighten them or control them depends on perspective. It's the problem of all religions, organising the essence destroys the essence ... the Truth is not to be organised.
Today is a special day, set not by the calendar but through some lunar calculation (if you are interested do your own research, time is short, the blog wants writing and if evidence and research are often sketchy please check the veracity for yourself ... it's a teaching from the Buddha, K and others ... don't believe anything anyone tells you, check it for yourself, including the teacher)
Last year on this day, you may recall, the story was told in Santiago de Compostela, where they really go to town with imagery of death (for any new readers without conditioning in this religion Good Friday marks the day Jesus was ritually murdered in a gruesome way after being betrayed by one of his closest friends ... still unclear why that's Good but you can research that too if you are interested ... these days children mark the solemn event by eating chocolate eggs ... feel free to feedback how these long digressions in parentheses are working for you... it is difficult to keep up with the tumbling thoughts and writing clearly, albeit vaguely enough to allow weird stuff in, whilst watching out for apostrophe apostasy, sometimes by carelessness, often by autocorrect trying to be too helpful, also carelessness, since paranoia is not currently operating) and a strong emotion of foreboding was felt when, turning into a narrow street, a procession of death marchers, carrying an image of a suffering Christ, drumming darkly, passed by ...
To be honest this imagery of suffering ( for our sins, therefore our fault, there's your guilt) never appealed ... Buddha's image is very laid back and much more popular in garden centres than the Christian stuff ... I expect the usual critique is in back issues of the blog, it is rarely checked.
The esteemed (by around half of the electorate) President of the Land of the Free, confidently predicted this crisis would be over at Easter. Maybe Sunday. He is not universally popular around the world or indeed in the USA, yet a very plausible conspiracy theory, repeated by several FB informants carefully nurtured to retain for different perspectives, has him cast as an heroic leader of the world, taking down the rich and powerful ... which is well disguised, since he is very rich and powerful himself. If the theory is correct then we may see results as early as Sunday, or perhaps Bank Holiday Monday.
5G networks are widely touted as the cause of the crisis, experts debunk it ... maybe it's not the only cause. A magic pill, popular with drug dealers and extremely lucrative, is almost beyond question in the mainstream and virulently opposed by those suspicious of controllers ... as if the inordinate power of big pharma wasn't fact ... like big oil, it's the addiction to money that drives these corporations, liberated from regulatory restrictions previously in place to protect competition ... and human expressions of these out of control organisations take on god like status. .. on another level out of control human organisms grow literally with obesity and cancer, less obviously seriously damaged minds manipulated by advertising, refined by Edward Bernays, psychologist nephew of Sigmund Freud, to persuade people to buy stuff they don't need, with money they don't have ...causal chains all over ...
Sun is up, enough writing for now ... may leave happy Easter greetings for another day ... doesn't seem very respectful. There are hot cross buns, so I can remember Christ's suffering when eating one later. No chocolate eggs though.
For friends fully signed up to the story, please don't take offence. I try to live my life according to the teachings he is said to have brought. Well, the ones that feel right to me, anyway. Blind Faith is not working here. Love one another will do for now.
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