Had to be that timeframe, because i hadn't yet met my (late) husband. Was at a party. On the grill was some steak and some chicken - these were for the adults. The, ugh, hamburger didn't look so good - that was for the children.
But things worked out...that time. You see, while the (ugh-hem) "grownups" were over there getting smoked/coked up, the good stuff was ready, and the children had some steak and chicken. Frankly, i believe the "adults" were a bit too high to either notice or care.
That was 1990, or maybe early 91. Either way, those children are now approaching middle-age. Gen X? Y? Don't know, or even care. But i'll bet those 30-somethings haven't forgotten certain things from 30 years ago.
Yeah, like that Halloween party a year or so earlier - ugh, why'd the adults have to take down the cardboard haunted house? The kids wanted to play in it - instead, the children were predictably shoo'd elsewhere. Oh yeah, that's right, the large painted cardboard boxes had been placed a bit too close to the smoke-n-coke buffet...silly me;/
Today, those kids surely wonder if there will still be a job next season, if there will be any social-security funds for them when they reach 68 or 69. All the while, noticing the retIred boomers going out for breakfasts and dinners.
Uh yeah! Who wouldn't feel resentment?
Sunday, February 9, 2020
OK Boomer! Raises some thoughts. First off, accusations of young people
being lazy and feeling entitled. Well, that goes like this: in an economy where sustainable jobs are difficult to find / hold on to - and qualifying for jobs, that are basically glorified clerk typist positions means going THOUSAND$ into debt (when you're not even old enough to buy a pack of smokes) ... Meanwhile, rents are insane and splitting expenses with a roommate...yeah, good luck with that drama.
Young people are resentful??? Young people aren't stupid. While, during childhood - and not quite able to articulate - tell me these 20 and 30-somethings didn't have a sense of possibly being less than welcome, of being in the way (while mom's moving in her boyfriend, and dad?...he's living somewhere in.. oh wait a sec, he's not there anymore). How many young people lost a sibling? Not to a car accident or a freak fever, but to a pre-planned (and inexpensive) appointment at the local moloch-mill.
We've been a society which has been less than child-welcoming. Predating the vapid for-the-children memes by several decades, there came out movies to separate the generations. Prior to the late 60s, mom and dad could take their kid to a movie and not have to worry about language used or things done on-screen. Back then, movies for adults were simply boring to children. When the cop shot the crook, there was no detailed blood-scene - the bad guy just keeled over dead. Hmmm, back then, more than a few producers and actors had served in the war, or had a brother of cousin who served - and saw things, and after so many years, still wasn't right in the head.
Nuts, getting late, got to get ready and roll.
Young people are resentful??? Young people aren't stupid. While, during childhood - and not quite able to articulate - tell me these 20 and 30-somethings didn't have a sense of possibly being less than welcome, of being in the way (while mom's moving in her boyfriend, and dad?...he's living somewhere in.. oh wait a sec, he's not there anymore). How many young people lost a sibling? Not to a car accident or a freak fever, but to a pre-planned (and inexpensive) appointment at the local moloch-mill.
We've been a society which has been less than child-welcoming. Predating the vapid for-the-children memes by several decades, there came out movies to separate the generations. Prior to the late 60s, mom and dad could take their kid to a movie and not have to worry about language used or things done on-screen. Back then, movies for adults were simply boring to children. When the cop shot the crook, there was no detailed blood-scene - the bad guy just keeled over dead. Hmmm, back then, more than a few producers and actors had served in the war, or had a brother of cousin who served - and saw things, and after so many years, still wasn't right in the head.
Nuts, getting late, got to get ready and roll.
Saturday, February 8, 2020
One thing a certain 10% minimizer did mention in his (on-line) sermon did resonate.
He discussed how the congregation will amen sermons against fornicating, drinking, smoking, gambling, gossiping... But mention tithing, and the people stiffen up. Uh, yeah! Could it be, the men and women in the congregation - who do give sacrifically - are barely able to keep their bill's paid, and set aside for things like tires and tooth-fillings? The group he was preaching to generally are parents of more than one or two children - some have like six or eight.
All's i know is, the various stats around generally point to 20% of families are so strapped that a trip to the grocery store = an anxiety exercise. There is of course a white-washed term for it - food insecurity. In light of some one out of five adult americans between the ages of 18 and 65 in need of employment that actually affords lodging that doesn't smell funny, there's the pressure.
See that pressure anytime i drive. Rarely, do i see a clunker. It's like most the vehicles are late model, no dents for the most part, and they shine. Are people actually afraid to be seen driving a dented soda can (that runs safely)? Car payments suck the flour and the green beans out of the kitchen, the ammonia and soap powder from the utility shelf.
How do people afford it? Really! Not every driver is making $30 or more an hour. From what i gather, average annual income is around 60k - two and three bedroom lodging takes up about 15k - 25%, which the economists say a higher percent, like 30%, is financially crippling.
All's i know is, i get really tired of hearing how spoiled americans are - like we're supposed to apologize for not living in a cardboard box right alongside a running sewer. Uh no, our forefathers said nuts to those armpit places and got out of those hells-on-earth - ya know, the same sorts of places where multiple gods are kowtowed to, and there's graven images of 'em every freaking where. Yeah, funny how that works out, huh!
Godda roll.
All's i know is, the various stats around generally point to 20% of families are so strapped that a trip to the grocery store = an anxiety exercise. There is of course a white-washed term for it - food insecurity. In light of some one out of five adult americans between the ages of 18 and 65 in need of employment that actually affords lodging that doesn't smell funny, there's the pressure.
See that pressure anytime i drive. Rarely, do i see a clunker. It's like most the vehicles are late model, no dents for the most part, and they shine. Are people actually afraid to be seen driving a dented soda can (that runs safely)? Car payments suck the flour and the green beans out of the kitchen, the ammonia and soap powder from the utility shelf.
How do people afford it? Really! Not every driver is making $30 or more an hour. From what i gather, average annual income is around 60k - two and three bedroom lodging takes up about 15k - 25%, which the economists say a higher percent, like 30%, is financially crippling.
All's i know is, i get really tired of hearing how spoiled americans are - like we're supposed to apologize for not living in a cardboard box right alongside a running sewer. Uh no, our forefathers said nuts to those armpit places and got out of those hells-on-earth - ya know, the same sorts of places where multiple gods are kowtowed to, and there's graven images of 'em every freaking where. Yeah, funny how that works out, huh!
Godda roll.
my pastor, who has a small church just down the street (yeah, the Lord is good -
getting me to a real church, when He knows i have driving/car-maintenance anxiety). Anyway, in the eight years i've been going about every Sunday, i have NEVER heard anything even approaching a fork-it-over...dimwit sermon.
Pastor used to build houses for a living, but he's old and can't do that stuff anymore. Neither have i heard of him clocking air miles to sunny-town conventions. Uh, no. The preachers' meetings he attends - IF he has time/resources - are local, like an hour or two by car. Gone in the morning, back by evening. Uh yeah, Pastor puts his family's needs before any desire to go hang out somewhere.
My pastor would like to have a bigger church, but is Biblically grounded about that desire - ya know, it's usually the small churches where the sheep get fed real food, and are grounded enough to feed themselves throughout the week.
Pastor used to build houses for a living, but he's old and can't do that stuff anymore. Neither have i heard of him clocking air miles to sunny-town conventions. Uh, no. The preachers' meetings he attends - IF he has time/resources - are local, like an hour or two by car. Gone in the morning, back by evening. Uh yeah, Pastor puts his family's needs before any desire to go hang out somewhere.
My pastor would like to have a bigger church, but is Biblically grounded about that desire - ya know, it's usually the small churches where the sheep get fed real food, and are grounded enough to feed themselves throughout the week.
Put a sock in it, Dave! A certain well-known (and well heeled) churchian
financial consultant was stressing the importance of submitting to the Sunday morning shakedown. But what really rankled this blogger was, he was telling people who were in serious debt bondage that tithing should remain a priority.
Bondage! Hey dude, my mom left church at a very young age, because she sensed a serious lack of compassion - and that realization stunk. i don't believe the issue was about money, but was about people who act all pious, and then turn around and make snide little i'll-pray-for-you comments - yeah right.
And predictably, whenever that certain stickup subject comes out of, even a KJB pulpit, preecher-creecher manipulatively minimizes what 10% off the top really means to people who struggle with legit expenses (ya know, heat groceries, gas). Oh, but the heist doesn't end there. Ten percent? That's just the bare minimum, preecher-creecher and his decon-crew want more (hey, there's a conference coming up - and it happens to be in some sunny fun-town... go figure).
Oh, and don't forget the missions fund. And by the way, jack, [dern] you really should see a dentist - ugh, just talking to you...gross!
Bondage! Hey dude, my mom left church at a very young age, because she sensed a serious lack of compassion - and that realization stunk. i don't believe the issue was about money, but was about people who act all pious, and then turn around and make snide little i'll-pray-for-you comments - yeah right.
And predictably, whenever that certain stickup subject comes out of, even a KJB pulpit, preecher-creecher manipulatively minimizes what 10% off the top really means to people who struggle with legit expenses (ya know, heat groceries, gas). Oh, but the heist doesn't end there. Ten percent? That's just the bare minimum, preecher-creecher and his decon-crew want more (hey, there's a conference coming up - and it happens to be in some sunny fun-town... go figure).
Oh, and don't forget the missions fund. And by the way, jack, [dern] you really should see a dentist - ugh, just talking to you...gross!
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
Some hard thoughts, realizations and questions. First off, i like blogging
because my diary is at home; yeah, one of those old-fashioned things, made of paper. So, anything bordering on specific will have to wait until i get home. And even then, not too specific, because even a fraction of a "multitude of words" leads to sin. Neither does it take a Bible scholar to realize that when the Lord said (i think in Isaiah) that His thoughts are infinitely higher than ours.
In other words, even really smart people are basically a buncha nobody-weetards. Our thoughts concerning the here and now, what we see everyday, are completely whack. Whatever we create, an article, a picture, a song, unless totally Lord-centered (whom we've not seen) is so totally irrelevant.
Most of us won't make it. And irrelevant me has a really hard time getting all praisey-maisey, gushy-gushy in light of that fact. We're supposed to fear the Lord - as in trembling. So pray tell, how am i to draw close to the King of kings, when i am afraid of Him?
Can shure empathize with the skeptics, because many of them are hard-pressed to be able to differentiate His judgment from that of a narc. Needful to say, many a skeptic was victimized by ravenous wolves slinging Scripture. Uh, can ya spell quiverfOOl (punk)patriarchs cramming their morbidly exhausted wife (or wives) and 10 kids into a dented excuse of a double-wide tin-can? Spiritual abuse, happens. ALOT! And most congregations DON'T want to hear it. Uh-uh, just placate, play nice with pugnacious pee-wee.
Yay, for Pastor Crippen. Yeah, i know, he's a calvinist and uses an ESV. But KJB-believing me is so grateful to hear his validating voice in the wilderness - he says ya can't play patty-cakes with the devil. Extreme evil people aren't like regular sinners. The garden-variety lost person doesn't thrive on making other people miserable. Most lost people won't nose in your cube when you're at lunch, get ya in trouble with the boss; most lost people will gladly help out when the mail's real heavy, and even may float ya a few bucks till payday. In short, most people are decent.
Yeah i get it, since the fall, our perception of good and evil is every bit as skewed as the loud-mouthed mail-clerk who really thinks he (or she) knows the business better than the man (or woman) who went to business college, took the $eriou$ risk to start the company - and has successfully kept it going for the last 30 years. Yeah, i get it.
And it's soon time to get off this bus.
In other words, even really smart people are basically a buncha nobody-weetards. Our thoughts concerning the here and now, what we see everyday, are completely whack. Whatever we create, an article, a picture, a song, unless totally Lord-centered (whom we've not seen) is so totally irrelevant.
Most of us won't make it. And irrelevant me has a really hard time getting all praisey-maisey, gushy-gushy in light of that fact. We're supposed to fear the Lord - as in trembling. So pray tell, how am i to draw close to the King of kings, when i am afraid of Him?
Can shure empathize with the skeptics, because many of them are hard-pressed to be able to differentiate His judgment from that of a narc. Needful to say, many a skeptic was victimized by ravenous wolves slinging Scripture. Uh, can ya spell quiverfOOl (punk)patriarchs cramming their morbidly exhausted wife (or wives) and 10 kids into a dented excuse of a double-wide tin-can? Spiritual abuse, happens. ALOT! And most congregations DON'T want to hear it. Uh-uh, just placate, play nice with pugnacious pee-wee.
Yay, for Pastor Crippen. Yeah, i know, he's a calvinist and uses an ESV. But KJB-believing me is so grateful to hear his validating voice in the wilderness - he says ya can't play patty-cakes with the devil. Extreme evil people aren't like regular sinners. The garden-variety lost person doesn't thrive on making other people miserable. Most lost people won't nose in your cube when you're at lunch, get ya in trouble with the boss; most lost people will gladly help out when the mail's real heavy, and even may float ya a few bucks till payday. In short, most people are decent.
Yeah i get it, since the fall, our perception of good and evil is every bit as skewed as the loud-mouthed mail-clerk who really thinks he (or she) knows the business better than the man (or woman) who went to business college, took the $eriou$ risk to start the company - and has successfully kept it going for the last 30 years. Yeah, i get it.
And it's soon time to get off this bus.
Thursday, January 2, 2020
Wow, Peeps decon'd bigtime. Oh could it be, one too many churchians - who have no worries
about paying the electric bill - had been on her about allowing "the cares of the world..." Ya know, the same smuggies who chirp on with, oh, "be warm, be filled..." And, of course, don't do jack to help. Peeps, in a recent article and response to a comment on her blog, is quite grieved. Well no sheet sherlock - her earlier posts explain. So, show me ANYONE professing Christ, who would chide her for her legit worries, and i'll show you someone who is getting off spouting bible-eze.
Speaking of "be warm..." Got one of those letters from a certain high-life livin' retIree. From things said, over the years (before they moved south) she seems to come off as a mocker and wants to start sheet. Once at a Bible study she had attempted to get in my face, when i had attempted to explain narcs' subtle wickedness; only the Lord's grace kept me from telling her off. i will, when i get around to it, grayrock respond.
Speaking of "be warm..." Got one of those letters from a certain high-life livin' retIree. From things said, over the years (before they moved south) she seems to come off as a mocker and wants to start sheet. Once at a Bible study she had attempted to get in my face, when i had attempted to explain narcs' subtle wickedness; only the Lord's grace kept me from telling her off. i will, when i get around to it, grayrock respond.
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