If You Want To Know Who Rules Over YOU

[Evang.Benincasa]

Kevin Alfred Strom — 'If you want to know who rules over you, just look for who you are not allowed to criticize.'

Matthew 7:16 speaks of knowing a tree by the produce. We are warned about making sure our own eyes are clean before helping another remove their obstructions Matthew 7:3-5. We are warned against correcting a fool Proverbs 26:4-5. Yet, in the same verses we are told that we may need to correct a fool if and when the need arises. Yet, if you grab a dog by its ears Proverbs 26:17. You will be bitten. Most times it's better to keep our thoughts and ideas to ourselves. While receiving constructive criticism: Our initial instinct is to defend ourselves, remaining silent and truly listening to feedback can be more productive. This allows us to process the information without defensiveness and shows a willingness to learn and grow. A wise man wants correction he will appreciate you. While a foolish man will hate you for the correction Proverbs 9:8.

Yet, when people see obvious wrongs being committed and they speak up. Then those people are persecuted by authorities. Not persecutions spiced with intellectual reasons to answer the complaints and criticisms being voiced. But total shut down, to the point of having your life destroyed because you questioned and criticiszed.

Burned at the stake, dragged through the streets until the meat falls off your bones. For what? Because you happened to notice that the emperor has no clothes on? That the rich and powerful Oz is merely just a fool trying to be something he is not?

When corruption becomes so blatant, so exposed. That the powers that be have to attack its own people to stop their criticisms. Just look who you are criticizing. See the ones you are not allowed to point the finger at.

[Esaias]

Originally Posted by Evang.Benincasa

Kevin Alfred Strom — 'If you want to know who rules over you, just look for who you are not allowed to criticize.'

Matthew 7:16 speaks of knowing a tree by the produce. We are warned about making sure our own eyes are clean before helping another remove their obstructions Matthew 7:3-5. We are warned against correcting a fool Proverbs 26:4-5. Yet, in the same verses we are told that we may need to correct a fool if and when the need arises. Yet, if you grab a dog by its ears Proverbs 26:17. You will be bitten. Most times it's better to keep our thoughts and ideas to ourselves. While receiving constructive criticism: Our initial instinct is to defend ourselves, remaining silent and truly listening to feedback can be more productive. This allows us to process the information without defensiveness and shows a willingness to learn and grow. A wise man wants correction he will appreciate you. While a foolish man will hate you for the correction Proverbs 9:8.

Yet, when people see obvious wrongs being committed and they speak up. Then those people are persecuted by authorities. Not persecutions spiced with intellectual reasons to answer the complaints and criticisms being voiced. But total shut down, to the point of having your life destroyed because you questioned and criticiszed.

Burned at the stake, dragged through the streets until the meat falls off your bones. For what? Because you happened to notice that the emperor has no clothes on? That the rich and powerful Oz is merely just a fool trying to be something he is not?

When corruption becomes so blatant, so exposed. That the powers that be have to attack its own people to stop their criticisms. Just look who you are criticizing. See the ones you are not allowed to point the finger at.

I think folks our age are the last generation of Americans, because we are the last ones to remember growing up being told that America meant something important. The younger folks simply don't know what it was like to live in a country that, for all its faults, was still the greatest country to live in. I see young people arguing about this that and the other thing and I'm like "How is this even a debate, here in America?" Then I am reminded that the America I grew up in doesn't exist anymore. In fact, it was on its last legs gasping its dying breaths before I was even born.

Thankfully, I'm part of a kingdom that is still around and has been for millennia, and which doesn't require "growing up in a particular society" to understand, it just requires the answer of a good conscience toward God. And that kingdom is the future, whether or not people today like it or not.