Mmm...smoothies! Helps the "Pretending" (title of a new Van Morrison song I wrote about this year) going on all around us feel sweeter and nicer.
BTW, I agree with your post, but given the way "Kindness" has been adopted by so many lefties and sundry godless types as a slogan over the past five years, and was often used as a slogan for masking, I prefer to speak of the need for Justice, and practice of the Golden Rule.
Thanks Carl and yes the “Pretending” does make those who practice it feel virtuous and nice. I haven’t heard the Van Morrison song, but will look for it.
I understand where you’re coming from -- being turned off by the sickening overuse of the term “kindness.” Sometimes I feel the same way about “mercy.” Everyone seems to want mercy without the justice that absolutely must precede any real justice.
As an editor, my main reason for using those two words in particular is because their misuse has become so common, people don’t even realize it anymore.
While I enjoyed and agreed wholeheartedly with the expressed sentiment of your article in its entirety, my favorite part was your ending.. so much so that I repeated several times your final words out loud... just for the delicious taste of truth that lingered after them...
"Certainly, the rope is the only appropriate punishment for many of those involved, but it’s my fear that we have grown too weak, as a culture, to shed the blood of the guilty. It’s only the innocent whose blood we’re willing to spill — through abortion and euthanasia. Shameful.
Let’s put nice aside, at least for now, and resolve to deliver mercy and kindness that’s rooted in justice."
Anthony, thank you, first of all, for reading and commenting. As a newbie here, I don't have a lot of content (or regular readers), but am working on it.
I'm so delighted that you enjoyed the ending because I hesitated slightly when writing them...but only for a nanosecond. haha I'm GLAD you're not very nice...but you're kind and that means we will most likely understand one another's jokes (regardless of how dry or silly) as well as any comments we make on others' posts.
Samantha, you are genuinely welcome... It was a pleasure reading your post, and you may consider me to be a newly delighted regular reader... I'm looking forward to future additions to your gallery...
Saccharin always has a bitter aftertaste.
It’s very bitter, indeed.
Mmm...smoothies! Helps the "Pretending" (title of a new Van Morrison song I wrote about this year) going on all around us feel sweeter and nicer.
BTW, I agree with your post, but given the way "Kindness" has been adopted by so many lefties and sundry godless types as a slogan over the past five years, and was often used as a slogan for masking, I prefer to speak of the need for Justice, and practice of the Golden Rule.
Thanks Carl and yes the “Pretending” does make those who practice it feel virtuous and nice. I haven’t heard the Van Morrison song, but will look for it.
I understand where you’re coming from -- being turned off by the sickening overuse of the term “kindness.” Sometimes I feel the same way about “mercy.” Everyone seems to want mercy without the justice that absolutely must precede any real justice.
As an editor, my main reason for using those two words in particular is because their misuse has become so common, people don’t even realize it anymore.
While I enjoyed and agreed wholeheartedly with the expressed sentiment of your article in its entirety, my favorite part was your ending.. so much so that I repeated several times your final words out loud... just for the delicious taste of truth that lingered after them...
"Certainly, the rope is the only appropriate punishment for many of those involved, but it’s my fear that we have grown too weak, as a culture, to shed the blood of the guilty. It’s only the innocent whose blood we’re willing to spill — through abortion and euthanasia. Shameful.
Let’s put nice aside, at least for now, and resolve to deliver mercy and kindness that’s rooted in justice."
I know... I'm not very nice...
Anthony, thank you, first of all, for reading and commenting. As a newbie here, I don't have a lot of content (or regular readers), but am working on it.
I'm so delighted that you enjoyed the ending because I hesitated slightly when writing them...but only for a nanosecond. haha I'm GLAD you're not very nice...but you're kind and that means we will most likely understand one another's jokes (regardless of how dry or silly) as well as any comments we make on others' posts.
Thank you again!
Samantha, you are genuinely welcome... It was a pleasure reading your post, and you may consider me to be a newly delighted regular reader... I'm looking forward to future additions to your gallery...
Yay!!! That makes me so happy, Anthony. Thank you!