Ms LaLaGirl had troubles with her truck, stopped alongside the road, and leaned under the hood. Redneck comes by, asks the problem, she says she doesn’t know. Redneck slams the hood on her, undoes his big buckle and says, “Lady, this just ain’t your day”.
Such has been this day, and perhaps later I’ll feel sorry for writing this and zap it, but I’m feeling “had” about my supposed “Friends” over on Digg. After many very long days of posting and commenting there, I finally figured I’d learned the ropes, and had about 60 friends. So to all of them I shouted the link to morality101, asking my so-called friends to Digg It and Share it. This because all the circumstances made it seem as though the timing was right to pick up this doggie and run with it.
Ya know what? I learned I have exactly two friends there — those who answered this simple request. I learned that unknown others have just been blowing smoke. Too often I learn such things the hard way.
So I have been very angry and upset, and went on some threads and Digg and blew a bunch of people away — not by name but by challenging dumb comments and posts. There was no attempt to pussy-foot around and be diplomatic, I could see no reason for maintaining a batch of people who talk the talk but don’t walk the walk; mostly they’re plain old phonies. From long experience thru life, I guess that’s pretty typical. Good and true friends are hard to find – those few deserve being kept amongst the true treasures of one’s life. The others are simply wasting your time and using up your precious life.
Okay, that said, you folks should know that there is but one priority for whatever short time might remain of my life. That is the issue of morality — not talking about religion here — the morality to preserve and enhance of our personal lives. Morality is so simple, it is really about nothing else.
In our entire lives it is rare indeed that we would choose to hand our life to another, saying, “I trust you, here is my life, into your hands, do with it whatever you wish.” How many are in YOUR life to whom you would give such total and unconditional trust? Be honest now, those cannot be other than perhaps your life-mate or your child, correct?
Yet we live today in a society (what IS a ‘society’, anyway?) which demands that we must concede our minds, our lives, our property, our happiness… everything, to any unknown other. What is a morality which would thereby claim your inferiority? How does a supposedly “free” individual accept that some unknown horde of supposed humans is somehow superior to you. How can you hand your lives over to unknowns whom you have had no occasion to learn of mutual trust or admiration? How could you conclude, without evidence whatsoever, that any other unknown person or group might have your best interests as their goal?
You don’t really know me, no more than what I know you. We are probably several states apart. Perhaps we don’t even speak the same language. Yet often we think we are “friends”. Wonder if and when that is true!
I’m cutting this short because of the collapse which headed for the dark age this morning. Maybe later someday?
