Good words are good even from a not-so-good source

Not really talking about yours truly, but it all depends upon your vantage point, huh? No, seems like there was something that Jimmy Swaggart once said that was pretty good. Trouble is, he got into a bit of hot water over something that made the Reverend look not so good. Perhaps the words were soon forgotten.

The words were good, though. The words were about "situational ethics". Seems like a lot of that's going around lately. "Hey, if it feels good, do it." Never mind if it is a really bad idea. Tailoring your ethics to the situation you're in is the very definition of badness. If a thing is wrong, it's wrong. It's not right just because you get something you like out of the deal.

The words were good, then. The Reverend soon afterwards was found not to be abiding by his own words. In such a scenario as that, what do you do? Do you throw out the words because the man didn't live up to them?

Or do you keep the words, and remember that everyone has their issues? That's what I mean. It might cause some not-so-good types to take heart that those who should give good examples don't always do that. But that doesn't excuse them any more than it discredits the words if the man doesn't live up to the words.

So what's good and what's bad? Let me think...

Here's another thing I thought up today. ( Oh, no!) I heard an ad that was supposed to be a sales pitch. But the sales pitch kinda struck a sour note with me. It was about something being "fast and easy". The reason that fast and easy seems sour right now is this tech tyranny. There's a lot about the internet scene that is "fast and easy". But fast and easy has its price. We're paying for a whole lot of fast and easy. Maybe things shouldn't always be so fast and so easy. You may begin to lose something in the process.

Getting a check for doing nothing is fast and easy. But then people forget that it takes effort to get the goodies that the money buys. If get a little too much of that fast and easy, you lose your interest in working. Lots of jobs out there, but nobody wants to work because of that fast and easy money.

Talking about fast, it is already the middle of May. Made me think of the song "Time passages".

I'm trying a few things out today, so this post is a little different. Maybe it will work better.

I have a lot of thoughts like these, but they get lost in the shuffle. I wrote these ideas down, and made this post from them. Maybe that will work better than losing my ideas because I tend to forget them when I get busy doing something else.

Getting lost in the shuffle is why the public probably cannot focus on any one idea for long. That's kinda of what we're dealing with in these times. Lots of things could go wrong, but the public will focus on something else tomorrow, and it gets lost in the shuffle. Some good things might get thrown out because it is too easy to forget what should be remembered.

I had another idea, but that is too much for now. This will have to do for this post.