I thank Jerry / Rawgod for posting this. https://ideasfromoutsidetheboxes.wordpress.com/2024/05/14/the-inhumane-costs-of-maintaining-western-societies/ . He asked others to repost it and I agree, it is that important. I also thank clearingspace4joy for posting it also. I would ask people to read the comment I left on Jerry’s site. I don’t think I have the stomach to rewrite the details again. https://ideasfromoutsidetheboxes.wordpress.com/2024/05/14/the-inhumane-costs-of-maintaining-western-societies/#comment-3482
Here is the video Jerry was talking about. I warn you that it shows the damage to people, children, and the environment greed and unregulated business will cause. Hugs. Scottie
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Thank you, Scottie, for the reblog and for your emotional response.
Ma y many hugs!
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Hi Rawgod. Thank you for the hugs and for the informative posts you share. How you can look in the face of so much abuse and horror every day and still keep going, stay sane, is amazing. Hugs. Scottie
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I was abused for the first 16 years of my life. I survived that, I can survive anything. But truth to be told, I would rather not have been abused, no child deserves that. Child abuse, in ALL ITS FORMS, has always been one of my main battles in life, but it is a lot like peeing in the ocean.
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Hello Rawgod. Jerry for me it was the first 17 years of my life, then I was raped as a young adult by three different people one who did it multiple times before I found help to stop it.
Oh by my dogs that love gravy if I had not been abused what kind of person would I have turned out to be. If I had not been adopted into that family that used me … but it is water under the bridge, it can’t be undone, the bell can’t be unrung. Yes fighting it does seem like holding back a bursting dam or trying to stop an incoming tide, but I feel as a human, a good person, I must fight injustice to any and all everywhere I can. No matter how little or much it may matter, I still must try.
Story on that, on doing what one can. Maybe 8 years ago or so, about 5 am Ron was getting ready for work and I heard a woman’s voice outside our bedroom window telling a crying child they had to be quiet. Ron investigated and found a woman and a small boy hiding between our backyard sheds. She told him she was the girlfriend of the guy living temporarily across the street from us, he was high on drugs and started to hurt her and her child, so she managed to run. Of course Ron and I helped. She wouldn’t come in so he called the police and gave her his phone on our carport while he finished getting ready for work.
Next thing I know I heard screaming from our carport. The crazed man had found her, had her on the ground and was hitting her. I do not know what took over in me but I who am a crippled old man hurled myself out the door and into him as fast as I could hobble and shoved my bearded face into his and shout at him to stop. He said but she … and I shouted as hard as I could angrily … I don’t care I won’t have that here! He was young and drugged up, I might not have stood a chance even with my past training. But he looked at me for a few seconds and then took off running for the house across the street. Got into his car and screeched away.
Like I said, I do what I can and then I did what I could. Thank dogs that love gravy it was enough. Hugs. Scottie
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Cowards usually run, and men who batter women are all cowards. I’m sure the young mother appreciated all you and Ron did. Hopefully she stayed away from the prick after that.
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