Frustration with Liberals (AND Conservatives)

It is just so frustrating. The hypocrisy, the lies, the deception. People just don't care about the truth or actual liberty. They just want to silence the ones they disagree with. 

   When I read someone say something that is completely biased and dishonest about the ones they disagree with, my level of respect for them as a person shoots straight down the toilet. When you show that you don't really care about the Truth, the position of those you disagree with, and you are willing to just dismiss their POV with lies and deception, or bully them into caving in or silence, all you are is a big fat jerk. You need to pull your head out of your ass and stop acting like you have some right to not be offended. Use your brain to realize that liberty means that everyone who does not think like you gets the right to think however they want AND to talk about it. And know that when you try to silence them, you are just showing that you care not for liberty. Or you don't understand how it works. 

   The more I see on here the less I think of the internet community. People online, for the most part are liars and/or just plain stupid. Attempting to talk sense into them is totally fruitless because they think they know how to think critically when all they really know how to do is swallow whatever the liberal biased news or the republican biased Fox tells them to. 

     ................................ Makes me just wish for the rapture already. Then a lot of us who stand in the way of their fantasy world will be out of their way and they can have at it. 

Xanga Liberal Hypocrisy

hat @grim_truth said over at his blog is so true. But, because they are liars and full of deceit they will never admit it. Apparently, to them, if you snatched your personal version of morality out of the air, it is perfectly okay to make laws to try to force everyone to live by it, but if it came from a religious book, you can't. Hypocrites.

   Before reading any further, please try to focus here on the theme of legislating morality. If you divert from that in the comments, I must conclude that either you really are that simple, or you really are that deceptive. Deceptiveness, I find contemptible. 

   Charity. That is something that you may arguably believe is a good thing, or a bad thing. Some religions teach to help others in need, and others teach that to help them in this life will hurt them in the next. It is completely a moral issue. Some people think that the government should enforce this moral issue. 

   Gay marriage. Some folks think the government should be behind it, and others think it needs to be banned. BOTH are trying to use the government to enforce their morality, instead of getting behind pushing the government completely out of our bedrooms altogether.

   And this is just one simple example. So the bottom line here, is that if you do support the government enforcing something you believe to be morally acceptable, or even expected, you are a hypocrite if you turn around and fault someone else for doing the same exact thing when you disagree with them. You're just a liar. Liars can't be trusted. And you don't really care about the issues at hand, you just want to try to make people, through the government, behave your way. 

"God Allows Too Much Bad"

ust saw a blog over at revellife. He asks, "Do you believe God is hands-off or a puppeteer?" I answered, "Neither. I have seen Him miraculously intervene too many times to think He is "Hands off". And I have seen Him not too many times to think He is "a puppeteer". I don't see why such a complex question should have only two possible answers either. This is how I feel about it:" And then linked them here. 

   This is something I have heard and thought about deeply. I think it comes back to love. (It is my strong opinion that a lot of people today have no idea what real love is or is all about, but to avoid getting diverted to that topic, let me just say real love always wants what is best for it's object, and is never forced.) So, if God loves us, He could not create us as little robots who have no conception of doing anything other than His Will. Without the freedom to choose for ourselves, it would be the same as brainwashing, or locking us in a cage. I can't conceive of how that would be honest or loving. It certainly wouldn't be genuine. And all that is completely against the nature of God.

   Second, you have the question of suffering. There is no other way for us to have free will though, without having the suffering of the innocent. Some will suffer at the hands of those who choose to use their free will to that end. And some will suffer due to the imperfection that came along with the fall from grace. I would like to point out here, that suffering usually makes people stronger. People who grow up with no suffering, and given everything they want right when they want it seem to end up the most troubled and unhappy adults. So you will have a hard time convincing me that God needs to disallow the suffering that goes on because then we all would be spoiled little brats with no appreciation. Also, Jesus suffered plenty Himself when He that never knew what the filth of sin felt like, took on the sins of anyone who would ever be born from Adam and Eve to the future of people who have yet to be born - all at once. And that after suffering the physical pain of the whipping post and cross. Everyone has their own cross to bear.

   Thirdly, God does know every single possible scenario and outcome. And I most certainly do believe He has a plan for all of us, only we have to surrender to Him to see it happen. He gave us free will, so the power to ruin those plans is in our hands, if we reject Him and His ways. The good news is, God really can turn your mourning into dancing, if you just let Him. But, I digress. There are times when, because He can see every scenario possible, He *does* choose to intervene and miraculously change things. 

   I have never believed that when He chooses not to though, that it is due to a lack of faith on anyone's part. Sometimes Dad just says "No." And, there is no doubt He has His reasons. But, that does not mean that it was originally "His Will" for that suffering to happen. Remember, it was "His Will" for us to remain perfect in the Garden of Eden. But where we are now, there are so many factors to be taken in about what would happen if He intervened. If you've ever watched It's A Wonderful Life, you can get an idea of how many lives we touch and influance, and the ripple affect that has on other lives. And, not being able to see every possible scenario for the decades to come, we really aren't in a position to ever say God was wrong to choose not to intervene. Realizing this makes the element of faith not quite so hard for me. 

   Also, sometimes what we might think would be a good thing turns out to be a very bad thing, sometimes even the worse thing we could think of. Sometimes I think of it like this, for God, not intervening may have been making a choice of the lesser of two evils. Since I can't see every possible scenario, I don't know how much it would change things. But, I can see many other instances to tell His nature, and by what I can see, I know it is not in His nature to cause suffering to the innocent. By this I can trust that when He does not intervene, it must be part of His plan. 

Understanding the Bible

So many times I hear that the Bible is confusing and so hard to understand. But really, it's just not. According to the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Indicator, the KJV is written in language that anyone past the eighth grade should be able to understand. 

   Sometimes I think it is more about having a reason to discard it than actual understanding of it. It is simple, very easy to understand. People run into problems when they try to add to it or take away from it though. Also, when they snatch a single verse or passage without even trying to understand the intended meaning, and then try to use it as a blanket belief system for any and all situations. This seems very foolish to me, as the Bible consists of 66 books. People don't seem to think they can take one letter written to one person and get a clear picture of the writer's entire personality, yet they want to do so with God and snatch out one single letter with phrases they can use to paint Him which ever way they want to, and expect it to suffice.

   Either they must be willingly ignorant or honestly not very bright, or deliberately deceptive. In other words, they do not want to have a clear picture of God so they are being willingly ignorant. Or they honestly cannot grasp the concepts in the Bible. Or they know full well they are skewing the facts to slant Him, and do so to deliberately deceive others.

   Anyone who wants a clear picture of God can get to know Him and His ways from a thorough reading of the Bible. You can't begin with your mind already made up though. This is a topic though, that it seems true objectivity is impossible for some to have towards. 

   Personally, I love to read and study the Bible, and have for my whole life. So when people try to tell me it has conflicts, or that they can't understand it, I am never quite sure why they feel that way. I don't always understand why God does/allows some of the things He has, but I don't always understand why a quite few people I know well do some things they do. It doesn't mean I don't know them, or have a fairly good idea of their personalities. Same thing with God. 

Feeling Old

   Today, my oldst just got paid for her very first job - illustrating a children's book to be published by August! She is going off to college soon.  Also, in ten days, I will be 37. Add to that the fact that my ex called and is coming this weekend (maybe) to "bring presents" out of the blue for no apparent reason. This weekend, which is mothers day, and would have been our 12th anniversary. And then the fact that some people are so mean, shallow and self centered that they don't care about who they hurt and think it is cool to be that way........I just feel so old.

   I feel out of touch. Generation gap? Maybe. But *my* kids think I'm cool. The teenage ones are just as baffled at the way it seems to be in style to be so self centered as I am. As a matter of fact, my oldest says on a regular basis, when things like this come up, that she wants to go live on Pluto and not to be a human anymore because her faith in humanity is gone. It just seems to be that there are so few people left who understand common decency. The rest want to gang up on those few and do their best to make them feel bad for it, or make them seem to be in the wrong. (Which only works for other like twisted minds.) 

   It makes me feel weary and tired. It makes me sad for them, and worried for my own children. If people are getting meaner, it will be even harder for them. It will make them stand out more too. And who wants harm to ever come to their children? 

   It is also very frustrating. Why don't people want to think? Is it that hard? I *know* these concepts are not that complicated. Seems to me they just go with whatever excuses sound best but they really in all honesty don't give a shit. 

   I guess we have been spoiled too much for too long. It must be easier to close your eyes and hold out your hand than to open them and learn something. Responsibility and hard work are just too much to expect from these people. And I just can't make them understand. So I get weary. And I feel old.