Repeat the Prayer of St Francis… it helps

By
Terry Crowley
– December 6, 2008Posted in: Fresh Juice

Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace;
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood, as to understand;
to be loved, as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.
Amen.

This country has been so blessed for so long that it is populated with people who are almost entirely immune to any interest other than their own. The ability to almost immerse yourself in information that constantly and solely validates your point of view of the world also allows people to be supremely dishonest. Mostly with themselves. Understanding others is impossible.

I have been accused of inconsistency in the past. It usually comes from a narcissist so wrapped up in their own fantasy reality that if you don’t agree with them you’re a bigot, racist  hatemonger intent on taking freedom and rights away from people or interested in sticking government into their bedroom. They don’t seem to get that I may agree with them in spirit, but how they arrived at that train station… well I took Amtrak, they took the Goodyear Blimp. Since I do come from the right side of the political spectrum (to the right of Genghis Khan… I heard it all)  the last thing people on the right are interested in is interfering with other peoples private lives. Take it from me.
Bill Clinton.

The crux of the whole Monica Lewinsky thing for most guys wasn’t that he got caught having blow jobs. For chrissakes. What pissed most guys off was that he was stupid enough to  start a national conversation about something that most guys secretly start to covet right around puberty. Oral stimulation doesn’t count as sex. Sorry ladies. Your man doesn’t think so.

And had he not gotten caught, most men, me too, would have argued: Balance the budget, healthy economy? Free blow job.

If our current CIC was getting blow jobs on the side for a balanced budget, where do you think we might be right now? Hmmmmmm?

But when people defend him for lying about it? When the American people have decided they have the right to know the shape of his ding-a-ling? This isn’t a person I would let out of the corner of my eye at a party. You think he can be trusted on other matters? THAT was the issue. And it SHOULD have mattered.

The salacious personal details were HIS screw up. He put the matter on the table. No one else. What, your guest takes a dump on the table and you’re not supposed to notice it?
How about abortion?

Now, abortion has always seemed to me to be a male issue. As a member of that species, I can express definitive polygamous attitudes earlier in life. What man doesn’t want to at least imagine a polygamous lifestyle where disease free sex has no repercussions?

Birth control is a mans issue and the little blue pill is a woman’s issue. Disagree? Really? You’re a woman. The little blue pill isn’t important TO YOU???

The whole thing is upside down. We’re having discussions with the wrong target audience. I am FOR allowing women an abortion. I just would never want my better half to do it.

Just don’t stand up and say “it’s in the Constitution”. Sorry. I can read.

State funded abortions are a “right”?

Open rear, insert Bill of Rights.

Want to put it there? I’m all for supporting your right to try. As I have said, I have a few Progressive additions to it, that’s all.
Gay marriage.

The issue is “does society have a right to set standards on marriage”?

People who argue FOR gay marriage argue that all these years they have been DENIED a so called right. There is no RIGHT to marriage. Its a privilege.

“Why shouldnt homosexuals get married? Why should they be the only couples who never have sex, argue what to watch on tv and walk around every day harboring a deep resentment and anger over years and years of real and imagined slights, real issues and what wallpaper to hang. In my view we should marry off every gay couple right now, and in 18 months most of them would go running back to court to end it.” Denis Leary – WHY WE SUCK

You can organize a church, in the land of freedom of religion, but if you want tax exempt status, you have to behave. No fiddling in public forums. But if you get a state approved marriage, with tax benefits, the state has NO right to tell you how to structure that marriage?

And when all is said and done, and the majority has had its say, that’s not the end of it. Sheesh.

Want to try again? Knock yourself out. Just make sure you’re speaking for EVERYONE’s right to define marriage. You’re not special.

Open rear, insert democracy.

In the final analysis, it has always seemed to me that the left of politics has made this country out to be less GREAT than it is. Less TOLERANT than it really is. Less of a GOOD IN THE WORLD than it really is. Don’t seek to be understood, as to understand. I get you. Doing it the correct way is a lot more difficult.

This is the greatest place on earth, even if we do worry about immigration and terrorism too much. The futures challenges aren’t going to come from the worlds losers, but its winners. We all need to pay attention.

Seek to understand, rather than be understood.

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