4. The Opportunity For Justice

Justice. What is Justice?

Let’s try and clear this up then, shall we?

But before we get too much further, not like we haven’t gone far already, I would like to add here: just like school, what I write here or say in my podcast is just a starting point in the topic. It is up to each of you to continue your learning independently.

Remember, everything we’ve ever learned we have learned through one of two ways: personal experience—living through happenings and occurrences in our lives—and trusting the word of one who told us what they thought we should know and how we should know it. Each has its own hurdles, and each will be greatly influenced through our chosen perception based on our beliefs, which were built upon our chosen foundation.

A quote from my book, Volume I: The Foundation To Your Success, “The foundation we all build our lives upon may be different, but one thing that is in unison among all of us is that these ideas are all preconceived notions, individualized by each person’s own personal life experiences, learning, and beliefs. That is our free will to make our own choices, build our own lives, and form and shape our own destiny, which is what leads us to our learning, beliefs, and experiences.”

As we’ve discussed, we don’t seem to be unified on what the concept of justice is…at least not in our defining of it and our perceptions in this life.

Side note: listen to my podcast, Episodes 026 and 027: Red vs Blue (PART I & II), where we talk about context—context of a happening or occurrence or anything, really, in life, is vitally important for all foundations in order to find and apply proper justice if and when a truthful injustice has occurred.

“Throughout history, we have hidden ourselves behind walls of false justifications, rationalizations, logical fallacies, and political and confirmation bias to support a personal opinion, fear, choice, or agenda… contorting the truth, so we do not have to face the root of a problem or consequence or a choice, which would require honest reflection and admittance of personal failings. By doing so, we willfully and actively censure truth, criticize perspective, deceitfully misconstrue another, and…further divide through animosity and hate.” (Josh C. Jones, Volume I)

We all have the power to make our own choices, and those choices don’t end with education in a school. Otherwise, you will only know what you were told you should know, and you will only understand what they want you to understand.

Humans like to categorize things, which is probably why we keep dividing ourselves amongst each other, such as the failings of identity politics. But I digress.

Society and culture, aside from being unable to identify and find many things, seem to have put justice in one of two categories—one in which they vehemently oppose and are in constant defiance of, and one in which they fully trust without question or logic or definition.

But, then again, as I said in Episode 029: Defiance or Trust, we will always defy one and trust the other.

Anyway, justice seems to come in two forms: biblical justice and social justice; the former most people tend to ignore, the latter most people seem to abuse. One comes from an absolute and firm foundation, one built upon a rock; the other comes from an ever-evolving foundation of sand. One never changes, the other fluctuates with each generation, month, and sometimes each week. One comes with a concept of grace, the other comes with the concept of division and submission.