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Carol H Tucker
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on the last day of Christmas....
Today is the 5th day of the 1st week, the 5th day of the 1st month, the 5th day of 2017, and:
- Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival (Harbin, China)
- National Bird Day
- National Whipped Cream Day
- Sausage Day
- The Twelfth day of Christmas and the Twelfth Night of Christmas. (Western Christianity)
ON THIS DAY: In 1066 Edward the Confessor died childless, sparking a succession crisis that will eventually lead to the Norman conquest of England. In 1805 Bookseller Thomas Cary published the first edition of the Quebec Mercury newspaper. In 1914 the Ford Motor Company announced an eight-hour workday and that it would pay a "living wage" of at least US $5 for a day's labor. In 1919 the German Workers' Party, which would become the Nazi Party, was founded. In 1933 construction of the Golden Gate Bridge began in San Francisco Bay. In 1944 the Daily Mail becomes the first transoceanic newspaper. In 1970 the soap opera "All My Children" premiered on ABC-TV. In 1972 Nixon ordered development of the US space shuttle. In 1973 Bruce Springsteen's debut album, "Greetings From Asbury Park, NJ," was released. In 2005 Eris, the most massive and second-largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System, was discovered by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz using images originally taken on 10.21.2003, at the Palomar Observatory. In 2014 a launch of the communication satellite GSAT-14 aboard the GSLV MK.II D5 marked the first successful flight of an Indian cryogenic engine.
Ignoring the political posts online continues to be pretty difficult. DJT just LOVES to tweet-storm and between his comments and the responses [whether pro or con], any facts seem pretty obscured in the welter of heated rhetoric. Two things seem to be totally lost: [1] politeness – manners if you will and [2] a sense of responsibility for those amongst us who need help. I have no idea what caused the raucous nature of both public and private discourse, or even a feel for when an opinion started trumping facts, but I have an idea of why the needy are being ignored – I blame John Calvin
John Calvin stated: "God preordained...a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation." This came to be interpreted as the gospel of Prosperity or [Prosperity Doctrine] – meaning that poverty, disease, and lack of well-being is the individuals’ fault; God rewards the faithful and the good with wealth. As a result? Those that HAVE feel no moral accountability whatsoever to provide for those who HAVE NOT, and see every single attempt to spend money “for the greater good” as an unwarranted intrusion into their pockets. That’s why no argument seems to reach these people, they truly believe they are the chosen and nothing else matters. If you are not chosen? If you cannot retire or pay medical bills or get schooling? That’s your problem, get on your knees and take it up with the Lord – and stop coming the chosen ones for handouts.
Sound familiar? But understanding where they are coming from is not helping me understand how to bridge the gap that yawns between what they believe and I do. It isn’t helping me to see them as anything but self-righteous and smug; it isn’t helping them to see me as anything but a bleeding heart liberal. We don’t agree on priorities, we just aren’t talking in the same language, and there appears to be no common ground. I don’t know how to even open a dialog where both sides have an expectation that the other will listen and then compromise.
If I figure it out, I’ll let you all know….
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