Stop The World! I Want To Get Off

While my blogging has waned this week due to some server issues at home, my mind has been going crazy.  I made the mistake of reading several articles--based only on very vague titles--and then discovered, to my dismay, that the conclusions made me discouraged and depressed.

The biggest depression-causing article was a report of a study done by a Canadian psychiatric doctor.  In his studies of pedophiles over many years,  his conclusion was that these people had an inborn sexual orientation making them attracted sexually to children.  So his study concluded that, like society's acceptance of homosexual lifestyle choices, those who have a predetermined orientation toward sex with children will likely be active in changing society's idea of this begin "not their fault" and eventually accept their behavior.

Oh my. Talk about justification for criminal behavior!  That conclusion made me feel physically ill.

The story about the deal made for the Idaho POW's release made me flip out too--especially as more details have come to light.  At first, like everyone else in America, I was thrilled this guy was coming home.  Then as details of the story expanded and his willful desertion of his unit and the real cost of what was given up to release him was explored, I was more and more angry about it.  I felt that knot in my stomach and seething anger.

What happened to the pride from being in the military?  What about a love of your country?  UGH!

Then yesterday, I heard the reports of the university shooting in Seattle.  How many times does something like this have to happen before people come to alternative ways of expressing themselves?  I have no real interest in owning guns myself, but I certainly don't blame guns for violence in this country.  They are inanimate objects with a potential for danger--just like a car or power tools.  How we use the objects determines their danger in reality.




There was a time I considered myself  a "news junkie".  But anymore, I find I am making a conscience effort to NOT watch the news or listen to talk radio or even read more than the local stuff in the paper.  It all just makes me sad.  We live in beautiful world, and yet it is filled with so much dishonesty, hatred and violence.  When I think too long about things like these, I find myself sliding into a dark deep hole of negativity.  It is hard to pull out of, to be honest.  And yet, I know there is much more good in the world--if we only heard of it in its proper proportion.  That disproportional reporting of world events makes me sad too.  How blood thirsty has the human race become?

I keep the thought in my heart that the Second Coming of the Savior cannot be too far off, considering the deterioration of the earth.  And even knowing the prophesied events that have to happen for that to start, I would still rather be "twinkled or burned" myself, just to end the horrible things that people do to one another in general.

Makes me just want to run away from reality.  I guess that is what novels and movies are for.  at least, for a little while--until the hopelessness goes away.

If It's Not One Thing...

For the past several days, as I've tried to get on my computer to write a blog post, the server seems to be having difficulties. Today was no different.

Why is it, with Genius Golfer living with us here, our computer issues run rampant?

This is the modern version of the cobbler's children who have no shoes. At least have technology, just getting it to work when I want it seems to be the problem.

As The Girl might say, #1stworldprobs