How Communicate Pt Two

Draft: My life story part one This is my life story, especially as it pertains to health, part one Audience: the “basket of normals” Sally from Southbridge, Michigan, USA Jimmy from Perth, Australia Takeo from Kyoto, Japan Sophia from Puebla, Mexico Murray from New Plymouth, now Hastings, NZ Setting the scene, it is a WhatsApp group chat with 5 relatively normal people. They aren’t members of the fae (aka philosopher-kings). They don’t like it. Sally: Where shall we start? There is a lot of ground to cover after all. We are trying to understand your health, and how you ended up being crippled for so long. And all of the problems that occurred along the way. David: I reckon that we need to start somewhere sensible. It would be daft to start too young. Maybe we should start in my teens? Sally: Well, exactly where do you think we should start? How far back should we go? David: I think that we might go back to the age of 16. That seems like a good place to start. There is some stuff prior ...

Marriage Don't forget that the leaders of the early Christian church were fighting an ongoing, heavily persecuted*, non violent, communitarian revolution against the Roman Empire.  They were focused on getting the message out there, feeding the hungry, working to support the poor financially, visiting those unjustly imprisoned, tending to the sick, rescuing children trafficked into slavery, or preventing children being trafficked into slavery or servitude in the first place, rescuing children left to die of exposure, rescuing and redeeming women stuck in the sex industry. And they won. They defeated Rome. By my reckoning, they conquered it in 312 AD when Constantine had his soldier paint his shields with the symbol of Christianity, the chi-rho at the battle of the Milvian Bridge. People often tell the story wrong when they say that he painted the cross on the shield, it was the Chi Rho. But it's close enough. They oversaw one of the biggest improvements in the status of women i...