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J.S. Park 박준 @jspark3000.bsky.social · 28d

I don’t think we need conspiracy theories anymore.

It’s just all out in the open for everyone to see.

We’ve been had, run, and fleeced at every turn.

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J.S. Park 박준 @jspark3000.bsky.social · 28d

I just keep seeing distraction after distraction over those already with disproportionate power who have absolutely nothing to lose. But those who do keep being buried under easy-to-make noise.

Insincere outrage is selective, and real outrage is constantly smothered.

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J.S. Park 박준 @jspark3000.bsky.social · 28d

It was an easy issue to speak against or for, and it will be big ratings for Kimmel and everyone else talking about it. Meanwhile, Gaza, Epstein files, fired journalists, and k*lled children get less voice.

Ask: Who stands to lose? The profiteers did not.

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J.S. Park 박준 @jspark3000.bsky.social · 28d

I’m not a conspiracy theorist but here is my conspiracy theory:

I’m not sure Kimmel was meant to be canceled. It seems like an intentional false flag to “reverse course” and give us enough yield to relax. They know boycotts can be fickle.

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J.S. Park 박준 @jspark3000.bsky.social · 29d

“People are afraid to be pried loose from their ignorance.”
— Maya Angelou, “One on One,” interview with Greg Jackson (1983)

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J.S. Park 박준 @jspark3000.bsky.social · 29d

I hate that one day I’ll have to explain to my children this entire era of American Christianity and its absolute absurdity and hypocrisy.

I hope I’ll get to explain it in past tense.

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J.S. Park 박준 @jspark3000.bsky.social · Sep 18

I saw this comment recently and it still rings true:

“First they came for the journalists
and I did not speak out
because no one knew what happened.”

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J.S. Park 박준 @jspark3000.bsky.social · Sep 11

You’re not obligated to grieve an abuser, an oppressor, a monster. We can grieve they were a person and a bearer of life. We can grieve what they might have been and what they have taken. And that’s about all I can say on that.

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J.S. Park 박준 @jspark3000.bsky.social · Sep 11

I have been at hundreds of deathbeds and I have never once expected anyone to mourn their abuser. There may be rage, or relief, or a long exhale. But there is zero obligated sorrow for someone who embodied tyranny and suffocation over a family for years, for a lifetime.

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J.S. Park 박준 @jspark3000.bsky.social · Sep 11

After you have wounded me,
I make a choice to keep my humanity
by seeing yours.

I will not allow your desecration of me
to desecrate how I see me or you.

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J.S. Park 박준 @jspark3000.bsky.social · Sep 10

Five years ago I almost started a podcast.

I went to therapy instead.

I still don’t have a podcast.
I made two good decisions. ❤️‍🩹

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J.S. Park 박준 @jspark3000.bsky.social · Sep 10

Idiocracy is when those in charge perfectly overlap between incompetence and malice. Recklessly ignorant and indulgently destructive. Too stupid to know they’re stupid and too malicious to care.

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J.S. Park 박준 @jspark3000.bsky.social · Aug 26

A little off topic but does everyone have a texting friend? For memes and talking wild and being completely unhinged and yourself?

I have a few and it’s seriously therapeutic. Hard to imagine going through a day without them, especially now.

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J.S. Park 박준 @jspark3000.bsky.social · Aug 25

My book on grief is 16 months old and it’s only $1.99 right now in ebook. ❤️‍🩹

www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0CD...

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J.S. Park 박준 @jspark3000.bsky.social · Aug 21

I saw this in a newspaper comic strip once:

If you don’t learn ̶f̶r̶o̶m̶ ̶h̶i̶s̶t̶o̶r̶y̶
you’re doomed ̶t̶o̶ ̶r̶e̶p̶e̶a̶t̶ ̶i̶t̶

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J.S. Park 박준 @jspark3000.bsky.social · Aug 21

This is one of my favorite poems, by the late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, called “Think of Others.”

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J.S. Park 박준 @jspark3000.bsky.social · Aug 21

“I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.”
— Clarence Darrow, attorney who defended Tennessee teacher in 1925 for teaching on evolution
#JamesDobson

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J.S. Park 박준 @jspark3000.bsky.social · Aug 16

Please take this from me, a hospital chaplain who has sat with hundreds of deathbeds in the last ten years:

In the end,
we really only have each other.
And we really only have
a breath
and then we’re gone.

Life is as fast
as a spoken word,
so be gentle.

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J.S. Park 박준 @jspark3000.bsky.social · Aug 2

This is (not) a hot take:

In any situation where children are harmed,

I will always be on the side of the children.

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J.S. Park 박준 @jspark3000.bsky.social · Jul 31

I was interviewed by the inimitable Lisa Ling for a feature on my hospital chaplaincy work and on grief, faith, and hope.

Thank you Lisa and for all who have kindly been alongside, most especially my amazing coworkers. ♥️🙏

youtu.be/RUVheWGBFd0?...

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J.S. Park 박준 @jspark3000.bsky.social · Jul 31

I was interviewed by the inimitable Lisa Ling for a feature on my hospital chaplaincy work and on grief, faith, and hope.

Thank you Lisa and for all who have kindly been alongside, most especially my amazing coworkers. ♥️🙏

youtu.be/RUVheWGBFd0?...

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J.S. Park 박준 @jspark3000.bsky.social · Jul 22

We cannot say we didn’t know. 🍉🗣️

Reposting: Eight initiatives to feed, clothe, and shelter Palestinians under siege.

www.instagram.com/p/DMVpejexbin/

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J.S. Park 박준 @jspark3000.bsky.social · Jul 19

“How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been; how gloriously different are the saints.”
— C.S. Lewis

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J.S. Park 박준 @jspark3000.bsky.social · Jul 2

Need to say this over and over:

I’m only really free when you are too.

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J.S. Park 박준 @jspark3000.bsky.social · Jul 2

Need to say this over and over:

I’m only really free when you are too.

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