"Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe."
Homer
"To be right because the facts are on your side is one thing, to be right because it is your very nature is another."
Christopher Hitchens
“Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse.”
― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion."
Simone de Beauvoir
A Dear friend shared this information and is a great read. When The Levee Breaks is a song written by Memphis Minnie in 1929. Here is the article.
https://www.loudersound.com/features/led-zeppelin-memphis-minnie-when-the-levee-breaks
Not as bad as I hoped but the week is young.
Truth Social swirling around the basin.
“It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.”
Malcolm X
Terence McKenna, a renowned American ethnobotanist and philosopher, once said,
“The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.”
What a week. Mastodon 4.2 was installed last night, works well. I would only change the "Live feeds" default to all. And after having my Linux only computer a week; I upgraded to version 22.04 of Ubuntu. Lol, glad I figured out how to connect a wifi usb hub earlier.