This is the m.o. (modus operandi) for a LOT of people in southern California. It is this DISRESPECT for decency & goodness that actually CAUSES society to get WORSE rather than better. It is this JEERING attitude, especially rampant in Southern California (akin to HELL) that destroys the community. A lot of this jeering is from "locals" who refused to play their part by doing their best (I.e. giving it ALL they got, going to college, trying to make community better), but there are some non-locals who do the same. The list goes on of those who jeer at goodness & TRY to provoke others, all in the name of an absolutely disgraceful notion of "equality." Somewhere along the line a false notion of equality in America became something those who REFUSED to try, who REFUSED to improve, who REFUSED to do their very best, grasped on to, to say to those who ARE truly trying, "WE'RE ALL EQUAL DUDE." No we are NOT all equal. We all have equal rights, but not all are equal in the amount of effort we have put into improving ourselves and thereby improving society. These people actually KNOW this truth, but have decided to LIVE the LIE for self-serving reasons. It is SIMPLY SIN. IT is SIMPLY SELFISHNESS. The person who refuses to improve, by continuing in education and/or attending church (dynamically attending, not passively) has become a DRAG on the community, so many passively, lazily, sitting behind a cash register mocking those who are, indeed, truly participating in a higher purpose in life (whether for religious reasons or simply for the sake of good citizenship). It is the clerks, some of the bad cops, the cashiers, some of the secretaries & clerical workers who refuse to truly participate by being all they can be & doing all they can do that are DESTROYING AMERICA. Furthermore, they mock, taunt, & jeer, that which is good & better because they, like Satan (with whom they are friends & have made allegiance) are ASHAMED of their lack of goodness (this is not a lack, by the way, such as lack of ability or talent, but a lack of effort; they have chosen to be bad, even if they are not doing anything illegal but simply refusing to do ALL they can to make society better), & right they should be, but wrong is their response. Our response to the presence of better in our midst should be to shame ourself & repent, with the vow to do better, be better, become better, little-by-little. This is the response we should have to Jesus, the author of perfection, and in so doing we become MORE like Jesus, ourselves. Yet there were those who taunted & jeered Jesus when he was on earth and now taunt, mock, & jeer those who follow Jesus today. These are sick people who are ashamed of themselves, but refuse to repent and instead try to eliminate or degrade that which makes them feel ashamed. A lot of clerks do this by "name-calling": (i.e. "dude", "man", "sweetie", etc) or where they cannot get away with directly disrespecting (in a subtle way), they do so in other ways, sometimes in a deliberate over-abundance of "acting" friendly (in some cases"have a nice day" is actually "thanks for your money, now get the hell out of here"). Or it can be an act of suspicion ("nobody's perfect, he must be doing something wrong..."). In every case, it comes down to substituting shame of self in the presence of better, & therefore showing true respect, as well as repentance, for trying to eliminate & degrade that which makes us feel ashamed, rightly so. People actually commit MURDER others for this reason. Its called jealousy. But more often what they commit is "mini-murder": They slander good people to their face or behind their back, usually in a cowardly way that is difficult to directly address (ie. Subtle terms of non-endearment such as "dude" "man" etc, or simply lack of civil engagement). So much of the world is "in the flesh": meaning they are filled with anger, jealousy, hate, greed, selfishness, etc. & all of this can be treated, like a disease which it is, if the person is willing to acknowledge the need for treatment, but in America, perhaps especially in southern California, this is rare. Here are some names of some of people who I want to pay tribute to in such regards, & will daily add new names to this hall of shame:
Diane Lemus (& her friend Irma),Hugh Halford, Regina Echols, Andy, Daniel the Arco clerk on 5/13/11, Christina Sawyer, Tim Mosman, Tom Brown,Howard Wilson, Judge Byrne, Kevin Slanderson, gary, kennon Raines, vicky from peru, duffy at utla, & the list goes on .
