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chervilant's JournalPlease Help me...
I am cross-posting this from GD, because I've had over 300 views and no one has offered to help:
Oh, no! Not ANOTHER one!
Yes, I need help. It is embarrassing and uncomfortable to say so, let alone to ASK for help. However, I HAVE to pay my rent. AND, my electric bill. AND, my car insurance.
I do have a job, which I'm finding quite fulfilling. I am a non-medical caregiver for the elderly. I finally have enough hours to make my expenses, but I did not have sufficient hours for the two weeks for which I just received a paycheck. That paycheck gave me only $162.
Please, please help me. I don't want to lose my little country rent house. I have a Paypal account linked to my email, and will provide that if you tell me you can help.
I will appreciate any assistance, but I need at least $450 total.
Please, please, help me. I am very scared, and I need help to get over this hurdle. I now have sufficient hours to take care of myself, if you can just help me now.
Oh, no! Not ANOTHER one!
Yes, I need help. It is embarrassing and uncomfortable to say so, let alone to ASK for help. However, I HAVE to pay my rent. AND, my electric bill. AND, my car insurance.
I do have a job, which I'm finding quite fulfilling. I am a non-medical caregiver for the elderly. I finally have enough hours to make my expenses, but I did not have sufficient hours for the two weeks for which I just received a paycheck.
Please, please help me. I don't want to lose my little country rent house. I have a Paypal account linked to my email, and will provide that if you tell me you can help.
I will appreciate any assistance, but I need at least $450.
On Staying Sane in a Suicidal Culture
It was February 2005, and after several months of front-line reporting from Iraq, I'd returned to the US a human time bomb of rage, my temper ticking shorter each day.
Walking through morgues in Baghdad left scenes in my mind I remember even now. I can still smell the decaying bodies as I type this, nearly a decade later. Watching young Iraqi children bleed to death on operating tables after they had been shot by US military snipers has left an equally deep and lasting imprint.
My rage towards those responsible in the Bush administration bled outwards to engulf all of those participating in the military and anyone who supported the ongoing atrocity that was the US occupation of Iraq. My solution was to fantasize about hanging all of the aforementioned from the nearest group of light poles.
**SNIP**
In one of her books, Macy addresses, precisely, how the corporate consumer culture we live in works to propagate the message that everything is fine: "Even if we have inklings of apocalypse, the American trance functions to discourage our feelings of despair and, if they persist, to reduce them to personal pathologies. Though we may respect our own cognitive reading of the signs, the spell we are under often leads us to imagine that it is we, not the society, who are going insane."
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This article is old--published in June of last year--but still relevant. In fact, it's ever more relevant, considering the pernicious ennui that keeps most of us frozen in denial. Written by Dahr Jamail, the article is a paean to Joanna Macy--eco-philosopher and scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory and deep ecology--whose anti-nuke activism is legendary; and an acknowledgement of the futility of "saving the planet" from our species' relentless and rapacious greed.
For the rest of this essential article, go here.
For those of you who are still unclear,
or prone to respond dismissively or derisively about sexism and harassment:
Why do I still see OPs that are posted by individuals on my IL?
Not that I read them, but is there any way to expand the IL option so that those individuals' posts are also hidden?
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