Reflections From a Murky Pond

‘Tis odd but true; New York, thanks to actions by the state’s legislature and NY’s Governor, Kathy Hochul – most likely as a sop to the climatards and/or due to getting kickbacks from Recompose – has legalized the composting of human remains, euphemized as natural organic reduction, terramation, and/or recomposition. This makes New York the 6th Democrat-controlled state, following Washington, Colorado, Oregon, Vermont, and California, to allow the controversial practice.

To my mind and irrespective of the reasons Democrats had for putting for and then passing this into law, in so long as it is a truly voluntary choice – i.e., the Dems don’t “regulate” and tax burials and cremations to the point that they’re no longer valid choices for most people – I not only don’t mind this, I like it. I have a normal American man’s love of family and have always been an avid gardener. Having my composted remains added to my family’s gardens suits me quite, quite well. Christian groups, especially Catholics hold a quite different opinion though, one which makes no historical or Biblical sense to me at all.

This Is About As Biblical As One Can Get

Despite what certain Catholic across the country have proclaimed, composting the remains of a dead person is about as biblical as it gets.

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

— Genesis 3:19 (KJV)

That makes it pretty clear to me, and that is in English. If we move to a closer source, Classical Hebrew, “dust” in Genesis is aphar adamah (dust of the soil), which would be the soil and the soil alone, whereas the beasts were created from the ha’eres (the land as a whole). So, Man was created from the fertile soil and shall eventually, after a life of labor wresting sustenance from that soil, return to it. Amen.

Snarky Sidenote: Yes, to my fellow linguistic enthusiasts! Adam’s name was “Dirt.” 😆

This is the basis for why Talmudic law forbids both cremation and embalming the dead. We are soil and we must be returned to it and become it again.

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As for the Catholics odd-seeming over-veneration of corpses? It creeps me out a bit – relics! 😮 – but it’s their thing andt they’re welcome to it. It is, however, a false argument in this cases. Buried in the ground, buried at sea, cremated, or composted – he 1st three all being allowed by Church doctrine – intrinsically carry with them any veneration or sanctification of a person’s mortal remains. But, nor do they carry and intrinsic profanation of those remains.

Frankly speaking, I find it closer to spirit of Catholic teachings to have a tree growing from one’s composted remains or to have the value left in one’s flesh feeding the garden that helps sustain one’s family than to have one’s meat chemically treated so that it both can’t rot for ages and would poison the ground (adamah) it was “returned” to if the vault it was placed in failed; or one’s ashes consigned to a columbarium and swiftly forgotten; or buried at sea and just as swiftly forgotten and more unreachable.

And hey! Those Catholic clergy and their Church have a lot of properties with a lot of green space. There’s nothing to say that their faithful couldn’t bequeath their no longer needed, composted dead flesh to bring life to them. 😉

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“You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
A Canticle For Leibowitz
Walter M. Miller (1959)

There’s the Gods’ honest truth! Biden’s not in any way a smart man – though he possesses ample amounts of the low cunning normally found in career politicians – but he’s an order of magnitude less stupid than those sorts that support him and equally smarter than those who don’t actually do so but vote for him and his ilk out of hatred for Americans.

This is a sadly apt visualization of Democrats’ Police Reform, especially in regards to the endemic intersectionality of Black males and violent crime. In the name of #Equity, this is how Democrats expect law enforcement to treat Black violent offenders. After all, like everything else done under the warbanner of Equity, the only only way to get the results – and the Blacks’ votes – Democrats want it to not enforce laws or standards upon Blacks.

It’s the simple truth. Biden can #MAGA. He could go great lengths towards making America great again, and fulfilling many of his sort’s supposed goals, by either leaving our country and taking his constituency with him or, better for everyone by far, taking direct action in pursuit of Les Knight’s Voluntary Human Extinction movement. 😉

But, as we’ve seen and heard for years, and years, and years, they just won’t do either. They will neither voluntarily emigrate away from our shores nor will they of their own volition remove themselves from the population in a more permanent manner, even though a number of their governments would actually help them do so. They just won’t do it.

Admittedly, with the exception of their wealthy celebrities, they would find it extremely hard to emigrate. Expatriating as an American is more than a little difficult since almost every other First World nation, and a number of Second World ones, have immigration policies that are orders of magnitude more stringent and limiting that America does – though this is changing thanks to COVID-19’s effect upon remote work.

But, it’s a simple fact that Biden and those who support him could Make America Great Again by removing themselves by one means or another from within our borders but they won’t do so. This is because they don’t want a renewed, restored, better, greater America – quite the opposite. They won’t leave because they want to tear America down and reshape into a weaker, poorer, lesser state which the Developing World can use as a cash cow.

No. It doesn’t add up. Adding LGBTQ+ agenda items to math classes just doesn’t add up to anything worthwhile or good for our children or our nation’s future. This is especially true of Mathematics and, as a direct result of this, Mathematics curricula are a specific target of the queer/trans agendists. In their minds, like the minds of every other sort who wants to reshape the minds of Americans’ children, every course has to be specifically tailored to specifically reference, include, and laud their people, especially when doing so has absolutely nothing to do with the actual course material.