From Marsha:\u00a0 Here\u2019s a little excerpt from a workshop of Dr. Bob\u2019s that gives a little different way of looking at situations where I think I have rights.<\/p>\n
Now the next one up here says, you gotta stick up for your rights.\u00a0 Now in the U.S. we’re very obsessed with our rights.\u00a0 I think everbody knows that, don’t you?\u00a0 You got all sorts of things you\u2019ve been told are your rights.\u00a0 There’s a thing in the constitution called the Bill of Rights.\u00a0 If you read them, they’re not rights at all.\u00a0 Anybody can take ’em away from you.\u00a0 And so if anybody can take it away from you it’s not a right.\u00a0 We don’t have a right to even be alive \u2018cause any joker with a club or a rock or knife can take it away from you right quick.\u00a0 So a right’s something that can\u2019t be taken away from you.<\/p>\n
I sometimes turn on the television.\u00a0 The other night I had very little to do sittin’ by myself.\u00a0 So I turned the television on; and tune into these programs where they discuss controversial subjects.\u00a0 I took a yellow tablet, a pencil and my little remote to change stations.\u00a0 So I watched one program for a little while, then went over to another and another — for one hour I listened to these people propound on all the problems of the world; and I made a mark everytime they mentioned somebody’s rights.\u00a0 In one hour I had 68 marks — 68 times they’d been propounded about somebody’s rights.<\/p>\n
Now there’s an interesting thing about the idea of rights.\u00a0\u00a0 If you have rights, I don’t.\u00a0 If I have rights, you don’t.\u00a0\u00a0 So let’s say we had a house somewhere and I determined I had a right to have my dinner on the table prepared by you at 6:00 every evening.\u00a0 I think I have that right \u2018cause after all I’m payin’ the rent here.\u00a0\u00a0 And you have the right, according to you, to go out and eat in a nice restaurant because you\u2019ve taken care of all the household things.<\/p>\n
And so if I have my rights, you don’t have any, is that right?\u00a0 And if you have yours, I don’t have mine.\u00a0 Now let’s go through that in any direction you want to with the idea of rights — If I have rights, you dont have them; and if you have rights, I don’t have them.\u00a0 So we’re gonna start violence.<\/p>\n
So if you eliminated all idea of rights, and you don\u2019t have any — I don’t have any — nobody else has any rights, we’d probably begin to see that perhaps we all have gobs of privileges.\u00a0 You know violence just may come to an end very quickly.<\/p>\n
So if we begin to see our conjured up so-called rights as privileges instead,\u00a0 I might want to see that I am thankful for them; and if nothing else, at least show my appreciation in some way or other..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
From Marsha:\u00a0 Here\u2019s a little excerpt from a workshop of Dr. Bob\u2019s that gives a little different way of looking at situations where I think I have rights. Now the next one up here says, you gotta stick up for … Continue reading