Post by drystyx on May 15, 2017 20:03:54 GMT
"Blessings" are best described as "resources".
There's a misconception, and has been for as long as I've lived, about blessings and resources. Those who are blessed will rarely admit it. Perhaps they don't know it.
But first, one must realize the difference between "resource" and "supply".
"Supplies" are not blessings. Supplies can be stolen, they can run out.
A man who is left a farm and house by a dead relative has a supply. People can destroy what he has. They can taint it. They can steal it a bit at a time. This is a supply. It isn't a blessing.
The man who has a "talent" has a blessing. Some are born with mechanical ability. All boys try to tinker with tools, but only those with the spiritual gift or talent, those with the "resource", have the "blessing".
They will always claim they worked at it, but the other boys worked much harder and longer. And a good mentor usually makes the difference.
The boy without the "blessing" or "resource" is dead weight, and he knows it. Be it wood working, mechanics, smith work, whatever. The boy without a "blessing" knows he needs to go to school and do homework.
The high school drop outs are not the "losers". They are the blessed ones, save for a few who are truly lost and afraid. Most are just totally blessed. They know they don't need school. They can make their own supplies, or steal supplies with their resources (blessings).
If you go to a 20 year class reuinion, a 30 year, 40, 50, whatever, you will see proof of this. The A class is now struggling, and most of them are single and childless, for no woman wants a future where they know their children have no blessings or resources. Even if they don't consciously admit this, they know this. Sure, the A class boy may go through women, but once the women sense that he has no talent or resource, they abandon him.
As long as I remember, society in Western culture tried to deny this and preach that it was the opposite, but that didn't change the facts.
Another way to look at "blessings" and "resources" is a look at those films about post apocalyptic worlds. We see bands of outlaws forming. The naïve viewer will think these are just young wayward people choosing to be outlaws. The fact is that such a band will sacrifice worthless dead weight members. The "band" is truly those with skills and resources. The ace mechanic, the blacksmith, professional semi drivers, welders.
who survived the concentration camps? Craftsmen. They always knew, even before Nazis took power, that their trades would save them, and always kept secrets, trade secrets. In this, they were traitors to humanity, just as they are today.
Medicines are not affordable because "specialists" believe they are entitled to be gods because of their blessings. They want to "play God". Capitalism and Democracy make this the law of the land.
People with real "blessings" are allowed, by Western culture, to not only exploit it, but to deny it, that is to blaspheme the Holy Ghost. Sorry, but that is the fact.
Now, there are minor blessings. The boy left with the farm may know how to work the farm, but not how to fix his tractor. He is still under the thumb of the truly blessed mechanic.
The blessed ones will lie and say the boy can look it up, google it, and solve the problem, but the fact is that instructions are given in terms that laymen can't possible translate. The "unblessed" can look at someone do something a hundred times and still not do it. You can watch someone do a back flip on solid ground a thousand times, but if you're not blessed, you won't be able to do it.
"Blessed people" pretend to be blind to the fact that some aren't blessed, but they are liars. I am blessed with a handsome face and great legs. Yet I don't look at a legless man and pretend he can have great legs. I can climb stairs easy, even at age 60, and climb hills easy, but I don't pretend that people who can't do it have the ability to do so if they aren't blessed.
But even there, I see Western culture at work. There are those who maintain the victim is at fault, that people who can't climb stairs did some terrible thing. That's Western culture. To deny that resources are blessings.
I was so glad Obama pointed out the fact that people whose businesses grew relied on blessings, relied on people willing to use their service or product. There are Limbaugh type maniacs who believe they "achieve" on their own, but Obama knew that all "achievement" was based on "blessing". That's what made him the greatest president we had in modern times, probably ever.
That's the real scourge of Trump and his "achievement" minded modern day Western culture maniacs. They are the "new order". Someone buys a Trump product, and Trump thinks he "achieved it" on his own. They think their blessings are from within themselves. Well, their Western culture is exactly what is worshipped by ISIS and all other terrorist groups.
That's not only delusion. It's not only a lie. It's not only insane. It's sick.
Only by changing Western culture, by following the examples of Jesus, Martin Luther King Jr., Obama, and others who follow the Holy Ghost, and realizing what "blessings" really are, will we ever make America great again.
But Trump can make America grate again.