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Draw the line? Or draw out the lying?
America needs to purge itself of lying.
Every morning, Mr. Cring takes a personal moment with his friends.
Sensitize … August 25th, 2020
SENSITIZE 88
Are we hopelessly divided?
Actually, desperately misguided.
Every morning, Mr. Cring takes a personal moment with his friends.
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Sensitize … June 15th, 2020
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Every morning, Mr. Cring takes a personal moment with his audience.
Today: Cring discusses the first fourteen words of the Declaration of Independence–about equality.
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1 Thing You Can Do This Week is Change the Name of the Homeless
I suggest we call them “the pointless.”
It is unacceptable that nearly a half million people in America can’t find a home to protect them from the elements.
There are so many charitable organizations, so many beds, so many opportunities and so many shelters that the term “homeless” does not apply.
These brothers and sisters on the street are “the pointless.”
They are folks who have lived their lives to a certain juncture, and really see no advantage in continuing to try to be solvent, functioning, or for that matter, contributing.
Maybe this decision was arrived at through addiction.
Perhaps it was mental illness.
Do they have a disability?
Do they just enjoy living on the darker edges of the streets?
I don’t know.
But you certainly cannot refer to them as homeless.
Housing possibilities and living quarters are constantly available.
We can no longer say that these Spartans cannot get a job—the unemployment rate is so low that McDonald’s is hanging out in the avenues, passing out applications.
I have every intention of continuing to be generous and open to these who are so situated. But I am no longer going to propagate the myth of “homelessness.”
I am giving my funds, my mercy and a moment of my time to the pointless.
We can gather the five hundred thousand people on the streets and take care of every one of them through a one-dollar-a-week payroll tax on each worker’s paycheck. Yes—four dollars a month.
It’s about fifty dollars a year per taxpayer, and if you multiply that by two hundred million payees, you come up with trillions of dollars. Don’t you think we could probably lodge some folks comfortably and feed them for that sum?
Of course we could.
But it wouldn’t eliminate the problem—for they aren’t homeless. They are pointless.
- They’ve lost their point of attack.
- They’ve lost their point of purpose.
- And they’ve lost their point of reasoning.
After all, nobody grows up wishing they could someday be homeless, freshening up in a bird bath at the park.
Their brain, soul and emotions have placed them in this cauldron of vulnerability—to suffer the dire situation.
So God bless the pointless.
And every time I use the word, please realize that I am not being critical—just avoiding condemnation or useless pity.
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Comprehend the fight
To do what’s right
BAD
Wrong-headed: Incorrect headed in the wrong direction.
Although some people are critical of our country, I, for one, am astounded that things work as well as they do, considering how wrong-headed we are.
We are misguided. It is not malicious, but certainly is ignorant. And ignorant is a decision to ignore the logical.
Can we start with some stats?
Arguably, the most persecuted minorities in our country are the LGBTQ, Jewish and black communities.
Watching television, you are probably convinced that America is fifty percent gay, because they are well-represented in the entertainment industry and have gained the attention of politicians.
Likewise, if you listen to the pundits discussing the election, you might assume that the Jewish vote is at least thirty percent.
And in a quest to find truth, the number of shows and specials which are produced about the exploitation of the black race might cause you to think they are forty to fifty percent of the population.
Here are the real figures:
From the LGBTQ community itself, it is estimated that 4.5 percent of Americans are gay, Lesbian, transgender and such.
Just 2 percent of the country is Jewish.
And 12.1 percent of America is black.
If you add these three numbers, you come up with 18.6 percent of the census.
They are a threat to no one.
They have no plans nor ability to take over our country and turn it into black power, Zionist or homosexual.
Eighty percent of this country is white or other acceptable shades.
I just want to establish the statistics—for it is bad to begin a discussion believing false information. By no means am I offering these facts to make you think that because the numbers of these minorities are small, that they should be treated with disdain.
I’m just saying that you’ll never reach this country until you realize you are appealing that white people be more generous of spirit.
There’s just not much you can do if you’re gay, Jewish and black to change the heart of the United States of America to make it a home more suitable for your feelings.
If you’re a politician, a minister, a community organizer or just a concerned citizen, you should be motivating your white brothers and sisters to comprehend that this 18.6 percent that receives so much ambivalence, if not anger, are indeed “the least of these, my brethren,” that Jesus referred to when he was discussing those who need the most of our love and attention.
The problem in mentioning Jesus is that even though we tout ourselves “a Christian nation,” the religion of our country is…
SAD
Americanity.
It is a blending of our cultures, our likes, our religion, our prejudices, our egos and remnants of compassion.
It has absolutely nothing to do with Christianity.
If Jesus preached today, he would not last for three years. He would stir up trouble, get caught up in the 24-hour news cycle, be declared a cult leader and disgraced in two weeks.
Americanity has three premises:
1. America was founded by Europeans—basically white people.
2. Because of that and many other factors, we consider ourselves to be an “exceptional nation.”
3. Even though we accept an amount of integration, we do not want to lose the power of our white color and composition.
I understand that most people would not admit they have bought into these principles. Nevertheless, they are ingrained in you if you are not gay, Jewish or black.
Let me give you an example:
We are a country that is proud that we freed the slaves. Matter of fact, the average white person would point out that this is acceptable restitution—our gift to the black race for stealing them from Africa.
Now let’s take a Bible story everybody knows:
The children of Israel are slaves in Egypt. Moses wants to free them. Let’s say the Pharaoh agrees to free them, but then the slaves remain in Egypt, hanging around with those people who used to be their masters. How successful would that have been? How important was it for the Jews to escape Egypt, so they could really be free?
Yet in America, we tossed freedom to the black man, but forced him to live, work and worship around his former masters.
We promised “forty acres and a mule” and instead, trapped black families in a history that held them in bondage.
Simultaneously…
MAD
Even though the LGBTQ community, the black race and the Jewish folk are only 18.6 percent of the population, there is a group that is 52 percent, and they are still treated as a minority.
They are women.
They are fighting for their lives; they are struggling for their right to be heard. They are pleading for their bodies—they are demanding an equality that should have been guaranteed long ago.
Before we solve the problems with the gays, the Jews and the blacks, we are desperately in need of a GENDER MENDER: a mingling of education, humor and understanding that closes the gap between men and women.
Can you imagine how much easier it would be to grant equality to other minorities if the treatment of women was mitigated by common sense?
Instead, we pretend that women are about one percent of the population and ask them to stand to the rear and wait their turn.
You cannot solve the problems in the black community until you address the conflict between men and women.
You will not comprehend the difficulties faced by the Jewish race until the bigotry against women is resolved.
And you will never, ever complete the journey of a free America, and open the doors to the LGBTQ community, until men and women in this country arrive at a tender, but firm understanding of their union.
I can certainly assure you, however, that I am…
GLAD
There are young humans living and breathing.
They have survived the shenanigans of twenty years of war, political lying and cheating and murder in their schools.
They have no stomach for Americanity.
And they are completely turned off to the idea that minorities must stand in line and wait their turn.
They are our hope.
Yet even the young humans out there are screwed up on the issue of men and women—borrowing way too much tradition from their parents.
It is time to deal with the BAD. Look at the stats the way they are, realize that America is mostly white and needs to be appealed to for its better angels to make our plans work.
And please, once and for all, can we get rid of the sad Americanity—which believes in red, blue and white supremacy?
I’d like to see us get MAD and start to seek out a way to GENDER MENDER the difficulties between men and women.
Then we can be glad and offer the next generation a better palette, so their painting can be filled with color.
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It is much too easy to establish the will
To take a life and learn to kill
BAD
Yes, it’s bad.
He’s dead.
I didn’t know anything about him. Other people did. They were convinced he was so evil that he needed to be destroyed.
His name was Qasem Soleimani.
He was sixty-two years of age.
And now every small city in America has an anchor person who has to learn how to pronounce his name.
He was like a big general who spent all of his time thinking up ways to scare the world around him so the philosophy and lifestyle he held dear could achieve primal consideration.
SAD
So it is. It’s sad.
It’s absolutely sad that we felt the need to blow up this fellow because of what he’s done, and of course, what he might do.
And see—here’s where it gets me.
A killer kills. That’s bad.
But a killer is killed. That’s sad.
Because one of us—who are supposed to be the good guys—has to do the killing. And no matter how righteous we may think our cause is, there were people before us who thought they were just as righteous, who killed and ended up losing what they had because of it.
I’m not going to wave my flag so hard that I start believing that killing is all right. It is not.
That’s what makes me…
MAD
We’ve become killers.
We have gone into another country and killed one of its high officials and said we had the right to do it because the work he was doing for his country was wrong. Or at least, we considered it wrong.
Yet if I spent five minutes in that country, and they explained to me that we sent thousands of troops to their land—to kill and maim—would I be in danger of being convinced that their cause was just as plausible, if not noble?
When a killer kills, and a killer is killed, we become killers.
We can talk about it, debate it…
GLAD
…but here’s the weird thing.
I’m glad we killed him.
I’m not proud. I don’t want to dance on his grave.
But if my choices are BAD, SAD, MAD and GLAD—well, I’m more glad.
But if I could make one request:
Let’s just stop for a while.
Killing, that is.
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From the Stacks … November 13th, 2020
In November of 2016, Jonathan found himself contemplating the initial difficulty that always appears whenever there is talk of “repairing the breach.” His thoughts are oddly applicable today. See if you agree.
A great book once alleged that there is great power in “repairing the breach”–finding that break in etiquette or sensibility that can be covered with a multitude of grace.
It is a noble notion.
The difficulty with the mission is that people will often argue with you about whether there’s a breach in the first place. After all, a common conversation with fifty Americans will render much different responses:
If we cannot agree that there’s a breach, then the repairing will be considered foolish or intrusive.
What can we agree on about our pain before we seek a relief?
It is not so much that our problems are complicated–it’s more that they’re denied.
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