At our last meeting we discussed the difference between privledges and expectations. We EXPECT the right to drive our cars: a speeding ticket is a hassle and the cop is a meany for doing his/her job. In reality, we are issued licenses to drive as a privledge of the unofficial contract that we agree to maintain safety and respect of authority while driving.
Although, rights are privledges of citizenship (we can lose our "rights" if we are no longer a citizen), our generation and the generations following tend to demand rights. Do you find yourself fitting this thought pattern? Do you expect rights? Has this been an issue in any other areas of life?
Although, rights are privledges of citizenship (we can lose our "rights" if we are no longer a citizen), our generation and the generations following tend to demand rights. Do you find yourself fitting this thought pattern? Do you expect rights? Has this been an issue in any other areas of life?
posted by Mick Ó Seasnáin at
9:25 PM
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I know that I never appreciated my mom's cooking until I went to college. there were even days that I complained about the way things tasted... How the adolescent self-obsessional, pre-functional, mind works...?
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Anonymous, at 10:01 PM
It's almost time for me to add a new rant to my website about this one, as "entitlement" is pretty much my largest pet peeve nowadays. Mike has already heard me rant about it, but I might just write it down to really get it all out.
Americans are granted the right to PURSUE happiness, you are not guaranteed happiness. Entitlement helps to prolong unconstitutional laws. I have already ranted about sexist and racist laws and government programs, but these types of things continue to exist because of the sense of entitlement. The vicious cycle of welfare (another one of my rants) is also caused by a sense of entitlement that is not justly expected. I think I will rant about this soon.
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Jason, at 9:19 AM
this topic has got me thinking, though i haven't come up with any good examples yet, but i am pretty sure that i expect things that i am not entitled to, probably a lot...but what about not expecting things we are entitled to....? hmm.....
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Bek, at 10:06 AM
Yeah like healing for Josh or Iz. WE ARE ENTITLED. But do we really know how entitled we are???
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Donna, at 6:39 PM
I have always been a VERY trusting person, and that has hurt me many times. If I leave my front door unlocked while I grocery shop, I EXPECT to come back to a home just as I left it. Yet, somebody would have probably broken in to steal what is not rightfully theirs. I guess they were just PURSUING HAPPINESS.
I can't wait for heaven. You know why? I can imagine that in heaven it's like a Utopian society. Nobody is stealing or hourding. No killing or vandalism. The common sentiment is giving, not taking. I know it's impossible to actually happen here on Earth, but if nobody committed crimes and the world's wealth was evenly spread then nobody would be in need.
Oh well, if that was the case everybody would quit working and we'd be worse off in the end.
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Jason, at 7:12 AM
well it will be here on earth when Jesus reigns !!!!!
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Bek, at 10:40 AM
Note to self: continually call Jason to find out when he is shopping at Giant Eagle.
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Anonymous, at 1:16 PM
I think I even run into issues with this concept with God. We all act as if we should expect blessings. However, trully we have earned hell. It is only by Grace that we are saved, for all have sinned and fallen short.
Thus, any blessing that we recieve that sets us apart from hardships are not to be expected but for us to thank and praise God for. I think the Jabez craze left many with the impresson that we should demand things/blessing of God.
Should we expect God to be truthful and loving, yes. Should we demand this from his hand, no.
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Anonymous, at 1:21 PM
There are scriptures that would lend to the idea that we should be as trusting as Jason describes, or as expectant as Donna mentions... If we command a mountain to move it will be done... but the small print reads that we can do all things by God's spirit.
So I guess this turns into an issue of listening to the spirit speaking while not trying to be overly-spiritualizing and new age about real life problems.
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Anonymous, at 1:48 PM
this is good stuff!
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cheryl, at 2:29 PM
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