Way back when I was
in Sunday school they always told us that you shouldn’t “sell out” your ethical
or political beliefs for personal gain.
Suppose someone came and told you that you could have that good job with
a lot of priveleges and prerogatives over other people that you may have always
yearned for secretly, but in order to gain this status you’d have to become a
political far right conservative, kind of like Donald Trump became. Would you do it? Maybe it depends on how desperate you
are. Joel Olsteen was saying that
sometimes God reaches down and plucks people out from the bottom, the dregs of
society and elevates them to an honored position of status. He says “You don’t even necessarily have to
be out looking for opportunities; sometimes opportunity will come looking for
you”. If only that were the case. Sometimes though even God wants to know what
whatever job you have now, that you are doing your work responsibly. David was a shepherd when God found him. But I imagine he was a good shepherd who took
good care to produce healthy sheep for the rancher or whoever owned the sheep. Joel Olsteen talked about a guy who was a
football player in college but no Pro team would draft him. He figured he “just wasn’t that good” so as
to go pro. But then some coach wanted
to meet with him and before he knew it he became a star player on a pro
team. Thom Hartman a couple of times has
stated that he was offered business or other opportunities- - - but the price
of doing so was to sell out his political or humanitarian beliefs. I guess the shoe could be on the other foot. Some left wing political organization could
find me and say “We want you to be our spokesman but you have to give up your
stance opposing abortion and gay marriage”.
Would I do it? My philosophy has
always been that it was a sin to “throw away a good thing” just because you
feel like being an asshole. I’ve known
people like that. Some people don’t care
if they don’t rise to their best potential.
I told you once that Rev Westfall said to me in a session “I’ve figured
out why you are consistently a failure in life, but you aren’t ready to hear it
yet”. That answer has always haunted
me. Maybe I should go to other
therapists and one of them per chance might “discover the same secret about me”
and that person would tell me “the answer”.
(Selah)
Here we are in
flagstone, for those who care about Word backgrounds. I was just checking songs to make sure I had “Panic
in Detroit” and I do. Chris Marquardt
was on the Leo Laporte show and Leo was telling Chris about being at a village
in Germany that had these four hundred year old recipe sausages. The only problem is that there were
porta-potties in the background. I hope
the Photo Shop treatment works. One of
my sayings from early 1981 that I put in letters- - from a Lennon song is- “I
tell them there’s no problem- - only Selucids”.
Readers of my prophecy book know what I mean. Ron Pugh was babbling and happened to quote
the Bible saying “Judge not that you not be judged”. Wouldn’t that be funny if God flagged events
from thirty years ago and threw them back in your face and your defense is “Oh
come on God, you know that’s water under the bridge”. Yesterday in the medication line or
something Kathy was going on in praise of the Rev Chuck Smith. My first impulse was to set her straight and
tell her everything that was wrong with Chuck Smith’s theology. But I thought better of it. Sometimes the prudent thing to do is to keep
silent. Of course I think I even
listened to Chuck Smith on the radio over the noon hour home from Church when I
visited Mom and Dad at their house. But
my memory is a little hazy. Like they
say “A hazy mind covers a multitude of sins”.
Late yesterday all of this stuff was going through my mind about various
things roommates at the Bosc house had said and done from that dark period of
July 1985 through early 1988. But it was
stud I didn’t WANT to be thinking about so I pushed it out of my mind.
Last night the
medication line ran till nearly eight.
Each person was taking several minutes to get their medication. Kate was asking all kinds of questions and
then she was one of these “pill counters” once she got them. Steve or someone had farted a really smelly
fart in line. Sometimes I’m amazed at
the patience people show in line but Bernice is really slow. Like I say she’s slower than April was and
how glad we were to get rid of her. I
had three of the cinnamon rolls last night and one this morning. I watched the CBS network news. This is the third time the Golden State
Warriors have been on the evening ABC game in the past month or so. This week they were playing and beating the
San Antonio Spurs, gaining momentum as they went. I don’t remember what show I had on next but
it was on CBS.
I didn’t sleep that
well and developed bowel restlessness.
So I was up at three thirty and again at five. Then I showered. I always have these anxieties in my mind like
paying for my haircut, which I still haven’t gotten. I don’t know if my check went through and I
don’t want the newly instated ten dollar per day penalty. I lay down on the bed a while to think. Then at a quarter to six I turned on the
TV. I had forgotten Joel Olsteen was on
even though I had just seen him on the previous week. He was talking about how King David had been
passed over in life and didn’t feel qualified to be King. Sometimes God will reach down and pluck
someone up reserved for greatness. At
six I went down not knowing who I’d get in medication or how bad the line
was. It was Ricardo and there was no
line. I asked him if I was really out of
diaria medication because Bernice had told me that I was. (days ago)
Ricardo said “Who told you that?” and produced a diaria pill for
me. Then I had KNXT news on. They have raised the Disneyland and Disney
World admission prices to $117.00 now.
They are predicting rain tomorrow.
They’ve been accurate go get your umbrellas ready. At six thirty there was this lady ski jumper
who learned to ski when she was two. She
began ski jumping when she was seven inspired by watching the athletes at
Olympics 2002 in Salt Lake City. She
became a good ski jumper but they didn’t allow men in the sport because of some
archaic belief that ski jumping would interfere with women’s reproductive
health. But then in 2011 the Olympic committee
changed their mind and allowed female ski jumping. But then she injured her knee. By the time of the Russian Olympics in 2014
she was still not completely healed and scored only 21 in place. But she stuck at it practicing only to injure
the same knee again. Now she’s ski
jumping in these 2018 Olympics. Then
they had Paul Mc Closky, who ran against Shirley Temple Black in 1967 for some
post and beat her. Mc Closky was a
Korean War hero but in 1967 was an anti war liberal and contended with Richard
Nixon for the Presidency in the 1972 Convention.
I brought the box of
corn flakes from the room that Bill had down to eat as soon as the juice and
milk arrived. Then when the oatmeal
came, I had a bowl of that, too. We had
eggs and French toast. Steve got Jerry’s
French toast and also some of her eggs because he got a smaller portion than we
got. I had seconds on the coffee. I watched “This Week” which had the usual
stuff on it. At nine it was “Love” songs
on Breakfast with the Beatles. There
were a lot of unusual songs they played this week. The “Who is that singer?” answer was Peggy
Lee singing a rare Mc Cartney song. They
also had Ringo singing a rare George Harrison song. They played at least two songs from “Walls
and Bridges”. I decided not to go out
for snacks. I went down to look at the
menus and decided not to change either one.
We had chicken strips for lunch with ranch dressing dip. We also had tater tots and optional catsup. There were also carrots. I went back for seconds and got another
chicken strip and more tater tots. We
had a banana for dessert. Then I turned
on Leo and you know the rest. Leo says
that your place of employment by law can’t spy on you if it’s a line-line phone
call. But if you’re doing texting the
courts have time and time again ruled against the wayward employee and can spy
on you and can fire you for any reason at all.
Leo says “If she hates this company policy she should get another job”.
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