Three thousand years ago, King Solomon wrote a proverb to explain this answer.
Do you like honey? Don’t eat too much, or it will make you sick! (Proverb 25:16)
I recommend you read the post and comments and then discern if the Democrats proposals imply there is a lot of honey left in our Republic that currently is 22 TRILLON IN DEBT and in my opinion on steep moral decline which began when government took control of what this post explain why.
Recommend you read and discern how much more honey you will vomit after you choose who you want to represent you in the 2020 election.
Regards and goodwill blogging.
The donkey is the Democratic Party’s logo. Is this truly America’s symbol of tolerance?Supposedly, there are moderate Democrats. Which of these is a moderate?
(from here (en.wikipedia.org))
Do any of the so-called moderates have any chance of being elected? No? Then what happened to the Democratic Party, the party founded by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison?
Each generation has a responsibility to bring up the next in sound moral values.
Proverbs 22:6 New King James Version (NKJV)
6 Train up a child in the way he should go,
And when he is old he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 22:6 is probably the most well known verse in the Bible that calls upon us to properly instruct our children, but there many such verses and passages in the Bible. Unfortunately, generations of Americans have ignored their duty. They have given their responsibility to train up their children…
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Ok, Rudy.. I have a question for you since you are a local boy. This question is completely off topic and for that my apologies in advance. What has made me think of this question.. and I have found the totally culturally appalling answer to it a few places on the internet, was a news report today. Here is the headline… American School for the Deaf Investigated For Decades of Abuse. Here…
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/25/us/american-school-for-the-deaf-abuse-investigation/index.html
So that has led to a discussion in my own circle about the slow drip-drip over the years in exposing institutions that tended to be founded to single out children, genders, professions, etc. and the subsequent abuse and sex abuse within these institutions. The Catholic Church is well known. Now the Boy Scouts. In the past there has been mental institutions, like this one in Connecticut. My observation is, and has been for years, why don’t “we” (society) have all such institutions investigated because there is no single institution that can claim “perfection”. Statically that’s impossible.
Example… my mother was very progressive (parenting.. not politically) and there were a couple times where mother asked me when I was young if someone had ever taken physical liberties with me or exposed themselves to me, during my years as a paperboy and in the Boy Scouts. It was obvious to her.. way back in the early to mid 60’s, that certain things can and did happen to kids…years, decades, before any of this became big headlines, because even publically thinking those things was socially taboo.
Then the discussion gravitated to the Chicago Public High schools mandating for decades that male boys swim in gym class naked. Hence my question… how does one even justify that morally, knowing that statically this would affect kids in some manner?
Ok.. I’ve found a few places on the internet that explains the “logic” and social bias of the 20′, 30’s and 40’s that justified this policy. The Greatest Generation could beat Fascism but were too sexually repressed to identify social problems.
I went to Taft High School in Chicago… and I joined ROTC, as did many other guys my age, simply to avoid swimming naked in gym class (taking gym or ROTC was the choice). Call it a level of modesty for sure…. but there were some strange “peer pressure” stories that came out of that swimming naked nonsense. Some you can read for yourself on the net with traumatizing memories. In one case I was aware of personally, the son of our scoutmaster.. my age… was in swim class one day.. got an erection.. and was told to stand out on the diving board until things “subdued”… to the cat-calls and jokes of the viewing class. That swim naked policy more or less ceased by the mid 70’s.
My point here.. is I am totally flabbergasted as how surprised and shocked contemporary society gets when abuse and sexual abuse occurs in apparently “good and sound” institutions. From retirement homes, nursing homes, private schools, gender-specific institutions and organization, long term care facilities, religious sponsored organizations… they should all be routinely checked.
I tell this “mandatory swim naked” policy to people today and they look at me in complete disbelief.
So.. I am way off topic… but thought I’d run this past you to see if you had any similar experiences.
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@Scatterwisdom
Thanks for the reblog.
@Doug
We define “Truth” as either God or a fad. That is, either we strive to see Creation as God see it, or we see everything from our own point of view. That is, the “truth” is what “I” want, or what “we” want (since “we” usually has more clout than “I”).
Thus, we get to your observation.
We each want to believe, “I am a good person.” If we want others to accept our belief about our self, then it helps if we accept the notion others are good too, but none of us are good. We are all subject to some sort of temptation.
Sexually immorality is especially dangerous.
There is only one good to deal with the temptation of sexual immorality. Eliminate it.
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Doug,
I remember those days too and could tell how many times I was approached by male pedophiles in my youth. I either ignored them or ran away because I was warned about them by my friends and parents.
I tell the stories to my children and grandkids of some of my experiences as a young boy growing up in Chicago 80 years ago and also being a newsboy and boy scout to hopefully prevent them from being victims.
Frankly, back then and probably now there are multitudes of young men approached by pedophiles and never reported to parents, authorities, or police.
What makes pedophiles do what they do to children is beyond my comprehension.
That is another reason I keep bringing up the question of nature or nurture in my blogs. Who knows if a young boy victim finds the experience enjoyable, becomes nurtured by the experience?
Although, I have a niece who became upset when I told her to be wary about pedophiles with her children. And she asked me if I am homophobic. She went to a liberal college and who knows what she was taught or perhaps experienced, I just don’t know.
And in today’s world it is probably worse in my opinion because of the influences in the entertainment world on kids has on children.
Sad then and now. Although I believe parents are more open today to warn their children when movies or tv pop up unexpectedly in homelife. At least in our households it is. I never handled any public complaint about pedophiles when I was an auxiliary policeman from my kids.
Your article doesn’t surprise me though because pedophiles are known to seek out the most vulnerable kids, mainly children from broken homes, or have handicaps, all in their impressionable ages.
Also, back then, if a child complained to a parent, it was not uncommon in our neighborhood that the pedephile y would get beaten up by a family member or friend for trying to approach someone’s kid. And that was not reported that to the police either.
Regards and goodwill blogging.
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