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Consider the Lilies
The great majority of school shootings are de facto suicides. I can understand suicide. I can understand murder. I can’t understand murdering arbitrarily. I can’t understand murdering children. I can’t understand murdering children as your last wish on earth.
It has been pointed out that the majority of school shooters were on SSRIs, mentally sad. Now they seem to be transsexuals or whatever word is closest to non-binary two-spirit non-conforming sexuality. But isn’t all transsexuality a rejection of the self? And a rejection of the body? A rejection of the mind and one’s true personhood? And doesn’t it ultimately involve removal of fundamental body parts? Fundamental as in a social identity so prevalent and powerful and obvious that all societies acknowledge it as the first ordered description on one’s being? Is it a girl? It’s a boy!
Male and female He made them.
Now we draw and quarter children in the womb. We use drugs to stop sexual growth in children and to stop their natural sexual function. We cut off the body parts of young men and women. And we call this normal. And we celebrate this. We call normal sexuality cis– and patriarchal, and toxic. And the only non-toxic man is a self-made man, that is a woman who has had herself cut up into pieces to be discarded.
And along the way a few of these young people go so far as to arbitrarily murder children. They murder the other youngsters because they are defenseless and normal, and innocent.
Are we so dissatisfied with ourselves that we tattoo every limb and pierce every appendage? Seeking to be different or unique or to make a bold statement about who we say we are. To join a club of unique individuals in which every member can be immediately identified as being one with the group and as unique in the same way as the one standing next to him.
We paint our hair to stand out in a crowd and to be unique. And we argue loudly so as not to be overlooked.
And for some few of us in America that is not enough. We want death. We want suicide. And murder. And death all around us. And cutting, and mutilation and killing others is not enough. We choose to cut and kill, but not just the bourgeois neighbors, those who see us but refuse to understand. We enter the congregation of the innocent, and mutilate and kill. And in the process we kill ourselves.
Such is the Culture of Death.
Some object to the concept that we are created in the image of God. They say we created God in our own image. Is that true? Where has this god of our own understanding gotten us?
Some deny and object to the existence of satan. Some say that God is an ignorant crutch, a utilitarian matter of evolutionary psychology. Some say angels and demons are fantasy, allegory. I disagree. God is Life, and when you divorce yourself from all that is godly the only thing left is death. How can we tell people to follow the Way, the Truth, and the Life when we remove it from their earliest teaching and acculturation? When we remove the purpose of living from their consciousness and consideration?
There is utility in contemplation of our place in the world, but it is more than that, it is mandatory. And to know our place under God is more than a matter of life and death, it redefines life itself.
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knows that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Flicker, great post.
I do think that you contradict yourself in one thing. At the outset, you wrote:
Yet the rest of your post offers a fine explanation of the reasons behind such actions. You do understand. It is the rejection of God, which leads to the Culture of Death. You explained this very clearly.
I wonder if you mean that you don’t understand the reasons that would lead someone to reject God. I think that this is explained clearly in John 3:19-20:
I agree 100% about the responsibility.
Yes, ease and affluence in living delivered to the young by the older generations without the guidance necessary to instill any semblance of gratitude. The fault is spread across the society.
You must have bought a different kind of firearm than the ones they sell in Chicago, Baltimore, Memphis, and places like that. Those kinds commit crimes all on their own.
Thanks. You just completed the answer, along with WC’s answers: Nihilism, narcissism and ingratitude.
Andy Ngo says that trans-afflicted are susceptible to being guided into violence. I believe this, and it indicates a latent summering anger which can be (and is being) tapped into. As Jerry says, this is complicated and he’s right. There is now a national call for Trans-violence [actually, Trans Day of Vengeance], notifications of which, by the way, twitter has censored — Marjorie Taylor Green has had her account suspended for merely reposting the notification.
I thought Twitter didn’t do that crap any more?
Yes, it struck me as odd. All I can guess it that it will be swiftly and successfully appealed.
And whoever did it, who evidently avoided the previous clean-up, will also be fired.
I believe that they’re trying to squelch the call to violence, even if MTG just quoted it in her response. That sort of thing. Yes, I suspect she’ll be filtered out of the suspension haul fairly quickly.
If they’re going to suspend for stuff like that, they damn well better suspend the originator too. Or nobody.
I am assuming, sight unseen, that that also happened. If not, then yeah, fire away. Assuming that the reason we heard about MTG is that she is “somebody”, while the other, not so much.
If they suspend someone for tweeting something, they should probably only redact the re-tweets.
I’m guessing that the HURRY UP function is really simple, for speed. I know I’m imagining a lot on behalf of Twitter. Frankly, the fact that they’re squelching this Tranny Vengeance nonsense (and other recent improvements) gives me cause to extend a lot of trust that I normally wouldn’t. We’ll see.
This is from the Daily Wire :
Twitter has cracked down on users in the wake of the school shooting, but its actions have been aimed at critics of the radical transgender community, not those within it. Daily Wire investigative reporter Luke Rosiak’s account was locked for simply tweeting that a pro-transgenderism group planned a “day of vengeance” and was conducting gun training, and podcast host Michael Knowles also had his account locked for quoting a Bible verse that says vengeance is for God alone, not mortals.
Doesn’t sound like an approach Elon Musk would endorse.
Yeah, the Knowles’ quote was calling for the opposite of violence. Somebody at Twitter needs to get fired, pdq.
Someone at Twitter still seems to think that pointing out the left advocating violence, is somehow violence.
Yes, but it was probably the Trans Day of Vengeance ad that he posted with it. Apparently, that’s what twitter is trying to block so that trans-vigilantes don’t know about it.
We have been instructed to think that wrong-speech is violence.
This is quite simply one of the most moving, most poignant, most thought provoking commentaries I have had the privilege of reading on this site.
The fact that one of the little children gunned down like a mad dog looks hauntingly like one of my twin granddaughters has brought great pain which may account, in part, for how moved I was by your beauiful writing.
The culture of death, indeed. Can we recover? Every fiber of my being insists on my wanting to feel that, somehow, we can. But, in these last macabre years, I have felt the opposite pull- against everything I have ever felt in a long life of loving and Pledging my Allegiance to the land I love, America- I find myself wondering if the evil we are seeing, and, yes, it is evil or evil does not exist, was something our Founding Fathers could not possibly have foreseen.
Can we recover?
I wonder.
Thank you for this memorable commentary.
Here is the picture that haunts me; what kind of world do we live in in which someone can gun down a beautiful Child of God like this like a rabid dog in the street?
God Help us.
Thanks, Jerry.
Since 1930, each and every generation of Americans has successfully scored higher on the IQ tests than the generation prior.
Of course, there has been some dithering of the IQ test such that supposedly it was adjusted to keep the population at least at a plateau during the 1990’s
Now a study out of Northwestern University finds that not only are the newest group of young people not as smart as the group before, they are less smart.
The young people scored less well on verbal skills and reasoning (logic and vocabulary,) visual problem solving, and letter and number series.
Computational and math scores were lower as well.
One area where the scores were higher was in spatial reasoning.
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2023/03/americans-iq-scores-are-lower-in-some-areas-higher-in-one/
Too much playing with their joy sticks.
The leftist educational establishment is succeeding!
The only joy stick this woman had was for her video game set.
Despite what she thought.