Friday, June 26, 2020

Does Entitlement Exist on a Continuum?

Does entitlement exist on a continuum ...
perhaps with one end being where there exists another human you command or order, and the other being where you are the person being ordered?

Is it the belief you are born on the continuum, somewhat dependent upon your parent's / parents' situation, and that somehow fuels this belief that others derive some compensation (monetary or otherwise) from their willingness to be subservient (to you)?

Does the ability to make choices that effect change in your life have a correlation to where you exist on the entitlement continuum ... with choices correlated to the end where you have entitlement to command or order others, and being the person ordered correlates with the absence of choice?

Does entitlement have any relationship to humility ...
with the more truly humble you are, the less entitled you feel, so you are less inclined to command or order others; and the less humble or more prideful you are, the more you adopt the position of being demanding of others?

Is there a balance ...
or is there no real fulcrum in the center,
making it impossible to keep both ends in check
without stepping over a line, toppling the seesaw, and crashing one side to earth,
while elevating the other side to the point where one's legs dangle mid-air, never able to touch the ground?

Is is possible to know when you are entitled?
Or act entitled?

Can you purchase (or earn) a place on the entitlement continuum with achievement in behavior, academics, money, or piety?



Does Heavenly Father look on earth's existing entitlement continuum ...

and feel compelled to clarify (for the humble hearers) ...

self-evident
created equal
endowed
unalienable 
life, liberty
happiness

Children
entitled
birth
bonds of matrimony
reared
father
mother
honor
complete fidelity

?

After this life.
when compensation is made
to the faithful ( or those full of faith / hope )
where will those childlike people be?
And what will that look like






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