Posted on 02/20/2014 9:38:04 PM PST by Daffynition
Former “Dirty Jobs” host Mike Rowe narrates a powerful new commercial released Thursday and it contains one powerful message: “Work is a beautiful thing.”
Who’s it for? Walmart.
“At one time I made things and I took pride in the things I made, and my belts whirred, and my engines cranked,” Rowe says in the video, delivering a monologue from the perspective of the factory as related images flash across the screen. “I opened my doors to all and together we filled pallets and trucks. I was mighty. And then one day the gears stopped turning.”
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The jobs and companies go where they are the most welcome and can save the most money. That is not America anymore. Walmart is simply filling a niche that people require.
Pray America wakes up
The proof will be when Walmart lives up to the hype.
Bingo. (Bold and big.)
I fear that most people who have been repeating that verse only think of it in terms of standards of public decency.
I don't see how anyone could come to that conclusion — it's obviously talking about [the state of] the heart of God's people, as evidenced by their actions.
Socialism
I had occasion to look at an old file in the law firm I worked for. It was from, I don’t know, probably the very early 1980s, maybe a little older.
It was a file that pertained to a trust.
I saw 2 things that blew my mind. The first was a beautiful example of “statistical typing” which used to be a thing before spreadsheets.
The other was the info which was so neatly presented: the holdings of the trust. American Can, American Glass, American This, American That on and on for pages and pages.
We used to MAKE things in this country and it wasn’t really that long ago.
My wife would disagree.
I do come to that conclusion by actually observing contemporary “Christian activism.”
You’d think it would be every imaginative form of evangelism possible!
Nope it ain’t. Instead we see folks like Todd Starnes glumly mourning how sinners are, in fact, now honestly acting like they are going to hell.
I’ve got a different vision, Shark, and one that I assert is from heaven. I’m writing evangelistic songs and seeking to get them out there in the mainstream. Songs that will put our blenderized hallelujahs to shame by comparison. Songs that I wish every song writer in Christendom would produce... some of the old hymns come close in spirit, but they tend to the churchy venacular. I’m trying to breach that boundary.
on one niner show some restraint or at least applaud the thunder
Roger that. Only time will tell. LOL! Who’s keepin’ score on their spending? Probably hire some Chinese accounting firm.
Awesome / Godspeed.
I wish I had such a vision from heaven — but I do not. Sometimes it seems like the things I like/am-passionate-about are not particularly valued; so I might disregard even such a vision if I did have it as being mere flight of fancy.
Your post dredges up one of my deepest laments, having long-standing family ties with manufacturing in *The Hardware Capital of the World.*
True. And it wasn’t that long ago. :(
Thank you, I don’t want to be your enemy or anybody else’s enemy, even when I disagree — I only want to be the enemy of misperceptions and untruths. Or lies, as the bible puts it (rooted in the hoodoos that the devil perpetrates, starting with the fall of mankind in which all our souls willingly participated).
If we all could starkly know that God is love and just how He manifests it, we’d be in a far better condition.
There would be some awkward moments for us as we unlearned old ways of coping. We’ve been so busy damning that we haven’t thought about how to bless. But Christ makes no bones about it. Bless our enemies, those who curse us.
That doesn’t mean yield senselessly, and God provides protection for us. We might have to learn just how far to go till we realize we’re casting pearls before swine and need to stop because it will cease to do any good. But that might be way further than our current comfort zone. The cross is deeply symbolic of the sorts of sacrifices we will find ourselves making. If we want a nice earthly life, then Christ isn’t the way to go. But happily, it doesn’t end with carrying a cross, it ends with participation in the resurrection.
Why did you turn this in to relgion thread?
And you know... because I learned not to give a damn (using that expression so to speak) about so many things... I got a leg up on the process of asserting my position to the world when I became a believer.
I don’t care so much what the world does not like, because it never did like me very much.
However God did love me, and He finally made it obvious.
I find it a little hard to love interpersonally, though I’m getting much better at it now. But it’s a love that comes from God having sold me on the worth of doing it. It’s a passion that takes all thoughts in obedience (more and more) to Christ, whom I still haven’t learned all I can learn about.
Walmart who pimps tens of millions of tons of cheap products every year from Communist China and other foreign third world countries, is now going to save America!
Wow...
We can’t avoid religion. It’s only a matter of what our religion will BE. And frankly, we are talking in terms that would be widely accepted across at least Judeo-Christianity, and probably more.
It ain’t going to. God might.
just to be a skink in the grass and balance the scales because if any one knows any thing about scales it is the Relgions
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