Some prose and Skywatch Friday

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It's been a while (nine years?) and I miss the Skywatch community. In the meantime I started weekly posting a short story or a poem. "So why not do both?" I asked myself. And here I am.

How 're all you lovelies doing in your parts of the world?

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At the end of 2023 it was my privelege to work and live in Belfast, Northern Ireland for some two months. Here are some shots I took while there:

Belfast City Hall

View from my room at the guesthouse were I stayed

No, not the entrance to a cemetary but to a park

Downtown Belfast there's a mall. In it a high viewpoint

On one of my days off I visited Crumlin Road Goal, the prison that housed people for the 'crime' of being poor and shouting 'away with the king!' 'n stuff. You know, in ye' ole' days. So up until 1996. They also house Abba parties. With live band.

Commonly known as Belfast Cathedral, this beautiful church is actually called 

The Cathedral Church of St. Anne

On another day off, I visited Dublin. And saw this cool canal around sunset

It's hard to resist a visit to the Titanic Museum when in Belfast. So I didn't. Resist, that is.

Did you know the famous sunken ship Titanic was build in Belfast?

And now a bit of poetry, based on thin walls and my neighbour practising the piano:

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Que sera sera (a #poem)

Ah, the sounds of the city!

A distant sirene wails 

squabbling lovebirds 

and a neighbour 

practicing the piano 

for months and hours on end.

Two songs. 

Starting 

with the two fingers system 

and slowly, ever so slowly,

progressing chords 

Dark thoughts arise 

and make way for work

until it's time again 

for a Blue Moon.

Que sera sera 

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God loves all children!

God loves all children!

It's why He drowned numerous children in the Great Flood, ordered the killing of every firstborn son in Egypt, ordered the death of every pagan child in the Israeli conquest of Canaan...Yep, totally makes sense.

For some reason many christians love to insult God. By loving all their neighbours. But only if they are white, straight and not 'a foreigner!'. By 'a foreigner' fake christians mean 'people of foreign decent with a dark skin colour.' They're completely fine with a Canadian living in 'their'* country. The son of a Syrian refugee is a 'real American hero'? No problem! 

Some conman with a German grandfather and Scottish mother?...no biggy. A 'I hate all immigrants!' politician born in Canada from a Cuban father? Okay...but from a distance he looks white, you know?

*They stole the country and slaughtered the locals

Just like the nazis, fake christian 'magas' are extremely superficial and just want others to look like the 'perfect' person, like themselves. I.e. A nice, 'white' Übermensch.

Some of those idiots make it to politic leaders, telling others how to behave 'morally just':

Lauren Boebert is exactly the kind of person the Founding Fathers hated to rule their country.

The Founding Fathers specifically wanted a seperation of Church and State. But people who bought a red 'Made in China' cap would love to see their precious Constitution being replaced by the Bible. 

Some call the USA 'a Christian nation'? Why not 'a car nation', 'a stolen nation' or something else that's more true than 'a Christian nation'? 

Refusing to take care of the poor, the sick and the foreigner is against everything Jesus stood for. Therefore a modern day Republican lies when it says 'christian' in his or her social media profile. 

Can someone act against Jesus' teachings and still be 'a true Christian'? I don't think so.

At least it's clear why US evangelists love the fascism of zionists:

"Indoctrination of chilldren is bad! That's why we zionists lie to our children constantly and teach them all Arabs are animals that need to be slaughtered." https://buff.ly/3ILCC52

Do you think God loves all of his children or just the ones that look and act like you?

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Want to read (more of) my short stories? My author page: Terrence Weijnschenk at Amazon

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