A difficult thing for us to face sometimes is brutal reality. I think that at times we avoid looking into the mirror, so to speak, because we are confronted with brutal reality and we don't like what we see. I'm starting to look at Black Friday in that light.
What started out as an opportunity for many retailers to turn their figures from red to black ink, now seems to feed a very ugly side of man. That side is greed. And an almost driven hysteria for material things. This is chilling and I'll tell you why. The behavior of people over electronics, toys or whatever is shocking. But here is what we need to think about. If people will do ridiculous, and sometimes barbaric, acts over a so called deal. Then what does your imagination tell you they would do in a major crisis over food? Pepper spray to protect your cache of X-Boxes? What would they do as hunger drives them to want your food or warm home? Scary to think about isn't it?
Have the courage to look in the mirror? Sometimes it takes a dose of "brutal reality" for us to get a grip and start to face some truths. It may also help us to be be prepared. Take 10 minutes, watch this video clip. And see just how ugly Black Friday can look. Do you really want to support this?
God bless
Steve
Confession. That was the first time I've ever seen Glen Beck (that is who that clip was, right?).
ReplyDeleteI hope we can still be friends now that you know this about me.
Sadly, this just increased my motivation to take a hand gun class and get rid of everything we have of any societal value (which isn't much to begin with).
I am definitely not against celebrating something that "should" be a once in a lifetime event. But I have been to some weddings that were absolutely beautiful, Godly and done for reasonable money.
ReplyDeleteHey Erin, here's some bible trivia for you. Did you ever notice that in the bible the wedding feast was always done by the bridegroom and not the bride? Especially the wedding feast spoken of with Jesus' return. After all, does anyone think we will be in a position to accomplish that one?
ooohhhh. I love that! No, I had never thought of that before. That is very cool. But difficult to implement in our culture. Good thing we've got THE wedding feast to look forward to!
ReplyDeleteI would rather pay full-price for something than to deal with people like that! ~C
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