What is the World Coming To?
Is anyone else as concerned with the status of the world as I am? It seems more and more that people are saying crazy things and we American’s just take them at face value no matter how insane the idea is. Also, people are allowed to get away with more and more and more these days because the “rules” our politicians are making tie our hands from solving problems.
Here are a few examples that I can think of. A man comes into our country illegally and murders some people (I don’t remember minute details such as his name or what state this occured in) we catch him and proceed to try him for murder. His country calls us, and says that because we didn’t contact that embassy (per our rule that we made) then we can’t try him and sentance him to death and we need to send him back to his country. This man has already broken one law by entering our country illegally, he then broke a second very HUGE law by killing american citizens and we are not allowed to try him and punish him for breaking our laws. How is this reasonable?
Next, there have been several unprovoked acts of violence recently and I imagine these will happen more and more frequently. One happened while a lady was out walking her dog. As she did so a man with two knives stabbed her repeatedly for no reason whatsoever after having stolen 4 knives from Texas Smokehouse and stabbing a restaurant worker. Luckily there was an off duty cop eating at a restaurant nearby who was able to stabilize the situation. The lady didn’t die and is in serious but stable condition in the hospital. Another is that a few days ago in Holladay there were about 20 cars whose windows had been smashed in for no apparent reason other then the perpetuators wanting a few kicks. Luckily the police were able to catch them when they pulled over a car who had run a stop sign. Inside the car was alcohal, broken glass, and a metal bat. Two are in the salt lake county jail while the third is in juvenile detention. It makes me a little nervous to think that I could be the victim of some unprovoked violence.
I can’t think of much else to say except that it is becoming more and more clear to me that humans, even the smartest and most intelligent humans in the world, don’t even know a small part of what our father in Heaven knows. One day we are told to drink orange juice because it fights cancer and several years later we are told it causes cancer. Another day we are told not to eat fat and later we are told that our bodies need a little bit of fat. In the 70’s we are told that we need to prepare for another ice age and here we are 30 year later being told to prepare for intense global warming (while ironically the meteorologists are predicting the coldest winter in Utah that we have had in several years). Here is what I think about all of that, Heavenly Father commands all things, he regulates the weather and the climate changes, we here just need to go with the flow of the seasons and not predict one extreme or another. We need to not do silly and extreme things to “balance” out the climate either like dump ash on the north pole or metal shavings into the ocean. We just need to be smart and use our resources wisely. Also, where food is concerned if we follow the teachings of the scriptures we can’t go wrong. Heavenly Father made our bodies, he knows what is best for them, and no well-meaning scientist who sole focus is to study the body will ever know all the things that Heavenly Father knows. So there you have it, my rant for today.