For a quick moment, imagine you were born in 1900. When you are 14, World War I starts, and ends on your 18th birthday with 22 million people killed. Later in the year, a Spanish Flu epidemic hits the planet and runs until you are 20. Fifty million people die from it in those two years. Yes, 50 million.
When you're 29, the Great Depression begins. Unemployment hits 25%, global GDP drops 27%. That runs until you are 33. The country nearly collapses along with the world economy. When you turn 39, World War II starts. You aren’t even over the hill yet.
When you're 41, the United States is fully pulled into WWII. Between your 39th and 45th birthday, 75 million people perish in the war and the Holocaust kills six million. At 52, the Korean War starts and five million perish.
At 64 the Vietnam War begins, and it doesn’t end for many years. Four million people die in that conflict. Approaching your 62nd birthday you have the Cuban Missile Crisis, a tipping point in the Cold War. Life on our planet, as we know it, could well have ended. Great leaders prevented that from happening.
As you turn 75, the Vietnam War finally ends. Think of everyone on the planet born in 1900. How do you survive all of that? A child in 1985 didn’t think their 85 year old grandparent understood how hard school was. Yet those grandparents survived through everything listed above.
Perspective is an amazing thing. With so much going on right now and 2024 just beginning, let's try to put things in perspective, knowing that we can handle it all. There has never been a storm in world history that has lasted forever. This too shall pass.
Now it makes sense. Now I understand why you were getting your feathers up, and rightly so. You're talking about posts, and I'm talking about regular comments, for some reason I was locked into comments (a brain freeze) I think the reason that happened is because the old Patriot post that started all this, I took as more like a comment,information that was readily known and it didn't register on me that it was a post. But when you said that I had made roughly 2,000 comments but zero posts, and click a light went on. My bad, I agree when it comes to posts, they should be scrutinized, and held to a high standard otherwise you'll have people posting all kinds of nonsense, wasting a lot of people's time,, and people like yourself would end up spending more time correcting them, then doing the good job of posting as you have been. Thank you for your hard work.
Thank you for replying. Thank you for the effort to bash out an extended response.
We'll get there.
FWIW, I am glad you are here, in whatever capacity, and even if we disagree on certain things (not withstanding that both of us appear to have made some progress towards a common understanding in this case), that's OK as long as our core objectives are unified.
I also appreciate your faith-based input, even though, to be frank, I found the tone in which you expressed in, and some of the ideas, grated against my own perspectives. Nonetheless, any sincerely held persuasion or intent towards God should be respected an honored for what it is, not because it simply aligns with one's own. Agreement is not required. What is required is that we love God.
God bless your end of week, going forward.
l" Tone" in something written, in certain cases,would be perceived, but not necessarily correct, and may not give a true intent of the heart. I guess if Jesus could be misunderstood who was perfect in word, you and I could easily be misunderstood. Jesus said, others will know we belong to Him by our love for one another. And since I often use scripture (God's word) as you said (bringing God into the conversation) I will with God's help, strive to be careful how I word something, seeing how something I said could be taken as abrasive(and lead someone to think if that's how Christians act I want nothing to do with Christianity) though I deemed it simply a truth or a good illustration of the point I was trying to bring across. Sarcasm, in order to be funny, to make a point, to some is not funny, which in a way is funny, but seriously I need to stop that, In everything we do God is to be glorified, through his Son Jesus Christ, and I see that my clowning (sarcasm) is not productive. Thank you for the correction.
Indeed. How true. Something we all forget at one time or another.