Ode to a Distant God
Oh muse, may I ask you
To sing of lamentations,
And the aching of my heart,
Of wrath ‘tis red and burning,
And black hatred without start.
Whisper solemn moments
Tender love I know in passing,
All sweet rhythms, chords, and bars,
Of a God who’s cold and distant,
The very night between the stars.
Is it distance that I
Must mutter towards this night?
Emptiness I hear aloud,
When it is His name I hear them shout;
For me neither flame nor cloud.
On this path I walk along
I started hurting long ago,
Resentful I curse His name,
With black bile born of suffering,
Yet I love Him all the same.
His hand I know is there
For the moment that I fall.
Is my home amongst the mud?
Alone I would drown in darkness,
Yet for me He spilt his blood.
Vile man I know I am
To hate my exalted maker,
But when I gaze into a mirror,
Eyes open a window to my heart,
It is my soul I view in terror.
Why God must loneliness
Torture me every hour?
I thought if I spoke aloud…
No, somewhere I mastered this gift,
To feel alone amongst the crowd.
I fear no one will miss
My life upon curtain call.
Sadness will run its dreary course,
But is there a single life I touched,
That will hurt with true remorse?
God will you take me home
As broken as I am?
Please, I promise I won’t tell,
If you’ve set aside a corner in Heaven,
Because my mind entreats in Hell.
My God, all I wanted,
All I wanted was a love,
To share without added tears,
To grant a bliss and joy and peace,
For those I hold most dear.
I despair to ever feel
Those happy blessing for myself,
A soul that drips with caustic hate,
No recourse alone to make,
I have fully earned my fate.
So on my lips I cry
Oh God, my God, my Father!
Once more into blackest inky night,
I continue on this lonely march,
Once more searching for Your light.
I'm male and I voted yes, but I think it is very rare. The one major exception would be friendships with rather significant age gaps, for women of the same age cohort it is far less common.
Now that does not mean it is rare to have a purely Platonic relationship with a member of the opposite sex; it is just that there is a divide between the behavioral and psychological aspects.
@IanDAttwell@Sargon_of_Akkad@cymroofbarri89 Yea he has: industries with a national monopoly should probably be nationalized. Rail forms a national monopoly, buses do not. He mentioned this like 3 weeks ago. Just go watch the weekly talks he has been doing with @Kingbingo_.
It's unreasonable in that Carl has literally made a career about telling a camera what he believes, and it does not take much effort to engage with all of that information.
Demanding that he give a heavily reductive answer to a question he has answered in necessary depth elsewhere simply because you can't be bothered to do your own research is unreasonable.
This is ridiculous, Carl has literally made a career out of talking to a camera about what he stands for.
There are two types of people that are "confused," the one who have only seen snippets of his work and think he is contradictory because he doesn't fit into any ideological category they are familiar with, and those who do understand Carl's position but are trying to shift him to theirs.
Carl has been very consistent in recent years: he rejects modern ideological formulations as external impositions on the British, particularly English, people and is in favor of political action that restores the collective rights of the British people and their sovereignty over their ancestral land.