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Silke

@silkehartung.bsky.social

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She/her, cis het, music enthusiast, door & merch lady extraordinaire, into science and technology, Green, anti-fascism, ally, crafty, somewhere on the rainbow (but like a weird corner). 🧷 https://pocomoto.co.nz/

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Silke @silkehartung.bsky.social · 15h

So I hear. I heard there was one, saw photos of the standing ovations, so I googled the story. Harrowing.

Silke @silkehartung.bsky.social · 15h

The emergency car was hit by a bomb made in the US. Very little was left of it, or the two medics in it.

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Silke @silkehartung.bsky.social · 15h

Israel said they "didn't have troops in the area", but satellite images proved that to be wrong. Forensic staff was able to show that the car was shot for 6 seconds by a gun on an Israeli tank that was between 13 and 20m away from their car, and that they would have known it was filled with kids.

Silke @silkehartung.bsky.social · 15h

Hind slowly died, while on the phone, and they weren't able to recover her for something like 12 weeks.

She was concerned that she'd dirty her clothes with blood she was spitting out, because she didn't want to upset her mum.

Silke @silkehartung.bsky.social · 15h

In a nutshell, Israeli tanks shot at a car full of children, and the sole survivor, 6-year-old Hind, called for help via a phone. She had been shot and was also slowly dying. Israel gave an emergency car a clear route, but bombed the emergency car to smithereens.

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Silke @silkehartung.bsky.social · 15h

A news item prompted me to look up the Al Jazeera doco on the death of Hind Rajab, who I hadn't heard of before, no thanks to NZ media.

I cried through the whole thing, then I made O watch it. Not just us adults; everyone needs to know that this happened, and that Israel flat out lied about it.

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Silke @silkehartung.bsky.social · 15h

Interesting job coming up for an Indian superstar - huge team, it seems, can't wait, tbh.

Silke @silkehartung.bsky.social · 17h

Ooo new music from AlCam? Onto that right away! Love those dudes.

Silke @silkehartung.bsky.social · 17h

It's so baffling to me that Abrahamic religions find reasons to hate each other rather than celebrate mutualities.

Easy to say as a non-believer, I guess. I just can't see why any one of the original texts should be of higher value than the other.

Silke @silkehartung.bsky.social · 17h

It's not those religions per se that are the issue, I always think of those evil sides of it as political decisions that use religion as an excuse, use old words for what I see as basically evil purposes. It's always been like that, though - huge shame!

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Silke @silkehartung.bsky.social · 17h

Oh yes, absolutely, all of this.

I'm hypercritical of a lot of aspects of it, especially the made up stuff that I find to be a bad interpretation of already highly curated, and opportunistically translated materials.

I wish we could all find community, and do more sing-alongs in general.

Silke @silkehartung.bsky.social · 17h

Anything that sparks even the smallest bit of safety, comfort or even happiness is a little more of it in the world, and works for me!

Just not going to do any of the often associated exclusions of groups, or outright hate.

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Silke @silkehartung.bsky.social · 19h

On my break rn, got to go back.

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Silke @silkehartung.bsky.social · 19h

But i can't. I call what i feel spiritual envy. I sure dabbled but i can't believe in anything.

I do believe in ethical behaviour, in kindness, tolerance and being helpful, but that's not guided by a religion, just by liking other people in general, and wanting them to live their best lives.

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Silke @silkehartung.bsky.social · 19h

I'm writing at a church service this morning and it's the most fascinating thing.

I grew up in Christian churches and did biblr studies to university level, but realised that i can't believe.

It's super interesting to me, though, clearly, and I'm analysing everything.

Wish i could have faith.

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