Today much a MUCH more mellow day…even if it didn’t start
out that way.
I headed over to Linda E.’s to get my eyebrows waxed. Man, they were some bushy brows, lemme tell
ya. Because I’ve really been avoiding
going back to Linda because she’s a SUPER Trump supported and everything that
comes out of Trump’s mouth she treats as the word of god. And um…yeah…I’m not a Trump supporter in the
slightest. And I have quite a mouth on me. And having to stay quiet as she rants about
how Mexicans and/or Muslims are ruining America because she is holding hot wax
near my eyes is just more than I can take at times.
I headed into this appointment already talking about safe
topics…but she quickly derailed them. I
had to sit there and listen as she ranted about how “those mentally ill people”
are shooting up the schools, and how “those mentally ill people” should be
locked away to keep everyone safe. Um…mentally
ill person here. And even though I don’t
currently own guns, the only person who would be in real danger if I DID own a
gun? Myself. Because I am far more likely to commit
suicide than homicide. ::shrugs:: And then I got to listen to her rant about
how we should be arming teachers. And how
“kids these days have no manners”. I
chimed in with a comment that I wish the training and education that the
Special Needs kiddos receive, was made available to ALL of the students
because, honestly? My Special Needs
students are the ones who can actually COPE with shit, without having a major
melt down. My “normal spectrum” kiddos
don’t get those coping mechanisms taught to them on the same level as the
Special Needs, and it’s the normal kiddos who are having the issues. She shut that down real quick because “back
in her day” parents knew how to discipline kids. ::shakes her head:: I just shut up at that point.
But I did get her good on the way out. She asked if I was still looking to work at
the Vatican and asked if I had to be a Catholic to do that. I told her the Vatican was actually pretty
liberal in that, and that a number of the books they are publishing on line
aren’t even Christian based. I talked
about the Aztec codex and the fact that the Vatican put up a BEAUTIFUL
illuminated script of the Koran. And I said,
well it makes since, seeing as how Islam is just an evolution of Christianity. From the look on her face, you would have
thought I had shit on her floor. ::dies
laughing:: Oh I had her now. I just ran with it. She sputtered that there were a lot of things
in Islam that wasn’t Christian. I said,
No duh. It BUILT off of Christianity,
but added its own flavors and thus became Islam. Much like Christianity did to Judaism. She just shook her head, so I explained it
further. I said that Christianity took
the Old Testament (Torah), added Jesus and the New Testament and presto-change-o,
you got Christianity! She agreed with
that. I then said, so then Islam took
Christianity (the Holy Bible) and added Muhammad, and presto-change-o, you got
Islam! She vehemently denied it. I asked her why she thought those three
religions are referred to as the Abrahamic Religions – they are all based off
the original religion of Abraham – just some added new characters and new
books. She still maintains that Islam is
NOTHING like Christianity.
If I had had the time, I would have asked her to tell me the
differences. I’m pretty sure every issue
she has with Islam, there is a quote in the Holy Bible of Christianity that
endorses the same thing. ::shakes her
head:: Am I saying there is nothing
wrong with Islam? No. There’s plenty wrong with it from a cultural
standard. But Christianity isn’t much
better at times.
I ended the conversation with asking her who should would be
more comfortable hanging out with at a restaurant – a handful of Muslims or a handful
of the members of the West Burro Baptist Church (scratch that, they are NOT a
church, they are a Hate Group, plain and simple)? She obviously picked the West Burro assholes
because “they are godly folk”. And at
that I just turned and left. I will not
be returning to see her. I just cannot
stomach listening to her spew her idiotic HATE, and I sure as shit won’t pay
MONEY to endure it either. I’ll find
someone else to wax my eyebrows.
After all that…I just lounged around the house and took a
late afternoon nap.
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