My parents told me about Mr. Common Sense early in my life and told me I would do well to call on him when making decisions. It seems he was always around in my early years but less and less as time passed by until today I read his obituary. Please join me in a moment of silence in remembrance. For Common Sense had served us all so well for many generations.
[Obituary]
Mr. Common SenseToday we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape.
He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as: 'knowing when to come in out of the rain', 'why the early bird gets the worm', 'life isn't always fair' and 'maybe it was my fault'.
Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend more than you earn) and reliable parenting strategies (adults, not children, are in charge).
His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a six-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate, teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.
Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job they, themselves failed to do in disciplining their unruly children. It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer aspirin, sun lotion or a sticky plaster to a student, but could not inform the parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.
Common Sense lost the will to live as the Ten Commandments became contraband, churches became businesses and criminals received better treatment than their victims. Common Sense took a beating when you couldn't defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault.
Common Sense finally gave up the will to live after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.
Common Sense was preceded in death by his parents, Truth and Trust, his wife, Discretion, his daughter, Responsibility and his son, Reason. He is survived by three stepbrothers, I Know my Rights, Someone Else is to Blame, and I'm a Victim.
Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone. Many folks never took the opportunity to make his acquaintance, but he is sadly missed by those of us who grew up with him.
"The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall." Cicero , 55 BC
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That pretty much says it all doesn't it.
This world is slowly sliding into a state of complete chaos. It's like the old frog in the kettle experiment where you put a frog in a pot of cool water to start and he's happy and content. Then you up the fire so the water heats very slowly so the frog doesn't even notice the change until eventually the water is boiling and the frog dies.
Society is like that now. It has slowly gotten more and more immoral over the past few decades and with little to no common sense, that it is just accepted as the norm, as if it's always been that way. So sad!
The world is slowly turning into another Saddam and Gomorrah with fewer and fewer outspoken Christians left to take a stand and say enough is enough! That's why I pray for a devout Christian President who hopefully will lead us back in the right direction.
As an old college buddy was famous for saying:
"I don't know why they call it Common Sense because it's the most Uncommon thing to find."
The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, but one must be, wrong. - Abraham Lincoln, 1862
As always you hit the nail on the head...which is using your common sense to know that the head is where you are suppose to hit it otherwise it goes sideways!
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