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One of the incontrovertibly immutable attributes of the human nature is Gathering. Arguably, Gathering also is one of the Communicable Attributes of God; if not an actual attribute, or one that stands on its own, then certainly one that is implicitly part of, or derived from, the communicable attributes of God—love, goodness, justice, righteousness, wisdom. None of those Godly attributes are applicable in isolation; they are meaningful only where two or more people are Gathered. Without a Gathering, there is only a Subject in our sentence; the Object does not exist. Without a Gathering, there is no object of love, justice, goodness or righteousness, thus rendering those attributes of our nature meaningless. Whether it is two of us (as in Adam and Eve) or 2 billion of us, our norm—our deep desire—is to Gather. You might say that, unlike Covid-19, which is Pandemic, Gathering is Endemic: it is ever-present in all geographical locations, among all peoples, at all times. We are infected by

I don't see how this is any different than a bunch of people with Houston Texans flags on their vehicles "escorting" a Jacksonville Jaguars bus from the stadium. Nobody tried to run the bus off the road. Nobody threw anything or shot at the bus. Nobody tried to impede the progress of the bus. The Biden Campaign is probably green with envy because Biden supporters don't have the enthusiasm to do something like this. Or maybe they disapprove because, after all, the Democrats are the party of violence and intimidation, thus they are incapable of distinguishing non-threatening behavior from violent protests. If Joe and his ilk cannot handle good-natured hazing, as it were, how the hell is he going to handle China, Russia, or North Korea? Oh, sorry, I already know the answer to that: he won't run them out of town, he will take hush money to leave them to their wicked devices. Maybe the folks in the Biden bus should have pulled off the road and demanded money from the T