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My current thoughts on certain subjects! Opinions !


I have come to certain conclusions, that in my opinion, need to be said by me. Now, I am not here to personally force anything I write or say on anyone else. For firsta nd foremost we all have our right of freedom of speech, this is America. secondly, not everyone thinks the same, or comes to the same conclusions on any subject out there. So when I say, something in a blog, I write, it is my opinion, not my demand or my order to anyone, period. I don’t want someone going, he’s tellingus what to do or not do, for that isn’t what I do. What, I do is discuss how I feel about a subject and write it out.

That said, Lets talk about some conclusions i have reached for myself in todays’ america and under our current living conditions in our country. #1) we are still the greatest country in the world period, due to democracy, our form of governement set forth by the Founding Fathers, we had. #2) We are still a country of laws, guided by our Constitution and it’s Admendments and our Bill of Rights. #3) We will continue to have elections every four years and no President can serve more then 8 total, it isa law in America folks. #4) America does not have KINGS, We never have and never will! We broke from England and foughta Revolutionary War to escape it, and we shall not go backwards.

That said, let me say this next. I swerved my Country in Three Branches of Service, I did the U.S. Army, U.S. Army National Guard and The United States Navy, totaling 16 years of service. I did so with pride, with Honor and Integerity, I did so to protect and defend our way of life, and my family. I am Proud of it, I do not run from it.

Next the societal differences currently happening in America are bad for it in so many ways. We ared ividing the nation in so many wyas now it is sad and it may rock the foundation of the country to it’s core and it must stop. we can ill afford, a battle of the sexes, or a racist war, or even a full out political war, like what is happening now in America. we can ill afford to ignore our Veterans who served, our medical care, our societal norms we have achieved an dlived on for hundreds of years. What happened to morals. ethics, manners and caring? What happened to one for all and all for one? tell me America, where did it go and when did we really lose it so bad, that we can not even agree to disagree and still make things work? What happened America, you Tell Me! Why can’t we get along, and stop the infighting and save our country together, before it explodes apart?

Many subjects are concerns now, societal infighting is just one of them, For instance, race tensions, politicla tensions, anger, all are major problems. Affording to live, lack of jobs, high prices on food, gas and homes. Education being shut down, medicare, medicaid and social security and Veterans Benefits suddenly under attac. Why folks, why? Why, do Americans now act so lackadasial, and so uncaring, that we do not stop this from happening anymore?

Why did Americans reelect a President who was Impeached Twice, convicted of 34 felonies,now being questioned about whether he is a pedophile or not, beause of his relationship with one? Why is this ok to have been done in America? While on this topic, answer me this question, If our current President is not a Pedophile and he has nothing to hide, why isn’t he releasing the Epstein Files in their entirety? I know, if i was accussed of being part of a Pedophile Ring that, abused and used children, and i was innocent, I would work overtime to prove my innocence, wouldn’t you?

Next, subject, America is suffering from infighting between the political parties, and in the end it is the American People who are suffering and it will not get better until the Government is back in full Session and working as one unit again to keep us safe, secure and economically intact. Stock Markets decline, jobs disappear, Tariffs rise and we pay for it all. Doesn’t anyone understand, every tariff being put up against another ocuntry, costs Americans and we pay for them? It’sa sad state of affairs right now in the world and our country.

The homeless population is growing, people are being taken off the streets and shipped overseas and deported without due process in a court of law! It’s wrong, it’s immoral, it’s unethical and corrupt. Look I believe like many, illegal alliens in our country is bad, but, to do it by the book is better. Safer, smarter and in the end, more complete. Every human being, deserves the right to due process, in America, let these people defend their rights to be here, in court. If they lose fine, deport them, If they win in court give them citizenship and lets get it done. we seperate familes, divide them up, but, no one did this over the generations of when America was growing by bounds from immigration did they. The Italians got to stay, the Japanesse, The Irish, the Mexicans, the Jewish and more. This country is built on generations of immigrants folks, lets not kill what we are built upon. Each flock of immigrants brought something to America, things they knew, did or comtributed, we do not need to kill that. I remind all, Trump’s family came from Germany, his Wife is an immigrant herself. yet, they are President and First Lady. Stop and think about it all.

Ok next subject, the so called dating war, or dating problem in American Society an dthe country as a whole. It is far past time, for men and women in America to wake up. Not, every man, wants a woman just for sex, not every woman wants a man just for money. Not every man wants a woman’s belongings, or money, nor is it the same in return. In Todays world the fears of interaction and dating is scary and mean. people have worries and concerns about being used, abused, or taken for money or belongings. Many times , I have heard women complain, men don’t ask us out anymore, why is that? Well, for the same reasons, you say no and reject men is why? The same concerns go both way ladies. We don’t like being used for our physical abilities, or our knowledge of how to repair your home or car. we don’t like being taken for our money we earned either. It’s a two way street ladies and gents, and neither sex, wnats to be taken, used or abused by the other gender. Both sides have our reasons, and until we stop and think it over and decrease our own fears, our own worries some and takea chance we get no where do we? men fear rejection just as much as women do in today’s world. So, in the end it is atwo way street folks, an dthe only way to overcome the loneliness syndrome in America, wil be to take a chance and ask, and just take rejection as a normal part of the process of dating and creating relationships. If you take it personal you stop approaching, you stop asking, and you isolate yourself and any chance you have of finding a relationship period. Thuis we end up bitter, angry, alone and wondering where we went wrong. Our own fears stop us, and as one Author puts us we can’t change what others think of us, so Let Them. But in the end it is the second part of the Let Them Theory that works maybe the best, for once you Let Them think what they want, do what they want, you can then apply the Let me Theory. whicj is Let me make my own choices, Let me be me, and let me decide who and what I want to be. Once your fully you and happy about who you are as a person, and able to interact with others ina friendly positive way, you won’t get anywhere at all will you. negativity kills, any chance of being around or involve dwith anyone else. It’s dpressing to be fearful, it’s depressing to be angry, sad. Positivity is the only way to go really, isn’t it. You attratc mor epeople to you if you laugh daily, if you interact kindly, if your polite, courtious, you get better reactions in return. stick to what you do best, be you. Yet, also remembe rthe old saying, not everyone is everyone’s cup of tea so to say. So that is why they make so many different flavors in the world, so you can find a cup of tea that matches your taste. Just my current thoughts on the subjects above for now!

Reflecting on Life as 2025 Approaches


I think everyone, gets to a point in life, where we stop and reflect on our life, and try to decide where or what to do next, if of course we are healthy enough to.

As 2024 is getting closer to it’s end and the new year shall begin, I do the same I do each year. I examine where I have been, what I have done and try to decide if I did right or wrong in certain cases. The idea is to not make any mistakes or problems in my future. I have taken to not reacting harshly to much these days, and the only thing that ever got me angry, was when a guy tried to take advantage of my wife who passed in 2021. So, unless, someone attacks the ones I call family I do not get mad. I will walk away before I will fight over stupidity.

As I look back at 2024, I find I did things as usual for me. I just go to my Doctors when needed, walk when I can, build puzzles and read. I also walk when I can depending on weather of course. I do participate in playing pool on Monday evening, and Mexican Train Dominos on Wednesday evening. I was doing Friday Afternoon Mexican train Dominos, but I won’t anymore for personal reasons.

Del Webb Chauncy Lake as a community, will be expanding soon enough over time, to a compound, of 14 buildings, 50 condos per. When you figure it out it’s 700 condos. That leaves us as one person said, a large part of Westbourgh’s, Mass. tax base. Hopefully we can maintain some kind of involvement with the town, so we have our say. We have the ability and the people to do it, if we keep abreast of all happening.

As 2025, is now not far off, I see myself, as doing what I think is right for me. I shall maintain what I have of course. As to what to do, well, I try to avoid large crowds, and I know I am not Mr. Popular anyway. Never was Mr. Handsome, or Mr. Personality, and I avoid confrontations and arguing. I find that people do not like me, most of the time. My sense of humor some say is strange, sometimes I speak too fast or soon. I do try to get along with everyone I can, but there will always be some, it doesn’t work with. Thus the avoidance factor I brought up earlier. Get angry around me or upset, I feel it is my fault I leave and won’t bother again. I am old now, so I am set in my ways, in situations, of course.

Someone accuses me of something suddenly, bye. Some judge me wrong, some think I am rude or crude. But, my humor is hard to take at times, and misunderstood. Some I poke fun at, or joke with, it is all a game is all. I have come along way from my childhood of attention deficit disorder and hyperactivity. I lived with those in my childhood years and at times they get me today at 68 going on 69.

The more I stay alone, and away from people the better it is for me, I think so I isolate and stay home. It’s a crazy idea but it works, can’t see me, can’t say I did something, lol. when you get to my age, you know damn well when someone doesn’t like you, and you do avoid.

All of the above just means not many changes will happen to or for me. I don’t attend every event planned here, nor do I plan any. I try to stay away, for these are open events paid for by those who attend them. And I am far from socially as adept as many others here. Never was a social animal, have always been one to stay away and alone and watch from a distance. I think, I never had the right social skills as a kid and as an adult. Yet I survived two marriages, and the service. Not bad. As 2025 comes in, I plan on trying to open up some, but I know, it won’t be easy. It is like I told some people I just talked to about a club, I haven’t talked in front of people in a long time. I tend to avoid women. Most men here, have no problem with women, me well, what can I say. I don’t trust many people that’s for sure, never did. I still have the Navy in me in many ways also, once a sailor always a sailor they say. I don’t drink really, I am not a party person for sure. So, as I go forward, I am going to do what I have for a while since moving here. One day at a time, avoid confrontations and arguments, avoid those who don’t like me. As I told one person, I only come out of my condo for certain things these days. 1) Doctors, 2) grocery shopping 3) Billard’s on Monday evenings, Mexican Train Dominos on Wednesday evening. I walk, I mind my own business, and I try to treat all with the same respect I want for myself. That is how my New Year shall be, it’s like a resolution by me. Time will tell. Some say, volunteer for something to do, so I have. Some say go to church, I am non-religious so that’s out. if I walked into a church it would probably fall on my head. So, the town of Westborough, is like the small town I live in my my teens. All we had were bars, taverns, banks and churches. I am old and I get bored at times, I feel the loneliness of course, but, struggle through like others I had met. It’s a process is all and we live through it all, don’t we?

Reflections/Resolutions 2024


 Life can be amazing, an adventure, an enjoyment, or it can be mundane, lonely, and make you wonder, what the hell your here for ! I never claimed to be apopular person and never was really, I had my difficulties as a kid, bullied in school, did not fit in in my younger days thats for sure. I had conflicts with my mother, my older brother, and of course my step-father. Some I overcame as I grew, like, my elder brother I ignored, my mother and I came to an understanding after I got old enough to investigate her some and figure out things. But each brought me new knowledge of them and the world I have to live in. It doesn’t matter what those moments were as you age, what does matter is what you make from them, as you move on.

 I know I learned many things in life about it in general, love, respect, honesty, integerity, and pride come to mind. I also learned that relationships happen and they form over decency for one another. Shit, I have friends from when I was fourteen years old, friendships may fade some, but they never disappear as we move on. Families scatter and go their own ways, but, we still find a way to carry on don’t we?

 I reflect many times in my life backon my experiences in it and the people that have left or passed I knew. The famous ones to the mundane and everday ones you walk by daily, each affect us differently. Some you admire because they are family and have departed for the love they gave you, the care they did do for you, and then others you remember for the good times, the laughing, the jokes, good or bad, the tears, the fears, the chances you took with them and more. It is amazing how much the human mind remembers as you age and how much it may tend to ignore or forget also. The painful times we tend to forget, the ones who got away that we loved, or the ones that have passed before us. Yet, The good Lord is the one guiding and directing and leading us to go on till, we can no more and we complete the missions we have been put here for !

  Two seems a very important numbe rin my life and world. I had two marriages, two children and I have no idea how they happened. I never learned to flirt, or what to say to the female species. Yet, I wasmarried twice, have two children and find myself with four grandchildren who live 600 miles away from me. They do not know me, my own children were lost to me in my divorce from my first wife. And it was my second wife who encouraged me to go see them when she was alive. I did so of course as much as i could handle it, but, I am not rich and I really do not think like they do, that I owe them anything. I sometimes think they should stop and realize, the divorce from their mother, was not my fault number one, and number two I lost like they did, and more than I would admit or want to. The courts do not favor the male of the couple when divorce happens and the females are believed no matter what and protected, even when they lie. I know i suffered from it and still do today.

 Yet, I went on to do things I never thought I could, I found a second wife, a second life and much more. The first marriage went 10 years and then two for the divorce, then the second marriage lasted me 28 years. So you might say, I did something right in it, and I wish it was still happening today, but, cancer took her from me. We all learn and adjust as we go along folks. experiences we had, lead us to make the decisions we do each day, we draw from the past to make the present work daily, never forget that. It is a lesson we all learn as we grow older, mature and find our way in the world we live in.

 We can’t change somethings and others we have control over. Yet we learn and adapt to what we face as we go along, or if we do not, we suffer for not doing so. My life is like a roller coaster with it’s ups and downs, but, my second wife put a steadying hand on me and helped me through the rough times. She got me to go back to school, to graduate college, to stabilize and learn again. She encouraged me to learn, expand, become better, and at the sametime loved me. I miss her dearly and always will. As she knew and stated at one time, she told her own daughter, when she passes I would be fine because I am a realist. Fine I don’t know, but surviving I do, and I am so far and she has been gone since 2o21 and we just entered 2024.

 Someone asked me, what my resolutions are for 2024. I stopped and thought for a moment then. I haven’t really made any, but, if I did it would be to talk to more people, get out more, and hopefully meet a woman who is intelligent, fun and wnats a companion. I miss that ion my life and I miss a smiling face to smile back at, someone to converse with and help, and who wants the same in return. So, my basic idea is to move on as I turn 68 soon and do the best I can to smile, laugh, talk, joke and interact with others, and be myself the best I can. No one is perfect, no one expects you to be, but, if we are honest, loyal, ourselves, and we care enough, we can at least have fun in 2024.

 

 

My Religious Thoughts/ My Beliefs


      I received a comment today on a piece I wrote about Jesus and The Bible, claiming I only skirted the issue and know very little about religion or Jesus Christ. I never said I was an authority on this subject, just that I was expressing my views on it and why I chose not to be dedicated to it or attend church on a weekly basis or even holidays of the church. I find it interesting that a reader would send a comment such as the one, I got. It means to me, that someone was reading and it hit a sore spot in their beliefs and they decided to comment. Good for you!

       As I said before and I shall say again, religion is a choice, some choose to follow and dedicate themselves to and others do not. Religion to me is not the full commitment to a church or a certain religion, it is an internal belief you carry with you daily in your heart, mind and soul. ,yet you do not need a Paster, a Preacher, a Priest to tell you to believe, or to give penance or how to pray. Nor do you have to pay for a religion to build a church, please read your own Bibles if you think I am wrong, one of the first things it does say is, God sees and hears all, no matter where you are!

      Jesus is a figure in time, who was made into a Savior by the Disciples surrounding him and believing in the way he lived and wanted to live. Yet research will show you the man in mortal form had his own faults just like me and you. His story resounds the way it does, because of the portrayal put into pictures and words, not because it is the truth. If you create a church and want a pack of people to follow you, you must have a strong symbol they can worship and believe in.

        The Bible itself, with each chapter and verse is a long tale of creation, exodus, and saving. Each chapter or book is written by a different man, a human being, the imperfections of it can be found if you study it closely. Now I can not say if the events, people or places and times are correct, but I can say this, as a writer and story-teller it is easy to see how the story could be handed down generation to generation to get it completed and accepted by churches world-wide.  Ever wonder how or why we have two versions alone just in the Christian Faith, never mind what the Muslims have and believe, or the Hindus, or the Jews. Why is that so, and where did they all come from? So many stories are written on Jesus, and the times of his life. The stories alone of the creation of the world and the powers it took to create it, well, you can see what I am getting to.

       To the person or persons who made their comment on what I wrote I give you this as my answer, I lived the Catholic Faith from birth to the age of 12 years old. I was baptised, I made my Communion, and Confirmation and went to Sunday School and read my bible many times over. Religion is still a choice, not a forced item in world and American culture. We choose what we believe because it is indeed a constitutional right in America. I tire of people who believe and then force their religion on others or attempt to do so, it is wrong. So please don’t come in my direction telling me I don’t understand religion, Jesus or the Bible, because I do very well. Step back yourself and question your own beliefs and make sure you are right enough to believe them yourself, before you try to force them on another.

       The Catholic Church and many other Religions do not allow women Priest or Paster and that in and of itself is wrong also in my book. Mother Mary could have preached and I believe had her own book for the bible which the Catholic Church disallowed in theirs. Sadly, the simple act of not allowing female Priests or Preachers is wrong, for God Created all Men Equal and that includes women.

         Yes I know there are many different Religions, many different beliefs, all I ask is a right to choose what I want to believe in and not be forced to believe in something I don’t. I also reserve and protect my freedom of speech, whether in the verbal sense or written sense thank you. I shall write, talk and live free, in the Land of The Free !.

      One more note before I end, The Churches of the WOrld are hypocrital, in many ways, and childrena nd young adults have been molested and sexually abused by Priests, Preacher and more world over. They take the one with the accussations against them and swap them from one church to anothe rto hide them, but it doesn’t stop the abuse and molestations.  So if the Chjurch no matter what Religion, does not allow female Priests or Preachers, does not stop the sexual abuse and molestations of children and young adults that happens daily, why should i go to a hypocrital organization totpractice my faith or beliefs when I don’t believe in what it is doing itself.