LORD ...
I intentionally took the title of this article the same as L.Inkin's article. In a way, this article is a kind of answer. I have known Leonard for a long time, and I know his peculiar opinion. We have had discussions with him, and I know how difficult it is at times to convince him of another. And this is one of those times when I would disagree with his setting again. Yes, yes, just for the setting, because it's hard to call it an opinion. L.Inkin's article can be read here.
And so. In his article, Leonards divides practically everyone into lord and servants. He also has his own interpretation in this article, which is the Lord. And to make it easier for the reader, in his article he compares our life with a game hall or a "winner" - whichever is more pleasant. The setting for this article is one - you don't have to be a Lord, and you don't need someone to peck at your table. But ... then what should you have as a result?
As for myself, I am not ashamed to emphasize that I am a lord. And not because I don't count my money, as Alvils Bērziņš treated it. And not because I would tell someone how to live. I simply have my own interpretation of the term 'Lord'. And in my interpretation, the lord is not the one who discards something to the poor, or who concentrates power in his hands, money. Lord, that is respect. Respect for yourself and others.
At one time, I had an interesting discussion about a picture on social networks. The picture showed Rockefeller and Rothschild, but below it was the signature - "they own your money". I replied that my money did not belong to them, to which I received a whole bunch of accusations and reprimands that I was arrogant that I did not understand anything about life, personal insults, and so on. And you know, all those who attacked me are those described in Leonard's article. These are people who, above all, have stopped respecting themselves, those who absolutely need Lord to blame in all their absence. These are the people whose main thing is to find excuses. And these excuses are for their inaction, their laziness.
Even before the proclamation of Latvia as a free state, when the abolition of sojourn was abolished, when a Latvian could become the owner of his land, there was already a speech by the lord. This address referred to hardworking and purposeful owners. The address was later used by the Mr (lord) as a tribute. Even the unemployed and the poor were called lords. Because, sir, that is respect. It is the Lord who is able to rule over His world, to be accountable for His works, not to be ashamed and to admit one's mistakes, to build one's prosperity.
At the same time, Latvians have been inspired since the 12th and 13th centuries that the Lord is something superior, something that can rule over others. And so it has come to pass that there are three kinds of people in our society - villains, lords and servants. I have already written about lords in my own sense and beyond. Servants, on the other hand, are those who regard the wicked as lords and who declare that "lords are those who allow a servant to peck at his table." Such a situation is very well described by J. Janševskis in his novel "People of Mežvidus", where the society of that time necessarily needed a "lord", who is the holder of power, and before whom to bow, and at the same time his own Ziemelis and Irbe, who had largely gathered and created a free society - they were considered nothing as soon as an expelled German baron appeared on the horizon.
But instead we seek excuses, trying to find the wicked to be called lord, to put ourselves back in the position of a servant. Just as the Bible teaches - be humble, honor your Lord ... It is taught by the Bible, which was imposed on us by the newcomers who declared themselves Lords, the Lord's appointed ones ... Not of God, nor of the Creator, but of the Lord ... And following this "lesson", no wonder. No need to think about the refrigerator, as Leonards says. For the Lord said, "He that hath, to him shall be given; and he that hath not, from him shall be taken ..."
But I am a lord. I am because I respect myself and I respect others. I do not rank anyone as a servant, but I respect everyone as lord until everyone says they are servants. I do not call the wicked lord because I do not respect them. I am not trying to find excuses, I am trying to improve and solve them. I am not afraid that life is bad - I make it good for myself, and only I am guilty if I somehow do not have or lack it.
I AM THE LORD!
And I want everyone to be lord. Lord, not villains.