Oh Those Carnal Desires

So getting into this week, and this was a weekend full of, uh, Cornell conversations online.

It amazes me how quickly, uh, as a society now with social media, we can jump from one cause to another cause, and how we just sort of, uh, effortl- effortlessly jump from one thing to the next and consider ourselves to be experts in whatever that thing is.

And I know we touched on this a little bit last week when- when we talked about it, but I- I, uh, I just...

We- we went through this whole, you know, this- this woman accused of killing her kids.

People watched some of the trial.

I don't think many people watched all of the trial.

That kind of is the- the tendency that we have.

We kind of glean things, or we dig into it a little bit and we say, "Eh, I got enough.

I- I now can form my opinion on this based on this information." There was a time in my life where I would have said that I was comfortable doing that, and then I grew up, and I realized how absolutely ridiculous and silly it is to think that I can gather just a little information.

Now, I can have an opinion on it, but for me to think that my opinion is gospel correct, 100% right, you can't argue with me, and I'm happy to tell you all the reasons that I'm right and that whatever different opinion you have is wrong, I've outgrown that.

I do have opinions.

I have opinions on some things, and I don't have opinions on other things.

And I'm gonna be completely honest with you when it comes to, uh, the- that, uh, that trial, uh, the Clancy trial.

I...

Look, I don't- I don't know anything other than some children were killed, and that's enough to- to make me nauseated.

That's enough to make me, um, just sad, very sad and disturbed, and for anyone to think that they can...

I mean, charges are brought against this woman.

Um, you can get into the, like, w- w- was it depression? Was it, you know...

W- what was the- the reason that this could have happened? And that then spiraled into, "She didn't even do it.

The husband did it," or, you know, whoever.

Mother's, brother's, cousin's, sister's, uncle's roommate did it.

Whate- you know, where we went from, "She did it," but did she do it because of, uh, instability, uh, depression, uh, postpartum? Like, what- what were the things that caused her to do it? And that was the trial, and then it very quickly turned into something else.

It was very, uh, very reminiscent of the OJ trial.

It was a case of, uh, OJ Simpson's been charged with killing his ex-wife and her boyfriend, and that's- that's where the trial, whether he's, you know, he's innocent.

He wasn't there.

So getting into this week, and this was a weekend full of, uh, Cornell conversations online.

It amazes me how quickly, uh, as a society now with social media, we can jump from one cause to another cause, and how we just sort of, uh, effortl- effortlessly jump from one thing to the next and consider ourselves to be experts in whatever that thing is.

And I know we touched on this a little bit last week when- when we talked about it, but I- I, uh, I just...

We- we went through this whole, you know, this- this woman accused of killing her kids.

People watched some of the trial.

I don't think many people watched all of the trial.

That kind of is the- the tendency that we have.

We kind of glean things, or we dig into it a little bit and we say, "Eh, I got enough.

I- I now can form my opinion on this based on this information." There was a time in my life where I would have said that I was comfortable doing that, and then I grew up, and I realized how absolutely ridiculous and silly it is to think that I can gather just a little information.

Now, I can have an opinion on it, but for me to think that my opinion is gospel correct, 100% right, you can't argue with me, and I'm happy to tell you all the reasons that I'm right and that whatever different opinion you have is wrong, I've outgrown that.

I do have opinions.

I have opinions on some things, and I don't have opinions on other things.

And I'm gonna be completely honest with you when it comes to, uh, the- that, uh, that trial, uh, the Clancy trial.

I...

Look, I don't- I don't know anything other than some children were killed, and that's enough to- to make me nauseated.

That's enough to make me, um, just sad, very sad and disturbed, and for anyone to think that they can...

I mean, charges are brought against this woman.

Um, you can get into the, like, w- w- was it depression? Was it, you know...

W- what was the- the reason that this could have happened? And that then spiraled into, "She didn't even do it.

The husband did it," or, you know, whoever.

Mother's, brother's, cousin's, sister's, uncle's roommate did it.

Whate- you know, where we went from, "She did it," but did she do it because of, uh, instability, uh, depression, uh, postpartum? Like, what- what were the things that caused her to do it? And that was the trial, and then it very quickly turned into something else.

It was very, uh, very reminiscent of the OJ trial.

It was a case of, uh, OJ Simpson's been charged with killing his ex-wife and her boyfriend, and that's- that's where the trial, whether he's, you know, he's innocent.

He wasn't there.