In a recent experiment conducted in France, an actor dressed in the poorest of clothes, took an apparent heart attack on a busy street.
He lay there, supine and unmoving for a full fifteen minutes while the crowds continued to walk past him, oblivious to his fate.
At the end of this time he rose to his feet, took off his tuque and, 'Hey Presto' was alive again, but with the point proved.
The question is an obvious one. Could that be you or me lying on the side-walk, and would we ourselves be among the crowd that walked by on the other side?
In Jesus' parable of the Good Samaritan, the man set upon by thieves was helped by a stranger. 2,000 years later in our kinder, gentler society not ONE person stopped to help a fellow traveler in distress.
We sure have come along way in our Brave New World of Social Darwinism.
Jubilate.
Ian
Earlier this year the state of Colorado made yet another step into the Brave New World and legalized marijuana.
Should it surprise us that kids are now bringing 'Sweet Mary Jane' to school and getting high in the classroom.
How can this be? Why, the little rascals are using all the new, undetectable delivery systems for the drug: nasal sprays, gum, flavored drinks and special paints for the end of their pencils.
When the teacher thinks that Johnny is chewing the end of his pen in deep concentration, he is actually in the process of getting high.
U.S. Schools. No prayer, no Bible, no Intelligent Design taught in the classrooms but drugs by the boatload, all now officially sanctioned by the State.
As I have stated before, my friends, we are living in a moral mad-house which, since the commencement of a new school term, has just become even crazier.
Jubilate.
Ian
