There are many people who I have come across in my life that I give the benefit of the doubt to what they say. For those who might be a little fuzzy on that term, here is an explanation: Even though I am a skeptic at heart I trust them to be telling me the truth. For the most part, they have earned my respect … Continue reading Benefit Of The Doubt… Wrong!!
It seems that everyone is trying to put the blame on others for our current dark times. Â The current Oval Office occupant (#CO3) says that he is blaming the media and calling them the enemy of the people because they are blaming him. Â Republicans are blaming Democrats and the other way around. Â Blaming is easy, solving the problems is the hard part. I am praying … Continue reading Blame Is Not A Solution
There just seems to be one bad thing after another happening in America today. It is hard to stay optimistic about our future. Our current Oval Office occupant is inciting hatred and ignorance among his “followers” so now they are trying to kill the people he does not like. Some seem to have gulped down the cool-aid he is serving by the gallon! It just … Continue reading Our Last Best Hope??
Let me start out by saying that I take my promises seriously. When I promise to do something I will do everything in my power to make it happen. The definition of the word “Allegiance” for me is a promise of loyalty. It means I will be loyal to something, someone or some ideal no matter the circumstances. I am kinda like my Quaker friends … Continue reading Allegiances
I am putting on my soothsayer hat for this post so be forewarned. 🙂 I did my weekly walk at the mall, as usual, this week and again saw so many people thoroughly attached to their cell phones. Many just can’t seem to even put them in their pockets anymore, they have to constantly hold them. I don’t know what the current generation of cell … Continue reading Oblivious To The Chatter…
Makeup is a multi-billion dollar industry in this country. Millions of vain women spend hours each day painting their faces with it. Why they do it I’m not sure. Some say it is to attract men. Some say they do it for other women. Some say they do it because of the insecurity of just presenting their natural beauty to the world. In my world, … Continue reading Instead of Makeup…
I know the old saying that “all politics is local” but at least in my case it really isn’t. Yeah, I know that the county commissioner in my small Indiana shut down the recycling center because he said it wasn’t making enough money. Realizing that he was a very Red Republican I always suspected that there was another reason he really wasn’t telling us about. … Continue reading All Politics Is Local… Except It’s Not
If you believe the latest polls you have to come to the conclusion that “The times, they are a changin” as Bob Dylan said in his 1964 album. But, given how wrong the polls were in 2016, seeing is believing this time around. If more of us moderates get off our butts and vote, it just may happen. Of course, I am talking about the … Continue reading The Times, They Are A Changin…
The two major things that drive the US economy are personal consumption and military spending. With this post, I will try to convince you that is a basic problem for us as a country. It thwarts happiness and is a wasteful way to live a life. But the biggest problem is that for too many of us it is the ONLY thing driving our lives. … Continue reading The Fallacy of Consumer Driven Capitalism
I am doing something a little different today; I am leading off with the words that inspired this post. I can’t say it better so why not just show it to you up front. In the mid-1980s when the capitalist decided to change the rules of the game hardly any of us noticed it. Up until that point, American capitalism was generally deemed a three-legged-stool. … Continue reading What We Have Been Told To Do…
I know there are very basic differences in how people look at the world. I personally get much of my worldview from the words of Jesus and that certainly includes his very obvious stands on empathy and wealth. One of the things I love about Jesus is that he led by example. How many changes of clothes did Jesus have? How many castles? How many … Continue reading Looking At The World…
I don’t know how many times I have heard the expression in the title of this post. I don’t know how many times I have said it myself. I have always wondered why time seems to fly by now but in my youth a year seemed like an eternity. It wasn’t until I got a glimpse of the short article below from the AARP Magazine … Continue reading Time Just Flies By
My conservative Evangelical friends would like me to believe that you can’t be a humanist and also be a follower of Jesus. From what I have discovered in the last few months, that is categorically false. The two beliefs align very well with one another. Yes, there are differences in beliefs for different versions of humanism, but since there are over 39,000 versions of Christianity … Continue reading Humanism And Jesus…
I have to give you a quote from one of my most recent regular reads in the blogsphere. It is from John Pavlovitz. He is a North Carolina pastor who speaks to my heart. Here is the snippet for discussion in Today’s post. It is about a Trumpster who tried to insult him by calling him a beta-male (as opposed to an alpha-male I suppose): … Continue reading Proud Beta Male, MeToo…
If you have been around RJsCorner I’m sure you know by now that I cherish change. Change allows us to do things better than before. It allows us a second or maybe third chance to get it right. But not all change is good, even for me. 🙂 At least to some degree, I believe in the old adage “If it ain’t broken, why change … Continue reading While I Cherish Change…
I have been thinking a lot lately about the mindset of those who think #CO3 is their savior/hero. Two words that seem to stick in my mind are “proudly ignorant”. A good portion of these folks just hates the fact that others think they are more intelligent than them. Even though they know that they are ignorant of many different levels they despise being told … Continue reading Proudly Ignorant
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