I was born during the last of, what
I call, the age of innocence. The society in which we live still had an open
known virginity about it. I lived in a southern world where pornography was
strictly illegal. Buying condoms were strictly a “see the pharmacists”; the purchase
was in a brown paper bag. Our government never did anything wrong. Everyone
read the newspaper and television was black and white. The truth of the matter
we lived in a media induced society. There was illegal drug usage. We were in
Vietnam with “military advisors.” Abortions happened all the time in back
rooms, with natural remedies like pennyroyal, or with a coat hanger. Our government
was probably investigation via a scientific experiment concerning LSD. Children
were still running away or being used for sexually exploited. Abuse happened
all the time.
Dad once told me, “Bug,
every person alive has skeleton’s in the closet. It is a southern thing to
sweep the soiled kitty litter under the rug so that it may fall between the
floor boards of the home and never been seen again.”
I never could understand that analogy.
To simply put it, use the idiom, “never air your dirty laundry in public.” This
is supposed to be mainly for the females in society, especially a Christian
society, more than for males. Why? Females gossip more than males and have to
be controlled by the head of the household. (Might I refer you to, Ephesians
5.22-24, 1 Timothy 2.11-15, 1 Corinthians 7, 1 Peter 3.7, and so on; add
Ephesians 4.29, 2 Corinthians 12.20, Exodus 23.1, James 1.26 and so on.) Today,
in 2017, we know that men gossip just as much as women. Men and women brag and
gossip about anything and everything when given the open door.
Whose fault is? It is everybody’s
fault but mine. It is everybody’s fault but mine! I had nothing to do with it!
1.
I was coming home from work, when I was rolled.
(A drug addict/alcoholics explanation.)
2.
I throttle got stuck. I am not an expert on why?
(A teenager’s answer why they were speeding.)
3.
She started it because she introduced him to
marijuana. (A mother rationalizing a drug addiction.)
4.
I was hanging out with the wrong crowd. (A
reason as to why they were charged with a crime.)
5.
He made me hit him. (A reason to strike
someone.)
6.
They just kept me up all night long. (A pet
owner’s reason to kill a puppy.)
Let’s face it. We can come up with more reasoning(s) and
excuses of why someone did something. Instead of blaming it on someone or something
else, why not just say:
“It
wasn’t their fault. I did it of my own volition.” More than 2000+ years ago,
the Bible (in essence of definition) blames the fall from grace of Eden on who?
A woman. A female. The weaker of the sex. In truth, did she force the fruit
into the man’s mouth? Did Eve shove down the throat of Adam? If a man and woman
are joined into marriage as one, equally, then it was the responsibility of the
one flesh who ate the fruit knowing that they should not have done it.
Therefore, it is not the fault of anyone but equally the responsibility of both
men and women from the fall from grace out of Eden.
****When I say in essence of definition, man's interpretation of what is written in the Bible.
In politics, I didn’t vote for that candidate! It is your
fault we are in this shape. You are conservative and you are a liberal. Well it
is a conservative president. See what you did? WRONG! According to the founding
documents of the colonial America, it is “WE THE PEOPLE.” It doesn’t matter who
you voted for.
Another example is the Equal Rights Amendment. Why are women
not getting their equal rights? It is the male corporate America who is
responsible. WRONG! Definitely a wrong answer. The 1972-1982 Equal Rights
Amendment to the Constitution of the US, was not ratified. It lacked 3 votes of
being ratified. It can still hold some validity in a court of law.
****How can a word, a concept, or inanimate object be at fault? example: Corporate America is not a person.
It wasn’t corporate America’s fault, it was the fault of “We
the people” failing to do our part in making sure it was passed. But, if you
live in the southern states (like but not limited to Louisiana, Oklahoma,
Mississippi, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, North Carolina,
Virginia, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Nevada, Utah, or Arizona) then you
are not corporate America. Mentioned are the states that didn’t ratify the ERA
part of the 27th Amendment to the Constitution. But, according to
the US Supreme Court there are ways the legislation can be altered to make sure
it means equal pay.
When we are referring to anything, please take stock of what
you part is in all of this and do not blame someone else. In politics, like
marriage, we are all one—unified or united as in states. We are to take
responsibility for our actions, right, wrong, or indifferent. We should not rub
our rightness like salt in someone else’s wound. We should not blame our errors
on another because we are not forced to make or perform wrongful acts. Furthermore,
sore losers are displaying bad life examples of conduct. (Even though, there is
enough material for Saturday Night Live
for the next 20 years on the political home-front.)
This is the final example I am giving. Undocumented
immigrants came to this country. They literally took land, murdered, ran off, spread
diseases, exploited through liquor the people who were already living in this
country. All in the name of colonialism, expansion for the greater good.
Oh Lord, what do you think the Native American Indians were
saying about the colonist?
2017, American’s are blaming terrorism, loss of jobs, loss
of property, and loss of life on Islamic (Muslim) individuals and many in the
Latin community. In America prior to the mass influx of immigrants (documented
or undocumented) who did we (Americans) blame terrorist acts, loss of jobs,
loss of property and loss of life on? We blamed prostitution on Irish women
during the Suffrage. We blamed opium on the Chinese. (Didn’t matter if it was
imported by imported by American or European maritime vessels.) We (America) have to blame somebody, surly we
are not at fault for terrorist acts, loss of jobs, loss of property, and loss
of life (prostitution or drug addiction.)
We are supposed to be a Christian nation?
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