Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for April 10, 2010

Yeah, taking responsibility for our own actions is a pretty foreign concept these days….

It’s actually 446 years ago this month.

Happy Birthday Bill ! You don’t look a day over 440 !

Happy Birthday, Will! Keep those great plays coming!

The fault is not in our stars, it is in reality show trash…

Had to be repeated every 1600 years after Julius Said IT in his play (fiction) to drive the point home as it were.

marg, apparently, taking responsibility for one’s actions was pretty foreign to a lot of folks back then, too. Maybe always. We just have more technological ways for blaming others.

Not my fault, I’m a victim of terminal halitosis.

I thought the fault was in San Andreas.

But what if my stars are faulty?

Best five words of advice in secular thought: “Play the hand you’re dealt.”

Don’t blame San Andreas. It’s not his fault he’s a fault.

I thought that was a quote from Popeye.

cdward - It goes back to the beginning. We people have always blamed others. In the Garden of Eden, Adam blamed Eve and Eve blamed the serpent.

cdward:

It seems to me that knowing good from evil is a prerequisite to being responsible. Maybe the serpent knew better than God.

Clearly, Agent X will never get a job at Fox “News” Channel.

Jo Jo: So was it Julius Caesar who said, “I yam what I yam and tha’s all I yam”?

RmomGenius_badge said, about 5 hours ago

cdward - It goes back to the beginning. We people have always blamed others. In the Garden of Eden, Adam blamed Eve and Eve blamed the serpent.

And of course the Serpent blamed God, for God was the one who gave him his nature God had no one to blame, so he created the concept of Sin and dumped it all back on us again.

cdward, video tape is a technology that busts (and blames) people all the time. More than one politician has been caught saying the exact opposte of what he/she is saying now, compared to then. “I’ve never considered myself a maverick ” is just a recent case in point. (What’s up with the insane ranting by the right, anyway. To hear them tell it, only they can save us from the destruction our country. And here is the ludicrous part, they actually believe it, and they aren’t just saying it to make a political point!) Yikes!

I’d love to walk three of you up there through basic biblical theology, and in fact I left a post trying, but realized here and now isn’t the place to do it. What I can do is ask that you dig more deeply, because you’re not taking all the facts into account and thus are drawing improper conclusions.