our future, watch this movie!We have become a "no consequence" society... and the Billy Bobs of this world are breeding like it's (insert dirty reference here)!
I am a bad, bad quaker, and a worse christian for my uncharitable thinking when it comes to welfare, but if we stop and do the math, the human race will "out-dumb" itself into extinction in about 3 generations, because there ARE consequences!
So i leave this for whomever surpasses the human race and can still read... don't make life too easy. Teach your children to play games with winners and losers, because, in the long-run, life is NOT fair. Teach your sons that they are not horny animals with no will-power. Don't hand out condoms, because they "will do it anyway." Without looking up the stats, I will put money on the sad fact that the number of teen pregnancies and cases of STDs among our kids has gone up in the areas where condoms have been made accessible in school clinics (Roosevelt High in pdx being one.) Let your child fall; it will teach him about gravity! Teach your daughter to stand on her own two feet and to make good choices to begin with, instead of teaching her how to work the system. Most of our mistakes are not flushable... and even the ones that may be, often leave a stench behind.
If these words go unheeded, you will be developing a welfare nation, where eventually no one is working, and you just get more money by shooting out more fatherless children! Then you are doomed to follow the great humans into extinction...
I find it difficult to reconcile my beliefs in Biblical generosity with my more Darwinian logic. I guess it is the same as my duel belief in Creation and the big Bang... what other sound would it make when God creates the world? Perhaps what I believe to be "Biblical" is more "religious" and "guilt," rather than an honest look at what God would have us do.
Thinking back to creation, God did not make us to live in the world in which we live... I also don't know why a perfect God would let things fall the way they now lay (or is it lie?)... I just see the end of "civilization" as we know it looming in the near future, and it irks me to be the only one who seems to realize it!
Which is why I loved the stupid movie, "Idiocracy." I am not alone in my fears! And I LOVE the bathroom of the future!
Right now I feel like that little ant, trying to move that rubber tree plant... to stop the avalanche of all the other rubber tree plants!!!! But I plod along, contradicting the schools' teaching, showing my children that there really are consequences in life and how to make the right choices to begin with, not how to cover up the mess afterward.
Am I alone in this? Leaving aside religion, and even a simple belief in God or god, if we ruled our lives by the basic principles in the Bible, then we would not be in this mess to begin with. Love it or hate it, the truth is that rules and morals are created for our own protection. I dislike when religious leaders declare that AIDS is God's retribution on homosexuality; couldn't it be the other way around? Perhaps God gave sexual guidelines for our own health and well-being... like any good "parent" or creator would, knowing the troubles and problems ahead. Going with this thought, at what point is our help more of just enabling? WWJD? Don't ask me! I can only say what Jaymi might do... and that's way too complicated for me to really answer with any honesty right here and now.
So what do we glean from this rant?
1. people should do the right thing.
2. if all people did the right thing, then there would be very little need for charity.
3. people are stupid and don't do the right thing... thus making even stupider people who do even worse things.
4. the end of all things is near; therefore be clear headed and have self-control. Care for each other, without complaining... use your skills, gifts and talents to help each other. Pray for those who have troubles. Do something about what you pray about if possible. Don't judge others... just do your very best! This is what brings joy and praise to you, others, and God! (i kind of ripped off Peter, the bi-polar apostle, on this one, but it's okay cuz he's my favorite Bible person, and I totally jaymified it.)
5. i love you... i love god.... nothing else really matters!
I would invite you to agree or (even better) disagree with me! post your comments! i dare u!
-jay-
ps. one child born to amazing parents needs your prayers... Baby Z is the 3 week-old daughter of my good friend Nanana and her husband, Nestero. Two people, who have already shown themselves to be amazing first-time parents, are needing continued miracles for their baby! She's doing great for a child who wasn't supposed to survive birth! She is breathing and eating on her own, which meant she was able to go home after only a week in the hospital, but her bones are super brittle and need to grow to continue to support her basic functions, such as breathing. So take a moment and pray for fragile little Zayana Grace, or just baby Z, or even my own personal nick name for her : little fluffy. God knows who she is... and for some reason, even tho he knows it all, god still asks us to pray... so i'm passing on that same request. Please pray. Thanx!
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