Friday. *yawn*

[kyburg]

For being_homeless - The ultimate in justifying making your journal 'friends only'. Niffy spiffy.

I know this one is going to make the rounds like a bad case of food poisoning, but if you haven't heard, the Daily Kos is reporting on a case of a church in North Carolina 'purging' its congregation of Democratic members.

Please don't ask me to be shocked. washuotaku is on my friends list, and I'm well versed in the current political climate in his state, thanks to him.

It's a very pretty place, he's very happy there and I think Jim also has a great-aunt living there. I also grew up in Hemet, and this was old home week when I was growing up. "If two shall gather in His name, they shall fight." Yessir, they shall. (And you wonder why I'm so picky on choosing my church home.)

What concerns me most about this? The backlash. And it will come.

You want to know how most of the religious 'intolerance' came about in this country? Why we can't have prayer in the schools? This crap, my friends. It's all due to stuff like this.

They don't play well with others.

And public spaces are for everyone.

Last time I checked, a Christian church was supposed to be even better than that. Holy ground and all. God's house.

These guys mess it up for everyone.

If your goal is education, enlightenment and salvation; this ain't it, folks.

I can't imagine a case where losing non-profit status by the IRS was more legitimate. This isn't a church anymore.

And that's where I stop. I haven't been given the authority to judge anyone. I've been given the warning not to - or I'll be judged in turn.

I think we'll see that in action here, whaddya think?

(And I'd like to see a case of a Democratic, or whatever, action to have done the same elsewhere. I may not agree with the whole lack of any kind of faith in our public spaces, but at least the efforts have been to make room in some fashion for wider acceptance. If you don't define, you don't exclude. Hasn't been successful, admittedly, for a lot of people. But you don't have to wonder how they got to this point, do you?)

The beat goes on.

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[kyburg.livejournal.com]

Negating positives because they aren't "good" enough is one of the classic cognitive dissonances that you find in clinically depressed patients. Really really.

Perfectionism is a curse; it rarely produces better results, and the person stuck with this issue often ceases creative work when they can never be "good" enough. Name it - not the lead dog? You suck.

We aren't talking about when effort is expended. I'm talking about where you begin - what you believe you start with. And the world largely runs on auto-pilot, you know that - largely with a neutral charge, so to speak.

Hold onto the thought that you don't begin in the red; that you aren't fighting an entirely uphill battle (because you're not) - and if it's good enough - well - good enough is good - and because it's not *cue bells and whistles* EXCELLENT - it's not crap.

Great things are built on solid foundations of small things, added up.

And I swear, this is the last conversation I expected to have today. Go take care of business, we can pick this up again later.