
What’s Going On-Marvin Gaye
THIS SIDE OF PARADISE
“We have entered, as I see it, a spiritual limbo. Our educational institutions are no longer the bearers of high culture, and public life has been deliberately moronised. But here and there, sheltered from the noise and glare of the media, the old spiritual forces are at work” Roger Scruton
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“When a common culture declines, the ethical life can be sustained and renewed only by a work of the imagination.”-Roger Scruton
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“Jesus prayed, “This is eternal life, that they may know You . . .” (John 17:3). The real meaning of eternal life is a life that can face anything it has to face without wavering. If we will take this view, life will become one great romance— a glorious opportunity of seeing wonderful things all the time. God is disciplining us to get us into this central place of power.” Oswald Chambers
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“No power on earth or in hell can conquer the Spirit of God in a human spirit, it is an inner unconquerableness.” Oswald Chambers
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To those who have had no agony Jesus says, “I have nothing for you; stand on your own feet, square your own shoulders. I have come for the man who knows he has a bigger handful than he can cope with, who knows there are forces he cannot touch; I will do everything for him if he will let Me. Only let a man grant he needs it, and I will do it for him.” The Shadow of an Agony,Oswald Chambers
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“If we wish to erect new structures, we must have a definite knowledge of the old foundations.” John Calvin Coolidge
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Atheism is a post-Christian phenomenon.
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If social justice looks like your hand in someone else’s pocket then you are stealing.
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“In Sweden, giving to charity, absurdly, came to be considered a lack of solidarity, since it undermined the need for the welfare state.” – Roland Martinsson
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“…to love democracy well, it is necessary to love it moderately.” Alexis de Tocqueville
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Capitalism seeks to help others through a servce or product it provides. Free Market Capitalism is the most moral and fair economic system available to man. Capitalism augments personal growth, responsibility and ownership. Charity flourishes under capitalism. Charity dies under subjective “fair share” government confiscatory policies. Socialism redistributes ambivalence and greed.
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“We are to regard existence as a raid or great adventure; it is to be judged, therefore, not by what calamities it encounters, but by what flag it follows and what high town it assaults. The most dangerous thing in the world is to be alive; one is always in danger of one’s life. But anyone who shrinks from that is a traitor to the great scheme and experiment of being.” G.K. Chesterton
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent.
It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction. Albert Einstein
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“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.” Flannery O’Connor
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“There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.” C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
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“Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him” (Job 13:15).
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God’s grace is not about the allowance for sin. God’s grace is about the conversation God allows regarding sin.
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From the book of Proverbs: We are not to favor the rich or the poor. We are to pursue justice.
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“Always keep in contact with those books and those people that enlarge your horizon and make it possible for you to stretch yourself mentally.” Oswald Chambers
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One goldfish says to another, “If there is no God who keeps changing the water?”
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“The truth is always there in the morning.”
From Cat On A Hot Tin Roof script – playwright Tennessee Williams
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God blesses those who hunger and thirst for justice, for they will be satisfied.
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“America’s greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.” John W. Gardner
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“Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.” John W. Gardner
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“In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair, the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.” Dorothy L. Sayers
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“Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.”
G. K. Chesterton
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“The battle line between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.” Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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This is what the LORD says:
“Stand at the crossroads and look;
ask for the ancient paths,
ask where the good way is, and walk in it,
and you will find rest for your souls.
But you said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
-The prophet Jeremiah, 6:16
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“…our common task is not so much discovering a truth hiding among contrary viewpoints as it is coming to possess a selfhood that no longer evades and eludes the truth with which it is importunately confronted.” James McClendon, Ethics: Systematic Theology, Vol. 1
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We See You David
April 21, 2025 Leave a comment
Like a petulant willful child who didn’t get his way . . .
Columnist David Brooks of the NYT wrote an opinion column openly and explicitly called for a mass uprising alluding to a Communist revolution.
It’s time for a comprehensive national civic uprising. It’s time for Americans in universities, law, business, nonprofits and the scientific community, and civil servants and beyond to form one coordinated mass movement. Trump is about power. The only way he’s going to be stopped is if he’s confronted by some movement that possesses rival power.
So, David, to hell with democracy and all of the people who voted for Trump and for the lawful changes the Executive Branch is bringing about? Wasn’t it you – the Rachel Maddow-David French-Never Trump types – that told us over and over again that Trump would destroy democracy? But you and the Left are hoping to do that.
You and the Left wanted, by hook or by crook, Kamala Harris to be elected. She would be a sock puppet for the coastal and globalist elites to continue the plunder of our country and our democracy!
If you, the reader, are a partaker of Deep State media (MSNBC, CNN, NYT, WaPo, The Atlantic, etc.) you know the propagandists are roiled. Trump is called a “dictator”, “fascist”, “oligarch”, “Hitler”, “Nazi”, and “racist.”
Trump and his voters, you see, are beneath David and the elite ilk he panders to. His op-ed rallying cry is to unite the self-important – the true dictators, fascists, oligarchs, Hitlers, Nazis and racists of the elitist Left.
I’ve written often about how the Left seeks power above all else. The Left will grab power by any means necessary including stealing elections, creating hoaxes about political opponents and J6, and lawfare. David Brooks, in this NYT op-ed, is seeking to aggregate “rival power” to overthrow the current government (so as to return to the “normal” chaos and destruction the Left is known for, e.g., keeping MS-13 gang members in the U.S.)
It is quite revealing that this is the same power hungry and polarizing David Brooks who gave an interview titled How to Know a Person with David Brooks for the Progressive Trinity Forum (a site where Our Spiritual Betters of Never Trumper ilk gather).
The interview blurb reveals two-faced David:
“In a society where so many feel unseen and unknown, how do we become the kind of people who deeply see and know those around us? The conflict and division in our society demonstrate the need for people committed to pursuing human connection, even across lines of difference. What can we do – as individuals and in community – that will help us really understand the people in our lives?
“David Brooks, author of How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen, joined us to explore what it means to know others and to be known by them:
“When I ask people, tell me about a time you’ve been seen, they tell me with bright eyes and joy in their face, they tell me about time somebody totally got them. Because seeing someone, if I see potential in you, you’ll see potential in yourself. If I beam my attention on you, you’ll blossom. And so it’s just super powerful to feel seen. But it’s also powerful and fantastic to feel like you’re the seer.”
Well, we see you, David. You are David with Trump Derangement Syndrome, a condition that blinds you to all else except the need for power to get your way. You have not seen or known the people who voted for Trump, which is most of America. You live in a credentialed elite bubble. You know those therein, ergo the rallying cry to them and the deep state in the NYT.
Here’s David in the same op-ed not “seeing” Trump:
[Trumpism] is a multifront assault to make the earth a playground for ruthless men, so of course any institutions that might restrain power must be weakened or destroyed. Trumpism is about ego, appetite and acquisitiveness and is driven by a primal aversion to the higher elements of the human spirit — learning, compassion, scientific wonder, the pursuit of justice.
David wants us to know that he is on higher moral ground than Trump and the vast array of people who voted for Trump. David Our Better has an aversion to what he ‘sees’. So, what was decided on election night must be overturned by one coordinated mass movement.
Brook’s civil war-mongering column ends with a phrase originating from The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: “We have nothing to lose but our chains.”
Is David worried that he will no longer be seen in the role of credentialed elite and as one of our betters telling us how to live and see and “blossom?”
Here, we really can see David and his worldview – antipathy to any rule but his own. He wants to overthrow the current government by any means necessary and conform America to his image using elitist chains.
We have witnessed the managed decline of our country the last four years -our country being despoiled by liberal elites whose vision of the world is them sitting atop it dictating to the little people and plundering them for more wealth and power.
We don’t need more alarmist rhetoric about “Democracy!” from the Left. We don’t need a revolution. We don’t need a Color revolution (Democrats Plan For Color Revolution) that is being pushed by the deep state media.
Like a petulant willful child who didn’t get his way, there is nothing of Christ in the words of David Brook. There is, markedly so, plenty of self-righteous contempt for those outside David’s “normal.”
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