June 27, 2010
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Some People are Evil
I am 38 years old and I have discovered certain things as I walk through life.
It is sort of interesting what you learn from some of the people you meet.
1. The dying
I used to do volunteer work with hospice. It was an interesting experience watching people die. I am not talking about being in the same room as them. I am talking about watching them go through the stages of death. It is so sad when someone finds out they are being put on hospice. It is the death sentence. It is the way in which the doctors let you know there is no more hope. You will die and there is nothing they can do to stop it.
Lesson learned: Death takes everyone. You can be rich or you can be poor. You can live a good life or you can live a bad life. But either way, you will die.
2. People in prison.
I used to visit people in prison. I had the opportunity to have long conversations with people who killed other people. It is sort of interesting the number of people in prison that have the ability to deny responsibility for their actions. In fact, I think the common trait you can see in visiting with prisoners is the ability to make excuses or deny reality. I once visited with a person who had killed 5 people. It is sort of funny to have an in depth conversation about family with someone who has killed people. I also had a few conversations with child molesters. I talked to a guy who had molested his step-daughter. He started when she was 9 or 12. I can’t remember exactly. He blamed her. I talked to another guy who I believe had molested anywhere from 100-200 kids. He said he was better off in prison. He was serving for 50 years. I hope they never let him out.
Lesson Learned: Sometimes you can have a casual conversation and the person you are talking to has killed people. Often you will never guess all the things people have done based on their appearance. But you should still follow your gut about people.
3. The Evil
I met a guy who was physically abusing his wife. He was very active in church. He was a church leader. I found out what he was doing to his wife and I talked to her. I asked her, “I have reason to believe your husband is physically abusing you. Is there some way I can help?” She didn’t say anything for for about 30 seconds. Then she told me “no.” So I left it at that. She was always nice to me. She had a kind heart. She told me he never hurt the children. They had 4 children. One day he was sitting at home alone and he shot himself in the head.
Lesson Learned: Some people are evil. They will hurt others and they have no conscience about it. With time, you start to be able to indentify those who are evil.
4. Rich man
I met a rich man. If you had a conversation with him for 3 hours, you would never know he was rich. He had a kind heart. He was particular about how he wanted things done. But he was a good man. He was thin and his wife was overweight. You wouldn’t pick them as being together because he was better looking than her. And yet he was so kind to her and valued her.
Lesson Learned: Not everyone who is rich, chases riches.
5. Waiter
I read one time where a CEO said he could tell what kind of employee a person would be by the way he treated a waiter or waitress. He said it said a lot about a person how he/she would treat someone he/she didn’t have to be nice too.
Lesson Learned: Be nice to people with no real motive.
6. The Naive
A naive person doesn’t know whether people are good or evil. The naive person doesn’t know to be angry about the evil.
Lesson Learned: I am still not sure whether it is better to be naive.
7. A woman in church.
There was a woman at church that had a baby outside of wedlock. Years later people could see the visible proof of her mistakes. She was one of the more godly people I ever knew. She didn’t have much and one time at Christmas, she took her gifts and some of her children’s gifts and gave them over to a poor family in need that had no gifts.
Lesson Learned: Not everything is as it appears.
Comments (146)
This was a very good post.
The waiter thing is a very important gauge of how I interpret others i.e. it’s a dealbreaker if a girl I’m dating treats them badly.
Very interesting to hear the type of lessons you’ve learned from your diverse experiences.
i don’t think i learned anything/.
Not having a conscience is NOT equal to evil. It just makes them a little more prone to do evil things. Very insightful post.
some people are evil indeed. *sighs*
@Paul_Partisan - probably because you belong in the evil category. It all boils down to “be nice to people”
=D
I have to wonder how many people are naive enough not to know this?
I don’t recommend many posts, but this one is certainly well crafted.
Great post Dan.
This was a genuinely interesting post. well done.
I tend to believe the best about people and that has caused me some heartache in life that I never saw coming. I’m not as naive as I used to be.
Nice post!
One of the best things I learned in my violence and aggression course is that niceness isn’t a personality trait. You can fake being nice, all you have to do is smile and know how to talk to people. Some of the most evil people in the world are nice people. It doesn’t mean they’re not evil, too.
I enjoyed this post of yours in particular, Dan.
I’m totally with Roadlesstaken on that one. I always treat waiting staff with respect. They could be someone putting themselves through college to finish that masters, or even the son/daughter of a future boss. Maybe even that future boss.
Nothing in this world is what it seems. Especially here on Xanga. That idiot that you have just dissed may just be the most important person in your future. How would you ever know?
@Paul_Partisan - What about “one sock’s all the same”?
Interesting.
I loved this.
All good lessons to learn you are very insightful ,a lot of people would have learned from the CEO-waiter/ waitress story that you need to be kind to others because you never know who is watching…a selfish motive… but you learned from it to ” Be nice to people with no real motive.” You have a kind heart and that is one of the things that I love about you.
@Roadlesstaken - Same here. If a girl treats a waiter badly, she might would treat me badly if we were to date.
Is all of this going to be in your new book – “Wisdom From TheoDan”?
Well thought out and written. Many good reminders.
the waiter one is true. and it’s not just prospective employess but partners or spouses too.
Things are not always as they seem…
Good post.
I don’t believe in evil. I believe that people who do things without reason, enjoy inflicting pain, suffer from various mental disorders. Chances are, they were either abused or born with something wrong with their brains.
Good to read. And naivety is nothing so great, nothing so bad, only when people refuse to let themselves be pulled out of it is it wrong… we need more to wake up to the wrongs happening so much.
I don’t believe people are evil. I do believe that people are imperfect, and that they kill others as themselves in confusion then kill themselves in confusion. You’re a social animal. What you do will come back around to you becaue of worth factors. Some people are truly not worth anything to you. I think I could take a machine gun to a crowd and not care or feel angry at the people. I don’t usually justify against their ”sins.” And i haven’t had a chance to as of date, but I ‘m sure I’ll be in the crowd. Am I evil? Sure, then you’re good.
As far as prisoners go, we keep them for us. We don’t have to accept modes of behavior, and it’s a very convenient way to get rid of all the lessers of society because they’re Cain to Abel. I have respect for people who are willing to give up the value of their lives to satisfy the drive of the social animal and to show that treatment matters, but they still have to go.
it’s usually good if rich people have values and stay out of the gambling den. You have a reward because you’re responsible and a good person. I only chase riches because I’m trying to not be shunned, used, or less to another’s worth. And I’m not trying to be rich, I’m trying to secure a position in life to survive but anytime I get a paycheck that I don’t give to someone else, all I care about is money. Yes, now, all I care about is money so that they go away. But I can’t win the lotto, no, I have to have a good job, but never me,no because all I care about is money, so I need to learn lessons I’ve already learned. It’s not good to be poor. It’s not humble. It’s the ticket to absolute Hell.
I once attended a formal dinner with a two-bit businessman who thought he was a hotshot. Somethinh happened to offend him that any reasonable man would have let go. Instead, he hollered at the coffee waitress as though she was an animal, and at the end of the meal (thus was a meal of five courses) punished the waiter by giving him, for a tip, a 50-cent ball point pen with his business name on it. A he did so he smirked all over his face.
As the years passed I saw this man wear two faces. One, the smiling goody-goody face of always helpful Mr. so-and-so. The other, the shouting, domineering face of the bully who’s on top. Conniving and untrustworthy, he managed to steal, betray, lie and influence more people badly than almost anyone else I know.
But I saw him start with the waiter.
Great post. Too freakin true. And, too bad we’ll never know if it’s better to be naive. That’s one complex that’s run circles in my mind for years, and it’s not about to stop.
I really liked this post.
Your grammar was atrocious as always, but I could tell it was written by you
sometimes murders can be sociopaths…
I LOVED THIS POST!!! Great for thought. You are deeper than you let on in most posts. I really wish you would post like this more often.
And, I have been too naive. It will bite you in the end. No way is it better. It is like a big neon sign on your forehead that says, “Come and get me!” to the evil ones of this world. And they will take and use until there is nothing left, and then they just kick you aside and move on to the next victim.
And I am still not sure just how street smart I am.
I look for the best and expect the worst out of people, until they show me otherwise. Probably my favorite post from you.
The waiter thing is very true – and as someone said, should apply to friends and spouses, too. It’s very embarrassing to be with someone who sends everything back and treats waiters rudely…and predicts all sorts of other rude behavior.
Since I am a #7, I appreciated seeing that one in there. Church people do not treat women like this kindly, inclusively or fairly, in my experience. The big glaring “MISTAKE”, the evidence of the one-time, already forgiven sin, is a child of God, and a years-ago “mistake” does not a person make. People who judge based on something that happened years and years ago don’t take the time to get to know the person and find out who they really are, what really happened or what they are all about – how they think, feel, believe. They just judge. I find it kind of a strange dichotomy in a church that preaches “pro-life” at all costs, then brands a woman and her child for life if she, in fact, chose life for her child, instead of standing beside her and her child for doing the “right” thing. The church gets their message across – gets some people to choose life instead of the evil of abortion – and then forgets about them, usually. I am glad that you could see beyond this woman’s “mistake” and see the light of Christ shining in her through her actions and behavior toward others.
i keep a list
I think all of us have evil in us but you’re right that some people seem to let theirs run wild.
Evil is the absence of good. So, basically an evil person has managed to hermetically seal out all the goodness he/she was meant to have in their being.
Good post, I think these are things we all know but dont always thing about.
Im at waitress!!! be nice to me!
When i first met my father in law (long before i met my partner, so before i had any interest in the faimly) I assumed that he had a middle class wage as they had a middle class lifestyle. Had a regular car and house and they were stict with thier children about spending. I used to walk my dog in the early house of the morning and he was always up, watering his garden. He would wear old boots, old shorts, a paint covered shirt and ratty looking cowboy hat. The whole family is very sweet.
After getting engaged to his son I soon noticed how many holidays they went on. Then they bought a car. In fact i soon realised I never actually heard him talk about work or seem to go to work.
Turns out he sold his business years ago and is very rich- he lives of the interest of his savings!!!!!!!
So yeah not everyone who is rich slaves after riches. some of them pack up and spent valuable time with their family and friends =)
I really enjoyed this. Thanks for sharing.
totally unrelated to your post except for the first line, but I thought you were in your early 50′s. i guess you’re wise beyond your years.
I do find all this interesting, but the one thing I will comment on is that I’ve heard the thing about the waiters before. and I fully agree.
I’m pretty sure there’s no such thing as a naive person who is truly happy.
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BBOORRIINNNGGGGGGGG
There is always a fine line to walk between seeing the best in people and being naive… between being realistic, and being jaded. It is a line that I have found challenging at times. …many times. It just goes to demonstrate the priceless value of wisdom.
The outcome of your morality plays aside, this really is one of your more interesting posts. The first two are your strongest – can’t wait to see how people react when you tie this one up.
Hospices are definitely very sad places. The atmosphere is so incredibly dull, and they people there do so much to help you feel comfortable and what not, but how can you ever be fully comfortable when everyone around you is coming to terms with the reality of death?
Dan, you’re such a blogger with heart when you wanna be
I enjoyed reading this. You’re a much better writer than what you give yourself credit for.
The interesting observation is how such a large portion of people who engage in antisocial behavior still make up excuses for their behavior.
They are still innately seeking justification–this implies that some primitive form of a moral compass exists in people.
If we taught people to make skepticism and curiosity about the abstracts of moral philosophy we may very well have less of these people.
No way, you’re only 38????
Be wise not naive – very similar states but experience, thought and prayer transform one to the other. Be like a little child in their openness, wonder and need- just don’t act like one when you’re grown up!
Some people are evil – hmmmmm? That’s a one I’d prefer to leave to God!
That was beautify. The result of her mistake was a lesson learned. I was touched by all the stories. Very beautiful.
Number four and seven are important to me. I [like to] think many of us intuitively know to treat those who are less unfortunate than us well. I think many people forget to treat those who are more fortunate than us the same way. Somewhere along the lines I think people have forgotten that not all who are privileged necessarily take full advantage of that, and prime examples are men like Andrew Mellon and Bill Gates.
As for seven, well I guess that is something else I think that should be intuitive.
Anyway, really nice post. I liked it a lot.
Great observations…I enjoyed reading this.
Inspiring.
There is no good or evil. There is only the force.
I like these valuable lessons.
A most excellent post.
interesting post
I know a lot of people are saying that ‘evil’ does not exist, but I beg to differ. Being depraved enough to take someone’s life is evil. Period.
Nice thoughts, Dan. :0)
I’m less naive than I used to be, now that I’ve encountered an evil person. I doubt I’ll ever trust that particular person again. And yet I hold out some hope that he’ll change his ways.
I do make it a point to be nice to people whose job it is to serve me. I’ve been there. And if the economy gets worse I may be there again someday.
Don’t take this the wrong way, but I didn’t know you wrote posts like this. I always just thought they were for the quick comment.
That being said, awesome post. Its crazy what meeting people can do to you, as a person. I recently met someone who had the worst childhood I could ever imagine, my heart bleeds for him. Yet, he tells no one, NO ONE, about his past. Instead he puts on a rugged facade and takes the world by the balls. However, the pain he experiences inside every single day would be enough for me to shoot myself in the head, but he doesn’t.
It taught me, even more than ever before, not to judge a book by its cover. Ever. I think your post covered that quite well.
Very interesting perspectives.
One of your best posts.
Thanks for adding me as a friend, Ben
I think people are just people. and we do good or evil things but it doesn’t define us.
I wanna be just like you when I’m older.
good point but terrible writing. ha
The Truth of Life, thanks for sharing!
i like this post.
@suggestivetongue - Exactly.
I enjoyed reading this, very interesting. It makes me want to meet a couple of strangers too.
Beautiful post!
I thoroughly enjoyed this.. Thank you..
The grass may look greener, but it’s really what’s behind closed doors.
#3. The evil– He probably did have a conscience. Isn’t that why he probably shot himself? Because he could no longer live with himself knowing all that he had done. What would we have said to him if he was on xanga and posted an “I’m planning suicide” post?
I’d rather not label people as good and evil. Each one of us is capable of BOTH.
My whole comment might sound very #6ish but oh well…
happy belated birthday
profound….
I loved this post. Many life lessons indeed
*M*
This is a very good post.
Number 5 is so true. I think being nice goes a LONG way. Since I work at a place where I meet new people all the time and am around them alot, I feel better when they’re nice to me and vice versa. There’s no reason to be rude. If they are, I try to be nice though it is rather difficult for me.
Good post.
i wholeheartedly agree with number 5.
Excellent post! I always enjoy your occasional thoughtful, personal posts.
When I was dating guys, I always kept an eye on how they treated waiters and people they’d probably never meet again. It’s an excellent way to judge someone’s character. Something that I always liked about my husband was how nice he is to waiters (and everyone, honestly). We were at Macaroni Grill the other day and the waiter didn’t know a couple of things we asked and confessed it was his first week working there. He was doing a really good job, though, and really trying hard. He was gracious, friendly and professional. My husband was all, “Really? You’re doing a really good job. I wouldn’t have guessed you were new.” It was true. Except for the fact that he wasn’t a walking Macaroni Grill encyclopedia, you’d think he’d been working there for months. I wrote “is awesome!” after the waiter’s name on the paper tablecloth. I hope he saw it.
We can’t afford to eat out together more than once or twice a month, but when we do, we do make sure to be nice even if stuff gets messed up (It usually isn’t the waiter’s fault if something goes wrong) and leave a substantial tip with 20% being the bare minimum.
It’s funny how abusers look so nice from the outside.
Good post
@Paul_Partisan - Neither did I…
@DistantStarlight - I always take 5-10 cents per WAITER screw up from the tip. Not, “Oh your food is going to take forever”, but things like putting ice in your soft drink when you ask twice for no ice, stuff like that.
I don’t feel very douchie about it because I live in CA, and here, food service still gets minimum wage. When I’m out of state, I always tip full, because other states don’t have to give food service minimum wage, and that is literally their livelihood.
I’m always polite to them. The thing is, one mistake won’t hurt the tip much, but making a bunch of mistakes will, and that’s the point.
@royal_diadem - If my abuser killed himself, it wouldn’t be because he felt bad for what he did to me. It’d probably be for some selfish reason like he felt like he had nowhere to go. Some people really DON’T have a conscience about abuse, simply because they justify it away in their heads (“you made me do it”), or because it happened to them and they don’t see why it shouldn’t happen to other people.
If you say that some people are evil, does it mean that you support death penalty? You are saying that there are those who are aligned towards evil, and evil is unacceptable in the society, to eliminate evil, does it mean that you have to kill them? I think that there are people who do more things consciously to hurt other people, but we all unconsciously hurt many people. In the end, we are only talking about happiness (or benefit). Acts which result in a “negative” value of happiness in total are what people consider “evil”. But I don’t think there are evil people, only evil deeds, but even the distinction between good and evil can only be identified by the strong. The weak, in reality, have little right on this matter.
@Mangonese - ”If my abuser killed himself, it wouldn’t be because he felt bad for what he did to me.”
How do you know about that?
I tend to enjoy the majority of your posts, but I think this might be one of my very favorites.
Good post.. I have realized a lot by this age too.. I am 43! One is.. yes..there are just evil people in this world. AND I can sense they are… I also realized I get “bad vibes” from some people.. I too..have cared for the dying.. I was a nursing assistant after college..worked in nursing homes with various jobs for 17 years.. work in a hospital now.. i see about 140 people on average a day at where I work (registration) and I swear…. people are freaky soemtimes.. they just freak me out… I really love to hide from people when I am off from work anymore..
i crave nice, normal, healthy smart people tell me where I can meet some! LOL
about above comment.. I DO believe in purely evil people.. regardless of their past..some are seriously born evil..no conscience, no remorse, no guilt, no feelings..and they don’t care.. they are out there.in this world..lots of them too.
oh and.. I prefer to just stay away from evil people..they will always be part of this world.. just stay away.
I like this post more than any of your others. But I believe all people have the opportunity to be good and evil. I don’t think my actions in the past will guide those in the future. Anyone who thinks they’re unable to commit evil deeds is naive.
@PervyPenguin - I agree with this.
I really enjoyed this post! I hope to one day have half as much experience as you do!
This post was amazing
It seems everybody has two-face….rather we’ll admit it or not. It takes discipline and will power to be as consistent as possible. I have to say I really want to kick myself when I failed to recognize when someone is putting up a front so just they can get their way and once they have their way, it’s a completely different person…
“There was a woman at church that had a baby outside of wedlock. Years
later people could see the visible proof of her mistakes.”
This past of your post really stands out to me along with the rich man who had a thin wife who loved her anyway. Really? He loved her anyway? And really ~ people could see proof of her mistakes? Really? OMG this just makes me want to scream and pull out my hair. So if I am fat and have children without MRS. in front of my name I could still be loved and not considered evil? Hell, I MIGHT even be thought of as worthy of being counted among the human race? Maybe I’m reading this the wrong way but it sounds like a whole lot of hypocritical judgmental bs to me. Oh aren’t we so lofty when we can stand and look down on others and deem them acceptable or not.
Thank you for the beautiful sermon on who is good and who is evil. Let me crawl back under my rock until it is time for me to be judged and others can cast stones who are better than I………..
@Mangonese - conscience or no conscience, this person had serious issues. i recognize that and i have compassion for him despite some of his actions, which people use to assign the label of “evil.” i see abuse as symptoms of a bigger problem not as the problem itself.
word.
Finally…a post with substance! Bravo!
I guess I am naive, because I while I do recognize evil when I see it, I would never presume to know the state of anyone’s conscience.
I like this one. Thanks, Dan.
This is one of the best things you’ve ever posted Dan.
Hope you do something similar again.
i ‘love’ those posts/ statements that proclaim, ‘hitler and all of us WILL be welcomed into heaven’. my first thot is, well i guess your vision of heaven differs from mine. second i think, ohhhh , you have no strong moral base and don’t want one, and don’t want anyone telling you something maybe bad or wrong. i am 49 and i can sight examples too. like once i was selling magazine subscriptions, at 16 years of age, before the preists were found out in ‘mass’, that pedofiles were rampant among them. as i was walking through this neghborhood, what a young(ten maybe) boy asked me to please do to him, turned my stomach. i wont say what he said, but he said it like he was asking for a jelly sandwich, which made it all the more horrific. evil, as we define it, is out there.
Interesting experiences. Well done Dan.
Great blog.
Great Post!! =)
Good lessons to learn.
Really insightful & awesome post!!
@rain24u - I meant to say the rich man who had an overweight wife…and I am still pissed at this categorizing, judemental, bordering on holier than thou view of people. btw if someone is naive, they do eventually realize when they have been mistreated by someone. Just because they are naive does not mage them imbeciles. the world according to you….pretty narrowminded
A well-written, thought-provoking post. If you are indeed only 38, then you are wise beyond your years. I’m 52 and wish I didn’t need all that explained to me.
I like this.
What you wrote was beautiful here in a way.
good post.
interesting post, but this: “Be nice to people with no real motive.”
just because someone is a waiter or waitress doesn’t make them a person with no motive…
Great post :]
“I met a guy who was physically abusing his wife. He was very active in
church. He was a church leader. I found out what he was doing to his
wife and I talked to her. I asked her, “I have reason to believe your
husband is physically abusing you. Is there some way I can help?” She
didn’t say anything for for about 30 seconds. Then she told me “no.”
So I left it at that. She was always nice to me. She had a kind
heart. She told me he never hurt the children. They had 4 children.
One day he was sitting at home alone and he shot himself in the head. “
I think you’re very much confusing “mentally ill” with “evil.” The man was undoubtedly rather deranged and most likely experiencing some form of acute internal suffering. While still ultimately responsible for his own actions, designating him as evil and leaving it at that is at the very least, incredibly naive or academically negligent.
<3 when dan -actually- posts
I think all people are inherently evil. Some more so than others.
Your part about the waiter made me think of something I want to post on though!
Good post.
i can relate to this, i’m the naive kind… its hard being that kind of person. great post.
I agree with “The Evil” as I’ve experienced it myself. I agree with “The Naive” as I am one myself. Not many people will agree or admit who or what they really are. Would you term them “The Denial”?
This post was really beautiful.
This is one post i read of yours, that i actually liked.
@nowayout001 - Uhm, because he’s my father and he has done it my whole life and he justifies it away, feels no guilt, has told me so, and claims everything is MY fault. So yeah. Pretty sure he feels no guilt about what he does.
@rain24u - I think you are just angry because you feel offended because you feel bad about yourself for possibly being over weight. Everyone makes judgements in their heads, it just comes natural, and you’d be naive if you don’t think so. It’s just what human nature is, not judging in a bad way, just noticing your surroundings. He is definitley not the only person to wonder why a handsome man is with a less attractive woman. Maybe it’s because they wish they were with him. People are going to think what they think, and if you are secure in your relationship then who cares what others say. I agree it is asshole-ish if they actually said that to your face, but fuck em if your man agree’s with them, then he is not worth your time!
and clearly he is sharing this because he learned these lessons and once he did not accept people or misunderstood them and judged them, but now understood why different people are the way they are… and all you have to say is that he is a bad person himself when he has clearly learned? you clearly haven’t
No.5 is very true.
I hope you care about the black people.
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@suggestivetongue - Sincerity is a much admired trait in people. Fake that and you got it made.
I agree that judging folks by the way they treat waiters/waitresses is a good indication of their character. I think another good way to judge folks is by the way they treat dogs, and animals in general.
The Golden Rule still applies, but some things are not as they seem~so true.
nice post. It’s great that you could identify what you can learn from meeting different people.
@hungerx33 - you know…i could just laugh at your attempt to either put me in my place, pass judgment on me, or project your insecurities on to me…but I won’t laugh because I think maybe somewhere in there you are just hurting. You can’t possibly know me from my one response to this post.I’ve got nothing to prove to you. Let’s just say I am an evil, grossly obese, naive ex-convict, married to a thin rich black man who married me because I was a religious young woman who had the nerve to become pregnant out of wedlock and I mistreat waiters, waitresses, and cab drivers on my journey towards death. How’s that? All better now? If you have anything else you want to accuse me of, bring it on cause I really don’t care.blah.
Wait ’til you meet greedy poor people, we usually don’t think of that. Your right about rich people money makes you more of who you are.
I don’t rec posts that often Dan but I reced this one.
I really loved this!
Awww. I loved the rich man thing. I wish I felt that valued by my SO sometimes… Don’t get me wrong, he’s good to me… But there are just some things I wish he did differently. You know? I don’t feel valued or like he really thinks how things will effect me before himself. He’s recently started to try and improve, but it’s still a battle. But we still love each other.
I look forward to this learning experience with him.
2 Timothy 3
Godlessness in the Last Days
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But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days.
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People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
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without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,
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treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God—
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having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them.
6They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over weak-willed women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, 7always learning but never able to acknowledge the truth. 8Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these men oppose the truth—men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected. 9But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their folly will be clear to everyone.
Wow Dan, and just when I thought all of you posts were about boobs or various Best-Bodypart Contests. …This post is fantastic o-O
Amazing post. :] I think one of the most important things to remember is that what you see on the surface is only the surface..
@Roadlesstaken - I’m absolutely with you for that. :] I’d be furious if a guy I was with was treating the server poorly.
Also… I’m really not sure what to think here. This seems all too
judgmental. or is it just me?
@PervyPenguin - Thank you for saying that. I was hoping someone SOMEONE and not just myself was thinking that too.
Really, evil? for lack of a better word?
#5 is really important to me. I believe the same way. It is the same with the ideology (actually Jesus’) How easy is it to love a friend or someone who cares for you and serves you?!? Simple. But to love an enemy, now that is a true test of character. If someone cannot even show a modicum of respect and care to a person who is serving them, then they are not someone I want to be around. In fact, that is a definite deal breaker in someone I am looking to date.
With all the things you have done/seen, you should write a book!
best post of yours i’ve read in a long time…^^