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Wednesday 14 May 2014

The irony about culture is that, in spite of the various differences among them, there are certain habits or expectations that remain the same among humans. As a child, you would be upset if you saw your father kissing intimately the mother of the boy next door. She had a husband. This would be unfair to you and your mother. You would be upset if you witnessed accidentally your mother kissing intimately the father of the family next door while your mother's dress was undone. You would realize that it was unfair to you and your father. You would feel hurt if your mother gave your Christmas toys away to the children next door and they already had relatively nice toys and you had done all of your chores. You would feel sort of betrayed and abused. You would feel that a school was insulted if some person borrowed someone else's essay and handed it in as his or her own simply because they were too lazy to do research, find references and write the essay. It would have been okay to use it as an example of how an essay should appear. A magazine article would usually provide sufficient essay structure as an example or an article in an academic journal usually follows academic essay format. These experiences circumvent our expectations of how people should treat others, how we were taught to treat people and how we wish to be treated. This includes the manner in which free schools are treated. The fact that they are free lifts a tremendous burden off of a family and they can believe that hard work and education is the great leveler. Let us celebrate civil society in our homes and in society itself. Let us enjoy the hot and cold running water of civil society. Faith in God made it possible; the faith that is employed somewhat less often in a world where clothing and food is purchased by the majority and not made or grown. So one asks what he should do with the blessed hands that the Lord gave him or her. They should enjoy peace and use their faith to achieve the ultimate goal of faith above and beyond answering bodily need( such as food and clothing) and that goal is peace with oneself, with God and with one's neighbor; that we should treat others as we wish to be treated and use our power of prayer to preserve civil society( salt preserves and light helps you to see how-Matthew 5), our homes and ask God for the strength, with the same fervor with which we designed gas ovens and saws and drills for masonry, to treat our neighbors as we wish to be treated. This "civil society" is the Leprechaun's real pot of gold and without it, he will spend a lot of time trying to hide that big pot of gold and fearing that someone may find out about the big secrets. They may become a gremlin in the purpose( one who kills, steals and destroys as totally motivated by fear of what he has done and who may find out- all in the name of GOLD). Any culture or tradition that encourages you to have a sin, does not remind you of the consequences or the risks. It could really affect your peace or your neighbour. Why make a contract with yourself to hurt yourself, your neighbour or God? Sin is the antithesis of loving your neighbor as you love yourself. It is the antithesis of the royal law. It is the antithesis of loving the Lord thy God with all your heart, mind, body and soul. If you make a mistake and sin, you can say sorry  and genuinely be forgiven(1st John 1:9) but a contract with yourself to sin is something  entirely different from a genuine mistake or accident.  Watch the City of God(movie) and Layer Cake(movie) and know that, with good example as to why you should not make it a habit of just "taking and going", you must have noticed the following by watching bull fights( get it?); that bulls may get stabbed in the arena if they are not faithful to the the one cow in the manger. Cows may get served for dinner when they lie about all the bulls with whom they never really had a "take me and go" wedding. If you want take out, call the "Wok with Spouse or boyfriend along river" Chinese Food restaurant.


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