Labels

Labels for good, not for control. Can a long term record of labels be guaranteed to be used for good and not control?  Now they are in charge, can we trust them with that? Permanent records better than reconciliation? No.

Use a song, a painting, a comment an artist wrote years ago against them? No. Use something against people society didn’t put the proper safe guards in place to prevent? No.

Don’t throw Mrs. Spears under the bus.  She’s got a family too now. Can CEOs and record labels make mistakes too getting their content out to the wrong people? Yes. What is the problem with gossip? It can take words meant for one person and be broadcast to the wrong people in the wrong way. Surveillance can add value, and it can subtract it as well. Sit and watch and don’t help? Can I make the best of it? Yes. Should we have to? No. Give them the surveillance equipment and not the support to help? Take away their funds then make them look at that. That hurts. A fighter without punches? Not much of a fighter. A swimmer without water? Not much of a swimmer. A swimmer with his feet and arms tied and a piece of duct tape over their mouth? Let’s not let that happen.

Levels. Permanent labels make people sink. A man without hope. A scary sight to behold. They were the enemy and now the battle is over. Make the best of them.

If I were in trouble I might paint myself in whatever light could save the most lives. Most feel the same. They deserve the benefit of the doubt. Surveillance ok, long term labels, no. I suppose I wait until the unmerciful get on the same page. Mercy, maybe they didn’t make it this far in the book, maybe the book had cyber security errors. Nobody would ever take over a printing press? I am writing this in here, will it get out knowing I am having problems with the platform?

Partial surveillance? Couldn’t have missed something? Death penalty not so ideal. The Door 3 is a pretty amazing app. Wouldn’t be much fun to be a judge that couldn’t go back and erase something until too late in the life.

Permanent labels and only indirect support can make you feel like a ghost. Would be nice to get some of this info to people in darker places in the world.

Don’t be a bartender there. What’s the cause and what’s the effect? Don’t change things from the way they are. What’s the cause and what’s the effect? Don’t support that guy. What’s the cause and what’s the effect? Love your enemy. Let them go there? What’s the cause and what’s the effect. Long term medical problems. What’s the cause and what’s the effect? Don’t watch video game trailers? “Cause and Effect” – Crysis trailer. Long term oppression? What’s the cause and what’s the solution? How can I help? A solution without leaving someone in a box. Sign me up.

Beauty takes different forms. Someone with make up is a form of artist. Don’t promote that? What’s the cause and what’s the effect? Don’t give a plastic surgeon practice? What’s the cause and what’s the effect? A person that looks a bit outrageous to make me look better? No value in that? I think there is. Make everyone fit the same mold? Sounds pretty boring to me. Don’t give a teacher students? Bad can come from that. Society doesn’t need to help with student loans? Let them carry that? No. I have enough resources currently to make a meaningful impact? Not alone. How can I add support? I am painting, writing music, and testing products. No mercy for that?

Take it all on alone? Wise? Don’t take it all on alone? Wiser? Put it on Christ and not worry about it. Make others pay the price again? Not how He would have wanted it. Take away hope, faith, and love by labeling people as evil? Sounds like a problem to me. Misguided. Opportunities. Wiser. How can I help? Wiser. Love regardless? Wiser. Mercy? Wisdom. Not woman is dumb. Cupcake? You don’t like the nice ones? He compared me to a cat. Have you seen how they string him along? Bad boys get the woman? No damage in that? Give them what they want? Won’t make for much of a fighter. Give them nothing they want? How does that feel. No shit test? Nothing but shit tests? No balance? Cause and effect. You appreciate what you don’t have to work for? Dogs love you regardless. Are men no better than dogs?

Maybe I like cats because I like working for affection. Maybe I like dogs because they are there to pick up my spirits on a bad day. Are people animals? No. Can we learn from them? Yes. Maybe I like birds because I don’t want people caged. Because they are pretty and I like to see them fly. Pick every flower? Leave none to brighten other’s days? Pick none and leave them to wilt away? Blot out the sun so they can’t grow. No. Shit tests can help people grow? Be careful with that. Levels matter. Don’t teach people the correct levels? That does damage. Let them live a perfect life? Perfection leads to mercy? Don’t let them get something right? Damage in that too. Shit happens, maybe better to leave the tests for another day.

How do you want to be treated? Able to fight when the oppression hits? God can’t give us the strength at the right time? It wasn’t supposed to happen that way? No need for preparation? No need to be able to enjoy the time we have now? People see this and don’t act in different ways? All on my team? Maybe not. Better to still think the best of them? Yes. They did it differently. I am cool with that. Levels, shit tests better left to the lab, the classroom, the weight room, and the ring? They are taking that too far, only tell them sideways? Too far for who? Meant for who? Doesn’t matter? Getting in the middle of that? Wise? They could hurt someone else. Don’t speak up? It would hurt them. So don’t speak up? They don’t have the resources to fix the problem so they prayed about it. Wise. Leave God(not me) out of the equation. Not wise.

Don’t give me this information early on? What problem could it not cause? Would they read it or understand it early on? No need for English teachers? No need for translators? No need to learn to read? No need to learn to write? Do it all alone? Makes a leader and a fighter. Want to be one? Not anymore. Promote only those that want to lead? Wouldn’t be very merciful to the people. They got there by choice? Careful what you wish for.

A janitor could be a leader? Everything is obvious? Undercover bosses? No need to be careful with speech? No need to teach speech? No need to teach politics? No need to learn what it feels like to fire a gun? Having an understanding helped me understand the power and the problems. No need to understand the effects of different medications and drugs? Judge them without that. Wise? If they experimented don’t let them in. Problems. Oppression by design.

Know it all without the resources and support to fix the problem? Painful. Opportunities. Do the best you can with what you got? Wisdom in that, mercy in that, faith required for that. A reason for forgiveness. Love them even if they won’t love you back? Even if it doesn’t look like they still love you? Yes. Love doesn’t mean sex in all cases? True. No need to say that? I prayed about it.

No need just to call something shit? It didn’t happen right. We’ll make due. I want more than pictures on a screen. They don’t? They don’t want more than a cage? An impasse, a unbreakable roadblock? God will provide the ram when He is ready. Until then. Maybe God won’t save the day until we know how little power we actually have. Doesn’t all make sense. I will leave that in God’s hands. I will leave that in the hands of the nations, and people, and machines that have the resources to breakthrough. If you want more from me tell me directly. Until then. He gave up. He tapped out. Maybe that is all God was waiting for.