hallam
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Prestige is not might,
Prestige is not military,
Prestige is not force,
Prestige is not money,
Prestige is not domination,
Prestige is not politics,
Prestige means humanistic principles,
When you sacrifice something because you think that that this is against principles,
Then you do it for nothing but to keep your prestige up and intact,
Prestige is the name of your account in which you keep your good deeds based on values, ethics and principles,
Prestige is promise,
A promise that you once had made with your God,
Prestige is the graph of your actions you do, based on that promise!!!
Your hearts, minds and conscience constantly tell you,
About, whether you are keeping your promise or you are ignoring your promise,
Prestige is the court of your conscience,
And, Jesus Christ is the Justice of that court,
Prestige is very valuable, if you consider,
It does not come from money,
It comes directly from Jesus Christ,
Children are free and protected,
If they have shelter of Jesus Christ,
This is The Prestige.
While I would love to agree with you, prestige in our world today is not based off of Christ or conscience or even ethics. If it were we would live in a much better world. No, prestige is based off money, politics, and military might which fold into one thing, raw power. Power is what prestige is based on today.
To the thread however, I do not think the US has lost prestige. If we have, it would have been in the 90s when we lost the USSR as a rival. America always needs a rival. Prestige has not been lost; what has been lost is the ability to ignore or not even hear negative comments. The internet has allowed every negative comment a voice and now we can collect and categorize them. Before the internet, we either said these things in a way that made them seem rare or that they didn't exist (if the major newspapers or networks didn't cover it.) The sad fact is that we generally don't categorize positive news in the same way.
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