The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

    Judge Not

    By LisB on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 3:12am |

    I keep trying to figure out what's wrong with everybody.  And all I can come up with is that everybody else is trying to figure out the same thing.

    Yet none of us can agree on what's wrong, or right.  We just want to know that we're justified in judging others, I guess.

    And all I want to keep asking is, "Who died and made US the judge???"

    If a mom wants to wear short shorts and a halter top while shopping in the supermarket for good food for her kids, should the other mothers in their tennis whites judge her?  If a father works two jobs to support his family but is never home enough to see his kids, should the father on Wall Street judge him? 

    Who's to judge?

    Innocent until proven guilty, we are.  But are we?

    The media, our peers, all of them judge others and spread rumor upon rumor and then we wonder why no one can get a fair trial anymore.  As if any trial or tribulation is fair.

    I just wish, sometimes, that each person on this little tender earth of ours, sometimes, could just stop thinking about what other people are doing, for just one day, and simply be at peace.

    I suppose that's asking too much, though.  Ask, and ye shall be answered.  Judge not, lest ye be judged. 

    All I ask is that we stop judging, and ask questions, instead.  Like, "why is that man so unhappy?"..."why is that lady crying?"...  And not, "Damn, that man looks scary!!"..."what the hell is wrong with that crazy woman who's sobbing??"...

    Tonight at Facebook I saw my own friends passing jokes around that involved laughing at others who are different.  It made my skin crawl.  My own mom whispers to me in a diner when someone who looks "different" walks in.  WTF??

    Who are we to judge???

    Oy.  I guess I should go to bed now.  But...here's hoping I wake up in a more tolerant world tomorrow.

     

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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1Uicc-6I-M 

     


    by LisB on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 3:24am

    And this is why?

     


    by LisB on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 3:34am

    http://youtu.be/mWiPxPHvpUM

     


    by EmmaZahn on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 4:11am

    Awesome song choice, Em.  Thanks. 

    I sort of look at it like this:  If I'm gonna die tomorrow, say, how do I want people to remember me?  Do I want to be remembered as a loving, kind person, or do I want everyone at my funeral to whisper about me, "She was such a difficult person!  Always having something to say about everyone, and everything!" 

    I just want to be remembered as an everyday people, ha!  Someone going about their way, trying to make ends meet, trying to put nothing into this world but good vibes (except when I'm being bitchy, which I'm trying not to be anymore, LOL...)...

    Anyway, thanks for the Sly.  ;)

     


    by LisB on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 4:16am

    Unfortunately, Sly Stone is now homeless.

    http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/gossip/2011/09/sly-stone-homeless-sly-and-the-family-stone.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MinistryOfGossip+%28Ministry+of+Gossip%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

    He released a new  album in August.

    http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2011/08/album-review-sly-stones-im-back-family-friends.html

     


    by rmrd0000 on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 7:56pm

    I thought I already commented here. I mean I hit the switch so to speak.

    Anyway, there is another Supertramp song I have shown you before:

    He is speaking of life on the road but I still revere this song:

    The particular words that spell remorse on my part call to mind these verses:

     

     

    Does it feel that you life's become a catastrophe?
    Oh, it has to be for you to grow, boy.
    When you look through the years and see what you could
    have been oh, what might have been,
    if you'd had more time.

    So, when the day comes to settle down,
    Who's to blame if you're not around?
    You took the long way home
    You took the long way home...........
     

    When we are confronted with our own sins, we must blame all our strife upon someone else.

    Or we must lay low and in the fetal position as we find ourselves in a mire of guilt and shame.

    So we must revert to the fourth grade.

    That guy is different.

    That gal is out of line in her appearance.

    The real problem is that we never get past the fourth grade.

    the end


    by Richard Day on Sat, 10/01/2011 - 4:12am

    If you feel compelled to ask the question, then perhaps you should consider some self reflection.

    Those friends on Facebook. How can you consider them friends when their conduct is so crass to bring out your ire? It's their nature and nothing you say or do will change that. It's you who must either accept them as they are or reject them ... you aren't going to change them.

    As for the hard working man being challenged by a soft-handed Wall Street exec being an absentee father ... at least his children understand their father is doing whatever he can to provide their basic necessities. I believe we all know about pampered Wall Street exec children and the hard row they have to hoe.

    As for what one wears in public, I seriously doubt the woman in short-shorts and halter top has very much to do with the tennis/soccer moms so a few friendly, but curt words where they can stuff their personal opinions should suffice. It'd amazing how effective one can be when they assert themselves.


    by Beetlejuice on Sun, 10/02/2011 - 7:29pm