I actually momentarily deleted Facebook and Twitter off of my phone this morning. Everyone I follow or I'm friends with is conservative. Some more than me, and some less. I can't read a single post without being inundated with the lefty lemming troll haters from every direction. It's like they hang out on conservative pages just to flame and troll people. I'm getting tired of seeing the hate and lies, so I considered going on a social media fast for at least the next thirty days. Anyone who has been around me for any length of time at all knows how much I like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, discussion forums, etc. So for me to even consider turning everything off for a month should indicate how truly ridiculous I think the current situation has become. But, never fear, faithful followers. All has been redownloaded and restored to its proper place. If we stick our heads in the sand like ostriches instead of taking the fight back to the ignorant, no telling what our backsides will look like in a few days! ;)
It's even hitting my Google plus homepage via the bloggers group I belong to. Either the entire world is going crazy or it just seems that way because the internet has become a vile cesspool of idiocy. So I seriously considered just pulling the plug. I couldn't even sleep last night because I kept thinking about it. I'm not a worrier, but I kept thinking that the nation I love seems to be falling apart at the seams because of the fomenting hatred that the liars want everyone to think is everywhere. I finally came to the conclusion that there is only a small socialist faction that is just screaming so everyone thinks they're bigger and more powerful than they actually are. Most people I come into face to face contact with on a regular basis aren't of the lemming left ilk. It must be an illusion, right?
Focusing on the foolishness that is indeed going on has started to rob me of my peace, my creativity, and my happiness. I'm a logical, intelligent, Spirit filled child of the Most High God. This stuff has been creeping in day after day, and now I feel like I've been swimming in filth, breathing it in, and it feels like I've been poisoned. People have forgotten how to have a civil discourse. If you disagree with them, they go off the deep end and spew venom and vile confusion. I don't even think the vast majority of them have any idea what they're talking about. They've let everyone else do the thinking for them for so long that they haven't a clue what's even happening.
The country I grew up in seems to be completely gone. Or is it? Like I already mentioned above, people I see face to face don't seem to be buying into the hysteria that's infected every electronic means of communication. When I read Proverbs every morning, those ancient words are extremely prescient and they seem to be speaking to the very events and insanity that's been steadily ramping up over the past decade. There's definitely a correlation there. Just this morning I read Proverbs 17. Here are just a few verses that are relevant to this past week:
4 A wicked person listens to deceitful lips;
a liar pays attention to a destructive tongue.
11 Evildoers foster rebellion against God;
the messenger of death will be sent against them.
12 Better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs
than a fool bent on folly.
13 Evil will never leave the house
of one who pays back evil for good.
14 Starting a quarrel is like breaching a dam;
so drop the matter before a dispute breaks out.
15 Acquitting the guilty and condemning the innocent—
the Lord detests them both.
16 Why should fools have money in hand to buy wisdom,
when they are not able to understand it?
20 One whose heart is corrupt does not prosper;
one whose tongue is perverse falls into trouble.
26 If imposing a fine on the innocent is not good,
surely to flog honest officials is not right.
27 The one who has knowledge uses words with restraint,
and whoever has understanding is even-tempered.
The foolish truly are destroyed due to a lack of wisdom. It's being played out in HD on every screen I own. I know our country has had rough times in the past. Think the 1860s, the 1920s and '30s, and especially the '60s when the same socialist ideas that have been trying to take over lately were threatening to tear the country apart.
All of those problems came before I was around to see them, though. The current crises we seem to be in is the worst I've seen in my 41 years. While I don't want to engage the stupidity or feed the trolls, I really think that the only way to kill them off is to stand up and call good "good" and evil "evil". If you're angry all the time and the only outlet you have for that anger is to dress up like an urban ninja, running around attacking people and property, you definitely fit into the evil side of the equation. If you're crying all the time, not because of what someone else said, but because of who said it, you fit into the evil side of the equation. If you think that those who don't agree with you should be shouted down, run down, burned down, or beaten in the street, you fit into the evil side of the equation.
I vehemently disagree with all the racism, hatred, unprovoked violence, unrighteous anger, lying, slander, entitlement, redistribution mentality, "I deserve something I didn't work for because I breathe air and I feel like I've been slighted by society because of the color of my skin, so I'm gonna hate you and attack you and everything I think you stand for because you have less pigmentation in your skin than I do" diatribes that have been dominating our society lately. I don't feel guilty because I'm white. Neither do I feel superior to any other person. At all. This superiority/inferiority complex that's infected our society because you've bought the lies presented to you by people who don't care a whit about whether you live, die, eat, or starve, and who have made a fortune force feeding those lies to you makes me sick to my stomach.
People need to stop believing everything they see on the internet just because it was posted by someone they've aligned themselves with because the poster promised you can have something for free if you stay angry enough for long enough. The percentage of our population who have actually read a book that was written before they were born is entirely too small. If that weren't the case, there wouldn't be so many people running around regurgitating incoherent fallacies about our history, or about the intentions of the generations who preceded us. Yes, many in those generations messed up. Big time. But if we erase those mistakes from our thoughts and landscape because they make a select immature few of us uncomfortable, how are we to build on those mistakes and improve ourselves so we can protect our children and grandchildren from repeating the worst of those very mistakes? Sweeping things under the rug and pretending they aren't there doesn't negate the fact that they are, indeed, still hiding under there, festering, rotting, and growing into something that someone else is eventually going to have to clean up for us.
It's time for the adult humans of America to grow up and actually start adulting and humaning. For generations, people have been handed things they never deserved to receive. It's caused personal responsibility, dignity, and respect to wither and die. What's left is ugly, cankerous, and destructive. It seems to me that the recent full-tilt crazy that's been spilling into the streets has been caused because someone has finally stood up and officially said, "ENOUGH!" The free lunch and unearned handouts have begun to come to an end, and the freeloaders have, for the first time in their lives, realized there is something bigger and more important than them that they are going to have to answer to. And it's caused them to throw themselves down in the aisle of the grocery store, pitching a holy fit for all to see because they have been told that they will no longer be given those Cocoa Krispies, because the adult in the room has finally discovered Cocoa Krispies only make you fat and lazy.
If I sound angry, it's because I am. But, really, I'm more sad than angry. This country was built on phenomenal principles. Principles that fought to make everyone equal, and to give everyone a CHANCE to be happy. That happiness was never intended to be achieved stepping on the backs of other people, though. It was never intended to be taken from the one who earned it and given to the one who felt entitled to it. It was never intended to be co-opted through coercion, hatred, fear, threat, violence, or guilt.
My, how far we have fallen, America. I only pray we can rebuild from the ashes that are currently being spewed into the air as we all watch. Those who are actively working to destroy what has been built over the past 241 years are going to be mystified by the results that lie tattered and broken all around them if they succeed in their actions. I seriously doubt they'll even be able to see it, though. Eyesight is only restored to the blind through divine intervention, and those who deny they need help from someone more important and powerful than themselves will never receive it.
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Happy reading!
Until next time, stay safe, and above all, be true to yourself.
That Aaron Guy
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