Neo's Home For Words

I just busted out of the ER this afternoon after spending four days being pumped full of donated platelets and IVIg steroids to get my 4,000 platelet count up to the standard 150,000-400,000 range. Apparently I have ITP, which pretty much means my immune system is in overdrive and attacking my platelets and the doctors can't figure out why. In the mean time, I'm apt to bruise easily, bleed under my skin (yeah petechiae,) or just die from internal bleeding if I so much I run into a doorway (which I'm prone to do from time to time 'cause I'm clumsy and drink vodka.)
( Who did I piss off in another life? )

You know, I was going to say something happy and positive to end this post, but I'm tired and stressed and my arm hurts from the IV. So I'm going to bed with the hope that tomorrow is going to be full of rainbows, singing birds, and butterflies. Or finding a hundred bucks in a gutter would be swell. I wouldn't even spend it on my many vices.

Did people not take/pay attention in US History? Is our education system that screwed up that we don't even know the basic facts behind our nation's set up?

If I read one more quote or hear one more person claim that America was built on Christian values then I'm going to buy a huge dildo and commence with the beatings.

Here's the deal:
When those folks across the pond took that long and dangerous journey to the New World it was for basically three things: Money (trade, natural resources, etc.) Debtors Prisons, and ESCAPE FROM RELIGIOUS PROSECUTION (like the Quakers, the Puritans, the Shakers, and the Jews.)

And those big wigs that were our founders... well contrary to popular belief McCain, I'm looking at you! they were not all Christian. They were a mix of CHRISTIAN, ATHEISTS, AGNOSTIC, DEISTS, & bloody FREEMASONS. And I'm pretty sure they remembered how messed up things were in the Old World because kings ruled through DIVINE RIGHT which resulted in centuries of bloodshed between the CROWN, the CHURCH, and the PEOPLE. Our Founding Fathers had already given them a big 'Screw You Guys!' when they declared independence, so why would they go and create another system that allowed religion and government to mix?

Hence why the Constitution and Bill of Rights are SECULAR.

This issue has been increasingly frustrating for me. I just wanted to get it off my chest and tell people to READ A BOOK every now and then. Cause 'The More You Know' is a good way to live, even if those commercials were cheesy as hell.

Yes, the majority of the nation is Christian or some denomination of it.  But, the fact still remains that we are a country that excepts REEDOM OF (ALL) RELIGION. And that means you can't go limiting a persons natural rights because the BIBLE says it's wrong.

There are times when I go back and read over my later work. Mostly when the libations are plentiful and I'm feeling a little nostalgic.
After wards, all I can think is that I should let go of the typing thing and focus on the fifty million other projects that  ruin run my life.

( You know that being spread too thin feeling? Yeah, it's no fucking fun. And I've got a major case of it right now.  )

Le sigh. I need a break.

From myself.