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Can Joyism Replace Terrorism?
And what do hot dogs have to do with it?
Everyone knows what a terrorist is, right? They are people who spread fear and terror to the people they come into contact with; often — but not always — with bloodshed involved.
As everyone knows there has been a significant increase in the number of domestic terrorists in America. And their objective of spreading fear and terror is working.
So what do we do? Do we clamp down, fight back and wage war against the terrorists? Do we instill fear and terror in the terrorists? Or does that make us terrorists?
I began wondering what the opposite of a terrorist is. Is it someone who spreads love and joy to everyone they come into contact with? Is the opposite of a terrorist a joyist? Well, neither my handy-dandy tattered old dictionary nor Google nor the Medium editor even recognize ‘joyist’ or ‘joyism’ as words. What do we call someone who spreads love and joy to every human they come into contact with?
Why is there no word for this? I don’t think the word, ‘saint,’ qualifies because you can’t be a saint unless the Pope says you are. A true saint wouldn’t care what some religious figurehead proclaims or, for that matter, what anyone else thinks. There is no acronym to affix to the end of one’s name to signify sainthood like…
