I was expecting this...
Posted By: Lurker on 2006-07-21
In Reply to: How do you know I haven't walk a mile in their shoes? - Wow
response. No, I don't know what you have been through in your life. I don't even know who you are. It was just a wild guess on my part that you have probably not experienced any of the things I mentioned. Usually people who have really suffered, no matter whose fault it is, if there is any fault to be had at all, empathize with people in crisis. Blaming the ***victim*** is something I just cannot abide; it is an eccentricity of mine. I don't care where they have been, what they have done, what they are not doing, blah, blah, blah. I am still better off than they are and always have been only through the Grace of God and I mean only through the Grace of God. The reasons I have been able to rise up out of the ashes the many times I have is because of the gifts I was born with. I am white (well half anyway), and if you don't think being white in America is a leg up you are extremely deluded. I am physically sound. I am good looking. I have an above-average IQ. I was raised with a deeply ingrained faith that has served me all my life because the people who raised me (accident of birth) were married (to each other) and felt strongly about faith. I had an excellent education because they felt the same way about education. Those are all gifts I received the day I was born. I did not pull myself up by my bootstraps all by myself; no one does.
I am comparing other cities to Beirut because other than Miami and Newark which are just dangerous period, they have all been bombed and people killed. No large metropolitan city is safe.
I will leave this subject alone now. I will admit to you that yout initial post hit a nerve with me, I just see red when I hear or read someone berating people in crisis, no matter what. The end.
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lacking compassion?? I think it's the key to life. Case in point, I read today where once again we have a major hurricane and 250,000 chose not to heed evacuation warnings. And guess what? NOW they want to be bailed out, want rescuers to risk life and limb to save them from their own bad choices. You're right, though, I suppose. While I do have much compassion for the TRULY needy, I don't think there are as many of them in this country as the numbers using programs would reflect. I don't have a lot of compassion for lazy people who think they deserve life's best handed to them on a silver platter. I know a guy who hasn't worked in years and makes more money on disability than I make slaving at my computer for 50 hours a week, and there's not a thing wrong with him. They even have the guy on video doing heavy lifting and the whole 9 yards but he still gets those checks. I guess I'll just smile and be compassionate toward him and his sorry lot in life. lol
Oh my. and here I was expecting to be labeled a "messiah." LOL
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No the STUPIDEST thing is expecting
while Obama continues to campaign. Should all the pubs sit around praying for Obama while he's out smearing the pub party? I don't think so.
I have to wonder just how much he cared about the woman. After all, he thought she was racist (according to his book, his words) and didn't visit her that often.
What is Rahm expecting to happen?
That is why we need a Civilian National Security Force?
That's like expecting a tidal wave to stop
because you are pointing a hair dryer at it. It's just not going to happen on this board.
I would love nothing more than to see a bipartisan effort on this entire board, but there is to much back and forth already.
That's why something like this should have been put on the prayer request board and not the politics board.
And honestly, she shouldn't be looking for a reply. It should just satisfy her enough to put it on here. Why should it matter if there are three replies or three hundred? The number of replies doesn't equal the number of prayers he is getting. And I'm almost positive Obama doesn't read this board to see our condolences. (Although if he did, at least we would know he knew what an MT was! :) )
Again, I hate to hear that about his grandmother. But if she knows her Lord, she will be in a better place and without the pain. That is what is so great about being a Christian, knowing there is something better after this life!
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