JRK Thoughts 07-10-2020

If you're my friend, then you know I'm a left-wing liberal, agnostic man.  First things first, I cuss and swear a lot.  To the point that I just don't care anymore about someone's "sensitivities" or sensibilities.  Life won't censor itself just for you, so why should I?

Here are some things about me that you may or may not know:

I don't believe in being an undue asshole.  I don't believe in violence unless I am presented with little to no alternative, and only as a last resort unless I've been physically threatened.  Then all bets are off!  

I believe in peace.  I believe in the good of humanity.  I believe in many ideals from Star Trek as well as real world based cultures, not just the caucasian based ones.  

Even while agnostic, I believe in many of Jesus Christ's teachings of love, compassion, and being overly charitable without thought of any future reward(s).  I believe in these things because I have been through a lot of shit.  I've suffered abuse both at home from my late father (an alcoholic, drug addict, abusive asshat) as well as my older brother, and to some extent other family members & relatives, and at school while growing up, all while dealing with multiple health and medical problems, including some 30+ surgical procedures & treatments on my blind left eye.  

I've even had attempted suicide twice in my life.  The first time was when I was 11years old in Costa Mesa, CA (none of my family knew of it), and the 2nd time was in 2008 after having dealt with repeated abuse from my older brother, and dealing with GAWD-AWFUL pain from migraines that were the result of nerve damage from having so many surgical procedures on the left eye, and then having our dog Baby die from rectal cancer, as well as the prospect of losing my last official job.  I ended up in the hospital not once, but twice.

Both times were not fun!

Instead of letting these things make me incredibly bitter & angry at this world, and I'd have every right to be, I choose to use my experiences to help, to educate, to inform, & otherwise guide my fellow human beings to a more enlightened stage of life.  

But, aside from all of that, I will use the F-bomb a lot!  I'll say things that you will most likely disagree with, sometimes vehemently.  Whether you unfriend or unfollow me is always your choice.  I can't force anyone to learn anything that I've learned in my 40 years (going on 41 next month) of life.

But all I ask is for you to listen/read with an open mind, an open heart, and maybe along the way you'll see things from my perspective.  Maybe wouldn't be a bad idea to tape one of your eyes shut for 40 years, and you tell me how awesome life is after having been mistreated time and time again.  

Bottom line is this: don't simply prejudge what I'm about to tell you as "totally wrong liberal garbage".  Open your eyes.  It shouldn't take a blind man like myself to see what many others see.  Learn from my experience, my wisdom, my logic.  I may not have any of the right answers, but what I can offer are accurate observations.  Use them without using any preconceived notions that you may have about "liberals".