I’ve put a lot of thought into the real estate business as of late. I’m a real estate agent and I try to stay on top of the market the best I can. In middle Tennessee where I live, real estate is bringing top dollar. A lot of people are moving out of big cities and headed for the smaller and more laid back areas of the country. As luck would have it, Tennessee is a destination!
This is an incredible stroke of luck, as I have been considering selling my place for a while, but just couldn’t make the numbers make sense for what I would have to command for it in order to feel comfortable about moving.
Then suddenly it dawned on me.
When I list my house for sale, I’m going to identify the oak stair rails as walnut. Walnut will bring more money than oak. Likewise, I’ll probably identify the 2.25 acres I own as a 40 acre farm. 40 acres will bring a lot more than 2.25 any day. This will work out great, as I’ll have more money for buying an actual 40 acre farm somewhere. While I’m at it, I think I will identify the faded paint on the southwest side of my house as petina, which should allow me to actually double the price of that side of my house, since people seem to pay for petina at antique shops all the time. If you squint your eyes, it all looks that way anyhow, but if I identify it as petina, that pretty much settles it, right?
As long as I’m raking in all this extra money, what would it hurt for me to identify the fireplace and the burn pit out back as ‘natural renewable energy sources'? That will make them sound like they are actually helping the air, rather than just smoking it all up, and I’ll get the added tax benefits to boot. When I show my house to potential buyers, I’ll say things like ‘and this folks, is a dishwasher’. When they look at me like I’m crazy and say ‘that’s a commode’, I will politely smile and tell them I am ‘identifying’ it as a dishwasher. I’m sure that will satisfy them and they will be happy to have two dishwashers in the house. (Five, actually, as I have four bathrooms, each with it’s own ‘dishwasher’.)
Finally, I will identify myself as the King of England, and I will probably wear a big bathrobe and carry a big mop handle or something like those scepters or whatever you call those fancy sticks that royalty is holding in old drawings of royalty. The potential buyers will certainly pay more money for my place, knowing they are buying a historic property owned by the current King of England. That should be worth a few mil right there.
If this sounds silly, it’s because it is. And if I really did all that, people would think I’m silly. They probably would just kinda ignore me and go about their business. Which is what good, kind people do. If you want to be silly, go ahead and be silly. No skin off my back. Everybody needs a good belly laugh now and again.
But if I started belittling you for not believing me, rioting in front of your house or place of business in protest of your unbelief or indifference, or telling you you are a racist because of your dislike for all people from England, you would probably get a bit annoyed by me. You might even begin to call me out in front of people and say straight up I’m full of B.S. with my phony house descriptions and false nationality claims. You would be completely right in your assertions, and you probably would not have wanted to say anything at all, except you are not going to sit back and just allow someone who is so silly to begin to interfere with real life and cause real life consequences by their antics, especially when it starts affected your family, your livelihood, or even the structure of the country you live in. We may be close to this scenario in America.
Most of us live in the real world. A man is a man. A woman is a woman. And there’s nothing wrong with that. It works just fine. You and I are here reading this right now because that process created us, with the help of the Creator who set it all in motion long before man even thought about trying to change it. You can stand atop a mountain and yell to the top of your lungs that you are something different than you are, but yell as you may, you can’t change that. And I think most of us just can’t really understand why that seems to be such a bad thing to some. I don’t know a single person I’ve ever come across who gives one hoot what all other people are doing behind their own doors or in their own lives. Everybody I know is too busy trying to keep up with their own pursuits. But for some odd reason, there are those in America nowadays who believe if you don’t think the same way they do, that you are somehow evil or uneducated or … or … well …. wrong.
Bologna. I think most of America has just about had it with somebody telling us what to think and feel and believe. We’ve put up with that kind of nonsense to the point now where people think they have the liberty to just start damaging our property and berating us publicly if we don’t go along with every new absurd idea of the re-creation of existence. My experience with that kind of pushing has been that at some point there is a push back. And you can see that beginning to happen.
But as it always is with conservatives, the push back is as gentle as possible with the ultimate goal of reconciliation between the factions. That is the proper way to approach any conflict if you want a good ending. The challenge we face nowadays is that the opposite side of these arguments does not understand this concept. It’s win or die with them it seems, although we all know they are not willing to go that far for any reason whatsoever. So where does that leave the conservative in this insane battle for the sanity of our Nation?
In good shape, actually. Because the best thing about truth is that it doesn’t change. Truth is always truth. You can call the truth something else, but that doesn’t change it. You can argue against truth with your own ideas, but that doesn’t change truth. You can watch politicians on television alter the truth and feed it to you on a platter, but the truth always comes back as indigestion to the untruthful.
It is a trying time. But be reassured. If you are standing on the truth, everything around you may crumble, but not your foothold. You are on solid ground. And the best thing any of us can do at this period of American history is to proclaim the Truth. All of it. It is the only thing that will save our Nation from ruin, as it has for hundreds of years. And it begins inside our homes.
It would be a good time to remind your grown children that they must teach their own children to stand on truth, and to defend it if they must. And to let them know that they are right and proper to call out untruth when they see it, albeit in a kind way if possible, always with the goal of good for all.
As our scarcely seen current Vice President just told the child actors hired to be in her recent impromptu NASA video would say, “Don’t let anybody else tell you who you are, you tell them who you are”.
Sounds like a pretty good plan to me.
Well said