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Dumb: (Matt. 9:32, 33; Luke 11:14; Matt. 12:22) used to mean "unable to speak" and I'm sure these folks meant it that way. Why make such a big deal out of it? Is it worth another lawsuit to help make the cost of plane tickets go up? http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2014/03/airline-apologizes-for-insulting-deaf-and-dumb-note/

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:icon_rolleyes:  This was very clearly a use of the term "dumb" in it's proper meaning. Also, I would argue the term "dumb" meaning "mute" isn't archaic outside the domain of the PC crowd.

 

We live in both a hyper-sensitive society as well as a society that looks for reasons to claim being offended.

 

The mom, in my opinion, was out of line in calling for the firing of whoever wrote the note and in calling that person dumb with the contextual meaning that they are stupid. Of the two, the note writer and the mom, it was the note writer who used the word properly and likely with no ill intent at all while the mom clearly used the word with an insulting and attacking meaning.

 

It seems so many people today want to claim the status of being offended and then demanding attention, the actions they want, and even financial gain in many cases.

 

It's a shame the media OBviously is taking pushing the story as one of great offense and it's a shame the airline even has to issue a public apology at all.

 

Had the couple sincerely felt offended and were sincerely only interested in an apology, the private apology would have been sufficient and this matter should have never became a public news story.

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Sorry, Mohle and Huckaby, but deaf and dumb is a description that has been used for people who cannot speak, nor hear, for more than 2000 years.

Something tells me they would have been offended if the note had said, "unable to hear or speak".

The phrase "deaf and dumb" is not throwing shade. Rather, it is sound speech (no pun intended)

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The judges are infected with the same corrupted worldview as most of the rest of society is. This stuff is taught in public schools, colleges and universities across the land. Political correctness, the exalted position of those who can claim offense, the need and right to sue anyone who offends whether intentionally or not, to seek out publicity and hope it leads to at least a bit of fame and fortune.

 

It's all about me, myself and I at the expense of others.

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This is a principle reason why my FIL and I have a hard time seeing eye to eye.

 

Two of his favorite sayings are: "I'm waiting for my ship to come in" (while he has spent most of his life unemployed (by choice))... and "I'm looking for someone to sue".

 

He firmly believes that because he lives in America he is entitled to everything America has to offer at no expense to him.

 

I am 53. I've had two jOBs since I was 17: Navy (14.5 years), and my current jOB (21.5 years). He has often audibly wondered how I do it. "How do you get up every day and go to the same jOB"?

 

I've been married 26 years to this man's wonderful daughter and I still can't wrap my mind around his ethical beliefs.

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I know of people like that. My best friend in high school had a dad like that and he turned out the same way. He spent one hitch in the military, tried to get a jOB with the State police but was rejected and since then he's spent his time working the system. He's been living off of various government benefits now nearly his entire adult life.

 

Others I know are always waiting to hit the lottery, win a contest, hit it big at a casino, or find an excuse to sue someone for millions. These people will see a news story of something happening to someone who sues and gets millions and they actually carry on about how they wish that would happen to them!

 

It's especially amazing those people who do have a jOB but instead of using their income wisely, they waste a large amount gambling, drinking and smoking and then moan and groan because they have no money. These same people look at those with similar incomes to them and can't figure out why the others are doing better than they are. They just fail to comprehend.

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While we live in a state that has legalized gambling; i.e, casinos, I can honestly say I have not had a desire to go to those venues of greed. Who knows?, i could go and hit a jackpot of money. But then again, on the limited disability I get, I cannot afford to take the risk of causing myself to become even poorer.

The prOBlem is, many are driven by a heart of greed. They fail to take into account that they could walk out broke.. Many, after losing it all in casinos, resort to thievery in an attempt to get money... Just to gamble more.

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I get really annoyed when politicians and gambling proponents say that legalized gambling will bring employment and money into the area. I never bought into that argument as, to me, it has always been OBvious that the costs would far outweigh any benefit. I am usually rebuffed and told that the cost are minimal. Well recently I have done some research and here is what I have found:

 

In reviewing the literature available on gambling, the social costs typically fall into nine groups.

  1. Crime costs: Police, apprehension, adjudication, and incarceration expenditures. There is a definite connection between gambling and crime through pathological gambling, which is defined by the American Psychiatric Association in its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM IV) as “persistent and recurrent mal-adaptive gambling behavior as indicated by five (or more) of” ten items. Among these behaviors are committing illegal acts such as forgery, fraud, and theft to finance one’s gambling.
  2. Business and employment costs: Lost productivity on the jOB, lost work time, and unemployment-related employer costs (such as retraining workers or searching for replacement workers).
  3. Bankruptcy: Costs on society are typically in the form of legal and other resources expended.
  4. Suicide: Costs on families and the wider society as well as ending the life of despondent gamblers. Bear in mind that insurance policies are typically void if the person covered commits suicide.
  5. Illness related to pathological gambling: Illnesses include stress related sickness, cardiovascular disorders, anxiety, depression, and cognitive disorders.
  6. Social service costs: Unemployment, treatment costs, and other social services and payments related to gambling.
  7. Direct regulatory costs: Government oversight of gambling and the gambling industry.
  8. Family costs: Divorce, separation, child abuse and neglect. Domestic violence is also related to gambling disorders.
  9. Abused dollars: Dollars OBtained improperly but not reported as a crime. Often this is the case because the money or property is stolen by a relative or friend.

Social costs collected from seven studies and adjusted to April 2011 dollars using the CPI-U price index published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics show the average annual social cost per pathological gambler as $9,393 annually. This cost does not account for suicide or government direct regulatory costs as no numbers were available for these two groups.

 

Other costs not factored into the above studies were the technological externalities not related to pathological gambling.

  1. Costs of lOBbying and corruption
  2. Costs of regulation of the industry
  3. Costs of monitoring the industry
  4. Alleviated money laundering
  5. Regressive effect of gambling (money goes from poor to rich people)

All tolled, gambling looks pretty expensive to me; especially to the families that get sucked into its claws.

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I used to be bad to play marbles for keeps until the day in fifth grade when a little Mexican boy took every last one I had, including my "lucky" green one, on the playground in grammar school. That was when I lost all my marbles and quit gambling on the same day.

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The little city across the river decided a casino was just what they needed to pump up their economy and draw tourist crowds. Since the opening of casinos there have been crimes nearly unheard of beforehand. There have been many rOBberies in parking lots, several shootings, houses broken into and rOBbed. Never heard of a prostitute in that little city before but there are some there now.

 

Then, these people who go there and blow their paycheck run to government agencies demanding assistance try to blame the casino for them being broke. While I wish the casino wasn't there, the casino doesn't send people out to force people to bring their paychecks to them and leave it behind for a few drinks and losing games.

 

I only know of a handful of people who can set themselves a spending limit, go to a casino for fun, and actually stop gambling if they reach their preset limit. I'm not saying that makes it okay or anything, only contrasting those few with the majority who take every dollar, or nickle, they have into a casino and will lose it all in that vain hope of hitting some jackpot.

 

There is a high cost indeed to having casinos and such. Broken homes, divorce, fatherless or motherless children, outrageous debt, families looking to the government, churches and charities to feed and cloth them because all their money went to the casino.

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On 10/14/2014 at 12:58 PM, 282Mikado said:

I get really annoyed when politicians and gambling proponents say that legalized gambling will bring employment and money into the area.

Note the foreign gambling entity that just joined OB a few hours ago.  What will it bring ?

On 10/17/2014 at 5:13 PM, prophet1 said:

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I wouldn't suggest a Christian participate, as this World is not our home.

In lost vegas, decades ago when they had a so-called christian convention for pastors and maybe teachers,  it was reported that the sales of porn videos in the so-called christian's rooms tripled / were higher than any other convention groups.

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On 10/14/2014 at 12:58 PM, 282Mikado said:

Social costs collected from seven studies and adjusted to April 2011 dollars using the CPI-U price index published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics show the average annual social cost per pathological gambler as $9,393 annually. This cost does not account for suicide or government direct regulatory costs as no numbers were available for these two groups

miss pellings is on pourpose here-in,  for bitter (herbs) or for worst (chester sauce).

the wrath of the Creator is ready to explode against those who have brought death and destruction while being hypocrites totally pretending to bring safety and health.

Well,   there is also another type of bambling,  of idoaltry ,  rampant throughout the land for half a century,  with all society heading headlong quickly into judgment as noted by many(or some or a few) conservative Christian Baptists Biblically Sound (vs Baptist pastor I met who told me they could not help the poor nor the homeless - insurance would not cover it!!!  so there's different brands of Baptists) ....

the idolatry of medicine that may be was making $100,000 per citizn,  unawares to the public ,  as private and public , soical and gubberment monies paid them as they learned to squeeze every dollar out of public entities , private philanthoppists, families of any income level even dirt poor.... 

that same idolatrous medicine-drug cart all is now poised to make $1,000,000 per citizn by budget and local and federal law from or of fake pandemic.

 

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