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Saturday Afternoon Ramblings

January 22, 2011 D.A. Adams 2 Comments

I’m sitting here thinking about karma and how it comes around eventually. It might not move according to our expectations or wants, but it does move, and when it does come back to someone, it often comes back in abundance. Karma is patient and never forgets, so eventually, it will find the time and place to return to a person what they have given others.

People who have spent their lives toying with other people’s hearts or sneaking around to play games or discarding another’s love in search of something better shouldn’t act surprised when karma returns and repays them for their treachery. They have sewn the seeds of turmoil by their selfishness, so their lives often descend into chaos and unhappiness. Even if on the outside they appear to be living well, internally they often are being eaten alive by their mistrust, shame, guilt, and regret.

Those who show compassion and treat others well are often rewarded with inner peace, tranquility, and wisdom. They may never find wealth, but their lives are blessed and if not happy, then at least content. That may sound hokey, corny, and archaic to some, but to those of us who have seen karma at work, we know that there is a basic law at work in our lives–regardless of what trials and obstacles life throws in your path, ultimately you will get back what you give.

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Tolerance Ramblings

November 2, 2010 D.A. Adams 2 Comments

After Pastor Jim Swilley came out of the closet in front of his congregation in Georgia, I received a phone call from Hal Golightly, a fashion designer in New York City and a regular on Bravo’s “Real Gay Fashion Designers Catfights.” It seems that Pastor Swilley has inspired Hal to come forward with a confession of his own. Since the Jew-run, liberal media won’t cover these kinds of stories, I agreed to meet him at an undisclosed location for a covert interview.

“The truth is” Hal began, his real dialect nothing like his on-screen persona. “I’m not really gay. I just pretend to be gay to fit in with the fashion industry.”

Shocked at such a bold admission, I sat silently, unsure of my next question.

“I’m tired of living a lie. People expect fashion designers to be gay and act like drama queens and watch Sex and the City reruns, but I’m straight.” Tears began streaming down his face, and he looked as if a heavy weight had been lifted from his shoulders. “My real name is Billy Joe McOnetooth, and I’m first cousins with Cletus. That’s why I came to you. I want people to know that fashion designers and choreographers and professional soccer players don’t have to be gay. Straight men can perform in these jobs just as well as gay men. In fact, some of the best in each profession are secretly heterosexual.”

Shocked and dismayed by this outlandish claim, I asked him to give specific examples, but he politely refused, except for Richard Simmons. He was adamant that Simmons is secretly a heterosexual man with a fetish for Japanese women. We concluded our interview, and I set out for Ellis Chapel, Arkansas to meet with Cletus and discuss his cousin’s situation.

“You mean to tell me that Billy Joe ain’t a queer folk?” Cletus said, scratching his head.

I explained as well as I could that it was all an act to fit in at soirees and on TV.

“Well, what about the time me and him was down by the creek experimenting with our sexuality? Don’t that count for queeredness?”

“I was never down by any creek with my cousin, Cletus,” Hal responded via voicemail. “He’s mixed me up with someone else.”

“That weren’t Billy Joe I was having anal sex with? Well, then, who the hell was it?” Cletus asked, a fearful expression on his brow. “I mean having sex with your gay cousin is one thing, but a stranger? Folks around here don’t cotton with that. Looky here, I gotta get down to the Tea Party meeting. We gotta help them big corporations get back to wiping out the middle class so that my children and grand-children can be safe from them socialists. I don’t have time to sit around here talking about them queer folks.”

With that, Cletus ran out of the room, leaving me to ponder whether or not Richard Simmons really leads a double life.

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Tuesday Morning Ramblings

May 18, 2010 D.A. Adams 1 Comment

For my friends who I’ve offended recently, and that’s a pretty long list, this post is to clarify a few things about my reasons for mocking regressive thinking. Not too long ago, there was a page circulating on Facebook praying to God for President Obama’s death. Recently, while driving, I saw a bumper sticker that read “Save a Miner: Kill a Tree Hugger.” On the surface, many of you may think that these are just harmless little jokes and that the people forwarding the page and the redneck driving the Super Duty Ford Truck didn’t really mean it, but to me, these are symptoms of a much problem with regressive thinking.

In July 2008, a conservative walked into a Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville, TN and opened fire on the congregation. Two died and seven were injured. His reason for attacking was that they were liberals, and in his home were books by Michael Savage, Bill O’Reilly, and Sean Hannity, all written along the lines of how liberalism is a mental disease that needs to be cured. What scares me most is that often people with this mentality believe that anyone who doesn’t think just like them or believe everything they believe must be a liberal. That kind of black and white, simplified thinking is what led to the Holocaust.

Back to the redneck miner, his mentality is that because he doesn’t know anything about it, all science must be bunk, so instead of him taking the time to learn why certain environmental groups believe that certain mining operations are damaging the environment, he would just rather kill them so he can make his $20 an hour. Rather than learn a trade like plumbing or carpentry, he wants to work in that mine cause that’s what his daddy and granddaddy did, nevermind that they both died real young from major medical problems. He needs that $20 and hour to buy fuel for that Super Duty. That’s real dumb and real scary to someone like me who is curious and likes to take the time to learn a little.

And the mentality is bigger than that. It has to do with the belief that God is on their side, so it must be okay for them to do whatever they need to do to preserve their beliefs because God ordained them to do so. Some of the worst atrocities in history have been committed under this belief. Every single one of the 19 hijackers on September 11 believed that they were serving God’s will by killing the infidels. Timothy McVeigh believed passionately that he was serving God by blowing up the building in Oklahoma City. I could go on and on for hours with thousands more examples.

Many of my friends who I’ve offended are people who enjoy a good debate and like to read and have curiosity about the world. I love and respect you guys even if I disagree with you. The fact that you look deeper into things shows that you have intelligence and the capacity for rational thought. Most of you wouldn’t even consider walking into a church with a shotgun or filling a truck with homemade explosives or hijacking a jumbo jet to attack a skyscraper.

But there are many conservatives who embrace violence as the answer. To them, the commandment “Thou Shalt Not Kill” reads “Thou Shalt Not Kill Unless The Person Disagrees With You Or You Feel Threatened Or You Don’t Like Something About Them.” These people terrify me, so I mock them in an effort to point out the absurdity and backwardness of their thinking. I’m sometimes an asshole about it, too, but the reason I’m so passionate about ridiculing the far right is because it’s my feeble attempt to stand up to a very wealthy, very powerful movement that uses lies and propaganda to stir the emotions of people like Jim Adkisson into using force against their enemies.