RantWoman and the RSOF

Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Jon Stewart, PREACH!

Jon Stewart on Israel’s "Urgent" Iran Strike, Minnesota Murders & MAGA’s...

Monday, June 16, 2025

Erica Chenoweth on Pod Save America

Erica Chenoweth

Could The 3.5% Protest Rule Stop Donald Trump?

To me, even though I treat everything to do with the military very cautiously, I think the SUCCESS of the army anniversary is that we have the space to have 2100+ local events and 13+million participants. DISSENT IS PATRIOTIC. Now we have to keep hitting hard on a few points. --Indiscriminate quota driven raids by masked armed goons are unacceptable and MUST STOP. Citizens and children should NEVER be detained. --EVERY single person who gets detained gets every second of due process that the President has sucked up over his entire life of criming and fraud. --This lawless administration has NO BUSINESS talking about undocumented "lawbreakers." There are serious criminals who are undocumented and should be deported.

Sunday, June 15, 2025

What actually happened for week 2

RantWoman and all gathered had quite fierce reactions to some of week 1. RantWoman's view, which accords well enough with the group was "DO NOT FORCE US TO SING, unless you are prepared for pipe organz, didjeridoos, vuvuzelas....

RantWoman brought her disquiet about revisiting readings from last week to the group and Friends were clear to start with:

Give over Thine Own Willing

Give over thine own willing;

give over thine own running;

give over thine own desiring

to know or to be anything;

and sink down to the seed

which God sows in the heart...

Isaac Pennington - 1661

From Pope Leo Xiv

In our competitive society, where it seems that only the strong and winners deserve to live, sport also teaches us how to lose. It forces us, in learning the art of losing, to confront our fragility, our limitations and our imperfections. It is through the experience of these limits that we open our hearts to hope. Athletes who never make mistakes, who never lose, do not exist

En una sociedad competitiva, donde parece que sólo los fuertes y los ganadores merecen vivir, el deporte también enseña a perder, poniendo a prueba al hombre, en el arte de la derrota, con la fragilidad, el límite, la imperfección. Es a partir de la experiencia de esta fragilidad

What barriers do I notice in myself to being loud in a conviction? In what moments does my faith require this of me?

Week 2

Second meeting:

What barriers do I notice in myself to being loud in a conviction? In what moments does my faith require this of me?

Each Note

God picks up the reed-flute world and blows.

Each note is a need coming through one of us

a passion, a longing-pain.

Remember the lips

where the wind-breath note originated,

and let your note be clear.

Don’t try to end it.

Be your note.

I’ll show you how it’s enough.

Go up on the roof at night

in this city of the soul.

Let everyone climb on their roofs

and sing their notes!

Sing loud!

Jalāl, Al-Dīn Rūmī. “Each Note.” The Essential Rumi. Trans. Coleman Barks. San Francisco, CA: Harper, 1995

Give over Thine Own Willing

Give over thine own willing;

give over thine own running;

give over thine own desiring

to know or to be anything;

and sink down to the seed

which God sows in the heart...

Isaac Pennington - 1661

The Maybe Queries

RantWoman has a task.

RantWoman is seeking Light from others about whether to do the task as offered or to reiterate and reprise what the group chewed on last week.

Below is Plan B, such as it has come to RantWoman

Well known US bloviator (sorry, not sorry for the word choice) Francis Fukuyama wrote an article after the Soviet Union fell apart declaring "the end of history," which I interpreted as universal liberal democracy breaking out everywhere.

From Pope Leo Xiv

In what respects do we see history rising up and kicking us in the rear all over the place?

In such an environment, where are voices of continuing revelation needed most?

Do Friends feel any call to reflect on:

the military parade, the 250th anniversary of the army, the President's birthday and the #NoKings Protests OR about the celebration of Pope Leo Xiv in Chicago? Should we add various very hot but not yet nuclear wars, ICE raids, the depradations of a senile President and his, cough, team...?