Drizz, you're just not listening at all, sweetie.
None of that ...
drizzle is what I've been trying to say here.
But you're as incapable of hearing that as we are of hearing, "You fat fuck, etc. etc. etc.," so I'm going to drop it and not hold it against you.
As far as those of you whose thinking runs along these lines:
ANYONE WHO COULD MAKE SUCH A HABIT OF GORGING THEMSELVES ON GOODIES, TO GET THEMSELVES INTO THAT STATE, IS NOT WORTHY OF RESPECT UNTIL THEY DEMONSTRATE THEIR WILLPOWER AND SLIM THEMSELVES AGAIN.
My response to you runs sort of like this:
No human being is perfect.
The last perfect human to walk the earth ascended into Heaven about 2000 years ago.
I realize that larger people make easy targets because whatever physical or mental flaws they have, cause visible evidence. They show up on our bodies, so that others (whose problems in living don't happen to end up as fat) have something at which to point and laugh, mock, ridicule, and judge.
However, as I said, there won't be any perfect humans on this planet until the Second Coming.
It certainly is easy, isn't it, to reduce our complicated lives to one issue: eating, fat, and weight. If you eat perfectly, exercise perfectly, and look perfect, you must have a free pass beyond the pearly gates.
Life isn't that simple.
Perhaps it makes you feel good to point at another, someone with visible flaws, and imagine that since that person has a problem you can see and you do not, you must not have anything in your life you might want to think about doing differently yourself.
I submit that your problems in living become evident the moment you open your mouth. I can't see them, but I sure can hear them ... or in this case, read them. That the world is much more forgiving of you because you look nicer than me is, I suppose, to your advantage.
You seem to think you are better than certain other people in the world because you look better than they do. Therefore, you feel entitled to treat them as less. And it is because you think you are better that you think you are right.
But, as soon as you think you are better, look how you start to *act.* Can you really call this good?
Is this the way you think Jesus would treat fat people, if He showed up here tomorrow? Why is it OK for you, then?
The truth is, we are *all* doing the best we can with whatever life issues we face. I am, and I realize as I read these not-so-compassionate things you write that you are, too.
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"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone."
The evolution of a society is measured by how well it treats the least among its members. As I have said, the challenge is to find the balance between helping people and hurting them.
--Neale Donald Walsch
"Whatsoever ye do unto the least of these ... ye do unto me."