"Truth re-imagined for the higher good..."

Imagine that.  That idea is all too familiar.  I borrowed that piece of wit from a TV drama.  Although the idea is not new, it started in the Garden, it has been put forth from time to time in different words and postulated as something new.

Too many in business want to re-imagine the truth in a way that makes it look good or makes their product seem better than it is.  As product liability insurance cost rise and the wariness of the average consumer rises, the business world contains a much higher percentage of folks who think re-imagined truth is the way to go.  They think people are generally stupid or as stupid as they themselves are.

A little rabbit trail here:  My mother always told me to never call anyone stupid.  But, lately, the word has been used far too often to describe those who have lesser learning than that of a certified public accountant or Harvard educated lawyers or even that of a glorified actor.  I was always taught by Mom that there was never a reason to call someone stupid.  So, I looked up the current definition of stupid on Merriam-Webster.  

This is what it said:
1: a : slow of mind : obtuse b : given to unintelligent decisions or acts : acting in an unintelligent or careless manner c : lacking intelligence or reason : brutish

2: dulled in feeling or sensation : torpid <still stupid from the sedative>

3: marked by or resulting from unreasoned thinking or acting : senseless <a stupid decision>

4: a : lacking interest or point <a stupid event> b : vexatious, exasperating <the stupid car won't start>

So, in conclusion, stupid has been elevated from the pit to the palace.  It is one of those all-inclusive words that cover the gamut from mild mindlessness to downright arrogant, mindless, unintelligent thoughtlessness.  Now that is a mouthful.

Back on the main lane - re-imagined truth.  According to Scripture Truth is true whether you believe it or not.  It cannot be colored nor put in a gray area, nor is it true according to the whims and whimsies of the speaker.  Lies, on the other hand can be colored, twisted, pulled, bullied, warped, dragged and all manner of re-imagining. 

As we stand on the brink of being stupid and making the decision as to whether or not to fabricate or lie, it might do us well to remember that the Truth will set you free.  Leave the re-imagining of Truth to the liars and writers of fiction.

Shalom.  Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem.

The Twinky Wins

The internet is a fabulous thing.  It enables us to find out just how dis-satisfied people are with multi-million dollar agreements.  In the days of no internet, these suffering people would have little outlet for their anguished cries for satisfaction.

While we unwashed masses manage to get by on $200.00 weekly or less (most times much, much less) unemployment payments and $1,000.00 monthly or less Social Security payments, the poor Harvard graduates with their team of lawyers seem unable to live with $20,000,000.00.  It is, after all, not the money.  Goodness, NO.  It is the principle of the thing.  Of course it is.
  
Perhaps, the lawsuit should include Harvard for not endowing these youngsters with a smattering of common sense.  Maybe, that team of lawyers was no smarter than they were.  I have found that most lawyers are not any smarter, they just stuck it out for the degree hanging on their wall.  They managed to pass their bar exam and receive their license to practice law.  This does not mean they have common sense.

The Twinky Wins is a spoonerism of The Winky Twins.  The Associated Press reported Monday April 11, 2011, 7:06 pm EDT this headline regarding the Winklevoss Twins -

"Court: Harvard twins stuck with Facebook agreement"

Alas and alack!  According to the article they are stuck with $20,000,000.00 as opposed to the $160,000,000.00 that they found out later it maybe should have been worth to them.

I was deeply moved by their plight.  Imagine, paying that much for lawyers and a Harvard education and still not have any common sense.  

Well, they are now trying to decide whether or not to take the case to the Supreme Court.  As it should be.  They must use every means available to them to get their just desserts.  After all, it is $140,000,000.00 more that they are trying to get.  Imagine the nerve of their former buddies trying to keep all that money away from the Twins.  Such a shame.

There have been moments in my life when I have wondered what I would do if I had suddenly come into a substantial amount of money and I do not recall one of the things being trying to sue for more.  Perhaps it was.

Scripture tells us to be content with whatever conditions we find ourselves in.  Are we content?  It is in my nature to want more.  But it has always been my desire to work for what I have gotten.  When that ability was savagely ripped away from me, I found it difficult to deal with and understood why people resorted to lawsuits.  Sometimes, it just has to be done.  Sometimes businesses and other people do what is wrong and the only recourse is through the legal system. There is a provision for that in Scripture as well.

As a people and as a nation, we have gotten greedy.  Everything seems to promote greed while diminishing the value of winning by doing one's best.  Commercials do everything to instill greed in us and we sit and soak it in.  The government diminishes the will to do and promotes the will to get.  After all, are we not entitled to it?

Scripture says that if we are able bodied and we do not work, we do not eat.  Whatever happened to that idea?  Did it go by the wayside due to the economy or did that idea start to vanish years ago with the New Deal?

Shalom.  Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem.