On the occasion of this disgusting ruling allowing Christians to torture kids, this prophesy to parents who believe their children are their possessions.

Some prophesies are a curse. This one will be.

This is my curse upon the would-be owners of the world.

https://www.the-reframe.com/the-owners-of-the-world/

The Owners of the World

On the vast expanse between owning something and having it, and why our children are not possessions.

The Reframe

You will never know your children, even if they remain in your life; you will only ever know the thing that they’ve learned they can safely be around you.

You may get everything you want, but it will never grant you peace or happiness.

Even as you laugh, you’ll never stop being angry.

You may manage to get everyone looking at you, but you’ll never be the real deal.

You will know what everything costs but you’ll never know what it is worth—because you don’t know the difference between owning something, and having it.

Our children are not our possessions, and neither are anyone else’s.

They belong to themselves, and being themselves is their responsibility and their right.

I’ll say it again: Our children are not our possessions, and neither are anyone else’s.

@JuliusGoat

I was skimming an article once and my brain read PROPERTY rights instead of PARENTAL rights, and now I can never unsee it

@JuliusGoat As Gibran wrote, "Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you, but not to you. And though they are with you yet they belong not to you."

@JuliusGoat Strongly feel this. It was shocking when I taught in public school, how few parents or teachers had the courage to say aloud that their purpose was to support students in learning to think for themselves. I hung a sign on my wall that said, "The purpose of your education is to enable you to live your life through your own informed choices."

I told them that each day, if I showed up without that purpose, I was failing at my job. They deserved that respect.