Progressives frame work as a tool of ‘the man’ to keep you down, rather than a fruitful, ennobling activity designed to give you a sense of purpose while providing everything needed for societal prosperity. As we see the Left exhausting themselves to avoid work, wouldn’t it be easier to just create a business or do a job?
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Great show guys. Americans are not generous? Glenn Beck put out a call less than 48 hours ago to raise $20,000,000.00 to fly 3,000 to 5,000 Christians safely out of Afghanistan. We cheap no good people sent him over 22 Million.
And, this is my restored car. It was a labor of love and cost me about 8 times what it cost new and over 2 1/2 years of my life.
Great one! Well said.
Nicely done as always, gentlemen.
Humans are made to work, to strive, to be active both mentally and physically. The results to our minds and bodies when we cease activity are tragic.
And work in whatever form should be something that gives you pleasure. Mrs. Ron asks me why at this point in life I don’t hire someone to cut the grass. Because I enjoy turning tall grass short and having the yard look nice. The couple of seasons over the years when I farmed it out, I was always complaining about it. It was never done to my liking.
Now, there are things I do hire out. They are invariably items from which I derive no joy.
There is always something you can do in which you find joy. Figure out how to make a living at it. Or do something else while dabbling in the thing which you do find joy.
I love Zoe. But he did not quite get the Scripture right. 2 Thessalonians 3 10 says those are unwilling to work, or will not work shall not eat. Not those who do not work. The Bible talks about charity to those who cannot work, especially widows and orphans.
True enough, but the context of the entire passage in 2 Th Ch 3 is about the example being set of working for your food versus being idle. Be busy, not a busybody is among the newer translations. This chapter is not about charity but about people who are a burden on others who could otherwise work.
A fundamental divide in our nation is between those who know it’s wrong to take what doesn’t belong to you and those who believe it a virtue.
You’re both so right, conservatives do a dreadful job advancing their superior positions: 1) Those who take rather than earn lose so much more in the bargain than they ever receive, particularly the incomparable dignity of self-confidence over the plague of dependence and self-doubt. 2) To bureaucrats, money is purely a consumable to be allocated; they are incapable of seeing it as productive wealth to be cultivated. I witnessed the perfect metaphor for this on July 4, 2020 when the Chicago area exploded non-stop for hours with Chinese fireworks purchased with WuFlu welfare checks. Literally. Burning. Money. Lefties want to eat all the seed corn so everyone fights over less. Conservatives want to plant the seed corn so everyone enjoys more. 3) Those who want to leave the needy to the care of the state are the ones who don’t care; conservatives expect better. Here’s a story about the period when government was elbowing private charities out of business in order to cement their un-fireable monopolies, as seen through the eyes of one young charge:
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1992-07-15-9203030739-story.html
You have the right to the pursuit of happiness, not to its attainment.
I look at “pursuit of happiness” as “do what makes YOU happy, what YOU makes your life fulfilling”. As long as it doesn’t impinge on someone else’s pursuit. I mean it’s a bit of an oversimplification of the nuances, but that’s basically it in a nutshell.
Whether or not what you do actually MAKES you happy is another question altogether.
We are as happy as we make up our minds to be. I lived in a 10.5’ 14 year old Lance camper for a long time. I was working, but paying rent where the jobs were would have ensured i would never move out of that camper. It was warm, dry, had bathroom w/shower, stove and oven. What else does one need?
And i could take it on vacation like a tortoise with his home on his back.