@PaulDMauro I don't know how anyone can see all these posts about young people mocking Charlie's death and not comprehend that there is something terribly wrong in our education and parenting. There's right and wrong, moral decency. Who has failed to teach these?
No, it was much worse than that:
"No woman should be authorized to stay at home and raise her children... because if there is such a choice, too many women will make that one."
- Feminist icon Simone De Beauvoir
Jesus didn't hangout with sinners because He wanted to appear inclusive, tolerant, and accepting.
He spent time with them to show them who He was, and how to live differently.
His goal is to transform lives, not affirm sin.
@DefiyantlyFree My parents had five children, they both worked but did shift work so that one of them,was home at all times. At times, my Dad had two jobs.
@GuntherEagleman No. Have we not learned our lesson that paying people to stay home never works and is always abused? There has to be a better way to reestablish the values that make parents want to do this. Just like they did for centuries before.
Friends, for the wokeist philosophy that dominates today, empathy—feeling the feelings of the other and not harming those feelings—is treated as a supreme value. But while empathy is perfectly good and decent, the Bible teaches that love, not empathy, is the supreme value. And love does not mean, primarily, feeling the feelings of the other or not hurting those feelings; it means willing the good of the other—and that can be, as Dostoevsky said, “a harsh and dreadful thing.”
@Kentuckygirl1 If a book is really good and I don't want it to end, I end up not reading the last chapter for a couple of days to prolong the book. Crazy, I know.
Went for an annual Medicare wellness check. I wanted to talk about my shoulder pain and was not allowed to. Told I had to make a separate appointment and they had an opening the next morning. So I had to go back less than 24 hours later, just to get a referral for PT. And, they tried to ask me the same set of medical questions as they did the day before, as if my answers would be different. No common sense in the system.
I just had the most surprising experience of having a long time good friend of mine tell me that she couldn’t be my friend anymore because she can’t be around anyone who supports Trump. It’s so shocking and so sad to me that some people can actually give up a friendship because of someone’s political views. I never even discussed politics with her because I know our views are so different. I mostly discuss my political views with like-minded people. I never post anything political on Instagram but do on X. I’m not a rabid Trump supporter who loves everything he does or says, but all in all I think he’s done a lot of good things for the country and certainly better than the last administration. Most of us who voted for him wanted the border closed and illegals deported, especially criminals. The left seems to have a terrible problem with that and thinks it’s cruel. Rather, we should just support anyone who wants to come to this country and pay for their schooling, medical bills, welfare, housing, etc. That doesn’t make any sense to anyone except for crazy liberals. He’s gotten so much done during his term, taking away tax on tips has been tremendously helpful to working people and taxes on Social Security for the seniors. The left loves to call him a fascist. That’s their buzz word. Just like calling someone a racist. Conservatives would never end a long friendship because someone’s political views were different. It just makes me shake my head.