WE WERE WARNED

WE WERE WARNED

I decided to change my routine this morning, I started to read in the New Testament.  Trying to break my usual input of politics and the study of current sociological malfeasance I denied my urge to turn on the usual media outlets.  Within the first three chapters of Mark I read the words of Jesus as he explained the inability to survive as a divided entity. 

Mark chapter 3:24-27  ²⁴ How can Satan drive out Satan? If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot last. ²⁵ And if a household is divided against itself, that household can never last. ²⁶ Now if Satan has rebelled against himself and is divided, he cannot last either -- it is the end of him.

Those words have survived for centuries but it seems that we as a society have ignored that warning when it comes to our own nation.

Abraham Lincoln: America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. 

Nakita Kruschev: We will bury you and 'We shall destroy you from within'. Words within the context of defeating our capitalistic democratic philosophy and our society through the use of words rather than physical warfare. 

A historical Syrian adage “The word is mightier than the sword” has proven itself time and time again throughout our species history.  The use of words has been used as a prop for ideological propaganda to gain great success.  That success as far as benefit, is only in regard to effectiveness, but more in terms of its resulting debris.  The debris left scattered throughout our world by well-spoken, persuasive tyrants, ie. Stalin, Lenin, Mao, Castro and a list of others promising answers to discomfort, is quite similar to the fate suffered by those mammals scurrying after the pied piper as they rushed toward their own demise.

Our society has discarded pragmatism in favor of idealism, unfortunately, while thinking we can run and leap, we are still just crawling and stumbling not yet able to personify our goal of perfection.  Mankind in its climb toward becoming more god-like, more merciful, kinder and gentler than the rest of those in various food chains has some of us denying the nature of our world.

It is difficult to understand why, after all the forewarning and historical lessons we, as a society, have allowed our country’s government and educators to drive us toward the edge of a suicidal jump from hope and promise. Just as our physical bodies require healthy nourishment our society requires beliefs that are pragmatically constructive to its healthy growth and survival.  We would never allow our heads to be severed from our bodies on the promise and arguments of a thief.  To our detriment we allow power grabbing politicians to lead us toward the removal of our base concepts of self-reliance, hope of achievement and trust in those who lead. 

More reading of the Book gives warning in the beginning chapters.  Evil is able to coerce with lies, partial truths and false promises.  The story of Eve being enticed to act against the best interests of mankind by the Snake gives us the warning…  Not all things that sound really good, are and care should be taken before accepting a free lunch without looking at it.

It would make sense to be prudent in our acceptance of most all things that sound too good to be true.  Nor are all things we hear regarding the ill intent and history of others are factual and true.  It makes sense that we learn to be individual thinkers that delve into the truth of what we see and hear.  We need to understand the motivation behind what is fed into our belief systems.  The “GIGO” principle in computer language and input is understood in the world’s languages, but somehow, ignored when we choose our own personal operating systems. 

SOURCE, PURPOSE, GOALS, COST, UNEXPECTED NEGATIVE RESULTS, HISTORICAL SUCCESS RATE, IS IT GOOD FOR YOU PERSONALLY, IS IT GOOD FOR THE DIRECTION OF OUR COUNTRY, IS IT GOOD FOR MANKIND AS A WHOLE, IS IT A STEP TOWARD OR IS IT AN END GOAL , and most importantly, WHAT WILL THE UNEXPECTED RESULTS BRING. 

These are a few of the things we should examine before we dump things into our belief systems, and our choice of actions.  The need for self-education is more important today than any other time in man’s history, due to the intense manipulation of the mass.  The use of propaganda is a very silent and insidious tool and we are seeing the effect of some 50 years of the infection of the educational, media and entertainment personal information systems available to our people, most particularly attacking those not yet in control, our children.  Pragmatism has been overturned in favor of social engineering and letting others determine what the highest purpose of the individual should be.  We complain about school yard bullying, about bullies that pick the weakest link in the social hierarchy then attack them verbally and physically.  Yet those same “I’m better than you” who condemn the young bully, will use the same well-honed techniques of shaming someone they disagree with.

Our nation is in danger of being overturned by our younger generation, those who feel disenfranchised, who have been taught that our system and our society are bad for mankind as a whole.  We see multiple generations of our society attacking a duly elected political administration, decrying a governing system that has provided the world with so many positive things.  The result is predictable if we allow it to continue.  We cannot reverse this march toward extinction as a political and social system by the use of force.  We need to use truth, honesty, and history.  The same methods need to be employed, we need to educate our young people, not abdication our responsibilities as adults.

Our country and our President are under attack by a media and backed up by public idols (actual or self-titled) who regurgitate false rumor and innuendo.  The same techniques used by the schoolyard bullies are used to stop any possible chance of success.

Pray for our country, our people, and our warriors.

May God bless us all.

SNOWFLAKE?

Misconceptions continued.  Our population's penchant for tunnel vision when it comes to blame and schoolyard finger pointing, has put handcuffs on understanding.  It’s the centuries old problem of seeing the splinter in your eye while ignoring the log in mine.  Sad.  Pragmatism, logic, reason, open mindedness and common sense seem to be rejected concepts today.  We seem to be going through a stage of growth in our country that would make Dr. Phil tear his hair out.  Any sane person knows that a wounded relationship, based on believing derogatory rumor and innuendo, has little or no chance of healing and revival.  Our country is no less in danger of a major fracture. The statement below is a great example of the divisive nature of our society’s inability to have a sensible discussion regarding anything.

 

I am a firm believer that every human being on this planet has components within himself of both godliness and the basic nature of our animal.  The good dog bad/dog approach seems to be factual.  Who we are as a person is shown by which of those dogs we feed.

The apparent missdefined term of “Liberal-Snowflake” is not applicable to any of the traits listed in this statement, even though these traits may be a part of those who can be defined as Snowflakes.  I do find it interesting that there is probably a lot more in common between our opposing groups than believed possible. Once again my abhorrence to the mental use of “all” of any group has given the raised hair on the back of my neck cause to occur.  Having those traits do not classify you as a “Snowflake”.  What might make you join that group is the of use of a truthful statement to propagandize a falsehood. 

I am an individual, moderately conservative in almost every respect.  I do not see myself as a hateful misogynistic, racist, nazi, war monger with a bigoted approach to understanding and accepting those of different beliefs, races, religions and skin color.  I would classify myself as a pragmatic, empathetic American conservative.  Just as some of you may resent being classified as a bleeding heart liberal progressive with Snowflake tendencies, I have resented being categorized as a person who hates gays, one who would strip all federal programs designed to help others etc.  I have put up with those designations of conservatism for some thirty years, sometimes out of fear.

Just for a view of what this one conservative Trump supporter would include in the probabilities of one being a “Snowflake” is the following group of clues:

1.        An inability to accept the election of our President under the centuries old tenants and laws of “The United States of America” which puts the Electoral College above that of population centers.

2.        The adherence to the religion of political correctness as defined by the progressive world view of what is acceptable or not.

3.        The need to remove all forms of competition and recognition of superior achievement in favor of simply being a part of.

4.        Revulsion toward opposing viewpoints and beliefs, to the extent of denying freedom of speech to those who hold those views.

5.        The elevation of feelings to a priority position in everyone’s life regardless of morality, subjugating all other choices of action to that one yardstick.

6.        A lack of pragmatic, logical reason pertaining to what our body politic should be providing our population and the rest of the world.

7.        The presence of a sense of moral superiority over anyone who does not fit into the currently accepted belief structures.

8.        The refusal to seek truth that might diminish your current distaste and anger toward us poor misguided, deplorable, hateful conservatives.

One thing I must emphasize is this fact. If you are a Snowflake, a liberal, a progressive, a “Never Trumper” or a Democrat, I do

not hate you,

I do not wish you ill, I don’t want to inhibit or prohibit your right to think the way you do or to promote your beliefs.  I might, however, consider you to be woefully misinformed.

God bless our country, our people and especially those with whom I may disagree.

Support our country, its warriors and our endeavors.

"GIT'R DONE...."

So much to do and so little time…

There is, as usual, the correlation between the body politic and the body of an individual.  We are in a situation, nationally, the same as any one of us would be in as a result of incision, laziness, fear or plain procrastination.  There is not one of our nation’s ugly situations that could not have been, honestly and effectively, taken care of years ago.  Our politicians and lawmakers have consistently acted not in our country’s best interests but instead have based their decisions on the ballot box.  Our people have enforced that ignorant approach to governance by our what “I want”, selfishness and the “gimmee” syndrome.  Our politicians are like any other animal on our planet that gravitates and relies on the easiest means of gaining sustenance.  They have learned the easiest way to maintain their positions as elected officials is to basically bribe and promise the electorate anything that gets the sheep to follow the gift truck.  We are experiencing the result of a chosen parent who has decided that their two year old child is capable of making decisions for the entire family.  Politicians who cave into the tantrums of ill informed, angry mobs in order to collect them into ideological herds that will repay them at the ballot box, are traitors to their ethical purpose.

Quite a few of us, who are attached to the more conservative ideologies, are upset with POTOS 44 for “kicking the can down the road” need to be honest.  It ain’t the first time all those cans got dented and a bunch of those dents bear the conservative footprints.  Sadly, that “give to get” buy the vote is not the fault of the politicians, it is the fault of whoever has failed to teach how to make rational well informed choices.  What the individual wants is not always what is best for the all.  One of the titles “The art of Selfishness”, pointed out that not all selfishness is bad.  Our country can only sustain itself out of a position of strength on all fronts, out of a sense of cohesiveness and unity that gives opportunity to each and every one of our citizens.  That type of system will only continue if it is governed with factual, logical decisions that will give our country the ability to survive.  The demise of the USA will affect you, me and most of the free world in a detrimental fashion.

Our nation came about through the belief that all men are created equal, that all men have the right for self-determination and the right to choose.  Those tenants cannot be ensured for all of us if we are ruled by the squeaky wheel of selfishness or by the whoredom of political vote purchasing.  Good choices are not going to be made by a society that allows itself to be separated into groups by propaganda that has led individuals to believe that “they” have been and are being treated unfairly by some other group in our country.  Some degree of truth is always a part of propaganda and that is what makes it so insidiously effective.  Unfortunately, like in the case of racism, there are still some pockets of that occurring in our country, but, not all white people, not all people of color, not all Hispanics, not all men, not all women, not all democrats and not all Republicans, not all the wealthy and not all those on welfare are screwing you over or anybody else. The odds are that anyone preaching with the word or the inference of “ALL” is trying to influence you with some form of propaganda and are lying to you.  As individuals we each have an obligation to our neighbors to be reasonable and knowledgeable about the subjects we are asked to vote for.  We have an obligation to be honestly and factually informed before we jump on the bandwagons (demonstrations) of anger that result in personal and property damage in order to bring awareness to a “problem”.  Just a thought: “not everything I believe is true and not everything you say is wrong.” One thing I am 99% sure of, is the statement I just made is true of you too.  We need to start moving our feet out of ideological concrete and start looking for points of agreement rather than the “me right, you wrong” disbelief that puts an end to reason and discussion. 

The results of “kicking the can” have our nation on a very precarious cliff with another cliff just about everywhere we turn.  North Korea, Iran, Russia, Syria, Afghanistan on the international Military cliff; our society torn apart by the practice of dividing us into racial and economic components; vicious crime and murder rate in our cities are just a few of the problems that should have been handled and were not. 

The solutions for immigration, DACA, our border is not really all that impossible to see solution for, but because of politics the obvious answers are not coming forth.  It should not be that difficult but due to desired appearances, or optics as it is called today, common sense does not and will not prevail.  Stop the illegal border leakage, set up a reasonable means for those under daca to gain citizenship, give illegals a opportunity to become legalized, set up a visitor work program for those who seek employment in our agricultural supply chain.  These all have a way to come to a logical, comprehensive and compassionate solution once we remove the politics.

The answer to ending our longest armed conflict in Afghanistan would not still be happening if it were not for the political correctness of trying to appear as the most humane nation in the history of mankind.  Guilt over the bombing that ended WWII has been politicized to the point of not completely fighting the conflict with the intention of winning. 

As for our national debt… if it were your debt, just how much would your be willing to increase your debt load if your earnings were dramatically decreased?

Open your eyes folks, and be totally honest.  We must survive in order to help any one.

God bless our country, our society, our warriors.  Help us to understand and to love our fellow man.

HELP ME UNDERSTAND.. PLEASE

I'm really trying hard to understand why interpretation of our century's old language has been so scattered. It's as if the "tower of Babylon" is being revisited. When President Trump condemned ALL hatred, bigotry and racism, in the past that word ALL would have been inclusive, and would have included the White supremacists, the neo Nazi's. Why is that so difficult to understand. I am also trying to understand why those folks who objected, to those mentally deranged hate filled jerks, and arrived at the scene wielding baseball bats looking for a fight and getting it, shouldn't have been included in that word ALL. In context of that group vs group exhibition of hate there were also people in that park who came there to protest the "Nazi" like practice of erasing past histories. History that, if erased will undoubtedly be repeated due to a lack of awareness of consequence. Why is it ok to hate our President? I also fail to understand why the fact that I am a Christian conservative, who believes that hatred is a form of murder, that believes I have been directed to love my neighbor, that believes in forgiveness, that believes people can be changed, that believes in honesty and truth, Why should I, as a supporter of our President, be called a Fascist, a racist, a hater or be considered to be a bad person.🤔 Feel free to respond https://www.facebook.com/A-Response-2-by-Arbee.../

LIKE IT OR NOT... POINT YOUR FINGER AT

Wow.  We as a nation could not ask for a better chance to do some real soul searching.  That search should tender positive results for our nation, our society as a whole.  Will the lesson be squandered?  Most likely the answer is, probably.  Unfortunately the sad practice of playing the blame game will continue, the indoctrination of ideologies, the refusal to let go of past angers will foster more of what the mirror of Charlottesville could let us see. It seems pretty clear as to what the results of hatred and anger can be, but as to the real causes behind it all, put the blinders on because we don’t really want to see the why.  We miss the why because we always want to blame the other guy in lieu of seeing all sides of the matter, including our part (as in all contests) our side.

The majority, of the United States of America citizens, are aware of the hatred generated by indoctrination in the children of radical Islamists.  When we see Isis parents, pounding the bigotry of their beliefs into 4 and 5 year old children in order to ensure the survival of the ideology, the parents themselves show us the effects of indoctrination.  When we see the indoctrination of fears and hatreds being smeared upon the minds of our own children we are unable to see the correlation.  We are not born into this world in a state of fear, anger, and hatred.  Somebody has to teach us who to fear and hate.  We also have to be taught how to act and react to our targets.  That mental sickness, and the acceptance of it as normal makes it ok for me but not for you.  Indoctrination can be a very subtle force, and in most cases it is hidden by generations of repetition.  

In our own country this form of anti-(choose your poison) is turning our country into hundreds of small groups at odds with one another because of some injustice, real or perceived.  The United part of our society is unravelling at an exponential rate, fueled by the words of those who would see our country fail.  We as a society need to fall back on the adage, “United we Stand, divided we Fall”.  We as individuals need to take an honest hard look at the facts of our history, the actual results of our way of life, the progress our way of life has made in all forms of human endeavor.  Our growth has not always been pure and beautiful.  There have been some very ugly growing pains along the way and those need to be recognized to the same degree as are the successes.  We as a people need to be able to put our place in this time in perspective to where we have been, how we failed and how we succeeded.  Trying to erase the facts of both good and bad will not change where we are today but it will increase the probability of failure tomorrow. The above preamble takes me to the subject that prompted the following commentary from this plain and simple citizen of the United States of America.  What teachable possibilities have the violence in Charlottesville (8/13/2017) given us and what can we hope to change.

We need to stop accepting violence as a form of discourse for change.  We need to stop accepting partial truth as fact. We have to stop attributing the actions of a few to the all of other groups.  We need to accept and learn from our past.  We need to look for ways to effect change through the use of reasonable discourse.  We need to start acting like a society of adults rather than one comprised of toddlers.  We need to understand that forcing political correctness merely masks hatred, bigotry it doesn’t change those illnesses.  We need to embrace our differences at the same time as we recognize and respect the rights of one another to have different goals and beliefs.  I am quite sure that everyone has their own list, but as individuals we need to inspect our beliefs in the face of fact not fiction.

God Bless our Nation,

our warriors,

and our leaders.

Love your neighbor, and yourself.

Pray for peace and understanding.

Like it or not... HE'S RIGHT

CHARLOTSESVILLE, VIRGINIA… 8/13/2017… Who are we supposed to blame?

In a city, known for being a great place to be an American citizen, a clash occurred at a “White Nationalist” demonstration.  Once again our duly elected President can say or do nothing right.

“We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides - on many sides,” Trump said.

Ted Cruz on his twitter feed: “It's tragic and heartbreaking to see hatred and racism once again mar our great Nation with bloodshed.”

President (past) Obama tweeted a quote from Nelson Mandela, “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion..."

In contrast to the facts, almost every report of this conflict  and Mr. Trumps reaction, no mention of the opposition of this demonstration is named, nor is the context of the Presidents condemnation of all those factions at play.

Some of the reality of this situation has been obscured in order to heighten the “anti-Trump”, anti-USA”, resistance movement talking point that Trump is a bad, bad, person.  The real causes involved in this sad part of our societies growth pain are basically what the President called out, bigotry and hatred.  Like it or not, Mr. Trump was right when he called those two sicknesses, hatred and bigotry, as being the basic causes behind  the rising fever of divisive conflict in our nation.

This demonstration was a objection to the removal of a segment of our history, a statue of Robert E Lee.  I am not a white nationalist but I disagree with the current pump up of political correctness.  The cheer leaders of this bastardization of our history include those groups which would pull our people into the mire of hatred.  The antifa group, a major part of the Resistance Movement, also arrived at this demonstration in a state of preparedness’ for conflict.  You will be hard pressed to find mention of this fact.  Once again, like it or not, President Trump was absolutely correct in saying many factions were at fault.

Hatred , bigotry, racism is being promoted by so many divisive components of our society and by those who would see our way of life, capitalism and democracy, fail and disintegrate.  Many say that the war in Afghanistan is our longest war, but that war has only been going on for a mere 15 to 16 years.  The propaganda war being waged on our country through propaganda, education and Medias has been conducted against us for some 60 years.  This “fifth column” is finally coming out into the open and its effect is catastrophic  and is evidenced by the almost complete division of our society since the Civil War. 

Like it or not, our President is 100% correct when he calls for our people to abandon hatred, when he calls for us to unite behind the tenants of our system of life, the one based on the merging and acceptance of the color race and creed of our neighbor.  Like it or not, as individuals, we need to look in the mirror and see if we have been infected by our national sickness.

Pray for our country, our people, and our President.

Pray for healing of our Nation

Pray for the elimination of all forms of hatred and bigotry.

GOD BLESS THE USA

LIKE IT OR NOT

 

Like it or not facts are not always stronger than fiction. 

In the last 75 years I have seen the art of twisting the truth into a weapon being used on our society by our own people.  We are at war, and we are not winning.  We have spent millions of dollars, lost blood and lives fighting wars in countries far distant from our shores.  We are facing threats of attack from North Korea.  The U.S. is experiencing cyber intrusion into our financial, economic and military systems from so many fronts that it’s difficult to keep them straight.  It seems there is some new confrontation occurring on a daily basis.  One might think those are our greatest dangers.  (Our war in the Middle East has been our longest war and one of our most ill-advised undertakings of our short history as a country.)

The fact is the most dangerous war we are in is the one we are having with ourselves, with our achievements and our own history.  The “fifth column” is alive, organized and active and it has spread like a cancer across our country.  We are like lambs being led by the “Judas Goat” to cutting our own throats.  That war has far surpassed any other in terms of span of time, cost to our nation and the absolute danger to our way of life.  The weapon and method used against us is using the pliable minds of our own children being contaminated through the propaganda being taught in colleges and universities we pay for. 

The truth of the matter is this mental contagion is the product of our own making.  Years ago our parents began abdicating the responsibility of child rearing to the primary educational system.  Rather than instilling the ethics of honesty, hard work, compassion, and yes, the Ten Commandments, we allowed our way of life to be corrupted.   We have allowed our way of life to erode as the rock into sand.  The constant pounding of discontent and identity separateness has unraveled the strength of unity into the weakness of a single thread.  Through the power of communication media, our collective knowledge base is shown to be lacking.  Were you to stop twenty random people (under the age of thirty) you would find few that know anything about our country’s history, its political and economic systems and the positive results that have been contributed to our world as a whole.  You will find, however, that they are quite knowledgeable regarding the warts and moles marring the beauty of our nation.  We are at war, we have been at war, a war for the minds and hearts of our people, society and our country.   This war has been hidden for over 60 years and is now moving into public view.  We see it on our streets, on attacks on our law enforcement and first responders, and most recently against the President of the United States. 

I keep returning to one of my favorite books, “As a Man Thinketh”, the premise being that what a man thinks and believes is the real who and what he is.  The same holds true for a society.  Our current state of disarray is a result of what our collective minds have allowed our society to believe and be.  In our desire, as a Judeo-Christian based nation, to be considerate loving folks, we now find ourselves overly protective of every whim, of the individual, and to be the guiding factor for the rest of us to condone to the utmost.  

An overzealous drive to be known as a nice person, a generous person, a charitable and caring person each of us in our own way has contributed to the separateness of all the different groups we have chosen to be included in.  The self-imposed definitions of good and bad are no longer used just to change our own actions but are now used as a defamatory judgement of our neighbors.  Contrary to popular belief, you are not always right and there are always unexpected results.  That is a fact in all reality and it’s true for you and most importantly for me in our society.

We are at War. Our enemy is what is being infused into the minds and hearts of our people.  The weapons of choice are: creating discontent through the use of the words “fair and unfair”, “acceptable and unacceptable”, “right and wrong”, etc.

The age old trick of deception is the use of slivers of truth and fact interspersed with falsehood in the intent to direct and mislead.  That is basically the art of propaganda. It has proven to be a highly effective tool, used for good and bad, in the fight to control societies, be it our own or that of the world in general.  When used against an enemy, it is generally used to create fear to weaken their intent.  Within our own society it is used to lead us in a direction of collective thought congruent with those who are leading us. 

A question might be, “where are we being led”, and who is doing the leading, and why?