Making bad choices just to prove you can make your own choices is childish. So why are young adults and adults are the biggest offenders? Sure it takes a big boy/girl to do what you want right? Its your life, you aren't hurting anybody. ...right?
I had recently been talking with a friend of mine over the issue of going to church. They said: "I think you should do whatever you want to. If you like church then go, but if not then you should not be forced to do something that you don't want to do. " And of course, I agree. But who's forcing a middle aged newly divorced man to go to church? His parents? perhaps...but if that's the case I'm sure the issues run deeper than just the problem of choice. Personally I've been a big proponent of choice. After all its what started this whole thing. God sided with Christ's plan of choice leaving Satan's idea of forced control on the outs. And even at that moment God honored our choices to either be cast out with Satan or remain and be able to come here to this earth. Of course, did we know at that time the repercussions of that choice?
How often do we see teenagers, in the attempt to prove how adult they are, make awful choices? I really don't see much different from a teenager and a child in their thought processes. Its just that as we get older we are able to make even dumber mistakes. Of course we all know what brings wisdom. Knowledge applied.... of course the curve for figuring things out is up to each individual.
Monday, February 26, 2007
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Cops, filmed on location
We were getting ready for a fun day of sledding at the park. While I was getting out I notice a police officer next to me loading 2 shopping errant carts into the back of his truck. We looked at each other and I said "I guess you never figured you'd be pushing carts as a cop huh"
I laughed....he did not. At least the day was gorgeous
Overpopulation? Or just cluster cramps?
Random thoughts.
Been thinking lately of the hubub of the myth of the overpopulation of the world the US, illegal immigration problems and how they might actually be related.
http://www.jefflindsay.com/Overpop.shtml is a great read on the subject and better yet an LDS perspective on it.
While I'll save the time and not throw numbers out there, I've felt for a long time that the more the merrier. While shrinking our numbers we shrink our opportunities for population bubbles. That being said there are certain areas that are overcrowded. Looking at major cities it seems we lack the sense of expansion but rather "pack it in" for ease of transportation and location for work etc. Which leads to, I believe, raising a generation in which they are unable to think above the city walls in which they are born in. While the cause for that is perhaps the turn our society has taken, I don't believe we would ever be able to outgrow the Earth before it serves its purposes. (of course, I'm taking an LDS spin on the whole thing at this point.) I don't believe that a God would created something that doesn't serve its purpose. Animals live to their fullest, nature acts exactly how God intended and planned, mankinds purpose here is to choose...which we seem to be doing awefully well.
Anyways getting back on track here, I wanted to tie in the immigration crisis here. At our current state there is legislation trying to be enacted to wall up our borders. Perhaps this is the answer or perhaps this will only be like slapping a band aid on a gushing wound. I think that this thinking is frail logic in thinking that it will help anything long term. The problem with illegal immigrants isn't that they are here. But rather the cash flow. They obviously sustain a large workforce, some saying that Americans are unwilling to do. But its not that Americans aren't willing to do the work, but rather they aren't willing to do it for such low wages. The true crime here isn't the people here illegally, but rather the American companies that employ them under the table. I feel that instead of focus being so much on our borders it should be granting amnesty to those that are here, and getting them "inked" into the tax and social security system. The current defunct social security system only works if it has a bigger base of paying workforce to support the smaller retirement segment. Our country is growing but the social security base paying workforce isn't keeping up. I feel that the illegal immigrants is the answer. They are here, despite the millions of tax dollars spent on keeping them out.
And of course that being said, perhaps redirecting our efforts in understanding why so many are willing to come here illegally from a defunct and corrupt Mexico system and seeing what we can do to help, educate and uplift our neighbors.
Taking again in account my LDS background, I do not believe that the "promised land" begins and ends at American boarders. I believe we will see a day where Southern American and central American will excel in every way possible. Of course based on the righteousness of the peoples there. Which I don't know if anyone has noticed has a larger population of LDS members than America.
/random thoughts
Been thinking lately of the hubub of the myth of the overpopulation of the world the US, illegal immigration problems and how they might actually be related.
http://www.jefflindsay.com/Overpop.shtml is a great read on the subject and better yet an LDS perspective on it.
While I'll save the time and not throw numbers out there, I've felt for a long time that the more the merrier. While shrinking our numbers we shrink our opportunities for population bubbles. That being said there are certain areas that are overcrowded. Looking at major cities it seems we lack the sense of expansion but rather "pack it in" for ease of transportation and location for work etc. Which leads to, I believe, raising a generation in which they are unable to think above the city walls in which they are born in. While the cause for that is perhaps the turn our society has taken, I don't believe we would ever be able to outgrow the Earth before it serves its purposes. (of course, I'm taking an LDS spin on the whole thing at this point.) I don't believe that a God would created something that doesn't serve its purpose. Animals live to their fullest, nature acts exactly how God intended and planned, mankinds purpose here is to choose...which we seem to be doing awefully well.
Anyways getting back on track here, I wanted to tie in the immigration crisis here. At our current state there is legislation trying to be enacted to wall up our borders. Perhaps this is the answer or perhaps this will only be like slapping a band aid on a gushing wound. I think that this thinking is frail logic in thinking that it will help anything long term. The problem with illegal immigrants isn't that they are here. But rather the cash flow. They obviously sustain a large workforce, some saying that Americans are unwilling to do. But its not that Americans aren't willing to do the work, but rather they aren't willing to do it for such low wages. The true crime here isn't the people here illegally, but rather the American companies that employ them under the table. I feel that instead of focus being so much on our borders it should be granting amnesty to those that are here, and getting them "inked" into the tax and social security system. The current defunct social security system only works if it has a bigger base of paying workforce to support the smaller retirement segment. Our country is growing but the social security base paying workforce isn't keeping up. I feel that the illegal immigrants is the answer. They are here, despite the millions of tax dollars spent on keeping them out.
And of course that being said, perhaps redirecting our efforts in understanding why so many are willing to come here illegally from a defunct and corrupt Mexico system and seeing what we can do to help, educate and uplift our neighbors.
Taking again in account my LDS background, I do not believe that the "promised land" begins and ends at American boarders. I believe we will see a day where Southern American and central American will excel in every way possible. Of course based on the righteousness of the peoples there. Which I don't know if anyone has noticed has a larger population of LDS members than America.
/random thoughts
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Presidents Day surprise
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