Vicky Dolan 🕊

Devoted to Jesus ✝️ | Classical liberal, constitutional conservative | God, family, country first 🇺🇸 | Retired tech educator sharing truth & hope 🕊

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@Truegreta Clearly photoshopped

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@MelissaRedpill I feel sorry for all the people in this thread who have been taught to hate, so thoroughly. You follow people who appeal to the absolute worst part of you.😕

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@MelissaRedpill How can they not love him? Just watching him over the years and how he stands up to the naysayers has made me stronger! He’s an inspiration to me when I’m afraid or things get tough. When I see him in action, I often feel in awe! Every extended family needs a patriarch like him.

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@MelissaRedpill We, and his family, are truly blessed to have him.

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@NoahRevoy Things no parent ever said

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Yikes!😬 That recycled polyester stinks too — maybe not right away, but give it a hot second.

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DID YOU KNOW??

Clothing labels boasting "made from 100% recycled plastic" are hiding a bizarre chemical reality, polyester and disposable plastic water bottles are actually the exact same identical twin material, meaning your favorite soft fleece jacket is literally just melted down, spun-out trash!

​The fashion industry heavily promotes recycled polyester (often called rPET) as a revolutionary, eco-friendly textile breakthrough. However, the connection is far less about high-tech invention and far more about a hidden chemical monopoly.

Polyethylene Terephthalate, the long, scientific name for Pet, is the exact same petroleum-derived polymer used to manufacture both rigid, clear soda bottles and soft, flexible fast-fashion fabrics. Walk with me 👇🏾 👇🏾

​1. The Plastic-to-Pants Mechanical Alchemy:
​Transforming a rigid plastic bottle into a soft, wearable garment is a brute-force mechanical process that changes the shape of the plastic without altering its underlying chemical structure.

First, post-consumer plastic bottles are collected, thoroughly washed to remove paper labels and glue, and sorted by color. The clean plastic is then thrown into massive industrial shredders that chop the rigid containers into tiny, confetti-like plastic flakes.

​These flakes are fed into high-heat extruders where they are melted down into a thick, liquid plastic soup. This liquid is forcefully pumped through a spinner etc, a specialized metal plate full of microscopic holes that acts like a hyper-precise showerhead. As the liquid plastic shoots through these tiny holes into the cool air, it instantly solidifies into incredibly fine, hair-like continuous filaments.

These strands are twisted together to create yarn, which is then woven into everything from running shirts to winter coats.

​2. The One-Way Downcycling Trap:
​While selling clothes made from plastic bottles is a brilliant marketing strategy, environmental scientists warn that the current method is actually a one-way ticket to a permanent landfill.

​When a plastic bottle is recycled back into another plastic bottle, it stays inside a closed-loop system, meaning it can theoretically be recycled multiple times. However, the moment that bottle is shredded and spun into a polyester t-shirt, it enters an operational dead end.
​Most modern garments are not made of pure polyester; they are blended with other materials like cotton, spandex, or wool to improve comfort. Once polyester is blended with other fibers, modern recycling facilities cannot separate them. As a result, almost 99% of all recycled polyester clothing cannot be recycled a second time.

By turning bottles into clothes, the fashion industry is effectively taking plastic out of a highly efficient circular recycling loop and converting it into a garment that will inevitably be thrown into a landfill or incinerated.

​3. The Microplastic Washing Machine Explosion:
​The most alarming catch regarding the relationship between polyester and recycled plastic is that changing the plastic's form from a solid bottle to a woven textile makes it significantly more hazardous to our oceans.

​A solid plastic bottle can sit in the environment for centuries, slowly degrading as a single piece of trash. But when that same bottle is spun into millions of microscopic polyester threads, it gains the ability to shed. Every single time you toss a synthetic garment into a washing machine, the mechanical friction and water turbulence cause the fabric to shed thousands of microscopic plastic fibers.

​Because these microplastics are too small for municipal water treatment facilities to filter out, they are pumped directly into rivers and oceans. Marine life mistakes these invisible plastic fibers for food, allowing the toxic chemicals from our recycled activewear to directly contaminate the global seafood supply chain.

​FINALLY!
Remember, polyester, is just packaged plastic!

Hopefully you've learnt something new today?

The Medic Who Writes™🌚

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@Charles46129363 My own mother actually broke that chain for my family.

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Hi Charles,

I’ve truly enjoyed the theological and spiritual depth in our conversations. Thank you for sharing so openly and thoughtfully.

I also like to go off on tangents about the system sometimes, but overall I still feel pretty blessed. Honestly, when I focus too much on all the problems in the world, I can get pretty down. That’s why I’ve been shifting toward more everyday, personal sharing lately.

I’d be really happy if our exchanges naturally became more friendship-oriented and personal, but I understand if that’s not what you’re looking for right now. I respect how you communicate, and I just think our styles are a bit different.

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I’ve really enjoyed our conversations, even the deep ones. I’m also curious about you as a person. Would you be open to sharing a little about your normal life? For example, where you’re from originally or live, what you do for work or what you’d love to do someday, or what you enjoy doing in your free time?

No pressure at all if you’d rather not. I’m just genuinely interested in getting to know you a bit better.

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I’m sorry if I wasn’t clear. I do read your posts and the deep dives you share about emotions, society, and big ideas. I see how much of yourself you put into them.

When I asked for an update about how you’ve been, I was hoping for something more personal and day to day. For example, how you’re actually feeling lately, what’s been happening in your normal life, the little things that have been good or hard. Just regular life stuff, not the big philosophical pieces.

I think this kind of exchange is what keeps people from feeling lonely and helps others feel more connected to you. I’m still here and happy to listen if you ever feel like sharing that side too. No pressure though.

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When life feels like you’re being swept away by uncontrollable forces, the very depths of your pain can become the place where God’s deeper reality reaches you. This psalm doesn’t deny the suffering. It acknowledges it honestly, but it refuses to let the waves have the last word.

Hope in God persists.

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Psalm 42:7 (ESV)
Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your waves have gone over me.

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Thank you for sharing that piece. I can feel how deeply this matters to you and how painful the loneliness is.

For me, I have come to believe one of the biggest losses in our time is that most mothers are no longer able to spend the majority of their time at home nurturing and holding the emotional heart of the family. That shift has quietly unraveled something very foundational.

I wonder if real healing and soul level resonance might need to begin in smaller, quieter ways. Not through public declarations or fighting the system, but through the sometimes scary work of simply letting one person really see us and us really see them.

I am still here if you ever want to talk about what that loneliness actually feels like in your own life day to day, or even just share the highs and lows of life. I’d be happy to simply be a listening ear. Not as a big statement or message to the world, just two people being honest with each other. Even a short, real update about how you have been would mean a lot to me. No pressure at all.

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Thank you for being honest about what you’re feeling. Loneliness at that deep soul level is really hard, and I respect you for saying it out loud.

I’m not really in a position to direct or introduce you to anyone. I’m here as someone who enjoys thoughtful conversations with you, but I think it’s best if we keep things at that level for now.

If you ever want to talk more about what’s been going on in your life or what that loneliness feels like for you, I’m still here and willing to listen. No pressure either way.

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The “simultaneous sip” is such a perfect little moment of shared humanity. Your quiet “I see you” sigh in the Moses piece you shared, actually reminds me of it. It’s that sense of two people quietly carrying something together.

I’m still carrying both of those reflections with me. They feel connected to the bigger themes we’ve been exploring. Holding light in dark places, speaking truth even when it’s uncomfortable.

I’d love to hear a little about what’s been real for you lately. Not just ideas or stories, but whatever’s actually on your mind or in your days. Even a short update would mean a lot. No pressure at all. I’m here either way and genuinely interested.

Looking forward to whatever you feel like sharing.

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@Charles46129363 I like that comic strip! It made me chuckle. 🤭

It also reminds me of Scott Adams, another deep soul. Are you familiar with him? He was the originator of the famous simultaneous sip.

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Your prose here is so richly literary and cinematic, almost like a short story or a contemplative film script. The way you pictured Jesus crawling in that inner sanctuary, halo flickering, holding onto the ache instead of letting it go… it’s raw and beautiful. It feels like you’re letting us see straight into the heart of the “man of sorrows” we talked about earlier (Isaiah 53:3).

What I love about that whole passage (Isaiah 52–53) is that the suffering is so real and deep: despised, rejected, acquainted with grief. Yet the context ultimately shows it leading to victory: the servant is exalted, “makes many righteous,” and brings healing and redemption to others because he carried the pain all the way through. It doesn’t stay in the crawling-on-the-floor moment; it moves toward resurrection life.

I’m curious, when you imagine that moment, do you ever think about Gethsemane, where Jesus was also overwhelmed with sorrow and said, “Not my will, but yours be done” (Luke 22:42)? Or the promise that we can cast our anxieties on him because he cares for us (1 Peter 5:7)?

For me, the deepest comfort has come when I’ve finally handed the loneliness over instead of holding it as the only thing keeping me awake. It doesn’t numb the pain; it redeems it. The Father isn’t staring into the void; he’s right there with open arms, turning even the ache into something that draws us closer to him and to each other.

I’d love to hear what you think about that, or if any of Jesus’ own words in the Gospels ever land differently for you in these moments. I’m still here, listening.