Have a childhood friend who isn’t cool enough now for the crowd you’re running with? Ghost ’em.
Got a problematic boyfriend or girlfriend? Maybe one you found when you swiped left, swiped right, met for wine, had a fling, and now they’re inconvenient? Ghost ’em.
Run up against someone who makes you uncomfortable, who challenges your beliefs, who invites discourse not discord, but doesn’t agree with you? Ghost ’em.
Have a mother or a father, a sister or a brother, who’s cramping your style? Doesn’t like the friends you hang out with? The significant other or spouse you’ve chosen? Your lifestyle choices? Your politics? Mistakes you’ve made? Ghost ’em.
Have an unplanned pregnancy? Ghost it.
In this digital age that our entire generation is living through now – “generation” in the Biblical sense, meaning everyone alive from babies to grannies – we have all become conditioned to simply turning people off by ghosting them – blocking their calls, their texts, their emails, pretending that they don’t exist when they become a nuisance. It is all too easy to think that they are just a phone number, an email address, or an avatar and forget that a living heart beats behind their digital presence. You can ghost ’em by pressing a button, or once you’re too far gone down that path, by squeezing the trigger of a long-range rifle.
But it is becoming clear that the time in which this generation lives is most certainly the Tribulation. The Tribulation is, and always has been, all of life – frustrating, disappointing, unfair, difficult, but also exhilarating and wonderful. Each human being’s life is the Tribulation story from beginning to end. So humanity has lived in the Tribulation from the dawn of time, but now in the context of quickening events our universal Tribulation is coming to a point of existential crisis.
You can continue to live in Fakey World, the world of social media, of denying biology, of hating those who make you uncomfortable, of popping pills to solve problems, and of leading a cosmetic, materialistic fantasy which excludes those whose very existence challenges the way you want the world to be. Even friends. Even family. Just ghost ’em.
Or you can engage. You can embrace those who love you despite yourself. You can look them in the eye. You can find the point of shared humanity with them regardless of other differences.
It is time to choose sides. It is not about Republicans. It is not about Democrats. Christians or Jews or Muslims or Hindus or otherwise. Blacks or Whites or anywhere in between. It is about loving your neighbor, or not. It is about valuing the gift of Life for ourselves and everyone else, or not. It is about allowing Free Will, Free Speech, Sovereign Individuality, or not. And it is about protecting children, or not – perhaps the most important issue of our times if we as the human race are to have a future.
The only correct ghosting we should practice is seeking the Holy Ghost, the invisible, electric, radioactive spirit of Love which is God, whether you understand Him to be Jesus, or Yahweh, or Buddha, or the Cosmic Muffin.
And no, it is not someone else’s problem any more. It is up to you. Choose Love or Hate, Reality or Fakey World, and choose carefully. Your soul depends on it.
R.I.P. Charlie Kirk. Long live, Charlie Kirk.
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john.arra@wayoutcharlottepike.com