Paradoxes and Parables

#1780

"I'm in with the in crowd
I go where the in crowd goes
I'm in with the in crowd
And I know what the in crowd knows"

You can spend your life trying to make people understand something that they don't want to understand.  The great difference in our lives is the truth and the almost truth.  The most effective lie contains a measure of truth.  The track record of truth, in our lives, in the 21st century, everything that comes from government is a lie because everyone knows that popularity, personal progress, even advancements in position and wealth depends on political correctness AND, it is not just politicians and bureaucrats.  Now, corporations depend on employees polluting and pilfering with truth.  There was a time that you could write a letter of complaint and expect to get an answer form someone interested in your problem.  I challenge you, dare you, write a letter of complaint to any corporation, business, or politician and see if you even get a reply.  If they reply, it shows that they got the letter... became legally involved.  The entire business, political, professional world operates on the theory of non involvement as a protection against legal recourse and entanglements.  There are almost more lawyers now than clients... all out to make the big bucks.  The courthouse has become the "go-go market", every type legal "recourse" from ambiguities to antisocial behavior. 

The greatest paradox in American life, and this has happened in my lifetime, 85 years, the difference in what it means to be free and what it means to be enslaved.  After 238 years of American History there is real lethargy in liberty.  Perhaps an even greater paradox, seeking normalcy in a very abnormal world.  Any government with power over the media, especially the talking boxes that can make you believe in absurdities can lead you to believe in atrocities.  The Christian offers up to God, everything about life.  Sicknesses, etc.  Your writer, world traveler,  has found that human nature is about the same the world over.  Technology has changed our lives but not our nature.  It grieves my soul to see the decadence of my country, my fellow countrymen, every psychologist, social arbitrator, modernistic theologian believe they have the answer.  Paradox of all paradoxes, normal active children controlled by drugs simply at the whim of a teacher or busy parent, same child later ostracized by the world because of their addictions to street drugs (and, alcohol as a drug). 

The "scream" of the milliners, baby boomer's, healthcare, even the abomination of Obama Care, in spite of supplements, fitness programs, eating disorders and plans.  It never occurs to patients that 10% of all deaths come from misdiagnosis.  You are fortunate if a doctor even touches you.  At my own Internist Practice, (60 doctor's in one building) each doctor is limited to 7 minutes with a patient.  The word cure is no longer in the Lexicon...only treatment.  Big Pharma wants every citizen taking at least 2 or 3 prescribed drugs and, they want a continuous line of refills.  The only growth industry in America, the "sick care" industry.

As great dilemma paradox sin beyond human comprehension, abortion, the killing of the unborn.  Now, more recent, the actual selling of small human people's tissues and body parts.  Planned Parenthood, such a misnomer must be an embarrassment to creator God, while, at the same time, millions of dollars are raised each year by so called "do gooder" groups, over $22 billion in 2010, everything from neonatal survival to autism.  Little wonder that there is more suicide than ever, particularly among teenagers, veterans, even doctors.  That chasm in the soul of man, which only God can fill many attempt to fill with counterfeits.  Satan has always paid off with counterfeit.  We seek answers everywhere but the right place, the absolute truth revealed in God's word. 

When I was a professional "healthcare" student in Memphis, 4 years, everyday I passed the famous Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, (since Danny Thomas, now called St. Jude's) where atrocious children's diseases were being discovered, treated and cured.  We do not hear much about cures for children anymore, just the abomination of abortion.  Can one think of any greater paradox than the careful birthing, raising, educating, of a child and then caring so little for the destruction of some other person's unwanted child?  Beyond contradiction, the greatest creation of creator God I cannot believe that God will hold faultless a nation, a world, that has killed those he chose to live, weather in war, or in the mother's womb.  There was a time when the electorate would have scoffed at someone running for President of The United States who would support the killing of the unborn and certainly the partial birth of a precious baby.  The paradox, is there any difference in the soul/mental attitude of President Obama and Dr. Kermit Gosnell?  Can you think of a greater paradox, the President of a Christian College, sitting across from this writer at lunch, telling me that he voted for President Obama? 

We live in a paradox of token church membership, token checkbook love to church and other charities.

Think of this paradox.  Is there any greater cruelty from one human being to another than ignoring children, or even the elderly, spindly legs from starvation, or pulling the plug early at hospital in order to harvest organs from a terminal loved one?  I feel sure that the last thing many of our fellow citizens hear as they reach toward the portals of eternity, without anesthesia, that buzzing saw, as the harvesters open them up to gain access to their organs.