The World We Live In

Londy3

The world we live in...my thoughts for today

What's wrong is right

What's back is white

What's up is down

What's holding losely

Is holding tight

What is a boy or a girl

It's really how I feel

What's fake is real

What is yours

I can steal

What is a life

Is not for real

When we speak truth

They will twist the deal

What's near is far

What is peaceful

Is called war

What is freedom

Is a disgrace

What is honest and pure

Is a slap in the face

What is love for your country

Is unfair or unjust

Giving benefit of the doubt

Is viewed as distrust

We are all created equal

As long as it's for them

We have freedom of speech

But we have to reteach

Making America Great

Yet they want to Impeach

Defend your life and your land

They rise to make a stand

Protect the innocent

Then prove that you are

The system is rigged against the good

They lie and shout in the neighborhood

I work for what's mine

I'll take what is owed me

What lawyers make grey

Is a criminals new day

Politicians preach what's right

While working in darkness at the dead of night

Soon this shall pass

Said the Lord most high

They laugh, grin and spit in your eye

When He comes in the light

They'll be blinded at night

Hold fast to your faith as the end is near

As our opposition trembles in great fear

We've already won and so it is written

Pray to our Lord as our sins are forgiven

johnspecht

WELL WRITTEN! I love it!

thebadgerpiper

I completely agree with how you feel. 

PappyJoe

"The sign of a man's genius is how much he agrees with you." 

@Londy3 must be a genius.

I found that line in several historical fiction books about Marines in WWII written by W.E.B. Griffin. 

Londy3

Thank you for reading. These were the first thoughts of that day. So, I wrote them down. Guess I'm getting sick of how our world is changing. I honestly don't recognize it anymore. I don't like or enjoy it. I feel bad for my daughter having to grow up and live in this crap, this garbage. I'm finding it more difficult every day to even be around people and go to places. Sorry for the rant guys.
 

Londy3

Godly men can seem lawless because they won't submit to the rulebook of a rotten culture. But to defy tyranny is obedience to God. When you make wicked laws, the righteous will be outlaws.

motie2

Let’s play Monopoly with ten players.

One player already owns 90% of the real estate and can borrow money from the bank whenever he wants.

The other nine players have to share the remaining 10% of the real estate.

This is our economic system.

If you don’t like it, you are a dirty Communist and hate America.  

ghostsofpompeii

@Londy3 Well written and I completely agree. In this day and age it's a brave man whose willing to write what you did. I'm an old coward just sitting here quietly waiting for the axe to fall. And afraid I might say the wrong thing to the guy swinging the axe for fear I might offend him for not using the proper technique.

motie2

@Londy3 and @ghostsofpompeii

You are both better and stronger than you think....... I think.....

Londy3

@motie2 we are being tested

motie2

Part of me wants to post: “Essay or Multiple Choice?”

Londy3

Pop surprise quiz, you don't know format, questions, ect

Londy3

To trust god in the light is nothing. But trust him in the dark - That is faith

KA9FFJ

It's very easy to be negative and/or apprehensive given the world we live in. That's why we have been given 
Philippians 4:8
And in the famous words of Forrest Gump, "That's all I got to say about that".🙂

motie2

Londy3

Awomen.
....um I mean, Amen!
😂🤪

RSPiper

@Londy3 wow, you have stated it so clearly

Londy3

@RSPiper
Thanks. Sad but true. 

opipeman

@KA9FFJ;
Nuf-cid.

vtgrad2003

I'm an economist by trade. My area is econometrics, but with a focus on international growth and development. One of the largest impacts on a country's growth is it political structure and social cycles. For all the crap that this country is going through right now, we'll cycle out of it, we always do, e.g., late 1700's, 1812...not the war but the riots, late 1830s through the 1860's, 1890's, all the way up through the LA riots of the early 90's to today. About every 30 years or so this happens. We actually see very similar sociological cycles in nearly every other country in the world as well...nearly all 192 of them. 

Londy3

@vtgrad2003
Thank you for the insight and general outlook.  The media can really bring you down. So, I've turned it off since January 2021. No more, not looking back. 

vtgrad2003

@Londy3

Sometimes I wish I could as well but my research requires that I keep track of international affairs; after a while though (i.e., 20+years of doing it), you become somewhat immune to the antics of people and societies and focus solely on the economic impact of these events, and that's really my passion and what keeps me doing it every day. 

PappyJoe

@Londy3
The only problem with turning off the media is not being able to stay informed on what is going on in the world. While media bias is real, it can be overcome by not just listening to one side of the story. For the most part, I haven't watched television news for years, preferring to get my news from newspapers and news magazines. I also avoid internet media because I tend to find them the most biased. 

motie2

Yet, the aphorism is, “Ignorance is bliss.”

Zouave

Figured the guys here would love this. Every year this weekend a museum village near by hosts an annual civil war reenactment.  I have always loved attending because the setting is so unique, and it's a great opportunity to sit back and smoke a pipe with guys I haven't seen all year.  This year the museum has decided that confederate reenactors will not be allowed at the museum due to the current political climate as not to offend any patrons of said museum. So now history museums are afraid to teach historical events in the fear that they may offend the delicate sensibilities of it's customers.  What the hell is going on these days?!  I'm not a confederate reenactor, however I won't be attending. 

motie2

mapletop

The Mexicans have the perfect word for people who make decisions like they did at that  museum; it's  pendejo

RockyMountainBriar

Since I am a history buff, I am very perplexed with what is happening to our US history.
”It happened, get over it, learn from those mistakes and move on”.  If our history is destroyed, it will be forgotten and possibly the bad things will be repeated.  We need to save our history, destroying the reminders, good or bad, does not “fix” what happened.

Londy3

I agree with what everyone said here.  My gut tells me most people feel the same way too.

vtgrad2003

@Zouave

I'm a civil and revolutionary war history buff, especially NC and SC history. I find the current climate on history appalling. Once you forget history, you're doomed to repeat it.  

motie2

@vtgrad2003

What happens when you edit what is taught?
History is not taught.
Not taught, history is not learned.
Not learned? 
Rinse and repeat………