The Plight of the Female

I have a couple of male friends that were making fun of women the other night and how we analyze every word and action, and the sad thing is that it’s so true. I, at least, can take a simple word and analyze it to death and come up with a million different options of what it actually could have meant, and then in the end, it didn’t mean anything, and the person who said it has long forgotten it. I know this guy, and he’s really careful with his words. It amuses me a lot of times, and I wonder how he can think about everything before he says it. Little does he know that no matter how careful he is, if he’s talking to a girl, there’s still room for over-analyzation and misinterpretation. Everything that he does or doesn’t do, says or doesn’t say can be taken a million different ways, and that’s just the way it is.

3 million homeless, but who cares?

13.5 billion dollars were pledged after the tsunami last year, and 1.93 billion have been pledged for relief in Pakistan now. What’s wrong with this picture? An estimated 73,000 are dead, and there are more than 3 million homeless there right now, and winter has begun. Do we not care because no Westerners were involved? Is that the only reason why we cared so much when the tsunami hit? Are we ignorant because we do not care, or do we not care because we are ignorant? Am I making sense? Is this lack of response from Westerners due to the fact that little is said about everything in the news, or is little said in the news, because the stations know that we do not care, and therefore, their ratings would go down if they report on it? Everyone says, “God bless America.” Great. But why don’t we also say, “God bless Pakistan too (or insert any other country)”? There is such an awesome opportunity to impact Pakistan right now. The doors are open. They want relief. We can go. And when they ask us why we’re there, we can tell them about the hope and the freedom that comes from knowing Christ. This tragedy can have some good results if some people get to know Christ that wouldn’t have known Him otherwise. But here we sit… in our homes. We could at least send money. Pakistanis are freezing to death, starving to death. God bless America. Who gives a crap about the Pakistanis anyways?

Go to this site
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/11/04/south.asia.quake.ap/index.html
Scroll down and click on one of the videos to watch. Peoples’ tears are more powerful than awful statistics like 3 million people are homeless and it’s wintertime.

So, I wrote all that about a week and a half ago, and now, there are no more Pakistan headlines. I guess if we ignore it, it doesn’t exist. By the way, there’s supposed to be an extremely informative show on tonight about Anna Nichole Smith and her marriage to some billionaire that's like 80. Isn’t it amazing what information makes it to prime time? Shoot, I’ll admit that the dumb story even intrigued me a bit, and the fact that it did made me even more annoyed!