My January sales shopping
256 reindeer - some glitter covered ornaments, most small solar powered dancing figures. I waited and waited for the Poundshop to lower its prices on Christmas stock, from 50p just after Christmas. Eventually, the items went down to 30p each (and I had a 10% discount code)
So happy
(Obviously, they're for Operation Christmas Child boxes later this year)
I recently watched the documentary The True Cost (I should have watched it ages ago).
I was aware of the grotesque exploitation of garment workers, working all waking hours and being paid barely enough to buy their depressing diet of rice.
I was aware that they're also put at serious risk - because corporate greed means that safety precautions are scandalously inadequate - leading to numerous casualties, including 1,134 when the Rana Plaza factory collapsed (not to mention many more left crippled - in a nation without support for the disabled - and their families left without mothers). I haven't words for how wrong it is.
Something I'd not been aware of that the programme discussed was that, in the Indian subcontinent, giant multinational corporations (namely Monsanto) sell farmers pesticides made with waste chemicals that cause extremely high levels of birth defects and cancer. Victims' families endeavour to pay for treatment (having no NHS, obvs) - inc. drugs from the same multinationals - but end up in debt.... 250, 000 Indian farmers have been recorded as having committed suicide in the last 16 years, 1 each half hour (presumably, there'll be more who aren't recorded).
It's all too heartbreaking to process.
This (Youtube clip) is utterly, beyond-words horrible, but I feel it needs sharing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0kC1B__CJ4
It continually astounds me that many people - particularly young lefties like myself - genuinely believe that abortion is a moral cause and that those opposed to abortion are immoral. This is pure evil.
NB, I'm aware that many (hopefully most) people who would consider themselves pro-choice would not support what's discussed in this clip - but this truly is a slippery slope issue. Here in the UK, the law states that an abortion should only be allowed if 2 doctors agree that "the continuance of the pregnancy would involve risk, greater than if the pregnancy were terminated, of injury to the physical or mental health of the pregnant woman or any existing children of her family". Yet we all know that abortion is always presumed to be a potential choice when someone is pregnant, irrespective of whether there's risk to the woman; and that almost abortions (as evidenced by statistics) happen because the woman feels that she doesn't want a baby at the time, not because the pregnancy is dangerous.
Please note also, I *hate* abortion - I do NOT hate those who've had them. Pro-choicers endlessly bemoan pro-lifers for being "judgemental", but whilst some pro-lifers may be judgemental, that doesn't mean that we all are. As you might hate hard drugs and knife crime but not hate/judge all of those caught up in them, I hate abortion itself rather than women.
If you felt that the foetus was a human (which it is, there's no question about it biologically) child, you might hate abortion too.that's
Ultimately, abortion is mostly only ever wanted because our culture has misled us into thinking that sex is healthy and necessary regularly once we turn 16 - most accidental pregnancies occur because sex very early in a relationship has been normalised (by corporate forces, because sex sells), when in reality, that's just not necessary to enjoy life. So I blame companies that have manipulated attitudes to sex for putting women in situations where they face the stress of an accidental pregnacy.
Sorry for rambling away like a nutter.
A British Catholic Magazine Met With Steve Bannon To Come Up With A List Of “Catholic Influencers And Millionaires”
I'm compelled to beg anyone reading this - don't let hypocrites who clearly aren't following Christ determine whether you ever explore Jesus Himself.
Jesus spent much of His time arguing with people who claimed to be religious whilst in fact having hearts that were only in love with power, not with God. The same thing has continued throughout history; plenty of people use "religion", because it makes them feel proud and superior, to assume dominance. Jesus Himself made it clear repeatedly that we mustn't seek wealth, and commands us to love and humbly serve others.
There are historical arguments for Him genuinely having defeated death; and today billions of people experience inner peace and joy because of Him; and whilst I don't expect anyone reading this to take it seriously, please, please don't let people like those in this article be the reason that you don't explore Christ.
"Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world [love of wealth] corrupt you"James 1:27
256 reindeer - some glitter covered ornaments, most small solar powered dancing figures. I waited and waited for the Poundshop to lower its prices on Christmas stock, from 50p just after Christmas. Eventually, the items went down to 30p each (and I had a 10% discount code)
So happy
(Obviously, they're for Operation Christmas Child boxes later this year)
I recently watched the documentary The True Cost (I should have watched it ages ago).
I was aware of the grotesque exploitation of garment workers, working all waking hours and being paid barely enough to buy their depressing diet of rice.
I was aware that they're also put at serious risk - because corporate greed means that safety precautions are scandalously inadequate - leading to numerous casualties, including 1,134 when the Rana Plaza factory collapsed (not to mention many more left crippled - in a nation without support for the disabled - and their families left without mothers). I haven't words for how wrong it is.
Something I'd not been aware of that the programme discussed was that, in the Indian subcontinent, giant multinational corporations (namely Monsanto) sell farmers pesticides made with waste chemicals that cause extremely high levels of birth defects and cancer. Victims' families endeavour to pay for treatment (having no NHS, obvs) - inc. drugs from the same multinationals - but end up in debt.... 250, 000 Indian farmers have been recorded as having committed suicide in the last 16 years, 1 each half hour (presumably, there'll be more who aren't recorded).
It's all too heartbreaking to process.
This (Youtube clip) is utterly, beyond-words horrible, but I feel it needs sharing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0kC1B__CJ4
It continually astounds me that many people - particularly young lefties like myself - genuinely believe that abortion is a moral cause and that those opposed to abortion are immoral. This is pure evil.
NB, I'm aware that many (hopefully most) people who would consider themselves pro-choice would not support what's discussed in this clip - but this truly is a slippery slope issue. Here in the UK, the law states that an abortion should only be allowed if 2 doctors agree that "the continuance of the pregnancy would involve risk, greater than if the pregnancy were terminated, of injury to the physical or mental health of the pregnant woman or any existing children of her family". Yet we all know that abortion is always presumed to be a potential choice when someone is pregnant, irrespective of whether there's risk to the woman; and that almost abortions (as evidenced by statistics) happen because the woman feels that she doesn't want a baby at the time, not because the pregnancy is dangerous.
Please note also, I *hate* abortion - I do NOT hate those who've had them. Pro-choicers endlessly bemoan pro-lifers for being "judgemental", but whilst some pro-lifers may be judgemental, that doesn't mean that we all are. As you might hate hard drugs and knife crime but not hate/judge all of those caught up in them, I hate abortion itself rather than women.
If you felt that the foetus was a human (which it is, there's no question about it biologically) child, you might hate abortion too.that's
Ultimately, abortion is mostly only ever wanted because our culture has misled us into thinking that sex is healthy and necessary regularly once we turn 16 - most accidental pregnancies occur because sex very early in a relationship has been normalised (by corporate forces, because sex sells), when in reality, that's just not necessary to enjoy life. So I blame companies that have manipulated attitudes to sex for putting women in situations where they face the stress of an accidental pregnacy.
Sorry for rambling away like a nutter.
A British Catholic Magazine Met With Steve Bannon To Come Up With A List Of “Catholic Influencers And Millionaires”
I'm compelled to beg anyone reading this - don't let hypocrites who clearly aren't following Christ determine whether you ever explore Jesus Himself.
Jesus spent much of His time arguing with people who claimed to be religious whilst in fact having hearts that were only in love with power, not with God. The same thing has continued throughout history; plenty of people use "religion", because it makes them feel proud and superior, to assume dominance. Jesus Himself made it clear repeatedly that we mustn't seek wealth, and commands us to love and humbly serve others.
There are historical arguments for Him genuinely having defeated death; and today billions of people experience inner peace and joy because of Him; and whilst I don't expect anyone reading this to take it seriously, please, please don't let people like those in this article be the reason that you don't explore Christ.
"Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world [love of wealth] corrupt you"James 1:27
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