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| Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.
Mark Twain
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| Beach Boys
Do they wish they all could become California Girls? Or do they wish all the girls would come to California?
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| eff
seriously. this generation is pretty pathetic. there are always exceptions to every rule, and always folks that go against the trend. but as a whole, seriously, WTF.
somehow this generation manages to simultaneously hate authority, but have such a powerful sense of entitlement and pathetically under-developed sense of initiative and responsibility it's just maddening. like I-want-to-just-shake-you maddening.
blah blah blah I hate the way my boss/pastor/professor/senator/president does things. then do it yourself. or offer a solution. or try to help and get involved. but it's so much easier to sit and complain. blah blah blah I'm supposed to do this assignment/project/task/job but they didn't hold my hand enough. I don't know what to do.
SUCK IT UP AND EFFING DO IT. YOUR GREAT GRANDPARENTS EFFING WASHED THEIR CLOTHES WITH ROCKS OR GOT ON A WAGON AND HEADED IN A GENERAL DIRECTION BEFORE SHOOTING BEARS, BUILDING A CABIN FROM SCRATCH AND STARVING WHEN THE CROPS DIDN'T GROW RIGHT. or they were slaves.
oh no my boss is mean. oh no I don't know how to do this. oh no I can't get a guy or girl that is good enough, but forget about working on becoming someone deserving of someone that good. I'm going to continue to be a slacker dancing on speakerboxes and clubbing into my late twenties and barfing in friends' cars and making college students make sure I get home alright. and what is up with this crap on television. Beck, O'Reilly, Olbermann - you little shekkis. do you realize what you are doing? this is more than a paycheck or a time slot. it's about the fate of a nation, the trust of a people and the future of the world. stop being so freaking petty and idiotic you muckracking sensationalist twobit hacks. have some effing dignity. all of you idiots quoting from twitter during the newscasts and showing youtube clips. and just because you have a platform, be it tv, radio (this means you imus and limbaugh) or print (yes, you maureen dowd) doesn't mean you're suddenly an authority on foreign policy or anything else you decide to talk about this week. so stop. seriously.
and you idiots on tv. don't you realize reality tv is killing us? it. is. killing. us. monkey see monkey do. whether we want to or not what we are exposed to influences us in tiny ways, and it adds up. cue - more serial killers on tv and fiction, more in real life. etc. so when you script and show idiot teenagers talking back and cursing to parents on the disney channel and those asinine, neanderthal parents-choose-the-person-their-kid-will-date shows on mtv, you're teaching a whole generation of kids that it's okay to act that way. miley cyrus, I hate the fact that I even know you exist. that a precious few brain cells among the limited pool that I have are devoted to knowing your name and recognizing your picture when it somehow ends up on the front page of CNN. what. the. eff. and to the machine that made you, that shoves you down our throats and brainwashes us into thinking you are somehow relevant to the greater movements of our civilization, eff you too, you non contributing zeroes.
a few weeks ago, I caught the end of "America's Best Dance Crew", and saw a member of an all-girl dance crew crying as the team stood for elimination. weeping, she said into the mic, "nothing... in life... will ever... come close... to this."
really? really? I'm pretty sure marriage, the birth of your child, and a whole slew of other things will probably make a measurable impact. yes, she was young and we all act stupid at that age. but every 29 year old sobbing because they get cut from "American Idol" or "So You Think You Can Dance" (or worse yet, those dating-elimination shows on VH1) is another reminder that this generation is about one thing: ME. MY problems, MY life, MY experiences. "it's always been my dream since I was three to become a model" (overheard from tonight's television by a Korean girl, no less). what are you really saying? "it's always been my dream since I was a child to have people think I'm beautiful and awesome, and basically know that I'm better than everyone else." this mantra of "follow your dream at all costs" is wrong. period. what does that do but encourage us to follow our basest instincts and most selfish desires? do what you love, but be a good person.
there have always been immature and idiotic people on this earth. Woodstock didn't happen by itself. but eff you middle-aged executives who decide to put this trash on television and amplify a million-fold the detrimental and poisonous impact they normally have to those only in their immediate vicinity.
and Governor Sanford and Senator Vitter, for God's sakes have some decency and resign. are you kidding? what will your children think when they've grown. jesters and circus acts play their role - Speidi and Paris Hilton have their purpose. but you are public representatives meant to lead this people to greatness. where is your dignity. you, and most of your peers in those hallowed chambers on Capitol Hill, are a bunch of clowns. you do a disservice to this country. "You lie!"
PS. John Edwards, you are an effing bastard. go into exile. or DIAF.
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| courtesy of Chambers
. . . when Moses was grown . . . he went out to his brethren and looked at their burdens —Exodus 2:11
Moses saw the oppression of his people and felt certain that he was the one to deliver them, and in the righteous indignation of his own spirit he started to right their wrongs. After he launched his first strike for God and for what was right, God allowed Moses to be driven into empty discouragement, sending him into the desert to feed sheep for forty years. At the end of that time, God appeared to Moses and said to him, " ’. . . bring My people . . . out of Egypt.’ But Moses said to God, ’Who am I that I should go . . . ?’ " ( Exodus 3:10-11 ). In the beginning Moses had realized that he was the one to deliver the people, but he had to be trained and disciplined by God first. He was right in his individual perspective, but he was not the person for the work until he had learned true fellowship and oneness with God.
We may have the vision of God and a very clear understanding of what God wants, and yet when we start to do it, there comes to us something equivalent to Moses’ forty years in the wilderness. It’s as if God had ignored the entire thing, and when we are thoroughly discouraged, God comes back and revives His call to us. And then we begin to tremble and say, "Who am I that I should go . . . ?" We must learn that God’s great stride is summed up in these words— "I AM WHO I AM . . . has sent me to you" ( Exodus 3:14 ). We must also learn that our individual effort for God shows nothing but disrespect for Him— our individuality is to be rendered radiant through a personal relationship with God, so that He may be "well pleased" ( Matthew 3:17 ). We are focused on the right individual perspective of things; we have the vision and can say, "I know this is what God wants me to do." But we have not yet learned to get into God’s stride. If you are going through a time of discouragement, there is a time of great personal growth ahead. | | |
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