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Month: October 2024

LOOKING TOWARD DEATH

Published by Richard Kimball on October 9, 2024

 If you are getting on in years, do you worry about having a bad ending, a long and painful one. Does it trouble you that you cannot find a peaceful means to pass on, on the internet?  If you look, what you will first find is some message that amounts to “Don’t Do It!” followed by a jaw droppingly number of (cover my ass) equivocations, and finally a listing of the two gruesome options most of the 49,000 annual U. S. suicides are funneled into: blow your brains out or hang yourself.

This is due to the power of cults or what we think of as religious leaders.  A power given by most of us seamlessly devoted to those claiming to be God’s representatives on earth, all of whom insist that regardless of your agony you suffer through it.

So silly is the notion that God is all powerful but cannot get it up to talk to each of us without some self-anointed mediator.

I for one hear God’s messages every day:  pleasure, guilt, contentment, misery, happiness, sadness, anxiety, longing, pride, humility, jubilation, terror, sorrow, hope, on and on. Messages bounce off me like my tennis ball on the backboard.

But I digress. All I asked the internet was a simple answer to what are the most peaceful methods for ending one’s own life should one enter terminally agony.

NO! I have no interest in taking my own life, but many suffering do, and I may one day.  Many elderly, such as I wonder about it, think about it and worry about it for a multitude of unselfish reasons.  Do you know the answer?

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 Tiananmen Square?        

Published by Richard Kimball on October 8, 2024

Some weeks ago, following Waltz’s performance at the Democratic Convention I unfortunately wrote this:

“It is that precious thing, the real thing, that I finally saw tonight in politics when Tim Walz spoke.  There is no mistaking the real thing. If you see it, you know it.  It is a thing no human can counterfeit. So thrilled with finally seeing it in my life it dampened my eyes just as it did with his teary-eyed son. Something else you just can’t counterfeit.”

Then as so often, disappointment and embarrassment set in. My endless need to find purity in someone, anyone in politics found my shoulders adjusted and now slung low:

WALTZ:  “As the events were unfolding, several of us went in (to Tiananmen).”

WALTZ: “Donald Trump’s asking for a nationwide abortion ban.”

WALTZ: “When (Trump) left office, we had more people unemployed, percentage-wise, than the Great Depression.”

  1. Waltz was nowhere near those heroic people.
  2. Trump has said for months that he wants abortion policy to be set by each individual state, not set by the federal government for the whole country.
  3. The unemployment rate was 6.4% when Trump left office while the unemployment rate was above 20% during the Great Depression.

Waltz did not “misspeak,” he was not taken out of context or confused.  He had simply been swallowed by the whale that has become the accepted, even required deportment in the politics of our day.

Kimball, Vote Smart Founder

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