Everytime I get stuck going to a Sunday meeting at the Kingdumb Hall, it seems
they have a speaker who repeats a popular Witness mantra:
"Worse and Worse!"
Will any objective improvement ever stop these Doom and Gloom lovers from
being infatuated with saying "the world is getting worse and worse!"?????
I guess not! I suppose if they invented a pill that gave you Eternal Youth
- and a slight rash, the Awake would print a cover with a forlorn looking woman
entitled "The Global Itching Epidemic - What is the Solution?".
The LEAST bit of common sense should tell you that , at any given moment,
some things in the world are better, some things are worse, and some things
are the same - and a tiny bit of honest observation would go much further.
For example:
I attended a small work related technical summit last week in which the Big Boss
told us about the companies' future. His technical adviser was a young, geeky
African-American man.
After five minutes of listening to the adviser, none of us had any doubt that he was
top-notch and utterly qualified to build an IT infrastructure. He knew his topic and
had no fear of questions or objections tossed his way.
and I thought
Here is a young 'black' man
He doesn't pick cotton- like his enslaved ancestors
He doesn't make his living from basketball- or any physical sport
He isn't a gang member- and doesn't live in the ghetto.
He isn't a 'token'.
He is a techie geek - like everyone else in the room.
What a wonderful (WORLDLY) success civil rights has been!
I'm old enough to remember the riots, the tear gas, the vicious dogs,
the fat racist sheriffs, the 'block-busting' realtors, the lynchings,
the separate schools for 'colored', the protest marches and more.
I remember when Captain Kirk kissed Ohura - on Startrek to show the
future 300 years from now! Don't tell me "WORSE AND WORSE",
I'll yell back "No!, BETTER AND BETTER!" - and the successful quest
for human rights is , a vast MORAL improvement in society.
My wife became enamored about a program that showed knights
and lords and ladies in the age of chivalry.
I pointed out:
They smelled really bad (no regular baths)
Women died in childbirth
and -- with indoor plumbing, refrigerators, cars, and everything else
our lives are vastly better than the greatest emperors of history!
My car has air bags, safety restraints, and a padded dash. In my mother's
day, none of those things were found in her Chevy. Heck, in her time, beating
your wife and kids was barely thought of as a crime ( or don't you know
about the "rule of thumb"?)
Repeating the "worse and worse" mantra is just cult-maintenance. It is a
mass agreed-upon lie needed to shore up the imaginary world view of those who
eagerly blind themselves to the bounty around them. It may sound corny,
but when I drive to work, I thank the Creator ( as I understand 'Him') for the
roads, the reduced pollution, the rule of law, the filled potholes, the antibiotics
that saved me from appendicitis ( years ago, I just finished the bone-head Awake),
the nice air-conditioned mall, the tapes I can rent at Blockbuster, the service
industries that teach many people to be polite ( yes, even Walmart!), the online
college courses my parents never had, central heating, last-minute vacations on
Yahoo!, ...... need I go on?
"Worse and worse" - don't buy into this nonsensical "attitude without gratitude"!
metatron