Well, first of all, unlike most, and probably a huge surprise to many, is that in Christianity, your own personal happiness, though important and needs to be consciously strived for, is not the most important thing and goal in one's life. Sometimes one has to give up what makes them happy, what makes someone feel good, for a greater good. If I went by just feelings I would never have discipline any of the kids I had to raise. It breaks my heart when I see a little kid cry. I don't enjoy going to the gym per se. I do not like the pain and the physical discomfort it entails. If I could be in shape without ever stepping into a gym I would be like most people and stay home and eat ice cream. I do not like arguing with demonstrably ignorant and uneducated people. I mean, look at bigbychoice. I present a video where it is obvious what Lou is saying. I present the actual transcript of the movie which further proves my point. But still he denies it. That is the kind of people I am reduced to matching wits with. It's like talking to someone that believes the earth is flat and the sun revolves around the earth. Objective facts do not matter to the congenital stupid.
You often have to sacrifice comfort for duty and doing what you believe is right. Most are like you and just want to avoid confrontation and just blend into the background. If I ask you, or most people, if they feel they are a good person, most will reply something to the effect that "Well, I'm not perfect and I'm no angel but I don't maliciously hurt other people, I don't lie, I don't steal, I don't cheat..." They will say all the things they don't do. But what they are telling me is that they are just not bad. That's quite different from being good. To be "not bad" is to not do bad things. To be good you have to do good things.
I was taught from a very early age that one has to take an active, a proactive role, in trying to make the world, or at least your tiny corner of it, a better place. The now common quote by Edmund Burke was introduce to me when I was in the 5th grade. I took it to heart because some of the greatest evil that has been done by the world was made possible simply because other people just did nothing. They always leave it to someone else. They just want to go through life in peace and safety and not try to make a difference. Many times I am warned that someday I'm going to run into the wrong guy. I always heard that as a kid when I saw someone get away with being being a punk. I always heard it but never saw it. That's when I made a conscious decision in high school that I was going to be that wrong guy. I am going to be the one that stands up and puts the bully in his place even if things don't go my way. When someone cuts in line and then everybody looks down meekly and act like they didn't see it I say something. And I don't just say it to people I think I can take in a fight. I once told Rampage Jackson to keep quiet when he was heckling a match between John Jacques Machado and Dean Lister. Something he did not take too kindly too.
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
― Edmund Burke
Damn - Reading that post of yours is almost as if I was writing it,
So many similarities I see.
Have to say I totally agree with what you’re saying.
Also that quote is Chillingly accurate we only have to look around as Now at what’s being
Pushed & done to people, Though the MSM are very complicit in what’s happening.
