Appreciation, choice and creativity are innate human qualities that need to be respected in any micro-economic reality. The notion of keeping up with Jones' was justification to many for the mindset and personal agenda set on social approval. The notion of living for the Jones' was also a word of caution as not to follow the crowd as taught by your loving high school principal. He or she said do not follow the crowd but follow the French, American or Australian student who sat in the library at lunch after the fries and gravy and who joined the basketball team. Have a balance. The Jones' ( majority) may lead you down the wrong garden path with their inability to accept themselves and you wondered why you married a group (of individuals) on your social network but you are still single 20 years after you left high school.
While appreciation, choice and creativity are innate human qualities that need to be respected in any micro-economic reality, this has been overlooked in a few meaningful coffee discussions at Costa Brava Coffee or Crispy Creme Donuts near Starbucks. Stalinist-Leninist communism was microeconomic and overlooked the God-given macroeconomic realities of human nature that found greater acknowledgement in capitalist economic discourse of that generation. There have several updates to the texts over the years and also in pragmatic economic policies as heralded by politicians such as Reagan and Blair. The discussion in the communist model was grating against the innate God given macroecomonic realities the human being. It's called the buffet dinner at $9.99 with a desert table ( dessert (for algae crude oil production) for pleasure) at the highway travel truck stop since 1953. It's an easy sale to a smart Russian scientist or ex Nazi building Saturn 5 rockets. The man at the top or Hitler could appreciate any monkey devoid of any basic human moral concepts to do anything( anything as in stupid inhumane things) for a banana and that is why we mourn with the Japanese, Jews and other victims of ethnic cleansing. The UNCHR and the Koran ( some have likened Mohammed the Prophet to Paul the Apostle only in terms of the epistles and sharing of the truth of the one God (See "followers of the people of the book" and Romans 9,10, and 11) )as well as other Abrahamic teachings makes our mourning justifiable. This includes the ten commandments. In the late unpleasantness to the present era, this is the virtue of an education that does nothing more but educate one to be a smart 2 for 1 shopper at some big box store near the same 1953 buffet restaurant. Approval is based on the last item possessed in your storage locker. You got a good deal on those K-Swiss and I agree. I bought a pair in Georgetown at the University in 1996 but they were stolen. Call it what you will but the addictive scoobie snack in the form of cheap goods in all of us may be predicated on miswired acceptance and approval. Abel chose God's approval and to be his brother's keeper and friend but not to be the neighbourly competitor( or Jones). Joseph chose God's approval as did Jesus. Their brothers chose wrong. Jesus made Ikea or Alan Ethan quality furniture but he is not likely to have judged you for purchasing the Walmart stuff imported from China. He said judge not lest you be judged and to question your real capacity to believe if all you do is seek glory from one another. The hard truth is that all of the miracles performed by Jesus were performed by old testament prophets. It had been a while in Jesus' day since Israel had seen such clarity in the exercise of what God enabled one to do. All this means is that if Moses showed up during the Roman occupation to part a red sea, strike a rock for water or bring manna from Heaven, some scribes and pharisees may have become very upset and they are likely to have asked Moses if he made himself out to be some challenger to their authority I suppose. The other prophets are likely to have suffered the same fate. Jesus came to fulfil the law and the prophets and promised that we could do the same. Peter and Paul provided us with similar miraculous acts after receiving the Holy Ghost. I wonder why there is a page 3 girl in many newspapers and why 40% of the movie theatres in Iran during the Shah's government sold pornography? What was the point? Whose idea was that anyway? Jesus said He came to set the captives free and to heal the broken hearted. I am going to go and watch a good movie and read some entertainment news.
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