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Scottie's Playtime 
This is a fun good news one, -ish, and thanks! So, I’ll leave a couple of unrelated links here. I think you and Ten Bears will like the Open Culture bit, and the other one, well. Maybe use caution reading it, Scottie. It’s not bad, exactly. I’d read the stories already in Nuremberg transcripts and other writings, and that’s rough reading. This piece with be easier than that, being far less specific, yet we mostly know those facts, so that weighs on a person. Think of this article as being about “critical medical theory” and why it should be studied, maybe (in Australia, anyway.) And, it’s highly pertinent in light of what Trump and the Heritage Foundation and others are planning for the next Republican presidency. Anyway, here are the links:
https://www.openculture.com/2023/11/open-planet-lets-you-download-use-4500-free-videos-that-document-nature-climate-change.html#google_vignette
https://cosmosmagazine.com/people/ethics/medicine-holocaust-ethics/
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Hello Ali. Thanks for the links and I will open them in new tabs. Also thanks for the warning. I am sorry to be so needy about it, but I had a really bad night, walking the floor listening to the same song in my earbuds. Every damn time I think I am getting stronger the stories of abused / dead children in Gaza set me way back emotionally. In a way, I don’t know how anyone is not triggered with deep distress when reading of these things, these destroyed families, these destroyed lives. Hugs. Scottie
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Suggestion: Stop bookmarking/downloading/putting them in your tabs to read! You know it’s happening so from my perspective (and knowing your problems with “triggers’), it seems it would be to your advantage to just “be aware” via the headlines. Why put yourself “in danger” by reading all the horrible details???
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Hi Nan. Thank you. I wanted to take time to answer this because I am not really sure how to explain what seems to be unexplainable. But the best I can do is say it is about being responsible to my viewers. I feel how can I ask others to read and look at stuff I won’t even do my self. Everyone can be sure that if I recommend something, I read it, no matter if it is another blog or a news article. Ron once asked me why I listened to right wing hate radio like Rush or watched clips of Fox, something he refused to do. I have explained to him that to fight the hateful actions, you have to know what they are doing. Fore warned, fore armed. And Nan, it is hard to know how hard something will hit me until it does. It depends on how I am doing, how much damage my walls / shields have already taken, and so much more. But I understand what you are saying. Hugs. Scottie
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I just think you’re putting yourself in the “danger zone.” But to be sure … it’s your life and your pain, Scottie. YOU are the only one who must deal with it in the end. But I want to add that it doesn’t make me feel very good when I read about your negative responses to some of the stuff. 😞
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Hi Nan. I understand. I also thank you for caring. But seriously, what kind of person would I be if I tried to put these images and things in your face while not bothering to see them myself? As I said if I ask you to look at the train wreck then I feel I must also be willing to look. Nan I know you are coming from a place of trying to protect me, but I am coming from what I think is a place of responsibility.
And I understand how you maybe uncomfortable with my posted bad reactions. For that I am truly sorry. I never want to make others feel they need to turn away from what I went through as a kid, from the earliest memories to young adult. But please understand my sharing that stuff, those feelings are not to make others feel bad, it is not to make others uncomfortable, it is an attempt to unburden it from me and cast it into … I don’t know, maybe a much wider world that can take the hit that hurts me so bad. I keep hearing a shared burden is a lessor weight on everyone. When I am feeling that, when I am dealing with all of that, all I really want is to make it go away, to throw it as far from me as I can. But it is a super powered boomerang, it keeps coming back. And now at 60 years old I understand it always will. There is no way to erase what happened unless I erase me, my own history, the good, the bad, and the horribly ugly.
Ron made me a supper of a large salad and two oil fried chicken patties with fixings. I ate until even my last steroid shots were satisfied. Now I am going to bed.
Best wishes. Hugs. Scottie
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No worries. I’d have content-warned on that because of the subject anywhere I posted it. Nothing graphic or even specific in it, but just the subject and knowing what most of us know happened, well. I like to make sure people are ready.
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OT — I’m getting REALLY REALLY tired of dealing with WordPress blog tinkerings. If a blog has their own domain (like yours), I can’t “like” or comment without “logging in.” Now that’s bad enough, but the NEXT time I visit –even though I’m “logged in”– I have to do it all over again! And the thing is, I AM logged in because I’m able to access my own blog just by clicking on my admin link.
Now if the blog is hosted by WordPress? No problem. I can like and comment without any extra steps.
I’ve gotten where I use the Reader — but that’s a pain as well because you write so many posts, I have to HUNT for the one I want to comment on!
GRRRRRRRR!!!!
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Hello Nan. Oh I hear you on this. I no longer can reply to comments on my own blog without getting hit with a subscribe box that comes up over the comment. Also happens on blogs I follow, but they want me to re-follow, resubscribe for some reason. I already get notified so I am already subscribed, and I think they are trying to demand an email notification also. Hugs. Scottie
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I meant to add, I again find it easiest and best to just use the bell button and drop down menu. Hugs. Scottie
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