These type of stories leave me with mixed emotions. You have a building that fell into disrepair and a few people have a vision to bring it back to life. It happens. That’s great. Then another group wants to seize control of it and tells lies about those who brought the building back to life. Not good. Ideally there should be a polite meeting of the two groups to come to somekind of agreement. One with legal counsel on both sides to get something in writing. As you say, we no longer live in a polite society. Especially since the Covid era abuses and lies from 2020 to 2022. Almost nothing is considered unacceptable behavior any longer.
Naivete about the human condition doesn't help. 'The Powerful Ones' don't want a heart to heart polite meeting...They want what they want and often get it. Rowing clubs are elite for most people, so most people don't relate to the situation. This is the devil's playground...Always has been if you look back into forbidden Spiritual history...The Biblical Sophia and her accidental creation of a Demi-urge who thinks it is God but is ignorant, selfish, isolated and miscreates everything it touches...That is whose image and likeness humanity is made in...Not the eternal Source. Our Spirits are of eternal Source, but not our human, physical forms and not our 'governments'.
In the last 100 years alone, governments have murdered over 100,000,000 people, many more before that...The Bible is full of OT genocidal god(s) who require gold, virgins, livestock, sacrifice, etc. That is the nature of this world. Only by consciously returning to the Real God can we move in a holy direction...It takes a LOT of work and most are not even aware of the work, let alone willing to undertake it.😎
If it's the water, then why doesn't everybody have the same greeds? It's a Spiritual problem, not a physical one...humanity is doomed to cycle through the same old dramas until we repent (change our minds) and choose anew...And we can't choose for another, only ourselves... but we can affect the collective, as more (if more) wake up and choose anew!
Not talking religion, here...talking about Spirituality.
'Re'=again...'ligion' from ligare meaning-'to bind'...To re-bind...We ALL rebind ourselves to something or someone every day...so we ALL have re-ligion of some sort.
Don't expect righteousness from unconscious people...only we (as individual aspects of God) can choose to become conscious (painfully, slowly, repetitively) and make different choices!
I am 69, up to my neck in health problems, (heart and back)...a lawsuit for trimming trees out of our community roadway...recovering from dealing with my 90 year old Mom's estate and 70 years of hoarding...Making new rental contracts for the property for some deserving people who don't have the means to purchase at this time...etc.
If I don't 'give it to God' it will consume me, but giving it to God is not so easy from my deeply programmed humanoid 'reality'. I'm committed to it. That is all I can say.
I met Larry Hagman the day he auditioned for Dallas. Ironically, he wore a priest's collar to the audition. Not sure if that was prophetic or not. From priest to wealthy wheeler dealer.
Later, was able to spend more time with him when I produced a commercial for Schlitz for a Dallas agency. (I was LA based.)
Wonderful theme. Rather than buy a six pack of the beer, he was going to buy the entire brewery.
Nice man. Decent man. Met his mom as well at his place. The original Peter Pan.
John, sad to hear, and sad to say, I doubt this episode of greed, envy, shamelessness, is in any way unique or symptomatic of our day or Dallas's culture, just the bile of human waste of Godlessness, knowing full well that our culture has been captured by acquisitiveness (in all its forms) to a degree not experienced since Gomorah.
After my first visit to Dallas in the late 1970s, I told my sister (resident there) that I'd never seen a place with more churches, but so many soulless creatures.
A line in Easy Rider (1969) goes like this: "We blew it!" So, if one had to formulate the line’s meaning, they would discover that neither the old American Dream nor their improvised countercultural substitute has yielded real freedom. They have “blown” the possibility of transforming their wealth, privilege, and historical moment into something genuinely liberating.(https://www.youtube.com/watchv=rMbATaj7Il8&list=RDMM&index=5)
Your readers should know that Highland Park is a one mile square town inside Dallas limits that is home to the ultra rich. My uncle lived there in a modest home for many years starting in 1901. My cousins went to school with the Hunt brothers and so many other ultra rich. Dallas Country Club is exclusive! They have the power and the money. My uncles modest home on a 75 foot lot was sold, torn down and a mansion was built on the property. His modest house and land sold for 1.5 million.
Not everyone (including my family) in HP was ultra rich when I was growing up, though a few were. The guys who built the town had good taste and the vision to found a top independent school district, which has drawn in a fair number of “McMansion” people.
I worked with an older gentleman 45 years ago that grew up in HP in late 1920’s and 30’s.
He told me that at the time many in HP were middle to upper middle class in addition to the wealthy. His father was a successful salesman of a product I can’t remember.
He was a very wise and intelligent man who observed life in its entirety. I learned a lot from him as I was newly married and just graduated college. I learned much from all my older co workers as well.
Reminds me of the way indigenous folk lived, before "civilization"... take what they can by any means possible, kill off the opposition, take their women, children, and canoes. Repeat if necessary. Year after year, decade after decade, centuries after centuries. The "civilized" world is about to experience this same phenomena on a grand scale, and Canadian "prime minister" Carney says he will lead the charge, right into a "new world order". After stealing everyone's private property. Nothing new under the sun.
C'est tourjours la meme chose...Do the work and fix up something to make it nice...and people will come out of the woodwork to go after it. Those who didn't do the work, should not be able to claim it.
I think says as much about the type of entitled, arrogant, rude and obnoxious boobs that emanate from the greater Chicago area. No, not all. But in the world of stereotypes, my absolute least favorite brand of human. Enough to elicit a visceral reflux every time I see an Illinois license plate polluting our beautiful desert. Their special brand of douchebaggery is easily recognized in this story.
Drove by the place after my last visit to the Arboretum. Had no idea I was passing through a war zone. Good luck with resolving the conflict. As you note, we seem to be living through an era of classless people with aggressive streaks. In McKinney we just watched that unfold in a City Council hearing.
John, I thought I would share a hilarious YouTube video not related to anything other than your writing career and the ironies of the English language. Enjoy. Phil
we passed through Dallas a few years ago to visit some friends who now go to highland Park Presbyterian Church and they brought us with them to that Church one Sunday morning in December 2023. I was blown away by the size of the place and the infrastructure they had built. it was very obvious to me that there was big money in highland Park that could build a place like that. I had heard of highland Park Presbyterian Church for many years before I finally got to visit. it seems it's one of the great Presbyterian churches in the United States.
These type of stories leave me with mixed emotions. You have a building that fell into disrepair and a few people have a vision to bring it back to life. It happens. That’s great. Then another group wants to seize control of it and tells lies about those who brought the building back to life. Not good. Ideally there should be a polite meeting of the two groups to come to somekind of agreement. One with legal counsel on both sides to get something in writing. As you say, we no longer live in a polite society. Especially since the Covid era abuses and lies from 2020 to 2022. Almost nothing is considered unacceptable behavior any longer.
Naivete about the human condition doesn't help. 'The Powerful Ones' don't want a heart to heart polite meeting...They want what they want and often get it. Rowing clubs are elite for most people, so most people don't relate to the situation. This is the devil's playground...Always has been if you look back into forbidden Spiritual history...The Biblical Sophia and her accidental creation of a Demi-urge who thinks it is God but is ignorant, selfish, isolated and miscreates everything it touches...That is whose image and likeness humanity is made in...Not the eternal Source. Our Spirits are of eternal Source, but not our human, physical forms and not our 'governments'.
In the last 100 years alone, governments have murdered over 100,000,000 people, many more before that...The Bible is full of OT genocidal god(s) who require gold, virgins, livestock, sacrifice, etc. That is the nature of this world. Only by consciously returning to the Real God can we move in a holy direction...It takes a LOT of work and most are not even aware of the work, let alone willing to undertake it.😎
Aggressive and ruthless people are almost always self-righteous as well, which makes some especially dangerous
I agree the evil out there is so deep and pervasive it would be unbelievable to almost all people.
Almost?
Always would suffice.
Wasn't that a TV show about JR Ewing? Maybe something in the water down there?
I have often wondered the same!
If it's the water, then why doesn't everybody have the same greeds? It's a Spiritual problem, not a physical one...humanity is doomed to cycle through the same old dramas until we repent (change our minds) and choose anew...And we can't choose for another, only ourselves... but we can affect the collective, as more (if more) wake up and choose anew!
Not talking religion, here...talking about Spirituality.
'Re'=again...'ligion' from ligare meaning-'to bind'...To re-bind...We ALL rebind ourselves to something or someone every day...so we ALL have re-ligion of some sort.
Don't expect righteousness from unconscious people...only we (as individual aspects of God) can choose to become conscious (painfully, slowly, repetitively) and make different choices!
I am 69, up to my neck in health problems, (heart and back)...a lawsuit for trimming trees out of our community roadway...recovering from dealing with my 90 year old Mom's estate and 70 years of hoarding...Making new rental contracts for the property for some deserving people who don't have the means to purchase at this time...etc.
If I don't 'give it to God' it will consume me, but giving it to God is not so easy from my deeply programmed humanoid 'reality'. I'm committed to it. That is all I can say.
Blessings, Robert😊
That's a reply befitting a Sunday sermon. Thanks!
I met Larry Hagman the day he auditioned for Dallas. Ironically, he wore a priest's collar to the audition. Not sure if that was prophetic or not. From priest to wealthy wheeler dealer.
Later, was able to spend more time with him when I produced a commercial for Schlitz for a Dallas agency. (I was LA based.)
Wonderful theme. Rather than buy a six pack of the beer, he was going to buy the entire brewery.
Nice man. Decent man. Met his mom as well at his place. The original Peter Pan.
John, sad to hear, and sad to say, I doubt this episode of greed, envy, shamelessness, is in any way unique or symptomatic of our day or Dallas's culture, just the bile of human waste of Godlessness, knowing full well that our culture has been captured by acquisitiveness (in all its forms) to a degree not experienced since Gomorah.
After my first visit to Dallas in the late 1970s, I told my sister (resident there) that I'd never seen a place with more churches, but so many soulless creatures.
A line in Easy Rider (1969) goes like this: "We blew it!" So, if one had to formulate the line’s meaning, they would discover that neither the old American Dream nor their improvised countercultural substitute has yielded real freedom. They have “blown” the possibility of transforming their wealth, privilege, and historical moment into something genuinely liberating.(https://www.youtube.com/watchv=rMbATaj7Il8&list=RDMM&index=5)
(https://mises.org/mises-wire/when-progress-turns-against-itself-rise-anti-progress)
The acquisition of large sums of money does not necessarily make people less trashy
"our society is conspicuously long on money, self-assertiveness, and striving, but increasingly short on class." Too right
Sadly, examples illustrating your statement abound in our society.
Your readers should know that Highland Park is a one mile square town inside Dallas limits that is home to the ultra rich. My uncle lived there in a modest home for many years starting in 1901. My cousins went to school with the Hunt brothers and so many other ultra rich. Dallas Country Club is exclusive! They have the power and the money. My uncles modest home on a 75 foot lot was sold, torn down and a mansion was built on the property. His modest house and land sold for 1.5 million.
Not everyone (including my family) in HP was ultra rich when I was growing up, though a few were. The guys who built the town had good taste and the vision to found a top independent school district, which has drawn in a fair number of “McMansion” people.
I worked with an older gentleman 45 years ago that grew up in HP in late 1920’s and 30’s.
He told me that at the time many in HP were middle to upper middle class in addition to the wealthy. His father was a successful salesman of a product I can’t remember.
He was a very wise and intelligent man who observed life in its entirety. I learned a lot from him as I was newly married and just graduated college. I learned much from all my older co workers as well.
Wished they were still around to learn from.
Did you go to high school with Clint Murchison boys? HP is a very desirable place to live and the rich and famous keep moving in.
Reminds me of the way indigenous folk lived, before "civilization"... take what they can by any means possible, kill off the opposition, take their women, children, and canoes. Repeat if necessary. Year after year, decade after decade, centuries after centuries. The "civilized" world is about to experience this same phenomena on a grand scale, and Canadian "prime minister" Carney says he will lead the charge, right into a "new world order". After stealing everyone's private property. Nothing new under the sun.
C'est tourjours la meme chose...Do the work and fix up something to make it nice...and people will come out of the woodwork to go after it. Those who didn't do the work, should not be able to claim it.
I think says as much about the type of entitled, arrogant, rude and obnoxious boobs that emanate from the greater Chicago area. No, not all. But in the world of stereotypes, my absolute least favorite brand of human. Enough to elicit a visceral reflux every time I see an Illinois license plate polluting our beautiful desert. Their special brand of douchebaggery is easily recognized in this story.
Drove by the place after my last visit to the Arboretum. Had no idea I was passing through a war zone. Good luck with resolving the conflict. As you note, we seem to be living through an era of classless people with aggressive streaks. In McKinney we just watched that unfold in a City Council hearing.
John, I thought I would share a hilarious YouTube video not related to anything other than your writing career and the ironies of the English language. Enjoy. Phil
https://youtu.be/fCkxcgVCjx0?is=uqoUAlYyvQVQTZ4e
location, location, location... The biggest WATER resource near the heart of Dallas, WHO wouldn't be interested.... New AI centers?
And this extrapolates to all of Western society.
Maybe this explains it https://robertyoho.substack.com/p/464-enshittification-how-the-globalists?r=r6ahu&utm_medium=ios
"...our society is conspicuously long on money, self-assertiveness, and striving, but increasingly short on class."
You got that right.
we passed through Dallas a few years ago to visit some friends who now go to highland Park Presbyterian Church and they brought us with them to that Church one Sunday morning in December 2023. I was blown away by the size of the place and the infrastructure they had built. it was very obvious to me that there was big money in highland Park that could build a place like that. I had heard of highland Park Presbyterian Church for many years before I finally got to visit. it seems it's one of the great Presbyterian churches in the United States.
Whitt rhymes with another word that is pretty descriptive.