JOURNALING with JOSH

  Israel's first instinct after october 7th for months was to mass murder children and women until the world was like "yo, not cool" Israel is not electing people who are capable of rational decision making, and part of that is because America and the West is shielding them from any and all consequences for their actions. Allowing AIPAC to attack, silence, bully, and undermine American democracy is weakening Israel because Israel knows it has no right to exist fundamentally. a "right to exist" is a ridiculous notion to begin with. The west believing it has any right to enable an ethnostate with overt and unambiguous goals of genocide is absolute absurdity. Israel as a concept can exist, Israel as a Zionist utopia has no right to exist.

 All frustration is born out of a lack of control. Control that never truly existed in the first place. You're leaving our relationship?  My business isn't doing well? You're not laughing at my jokes. My pet is dying. That stranger was rude to me! Not one of these things is controllable because it relies on another. Now hatred, that is love plus control. Love is just love, love happens effortlessly, love is our standard state of being. We are born loving the first people we grow up with, we naturally love anyone who we spend an amount of time with. Hatred happens when someone or something we care about spirals out of OUR control. Real or imaginary, there is a desire to exert control over what we hate in some manner. or when we convince ourselves of a threat to what we love, real or imaginary. There are physical rules of the universe, we have to eat or we die. We get to make up a lot of things, like WHAT we eat. There are consequences for what we eat, and that is part of the...