{"id":246,"date":"2015-12-04T10:01:52","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T16:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevebriscoe.wordpress.com\/?p=246"},"modified":"2026-10-31T22:12:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T22:12:01","slug":"like-gnats-on-a-fruit-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justal.net\/loqui\/like-gnats-on-a-fruit-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Like Gnats on a Fruit Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve not written a blog article for a very long time; been busy. Lots of things rolling through my head that are screaming to get out; mainly dealing with the condition of our society. Sadly, articles about the condition of our society are flying about like gnats on a fruit farm and it appears, at quick glance, nobody cares. I know this is not the case. There are a plethora of people how care and who want to do something about it. The question is, \u201cWhat do you do?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Depending on which side of the issue you speak from you could be labeled a phobic or a racist or worse. If someone agrees with you they want you for president, if they disagree they might want you dead.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of which side you are on, the condition of our society is known to you; we all see the same thing. How you perceive and articulate what you see is another question; one I will not now or ever try to answer. Any answer would either have me on the rolls as yet another presidential candidate or number one on someone\u2019s list of yet one more person in need of termination. I for one think the condition of our society is due to decades of abuse of freedoms. With freedom comes great responsibility and we have shirked our responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>It will require divine intervention to fix this nation. If that intervention comes it will only be due to the grace of God, not due to anything we have done. 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