Optional72 Years Ago
mad_asshatterThanks for the link!
tl;dr - the letter is 100% authentic, and the fact check is an interesting read.
Of course the details are even more horrific.
I couldn’t even read half of this before I was overwhelmed by the urge to vomit
It's absolutely fucked up that there's a 2010 law (HB1104) preventing abuse cases from proceeding if the victim is over 40.
Who does that help, other than the Church? Fuck its constituent author, Steven Smith. He's the defense attorney for the Congregation of the Priests of the Sacred Heart, the religious order that has run St. Joseph’s Indian School in Chamberlain, South Dakota, since 1927. He is directly responsible for continued injustice and abuse.
More info here: https://nativenewsonline.net/nine-little-girls-part-1
Catholic Church Evades Sex Charges in South Dakota – Women's eNews
Native Americans who attended Jesuit schools in the Northwest and Alaska just learned they will share in a $166.1 million settlement for offenses including childhood sexual abuse. But plaintiffs in South Dakota--nearly half of whom are women--face a legal barrier.
Those people paid $10 for forced child labor. Disgusting.
My idea is that hell is the place of redemption, where you go to have to earn forgiveness, and I mean actually do the hard work of forgiveness.
Basically rehabilitation through labor for eternity until every person you’ve ever wronged finally lets go of what you’ve done to hurt them.
Those folks are in what I think of as purgatory, the place of unburdening, which is a lot nicer than what Danté pictures IMO, basically just paradise as you’d imagine it and you can just stay there forever holding whoever’s wronged you by never forgiving them, but until you let go of that last person who’s hurt you the most, you’ll never get past the veil into heaven, the place of bliss.
Basically, whatever this life is meant to shape us for, the bliss is that greater purpose, think of it as heaven, as nirvana, as oneness with the karmic essence of everything, whatever state of final peace for the most virtuous your faith imagines, it’s something of both all of those things and none of them, because it’s the true incomprehensible truth of the cosmos that cynics like Lovecraft think ought to drive people to madness upon witnessing.
The King in Yellow is said to embody nothingness and humanity’s innate fear of emptiness, but honestly, I think that emptiness is the essence of where we go once we’ve made ourselves ready to move on from what this life teaches us. The Emptiness is the final state as far as can be conceived from this side of the wall between it and us, The King in Yellow is scary to us because we aren’t yet ready in this life to understand what it is to enter that state of being. Maybe a figure of his sort is the gate guardian who judges if a soul is ready to move on or not lol.
America has always been great and we just need to defeat trump and fascism will end. /S
Running this through some random inflation calculator, looks like that would be ~$119 USD today.
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Still an excellent bargain at that price.
I hear the Orientals are cheaper
Holy shoot. I had 1852 in my mind, not 1952. Ducking hell.
Usually when someone pulls out the inflation calculator it’s like: in todays money it’s actually a quazillion dollars. But nope, still cheap
Price just went up nowadays, some white couple is, IIRC, still actively trying to overturn cultural reintegration agreements to keep indigenous children with their nation of origin or at least a related one.
The reason they’re doing this is because they already managed to get away with stealing one child and now they’re using sibling unity to try and fight the nation in question for the right to snatch them away when they’ve not only been reintegrated, but reunited with bio family members capable of taking care of them.
Now you can make a 50-100% native child for free…
How much these days?
It’s way more expensive, specially for the one I have in mind