Comments on: Looking back to the future

By: Paul Sellers

Paul Sellers — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 17:20:00 +0000

The important thing is that we learn from what took place and now help others not fall into a deep, deep pit of self pity but find meaning in honest work.

By: Galen_go

Galen_go — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 15:44:00 +0000

Paul, obviously you make a very relevant point incontestable about the “backs of the miners”, etc. I feel horrible about the way Americans treated Indians in the West, slave labor in the Southeast and Northeast. There is no way to reconcile these events with fairness and nothing we can do about it today. Saying “sorry” is inadequate, but bestoying money and social payment on the decendents is equally unfare to them as well because they fail to learn the beauty of work. I see a movement currently for distributing income in the name of “fairness” and it is scaring me. We are a nation and a people absorbed in equality and self. We lost the ability to pray, depend on God, and the balance of Gods commands for us to love one another, care for our own, and to give. So we drug up to deal with our dissatisfaction with how we are. I have to think think that many a craftsman went to sleep very content and slept like a baby…. That takes Ambien or Tylenol PM today. Thanks for jogging me.

By: Paul Sellers

Paul Sellers — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 21:44:00 +0000

I know what you mean. I’ve struggled with this in many ways over many years.

By: Paul Sellers

Paul Sellers — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:40:00 +0000

Everyone has gifts dormant, latent or whatever. our present culture sees no need for developing such skill because it sold off all outlets to cheap Asian imports using people as the mechanism of production. We sold out our future generations because we now demand cheap goods. It’s a never ending cycle of consumer demand feeding mass manufacturing and non sustainability.