Why do people confuse love with approval? God does love all of us, but that doesn't mean He approves of everything we do. I would think, at the very least, parents would understand the difference.
It's very insulting to label people who disagree with you ignorant or unenlightened. Does it really take a great deal of thought to jump on a bandwagon?
I'd really like to believe that Lifetime TV's upcoming "social experiment", The Week the Women Left, during which the wives and mothers of a small town spend a week away from their husbands and children, will depict how much we need and rely on each other, instead of a one-sided look at how helpless and inept men can be. I'd also like to believe that I could lose weight with a steady diet of beer and jalapeno poppers.
It was in the news this week: Oprah has a new hairstyle. That is all. And you were there.
This is the first I've heard of this pranking trend called "swatting", which is turning in false 911 calls to lure a police SWAT team to your victim's house. This is so terribly dangerous; an innocent person could be hurt by a SWAT squad member keyed up on adrenalin, and what if someone you love is deprived of emergency attention because the needed resources are tied up on a prank call? Why don't they go back to planking?
Seymour Butts, Ivana Tinkle, Hugh Jazz... you know these poor people have the hardest time being paged.
I know it's a double standard: as a black, middle-aged man, I'd rather not be referred to as a boy. But as a black man raised by Southern parents, I might call a female friend girl (as in, "you got it, girl"). Meanwhile, some of my black female friends don't want to be called woman (as in "look, woman"). It can be confusing, if you focus on words instead of the intent behind the word.
You know, the first marriage was performed long before there was government, laws, and judges.
Some of the songs from the '70s make catchy ad music, but nobody's fooled when they change the lyrics. We know it's not "Do a little dance… have a little fun… get down tonight."
Where you were only shows the path you took to get where you are. Where you're headed is far more interesting.
Agape'-- P
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