demon_hunter dafremen The room was dark. No idea that it was a closet. I just knew that my little brother and sister were terrified of something and it enraged me. I was 3.5 years old. This was the very first moment of awareness..the first memory..and like so many others, it was straight out of a David Lynch movie. My first instinct was to hug them and tell them it was going to be ok, but then the door flew open and a big silhouette burst through the blinding light..screaming. I'm not sure how I launched myself from the ground and latched onto his leg. But after sinking my teeth in just above the knee, I held on for dear life as his fists played a samba all over my face and body. It hurt like hell, but I managed to maintain consciousness while biting the entire time. Finally my mother showed up and distracted him. She was probably high. She was always high or trying to get high. (It's as close as the three of us have to a legacy. I could be the last traditionalist in that regard.) Looking back at that very first memory I see a little kid who may have had issues, but anger wasn't one of them right then. The anger was righteous, and it came from the heart of an innocent child, who I hardly recall. Still, there's a lot of courage to be found in that memory when I realize that my nature is to be brave in the face of injustice..brave and angry. And so I have a no passive-aggressive demons in my vicinity clause. It's just built into me, like a radar detector. Take the guy who cut in front of 5 people at the open mic when they were distracted. Or the little girl who tried to talk her mom into cutting in front of us at the store. Or that nasty materialist POS who tried to defend her daughter stealing a bike out of the yard. Or our grocery store trying to put our change on a store card, because of a "coin shortage." (There was no coin shortage. Think about it. If there aren't enough coins in circulation, how does one store holding onto everyone's change help a coin shortage? They're trying to hoard metal to stave off inflation. Nasty, manipulative demons.) So someone better say something. Whether they are demons of ignorance or demons of arrogance, they're still keeping us from trusting one another. The elitists and the manipulators, the thieves and the parasites. They're causing our hearts to turn to stone, because who do we trust when the demons have run amok and they look just like us? Shine a light on a roach and never take it off..until they rectify, run away or get stomped on by karma. 230103 ... John 2:15 What would Jesus do? If you're a money grubber taking advantage of the poor, he'd come to where you are and beat your ass. That's what Jesus would do. 230103 what's it to you? who go blather from