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Today: In 1909 the NAACP was founded, and nobody tried to change it to the NAAAP. Listen up.
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3 Things … January 23rd, 2020
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To Do to Be a Winner in the Super Bowl
1. Spend 10,000 hours of excruciating pain, exercising your body to withstand all the brutal hits.
2. Defeat 16 opponents who are just as well-trained and dedicated as you.
3. Eat chicken wings and brag to your friends that you would never have dropped that pass, which the beat-up receiver fumbled away.
Populie: Third World Country … October 15, 2014
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Poverty is bad.
This is an assertion which is popular.
Therefore, poor people are bad.
This has become the populie.
Even though we would insist that we don’t tie the quality of life and character to the amount of money in a bank account, we definitely attribute more value to those who are in the black as opposed to those who live in the red.
To further reinforce this, we look at people wallowing in squalor around the world and shake our heads, wondering how they got that way.
Politics loves this because it gives us the chance to prove that America is exceptional and the rest of the planet is being punished for not being like us.
Religion is overjoyed at the prospect of third world countries because it give us a hovering horde that we can evangelize with the gospel, while feeling self-righteous.
Entertainment leaps with joy because it can tell stories of depravity which some soul emerges from, to overcome his or her circumstances and win the day, perhaps ending up on Wall Street.
This is probably one of the more egregious sins of the American culture, causing us to believe that we do not need to deal with our own iniquities because at least we’re not as miserable as those poor souls in the third world countries.
Let me give you a list:
- Access to clean water.
- Adequate shelter
- Nourishing food
- Supportive friends
These are what I call the four blessings. If you have these opportunities you will find yourself benefited and granted the human dignity to proceed with a burst of confidence.
Remove these from your life and you are left wallowing in self-pity.
Case in point: New Orleans and the Eastern seaboard quickly became third world countries when they were struck by hurricanes, and the people wandered the streets aimlessly, as if they were refugees.
For you see, it isn’t so much that some people are born better than others, but rather, that some people have water, shelter, food and friends.
Just think what would happen in Chicago today if clean water were suddenly removed from the populace.
What if these same Chicago folks found out that all the food had been stolen, or was tainted?
What if their homes suddenly became uninhabitable?
In less than forty-eight hours, Chicago would look like a bomb site if these necessities were removed.
Yet we continue to look at other nations which do not have these four blessings and shake our heads in disbelief that they live in such pitiful conditions or that they’re raging in war.
We have plenty of advice. We have plenty of weapons to sell to them. We will gladly ship them Bibles. But the four things they require–access to water, adequate shelter, nourishing food and supportive friends–we withhold and only offer to those of our own kind.
There is no such thing as a third-world country. There are human beings who are just like us who are forced to live … in aggravation.
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A Nice Price for Mice … November 16, 2013
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It was a rather odd dream–not really spooky, just bizarre.
I found myself in a Wendy’s fast-food restaurant, chomping on a chicken sandwich, chatting with friends, when a young tyke about seven years old came walking up to me. He had chubby cheeks and wore a winter hat, similar to the ones you would see in the 1950s on kids who were forced to don them by their parents. In his hand he was holding an old-fashioned bird cage, and as I peeked inside, I discovered it was filled with little dead white mice.
I was taken aback. Then the youngster pointed to a sign pinned to his coat. It read, “A nice price for mice.”
I realized the kid was trying to sell these deceased little rodents–peddling from table to table.
Before I could express my horror, he ambled over to another patron, where a lovely older lady purchased one of the mice from the determined seller. He made his way all around the restaurant, with each person buying one of the dead boogers and patting the young man on the head.
I observed that none of the customers knew what to do with their purchase. As I mentioned, this was not a spooky dream. No one ate one or put it between their sesame seed buns. One lady wrapped the dead mouse delicately in a napkin and placed it in her purse; another man stuffed it in his pocket.
Why was the little boy selling dead mice? And why were people purchasing them?
Suddenly I awoke.
So you see, my friends, I don’t like to ignore my dreams. It may actually be one of the few occasions when my harried soul is still enough for God and my conscience to speak to me. In the process of analyzing the dream, I realized it was a parable of our American culture.
If Madison Avenue is able to find the right “little boy” to send our way to appeal to us, we are more than willing, at a nice price, to buy mice.
We really don’t know what we’re going to do with them. We don’t particularly favor them. But we find it difficult to say no to the attractive offer–especially when those around us are purchasing.
So we end up stuck with something we may not even believe in, and certainly do not treasure, as we pretend that it is our choice. Here’s the truth: mice aren’t nice–at any price.
Especially dead ones.
So I will tell you–there are some mice which have entered our society, promoted by Madison Avenue and large corporations. I would like to point them out and call them nasty, instead of wrapping them up in a napkin and tucking them away.
Here are three that immediately come to my mind:
1. Killing.
I am against it. I don’t like war. I don’t agree with capital punishment. I don’t like abortion. I don’t particularly like it when a guy shoots a woman through a screen door. It’s a dirty little mouse being peddled to the public as realistic and entertaining.
2. Drug abuse.
I don’t understand why we need them. What I mean is, I don’t understand why we would want to take drugs for recreational purposes when we’re reluctant to use them for treatment. I think we should be in the business of becoming a drug-free society because we’re working on being happier people. I will not purchase that little wall-dweller and call it a pet.
3. Pornography.
It isn’t cute. It isn’t pretty. It doesn’t create equality between the sexes. It is another form of slavery for women. It is notorious. It is a dead “stinky” being sold by pretty people who want to portray themselves as open-minded–unless you are talking about the rights and dignity of the female of our species.
There you go.
I realize we live in a society that wants to peddle a nice price for mice, but I will tell you, things like killing, drug abuse and pornography are dirty rats.
And they are not a deal for me … at any price.
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