- Not The Only One!
- Post #121
- 22 Feb 24
- ” Pull The Plug “
- Howdy,
- Thanks again for being here with me on this little journey of ours. I’m going to ask you guys to settle in and a plea for patience. As I have said before that there are three topics that can be divisive, and they are sex, religion and politics. I’m not sure if I’m going to get the trifecta , but I can almost guarantee two out of the three today ☺️☺️. I’m going to make a lot of you guys angry and pissed off, and remember it’s better to be pissed off than on….unless that’s your thing…..and if it is… then just gross!!☺️☺️ . There will be so much here that I don’t have the time to dive into all of the intricacies , but let’s just see if we can sufficiently stir the pot☺️☺️.
- I remember back some twenty or twenty five years ago when I use to be an avid talk radio listener, yes the evil and dreaded Rush Limbaugh or the likes of Bill Maher or Stephen Colbert. I want to say pick your poison here, because regardless of which side of the political landscape you land, they are just like politicians. You could put them all in a bag and just draw one out, and it would be clear that they have an axe to grind and an agenda. I want to tell you, for all of my faithful listening that I was awarded with the booby prize of high blood pressure ☺️☺️, that’s right, it would get me angry, upset and it would make my blood boil ☺️☺️. This eventually had me come to my senses and I ” pulled the plug”. I am by no means encouraging anyone to not stay informed, but there will be a real hard push here against laziness. Some of us, not all of us are familiar with not being forgiving and holding a grudge, and all the while, allowing the perpetrator of said offense to live in your head rent free ☺️☺️. The same is true of these talking heads, you allow them to steal your joy and peace. I don’t know about You, but for me, to allow them to steal the peace out of my life in exchange for high blood pressure, didn’t seem like an adequate exchange for me☺️☺️. Most people now days are aware of the detrimental effects that smoking, drinking and some recreational drugs can have on your health and well-being, and most of us will try to avoid smokers and the sort, yet we willingly invite stress and toxic thinking into our brains . Many people walk around with a chip on their shoulders , and for what? just to be miserable, burdened under the weight of the political climate in our country. I mean some people are just so mean spirited , when it comes to defending their views, it’s almost as if they take the position that if they saw you on fire, that they wouldn’t take the time to wiz on you☺️☺️
- My formal training was in the area of accounting, so I’m familiar with inventory strategies such as FIFO, which is first in, first out, but we often miss the connection with our brains that if you put garbage in or allow it to infiltrate you thinking , that garbage comes out on the other side ☺️☺️. We become, what we consume, and that applies to more than just fast food that You like to super size☺️☺️. Ok, watch your toes, because I’m getting ready to step on them.☺️. I said a hard push against laziness. I’m going to call you out here! We will so rarely dig in and do some investigating and do some fact checking, but be so willing to take someone’s else’s word for what they are saying, and I’m here to tell you that the mainstream media is not a trusted source. If you don’t look it up for yourself and know it to be true, then it’s the equivalent of spreading gossip, which I know that we all like to do. ☺️Best case scenario is that You are being someone’s else’s Flunkie and helping spread their propaganda. It’s a softball for you when it comes to politicians, because You know if their lips are moving that there is a high probability for a lot of something other than truth coming from their mouths ☺️☺️. We can take a sound bite and talking points and run with it like we are Paul Revere talking about the British are coming ☺️☺️. If a doctor gives you a diagnosis, you are on your smart phone looking up WebMD lickety- split. I would suggest and recommend this for almost every aspect of life. Know it for Yourself to be true, and not taking someone’s else’s word for it, the quote , unquote ” experts.☺️ Especially when it comes to areas of Religion, finances, and health, not just politically. And by all means don’t take my word for it either, even though much of what I espouse* here is bound up in common sense, which is in very short supply now days☺️☺️.
- If your toes aren’t sufficiently smashed yet, well I’m not done☺️☺️. This past week we had the Superbowl, which I found disgusting and offensive, and I’m not someone who offends easily. I think that it was an absolute cluster that two of the NFL’s finest teams was shrouded in such a Webb of political correctness that I could barely keep from throwing up in my mouth. The game it’s self was really good. The money making machine that is the NFL is another story all together. I want to give them a pass and say that they don’t know any better, but they are just blinded by the color green as they just rake in the the dollars ☺️☺️. I don’t know where to start, but let’s just start with the ” Black national anthem ” OMG!!, are you kidding me? I have just had it with all of this crap with the Hyphenated Americans. You have your heritage and that’s great, the Superbowl is not the place to be singling out one ethnic group over all others. Hyphenated Americans… I don’t care!! JUST DON’T CARE !! . It should be like don’t ask, don’t tell! This pisses me off so much because we want to celebrate Dr King and his legacy and we should, but at the same time we are doing everything in our power to undermine his impact on the culture. He truly wanted people judged by the content of their character and all we constantly deal with is race…shameful!! Why are we trying so hard to separate ourselves? Am I the only one to notice that the more culturally inclusive and diverse that we are, that the more we are divided?
- There is always more, or what Paul Harvey use to refer to as the rest of the story ☺️☺️ . We need to wake from our slumber as a nation and see what is really going on here. There are think tanks and foundations out there with the soul purpose of trying to influence your thinking and to get you to believe that your eyes and ears are deceiving you and that you are loosing your marbles. If we win more flies with honey than vinegar, then why is there just so much more vinegar all over the place? People want you and they want you to pick a side . They want you angry, frustrated and militant. They want us divided above all else and firmly dug into our respective trenches. They want you emotional and for the most part irrational as well. There is definitely a disconnect of sorts. My eighty-six year old mother can get so upset and wrapped around the axel about some of the culture and the way that things are going, especially about trans- athletes. She gets her panties in a bunch, but it’s what she voted for☺️☺️, blind allegiance to a party. I don’t believe that you would ever find a person or a politician that you will a hundred percent agree with , unless you are running for office Yourself☺️☺️. So again it comes down to doing your homework and researching instead of making emotional decisions off of sound bites. I’m not done with the Superbowl and its slick or sick advertising. It’s been decades now since certain elements have found their way into the public school system and we can definitely see the results of that, not good! The process of indoctrination of our children is not going fast enough and the fact that a significant number people are opting out of the public school system , so now it’s a full court press for every human being on the face of the planet. This will not be the last time that we will see overt political agendas in the sporting arena. Based on the success of the campaign, you can almost be sure that it will be coming to movie theaters and any place else where they feel that they can brain wash people on a large scale and that is exactly what the Superbowl presented for them.
- Ok, so let’s get to what is really sticking in my craw☺️☺️. The Superbowl ad about ” He gets Us”, in reference to Jesus Christ. It came to me like a slap in the face and deeply offensive . One of my friends said that they thought that I would like the ad because it was Christian and some how showing unity….more of me trying not to vomit in my mouth ☺️☺️. That ad was only Christian if you don’t know Jesus and the word of God. There was very little about the ad that was Christian. If it was a legitimate ad , why would the people putting the ad forward hide behind immunity . I believe that the main goal of the campaign was to bring added confusion to what many already don’t understand about the gospel message. First and foremost , the gift of Salvation and a personal relationship with God is a free gift and there is absolutely nothing that you can do to earn it or deserve it. It’s not a reward for the good things that you do or some how a prize for the” special ones”. It’s available to every single person who walks the planet, regardless of race, creed, gender, nationality, and any other wall , divider, or distinction that you may wish to throw at it, so totally inclusive. The commercial took different social issues and wanted to wrap them in something other than the true message of the gospel . The message is simple and open to all, but they are attempting to do is add to or subtract from that message, which is a distortion and confusing . Does God love gay people? , absolutely! Does God love people who have had an abortion or is a provider of abortions? , absolutely! Does God love transgender people?, absolutely! Does God love crooked politicians?, absolutely! God loves all people and from every walk of life, because after all, we are all sinners, and each have a unique brokenness to us, that only God can address.
- The tendency that we have as fallen creatures is to some how make God to be like us, and He just isn’t. Yes we are created in His image, but we don’t possess His holiness. He is holy and we are sinful. These two polar opposites are only bridged by the sacrifice of Jesus Christ and that is the exclusivity that many object to. We can’t compare our messed up selves to God , and some how image that it’s apples to apples, because it’s not. I think what actually takes place here is, we want the blessings of God, without having God to behold to for said blessings. Bottom line is that we want God on our terms and it just doesn’t work that way. ☺️☺️. If you take a can of pure white paint, and put one drop of any other color, it ceases to be white. It may still look like the original, but it’s not. And so , it is with God, we can’t change it from what God has already stated that it is. These Suttle changes are the things that cults are made of. The omission of or the addition of makes something a half truth, and what we don’t like is, that a half truth is a full lie. The reason why we gravitate towards the half truths or the distortion, is because we love wiggle room to carry out our wicked and evil schemes. No!, they are not considered wicked by us , because it is about us and the things that we want to do. Much of this comes down to or is about truth and what is true. Most now days , want to be believe that there are different truths. No!, those are opinions and yes we can all have different ones of those, but truth is something that universal and applies to every single person. It’s like gravity, no one is exempt from that, and no one is outside of the love of God or His justice. The problem that we already have is every one’s interpretation of the truth. It’s like five people witnessing the same car accident and each one of them will bring something different to the table from their perspectives. Some may have the tendency to exaggerate to make it some how more horrific, and others may play it down and not to see it for what it truly is,; and maybe some of the unseen damage. If we can’t even agree that there was an accident, how can we agree on the details of the event . So, some say that there is no God and some say that there is but somehow irrelevant to them and their life or lifestyle and both are mostly indefensible points of view; I want to say foolish ☺️☺️, but let’s just leave it at indefensible ☺️☺️.
- Let’s put an explanation point on ” Pull The Plug “. We have to come to terms with certain things that we just don’t want to own up to or believe. The simple truth that while we may allow our blood pressure to surge over the injustices in the world, there will never be an end to crooked leadership in the world. We will not eradicate world hunger, slavery, human trafficking, racism, and a whole crushing amount of social issues which only get much bigger over time. I’m not saying that we shouldn’t war against these things, I’m just saying that they will always be a part of fallen humanity. All to often we are angry and irate without taking some kind of concrete action to some how make things better. No!, we may not be able to save the world, but we can all do something. Don’t just be angry for the sake of being angry or you are a part of the problem, instead of being part of the solution. If you are truly dismayed by all of the problems of life, get up and go serve some one else. You don’t have to go half way around the world, you don’t have to pick up a picket sign, or March in a protest, and this one may come as a complete surprise to You, but yelling and screaming at your TV is of little consequence ☺️☺️. Do something other than being enraged, go read to some kids, get involved in a literacy program, go to a nursing home and let them tell you their stories. There are just hundreds upon hundreds of volunteer opportunities out in our communities that will elevate stress , contribute to society in a meaningful way and get you on the road to pulling the plug. If you are waiting for all of the legislation to kick in to make us forget that we are racist or prejudice against some segment of the population, it’s going to be a long wait , because You can’t legislate people’s hearts and minds, regardless of how hard you try. They may go through the motions, but you have not won them over and never will with coercive power, that can only be done with love, and you will never be sorry for loving on other people, and you can take that to the bank. So! , just pull the plug on the negativity.
- Till Next Time ✌️ Peace!
- Sandy The Southerner
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