Regaining Our Humanity

There is nothing wrong with my compassion or empathy, it's just that I don't quite know what to do? I prayed and grieved for the poor folks throughout Tennessee, Kentucky in the wake of this terrible storm. I will be delivering what I can to help; everything counts, nothing is too small to those that have lost everything. We have a local few homeless folk that we try to look out for. We stock grocery larders, we have seven of them. The rule is to take what you need and if you can, put something in there for someone else. Kim rides around every morning to see if there are any emergency needs for them. Sometimes my favorite little bag-lady will steal something just to get arrested and jailed during a bad weather spell. She's harmless and doesn't steal to take but rather, to get caught. Even the police here know that so they sort treat her like Otis from the Andy Griffith show.

 

I think regaining our humanity is actually the opposite of how most people view it. Usually it is associated with bleeding heart causes which ALWAYS make things worse. To make things better the only way is to toughen people up. Instead of focusing on the masses we need to focus on the individual. Focus on yourself first. They say if you are in a life or death situation you need to make sure you save yourself before anyone else because thats the only way to save others.

Once you have yourself taken care of you need to take care of those closest to you. It could be parents, kids, family, friends or what ever but work your way out from there. If you make yourself how you want the world to be you will set a great example for others to follow. In contrast our examples that we always see through media and all that is what NOT to do. Never what we should be doing.

 

: "Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime." The problem I see is we have confused compassion with dependence. Our government in the name of false compassion has created a whole class of generational dependent people. My compassion for others has been numbed by the daily news of human suffering world wide which I can do nothing about.

 

With regard to helping people I prefer guidance coming from God for a number of reasons.
God leads me to those I am to interact with.
He gives me guidance in the way their need needs to be met.
He provides to me, the word, deed, resources, this individual actually needs from God’s point of view.
God is a rewarder of those that desperately seek Him.
I rely on God’s intervention often, and this a valuable arrangement because people that have no room for God, make no room for God, never see His mercy. They who need God more desperately enjoy His intervention often.
Jesus provided the way and resources for this relationship.
Like the proverb of feeding a man a fish, Repenting and asking Jesus into one’s life is the beginning of ones learning God to be the best resource for life.

 

That is why the only charity that I give to regularly is Heifer Project, they teach people to feed themselves and give them the tools to do so, and then these people pass on the gifts to someone else. I will donate to help folks get over a rough hump, like a natural disaster, but I'm not gonna support them forever.

 

Back when I was in the .mil - we had the annual United Way shakedown. I would pony up for the Heifer Project - the only charity on the 'approved FedGov list' that *did not* promote dependency.
I left AD more than 20 years ago.

 

I worked in government and we had the United Way always declined

 

Humanity is gone and dead.
once our descendants arise from the next dark ages, hopefully there will be a record of our decline and they can do better.
This epoch is a write-off.

and i always thought I was an optimistic person, I guess current times beat that out of me.

anyway, here is to the other side.

 

I thought that was Capt. Jack Sparrow!

 

Had an old Hobo looking dude approach me at the pump the other day needing 3 bucks for gas to get home.
I handed him 3 bucks, Followed him inside and he bought 3 bucks of gasoline???
Then he wanted my address so he could mail 3 bucks back?
I'm like I'm good with you buying gasoline to get home. No problem.

 

people don't learn from history.

 

The major problem isn't the individual, it's the number of people we have and the false religions of Green and Climate change. Our whole system was in the past based on the family and religion, Christianity and Judaism for the most part. What needs that exceeded that of those groups was supplied by the local and state governments. This has morphed into a system where everyone is owed X rights and the Feds have to supply them. Of course once those receiving the benefits gets hooked on them, and then it becomes multi generational and a huge system is created to supply those benefits, it is nearly impossible to reform the system. The swamp is deep and those who live in the swamp are perfectly adapted to live in the swamp, both the suppliers and the takers. We no longer have the alternatives to go west and homestead, open up new businesses in growing new areas of trade or manufacturing, get an education and make a good living for 40 years or get a good job with a company with good benefits and wages and work for 40 years and retire. That and the sheer number of people in the country create major tensions and we don't seem to have answers as to how to change our society and satisfy everyone.

The climate change people are willing to destroy the system and civilization as a whole in order to reach their religious goals of no change, even though any reasonable scientific study indicates that radical changes are the rule rather than the exception. The greens just want to go back to some utopian system where man and nature are in balance, often using the native Americans for an example, no real change in 10,000 years once they exterminated the larger and more dangerous animals and then living a stable life in the late stone age. All it would require is total isolation from the rest of the world and the death of 99 % of the American present population.

I do not know what can be done to change the present situation, at 84 it is not really a problem as my long term goals now run 2 to 3 years, but it doesn't look to promising as about 1/2 of the population has been indoctrinated into some new system that is going to make a complete change in our society. The other half wants to at best remove some of the rough edges from our historical social patterns and continue the old system. The two sides are not willing to compromise as past actions indicate that any compromise is at best a short halt in the system change and not a long term solution. As an individual I do not think that violent change is something I am capable of doing and the media, the educational system, and the large scale "money" people are all backing the left and its goals. I do my best to vote for the people who I wish to represent me and try to educate people, but my real goal is to hunker down and live the best life I can for the next few years. It may well be that the only solution will be the total collapse of civilization and the death of all of the creatures of the swamp who are totally incapable of feeding themselves or of surviving without the theft of massive amounts of resources from those producing something in the USA.

Going to be some interesting times. Believe in God, get out of debt, heat with wood, grow your own food, cache well and have enough hidden for several years. The takers know what their "rights" are and they are going to insist that the "government" take what you have and give it to those more "deserving".