Jewells of Thought

The song that got my attention back on Tuesday was “One Night in Bangkok.” These two opposite ideas flirted through my head. The King and I movie and the original Roe versus Wade decision. Then I took a deeper look into the thought.

The Republicans were blamed for having bad messaging in the 2022 Election. That the residual of the reversal of the decision was still going against them at least that’s what most people believe of the ‘Red Wave.’ So why didn’t the messaging work? The obvious massive number of children King Mongkut had was due to some inclination of the thought of life. Could there be a correlation there?

The pundits that believe women were showing their strength at the ballot would have to be completely adverse to having a full-term pregnancy. The thought of the idea scares the jeezers out of me. Are there that many American women that think having a baby is unseemly and probably don’t like the idea of an unplanned pregnancy?

On the other side every single woman who mothered a child of the King of Siam was well cared for in pretty much every way. It would appear that having a child was a responsibility that he was evidently, extremely determined to raise whether the mother was a concubine or one of his wives.

I can’t remember which movie it was I think it was ‘Anna and the King,’ where the King said he wanted basically boasting privileges, I am paraphrasing. He didn’t become King until after serving as a Buddhist Monk for years. His religion was a part of him and having children was a good thing to do. His total number of wives and concubines added to 32 and his children 82 of them.

Of course by anyone’s standards most people think 2 children is enough. Considering that the earliest immigrants coming here before Independence was declared, Patriots had big families many times between 5 to 10 children; this seems like a group think has exploded on American land. We seem to be mirroring the idea that China has become infamous for they began with the one-child policy in 1979 then in 2014 it became a 2-child policy. As if there is a number of perfection with kids. China, though has a definite policy in effect. Why are we following China’s lead?

Does that not answer the problem. In China their god is the state. Buddhism, is not Christianity, but look at the difference in numbers of children. Numbers don’t lie having a religion makes a big difference in the idea of procreation and the benefits of caring, over possibly the underbelly of pure vanity. Not that all abortions are due to vanity, but murder is not something to consider without knowing all pros and cons before deciding.

King Mongkut’s years of living as a monk had to have shown him purpose in having a family at the right time in his life. Christians and Buddhists may not agree on everything, yet birth and the use of abortion seem to be a common ground.