The Greatest Lesson

The greatest lesson that was ever taught in my mind comes from the sermon on the mount as it is known by in the new testament. The multitude fed from the 7 loaves and a few fish. The lesson is not in the miracle that so many could be fed by that little amount of food but in the fact that it didn't matter who was present in that crowd, what race someone might have been, their sexual preference of religious belief they might have held, everyone was included. As the story goes, Jesus, the Christ, commanded his disciples to go and pass out the food and never once told them to make sure that before you feed them that they are just like us. They may look and even believe differently from us but it makes no matter. All are to be treated with the same respect. All should be served with the same kindness. All are to be included.

Today, christianity for the most part seems to not resemble the Christ they claim to be followers of. Today, christians have got the habit of putting walls in place that exclude others from receiving the same respect, love and kindness that their saviour showed them was the way others of all walks should be treated. It's as if an old statement has been turned around and that today, christians love their sin and show hate to the sinner.

Christians, your Christ commanded you to love. Excluding others, not showing them the love of your Christ shows them that you are not a follower of Christ at all. You need to do one of two things, start showing that love to all by including them in all ways or stop calling yourself a follower of Christ.

Privacy, on the internet? Really!

Ya gotta love the mind set, 'I was just exercising freedom of speech on my facebook page and shouldn't have been fired. It's my private page!'

How in the world do they not realize that there is nothing private about the internet? Why in heavens name do they believe that they can say whatever they want without the possible repercussions that may arise from their statements? Their employer does not have to support a racist or bigoted viewpoint of an employee by keeping them on the payroll if it will bring their business under a microscope in a way that could cause them to lose business or label them as questionable and unfair concerning the service they may provide.

Quite simply put, there is no expectation of privacy on the internet. Once something is put out there, it is there for the world to see. If you make racist comments and share racist memes on social media, you will be seen as a racist who does not care that the world will see them as a bigot.

Hanoi Jane

Once again we are seeing the face of Jane Fonda and the hate that is directed toward her because of her stance concerning Viet Nam and her trip to Hanoi. She has been called a traitor yet found to have broken no laws with respect to treason nor sedition. I'll not say she was right to go nor will I defend her. What I will point out is that almost all od the people who choose to be so vocal about her are the same people who applaud Senator Mitch McConnells refusal to give a nom,inee a rightful hearing to fill the vacancy of the Supreme Court. They are the same people who cheered on President Elect Donald Trump while he called for second amendment solutions if he were to lose the election. These are the same people who continually support a republican led congress in their attempt to make a failure of the Obama administration.

We are a nation that has chosen to condemn Jane Fonda never to be forgiven while applauding and supporting people who have vowed to make this country fail for the purpose of obtaining political power rather than work for the best interests of the people. There's something wrong with the way 'we the people' allow the body politic rape the country while condemning an individual.

Voting Your Conscience

The problem with voting your conscience for a candidate that cannot pull more than 3 to 10% (this includes Johnson and Stein) of the vote is the idea that you don't really care who is elected and that either of those two losers (in their minds) who represent the major parties is fine with you. Sure, you'll feel great that you didn't have to hold your nose but many of you people were staunch supporters of Senator Sanders during the primaries but are now turning your backs on him when he has made it clear that now is the time to unify behind Secretary Clinton. He made it perfectly clear that that was his stance on the subject of support from the very beginning if he were to lose the nomination to Secretary Clinton. If your support for Senator Sanders was real concerning his position during the primaries, it shouldn't be changing now.

Any vote for an non-electable third party candidate tells this guy, you really don't care what the direction this country moves.   

White Privilege

I've never had monetary wealth and probably never will. I've never been give a position above entry level in any of my career (job) choices. I've never been promoted over others more deserving nor reached the level of others just because I am Caucasian. But I am allowed what is termed 'white privilege'. You see, being Caucasian I get to enjoy the benefit of the doubt. The powers that be will attempt to talk to me rather than assume because of my 'race' I must be guilty of something and do not deserve to be treated with respect. 'White privilege' has very little to do with wealth or position and everything to do with how whites are treated with much more respect than other 'races'. We are all humans and deserve the same level of respect when approached by one another. We are all individuals and deserve the same level of respect for who we are rather than what we look like physically. We are all members of the same race, the human race.

When Will Black Lives Matter

Idiots, the lot of them. They suffer from blindness of the mind. Their thinking that “black lives matter” is saying that other lives don't. When black men, women and children are approached by an officer with his or her weapon drawn in the same situation a white person is with a conversation, they are already being considered a threat and worthy of death on the street rather than that their life is worth anything. The folks in the movement realize that all lives do matter and they only want to be considered as part of that “all”. They wish for inclusion as people, as other humans and not the 3/5^th of a person of the slavery days.

Equality is more than having the same rights. Equality is being treated with the same respect according to those rights. Bigotry of the past taught prejudice that has gotten in the way of “We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the persuit of happiness.”

I saw a cartoon that showed the body of a dead black man next to the body of a dead police officer. Their blood running together. The same red color. The blood of the same specie. Blood that could have been shared to save each others lives. Both were of the human race. Who matters? We all do. When are we going to treat each other in that matter?  

The Guardians

Gibran wrote of the two guardian angels. You can find the actual writing here http://4umi.com/gibran/wanderer/19 . What a fight they had. They fought tooth and nail over whose posting was more difficult. The one was guardian of a sinner while the other had the job of watching the saint. They got so far out of hand that their assignments became ignored and the archangel had to come and break up the fight. He asked what had caused this rift between the two and found that the only solution to the problem was to have them swap assignments seeing that they had both believed the other had it so easy. It seems as though the whole thing went to show us that there are times that the guardians need to receive a little waking up to the reality of the situation.

Why even mention this writing? Why look at two stubborn individuals who for the life of them cannot get along enough to really even consider each others position in their need to be the one who is correct. I seems to me that we have that same situation right here in the good ole US of A in or political system. Two parties that no matter what the other side has to present, the other side tends to cover their ears and begin chanting la-la-la-la-la to drown out what they don't wish to listen to. Our representatives and senators, what a sad lot. These elected men are supposed to be the guardians of this country with the express purpose of taking care of the people. Their priorities have strayed away from the people unto the corporations and rich benefactors that are bribing, legally bribing the officials who are sworn to represent the people.

Time for the people to find an arch-angel that can set these guardians straight.