Wednesday, June 7, 2017
Psalm 34, 17-18
The wicked shall pay: "The Lord confronts the evildoers, to destroy remembrance of them from the earth. When the just cry out, the Lord hears them, and from all their distress he rescues them."
Ignorance
No, ignorance is not bliss. The well-developed individual, accomplished, skilled, knowledgeable and evolving, aspires to know what the world is about, what he is about, and how he can make a difference in making that God's territory.
Ignorance is a mental state favored by nonindividuators, stultified, indifferent, clustered, without energy, ambition or hope.
The knowing person, the skilled man, can fix and repair many emerging problems. Being competent and able to straighten out messes and fixing one is wrong--these efforts exhilarate, and satisfy. They may not be blissful, but they sure are pleasing.
Ignorance is a mental state favored by nonindividuators, stultified, indifferent, clustered, without energy, ambition or hope.
The knowing person, the skilled man, can fix and repair many emerging problems. Being competent and able to straighten out messes and fixing one is wrong--these efforts exhilarate, and satisfy. They may not be blissful, but they sure are pleasing.
Tuesday, June 6, 2017
Louis Lamour
In several of his Western novels, this author characterizes his hero as someone that is fond of others, but does not expect much from them, realizing that they are weak, greedy, selfish, craven, crooked, massed men and women.
This realistic but accepting approach of tolerating the backsliding, shortcomings and misbehaviors of people around one is a most vital outlook to take on.
We must always recognize and accept others where they are coming from, not where we as idealists demand that think they should be.
We must never forget to respect their individuality, their freedom, their power and their free will to live as they see fit, even sinning and making very poor choices.
The most wicked person (the most lethal person) is the embittered, power-hungry idealist that hates others, and holds a massive grudge against them for not following him, worshiping him, and falling into line with his demands and exhortations. This is the classical pseudointellectual that Hoffer so feared and warned us against.
Once they are in power in a totalitarian regime, their war against the people is a frightening thing to behold.
Much better, not to expect too much too soon from fallible humanity, while still respecting them, while remaining fond of them, while hoping and praying that one day they will wake up, see their duty and head in the right direction. This reaction to their rebellion and defiance against our program is the ethical action that God expects of De's idealists and reformers.
Nothing sickens the soul of the frustrated reformer like desiring control of others; horrible damage was done in the 20th century in the hands of such snarling intellectuals determined to bend mass humanity to their wills.
This realistic but accepting approach of tolerating the backsliding, shortcomings and misbehaviors of people around one is a most vital outlook to take on.
We must always recognize and accept others where they are coming from, not where we as idealists demand that think they should be.
We must never forget to respect their individuality, their freedom, their power and their free will to live as they see fit, even sinning and making very poor choices.
The most wicked person (the most lethal person) is the embittered, power-hungry idealist that hates others, and holds a massive grudge against them for not following him, worshiping him, and falling into line with his demands and exhortations. This is the classical pseudointellectual that Hoffer so feared and warned us against.
Once they are in power in a totalitarian regime, their war against the people is a frightening thing to behold.
Much better, not to expect too much too soon from fallible humanity, while still respecting them, while remaining fond of them, while hoping and praying that one day they will wake up, see their duty and head in the right direction. This reaction to their rebellion and defiance against our program is the ethical action that God expects of De's idealists and reformers.
Nothing sickens the soul of the frustrated reformer like desiring control of others; horrible damage was done in the 20th century in the hands of such snarling intellectuals determined to bend mass humanity to their wills.
Your Demeanor
You are to esteem yourself, and defend yourself against all wicked attackers that seek to beat, rob you, mock you, cut you off from social favor, even murder you.
You use violent self-defense if necessary to keep them at bay. Short of that you fight with every conceivable nonviolent, and legal means to thwart their hostile intentions and malevolent campaigns against you.
These are all duties that you are ordered by the Good Spirits to carry out and live by. You are to enslave none, and injure none, but nor are you to accept without vigorous struggle, any effort from any individual, any group and any association to rob you of your money, your freedom, your say and your life. You will be willing to die, a gift in action of to God that none will hurt you and not rue the day.
This is the Golden Rule being enforced and practiced by you in the everyday world.
Beyond these assertive forms of self-protection and just fair ways of dealing with others, your demeanor your approach are still to be stances of courtesy, humility, diplomacy, friendliness and reasonable trustworthiness. You are honest in all transactions with others. You do not make promises easily, but seek mightily to perform based upon the commitments that you do absorb.
Your welcoming attitude will still win many over, the neutral ones, the ones that know you not.
You use violent self-defense if necessary to keep them at bay. Short of that you fight with every conceivable nonviolent, and legal means to thwart their hostile intentions and malevolent campaigns against you.
These are all duties that you are ordered by the Good Spirits to carry out and live by. You are to enslave none, and injure none, but nor are you to accept without vigorous struggle, any effort from any individual, any group and any association to rob you of your money, your freedom, your say and your life. You will be willing to die, a gift in action of to God that none will hurt you and not rue the day.
This is the Golden Rule being enforced and practiced by you in the everyday world.
Beyond these assertive forms of self-protection and just fair ways of dealing with others, your demeanor your approach are still to be stances of courtesy, humility, diplomacy, friendliness and reasonable trustworthiness. You are honest in all transactions with others. You do not make promises easily, but seek mightily to perform based upon the commitments that you do absorb.
Your welcoming attitude will still win many over, the neutral ones, the ones that know you not.
Psalm 34, 14-16
McConnell and Ryan, the beavers that build the dam ever higher, holding in the Washington swamp muck and water that Trump is seeking to drain. These Washington insiders, these big government Republicans, are rotten to the core and speak with Forked Tongues. McConnell claims that he can't even find 50 votes to repeal Obamacare, roadblocking Trump, as Rush points out.
These wicked men and women grow groupism, grow the Obama, Marxist dictatorship, and bring us to poverty and ruination.
These are evil days and the rulers are evil creatures, cowardly, selfish and reckless.
May these Biblical lines remind us of how politicians should act, and work to bring God's kingdom to Washington: "Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking guile; Turn from evil, and do good; seek peace, and follow after it."
These wicked men and women grow groupism, grow the Obama, Marxist dictatorship, and bring us to poverty and ruination.
These are evil days and the rulers are evil creatures, cowardly, selfish and reckless.
May these Biblical lines remind us of how politicians should act, and work to bring God's kingdom to Washington: "Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking guile; Turn from evil, and do good; seek peace, and follow after it."
Saturday, June 3, 2017
Prager U
He had a short video hat I looked at today, and he note that the Left will setlte for what feels good, and may or may not be effective.
The Right thinks about what does good. They are much more practical than members of the Left. Those on the Right concerned about what is the most effective.
It is noble to wish something to be done, but getting it done is a much harder, more timely challenge.
The Right thinks about what does good. They are much more practical than members of the Left. Those on the Right concerned about what is the most effective.
It is noble to wish something to be done, but getting it done is a much harder, more timely challenge.
White Privilege
White privilege does not exist, never did, and is not a concept worth one minute's reviewal.
What is so is that human privilege has its roots in the heart of each human citizen--therefore human privilege can be accepted and enjoyed by all, but as maverizing the the route divinely appreciated by the Good Spirits.
What is so is that human privilege has its roots in the heart of each human citizen--therefore human privilege can be accepted and enjoyed by all, but as maverizing the the route divinely appreciated by the Good Spirits.
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