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Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Towards Identifying a Get-Real Protocol

Noun: protocol
1. (computing) rules determining the format and transmission of data
2. Forms of ceremony and etiquette observed by diplomats and heads of state
3. Code of correct conduct
4. A procedure for how an activity should be performed
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How do you handle people that are religious but not godly? (Serendipity Bible 10th Anniversary Edition, page 1517). 

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We have an abundance of protocols that signal we are to submerge ourselves beneath a mode of social artificiality. Even should we encounter the most grotesque pantomimes of death, we are not to utter a peep but remain utterly unperturbed and uniformly behaved and totally silent.  Just this morning the Tampa Times reported on a local trial in which a drunk driver killed two people. Yet in America we have a protocol of acceptance regarding alcohol in which it breaks all rules of propriety and decorum to register a modicum of distress--much less vocal dissent--regarding the worship of inebriation in this country.  If clammy decorum rules with its glue-like grip even in such extreme and bloody matters such as this, in what many other ways are we behaving like anesthetize lemmings marching  zombie-like over a cliff?   In what ways are we ordered to shut down our five senses and acquiesce submissively within an unperturbed comatose state?

Clearly what is called for is a Get-Real Protocol.   Will someone – will anyone – get real, turn on their five senses, and see the realities before them?  And with a protocol of freedom and informality ask: "Do you see what I see?  How can we stop this madness? How can we move on from here?"  Let us pray there will be hands to shake.



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