Re: Camping

Jobe,

One thing about humans is they do remember behavior. You or I can declare ourselves to be mostly faultless in our dealings with others, but our actions here and there are remembered and collectively form patterns in the observers' memory banks.

Bill (me) or Jobe, for instance, can claim to be modest, kind, respectful and good to children and animals, but sometimes our observed behavior conflicts with those claims. I take issue with the scriptural references because they mean nothing by themselves, it's by observed behavior that we judge. The claim that one respects women, for example, is belied by observed behavior that may be judged as intrusive or even predatory, such as wanting to take photos of DCHS groups of visitors, and insisting that all get naked. The prospective groups almost always include young women under 18 years of age (the group photos never seem to happen due to lack of willing participants).

Talk is cheap. Actions count.