True freedom is NOT about guns, money, or religion as damaged males interpret these symbols.

“I will keep my freedom, my guns, my money, and my religion, and you can keep the change“—-Hank Williams Jr.
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This T shirt represents the state of mind where a sense of spiritual failure has taken over, and to complete the look the man should be wearing a MAGA hat. This picture fully represents the attitude of those who have chosen not to grow and heal. They have little insight, and have lost the capacity to be honest with themselves, with their families, and with their world about their own sense of inadequacy, and they erroneously equate some mythological state of being from the past as the emotional, spiritual, and political goal for their own lives. As these wayward souls continue to argue for their own limitations, the limitations become their own Gods, and the world suffers accordingly.  They become pilloried to the whipping post of their own resistance to life and change.
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America is the new Titanic, having run into the iceberg of ignorance, hatred, white supremacy, and antagonism to change. While the rats, whose wayward ideologies created the iceberg in the first place, try to escape the sinking ship, they actually attempted mutiny, and install Trump as their new captain on their journey down into Davy Jones locker.
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Today I choose to be free from our diseased past. I point the direction towards healing for those who still cling to their own misunderstanding like it was a lifeboat, instead of the anchor it really is.
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Willingness to change is the start of the process required for all evolution, healing, and progress. The capacity for change is a God-given power, though it is often ignored at our own peril, much like the iceberg in Titanic’s tragic story.
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Our spiritual awareness, with its native intelligence, creates lifeboats that will carry us to safety. It is tempting to let the wayward ones sink. We extend our hands to them, knowing that some of them will attempt to pull us under the water with them.
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Tragically, some will need to be let go of. Don’t let their guns, money, and religion scare you, for they represent nothingness in the face of who we really are, as a country, and as awakening individuals.
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In our America, the light of love with its justice, diversity and equality, wins.
We feast on the understanding of the brotherhood of mankind, while recognizing the needs to bring truth and healing to a dying planet.
We walk with the living.
In Hank Williams, Jr’s.  America, chaos and the dead past rule the darkness.
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They feast on the rotting carcasses of historic ignorance created by fascism, lies and fantasy narratives, white supremacy, and toxic political and Christian religious tribalism.
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They walk with the dead.
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It is a choice each of us must make: we either choose to sink, or we choose to swim to the nearest lifeboat.
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Those icebergs are only menacing to the point that we ignore them.
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Bruce

I am 69 years old, and I am a retired person. I began writing in 2016. I am married to Sharon White, a retired hospice nurse, and writer. Whose Death Is It Anyway-A Hospice Nurse Remembers Sharon is a wonderful friend and life partner of 36 years. We have three grandsons through two of Sharon's children. Readers have shown they are not interested in the rest of my bio.