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Nowadays you can't mention politics or religion without people devolving into Planet of the Apes. It used to be that toxic debates about these two things were confined to the YouTube comments section. Now, it looks like the YouTube comments section is spilling over into real life.
When you fail to discipline a child for bad behavior, he'll typically grow up to be a bad person. Since people rarely get disciplined for bad behavior on the internet, you have youngsters who grew up on the internet act like trolls in real life.
It's a fair assessment you have that I can totally understand. I've been interested in American politics since I was 15 or 16 because of how entertaining it was. It was a total gong show but now... I think it's just getting scary and I just want all this political and social tension to just quietly die down. I now got total politics fatigue after all these years.
I know the US is the leading political, economic, military, and cultural powerhouse of the world but I have a strong feeling that the culture wars over there is going to be its Achilles Heel one day. I just pray Jesus comes back before we end up murdering each other over gender, race, sexual orientation, and other political issues that really shouldn't be as big of a deal in a perfect world.
Nowadays you can't mention politics or religion without people devolving into Planet of the Apes. It used to be that toxic debates about these two things were confined to the YouTube comments section. Now, it looks like the YouTube comments section is spilling over into real life.
When you fail to discipline a child for bad behavior, he'll typically grow up to be a bad person. Since people rarely get disciplined for bad behavior on the internet, you'll have youngsters who grew up on the internet act like trolls in real life.
"Children are a gift from the Lord; they are a reward from him." ~Psalm 127:3
Yeah, children are a reward alright. The gifted, talented, and healthy ones anyways. When parents get a child who aces every test, brings homes medals and trophies like alchemy, and gives them grandchildren, parents are very proud to have him/her as their child and make sure to thank and praise God for giving them such a great kid.
If they get a disabled kid with many problems, however, that's a different story. We're just called a "test" or a "lesson" from God for Christians, a burden on society by the secular world. We get books and blogs written about us how we ruined their lives at first but then "taught them compassion and humility" after they spent every night questioning God's goodness and love for them for a number of years.
I honestly don't know how many of you feel this burden on a daily basis knowing that instead of being something to be proud of, you're just something existing only to test other people's faith and compassion. I wish I could have been the athletic, popular, honors student person everyone wanted me to be. Even Christians respect strength over character so this is why I had such little faith in God's love for me all these years.
How can you say you love someone when you want to change everything about them?
Or at least because people make decisions with organs other than their brains...Because people are stupid?
If someone orders steak when they wanted wings, why are they always surprised when they actually get a steak?
The world is mad.
Respect the dead folks.
Guy was murdered along with other people by a gunman... and then the news goes and brings up him, the victim's, past in a potential motorcycle gang. Completely unrelated to any of the case.
No respect.
So many women will be attracted to a guy because he’s different, he stands out from the crowd, he has unique energy... but then once they’ve “caught” him, they’ll set about trying to domesticate him and make him a clone of all the other guys.
I’m not having it. I recognize that partners can learn good things from each other... but God didn’t make me to be like every other guy on earth. If there’s no one out there who accepts me for who I am, it’ll be the single life for me.
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