Society is messed up. Rather than giving respect to each other, we sexualize individuals–men cat call women as they walk by and it is supposed to be ok. Married men ogleĀ women (other than their wife) and think thoughts they shouldnāt but excuse it because they say it is natural. They think it is ok as long as they donāt act on those thoughts.
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Guess whatāitās not ok. And, you know why, because we have been giving a pass and excusing that behavior for far too long. We accept it because we think men are different but they arenāt differentānot that much anyway. Women have the same thoughts and desires that men do but we are taught to control our desires.
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I donāt mean to overgeneralize but society is suffering and we are paying a high price. Why do you think there is so much divorce? I have had to explain what love is more times that I care to think about inĀ the past few months so somewhere the message isnāt getting out. Too many men (sorry, those are the individuals I talk to the most) are after gratification of self and not interested in pleasing their partner first if at all. When I mention that they should desire to give and please the other, it is like a foreign language to them. We are flunking when teaching how to love in relationships.
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Many people are not interested in a relationship. They would rather hook-up for a one-night stand and have no responsibilities and continue this type of hook-up. Donāt blame any one group because we are all to blame. Repressing sexual feelings isnāt the way to go either. We need to learn self-discipline and respect. I don’t want us to control morality per se but I wish people would quit being so selfish.
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Love is something more than a sexual feeling. It is more than a fleeting moment. Someone told me this week that he had a girlfriend and that when she gained weight, he didnāt love her anymore. (eye roll) I told him that he didnāt love her to begin with if he didnāt love her after she gained the weight because looks do not define love. Again, it was as if I were speaking in another language with what seems to me as common sense.
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There was a couple in the 1960s who loved each other and wanted to marry but they couldnāt because they were not of the same race. In Virginia, it wasnāt doneāthere was a law. They challenged the courts and won. I wrote about this earlier this year. (link)
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Mixed race isnāt anything these days to most people but as luck would have it a woman on FB made a comment this week about interracial marriageāthat it was wrong because in the Bible it says to keep the races pureāthat is what she said. I kid you not. She really believes this but she also hates many groups of peopleā¦actually she hates everyone who is different from her. She doesnāt hide it.
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Well, we are all going to hell if you believe this because we have been mixing races since the beginning of time⦠I no more believe this poppycock than believing I will have 4 wisdom teeth to show up this yearāand I only had 2 to start with.
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She believes in the Bible and she peddles her thoughts freely on FB. What can I say? She thinks that the children of a certain couple that consisted of a white man and black woman will be of a race God didnāt intend to exist. I hang my head in shame.
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Race has no difference. We are not a different speciesā¦we are all humans. The differences we see come from the type of melanin in the pigment of skin. Science is showing us that we all originated on the African continent. I donāt want to be the one to tell this lady that but she wouldnāt believe me anyway. She denies so much. It isn’t good to hide your head in the sand.
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All of this isnāt about one person and her views. Her argument was the same argument given in the lower courts for the Loving case that the US Supreme Court overturned in 1967. The judge said that God put races on different continents for a reason and they were to never mix. This is being taught in some churches today. This isnāt someone coming up with this on their own. I even heard it when I was growing upāsome of the older people would say itānot in my family but older people in the community. This is a problem just like people not understanding what love is. These are societal problems. They are things that we can help improve.
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We preoccupy ourselves with drama from other things in life but we donāt address the real problems. Why donāt people love others without condition? Why donāt we put our children first? Why donāt we care about one another?
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These are the simple things I care about. Life is not complicated when you look at it through the eyes of love. Simple⦠We need to work on society.
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Please get involved. Show what you are made of. Donāt hate and donāt judge. Just love others.
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Happy Friday! š
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