I have thought a lot recently about how every thinker in ethics and moral philosophy seems to think that only elites matter. The definition of “elite” can be narrow or wide, but fuck it seems like the most enlightened amongst us do not even realize ordinary people exist beyond in an theoretical, academic sense.
People have various degrees of bigotry and stupidity, but you are 100% right that the vast majority of people just want to help each other and live a decent life.
Craigslist exists like my totaled car exists: yeah, it’s technically there, but it’s a shell of itself and doesn’t actually have anything worthwhile. Maybe in large metros it’s still a viable option, but even in a 250,000 people metro it’s a ghost town.
Can’t buy things if no one is selling there, can’t sell things if no one is buying there.
God, I miss Craigslist.
Kirk wasn’t an undesirable; he was much closer to a Pharisees or rich man, or maybe a Roman given his connection to empire: an oppressor who manipulated and interpreted law to his own benefit and publicly condemned the undesirables and anyone who would dare say the undesirables are beloved children of God.
If Jesus ate as his table, Jesus would say something against religious leadership or empire, which would add to the list of grievances they used to justify killing him.
I’m also guessing “pastor” doesn’t mean “seminary trained, regular background checks, psychologically evaluated, tested for competence, and examined by others to discern call in a denomination that requires pastors act like mandatory reporters” but instead means “Bubba says the Bible good and hates the right folks.”
Maybe the couch asked to just cuddle…
…are you okay? Like, I get that you don’t like dogs and are frustrated with bad dog owners, but like, that seems a bit intense even for an Internet comment.
I’m assuming that there’s more we’re not getting (yet?), but I also know, in those circles, they say things like, “If a man can’t keep his house in order, how can keep a church/company/etc. in order?” and that might mean finding a way to keep it under wraps and keep his son from prosecution. He failed to control his son, and he failed to game the system to keep this out of court and out of the news, so he shant be trusted.