AMERICA’S LEMMING RACE — PART 4
Sept. 18, 2021
The humble and wise Robert Nesta Marley once sang, “Once a man and twice a child, and everything is thus for a while…”. His well-known name is Bob Marley. Do you want to know two reasons why he stated this? First, Bob meant that we should all be able to physically grow from being a little child whose well-being is fully dependent on loving help from others, into that responsible and interdependently healthy adult. Then we still grow chronologically like unto a little child a second time, whose physical well-being is again dependent on and assisted by others to some extent. That’s due to our elderly citizens physically requiring more true, carrying interpersonal assistance. Ultimately we should all still be able to continue joyfully aging toward our eldercare contently and interdependently until we pass on from here.
Yet Bob’s lyrics, “…and everything is thus for a while…” imply that when we leave earth this shall all be over. No more inherent needs imposed from physically aging in eternity! Bob was also referring to a parallel spiritual fact, which Christ once stated to one of his disciples. One cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven unless they’re spiritually “born again”. We also must Embrace an unwavering child-like faith and obedience in God’s will to the best of our current ability. Our American culture is morally backwards. For example, nursing homes should have never become like our discarded elders’ [segregated-dying] INSTITUTIONS.
I’ve been locked up in multiple State Prison institutions, and I’m sure that I’d definitely feel like I was right back in an institution if I was living in one of these American “nursing” homes. It’s much the same as a little baby being constantly “supervised”, “changed”, and “fed” by a stranger or non-family-member within a “child daycare nursery”. How much selfless love does this societal norm exhibit unto our elders? Do we not have the collective ability to respectfully care for them? Or does it enable the neglect of the Golden Rule and subconsciously prohibit us living by it in our elderly Americans’ segregated Nursing Home Society of living, or is it dying?
Where is our Collective respect and true honor for all of them who have struggled and endlessly endured, worked so hard and diligently, raised and cared for their immediate and extended families, and even suffered and lived through that miserable Great Depression? They helped make this country so interdependently great without being government- dependent. Gratefulness and appreciation are symptoms of fulfilled responsibility. They’re also opposite natured from entitlement thinking symptoms. It seems like we’re not expressing enough of our thanks to them compassionately through our actions toward are elderly citizens who labored so hard, day after day of their lives, and fought through poverty for our own Freedom which we don’t even mean to take for granted, usually.
This is just one example of why I’ve been telling all of my close friends and family how I’ve perceived God’s almighty hand of spiritual protection and physical blessings being gradually retracted from mainstream America for quite a while now. We’ve also been hindering the Holy Spirit’s work in too many ways. If this statement seems incorrect to you, then I guess if it was false our overall American society and world economy wouldn’t be headed in these [immoralist leaders’] directions, as we have been. Nor would we currently be this far advanced toward the elitists’ underlying Agenda 21 (Agenda 30 now) and goals, such as we are. You can argue this point until you die! Good luck, not me!
“Dear God, forgive us all, please, I pray”. I’m not a formal Church Pastor, nor do I desire to ever inherit that shepherding responsibility; or I would compassionately elaborate further. I love my country very deeply. I may write about manipulation of true mental freedom and counterfeit spiritual power of pastors, if I compose another book. That’s because this is the main issue which still deeply inspires me the most to write.
Like the new pope stated during his inauguration mass on March 19th, 2013: “Authentic power is service”. He preached “tenderness toward the poor”, among other suggestions I’d offered in this book long before his predecessor left office without dying. He encouraged us to become humble by serving the poor, protecting the weak and the poor, and protecting the environment. He also stated that we should embrace the whole of humanity, especially the “poorest”, the “weakest”, and the “vulnerable” or “least important”. Those actions, my friends, are true Agape Love. I’m not religious! Nor is the pope righteous.
I’m so deeply thankful to God that I’m only 45 years old. Yet I haven’t gotten a decent chance to make a bigger difference in this area yet, due to the 13 years of past mistakes and unhealthy choices I made during my late teens and 20’s. That required a lot of re-learning from my past personal regrets, which I had to go through during my 30s in order to mentally recover and emotionally mature more through my 40’s.
I’m very relieved though, now that I’ve made personal amends healthfully by truly changing and growing responsibly for these last 15 years. I’ve grown much closer with all the people in my life that I had unknowingly wronged and hurt directly, or even indirectly. It’s also required tons of healthy changes through spiritual growth and inner healing. I thank God for the non-religious 12-step programs, which have helped save my marriage, my small business, and my own life multiple times over the last two decades!
Like they say, the disease of addiction is very cunning, baffling, elusive, progressive, incurable, and fatal. I agree with these statements in the physical and mental realms. However now, I also know for certain that the disease of emotional addiction can become arrested spiritually through a gradual learning process of personally changing, serving the “needy” we see, and assisting the “poor” or “less fortunate” more often for God’s pleasures alone. These practices also help us get out of our self when we’re often too deeply self-absorbed, whether we realize we are or not. If we don’t recognize it, these principles can help us recognize it and change it.
I also know that this is truly one of God’s biggest dreams for Americans; no matter whether we “go to church” or not. God’s love doesn’t discriminate against us, so that’s not the most crucial factor for spiritual healing, or receiving spiritual gifts; but helping those around us who are less fortunate than we are is very crucial. It brings us an immediate gratefulness for how deeply blessed God has enabled our immediate life to be at the current time. That should automatically humble us to some extent by a change in our perception of blessings, which God has granted to us; and absolutely bestowed upon us to pass on when we are presented with these everyday opportunities.
That “Financially Independent American Dream” concept, of primarily pursuing an achievement of our ideal “comfortable retirement”, continues to increasingly separate and divide OUR younger society away from most of the available wise counsel and good, moral judgment by subliminally implying this message to our wiser seniors: “You’re entitled to ‘quit working now’ and only serve your increasing and inherent needs; because Social Security will pay you to stay in financial poverty if you can’t financially afford your own comfortable retirement. AND OUR NEW society will no longer have a valid need for you to morally guide and instill wisdom in, socially interact with, or especially depend on those younger generations because you’ll be ‘passed on’ by the time they tried to serve or lead this country. So they should be of no direct concern for you personally, because they present no services to your immediate needs; like your reliance on OUR government’s programs we provide you.”
It also implies, “So you can just take these medications that we supply you with, but still charge you premiums for, through our all-important Medicare and Medicaid programs. But we’ll still act like your dependency is not a physical or financial burden on OUR society. We’ll also act like we sincerely care for you folks; because if we don’t, that would be way too obvious to the able citizens who would feel compelled to create a social uproar, or ‘civil uprising’, once they recognize such vast human unfairness and immoral injustices are being accepted as these ‘societal norms’ which are now dividing, and being subliminally imposed upon, All American citizens.” So I now ask, as a mature and still growing brother in Christ, “What’s at the root of this subtle spiritual problem now crippling America, God? Could it still be a predominant religious co-dependency problem, by any chance? How about religious fundamentalism causing divisions between denominations? Answers anyone?”
This subconscious American idea of “retirement” is such a mentally ill societal objective and ideological goal that it just leaves me feeling emotionally troubled to no end whenever I socially ponder is ripple effects which I see so vividly. This concept can, does, and will always continue to, subconsciously spawn even more false hopes by encouraging our mentally immoral focus on primarily serving only our own needs and lives, our individual interests, and our personal human wants. These vain pursuits can then create even a deeper subconscious mindset of self-centered goals directed ideally toward future comfortable lifestyles, independently exempt of: any needed interpersonal assistance from outside individuals, or interdependent service to or from others. This then lures many people into a state of becoming nonchalant or complacent when deciding lifestyles or mindsets. Comfort usually has a costly catch!
So thus, it is also subconsciously luring a majority of retirees unto “REAL" false contentment after retiring by implying again, due in part to our younger generations’ inaction of freely helping the needy seniors in our local neighborhoods and “nursery” homes. It implies, “You are useless to OUR younger society’s interactions, moral judgment and overall patterns of inter social behaviors; so most of you will eventually end up having nearly no choice except ending up in a ‘nursery’ home INSTITUTION. Then once you’re there, you’ll hardly ever receive any truly Selfless Love from anyone, and eventually the ‘Golden Rule’ will mostly die in America along with your generations.”
Search RETIRE and RETIRED in the Bible concordance and texts. You’ll find that it means to the effect of, “No longer actively engaged in an IMPERATIVE battle for defending Israeli (and American) citizens' survival, protection of free will, and freedom of choice.” I don’t recall, from all of my extensive studies, reading about any society in the Bible having segregated “nursing home” facilities as INSTITUTIONS caring for their neglected elderly until they finish their life’s last breathing days.
How very emotionally disturbing is to me, when I go into the nursing home where my 86 year-old, War Veteran neighbor who we call Grandpa is at. To see the saddest look on his face reflecting his emotional pain from the physical neglect (sometimes angry or neglected looks). It’s like he’s asking himself, “Why did I slave so hard for my entire life, to own my own home ‘free and clear’, to only end up finally being forcefully ‘retired’ in here by a Medical Doctor’s mandated orders; to the point where now I can’t even die comfortably, peacefully, or gracefully in my owned home?”
If that’s not enough to prove my point, what about when my wife and I witness his wife (after 60+ years of marriage), as she’s at home and separated from her husband for the first time since they were both teenagers? Do you want to come smoke a cigarette with us on our front porch; and watch her across the street peeping through her front window, lost, forsaken by OUR society’s imposed elderly health restrictions and social separation? How about if you just voluntarily come partake in our emotional pain, as we escort her into the “nursery home”, and witness how she lovingly smuggles her prepared food she knows he’ll willingly eat, because that will extend his life and his chances of coming back home to her; since he’s so unwilling to eat the garbage that they force him and his co-residents to “partake of” or go hungry. LAST SUPPER, ANYONE? WAKE UP LAZARUS! It appeared as Prison Food to me as I witnessed.
Sharing our 1 Agape Love more each day with our neglected seniors is our only personal cure to begin halting the hindrance of God’s Holy Spirit this way. If this idea personally inspires any of you, I will warn you to be emotionally prepared for what you’ll witness in these elderly “nursery homes”. Also be aware of probable backlash and offenses you may spawn from the “supervisors” and “managers” in these “dying institutions”. My wife and I have already experienced this enough for it to absolutely piss us off. Talk about financial manipulation!”The LOVE of money is the ROOT to ALL EVIL"! Institutions make justifiable money, nothing more and nothing less, in the name of a “necessity for society“. Really? Think about it more and do your own research; I challenge you if you disagree. I dare you to prove me false if it’s your drug. So bring it on naysayers.
I pray that God will grant us His unmerited forgiveness for settling for this almost-undetected moral compromise on the infinite value of His created human life itself in America. That’s me slightly assuming, if and when, we can hopefully change it, and it needs to be soon. It starts with just one person, in one town at a time. Unfortunately, as a fully devoted, non-religious student of Christ, I can’t point the blame at our demon-controlled subjects who we’d been electing, while blindly following they’re deceptive speeches, and spirits, for decades now; unless I was in and among their physical presence, but I don’t expect that. Billy Graham’s son Franklin was denied the traditional chance when a freak stepped into Presidential office in 2009. Muslim?
Yet I CAN finish the lyrics following in Bob Marley’s song.”Once a man and twice a child, and everything is thus for a while. Well it seems like: total destruction, no resolution. There ain’t no use, nobody can stop them now. Give them an inch, they’ll take a yard. Give them a yard, they take a mile. Once a man and twice a child, and everything is thus for a while”.
Well it seems to me, this neglect has been happening FOR A WHILE, and a pretty long while at that. Could Bob have been using spiritual gifts of understanding, scriptural application, prophecy, and spiritual revelation, after recognizing the societal cycles of social separation due to mentally perceived differences, which only create divisions? Could he have also been truly correct when he slightly changed one of the words in that same chorus to, “SOCIAL destruction, no resolution. There ain’t no use, no one can stop them now”? He was referring to social and political warfare in his own country during the 70s and 80s, like social divisions and separations it had caused.
I’m simply connecting some of the dots, as a spiritual servant, for my fellow postmodern-day Americans. So I now ask myself and wonder, “Was I too late fully awakening spiritually, at age 40?” Yet I do know that God is never late, nor has he ever early. Time as we finitely understand it does not coexist in God’s infinite timeframe of eternity. He is the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End. Accept it or suffer!
It also seems to me that the “once upon a time”, well-known command, “RESPECT YOUR ELDERS” has now subconsciously become well forgotten “…for a while “. How about if I remind everybody of ‘The Golden Rule’? “DO UNTO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD HAVE THEM DO UNTO YOU”. This suggests that we start asking ourselves if WE WOULD WANT to be emotionally and physically neglected by these societal norms, when we end up “in their shoes” as our neglected elderly are now. It also suggests that we as Americans are unable to do unto other citizens, as we would have them do unto us if we fail to understand, relate, and perceive life from the perspective of others. We’d better ALL spiritially wake up, look at all of our Baby Boomers entering retirement now. There’s only going to be an increase as time continues on. Our window of time to show our honor to them is shorter than we think.
END OF PART 4
