License Plates Returned!

     I went to the DMV, a friendly, polite place, went through the procedures and found out that the panther plate was no longer being offerred. Probably the Vermont Game Commission got DMV to revoke it as Game Commissions all over America do not want to acknowledge the panther especially the black puma. Due to their efforts and their sycophants, the black puma still doesn't exist officially. Only with the people. Check your field guides. However, the DMV clerk called her supervisor to see if there were any available to replace mine. Where else but in Vermont would you have that happened? The supervisor said to send my paperwork and money, and she'd send me back a panther if possible. They call them catamounts up here. I gave my clerk my debit card, she walked over to the machine to put it in, saw a package with plates on the floor, picked them up, and asked me my plate numbers. They were mine! Someone had returned them.
     About a week ago, I heard Reverend Jeffers, I think he was, talking about a gang of hoodlum democrats protesting outside his church. Even though I'm a southerner, I wince at his all-knowing, sweet, preaching voice. It's like the man has no self-reflection because everything he says comes right from God, like Muhammad and Allah. Jeffers showed he was a true Christian by serving the democrat hoodlums villifying him refreshments. That may be the Christian thing to do but it's not the loving thing to do. It is not loving to provide nourishment to people using lies to villify you. The loving thing would be to engage them, point out their lies, tell the truth, and encourage them to stop their weak, delusional shouting. Christians need to evolve on this point as I have. Helping someone to remain vile and delusional by giving them refreshments as Jeffers did should not be considered Christian. You're not helping them; you're just being a coward seeking a justification for not confronting them. You don't go out and provide aid and comfort to your enemies unless you're a coward or a masochist. A Christian - a good person- should be neither.
     I have a problem with the professionals - the police, firemen, EMTs, and others like them, calling themselves "first-responders" because it's almost always not true. The first-responders are almost always we, the people. This is a very important point because if a lot of we, the people realize that, we can help with the situations quicker than the professionals and perhaps stop the suffering, save people from dying and take care of the bad guys, if any. Since catastrophe almost always happens among us, and we survivors call the professionals, the situation for the wounded would be better if we the people knew how to give first-aid or how to shoot down the bad guys. Why stand around like little lambs and wait for the professionals to arrive? There are many things we can learn to do to be immediately helpful to those stricken in our midst. Do you think that God touched someone and made him a policeman? No, the policeman learned how to be a policeman. We hope and pray. We, the people, can do the same.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major