Above all, for me it is Freedom.
I become absolutely livid about people who have no interest in preserving their own liberty, and insist on throwing away my freedoms with theirs. I can't understand them. I can't endure them. I can't afford to have them around me.
The beauty in nature, gazing at the stars, falling in love, love for, and from, my family, witnessing simple and unexpected acts of kindness: all blow me away. I am transformed.
I no longer waste energy on righteous indignation, hate, greed or envy. Am I complacent, no. I contribute when and where I can--without expectation--and move on.
posted by April38
about 1 month ago
Religion and politics. Especially when there both used in the same sentence by politicians. And people who fall for the same trick over and over and over again. Nothing drives me battier than some religious nut willing to pardon a politician/preacher who just got busted doing something unethical, and saying " he just back slid a little but he's still a man of God ". That really brings the bile up.
There was this prominent Chicago minsiter who had sex with a minor ( female ). My sister ( The Evangelist ) said to me " Well he's a good man and we're going to pray for him because he was obviously misled by a slut ". I shook my head and walked away. It just amazes me!
I hate child abusers with a passion. I don't care what their excuse is. Some time after the age of fifteen, you have to stop blaming other people for the choices you make. I wish they were all dead.
posted by Idamay
about 1 month ago
People who abuse children, the elderly or those who can't defend themselves make me passionate in a nanosecond. I could happily eat their livers with fava beans and a nice chianti.
People who use their religion to walk all over my rights make me livid. I am particularly passionate about those who contend that it's a sin to have removed prayer from our schools. The truth of the matter is that anyone is free to pray anywhere they want at any time they choose. Their prayers are between them and their deity of choice. I don't have to be a part of it, nor should I. Their real agenda is to indoctrinate others into their religion otherwise they would be happy to practice it in the privacy of their homes and churches and to leave the rest of us alone.
Racism in any of its forms makes me passionate. People are people are people, period. There are differences among us that stem from cultural, geographic and educational differences but at the heart of the matter we are all just people, no better and no worse than anyone else. "Good" and "bad" are choices not an accident of birth.
Homophobia makes me passionate. Who you choose to fall in love with or to have sex with is none of my business. Love is in short enough supply in this world that I applaud it when ever and where ever it deigns to show it's head. The religious right's campaign against homosexuals is rooted in ignorance and fanaticism.
I'm sure there are lots of other things I could add to this list but I've addressed the biggies. I'll give it some thought and get back to you.
Passionately yours,
me
