Mizzou . . . Schizophrenia and Existential-Groanings

      Have you observed reports of the activities at Mizzou this week? Pretty weird, eh? It's difficult for me to ferret out all the necessary information down at the street level to grasp the significance of the matter. But, a football team threatening to boycott a game-day! And, it would seem, that menacing possibility becoming the tipping point in the decision-making process?! People fired? Oh, well---sports money ($1,000,000 plus for a forfeiture) speaks louder apparently than values, purpose, and objectivity once again.  Perhaps, more was there than meets my eye, but good grief, what kind of self-hating, warped, forlorn soul spends time drawing swastikas, much less using feces?!

      The female communications instructor---shrill and frenetic---now fired, was absolutely ridiculous. What does she indicate about the teachers and professors our university systems are hiring---and even paying. I would certainly loved to have been one of her students!  . . . and then the "News" making judgments about the University of Missouri based upon the one video of her screaming for "muscle"? Loose connections implied between events in Ferguson and these events!  My, my, my . . .

     What can we say? Basically, nothing. The insanity of those developing events and reactions is probably suggestive of some large generalization about our society, but I believe it's even more indicative of the state of the Individual within our culture. I marvel at how empty and peripatetic we have become morally. I was a young man in the "Sixties" and am aware that the loss of "grounding," though not always bad, certainly allows for existential-groanings---but, today, we have what seems to me almost a schizophrenic populace. Definitely, one that is so Me-first in most ways that it is exclusive of all common sense---perhaps, even hope.

      Sorry, for those of you super-people who believe that we e-van-GEL-i-cals, as you so disdainfully mouth, are so stodgy and un-educated---and, yep, even stupid. I won't call you "stupid," as you call me, but I believe a good dose of the Holy Spirit [of Jesus] could cure the disease you and your fellows (sorry if that word is too political incorrect for you) are suffering. I could more easily ignore your illness if it didn't manifest itself so often in my world.

      My friends, we need each other. We need peace. We need love. We need good-will. I pray for all of this. But, I realize, as long as humans are capable of evil, we will always have problems. Lawlessness is always a danger. Hurt and pain are everywhere rampant. Disagreement and division create difficulties. What do we not need? We don't need the incredibly foolish events like those at Mizzou this past week.  When people around you do destructive things, point it our to them. Have a spine.