Greetings
I look around at a world that is full of violence and pain. I think I can see some of the sources of the suffering, but I can only work out what appear to be single interactions in a system that is inscrutable as a whole. I'd like to share these thoughts with others, but I feel like I can only safely do so in secret.
There are a number of labels that can be applied to me. Politically, I'm an anarchist. By religious tradition I'm a Mormon. By trade I'm a nerd. The trouble is that some of what I think can at times conflict with those labels which can make sharing feel dangerous. I suppose I'm an owned man despite my desire not to be, I've got things to lose so if I'm going to share what I really think then I need to do it in a way that doesn't draw attention to me personally.
I don't remember what I was thinking about the other day, but I had the thought come again that I'd like to do some writing about the world around me, what I see, and the way things could be different. In the last few months when those thoughts come I have had a tendency to do nothing because if what I write finds an audience I worry that it could cost me my comfortable living and my membership in my church. I probably sound like a narcissist when I suggest that my thoughts could resonate with enough people that it could cost me my job, but that's mostly because I really think that Jesus' message of non-violence could take off like wildfire if people stopped being distracted by all churches' bad behavior, my own included, that causes great disbelief in the message of transformation in the teachings of Jesus.
I hope I can share things that encourage people to love their neighbors and trust in the experience of grace so that we can stop looking for laws and government to save us from whatever existential threat, real or imagined, we seem to face from day to day.