{"id":9602,"date":"2022-10-17T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=9602"},"modified":"2022-10-17T15:13:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T21:13:57","slug":"lordy-lordy-i-want-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=9602","title":{"rendered":"Lordy, Lordy, I Want That!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Monday, October 17, 2022<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Oh, Can I Have A Camper Like That?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That Would Be So Much Better,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Easier, Roomier, Safer,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Warmer in Winter, Cooler in Summer!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s Been Dumped In The Yard Here,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Causing No End of Trouble!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who Will Get It Out of Here!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deuteronomy 5:21<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neither shall you covet your neighbour\u2019s wife.
Neither shall you desire your neighbour\u2019s house, or field, or male or female slave, or ox, or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbour.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2 John 1:6<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment just as you have heard it from the beginning\u2014you must walk in it.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Words of Grace For Today<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We need to put limits on our wants and wishes, drives and desires, and our endless comparing and complaining, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, by all means.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, taking what is our neighbours is plainly wrong, and most of us avoid that to some degree in our lives, since societal pressure condemns those who just take. If we think we are free of the sin that this commandment would save us from, just because we do not take what is our neighbours\u2019, then we are so misguided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Girard had it right when he connected for us that our desires grow out of seeing what those closest to us have, which sets up competition that leads to conflict, which conflict we inevitably cathartically resolve by falsely blaming and scapegoating innocent bystanders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This commandment to not covet or desire what is our neighbour\u2019s tries to save us from destroying innocent bystanders as we attempt to save our relationships with those closest to us. The real challenge is that societal pressures shove us firmly into scapegoating innocents in order to cathartically resolve our conflicts. It helps society continue to appear to be \u2018civilized.\u2019 And \u2018civilized\u2019 appearances help everyone blithely continue on as if all were done well by us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That is the same reality-denying approach to life which sets us up to have leaders like Trump, movements like \u2018Querdenkers\u2019-Covidiots-Covideniers, populist movements like Daniel Smith\u2019s that proclaim they are looking out for the \u2018common people\u2019 when actually they are serving us all up on a platter to powerful interests, and government advisors who will say that our privacy needs to be balanced with businesses need to collect our private data from which they can create products to provide to us. Which must be products we do not need, since no one needs to collect private data to be able to identify the real needs of a population. Those are constant. The only thing that changes is the way in which others\u2019 interests \u2013 ie. \u2018not in our interest\u2019 \u2013 work to deceive us about what is required for life. That effort is always to manipulate us to \u2018have\u2019 covetousness and competition-conflict-creating desires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that\u2019s what the commandment would save us from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If only.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for me and the squirrels (well probably not the squirrels since they keep stealing insulation out of the skirt, but at least for me), we \u2013 or rather I \u2013 like this commandment. I know I cannot keep it. So I pray, \u201cGod save me!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that will have to do for this day, as everyday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Monday, October 17, 2022 Oh, Can I Have A Camper Like That? That Would Be So Much Better, Easier, Roomier, Safer, Warmer in Winter, Cooler in Summer! It\u2019s Been Dumped In The Yard Here, … Causing No End of Trouble! Who Will Get It Out of Here! Deuteronomy 5:21 Neither shall you covet your neighbour\u2019s … Continue reading “Lordy, Lordy, I Want That!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poverty-homelessness","category-scapegoating"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9602"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9612,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9602\/revisions\/9612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}