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{ "@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams", "type": "OrderedCollectionPage", "orderedItems": [ { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1126508342588481549", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1126508342588481549/entities/urn:activity:1350865828060336146", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1126508342588481549", "content": "I grew up in the outback of Montana. Back in the 1960's it was legal for ranchers to poison coyotes. They did and the result was a spike in the number of jack rabbits. <br /><br />This was an opportunity for farm and ranch boys. There was a fox farm that would pay us a quarter for each rabbit carcass. We would go out onto the snow covered stubble fields at night and see rabbits everywhere. <br /><br />I had a semi-automatic .22 rifle (an assault rifle in the vocabulary of today's journalists). Some of my friends had bolt actions, but I am left handed. The semi-automatic was much better for me.<br /><br />t would often be below zero. I can still remember needing to wait five minutes in the pickup to let go so that some of my skin wouldn't freeze to the trigger guard. <br /><br />We didn't make much money. But the fox farm kept us in ammunition. <br /><br />Those nights hunting rabbits with my friends is a cherished part of my teenage years. <br /><br />On the farm we also had some shotguns and larger caliber rifles. The only handgun was a derringer that belonged to my grandmother.<br /><br />I have friends now who grew up in the \"hood\" where guns were used either by the police or gangs. I find that they can't really understand the attachment to guns that many rural people feel. Guns are a combination of farm and recreational tool. <br /><br />They are part of a way of life.", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1126508342588481549/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1350865828060336146", "published": "2022-03-16T16:18:30+00:00", "source": { "content": "I grew up in the outback of Montana. Back in the 1960's it was legal for ranchers to poison coyotes. They did and the result was a spike in the number of jack rabbits. \n\nThis was an opportunity for farm and ranch boys. There was a fox farm that would pay us a quarter for each rabbit carcass. We would go out onto the snow covered stubble fields at night and see rabbits everywhere. \n\nI had a semi-automatic .22 rifle (an assault rifle in the vocabulary of today's journalists). Some of my friends had bolt actions, but I am left handed. The semi-automatic was much better for me.\n\nt would often be below zero. I can still remember needing to wait five minutes in the pickup to let go so that some of my skin wouldn't freeze to the trigger guard. \n\nWe didn't make much money. But the fox farm kept us in ammunition. \n\nThose nights hunting rabbits with my friends is a cherished part of my teenage years. \n\nOn the farm we also had some shotguns and larger caliber rifles. The only handgun was a derringer that belonged to my grandmother.\n\nI have friends now who grew up in the \"hood\" where guns were used either by the police or gangs. I find that they can't really understand the attachment to guns that many rural people feel. Guns are a combination of farm and recreational tool. \n\nThey are part of a way of life.", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1126508342588481549/entities/urn:activity:1350865828060336146/activity" }, { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1126508342588481549", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1126508342588481549/entities/urn:activity:1284506174460268548", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1126508342588481549", "content": "I wore a mask sometimes to work in the barley harvest in my youth. Barley chaff and dust is nasty. It is fine and irritating and gets into all the creases in your skin. You'd prefer not to breath it in. But, still, when you took the mask off there would be barley dust crusted around your mouth and nose.<br /><br />Later in my career there sometimes were people with compromised immune systems from chemo or other treatments under my pastoral care. I tried not to visit in person. but sometimes such a person would call for me. When I made the visit the hospital did not just give me a fabric mask and send me in. No. They covered me from head to foot in plastic.<br /><br />So I think the people wearing masks against Covid outdoors or alone in their cars are acting in a superstitious way. Even indoors in places like our worship center with high ceilings, room to spread out, and good ventilation; I feel completely secure. <br /><br /> I understand the impulse to wear a mask in crowded indoor spaces. A funeral visitation I attended not long ago would be an example. The mask might protect others against you if you have the virus and don't know it. It doesn't protect you If the virus is airborne. it can get around the mask. Also it could infect you through your eyes or your ears.<br /><br />For many people I think the mask is an anxiety pacifier. It has about the same function as a talisman to ward off the evil Covid spirits.", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1126508342588481549/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1284506174460268548", "published": "2021-09-14T13:28:56+00:00", "source": { "content": "I wore a mask sometimes to work in the barley harvest in my youth. Barley chaff and dust is nasty. It is fine and irritating and gets into all the creases in your skin. You'd prefer not to breath it in. But, still, when you took the mask off there would be barley dust crusted around your mouth and nose.\n\nLater in my career there sometimes were people with compromised immune systems from chemo or other treatments under my pastoral care. I tried not to visit in person. but sometimes such a person would call for me. When I made the visit the hospital did not just give me a fabric mask and send me in. No. They covered me from head to foot in plastic.\n\nSo I think the people wearing masks against Covid outdoors or alone in their cars are acting in a superstitious way. Even indoors in places like our worship center with high ceilings, room to spread out, and good ventilation; I feel completely secure. \n\n I understand the impulse to wear a mask in crowded indoor spaces. A funeral visitation I attended not long ago would be an example. The mask might protect others against you if you have the virus and don't know it. It doesn't protect you If the virus is airborne. it can get around the mask. Also it could infect you through your eyes or your ears.\n\nFor many people I think the mask is an anxiety pacifier. It has about the same function as a talisman to ward off the evil Covid spirits.", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1126508342588481549/entities/urn:activity:1284506174460268548/activity" }, { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1126508342588481549", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1126508342588481549/entities/urn:activity:1280364463962198034", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1126508342588481549", "content": "<a href=\"https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/for-these-marines-a-constant-rush-to-zero-hour-to-rescue-stranded-americans\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/for-these-marines-a-constant-rush-to-zero-hour-to-rescue-stranded-americans</a>", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1126508342588481549/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1280364463962198034", "published": "2021-09-03T03:11:15+00:00", "source": { "content": "https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/for-these-marines-a-constant-rush-to-zero-hour-to-rescue-stranded-americans", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1126508342588481549/entities/urn:activity:1280364463962198034/activity" }, { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1126508342588481549", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1126508342588481549/entities/urn:activity:1279848440657874948", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1126508342588481549", "content": "My education in the early1970’s included study under professors who considered themselves Marxists. This might surprise you. My fields of study were Church History and Bible. But it was the era of on-campus resistance to the Vietnam War. This was supported in the mainline Protestant seminaries. After all a fair number of people were in seminary precisely to avoid the draft. Old Testament scholar, Norman Gottwald even dedicated his book, The Tribes of Yahweh, to the Viet Cong.<br /><br />I didn’t take them too seriously. I kidded one that he didn’t even know how to use an AK-47. He didn’t see this as a problem. He thought the revolution could come through reeducating all of us reactionaries.<br /><br />Anyway. I was aware of critical theory long before the recent uproar about critical race theory. <br /><br />Karl Marx developed something called social conflict theory. He held that the capitalist class controlled the means of production. But there was a powerful majority in the working class. The conflict between these two classes was inevitable. Peace and stability in the future depended on the conflict resulting in a new socialist state.<br /><br />Marx’s scenario did not play out in most places. Where Marxist states did arise there was totalitarian tyranny, concentration camps, and mass murder. The Black Book of Communism estimates as many as 100, 000 people were murdered in the name of his theories in the 20th century.<br /><br />Contemporary advocates of critical theory do not connect it with Stalin’s purges or Pol Pot’s killing fields. However, the division of the world into an oppressor class and an oppressed class became the excuse for violence and the elimination of those associated with the supposed oppressor class. <br /><br />Now the critical theories often deal more with sex and race than class. But in women’s studies, black studies, and LBGT studies the idea of an oppressed class and a oppressor class still prevails. They try to pull it all together with the concept of “intersectionality”.<br /><br />Until recently I was part of a denomination that required its clergy to undergo “anti-racism “ training every couple of years. The training included a negative view of whiteness and white privilege and the idea that minorities and women could not be racist or sexist because white men had all the power. The inner contradiction of this was obvious in that the church itself was run mostly by white men. These men bowed to those who had the power to make us all attend critical theory training.<br /><br />Since I realized that I was not woke enough to be a mainline Protestant anymore, I have been in actual multiracial groups where race was discussed honestly and safely, but without the heavy handedness of critical theory. This was eye-opening.<br /><br />One more observation is that critical theory has become more and more tied to antisemitism. You see this in the ever increasing hostility to Israel among the old Protestant denominations. <br /><br />I have long used antisemitism as a way to discern cranks on both the right and the left. But it has become mainstream among those who include the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in their intersectional view of the oppressed and oppressors. There is an organization called “the friends of Sabeel” that exists to promote anti-Israeli liberation theology to American churches.<br /><br />Come to think of it in spite of his own ethnicity, Marx’s views have always been open to antisemitism. It was easy to connect the Jews to the ownership and managerial classes. So, even though Hitler’s slaughter of Jews was unprecedented, Marxists representing both totalitarian regimes and liberation movements have much Jewish blood on their hands.<br /><br />", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1126508342588481549/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1279848440657874948", "published": "2021-09-01T17:00:46+00:00", "source": { "content": "My education in the early1970’s included study under professors who considered themselves Marxists. This might surprise you. My fields of study were Church History and Bible. But it was the era of on-campus resistance to the Vietnam War. This was supported in the mainline Protestant seminaries. After all a fair number of people were in seminary precisely to avoid the draft. Old Testament scholar, Norman Gottwald even dedicated his book, The Tribes of Yahweh, to the Viet Cong.\n\nI didn’t take them too seriously. I kidded one that he didn’t even know how to use an AK-47. He didn’t see this as a problem. He thought the revolution could come through reeducating all of us reactionaries.\n\nAnyway. I was aware of critical theory long before the recent uproar about critical race theory. \n\nKarl Marx developed something called social conflict theory. He held that the capitalist class controlled the means of production. But there was a powerful majority in the working class. The conflict between these two classes was inevitable. Peace and stability in the future depended on the conflict resulting in a new socialist state.\n\nMarx’s scenario did not play out in most places. Where Marxist states did arise there was totalitarian tyranny, concentration camps, and mass murder. The Black Book of Communism estimates as many as 100, 000 people were murdered in the name of his theories in the 20th century.\n\nContemporary advocates of critical theory do not connect it with Stalin’s purges or Pol Pot’s killing fields. However, the division of the world into an oppressor class and an oppressed class became the excuse for violence and the elimination of those associated with the supposed oppressor class. \n\nNow the critical theories often deal more with sex and race than class. But in women’s studies, black studies, and LBGT studies the idea of an oppressed class and a oppressor class still prevails. They try to pull it all together with the concept of “intersectionality”.\n\nUntil recently I was part of a denomination that required its clergy to undergo “anti-racism “ training every couple of years. The training included a negative view of whiteness and white privilege and the idea that minorities and women could not be racist or sexist because white men had all the power. The inner contradiction of this was obvious in that the church itself was run mostly by white men. These men bowed to those who had the power to make us all attend critical theory training.\n\nSince I realized that I was not woke enough to be a mainline Protestant anymore, I have been in actual multiracial groups where race was discussed honestly and safely, but without the heavy handedness of critical theory. This was eye-opening.\n\nOne more observation is that critical theory has become more and more tied to antisemitism. You see this in the ever increasing hostility to Israel among the old Protestant denominations. \n\nI have long used antisemitism as a way to discern cranks on both the right and the left. But it has become mainstream among those who include the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in their intersectional view of the oppressed and oppressors. There is an organization called “the friends of Sabeel” that exists to promote anti-Israeli liberation theology to American churches.\n\nCome to think of it in spite of his own ethnicity, Marx’s views have always been open to antisemitism. It was easy to connect the Jews to the ownership and managerial classes. So, even though Hitler’s slaughter of Jews was unprecedented, Marxists representing both totalitarian regimes and liberation movements have much Jewish blood on their hands.\n\n", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1126508342588481549/entities/urn:activity:1279848440657874948/activity" }, { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1126508342588481549", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1126508342588481549/entities/urn:activity:1279625880573841417", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1126508342588481549", "content": "<a href=\"https://nypost.com/2021/08/31/american-humane-society-say-us-left-military-dogs-behind-in-afghanistan/\" target=\"_blank\">https://nypost.com/2021/08/31/american-humane-society-say-us-left-military-dogs-behind-in-afghanistan/</a>", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1126508342588481549/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1279625880573841417", "published": "2021-09-01T02:16:23+00:00", "source": { "content": "https://nypost.com/2021/08/31/american-humane-society-say-us-left-military-dogs-behind-in-afghanistan/", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1126508342588481549/entities/urn:activity:1279625880573841417/activity" } ], "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1126508342588481549/outbox", "partOf": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1126508342588481549/outboxoutbox" }