Are We Just a Nation of Professors?
Posted: Tuesday, November 18, 2008
by straight talk
No not the university type, those that espouse something. It seems easier and easier to say something but not really have the facts or the proof of the pudding so to speak to back it up. And you know something it also seems that it really doesn't even matter? Profess anything, it matters not.
People evidently really don't care how far fetched, made up, unreal or non factual it can be. So what if it is a lie, a half truth who cares. Now do words really reflect what we mean and who we are? We say one thing but go ahead and do the complete opposite and then actually argue that we are right even when the facts show otherwise.
Ok you need and example. A very large percentage of this nation believe mind you in God. They say it and statistics do that they believe. Now they are either hypocrites, liars, or are what I have alluded to above? Why do I say that? Well if you speak to each one personally you may find out their beliefs vary over a wide range of topics that God is very specific about. God wasn't mistaken or leave any words out. In fact God's Word is and was always very emphatic. Yet man, well God meant this, not that. That is not what God was saying, this is. Then again, I don't believe that, I believe this? Why, well man corrupted the bible and that wasn't the meaning of the word used, etc. Ok, forget divine inspiration then because God evidently didn't know what He was writing about or what words to use to say it. It takes man to figure that out.
Well in my opinion, dangerous talk now, God is the only one who's Words are true, fulfilled, said and done, yet man doesn't believe that, or for that matter evidently really God? Many espouse their own beliefs and what they espouse fits their own agenda. They said they believe in God, but they just don't accept what he said. Yet many will follow what they say rather then the Word, why?
Well, while we argue about professing a belief in God it is simply speaking on our terms and our understanding. Ok, we know that, so what about politicians? They promise us something but rarely if ever deliver and when they do it is usually never totally what we expected. Yet we believe them and trust them. Hey, the majority of them profess a belief as well and they are just like us, so why expect differently?
Ok, here is a simple one. A person says they want to buy you a new car. The car your driving is the same old , worn out, broken down, never worked from day one car that you always had. Why continue to use it when it is broken, the same? So they go out and with your money no less, they buy you a new car. Hey that car they purchased for you is five years old and the same exact model you are driving now. You say hey isn't that the very same car? They say no, can't you see this is a new car. They are right in their view. They said you would get a new car and they delivered a new car. It is a new car to you in that you never owned it, you never drove it and it served someone else. Is it a new car, certainly not. Will it perform much like the one you have, most likely. Does it look any different, ride any different, is it different in anyway, no. Only in that it is a little bit older now. So you ask him, you said it was going to be new? He says it is, it's all in the way you look at it.
So Are we just a nation of professors? One thinks a person can on and on and find many more examples. Too many to write to. In my opinion we certainly are just professors. We profess all over the land but reality says in many cases what we profess just doesn't match our works. That is what we do or fail to do. Yet why worry, it is what it is and it won't change. Oh, there I go with that other word, change. Well that is all relative as well. What change and for who? Hey I've written to that before and it never mattered.
Robert T. Melaccio Sr. 2008 Copyright 2008 Robert Melaccio Sr.
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Top-level comments on this article: (1 total)Robert, another scenario. A wife brags to everyone that her hubby bought her a new car. Three out of four couples in that circle will get a new car but what they all won't admit is, with both spouses working, she's the one who is actually paying for the new car. First, if he bought her a new car their shouldn't be an auto loan somewhere. Secondly, only the stay at home wife would actually have received a new car as a gift. Well, this is how it was in a group of couples I knew, once upon a time. My car was provided by the company, another wife's car was actually paid for with cash and she didn't work outside of the home. There's a whole lot of professing going on, Robert!Please log in to respond to this comment.Yes Avis it sounds like a song I once knew, Oh thats a whole lot of shaking, sorry. Regards, Robert.Please log in to respond to this comment.
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