Posted on 11/21/2017 7:21:17 PM PST by NellieMae
With all of the disturbing news that we as a country have been constantly bombarded with, I have pretty much kept my opinions to myself, but, I’m going to let it fly today!! It seems that everywhere we look there is some type of debauchery, violence or just outright vulgarity and disrespect and I am so sick of it!! The ways that people find to abuse, mistreat and use other human beings and animals too, now that I’m at it, for their own selfish means, never ceases to amaze me!! When our society began this steep decline in basic civility is not really clear to me, but, it has to STOP!!!
Where have formerly common manners gone? My daddy would have knocked a man’s head OFF for speaking in a manner that people commonly speak now in front of a lady!! Now women even speak that way in public!! STOP IT!!
People walk around dressed looking like they just dragged something out of the bottom of the clothes hamper or just plain right out trashy or weird!! Make an effort people!! We all have eyes and what kind of example is that for our children? STOP IT!!!! Have some class!!!
Laziness and whining is a way of life to a lot of people!! STOP IT!! Get up and do something, STOP being pathetic!!
Undisciplined children are wreaking havoc in our schools and other aspects of society!! REIN THEM IN PEOPLE!!!!!
Violence is everywhere!! It’s heartbreaking to learn of yet another murder or murders or outright physical violence perpetuated on those weaker and it makes me sick!! STOP IT!!!! Life in all forms is precious, RESPECT IT!!!
There are so many people who are just users out there now!! Men and women!! I know men that routinely go around lying and deceiving and using women for money, etc. and some women are just as bad!!!! It is not okay to lie and use people for your own selfish gain and to keep up an image. If you can’t afford your vices and lifestyle, make some changes!! It is not okay to treat people like objects to use and throw away when their value to you has diminished. I know women who lie around doing nothing while their man works hard all day and comes home to a cold stove and no food and I know men who do the same thing!! That is not okay!! Don’t be a leach!! Show some appreciation and pull your own weight!! It is not okay to use people!! PERIOD!! STOP IT!!!!
Mental illness seems to have become pervasive in our culture. Why? Is it because so many have been abused as a child by perverts like those that have been brought to the forefront in our news at this time?? I think that has a lot to do with it!! STOP IT!!!!
Blatant disrespect to our police and military has been running rampant!! STOP IT!! Walk a mile in their shoes and then see what your attitude is!!
Nastiness has taken over our culture via all types of medium. You can have a difference of opinion with others without having it turn into something vile!!! We all have a right to our own opinion and inflicting ours on and insisting someone else conform to our particular view is wrong. STOP IT!!! LIVE AND LET LIVE!!!!!!
Before sharing a post or a news story, verify its accuracy!! There is so much fake news going around on all aspects!! STOP spreading it around!!!!! Don’t be a part of the problem!! It’s just stupid and it hurts people!! STOP IT!!!!!
So many are prone to air dirty laundry via social media and naming names to beat it all!! STOP IT!!! It’s classless and tacky!!!
Oh yeah and men need to stop being wusses too!! If you are, man up!!! Show some chivalry and you will be pleasantly surprised at the result!!
Our country needs to return to what used to be considered common decency, manners, civility, honor and respect!! We need to honor and thank GOD who has blessed us with this great country, even with all of its flaws, which we can fix!! We need to display kindness, goodness, discipline and love!! Demand EXCELLENCE of yourself!!!! The degradation of our society does not have to continue!! We need a great revival in this country and it can start with YOU!!! Buck up and pull your own weight! Stop being a leach if you are doing so!! Be responsible and take care of your own!! Help others when you can!! Have some class and demand excellence of yourself!!!! SMILE more and spread joy instead of drama!!! Lift others up instead of tearing them down!!! Be truthful and don’t gossip!!! Be nice!!!!! It’s not that hard people!! Our country needs to be a shining example to the rest of the world and we can’t be a good example if we are falling apart at the seams!! It starts with you and me!!! Get ON with it!!!! : )
I and a colleague had that very conversation just today.
Well, termites do repair their mounds if an aardvark breaks in.
Whoa Nellie!
Grew up at a time when common courtesy was still around but was stating to erode as the college students decided that it was "better to be Red than dead" and then decided that being Red was actually preferable to everything else.
Child of the '50s and watched things start to get really mixed up in the '60s and the rest has been a downward spiral.
What we see and hear on the TV about what is going on in the rest of the country is not familiar to us. It's like the news is about a foreign country, not the one we live in.
Yes.
Author needs to deal with conflict management.
Your society is being conquered. Act accordingly.
Thought it was;
SAMMICH!
I disagree totally.
How about, "Judge, and be worthy of being judged"?
I shared a story (from FR) about militant trannies the other day with my wife and she shrugged and said, "Who am I to judge?" and I sorta blew up.
Who are YOU to judge? YOU are a member of society and that includes responsibility for keeping it whole! If you ran a daycare would you let the kids do what they wanted saying, Who am I to judge?
Needless to say, things went downhill from there...
Got a comfortable couch?
Tolerable, and it gets occasional use - but not for football games.
;)
Well, they build it again. A beaver will repair his dam not if it gets obliterated - but if it needs maintenance.
MOST people I know repair things before they get destroyed. That’s going away (Notice how people’s messy, dumpy houses are getting more common ?_
Do yourself a favor. Go on a total media black out for at least a week. Turn off the TV, radio, computer, smart phone and then see how you feel.
Outstanding!
Please don’t misunderstand me. The perpetrators you list should have been punished severely. Deep sadness overcomes me at the thought of a five year old girl suffering in that way. Not to mention rage at the thought of the criminal who did it.
What I’m saying is it seems that this situation is being used for another agenda. I’m not sure exactly what agenda, one possibility is to accelerate our decline into an Orwellian nightmare. The new narrative I see is one that tries to blur the distinction between real assaults like what you’ve experienced and normal speech between men and women. Or outright false accusations.
......(((The bible was written by man and the writing was kind of restricted to what mankind, at that time, could understand. all of the sealife did not die and the idea that water covered the entire planet to the top of mount Everest is nonsense))).....
The local flood concept is both ‘theologically’ and ‘scientifically’ unsound..... As near as I can tell, the only reason to hold to this concept is to gain the acceptance of secular scientists who deny God’s Word...... Once an individual starts down the compromise road, one error begets another, until all portions of Scripture which disagree with the secular viewpoint of the day are thrown out.
As for where did the waters go...Psalm 104 suggests an answer..... After the waters covered the mountains (verse 6), God rebuked them and they fled (verse 7); the mountains rose, the valleys sank down (verse 8) and God set a boundary so that they will never again cover the Earth (verse 9)[1]. They are the same waters!
Clearly, what the Bible is telling us is that God acted to alter the Earth’s topography. New continental landmasses bearing new mountain chains of folded rock strata were uplifted from below the globe-encircling waters that had eroded and leveled the pre-Flood topography, while large deep ocean basin were formed to receive and accommodate the Flood waters that then drained off the emerging continents.
Mountains and water
That is why the oceans are so deep, and why there are folded mountain ranges.
https://christiananswers.net/q-aig/aig-floodwater.html
Further...Jesus Christ based His teaching of coming judgment on all mankind on the fact that Noah’s Flood judged all mankind (Matthew 24:36-39; Luke 17:26-27)........ A local flood implies a ‘partial judgment’..... Likewise, Peter based his prophecy that the existing planet will ‘melt with fervent heat’ (II Peter 3:10)...... and an entire new heavens and new earth will be re-created (3:13) on the historical fact of the global Flood of Noah’s day (3:6).
All things considered, few doctrines are taught as clearly in Scripture as that of the global Flood.
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