The problem is, we stand scratching our heads while saying "we need tighter gun control and better education", just to name a couple of needs. We shouldn't ignore these important things, and I don't think we are, but sometimes you have to take the long route to get to the source of the problem before real education begins. First you have to gather enough people together to agree to disagree, or if you’re lucky, agree.…
Flying The Confederate War Flag, (symbolically represented) is acknowledging a reality that there has been, and is, a division of people.
If bigotry and racism exist: Can we then figure out how to come together to form an agreement? It does exist! As with any change, we see a problem but don't know how to get to the cause and make it appear, clear enough for all parties to see it, and see it long enough to understand and implement change.
I had a teacher who once said, you can't cure cancer (symbolically) with an aspirin, this was in response to the death penalty. Killing people doesn't solve the problem. These people who hold onto their guns like it's a symbol of freedom, they don't understand that it's their voice that is the real weapon, but guns are a symbol of the problem.
Taking one’s Life: “Rev. Charles R. Moore, 79, a retired United Methodist pastor, set himself on fire in June, 2015. In his suicide note, he revealed he was 'haunted' by racism and hoped his death would inspire social reform. A Texas pastor who spent his life fighting against racial discrimination hoped his death might advance the cause.”
Spending a lifetime trying to understand how relationships work, and finding out just how very complex the problem of human nature is, and the formula for understanding this is getting to the guts of the issue/problem, I do understand what depression is and how it can affect anyone.
The sanest of people can go through periods of extreme thinking, and doing, until they lose perspective. I'm referring to the minister who set himself on fire, his symbolism for moral justice. Some see this as noble, but I see it as losing perspective on what life is teaching, and how to use that teaching to reverse the problem. One pressure trigger after another is never healthy. You also see the extremists of these religious cults, and you see what they can do. It happens when their focus is unchanged, targeting the negative, instead of seeing the positive, until your mind becomes unhinged.
I honestly don't know what will become of this man, now in death, not life. To not forget someone like this, as a Nation, you have to see what he stood for, and this is going to fade unless people want to use him as a martyr, and I don’t see this happening in today’s world of radicals running rampant. How do you want to keep his memory alive? What does he stand for to you? I won't tell you I respect or disrespect what he did, because I don't feel he was in a "good place" when he took his last stance. I'm just saddened that he thought he had to kill himself to become a voice to these issues he stood for....suicide, for any reason, is not a healthy choice.
Gone With The Wind and the Southern Flag:
I'm pretty burnt out on people hating this, that, and the other thing, especially the hate for everything that is labeled "Republican" or “The South”. I love it when extreme religious frauds can happily lump everyone in society into groups to dislike....it makes it so much easier to swallow [for them], and in this process they can ignore the details so they don’t have to see themselves as the instigator of that hate and prejudice..
Seeing more than one side to religions: Christian Evangelical: I'm Deeply Ashamed of the Right-Wing Demagogues Who Call Themselves Christians
We all want to think how noble we are..traditions are fine...history heritage...that's fine...ancestry, that's all well and good, but as far as I can see, what the South fought for wasn't exactly what I would be expousing as any of these things to be proud of...because it’s all for the wrong reasons.
A posed question: Why didn't we just leave the slaves alone, before and during the emancipation....let them fight their own battles by themselves...why did we step in and want to free them, because we think of ourselves as "Christians” with morals and noble virtues?...Wars are immoral...but we end up fighting with and for people because we think our cause is more righteous, better or just? I WILL fight if someone threatens my family, livelihood, and I will stand against the killing of innocent people...Is there a justification for fighting for a cause and killing someone? We are a civilized Christian society and killing is wrong…Now, isn't that a contradiction of what I just said? Always a justification for everything.
A Quote: "The ever-popular film [Gone With The Wind] has also had its share of detractors, for its benign antebellum Southern racial stereotypes (of happy slaves living on the plantation) - its overall portrayal of slavery and race. Many forget that Hattie McDaniel and other black cast members were not allowed to attend the premiere of the film in racially-segregated Atlanta in mid-December 1939. There were protests and boycotts by African-Americans when the film opened in major cities.
Has anyone learned from this film in our American history?
"The fanciful, introductory foreword to the film explains:
There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South. Here in this pretty world, Gallantry took its last bow. Here was the last ever to be seen of Knights and their Ladies Fair, of Master and of Slave. Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind..."
Onward, in feudal dominance as a contradiction in morals develops here...I'm more and more finding these contradictions coming out of dissenters' mouths on all equal rights and racial subjects. To someone with logical thinking, it really becomes insane.
We deal with the NOW, the present, not go back and try to eradicate the past, the history for which these lives are based, because all that does is cause dissension, division, and confusion about freedom of speech and banning words that were once used in a culture. The flag is obviously part of that history, no matter where it originated. I've read many, many posts and discussions on this, and even the people talking about it are not certain of its origin.
This is the confusion I'm talking about, so let's deal with the present and just take the flag down because it's a reminder of hate in a past filled with war; a period of time which originated because of cultural dominance and superiority, a cruel paste will with separation of rights and injustices to the human spirit. Racial bigotry was born, again….we don't need reminders like that divisional flag flying over state buildings, we need only one flag, a flag reflecting a history that reminds us to hold onto unity - And dating back to a Biblical time in history, Matthew 12:25: "...And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand".
When any group or country becomes strong with unity, like our country once was, and can be again, it's always a matter of learning to live with each other, no matter the race, the color, the religion, the sex, the gender, and have your focus directed on “love one another”. It sounds too easy...But when you feel love for your friends and neighbors, it blocks out the negative emotions, and it allows one’s eyes to see and forces on positive goals.
Change is never easy: Unfortunately, and sadly, the human race still hasn't figured their way through it. Marriage between whomever, I'm hoping this is a step forward with showing that inclusive love for the other person in these marriage vows, will lead the way into the future.
The majority or the minority?...what are we if we call ourselves The United States? Are we tired of being pushed around, manipulated? The long problem with any of us is, we've been manipulated and lead around by the nose for so long, we've become complacent, and with that, you begin to wonder if you even have a voice in our government any more.
In my thinking of the word "marriage":
The traditionalist symbolize this word, as to represent something a man and a woman do to seal their union, a ceremonial vow no matter the religion. With this seal it guarantees each to be a person of equality, except in history, in the eyes of the law and man, it had not always been equal between man and woman. But through a long and arduous evolutionary process, understanding developed, out of which a true equality in marriage, and in life, developed and has become what it is today.
The LGBTQ community, having been oppressed for millenniums, is now having a voice of their own, no longer standing by idly waiting to be abused, hated and shunned forever more in future generations. Liberating human beings; liberating human dignity; liberating equality, and liberating the rights of another human being to be able to live, love, and let be in the eyes of the law and human kindness, and leaving the religious voice out if necessary.... There is nothing more important than the recognition and maintenance of human dignity, held together with love for another human being. All issues in the populous of the world are based on this, and if more people can realize this, the world would become a better place.
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