{"id":4887,"date":"2021-06-28T19:45:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T13:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/falseducks.com\/theblahg\/?p=4887"},"modified":"2021-06-28T19:45:16","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T13:45:16","slug":"what-is-wrong-with-the-world-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/falseducks.com\/theblahg\/?p=4887","title":{"rendered":"WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE WORLD? – PART 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 \u00a0 Unlike Mel Brooks’ “History of the World, Part 1,” some things having to do with the world do get a sequel\"Scott.\u00a0 The day before Christmas in 2012 I wrote a blahg with the title WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE WORLD?<\/a> and thought I would not need to revisit the theme.\u00a0 Little did I know that almost 9 years later I would be thinking about those words again…or rather uttering them out loud.\u00a0 \u00a0I thought it was time to ask the question again and to see if my solutions have held up or if I have better ones to offer.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0My blahg last time had to do with the Sandy Hook massacre and other world issues as well as the fact that someone had hacked my website and inserted malicious code.\u00a0 Here’s what I offered up as solutions at that time:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

So what can we do to make this world a better place?\u00a0 Speak out!\u00a0 Everyone has an opinion and a voice and it\u2019s your duty to speak out against injustice and stupidity.\u00a0 Many voices raised in song have done better to heal than those who sit at the back of the room and just mouth the lyrics…The last time I checked, we are all free to be.\u00a0 Free to be whatever we wanted, believe what we wanted, worship how we wanted, love how we wanted.\u00a0 You get the message…Look at your loved ones, your relatives, your friends, and tell me you wouldn\u2019t want more time with them if it meant giving up your stubborn opinions.\u00a0 I think we all know the answer to that.\u00a0 Let\u2019s move on…<\/strong><\/em>There are some good things in this world.\u00a0 There is love and family and laughter and we need to embrace it during these troubling times.\u00a0 I don\u2019t want to be preachy but sometimes we forget to think of all we are blessed with.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n

I could go on listing all of \"What's<\/a>the problems in the world and war and death and Covid 19 but I think everyone is tired of hearing about it.\u00a0 I’d rather focus on the solutions.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0News flash.\u00a0 I don’t have any solutions.\u00a0 I thought love, laughter, and happiness were the cure-alls but many people don’t have those in their lives.\u00a0 Sometimes when I’m looking for an answer, I turn to music.\u00a0 You know a lot of my blahgs are full of music and I thought I would look at some songs that give inspiration or hope or maybe offer up some suggestions that might lead to solutions.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0I really like the artist, Sara Groves.\u00a0 I discovered her from the soundtrack to the movie “The Ultimate Gift.”\u00a0 If you want to see a really inspirational movie, check it out.\u00a0 I’m not going to use her song “Something Changed”, from that movie, in this scenario because it’s more a religious experience and one person’s religion should be that one person’s religion.\u00a0 I’ve been thinking more lately about her song “Roll To The Middle.”\u00a0 Essentially the song is about a couple who just had a huge fight and the singer is wondering how they will get beyond the hurt.\u00a0 Part of the lyrics go “All the complicated wars, they end pretty simple.\u00a0 Here when the lights go down, we roll to the middle.”\u00a0 Rolling to the middle is where we find compromise and begin to heal.\u00a0 Here’s the video to that song:\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n