September 23, 2008
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I haven't had dreams that deserve to be posted here lately. Most are just something that I remember when I wake up, but as soon as I go about with my daily life routine, I would have completely forgotten the dreams.
I then consider the forgotten dreams not important after all.I am getting used to the idea of not seeing my grandson everyday. He turned 4 last week and after that when I saw him again, he has changed some. He speaks up much more and developing ways that if not nipped in the bud, would cause an unbendable ways later in his life. All of the nurturing we had done to cultivate in him good manners seemed like they went flying out of the window. At 4, he is a little demanding and stubborn with his ways. He spent the night with us Sunday as his mom got sick after a trip out of town. He stayed with us most of the day yesterday and we spent most of it trying to do things his way to make him happy. His dad picked him up and before leaving, we asked him to put away his toys which he always would do without hesitation before. This time he stood his ground to be a little pain and refused to do what he was told. I ended up putting away his toys. I guessed he had learned that if he won't do what he is told, it would not really make a difference anymore.
He would not have to deal with us the next day anyway. Oh well, we are just the grandparents, the parents have that responsibility to raise him to be a better person and not a spoiled one. So life goes on, I guess. 
Anyway, the world is getting weirder and weirder every minute. The things I used to like to watch on TV no longer have the appeal to me. The media and entertainment world are getting so out of hand that everything goes is the motto of each day. I have to be mindful and careful on which to get to read the headlines for the day. Everyone seem like they have something to say and mostly it something to ruin the rest of your day. Everybody has an opinion and they want people to hear about it. It could be of something out of nothing, or something so negative that they want others to emphatize with the way they feel. The more the merrier. Instead of learning wisdom and values, you would learn how this world think in general. How spoil rotten people have become. It's really the me-me generation and we are all living in it in a psychedelic way. Webster describe the word psychedelic as: characterized by, or generating hallucinations, distortions of perception, altered states of awareness, and occasionally states resembling psychosis. These people do not even have to be on cracks to have minds that are distorted, as it is their perception about life and how to live it,-- that is totally out of whack.
Morality to these people is just a word. There's no real meaning to it and the word does not apply to them. They are free agents and can do whatever pleases them and what can give them a natural high. And most changed the true meaning of morality into something that works in their favor, even though in the eyes of those that know what the word really means just watch as the majority of these so called free spirited fall into their eventual and ultimate destruction. The world right now is a modern copycat of the ancient Roman Empire, but much, much bigger in scope than the empire that eventually met its sad ending. Everything has it's season, as King Solomon found out later on in his life.
"Morality refers to ethical issues — principles of right and wrong conduct — as well as instances of real behaviour — the manner in which individuals comply more or less fully with such standards. Based on the Latin mor — ‘a manner, custom’ — this term covers all kinds of human actions, although it is often associated specifically with virtue in sexual conduct. To encourage moral conduct, early theological representations of sin and evil highlighted the body's capacity for suffering. Luxuria or lust was commonly represented as a nude woman whose past misconduct prepared her present torture — in some church statuary snakes devoured her breasts and vulva, or toads issued from her mouth. In the medieval and early modern ages, morality referred to a religious framework; through diet and bodily maintenance, the individual was expected to defend himself against the temptation of the flesh.
Codes of morality have evolved in keeping with larger cultural, historical, and economic currents. Prostitution had long been considered wicked and detrimental to the commonweal, but it was not until the nineteenth century, when national interests were linked directly to commercial economies, that this practice became known as ‘the social evil’. More than other traditional targets of moral reform, such as the drunkard or blasphemer, the prostitute was vilified because of her unproductivity; she partook of sexuality without repaying the nation with the commodities it needed most — citizens and domestic stability.
In modern industrial societies, the body has largely lost its connotation as a vessel of sin and has become increasingly involved in the secular mechanisms of consumption and display. The 1920s were crucial for the formation of the modern-day body ideal; by the end of the decade, women, under the combined impact of the cosmetic, fashion, and advertising industries, had for the first time in large numbers put on makeup and rayon stockings, and abandoned corsets for rubber girdles. The rage for sunbathing in the interwar years further legitimated the public display of the body. Whereas Christian religious traditions aimed to subordinate the body to ‘higher’ spiritual ends, modern consumer culture works to release the naked body from shame and guilt. The individual's primary responsibility shifts from his soul to his health, body shape, and appearance. Since the 1960s the ideal of the youthful body has dominated Western culture; fitness and slimness have largely replaced spiritual goals as indicators of human worth. But the opprobrium inflicted on the immoral remains powerful: those who do not maintain standards of bodily maintenance are considered lazy, self-indulgent, even a burden to national well-being.
While age-old controversies regarding homosexuality, pornography, drinking, gambling, and other ‘immoral’ practices remain current today, they are perhaps less compelling than the dilemmas created by recent innovations in medical technology. The availability of techniques to alter the beginning of life (through fertility drugs, surrogacy, or prenatal testing) and the end of life (through doctor-assisted suicide or machine-enhanced existence) has prompted the growth of a new morality — the ethics of medical intervention on the human body.— Julia Douthwaite"
3 Let there be no sexual immorality, impurity, or greed among you. Such sins have no place among God’s people. Ephesians 5:3 (New Living Translation)
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