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Why is so much nonsense coming from America?

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Everyday, something new and mean stuff is coming from American online. For example that unemployed people drain the system. That's how I understand it from you. Now it's like your dream of a society where everyone works will never happen, a kind of utopia. The reason I'm writing is because my mother worked in a factory for 32 years or something, and got a medal, and my father has worked for about 30 years also in different places, woke up to the same alarm every day for 30 years, yet they are treated degradingly when we are out because they "just" go there.

Its fun to be mean perhaps, I never understand it, but americans have to kinda weirdos to put all this nonsense out there. I'm always treated well because I've sung so much, but I think it's a bit the opposite of what it should be, maybe then, I've learned a lot on my own, worked hard, but I think 30 years in a factory is tougher
 

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There's a difference between being unemployed and it's out of your control, and being unemployed because you want to leech off the system. There are insane numbers of people who have made it a career to get on government assistance and never work. That's why Trump recently put in new rules that you have to have so many hours of work in order to get government assistance and they'll also help you find work if you have none.

I celebrate anyone who works, or has worked their whole life.

I'm also excluding the group of people that can't work due to health/mental conditions out of this conversation entirely because I have no problem with them getting government assistance.
 
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Why is so much nonsense coming from America?
Because in America there are mean people. But not all are like these people. And, because America traditionally is "democratic" with freedom of speech, mean people use their freedom of speech to say things that are not nice.

But it can be right to criticize people who really are wrong. And people try to encourage us to use our freedom for good criticizing, and not for mean stuff.
Everyday, something new and mean stuff is coming from American online.
Yes, mean stuff is coming from ones who do not know how to love. In America, we have a number of people who do not know how to love. Ones can be conceited, and they will look down on other people, and criticize others so they can make their own selves look good. And we see how they can have very mean emotional problems, very mean to their own selves >

The Bible says each of us will reap what we have sown > Galatians 6:7-8.

Right now, then, the mean ones are already reaping emotionally what they have been sowing against others. In their weakness for pride and pleasure, they also are deeply weak so they can keep suffering in various emotional and personality and relational problems and torment.

However, Jesus does have humble people in America, who love any and all people, and who have hope for the ones who do not know how to love > love "hopes all things" (in 1 Corinthians 13:7). Jesus uses their good example to help others.
Now it's like your dream of a society where everyone works will never happen, a kind of utopia.
In practical life, in America . . . many do work, yes, but this is not the dream. Plus, ones do work without getting paid > there are ones who stay home to home-school their children, and to care for their families and places where they live. And there can be even homeless people who do things voluntarily to help. And there are church members who do things to serve through their churches to help people. And there are people who are caregivers to relatives and friends who are younger disabled or elderly and disabled.

I will offer you, how being a nonprofessional caregiver is work. It can take a person from early morning until close to midnight, and not being paid by your friend or spouse or other companion or someone else you know.

One person was so busy, that he lost ten pounds in maybe a couple of months. He thought he had lost fat, from not eating. Then he passed out while walking . . . dehydrated, it seemed > he perhaps had not lost fat, but *water*, what with having constant end-to-end things to do all day so he was not eating and drinking.

But love is the reward, in us, while we do things God's way.

So - - may be you should not spend too much time paying attention to what mean people are doing; but learn how to take care of people, in case you will need this.
The reason I'm writing is because my mother worked in a factory for 32 years or something, and got a medal, and my father has worked for about 30 years also in different places, woke up to the same alarm every day for 30 years, yet they are treated degradingly when we are out because they "just" go there.
Indeed, there are people who do not know how to love. They have a major problem and are in big trouble, now and for the day of judgment. So, we are wise not to allow them to have power over us to control our attention to their nonsense and failure. But trust God to have us discovering how He has us become and love like Jesus. And then God uses our prayer and example to help each other but also to reach those who are enemies of love.
It's fun to be mean perhaps, I never understand it, but americans have to kinda weirdos to put all this nonsense out there.
While I was in the seventh grade, yes I found it entertaining to make another child cry and make kids squeal when I did mean things to them. Well, my parents were educated and seemed quite proud of themselves, so they could look down on others; from that, perhaps, I got some of my encouragement to be a bully looking down on kids and being cruel to them. And there were ones not so popular with other students; this also encouraged me . . . to go after the ones others did not like, even hoping I could get praise from more popular kids, by bullying the ones they did not like.
I'm always treated well because I've sung so much, but I think it's a bit the opposite of what it should be, maybe then, I've learned a lot on my own, worked hard, but I think 30 years in a factory is tougher
Yes, I would say to honor your parents.

And yes people can be popular because they give some kind of pleasure to others. Good singers can be a pleasure. And there is a lot of beauty discrimination . . . meaning ones more beautiful can be more loved and considered more desirable for marriage and certain jobs.

So, be wise to how people might "love" you because of the pleasure they can use you to get. With Jesus, we love without requiring that people give us what we want. And we are in America, too :)
 
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Everyday, something new and mean stuff is coming from American online. For example that unemployed people drain the system. That's how I understand it from you. Now it's like your dream of a society where everyone works will never happen, a kind of utopia. The reason I'm writing is because my mother worked in a factory for 32 years or something, and got a medal, and my father has worked for about 30 years also in different places, woke up to the same alarm every day for 30 years, yet they are treated degradingly when we are out because they "just" go there.

Its fun to be mean perhaps, I never understand it, but americans have to kinda weirdos to put all this nonsense out there. I'm always treated well because I've sung so much, but I think it's a bit the opposite of what it should be, maybe then, I've learned a lot on my own, worked hard, but I think 30 years in a factory is tougher
Americans have been force fed a diet of ‘work hard and you too can be a billionaire’.

This stems from religious ideas that working hard is somehow a moral issue.

But what it does is create a working class whose benefits from work has been degraded over time (or just never improved to match their European cousins) to such a point that they now function in competition with their neighbours.

Consequently as long as you give an American someone to feel superior to you can get them to accept pretty much any awful working condition.

The upshot of that is a seething resentment of anyone they see as getting something they can’t get.

It’s all so that a few generationally wealthy individuals can siphon all the money out of circulation and into their coffers to act as a scoring system of ‘who’s the best’.
 
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To understand America, it is important to understand Satan. He sets the course of the world (Eph 2:2) and we are not unaware of his schemes (2Cor 2:11). Satan is going to make his move to try to take over the world. To do this he will need to collectivize the world to leverage his influence. He also will need the tools to control if any individual is allowed to buy or sell. These tools are almost all in place and his need for a stable society (which was America) is over.

It is in his interest to not allow a powerful society to continue that might pose opposition to his plans. He would have us destroy ourselves in various ways such as self-indulgence, debt, strife, etc.

In the midst of all this for the past 70 years the number of Christians has been declining. Much more the number of Christians who can see truth and have wisdom. The result is all sorts of foolishness.

Two future events that may not be too distant are the rapture (the removal of Christians from earth) and the Tribulation. The tribulation is a seven year event of catastrophe that starts with a combination of war, disease, and famine that reduces the population of earth by 25%.

The odd voice here and there declaring various things should not be too alarming in view of what is to come.
 
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To understand America, it is important to understand Satan. He sets the course of the world (Eph 2:2) and we are not unaware of his schemes (2Cor 2:11). Satan is going to make his move to try to take over the world. To do this he will need to collectivize the world to leverage his influence. He also will need the tools to control if any individual is allowed to buy or sell. These tools are almost all in place and his need for a stable society (which was America) is over.

It is in his interest to not allow a powerful society to continue that might pose opposition to his plans. He would have us destroy ourselves in various ways such as self-indulgence, debt, strife, etc.

In the midst of all this for the past 70 years the number of Christians has been declining. Much more the number of Christians who can see truth and have wisdom. The result is all sorts of foolishness.

Two future events that may not be too distant are the rapture (the removal of Christians from earth) and the Tribulation. The tribulation is a seven year event of catastrophe that starts with a combination of war, disease, and famine that reduces the population of earth by 25%.

The odd voice here and there declaring various things should not be too alarming in view of what is to come.
 
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