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You may think me a simpleton for saying this but I don’t really concern myself with being accepted as an “equal” by anybody in this life. I know God made us all and in His eyes we are equal and will be judged by Him fairly and without respect as to our gender. So whatever my hands find to do in this life, I do it! I like the way my friend and fellow home biz Sonia Colon put it: “Don’t let what you can’t do, interfere with what you can do.”
Sure! Discrimination and inequality sucks! But count each day you accomplish anything you set out to do a success. Hey! God could have hindered you from achieving your goal. But instead He gave you the tools and the talent and opened a door for you! When God opens a door, no man close it. (Rev 3:8)
Yes I know. I am a syrupy sweet unrealistic idealistic dreaming idiot! But I like me that way! 🙂
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no. It’s like going to South Africa and telling people they should be happy with Apartheid or to the slave plantation and tell them how their slavery was ‘ordained’.
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Oh I wasn’t saying to be happy and satisfied with oppression, discrimination, inequality or anything that’s wrong. I was saying OVERCOME.
You can only overcome if you have the mind to recognize what you can do versus what you can’t. You can make it your mission in life to fight gender inequality. Many women have. But as you say the “inequality” still exists. To hear you talk about where you live, i.e. Jamaica. You’ve got a much bigger problem than gender inequality. In your case, the government corruption is what needs to be tackled. Because it seems like everybody is unequal: male or female.
By the way, slavery was never “ordained” if you use that word to indicate “Divine approval”. That’s just a plain old lie. There are three Divine institutions: marriage, family and the “called out” who respond to the gospel message Jesus preached. The first 2 institutions were created for living a happy life in this world. Of course, mankind screwed that up! The 3rd one transcends or goes beyond this world. Mankind can’t screw that up. They don’t have any power. They can’t even reach heaven.
Back to you. 🙂
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Not to nitpick, but Scripture does recognise slavery and there are particular provisions for the slave who does not leave etc.
The key feature with any kind of oppression is the internalisation of inferiority.
If you notice, for example, how Trump denigrated women, yet how women voted for Trump you will view the key feature of this self oppression.
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You’re not nit-picking. I enjoy talking to you. You remind me of when I had passion and thought there something I could do in this life to make a difference.
With respect to people who voted in the US presidential election, it was their individual choice. I’m not a mind reader and don’t really care to know what their reasoning was. They have to live with their conscience. I don’t. But all of America has to live with the voters’ choice. We’ll survive, if it’s God’s will.
With respect to human beings, they are those who believe in equality and know we are all created equal versus others who think they are superior. What is worse is some actually believe they are inferior. Sad but true. We all have our own free will. We all control our minds.
I truly believe there was a real man named Lazarus. There is no indication that he was a slave. But he was poor, the dogs licked his sores and he was living in a most pitiful state, as far as the human eye could see, and he died that way. But no matter that this life for him was most miserable, he was judged faithful when he departed, and received his reward by being granted a rest forever in a place called “Abraham’s bosom”. The rich man whose name we do not know also received his just reward.
With respect to the scriptures, it is a holy book that contains enough of a record of the history of mankind to paint a clear enough picture of what humanity did to screw up a world that was good, “in the beginning”. Recognizing that slavery existed (exists) in this world and telling both the Christian master and/or the Christian slave that they are really both equal and will be judged by the same God in the next world … puts life – this short life and eternal life – in perspective. Faithful Christians are taught how to live in peace and to be content no matter what the circumstances. Why? Because this life is temporary and will be over before you know it. It’s a “vapor”. It’s the next life that matters.
Happy to talk to more. It will have to be later. Right now I’m getting ready for bed. 🙂
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save girl child save a generations
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Women must be empowered and must know it. They can not be so easily fooled
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It is an important subject. Regarding the American elections I felt it was one of the bitterly fought and nastiest elections I have ever seen. I for one thought America will like to vote for a woman as their first president and it was the right time now in the twenty first century. We now know that was not to be. I understand the passion you feel when it comes to the above topic which is well written. I have also observed this in workplaces where the women boss tries to browbeat other women employees. I wonder what makes them do such a nasty thing to any human being be it a man or women.
But to be fair to women there have been innumerable cases of women who have come to the top with sheer grit, tenacity, determination and resolve. My salute to such women who made it despite such great odds. They are the right role model for many girl children especially. As even they can have a dream of being in such a position one day if they follow their role model’s footsteps. Society is changing slowly all over the world. In Asia and in a few years you will be finding more women at the top reaching great heights which even they are entitled to.
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As you noticed with your boss, self-hatred continues. The woman at the top doesn’t feel she ‘belongs’ there and sees other women as threats. In the American election that women voted for a man who spits on them only proves that there have been no gains.
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Good for you.
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A regular problem what television viewers would be facing has been neatly covered in the topic as to how things can be planned in a better way for the best result in getting entertained by the medium and not to become a slave of the medium. Many of the programs which we view would be disturbed due to different reasons and we cannot start at right place again immediately. My view to this is I like to watch program’s which are of one serial and less than one hour duration as we do not have to worry about the subsequent ones . We can always view them if we get time or else we can skip them. But for people who view serials regularly the above tips are very useful. An interesting writing covering many aspects of television and entertainment industry.
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Thank you. Also, I find that when I watch at my own pace; when I can see two episodes back to back or watch an epi every day, I am far more critical.
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The problem comes when a person chooses someone the Parents don’t like. If you were to fall in love and pick someone yet your parents liked and approved of, well that is one thing. But if they don’t like the person and refuse to accept the marriage… that is a world of problems.
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This is a big problem in many families and I personally have come across where parents have treated the son or the daughter who has so married to be no more in their life. It is a sad reality. I feel bad for both but more so for the parents because in one stroke the trust which parents place on the children is broken. One should understand that marriages are made with families and not individuals. But since the times have changed elders should also learn to accept the ground realities. And the children should also not end up troubling their parents for their own reasons. Child parent relationship are a case of mutual trust and this trust should not be broken. The most important thing is that children should not do something which will upset the parents mind. While there are many happy endings once a grandson or a granddaughter is born. In a lot of other cases the exact opposite happens and the girl or the boy ends being thrown out of the family and the relationship with the parents. These are all sensitive issue and should not be trampled upon. Elders should also forgive them and leave them alone no doubt that pain keeps lingering on till death. A thought provoking article well written.
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We share the same sentiments. To be thrown out of the family is hard on everyone and very often there is no reconciliation. The relationship may not last and the parents move on, the child has to recreate a life for there is no home to go to.
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The reality is that only the worst people go into politics. They are interested in power. They pursue power, they will do and say anything to get it. They will stand on a platform and promise then get into power and starts filling their pockets and bellies.
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I totally agree with your arguments and think you should add that they also want a nice pay (money). I’m from Belgium (EU) and the only thing i see our politicians do is working against each other or the community to get power or money. The socialist who should stand for the people are always involved in scandals.
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politicians say/promise what they think you want to hear. What they intend is to get into office, get as much money as they can, as you rightly said, and then coast for as long as they can hold office.
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We have ruined weather patterns in different parts of the world. We are having no rain in our country. We are damaging our nature and environment and it will be declared as unfit for living purposes in the near future if we do not improve the things. We must take proper steps in this connection if we want to secure this beautiful world.
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Global warming is cause of human irresponsibility…in this peace and beauty world…peoples doing many negative things and also not scared of the god….so global warming is one of the way that god shows his anger on us and make us scared to him
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To be honest, having gained experience with various sites, I don’t know why it didn’t seem obvious to me from the beginning that certain sites would go belly up. Two sites in particular I can think of but won’t bother mentioning them by name because they are already gone and nobody cares any more. Live and learn. But there was one site that I really hated to see go. That was Squidoo. Even though the site was acquired by HUBPages, it’s just not the same. I really miss that site.
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What happened to some sites, like Squidoo is that they didn’t know how to counter Google’s Panda/Penguin. Labelled content farms as was Hubpages they were unable to create some new paradigm.
Wikinut stopped paying because of it, and Triond disappeared.
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Well I believe that over-dependence on Google and Net is not very conducive.
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Over dependence of course… but to read/hear and not have that normal human skepticism… and not check it out?
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One of my brothers once told me something that I’ve never forgotten. He said: “You can read anything you want to read. But you don’t have to believe everything you read!” 🙂
Yes. Some people need to recognize that not everything that is published is true.
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That’s the key issue. You read something, check it out. It’s the famous story of Douglas Spearman. He’s a minor actor. He learned he had AIDs by reading his Wiki entry. He contacted the owner and the item was removed. But he pondered, how many people reading the ‘authority’ Wikipedia believed it.
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Talk about Vaseline petroleum jelly you can never go wrong with it. It is th3 perfect moisturiser that ever existed. And its pure and very skin friendly I guess that’s why it’s recommended for kids and fiddlers. That is th3 oil I used to use when I was younger back in the days until I switched over to cocoa butter but you can never go wrong with vaceline.at any time anywhere it is readily available. Like when a child has nappy rash vaceline is always recommended by doctorsand it works pretty well without any side effects.
Yes, the fact it is so safe is a real plus