Saw a story in the world recently \u2026 quite disturbing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A young woman went on a girls\u2019 trip to Mexico \u2026 pretty girl, objectively attractive, good weight, skin, hair, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anyhoo, while in Mexico, she heard that the Supremes handed down the Dobbs<\/em> decision, and \u2014 for those only recently returned from deep space \u2014 women of childbearing age are now subject to states\u2019 rights, sort of like the antebellum enslaved, when it comes to personal medical decisions. Good times. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Anyhoo, this young woman is commiserating with her friends about the regression of constitutional rights and she calls her mother from Mexico, just to see how she\u2019s (the mom) is doing.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mom is in tears. To be expected, but still \u2026 the young woman notices it is a bit much. So she lets her mom go, says she\u2019ll talk to her later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Calls back. Mom is still a wreck. Young woman asks, What\u2019s the deal?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Turns out \u2026 Mom is pregnant. Young woman is excited! Congratulations all around, new sibling on the way, so much to look forward to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mom is still crying. Young woman asks again, What\u2019s the deal? This is supposed to be good news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Turns out \u2026 Mom\u2019s baby daddy is the young woman\u2019s boyfriend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yeh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So the young woman does what any modern woman of the contemporary age would do \u2026 she blocks her mother and soon-to-be ex-boyfriend on all social media, returns to the States, stays with friends until she can bear to deal with her new reality \u2026 mother is trash, boyfriend is trash, life (as she knew it) completely over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Few weeks later she returns to the apartment she used to share with the boyfriend, finds all her possessions gone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Wat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yeh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Seems the now ex-boyfriend took her things to force her to talk to him. He apologizes, says he\u2019s so, so sorry, wants to work things out, her mom will take care of their baby \/ he won\u2019t be involved, yadda, yadda, more yadda and still.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To her credit, the young woman informs him quite simply that if he does not return her belongings she\u2019s calling the cops, and he can go to jail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He returns her stuff. As of the video, she still hasn\u2019t spoken to her mom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There\u2019s an upstanding young man from Memphis? Miami? Some hot, southern place (so many) who has \u2026 wait for it \u2026 14 kids with 14 women \u2026says he wants more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Half said the guy is building a harem. So where are the eunuchs? {Acts 8:38<\/em>}<\/p>\n\n\n\n AND and there\u2019s another delightful lass with \u2026 wait for it \u202611 kids and 8 (yes, eight \/ XIII \/ 12345678) babies\u2019 daddies. Seems proud of it, too \u2026 {1 Tim. 5:6<\/em>} \u2026 but at this point what else can she do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n But there also the guy who beat his six-year-old daughter to death with a baseball bat for no discernible reason. <\/p>\n\n\n\n How did we get here?<\/p>\n\n\n\n I know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We stopped paying our debt to morality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yeh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It costs to do the right thing, to hold yourself together and keep the legs closed and the parts in pants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It costs to maintain some semblance of decency and self-respect. Adulting is hard, like really, really difficult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But entirely doable \u2026 if one will pay that daily debt to being decent \u2026 every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Because becoming a human trainwreck, a living cautionary tale, takes some time. Rarely overnight (unless driving drunk and honestly lots of folks do that repeatedly until somebody gets dismembered\/disabled\/dead) and, thankfully, the process of destroying one\u2019s life takes many bad steps to accomplish \u2026 going out when should have stayed home, saying yes when should have said no, going with instead of staying away \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n But, also thankfully, the second chance is there until we die.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Denzel (is there any other?) Washington did this movie called \u201cFlight\u201d \u2026 not great, but there\u2019s a really good plane crash and final scene of redemption \u2026 he ends up going to prison for killing a bunch of passengers and his pseudo-girlfriend but he\u2019s a better person for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So to bring it back around \u2026 gotta lotta monkeys, but nothing irredeemable.\u00a0 Not like getting impregnated from unlicensed whoobanging with my kid\u2019s romantic partner \u2026 or sprouting 14 other humans because I lack any discernable reproductive control \u2026 or being the repository of the ejaculate for nearly a different man for each finger and more kids than I can count on both hands \u2026 or having beaten my pre-tween daughter to death for absolutely no acceptable reason \u2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Haven\u2019t done any of that, so doing just fine. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Saw a story in the world recently \u2026 quite disturbing. A young woman went on a girls\u2019 trip to Mexico \u2026 pretty girl, objectively attractive, good weight, skin, hair, etc. Anyhoo, while in Mexico, she heard that the Supremes handed down the Dobbs decision, and \u2014 for those only recently returned from deep space \u2014 … <\/p>\n