Random Ramblings from the Resident Raptor

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Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one. But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death. James 1:13-15 (ESV)

Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny. Edwards, Tryon http://quotationsbook.com/quote/10739/

Several times a week I must clear it out of my mail box or it will pile up endlessly. Although I do not subscribe to any of these services, there seems to be no end to the number of advertisements awaiting my perusal in the weekly mail delivery. Try as I might, there appears to be no way to end this onslaught from these peddlers who invade my privacy without warning and without an invitation. Their incessant barrage into my home is unstoppable. I would like to pull the plug on these worthless paper- peddlers and forbid them access to my mail box. But alas there is nothing I can do to stop the inflow. The best I can muster is to clear out the mailbox and pitch the unwanted solicitations into the nearest garbage pail. Eventually all those offers will come back to haunt me from the landfills around the country. At least for now I am rid of the pesky things.

We are surrounded by messages each and every second. Our lives are bombarded with noise and triviality. We are constantly being solicited with thoughts and advertisements vying for our attention. This is why the Bible warns us to think only on those things that show merit and hold true lasting value. If I took the time to read every piece of junk mail that infiltrated my mail box, I would be spending time doing a worthless activity and I’d probably be tempted to spend hard earned money on some useless gadget or gizmo.

My virtual email box is even worse with the constant barrage of SPAM mail I get on a daily basis. This is even after the spam filter picks out a good bit of it. How many times am I going to get the same offer for this, that or the other business opportunity, or offers for augmentation of one portion of my anatomy or another. Never mind the fact that these are not always gender specific. I mean I get woman’s care product offers as well as male enhancement offers. Come see this, come do that, write to me and the list goes on and on and on.

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Someone, somewhere has to have way too much time on their hands to be producing all this junk mail and spam email that circulates around the world. But they, like the producers of junk mail, know that there is a market for their services. Otherwise, they would not produce it. The sad facts are, if a message is repeated often enough and loud enough, it oft times supplants legitimate thought and reasoning. Advertisers know that if a person sees a message enough times and it is presented in a provocative enough way, many people will actually buy what they are advertising, whether they wanted it or not.

Thus is the nature of mass-marketing. Therefore junk mail purveyors will continue to produce their endless reams of merchandising paraphernalia. Oh how I wish there was a spam blocker for the US postal system.

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