I am not the victim of the world I see (pay attention autism spectrum look a likes)

I have invented the world I see, for my mind is part of God’s mind.

My holiness covers everything I see and blesses the world, for there is nothing that cannot be accomplished by a Son of God. God goes with me wherever I am.

Now this uses “god” in terms of Christian speak instead of Ymar speak.

There is nothing to fear for nothing we see is real or the truth.

Julie Andrews and Carol Burnett – their friendship in many clips, but has an annoying soundtrack rather than their own dialogue and songs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWLJVHj2zio

Carol tells how she met Lucy, and how they started working together.
https://www.pbs.org/video/pioneers-television-friendship-carol-burnett-and-lucille-ball/

And the quintessential friendship: Lucy & Ethel, singing the Friendship song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IzLxk6D7WA

But they all remained friends, for their lifetimes. How sad it is that today, to keep friends, you cannot discuss religion or politics!

I started re-watching an old classic “In a Lonely Place” starring Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame, probably the best acting performances out of both actors. Grahame was married to the director at the time. While generally considered to be in the “noir” genre, the film doesn’t exactly fit in with what you’d expect, and is really a character study of Bogart’s character who’s “in a lonely place.”

Bogart’s character has only two friends, one alcoholic and another who probably would not have maintained the friendship if they weren’t bound together financially.

I love films like this where the script is very well written and has real depth. On multiple viewings, there is a great deal of character development in the first one and half acts that you can’t appreciate on the first viewing.

It occurred to me that the film has an almost female sensibility to it, and sure enough the original story was written by a woman.

When the telegraph was first invented, a journalist marveled: “With this invention, there is now no ELSEWHERE…it is all HERE.”

If wired communication reduced the sense of Elsewhere, it seems that wireless communication reduces the sense of the Here and Now.

“a long shadow lingers over the country’s otherwise bright economic outlook. It’s not a shadow cast by the trade war, volatile stocks, diminished labor-force participation, or inequality, but rather by low social capital—that is, the interpersonal relationships that generate reciprocity and a shared sense of community, and that play an important role in a healthy economy.”

But humans are social animals, just like dogs. It is not good to be alone. We are meant to run in packs.

The secular forces, ever stronger, keep trying (and usually succeeding) to put us into smaller and smaller boxes, the social equivalent of prison cells, by their false though seductive appeals to the “individual rights” of all : Box A contains one non English-speaking vegan illegal Latina lesbian minimum-wage housemaid; Box B contains one robust, plain-talking goose-hunting Midwestern Protestant tractor owner/driver corn farmer; and so on.

See a family at a restaurant meal, the children each on a cell phone, gaming or texting, while parents sit mutely. Every one of them is boxed in, without realization. The new normal.

So we become increasingly isolated while those same forces, the Elites, spur us on to have “conversations”. “Reaching out” is our new idiom for attempting to communicate with another, but doesn’t that raise the vision of reaching out thru prison bars?

I feel so good when I go to church, where I am with a small multitude of both sexes, different skin tones, immigrants and native-borns, all joined together in worship of one God, with the friendliness and mutual respect that cascades from doing so.

You will note, however, that the Elites themselves do not live the way they prescribe for us. They too are pack animals, but they succeed in maintaining their own exclusive packs. Martha’s Vineyard, Marin County, Nob Hill,etc.

>versus those who freely admit to relying on and valuing friends and being sad when they don’t have enough of them.

I value friendship, but I have to say I’m not that concern on how big my social circle is, just that it’s maintained and that I acquire new friends – if the opportunity arises – as I venture into new environments.