Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin

So I've been thinking about this for a while now. Thinking about how people are hypocritical and speak with a forked tongue.

Growing up, I went to many different private schools. From Baptist to Lutheran to non-denominational, religion was something that was instilled in me. It was something that I learned from many different aspects. They all taught me one thing though, that even though someone may do something you don't like or if someone does something to hurt you, you can dislike the action, but to keep loving the person.

Now I gather that it didn't mean to let people push you around or to continually let others take advantage of you. I am sure that this rule allows you to create distance from a person who is hurting you, but yet to forgive them. I have also heard the term "forgive and forget" but I don't see how forgetting that something happened is an important part of moving on in your life. There are quite a few people I have forgiven in my life, but I will never forget how they treated me. However, I don't let what happened rule over my life. I don't let it weigh my heart down with hate. My life is not necessarily harmonious, but my life is mine.

My point is this. If someone wronged you or did something to you, accept that it happened and, if you can stop that person from harming another, then do it. Teach those around you to defend themselves against people who deliberately harm others. Teach your children to be aware of their surroundings. Don't instill your fear into their lives. Children need to be children.

And one more thing. Teach your children to love unconditionally. They watch your every move and they see things and pick up on these actions. If you speak nicely in front of them and then turn your head and spew insults and such, they will learn from this and think it is okay. My mother always told me never to say anything if I didn't have anything nice to say. Growing up, it's a hard thing to accomplish. As an adult, I have learned that you really do catch more bees with honey than you do with vinegar.

Downsizing America

I work in a town that is strictly seasonal. No joke. Summer months there is no work because there is no one around. All of the snowbirds come down during September/October and stay until May, or around there.

The thing is, there are still many residents and people like me (who work in the town) that need customer service people to help them with their needs. But it seems that no matter where you go, your cell provider or the grocery store or even where I work, corporations are downsizing. Which then causes a drop in the ability for the company to properly give GOOD customer service.

I would like to point out that many of these corporations are bringing in millions of dollars in profit (that is money after all the bills and employees have been paid) and yet they bigwigs can't seem to get their heads out of their asses long enough to see that down at the store level, they are truly suffering. I am sure that the CEOs of these large companies have made quite a few dollars over the time they have been gainfully employed and have a lot of money saved, so why is it that the consumer has to suffer?

I believe that it is because men have become greedy in the course of time and don't know how to part with their precious dollar. Even in this time where the American people are in a crunch, the top five oil companies announced that they made $36 billion (with a B) in profits just for the second quarter (as posted in today's edition of the Huff Post Internet Newspaper - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/29/big-oil-profits_n_913452.html). The homeless rate and unemployment rate has skyrocketed across the nation and these pinhead assholes are eating caviar and Filet Mignon without blinking an eye.

Forgive me if I seem a little perturbed. The company I work for just made management cut 175 hours because our sales were down. Okay. But why am I so freaking busy EVERY DAY that I work? Because there are only FOUR people working, including management. Look, I don't want to eat caviar and Filet Mignon everyday, but I would love to be able to pay my bills on time and not worry if I am going to be able to afford to put gas in my car the next time I have to work.

So with this on your mind for the next few minutes, why not stand up for what is right? I know that one person cannot make a difference, but I can plant the seed. All I am saying is to take a look around you. Open your eyes. SEE what is happening. STOP being so damned apathetic and STOP telling yourself that it can't happen to you. Because one day it might and then where will you be? 

Thinking Inside the Box

I'm sure that you all have been quite worried about me. I know that it has been a few years since my last post. I've been on a learning spree. Learning exactly what life is all about and how to take a fall without crying like a baby for my mommy. And so I have learned how to do it, now I have to learn how to implement it on a daily basis. That's the hard part.

Life is not about to stop for you if things get rough. It will keep on going until you get yourself up off the floor, dust yourself off and put yourself back in the ring. It is how we learn to persevere and improve upon our daily living. It is what makes us who we are. It builds character. Which brings me to a point I have been dying to make for a while.

What is going on in the world and the way we live our lives? Why is it that we have become so self centered and apathetic that our neighbor is more of an enemy than a friend? And what happened to us that our friends turn their backs on us more and more often, rather than be empathetic or even sympathetic to the goings on in our lives?

People today don't care anymore. People today only care about themselves and how they can be better than the next person, no matter who they step on or whose feelings get crushed in the process. We have become a society of naysayers and literalists who believe that if someone thinks differently, then they are wrong. We persecute and point fingers and insist that anyone thinking outside the box should be condemned.

We tell people they are wrong without thinking things through. What would happen if someone came up to you and said that everything you knew was wrong? Would you become offended? Would you defend your beliefs and feelings and thought processes? Sure you would. Would you become so enraged that you would kill for your beliefs? Maybe. The way people have become so self preserving just might lead one to kill for their beliefs. In fact, it has. It has led us to do things that I (personally) never thought people would or could do.

Why have we become such a violent nation of people? Why are we so engulfed with ourselves that others suffer for it? Whatever happened to love thy neighbor or the golden rule? Or do we really enjoy being treated like the animals we act like?

I don't know about you, but I am definitely in favor of being treated like a human being. I want to be treated the way I treat everyone else; with respect. I try to live by the golden rule, to treat others as I would want them to treat me. Though I am sure that will never happen.

Food for thought...

Cruel and Unusual Punishment?!?!

Ok. So I have a serious bone to pick with the Supreme Court.

It's okay for a man to kidnap, bind and RAPE an 11 year old boy and then stuff him into a footlocker to DIE (where upon he did), but it's NOT okay for the bastard who did this to be put to death by lethal injection because it's cruel and unusual punishment?

Because what he did to that little boy doesn't warrant death? Because it might HURT to die by lethal injection? Last time I checked, being bound and sodomized constitutes as cruel and unusual punishment.

Who gives a flying rat's ass if it will hurt to be killed like that. What about the boy? What about what he DID to the boy? What about the boy's family??

Is there no justice anymore? Since when did people convicted of a felony suddenly have rights anyway? I understand "the right to an attorney" blah blah and so forth. I get it. I am not a moron. But this creature, this so called MAN, who preyed upon a CHILD and did the things he did should have NO RIGHT to say, "It violates my rights to be put to death by lethal injection because it is CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT".

Give me a freakin' break.

Wow.. it's almost like it's the first time....

I know why I am up at this hour... But why is not of your concern...



a little twisting of the arm...

OK. I'll tell you. My husband is drunk. And I don't mean just merely intoxicated. I mean hammered, plastered and above all else, praising the porcelain god. It's something else I tell you. I've dealt with it before, but somehow this is... er, how do you say, special? I guess it is because he is my husband. Before, he was my boyfriend, then my fiance, now, I guess, he actually belongs to me and I absolutely MUST take care of him, else.... well....

I wouldn't want something bad to happen to him I suppose.

I think he has finally fallen to slumber. I will go to bed myself.

Boy, I can't wait for that cup o' joe in the morning.

And while we're on the subject...

No really, I think it IS Paul Reubens!!!

Ahhhhh - From the Wonderful World of Disney - How sweet!

It might be a bit long... if only they had this when I was in school! Maybe I would have learned to cope better!

Sure...


The Menstruation Story

It's called freedom of speech

Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

Someone, somewhere doesn't understand what this means.

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The people who made this movie do.

Watch it if you get a chance.

And from out of the seriousness came...

...these few funnies. Unlike some sour pusses, I like to have a good laugh now and then.

I hope you enjoy these as much as I did.

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And last but not least...

(Some of the content in this last short may be offensive - so if you don't like it, cover your eyes)

CIAO~

Trash Trash Everywhere

It seems to me,

That all I see

Is trash on every street corner.

Do you think it is fair for me to say that people are piggish? We throw trash on the ground without ever thinking where is goes.

Well folks, it goes right where you put it. On the ground or in the ocean or into the gutter... But it doesn't get picked up, unless where you live you have street sweepers, and even then all that does is blow it around. It may pick up the bigger pieces, but the smaller ones just get distributed around. Say, into a tree with a plastic bag, or around a light post with some moving twine. I've even seen mattresses, chairs, clothing and the like strewn across the interstate.

It's disgusting. WE should be ashamed of ourselves. WE should know better. How do you think you would like it if someone drove down your street and decided to dump their trash into your yard? You wouldn't. So why do we make the earth feel unloved by dumping our garbage where ever we want to? Have you been to your local dump lately? Have you seen the amount of waste we accrue daily? Weekly? Monthly? How close can you get to the landfill before the stench turns the acid in your stomach? I know I can't get very close to mine... I HAVE been to the one closest to me very recently and it made me sad (not to mention it turned my stomach).

When I visit California, my home state, and I travel up Pacific Coast Highway, I marvel at how such a large state can keep their roads decently clean. I drive around here, in the BIBLE BELT of the nation, and I can't believe that these people make this place so nasty. I used to work for the Division of Forestry and it sickened me that people would just dump their trash somewhere in the middle of the forest. LITERALLY! We would be driving down a unmarked, dirt or clay road, and we would come up on beds, refrigerators, large TV antennas, bicycles, clothing and other household items that THE LOCALS were just too busy (or lazy, IMHO) to take to the landfill.

Is it so hard for everyone to recycle when they can? It's not really that time consuming. Most places have a recycle center close to their home where they can drop it all off and then the trash company will come and get it.

Stand up and do your part. Maybe what you do will brush off onto your neighbors. Maybe you will start to feel like you are accomplishing something GOOD for the world.

Maybe.