I watched a DVD last night by PJ Harvey. A Dog Called Money.
The quote that she said as she was filming in Washinton USA…“when white people plant a tree, they imagine black people hanging from it”.
She was being ironic… But also pointing out the endemic racism in America. We have lots of it here too, but in the twenty-first century, how can racism still exist???
For me I find racism very odd. It’s so much like once you see something you can’t unsee it. People who have black skin can’t help it, so why would you want to be angry with them for having different color skin?
Here in Australia, I judge people on their behavior, not their skin color….so I see behavior not skin color.
I enjoyed the DVD. She is an amazing artist and singer.
In 1672, the De Witt brothers were beaten, mutilated, and hanged before a crowd. It is even said that the people themselves committed an act of cannibalism with their severed body parts.
Tongue and finger of the De Witt brothers
Read more Supporters of the De Witt brothers kept Johan’s tongue and a Cornelis’ finger as relics in lead boxes. It also contained documents explaining its contents. Based on these notes, we know that Nicolaas Witsen, mayor of Amsterdam, owned the relics between 1672 and 1717. In 1889 D.J. Cockuyt from Leiden gave the tongue, finger and the accompanying evidence to the museum. The then director had a “small coffin made of old oak wood, with a glass lid” made to display “these important historical objects”. Many museum visitors were shocked at the sight of this new acquisition. On October 23, 1893, the city council of The Hague banned the exhibition of the tongue and finger. Despite this, the body parts of the De Witt brothers have been on display in the gallery for the last thirty years.
In 2011, researchers from the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) determined that the alleged big toe of Cornelis’s left foot was a finger. On the television program ‘Historisch Bewijs’ (Historical Evidence), the tongue and finger were once again scrutinized, this time to investigate their authenticity. It was not possible to draw up a DNA profile with material from the tongue and finger, but it could be established that ‘the finger was forcibly removed from the body and belonged to a man between 40 and 50 in the year 1672’. This makes it a lot more likely that the body parts do indeed come from the brothers Johan and Cornelis de Witt.
I watched this show with compassion and empathy as much as I could.
I’ve been in love before and the feelings I felt were VERY intense and felt the other person loved me. It was a really enjoyable time of my life. It lasted for almost three years, so it was significant.
But no matter how much I love someone (family or significant other), I would never give anyone thousands of pounds.
The most I’ve ever given anyone was $550 and this person was a friend, not a lover. But today I would not give money to other people.
Feelings are not facts.
My feelings can be stirred as much by imagined as by real causes. Feelings are an emotional reaction to a thought, belief, or perception of a factual situation. By definition they are not facts. (Grow-Mental Health 12 step program).
This is the part of the TV program that really upset me. These people (men and women) were going by their feelings only. They really had no objectiveness about what they were doing.
When it comes to romance behaviors, I have always been very suspicious of romance behaviors. A lot of the time the person doing the romancing, are doing it to try and control another person or to get something from that person.
If someone does something kind towards another without any strings attached, I am more than happy for that to happen. My ex would buy me a bag of chocolate honeycombe. This was a caring and welcome act.
The only thing I felt controlled by, was the sex. The sex was really good, and this had strong effect on me. So, I really lost my objectivity around the sexual part of our relationship.
I’ve been scammed before. YouTube ads worked on me, and I bought things that didn’t work, or they weren’t what they were saying. I felt stupid when it happened.
The people on the TV show hand over a lot of money to these romance scammers. They all said: “well, I love you, so I must trust you”. I understood what they were saying but it didn’t add up. 2 plus 2 is not 22.
For me my feelings can be very intense, but these feelings they are never facts. The feelings will pass eventually.
Feelings are like the weather. They are, in fact, a sort of internal weather. I just have to go on living through its changes as I do with the weather outside – and the bad weather can’t last. (Grow-Mental Health 12 step program).
When I was 16, I had a motorbike accident. Right shoulder, both wrists and both knees were affected.
In my mid to late 20s I started getting shoulder pain and wrist pain when working out. At the time I was also a ballroom dance teacher so had even more pressure on my right wrist, so the pain got worse.
Going to the gym was always a problem for me as the wrist would cop a lot of pressure from weightlifting. Anyway, I over the years the pain has come and gone but now it is here to stay!
Living with chronic pain wears me down emotionally, even though it’s early days with the pain being there all the time.
At the moment I’m working on using my left arm as much as possible. This helps so much.
My Aunt has been living with pain most of her adult life and I’ve learnt a lot from her.
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