sense of doubt

Though the current project started as a series of posts charting my grief journey after the death of my mother, I am no longer actively grieving. Now, the blog charts a conversation in living, mainly whatever I want it to be. This is an activity that goes well with the theme of this blog (updated 2018). The Sense of Doubt blog is dedicated to my motto: EMBRACE UNCERTAINTY. I promote questioning everything because just when I think I know something is concrete, I find out that it’s not.

Wednesday, March 30, 2022

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2598 - This is what THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS gets you - 150 body bags and counting... THAT ONE THING for 2203.30

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2598 - This is what THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS gets you - 150 body bags and counting... THAT ONE THING for 2203.30

"Fuck your thoughts and prayers; we want ACTION NOW."

This is genius!

I love this.

In this part of the country, even more than in Michigan, I am surrounded by people who are very triggered by the movement to reduce gun sales, gun ownership, and to control the access to these very harmful and deadly tools. It's the same "passionate intensity" as those flying American flags from the back of their trucks. Jingoism. Performance of patriotism. Overcompensating. Much like some men over perform their idea of heterosexual masculinity to compensate for deep insecurities if not repressed sexual feelings for men of their gender. It's all so transparent.

And so this...

THAT ONE THING.

Thanks for tuning in.

4 years since we marched in DC and around the world to end gun violence. 4 years of #ThoughtsAndPrayers. 4 years of broken promises. 4 years without ANY federal action on guns.

We've asked for the bare minimum. Now we're sending Congress a message they can't ignore. pic.twitter.com/fs9dOq5wSb
— March For Our Lives (@AMarch4OurLives) March 24, 2022

We were gunned down. Four years after our historic march, we still hear the same empty words, "#ThoughtsAndPrayers".

Sign our petition and reject empty words with ACTION. We can pass Universal Background Checks, a gun violence prevention measure that 90% of Americans support. pic.twitter.com/uiM7A7Gkwz
— March For Our Lives (@AMarch4OurLives) March 25, 2022

Four years since the 2018 March For Our Lives, ⁦⁦today ⁦@AMarch4OurLives⁩ is placing 1,100 body bags on the National Mall, spelling out the words “thoughts and prayers.” pic.twitter.com/4Qpnv2c09P
— Rachel Janfaza (@racheljanfaza) March 24, 2022

'To those politicians that think that young people are just going to keep turning out for them, honestly, I send my 'thought and prayers' to them in the next election' — March For Our Lives co-founder David Hogg had this to say to politicians 'lying' about supporting gun control pic.twitter.com/BTfzePPAOl
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) March 24, 2022

Nearly 200k victims later since we marched in DC. Congress still only sends thoughts and prayers.

Each body bag represents 150+ lives lost since the shooting at MSD.

Sign the petition to support for Universal Background Checks:https://t.co/8GxP8IkLae pic.twitter.com/6Q7lLoSKei
— Change the Ref (@ChangeTheRef) March 24, 2022

Activists will use more than 1,100 body bags to spell out “THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS,” a condolence often invoked after mass shootings — and one that gun-violence-prevention activists decry as hollow, as more people continue to die. https://t.co/puZfVcKYIl
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 24, 2022

We. Want. Action. Now.

We all deserve lives free from the trauma of gun violence. We've waited long enough. It's time for lawmakers to get to work. https://t.co/yAouMKcxOd
— CeaseFirePA (@CeaseFirePA) March 24, 2022

March For Our Lives board member Kelly Choi: ’Over 170,000 people have died due to gun violence since Parkland and if all you can say to that is ‘thoughts and prayers,’ you have failed every young person in America’ pic.twitter.com/AksAbec3Xa
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) March 24, 2022

'F*ck your thoughts and prayers, we want action right now' — March For Our Lives board member Bria Smith sends this warning to lawmakers who are avoiding taking on gun control: ‘One day, we’ll be taking your jobs’ pic.twitter.com/gbMkOhGFNm
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) March 24, 2022

‘How many more lobbying days do I need to tell our students to set up as they’re huddled under a desk, in a lockdown, as a man with an AR-15 roams their hallways?’ — Listen to this powerful speech from March For Our Lives’ Gaby Salazar on ending gun violence pic.twitter.com/9NKWET0wT0
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) March 24, 2022

Congress still hasn’t gotten the message, that’s why we’re here to remind them today. pic.twitter.com/DHIiyI5Oq6
— March For Our Lives (@AMarch4OurLives) March 24, 2022

Congress, we have a message for you soon. Just look out your window. #ThoughtsAndPrayers pic.twitter.com/FXfryHXcEy
— March For Our Lives (@AMarch4OurLives) March 24, 2022

It’s been almost 4 years since our march on the Capitol and 800+ sister marches worldwide. You showed up for us, fought with us, yelled for action, & demanded more than #ThoughtsAndPrayers.

Stay tuned for a surprise next week on our anniversary, as we continue the fight.🤫 pic.twitter.com/HXnBLRm890
— March For Our Lives (@AMarch4OurLives) March 18, 2022

Some more here:

Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #974 - a cartoon for Parkland and #hereweare - Twitter's ad

and here:

Tuesday, June 29, 2021

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2324 - Pro-Gun Nuts Tricked into being in anti-guns advertisement

and

Friday, December 3, 2021

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2481 - We have a gun problem in this country

Blog Vacation Two 2022 - Vacation II Post #35

I took a "Blog Vacation" in 2021 from August 31st to October 14th. I did not stop posting daily; I just put the blog in a low power rotation and mostly kept it off social media. Like that vacation, for this second blog vacation now in 2022, I am alternating between reprints, shares with little to no commentary, and THAT ONE THING, which is an image from the folder with a few thoughts scribbled along with it. I am alternating these three modes as long as the vacation lasts (not sure how long), pre-publishing the posts, and not always pushing them to social media.

Here's the collected Blog Vacation I from 2021:

Saturday, October 16, 2021

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2433 - BLOG VACATION 2021 COLLECTED

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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2203.30 - 10:10

- Days ago = 2462 days ago

- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I plan to continue Hey Mom posts at least twice per week but will continue to post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.

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I am Christopher Tower the gmr

I am Christopher Tower (or Chris), and I am a writer of stuff. I grew up in Michigan; I now live in the Portland, OR metro area. I play Ultimate, ride a bike, and supposedly educate college persons while myself being educated in college. I am married with two kids, a beagle, a curly lab, and a fiesty pug/frenche mix. I like sushi. I love all SF, fantasy, comic books, D&D, board games, and Gnosticism. I am a Jungian. I am currently studying Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Walden University.

SENSE OF DOUBT STATUS AS OF 0705.04 - 16:45

Sense of Doubt is not currently dedicated to any themes or special interest. The subject matter is mine and may range from comic books to ultimate or from Baseball to feminist-centered media criticism. Until I feel I have enough content for multiple blogs, or until I am seized with a desire to create multiple blogs, this is it, and appropriately so. "Sense of Doubt" came about in Bowie’s Berlin period and the dark, ambient collaborations with Brian Eno. Like the Bowie of 1978, I have my own darkness that steals over me and through me, infecting everything. At the risk of sounding far too melodramatically obsessed with my own self-flagellations, this blog dedicates itself to that darkness, that infection. But it’s fun, too. Hey, I can be amusing? Or not. It’s the way of the [w]rench. Neurosis compelling action in insecure double-checking and misunderstanding evasions. It is my way.

More from the original description text that needed editing in 2015: Furthermore, Sense of Doubt is dedicated to the random. The theme is no theme. Just questions, doubt, and uncertainty. Feel the power of not knowing the answer. So dedicated on the last day of July 2006 by the Galactic Monkey Wrench.

The Galactic Monkey Wrench

This is the logo of the Galactic Monkey Wrench. I was given the nickname Galactic Monkey Wrench in college by a friend of mine who felt that I threw the monkey wrench into the cosmos at every available opportunity. Later, in discussions with my best friend, who is the Lord of Chaos (the Loc), he asked for my title and when I told him, without thinking, he blurted out "the gmr!" Since this was random and we appreciate randomness, I became the gmr, even though technically I should be the gmw. But gmw sounds like a car or some industrial manufacturing firm that makes a strange widget of which one has never heard. This acronym fetish may make no sense to anyone else, but my friend and I are quite driven to provide acronyms for many things. At the very least, it allows us to keep our conversations obscure and often private as no one knows about what we're talking.

Monkey Wrench Books

Chris's books

A Feast for Crows

by George R.R. Martin

This book is a little slower than the others. But if you become invested in this series, it provides key information about the history of Westeros and the lands across the Narrow Sea. It may not contain chapters with my favorite characters ...

A Game of Thrones

by George R.R. Martin

Do I really need to review this book? It's one of the best books I have ever read. Martin is a great writer. All the books are great, and I am loving my time rereading them. If you have not checked out these books, start here and get ready ...

The Golden City

by John Twelve Hawks

These books are immensely entertaining. Treat yourself to some strong writing, great action, compelling characters, and a mix of metaphysics and theology. The ending of this third book, which is presumably the last, is anti-climactic and so...

Pathfinder

by Orson Scott Card

This was a fun book. Not OSC's best but very good OSC nonetheless. The best thing about is the time travel, slowing, and speeding powers of the characters and how OSC engages the reader in discussion of causality and time paradox. For fans ...

Swamplandia!

by Karen Russell

This book came to me via my wife Liesel who discovered it and urged me to read it. Beautifully written with compelling characters and a sense of the magical (yet realistic, somewhat). Funny yet full of the pathos that marks a good if not gr...

Hey, Mom! The Explanation.

Wednesday, March 30, 2022

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2598 - This is what THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS gets you - 150 body bags and counting... THAT ONE THING for 2203.30

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