2025 - Our Rides in Words, Photos, Maps and Videos

[stompandgo]

Heal up quick, Stefan.

 

[Mulezen]

I was referencing a recent post where I mentioned getting asked to leave a church. Actually I had stopped at that one for 30 years on my rides…sitting at a picnic table for a rest, sometimes going inside for water Until one Sunday an angry young woman sitting, unbeknownst to me, in a darkened SUV poked her head out and started yelling at me that I couldn’t be there because “you ain’t in the congregation” which she knew from my complexion. I do help out one church in the area from time to time but am not a member.

Perhaps clarification is unnecessary but...I had met a few parishioners (a deacon) over the years during quick stops...but times had changed, and not for the better in America when I had my encounter with the militant young woman. As I recall my shooing away happened soon after the infamous Dylan Roof mass shooting in South Carolina and the candlelit white power parade in nearby Charlottsville. So there's that.

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

Sad. We seem to be in a time when a lot people aren't just giving in to but embracing a deep-seated and dangerous human flaw — the us-them mentality, which in full form includes the notion that it really doesn't matter what happens to them.

Not just in the US. Us-them is growing everywhere, and adherents are gaining significant political power in many places — often with the full blessing of major organized religions.

The future's looking more like 1930s Europe everyday.

 

[gromike]

The future's looking more like 1930s Europe everyday.

Yeah, we know were that went.