| October 3rd, 2009 |
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Last night, I was watching The Daily Show - in particular, the bit where John Oliver was interviewing some "Tea Party Protesters".
One of the teabaggers showed her top piece of protest gear: a black Smith & Wesson .45 holster containing a wooden crucifix.
See, here's the discovery.
I think of myself as being religiously calm. I'm tolerant of blasphemy, tolerant of militant atheists, tolerant of so-called Christian fundamentalists who offend me pretty much exactly as much, tolerant of other viewpoints on religion in general. I don't list non-Christian religions as something of which I consider myself tolerant because I don't find them offensive in the first place. I think it's inappropriate to suggest that I, or anyone else, could have a monopoly on the Truth.
However, I discovered, in that moment, that I am in fact capable of being offended, on religious grounds, in a way that makes me suddenly and deeply angry, and that smugly showing off a cross complete with representation of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ jammed into a holster for a gun is, in fact, on the other side of that invisible line I hadn't realised existed.
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I've been behind on LiveJournal for months. Months. I keep wanting to go back to it, and it keeps not being safe. (For recent example, when I'm changing medications and topics like Roman Polanski are all popular, it is Not Safe.) Plus, I'm scared of my backlog, and freaked when I find people have deleted their journals and I don't know why.
Anyway, the point is: my intentions to make some pretense of catching up are kind of dead now, because in 24 hours my flight is due to take off, and after that I won't have reliable internet access or much time to kill until Christmas.
If something important is taking place in your life at any time in the next three months, please, please tell me. I care. Seriously, even if it's something unimportant, if random trivial crap is happening you vaguely feel like talking about but it's not worth its own post, feel free to drop me a comment - I like that kind of thing.
Replies aren't going to be so reliable, though, because: travelling.
Official travel blog is here. Pictures will be going up here. I will also still be journal posting, when I can.
Today I am packing, seeing people, and generally preparing. I've made neatly-bound sets of photocopies of my travel documents, and repacked my travel documents in the nifty document wallet I bought yesterday - finally realised that Wellington Surplus was totally the place to go, because Wellington Surplus has everything. I have my travel stuffs, both normal and a little unusual (like the waterproof stuff sack I bought, for the specific purpose of putting my camera in it when I come in from very cold environments to warm environments, to keep my poor camera from being too beset with condensation).
I bought a torch, because I realised I didn't have one, so now I have a three-cell AA Maglite.
Really, I've spent an awful lot of money lately, but some of it only sort of counts - like, spending $200 on meds doesn't hurt so much when you factor in that it's meds for the next few months. It's not even travel expenses, it's just expenses.
Everything is going to be fine.
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