Cindy Wity

That Was No Dream

December 25, 2022 Leave a comment

Ezekiel Evans looked out the front room window. A snow-buried Camry sat dormant under the streetlight. “Still there” Ezekiel said to the glass reflection of Tonya decorating the Christmas tree. He stood there another minute to reassure himself and then returned to his chair. “You never know what will happen next around this doggone place. The city’s gone to hell.”

“Don’t worry, Ez,” Tonya teased, “Chicago has an intersectional mayor. All you have to do is believe in her just like weez all spose to pretend to believe in Santa Claus.”

“I’ll believe in Santa Claus before I believe in her!” Ezekiel replied.

When they moved to the Chicago area several years before, Ezekiel and Tonya overlooked a lot of things. Coming from a Georgia farm, they saw the cosmopolitan city as an upgrade. It was a place to live independently and experience new things. They moved to the Roseland neighborhood on Chicago’s south side.

The five-bedroom brick bungalow on Wentworth Avenue was big enough for their growing family. It was something they could afford. What they couldn’t afford was a carjacking and what some hoodlums were doing in the neighborhood – robberies, burglaries, thefts, assaults, shootings and sex trafficking.

“We’ve got to get that garage door fixed so we can park the car inside. Then you can have some peace of mind Ez,” Tonya offered.

“Yeah, but my peace of mind needs to cover a lot of ground. The kids need food and clothes and shoes, doctor visits, and . . . a decent place to live.”

When they bought the place, it needed a lot of work. Ezekiel spent what extra money they had to fix the place. But the more things in the neighborhood became unsettling the more unsettled he became. His uncle’s Georgia farm, where he lived after his father died suddenly, was a touchstone that kept coming back to mind.

Uncle Abrams raised grass-fed and pasture-raised beef, lamb, goat, and pork. During his time with his uncle, Ezekiel learned animal husbandry and the ways of the Lord. His uncle was a godly man. But a time came when Ezekiel felt he had to find his own way and be his own man. He saw the farm as restraint holding him back.

After his marriage to Tonya, he headed north to the south side of Chicago. There he opened a butcher shop that sold meats from a local packer and from his uncle’s farm. The enterprise was fairly successful, but also a struggle. Maintaining a decent price for the quality being offered hindered sales. His cousin John drove the Georgia meat up to Chicago once a week. John had to be paid.

And there were substantial losses at one point. Around Christmas last winter the store was broken into. The meats on display were taken. A police report was filed but no suspects arrested. Insurance covered the loss and then raised rates six months later. Ezekiel didn’t like putting window grating on his store windows – the cost and the eyesore -but he did what he had to do to maintain business.

Andre was asleep in his crib. Alana was carried to bed by her father. After a retelling of the Christmas story – the one about shepherds and the stable and of Joseph and Mary and the baby – four-year old Alana asked, “Did baby Jesus cry like baby Andre?”

“The story doesn’t say, Alana,” her father replied. “Babies don’t have words yet to say what they want like you and me. Baby Andre fusses and cries when he is hungry and uncomfortable.”

Alana thought for a moment. “I think baby Jesus cried. But then his mama fed him like mama feeds baby Andre.”

“I think you are right.” Dad gave Alana a kiss on the head and tucked the covers around her.

“I’ll leave the hall light on for you. Mom and I will be right here in the next room.”

Ezekiel and Tonya sat in their kitchen listening to the radio. A local station played Christmas carols. Ezekiel looked through the bills and Tonya her grocery list.

“Do you think your uncle will send us another roast for Christmas?” Tonya asked.

“Maybe. I don’t know Tonya.” Ezekiel replied

“Ask him. He’s a good man, a man of faith.” Tonya pushed.

“Yeah, he is a good man. I’m not so sure I’m a good man for taking off and leaving the way I did.”

“I thought you two had worked that out.”

“I worked out that I wanted to go my own way. And when I told my uncle he offered me my choice of acreage on the farm . . . “to build your own future” he said. Uncle Abrams had no problem offering me the better pastures. I guess he figured that God would keep blessing him. He often talked about following God’s leading. I’ve been thinking ‘bout that for a while now.”

“I’m sure he’d like to hear from you other than about another order,” Tonya urged. “Call him tomorrow.”

Ezekiel got up from his chair and headed to the front room window to check on the car. He looked out and saw the car. And some trouble heading his way.

There was a sudden frantic pounding on the front door. “What the . . .!”

Looking out onto the lighted porch he saw two terrified young men. When they saw Ezekiel, they screamed louder. Ezekiel opened the door.

“Help us mister! They’re coming!”

“Who is coming?” Ezekiel shouted through the storm door.

“Those men!” One of the boys pointed. “Let us in mister please!”

Ezekiel hesitated, not sure if it was a ruse. Then he saw four men running down the sidewalk towards the house. Something didn’t seem right. The boys were only wearing sweatshirts, sweat pants and dirty socks.

“Come in. Let me find out what this is all about.” Ezekiel opened the storm door and the two teenagers bounded in behind Ezekiel. Tonya grabbed some blankets from the hallway closet and handed them to the boys.

“What’s this all about?” Ezekiel looked at the boys and then at the approaching men.

The shorter boy started, speaking as fast as he could. “Those men took us off the street. They said they had plans for us.” He stopped to catch his breath. “We escaped the van when it got stuck in the snow . . . we saw you looking through the window . . .”

“What plans?”

The taller boy spoke. “Something about service jobs for me and him,” he pointed to the other boy chattering his teeth, “we’ve been friends for a while . . . we want nothing to do with them.”

“Where do you live?”

“Mister, we have no home. The street’s our home. These guys came up to us and said we could be warm and have food if we came with them. We thought it would be OK. One of them looked like he was a priest.”

“Go on,” Ezekiel pressed. But now the men were on the front porch. One of them was rattling the storm door by its handle.

“Where are those boys? Bring them out to us so that we can talk to them.”

Ezekiel opened the storm door and the men backed up. He came out and folded his arms. “I’ll do their talking. What do you want with them?”

A large bald man stood in front. Behind and to the left of him stood a squirrelly-looking man with a pockmarked face. He kept looking around. Next to him, on the other side of the bald man, stood a thin goateed man making a solemn look The other man who was out of view down on the sidewalk. The bald man spoke.

“Mister we just want to talk to them. We saw them on the street they looked like they needed shelter and food. We don’t know why they ran . . . these two young boys need our help. We do this all the time – help homeless kids”

“I see. You need their help in a service industry?”

“We wanted to give them jobs . . . you know, . . . helping . . . serving people.”

“I see. Well, these boys want no part of it.”

“Listen mister . . . “, the bald man growled and grabbed Ezekiel by his shirt to pull him away from the door.

At that moment Ezekiel thought he made out the face of his lawyer friend. “Ken . . . Ken! . . . is that you?”

The man on the sidewalk turned and walked away.

The large bald man began to pull harder on Ezekiel. “Listen mister . . . it’s none of your affair.” The two other men tried to open the storm door behind Ezekiel.

The two boys saw this and pulled Ezekiel inside. Ezekiel locked the door. Through the glass he shouted “My wife has called the neighbors. You better not come back here lookin’ for what ain’t yours!”

The men turned and saw porch lights turning on. Neighbors came out to see what was happening.

“Get back in your van and get the hell outta here! NOW!” Ezekiel eyes blazed.

The four men took off down the sidewalk, hiding their faces in their collars as they ran.

Ezekiel watched the van drive off. He stood there for a long time to reassure himself that it was gone.

Tonya had the boys settled at the kitchen table. While talking with the neighbors on the phone Tonya made hot cocoa and oatmeal for the boys. They still shook from the cold under the blankets and their eyes remained wide open.

One of the boys asked “You didn’t call the police?” Tonya stopped what she was doing and replied.

“Even if those four predators were caught and arrested, they would be released without bail. That’s how things go around here. Criminals run free and good people are supposed to put up with it.”

Ezekiel walked into the kitchen for a moment and then turned and walked down the hallway. He returned ten minutes later.

“I’ve made up some bedding for you two in the back room. You don’t go anywhere tonight.”

The boys looked at each other. “Thank you, . . . mister?”

“Ezekiel, and this is my wife, Tonya. In the morning you’ll meet our two little ones.”

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Baby Andre made the first sound in the morning. His cries woke Tonya. She got him up and nursed him. A while later Alana came into the kitchen rubbing her eyes.

“Alana, we have two guests in our house. They slept overnight in the back room.”

“Who are they mama?”

“Two young men who needed some food and a place to sleep.”

“Were they crying?”

“No Alana. We knew what they needed. I’ll make you oatmeal.”

Ezekiel walked in the front door. He’d been out clearing off the car. Tonya handed him a cup of coffee.

Ezekiel spoke in hushed tones. “Those two . . .,” he nodded to the back room, “let them sleep in. I’ll bring home some extra ground beef for dinner. Find out their names”

That evening Ezekiel, Tonya, Alana, baby Andre, Booker and Darius sat around the table eating a casserole and potato salad. After a blessing they talked about the day. Alana, who couldn’t hold back, started.

She told her father about building a snowman with the two boys. Tonya had given the boys some of Ez’s old coats and gloves and shoes and socks to wear. The boys each said that they had never built a snowman. And though still somewhat pensive about everything, they began to open up.

Each boy talked about living in the projects and taking care of their mother. They talked about people coming around. They talked about their mothers becoming drug addicts. They talked about their baby sisters being taken away. And of not knowing who their father was. And then Booker and Darius stopped talking. Alana began asking questions. Tonya assured Alana that she would tell her what she needed to know later.

Baby Andre’s day, per Tonya, consisted of wide-eyed wonder and giggling when the boys played peek-a-boo with her. The boys helped keep baby Andre occupied while she did what she had to do.

Tonya’s unreported day consisted of changing diapers, laundry, fixing lunch, and neighbor phone calls. After last night, neighbors wanted to know if the Evans family was OK. One neighbor brought over a meal to find out. “This cornbread chicken bake comes from the James family next door,” was Tonya’s update.

After the meal Ezekiel read Psalm 34. Then he repeated these words:

This poor soul cried and was heard by the Lord
and was saved from every trouble.
The angel of the Lord encamps
around those who fear him and delivers them.

The next morning, Christmas morning, it wasn’t the aroma of a grits and sausage casserole warming in the oven that brought the boys to the kitchen. They had something they wanted to get out. They walked back and forth nervously. Ezekiel had them sit down at the table across from him and Tonya.

With a terrified look Darius blurted out “We had a dream, mister Ezekiel, ma’am.”

“We both did,” Booker interjected.

Darius continued. “We both saw very bad things heading this way. We both heard “Leave this place!”

“What do you think it means Ez?” Tonya asked.

Ezekiel began rubbing his forehead. “It means . . . it means . . . it means we better leave.”

“What?! But my brother and his family live here . . . we can’t just pick up and leave!”

“We will warn them to leave.” Ezekiel came back.

“Ha, good luck with that!” Tonya snapped. She got up and put her hands on her hips.

“Ezekiel, a dream? We’re gonna pick up and leave based on a dream?! What about the store?”

“Tonya, if that isn’t a warning, Ezekiel replied, “nothing is. And look what happened to these boys. That was no dream.”

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Let’s Space It!

December 18, 2022 Leave a comment

. . . when the fullness of time arrived, God sent His Son . . .

You and I, remnants of dying stars, have recently arrived on a habitable zone planet within an incredibly old cosmos . . .

American astronomer Edwin Hubble (1889-1953) discovered, through analyzing the distance and redshift effect of two dozen galaxies, that galaxies are receding from us at a velocity that is proportional to their distance from us. A clear straight-line relationship of recession velocity to distance exists and is called Hubble’s constant (H₀).

From his discovery we learned that the universe is not static. It is expanding at a constant rate. And, that we are able to estimate the age of the universe based on the relationship of objects in space that were at one time tightly compacted together.

If we assume that the expansion’s apparent velocity (that is, how fast the galaxies appear to be moving apart) has been constant over the history of the universe, we can calculate how long ago the galaxies began their separation. This should tell us the time that the expansion began, which should give us an estimate of the age of the universe.

The approximate age of the universe can be derived using Hubble’s law: v = H₀d where (d) is the distance between two galaxies, (v) their apparent separation velocity, (H₀) the expanding universe (Hubble’s) constant. The velocity of the galaxy, aka, redshift, is directly proportional to its distance.

. . . advances in our understanding of the stars has led us to refine the ages of the stars in globular clusters, and we now estimate them to be about 13 billion years old. This means, though, that the stars in the globular clusters must have formed within the first several hundred million years of the universe’s existence!

An explanation of the age calculation and the source of the two quotes above are found here:

The Age of the Universe | Astronomy 801: Planets, Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe (psu.edu)

In addition to calculated estimates based on distance and velocity, an imaging spectrograph such as the one outfitted on the Hubble space telescope provides a detailed stellar history, in light wavelength format, of the cosmos.

A star’s spectral light provides its life story. From it we learn of the star’s distance from us, its size, its mass, its composition, its pressure, its magnetism, its solar system connection and where it is in its life cycle.

Deborah Haarsma, astronomer and president of BioLogos, provides further perspective of our cosmic setting:

With a telescope and spectrograph, we learn of the history and makeup of our physical world. We learn that matter-energy, space-time, and the laws of physics existed well before 6-8000 years, as some would have it. Most important, such observations could only happen in a universe designed to support a developing intelligent life.

With a cover-to-cover reading of scripture we learn of the history and structure of reality. That reality involves causal relationships in both the physical and metaphysical realms. John Polkinghorne (1930-2021), theoretical physicist, theologian, and Anglican priest, offers insight into the interactions of human agency and the divine:

You and I, remnants of dying stars, have recently arrived on a habitable zone planet within an incredibly old cosmos . . . and so did Abraham, Joseph, Moses, Deborah, Samson, Hannah, David, Elijah, Daniel, Ruth, Esther, Elizabeth and Mary, Peter, James, Mary of Clopas, John the elder, Saul/Paul, and Joanna the apostle. These and many others were born during pivotal times per biblical accounts. Their interaction with God made a difference to the world we live in. Their stories are told today.

The apostle Paul, who over time had come to understand the significance of all that had come before after the Damascus Road encounter with Jesus (Col. 1: 1523), had to remind the Jewish Christians in Galatia (Gal. 4) that, like him, they were born into this world as heirs. But before they encountered the living Lord they were slaves to the “elements of the world”. The heir/slaves had been kept under guardians and stewards until a time set by God:

When the fulness of time arrived, God sent out his son, born of a woman, born under the law, so that we might he might redeem those under the law, so that we may receive adoptions as sons.

So, you and I, remnants of dying stars are to inherit all that God has created in this incredibly old cosmos.

Why you and me here and now in this ancient universe? Why this place and time? What’s our telos? Let’s space it. It’s time to get our heads out of cyberspace and ponder something greater than, say, the Twitterverse. The fulness of time has come for us, the heirs of redemption.

Lift up your eyes on high and see: Who created these? He who brings out their host and numbers them, calling them all by name; because he is great in strength, mighty in power, not one is missing. – Isaiah 40:26

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“In February 2003, the WMAP project released an all-sky map of the radiation emitted before there were any stars. This cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) is the remnant heat from the Big-Bang and was predicted already in 1946 by George Gamow and Robert Dicke.”

Imagine the Universe! (nasa.gov)

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Informed Dissent:

Celine Dion was disabled from a KNOWN SIDE EFFECT of the COVID vaccine (99.6% certainty) (substack.com)

There’s a deadly processed food “pandemic” causing disease, dementia, and death, and the US Govt. couldn’t care less… – Revolver News

Noted Transhumanist Now Targeting Our Children: What’s inside Yuval Noah Harari’s New Book? (thegatewaypundit.com)

Stay away from PayPal:

PayPal’s Unholy Alliance With ADL Opens the Door to a Massive Security Breach – Revolver News

Stay away from Progressives:

Wherever Progressives go, rats make their home. Chicago tops the list followed by NY, LA, Washington DC and San Francisco:

America’s 50 Most Rat-Infested Cities in 2022 | Orkin

Stay away from Progressives. They fondle, manipulate and mangle children:

SICK: Mattel’s “American Girl” Publishes Book Pushing Puberty Blockers, Gender Transitioning To 3-12 Year Olds (thegatewaypundit.com)

Stay away from Progressives. They make very poor decisions:

Stay away from Progressives. They love open borders including the sexual and destruction:

“. . . people bring their national character with them when they migrate . . .”

Should this matter? Yes. Green cards should go to people who love America, not to opportunists who use the American way to plunder our country.

12ft | Coming to America – Washington Free Beacon

Illegal Immigration — Princeton Policy Advisors

Stay away from Progressives, their vindictive ignorance is profound:

“If You Don’t Want to Go in the Light – You’re Going to Try to Shut Off the Light Others Are Shining” – Fr. Pavone Responds to News of Dismissal by Vatican (VIDEO) (thegatewaypundit.com)

Stay away from Progressives. They are medical fascists:

New Zealand takes baby from parents who requested Unvaccinated blood for transfusion… – CITIZEN FREE PRESS

Stay away from Progressives. They are legal fascists:

Thread by @billybinion on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App

Stay away from Progressives. They will use back door tricks to silence you:

Dr.SHIVA’s Historic First Amendment Lawsuit to Win Back Freedom: First Case in U.S. To Show Government MADE Twitter Silence Political Speech (vashiva.com)

Stay away from Progressives. They drive you off the financial cliff:

Video: Rand Paul Slams “Emasculated Republicans” For Accepting Bloated Spending Bill – Summit News

Over 60 Percent Of Americans Now Living Paycheck To Paycheck Thanks To Bidenflation (thegatewaypundit.com)

As I have mentioned before, inflation is another tax . . .

Inflationary pressures and rising wages continue to benefit State tax revenues. Revenue drivers are personal income tax payments, much of which are forwarded through paycheck deductions, and sales tax payments, which are charged as percentages of the price of the goods sold. Inflation increases these prices and pay rates, thus increasing income and sales tax revenues.

Mike Rowe Warns of The Serious Problem of 7 Million American Men Being ‘Done’ Looking For Work (moneywise.com)

In the Progressive/globalist “war against humanity” the Netherland greenies will shut down 3,000 Dutch farms to comply with EU emissions standards.

In the Progressive/globalist “war against humanity” good people will be destroyed:

Family Speaks Out: Coast Guard Member Being Forced Out Six Months Before Retirement For Refusing the Jab (thegatewaypundit.com)

Here are the Republicans who voted against reinstating troops who refused the vaccine (wnd.com)

Rutgers professor lady: “White people are committed to being villains”… “whiteness is going to have an end date”… “we need to take these MFers out”… – Revolver News

In the Progressive/globalist fantasy world Disney lost $147 MILLION on lesbian lead animated film

Of course, those in power do not have to play by the rules they create.

“Italy is required to do what others are not willing to do,” she added.

Meloni slams France and Germany for accepting less than 100 relocated migrants as Italy takes in 94,000 this year (rmx.news)

God, help us!

12ft | It’s time for climate change to reach the International Court of Justice | The Hill

BREAKING: European Union Reaches Agreement to Force Everyone in EU Countries to Pay for CO2 Emissions – First Step of Personal Carbon Credit System (thegatewaypundit.com)

And there’s Oh No Canada!

WOW!🔥 You will NEVER hear a more eloquent takedown of Canadian legacy media than this. pic.twitter.com/EVWdrnlewu
— Canada Proud (@WeAreCanProud) December 1, 2022

SICK: Canada Offers Veteran and Former Paralympian Assisted Suicide When She Asks for a Stairlift (VIDEO) (thegatewaypundit.com)

Canadian Life Alert Just Euthanizes You When You Push The Button | Babylon Bee

Universal death-as-healthcare care:

The cold weather cannot stop freedom loving Canadians to chant against @JustinTrudeau. People are fed up with Trudeau's tyranny & incompetence. #SaturdaysForFreedom #TrudeauMustGo pic.twitter.com/2N6AY4VYlv
— Salman Sima (@SalmanSima) December 17, 2022

Say “Hell No!” to digital payments! You can be sure this is coming to the U.S.:

Nigeria Bans ATM Cash Withdrawals to $45 per Day to Push Digital Payments (thegatewaypundit.com)

The few, the proud, the feckless:

Filed under 2022 current events, Astronomy, Christianity, Christmas, cosmology, Science Tagged with Astronomy, Canada, Christianity, Christmas, Cosmology, european union, Science, The age of the universe

Season of Light . . . Pollution?

December 11, 2022 Leave a comment

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it.

-The Gospel According to John 1:5

Night after night the natural illumination of billions of stars and reflective orbs goes unnoticed except for an occasional glimpse at the obvious moon. When the sun goes down, we use artificial light to focus our attention elsewhere.

Most of us live in areas immersed in artificial light. Streetlights, flood lights, porch lights, garden lights, gas station lights, stadium lights, airport lights, and the composite glare all detract from what can be seen in the heavens. City lights certainly keep one from seeing the dazzling brilliance of billions of stars and orbiting planets.

As a student at Moody Bible Institute many years ago, I looked out my dorm window located seven floors up from the street. I wasn’t able to see the night sky. All I saw was sky glow generated from the all-night lights of the densely populated city of Chicago. I remember feeling unplugged from what made me tick – the electric night sky.

Later in life, when I returned from business trips, I looked down on the massive grid of orange white sodium street lights as the plane approached O’Hare airport.

Maybe you’ve seen photo comparisons between an industrialized country at night and North Korea at night. The photos are captioned to favor the massive lighting of the industrialized nation. North Korea is said to be “left in the dark ages”. But . . . maybe there is a tyranny of artificial light in the industrialized countries that matches the dark penumbra of dictators in others.

Let’s look at recorded night sky seasons of light.

One starry, starry night God covenanted with Abraham and made him promises (Gen. 12:1-3): “… I will make you a great nation … in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.”

Later in the Genesis account (Gen. 22:17): “I will indeed bless you, and I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore”.

Living in a time when there was no light pollution, Abraham could easily view the galaxy with billions of stars. Maybe he was looking at the Milky Way when God spoke to him about his descendants.

Two millennia later, another starry, starry night revelation confirmed that God would fulfill his covenant with Abraham and do it in a way that no one in heaven or on earth expected. Doctor Luke records what happened (Lk. 2:8-14):

There were shepherds in that region, out in the open, keeping a night watch around their flock. An angel of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.

“Don’t be afraid,” the angel said to them. “Look: I’ve got good news for you, news which will make everybody very happy. Today a savior has been born for you – the Messiah, the Lord! – in David’s town. This will be the sign for you: you’ll find the bay wrapped up, and lying in a feeding trough.”

O Holy night! The stars are brightly shining
It is the night of our dear Savior’s birth … in “David’s town!”

Remember the young shepherd boy David? He kept a night watch over his father Jesse’s flocks. The starry hosts not only provided enough illumination for him to keep an eye on the sheep, they also kept him company. And they gave him musical inspiration. From David’s Psalm 19:

The heavens are telling the glory of God;

and the firmament proclaims his handiwork.

Day to day pours forth speech,

and night to night declares knowledge.

There is no speech, nor are there words;

their voice is not heard;

yet their voice goes out through all the earth,

and their words to the end of the world.

This rough and tumble God-hearted boy with enough stones to kill a Philistine giant would be chosen to be King over Israel. He was promised much more.

One night, God instructed the prophet Nathan to speak to David: “Thus you shall say to my servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people Israel.”

Nathan then speaks of God’s unconditional covenant with David. God promises David that the Messiah (Jesus Christ) would come from the lineage of David and the tribe of Judah and would establish a kingdom that would endure forever (2 Samuel 7: 1-29). Another night sky revelation pointed the way to God’s fulfillment of his promise to David.

Some time after the birth of Jesus, a group of eastern scholars looked up at the night sky, noticed a particular star, understood its significance, and decided to follow it. When they arrived under the star’s location they asked “Where is the one who has been born to be king of the Jews? We have seen his star rising in the east, and we have come to worship him.”

It was under a star-studded night sky that Abraham heard God detail his covenant with him. Night after night thereafter the constant spectacle of luminous stars reminded Abraham of God’s covenant faithfulness.

It was to the star-studded night sky that David looked for knowledge of God and for inspiration. David intuited from the night sky what the apostle Paul wrote later to the church in Rome: For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made . . .

It was a star-studded night when shepherds were suddenly roused in their quiet pastoral setting. A brilliant celestial being – an angel – brought the good news of a savior. Today a savior has been born for you – the Messiah, the Lord!

It was a singular star in the night sky that wise men followed to find their way to a distant town and a king.

It is written “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun”.

Besides being blunt and depressing history and philosophy lessons, perhaps this verse in Ecclesiastes (1:9) can work as a motivator for us. We could seek out meaning above and beyond our mundane lives. Maybe a change in en-light-enment is in order.

Has technology blinded us to the heavens, to the billion points of light declaring the glory of God? It’s time we tone down the artificial so that we can behold the natural illumination of the night sky and gain a different perspective. The truth is out there, away from the city lights.

The light shines in the darkness, and the light pollution works to overcome it.

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This is your season to shine:

Those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky, and those who lead the many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever. – Daniel 12:3

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The following video discusses the effects of light pollution. Keep in mind that blue light, the closest to ultraviolet light, from electronic devices may damage your eyesight.

When was the last time you saw the Milky Way? The Big Dipper? Unadulterated night skies? See what you may have been missing:

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Informed Dissent:

Dr. Robert Malone — Yes, mRNA can turn into DNA inside cancer cells… – CITIZEN FREE PRESS

Natural Immunity, mRNA “boosters” and COVID (substack.com)

Billions Could Be Injured or Killed By the Jab: Are You Ready? – Dr. David Martin (redvoicemedia.com)

The “New” Medical Freedom – by Robert W Malone MD, MS (substack.com)

Dr. Ryan Cole on whether the blood supply is safe: “We don’t know” (substack.com)

Vax-injured Living Hell on Earth (substack.com)

"Is this a vaccine or gene therapy?"

Dr. Robert Malone, “As I have said repeatedly, it came out of a gene therapy research program. These & the adenoviral vectors are absolutely gene therapy technology applied for the purpose of eliciting an immune response.” pic.twitter.com/Ctw0kwYVOH
— New World Odor™ (@hugh_mankind) December 8, 2022

‘The pathway to prevent anymore harm is all the vaccines need to be pulled off the market, withdrawn – that needs to happen immediately. What’s at stake here is death’ ~ Dr Peter McCullough pic.twitter.com/oGBsyk1CMO
— Janey (@_Janey_Jay) December 8, 2022

It is truly alarming that out of the @US_FDA's 20,000 employees, Dr. David Gortler is the ONLY one to speak out.

With over 13 billion doses of the Covid vaccine given worldwide, there still isn't a vaccine label displaying its potential side effects.

We need transparency now. pic.twitter.com/YrBUVIhQoJ
— Senator Ron Johnson (@SenRonJohnson) December 8, 2022

MD Paul Marik:

“In my hospital… they wanted me to use Remdesivir — it increases your risk of kidney failure 20 fold & increases your risk of dying by about 4%… The federal gov't will give hospitals a 20% bonus if you prescribe this toxic medication.”pic.twitter.com/iFqcahObRo
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) December 8, 2022

Pediatrician Dr Renata Moon MD:

"We’re seeing an uptick in myocarditis, we're seeing an uptick in adverse reactions, something is extremely wrong.”pic.twitter.com/soXXiudrxt
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) December 8, 2022

Dr McCullough explains the horrific side effects from the bioweapon shots🤬#genocide #crimesagainasthumanity #stoptheshots pic.twitter.com/UAtdZEHHpC
— Jamie Sale (@JamieSale) December 5, 2022

COVID-19 Vaccines: What They Are, How They Work and Possible Causes of Injuries (rumble.com)

‘You’re Violating Them!’ – Dr. Naomi Wolf Gives a Fiery Speech Against Yale University’s Vax Mandate (substack.com)

‘You’re Violating Them!’ – Dr. Naomi Wolf Gives a Fiery Speech Against Yale University’s Vax Mandate (rumble.com)

Protests are happening

It's going down in China… Massive protests against Covid lockdowns are spreading in major cities across the country 🇨🇳 pic.twitter.com/1J6DJrDhjA
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) November 27, 2022

The Days of the Locust

December 4, 2022 Leave a comment

“Happy Thanksgiving”? A plague has cast a pall over the land.

Over several seasons much seed has been sown and much labor put in to cultivate good outcomes. But fields and harvests have been set upon by the narcissistic, Machiavellian, psychopathic, sadistic and authoritarian locust of the Left. They have picked clean what is to be gathered in for a National Day of Thanksgiving.

Known for their swarming behavior, these locust gathered to quickly devour the good that had been nurtured over time and leave behind toxic residues. The effect on mankind has been devastating. Lives have been mandated and masked, vexed and vaxxed, cancelled, and clotted. And more.

No amnesty!

Children have been held back in school because of idiotic COVID scientism policies that Democrat teacher’s unions went along with. And in class, children were ‘promoted’ with social emotional learning into Progressivism. They were taught to hate the color of their skin and the colors of the American flag and to love the colors of the rainbow flag.

Children have been and contine to be sexualized, mangled and affirmed to be something they are not in order to please the mal-adjusted psychopathic. Affirming what isn’t affirms the belief system of the Left – nihilism.

Parents have been told by school teachers, therapists and a certain Jesuit that it’s OK for their child to practice the inordinate desire of homosexuality instead of the virtue of rightly ordered love, as described by Saint Augustine:

But living a just and holy life requires one to be capable of an objective and impartial evaluation of things: to love things, that is to say, in the right order, so that you do not love what is not to be loved, or fail to love what is to be loved, or have a greater love for what should be loved less, or an equal love for things that should be loved less or more, or a lesser or greater love for things that should be loved equally. (On Christian Doctrine, I.27-28)

Of course, those who disagree with teachers, therapists and said Jesuit are considered to be out of order and are childishly called “homophobic”. A toxicity of being – “the world, the flesh, and the devil” – is being prescribed for our children.

Lives have been and will continue to be destroyed by the fentaynal, the criminals, the gangs, and the narco-terrorists ushered in by the Left’s open border policy. Leftist NGOs like Catholic Charities are enablers of illegal border crossings, human trafficking and the demise of human life using the mis-interpreted “welcoming the stranger” Scripture.

“What you don’t hear from the Biden administration is that 95% of the fentanyl killing Americans comes from the wide-open southwest border,” said [Mark] Morgan, now a visiting fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Border Security and Immigration Center. “How many more people have to die before we say enough is enough and secure our borders?”

How America’s Unsecured Border Contributes to Fentanyl Crisis, Deaths (dailysignal.com)

Lives have been and continue to be destroyed by the Left’s cashless bail policies.

Lives of concerned U.S. citizens have been and continue to be DOJ’d and FBI’d for speaking out at school board meetings and online. “Extremist” labels continue to be pinned on those who take a stand against the growing evil. Evil projects to defend it narcissitic core.

Lives have been and continue to be aborted – exterminated at will.

Lives have been and continue to be corrupted by the media – both by the Left’s narrative ‘news’ and its Disney-fied entertainment.

Lives of low and middle class families have been and continue to be taxed by the “transitory inflation” produced by the draconian Green energy policies of the Biden regime (not by oil and gas companies and by not consumers). Disposable income is diminishing and so will donations. (Isn’t all welfare to come from the secular State per the secular State? Isn’t that what is hapening now with wealth redistribution? Thanksgiving is to become meaningless so that Big Brother can become the object of our enforced gratitude!)

The Left continues to cultivate pretense and lies just like their father the devil. The Left continues to censor truth. The Left can’t stand the light of day.

Tucker covers the Twitter Files pic.twitter.com/FeQCMBGuPl
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) December 3, 2022

The Left’s right to destroy comes from a perverse need of mastery over others to preserve itself. That’s why acting as locust is their MO. As with demonic oppression and possession, the Left will go as far and devastate as much as you let them.

(Video Warning – Language!)

“They own everything…They don’t care about you…They got you by the balls.”

~ George Carlin

He absolutely nailed it. This is one of the greatest social and political commentaries of the modern era. pic.twitter.com/m565p03YnF
— James Melville 🚜 (@JamesMelville) December 4, 2022

The Left’s self-righteousness comes from the morality they make up as they go along. Such are the Talmudic-like strictures of DEI, ESG, and CRT.

With stridulation the locust Left cries “We must protect our democracy!” Yet, the Left continues to silence vox populi and elections continue to be rigged and stolen, and voters disnefranchised: Here’s How They Did it: Real-time Election Fraud – American Thinker

Turning to another analogy to underscore the plundering of our lives by the Left, we are being taken captive by the Brave New One World Babylonians. We are being removed from life as we have cultivated it. Babylonian satraps will determine how we live: “You will own nothing – and you’ll be happy about it.”

Right now, children and adults are being led away to the One World Babylon. They have been socially indoctrinated and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold and serve the authoritarian ruling order of globalists. The will must be broken before the “fundamental transformation” of Babylonian Globalist possession takes place.

To do this the Babylonians employ – by any means necessary – harassment, enticement, torment, addiction, defilement and enslavement. The conquest of the will and human agency will soon include the genetic re-engineering of humans.

With Biden’s recent executive order, humans will be genetically bred and tampered with – but not for a Sustainable, Safe, and Secure American Bioeconomy, as the title of the order would have us believe. Rather, the genetic tampering is to be done to make humanoids that are passive and compliant. (Or, as Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni “has argued in a now-viral speech that the secular – progressive – left wants to turn people into ‘perfect consumer slaves’.”

Our freedom, our humanity, and our souls are set to be vanquished by the invading One World Babylonian hordes. Don’t expect “peace on earth and good will towards men” this year. Expect the pestilence of the Great Reset. Expect that like the locust (and the Biden inflation), they will ravage and plunder all that concerns you. The Left is a pandemic.

Call on the name of the Lord:

The Lord works vindication

and justice for all who are oppressed.

He made known his ways to Moses,

his acts to the people of Israel.

-Psalm 103: 6-7

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“…for anyone who is concerned about the survival of culture, there are some important lessons in the armory of cultural instructions accompanying a humble tomato plant. Perhaps the chief lesson has to do with time and continuity, the evolving permanence that cultural animi no less than agricultural cultivation requires if it is to be successful. All those tips, habits, prohibitions, and necessities that have been accumulated from time out of mind and passed down, generation after generation: How much in our society militates against such antidotes to anarchy and decay!” Roger Kimball’s Fortunes of Permanence: Culture in the Age of Amnesia

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Here’s what you get for lovin’ me – the Left:

CA Releases Thousands of Convicted Pedophiles Within A Year of Conviction (breitbart.com)

Thousands of Pedophiles Being Released From California Prisons Thanks to Democrat Policies (thegatewaypundit.com)

Biden’s favorite Transvestite files court papers… – CITIZEN FREE PRESS

Balenciaga scandal, luxury fashion brand under fire for promoting child pornography – Rebel News

GROOMER ALERT: Underage Students At High School Forced to Perform In Drag For Eager Adult Faculty Members (thegatewaypundit.com)

Planned Parenthood’s sexual education director claims that all children are born ‘sexual’ | Daily Mail Online

Paraplegic Canadian veteran says government caseworker offered her euthanasia | Daily Mail Online

The Left celebrates crime and economic destruction:

FTX was funding biological weapons shelters while laundering money from the Ukrainian government via crypto meant for their war efforts.

Millions ended up with the Democrat Party before the 2022 midterm election.

Revealed: FTX Was Funding Biological Weapons Shelters While Ru (thegatewaypundit.com)

Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, former Secretary-General of the Vatican, warns that:
The WEF through the C19 crisis has either direct control or blackmailed world leaders into following the plan of mass devastation through vaccination & submission to a new world order.

Below: The building on the right is an apt representation of Progressivism. The architects of Progressivism and the New World Order do not care that humans have to live with the hideous societal designs they come up with. They only care about being recognized and acclaimed for what they throw together.

More societal designs? A new world order?

In case you still think it’s a conspiracy theory that our elites want a world order, here’s French President @EmmanuelMacron yesterday at the APEC summit:

‘We need a single global order’. pic.twitter.com/CFTMXUPy1R
— Eva Vlaardingerbroek (@EvaVlaar) November 19, 2022

The Multi-Crisis Leading to the Great Reset:

Jack Posobiec and Savanah Hernandez SLAM Klaus Schwab over his desire to see the "multicrisis" usher in the WEF's "Great Reset." pic.twitter.com/k6AhpmSyHo
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) November 16, 2022

Klaus Schwab: The “Multicrisis” ushers in the “Great Reset”… – Revolver News Klaus Schwab lays out his plan for Global Domination at G-20… – CITIZEN FREE PRESS

Methinks you need to protest more:

People have had enough of the Left’s lies, stolen elections and mandates:

BREAKING: Brazilian Military Stands with Bolsonaro – Is Prepared to Invoke Article 142 to Save the Nation (VIDEO) (thegatewaypundit.com)

Anti-Lockdown Protests Over China’s Zero COVID Continue to Spread-Some Calling For Xi Jinping to Step Down (thegatewaypundit.com)

https://twitter.com/i/status/1597373221862797312

https://twitter.com/i/status/1598345523173400578

Informed Dissent:

Safe and Effective?!?

Canadian father unloads on Justin Trudeau… ‘F you for killing my son!’… – CITIZEN FREE PRESS

Vaccine Damage: Real People – Adam (rumble.com)

Not Even N95 Masks Work To Stop Covid ⋆ Brownstone Institute

A VACCINE INJURY COMPILATION: Brighteon

Fauci will not like this from Italy… – CITIZEN FREE PRESS

“Safe and Effective” Not!

EXCESS MORTALITY: Over 2400 Americans are DYING each day following vaccine mandates… Ed Dowd unveils alarming, evidence-based data – NaturalNews.com

1485 Athlete Cardiac Arrests, Serious Issues, 1014 of Them Dead, Since COVID Injection – Real Science (goodsciencing.com)

In memory of those who “died suddenly” in the United States and worldwide, November 7-November 14, 2022 (substack.com)

‘SafeBlood’ Hardliners Want to Set Up Unvaccinated Blood Banks (vice.com)

The Dilemma of the Vaccinated – by Robert W Malone MD, MS (substack.com)

Finding mRNA in breast milk typifies how covid vaccine safety was oversold (substack.com)

“Died Suddenly”: Anti-Vaxx documentary on fibrous clots goes viral… – Revolver News

Abp. Viganò: The COVID pandemic farce served as a trial balloon for the New World Order – LifeSite (lifesitenews.com)

Top Cardiologist Calls for End to mRNA COVID-19 Shots After Seeing 60-70 Patients Suffer Heart Conditions – enVolve (en-volve.com)

Effects of COVID Vaccine on Menstruation | MedPage Today

Renowned Oncologist Sends Urgent Letter Calling to End COVID Vaccine Program Immediately as Cancers and other Diseases Are Rapidly Progressing in ‘Boosted’ People (thegatewaypundit.com)

Top Oncologist: Cancer In Patients Exploding After Covid Shots — The Republic Brief

Exorcist Says Porn Addiction ‘An Opening to the Demonic,’ Despite German Priest’s Controversial Denials| National Catholic Register (ncregister.com)

Natural Immunity, mRNA “boosters” and COVID (substack.com)

Green is the new Black-out:

Germany prepares for “emergency cash deliveries” ahead of anticipated dark winter energy blackout – NaturalNews.com

Wait! What! I thought CO2 would make us toast! An MIT grade says differently.

No. No. No. Instead, of a climate apocalypse narrative, you and I are heading for wealth redistribution apocalypse! Climate change activists talk about CO2 sequestration. But what they mean is wealth sequestration.

12 Republican senators voted to make it possible for the LGBTQ to sue non-profits that do not bow to them. 12 senators voted against religious liberty including Indiana’s senator Todd Young:

We do not want a digital dollar!

Filed under 2022 current events, COVID-19, Globalism, pandemic, Political Commentary, Politics, Progressivism, social commentary, social engineering, Thanksgiving Tagged with Biden, democrats, digital dollar, Great Reset, New World Order, pandemic, politics, progressivism, tyranny

Another pyramid scheme: COP27

November 13, 2022 Leave a comment

Looking for new ways to part with money, science, common sense, and freedom? Well, you are in luck. There is a Pyramid Scheme called “Climate Change Crisis”.

The UN recruits investors during annual media-doting climate conferences. The recruits come to believe that they are part of a global response to a “climate emergency”. They make commitments to “substantially reduce global greenhouse gas emissions to limit the global temperature increase in this century to 2 degrees Celsius while pursuing efforts to limit the increase even further to 1.5 degrees” per the UN webpage.

That’s the ploy. But no one knows exactly how much carbon needs to get cut to produce results. We don’t know how much to cut, where to cut it, or why some industries need to work on this issue and others do not. Any reporting of a country’s carbon emissions cuts back to the top of the pyramid, of course, would be as questionable as the climate science data is.

And since “climate emergency” is the scheme’s appeal, unlimited draconian measures are urged and so is open-ended financing. No one knows exactly how much one should be forced to take the brunt of green agenda which would include carbon taxes, soaring energy prices, and population control. And, no one knows exactly how much one is forced to pay into the scheme. That’s the “beauty” of the wealth redistribution pyramid scheme! In return, for a(ny) price the scheme provides the pretense of climate activism while scamming the public.

Climate Recruits are led to believe that they are sending “financing to developing countries to mitigate climate change, strengthen resilience and enhance abilities to adapt to climate impacts.” Note: there’s no real product or business venture in a pyramid scheme. In the climate scheme there’s just questionable numbers coming out of a messaged computer program feeding even more questionable weather forecasting. There’s only GIGO climate data that fits the Greenies pyramid scheme narrative of “climate crisis”.

The UN: “The climate crisis is pushing more and more people to the brink in a year of unprecedented hunger. World leaders at COP27 must act swiftly to help millions of people facing rising hunger and famine.”

(Have you noticed that those who live in areas not conducive to agriculture and not supportive of life are not suffering the effects of climate change? Rather, they are suffering from an unwillingness to move to better environmental conditions. Climate cash will not change the environment.)

And, there’s this: from a 2016 webpage article UN “Green Climate” Program Is a Slush Fund for Dictators – Foundation for Economic Education (fee.org)

According to the current estimates, developed countries will be obliged to contribute up to $450 billion a year by 2020 to the GCF, which will then “redistribute” the money to developing countries allegedly suffering from the effects of global warming.

Robert Mugabe, the dictator who ruled Zimbabwe since 1980, salivated at the prospect of redistributed global warming cash.

Would-be dictator Obama pledged $3 billion to the Paris Agreement. Future annual contributions would continue increasing, per Obama. Note: the $3 billion did not come out of Obama’s pocket. Future payments will not come out of Obama’s pocket. Obama recruited U.S. tax payers into the pyramid scheme. You and I, our children and grandchildren and their children are on the hook.

The scheme’s recruits, which include “Heads of State, ministers, and negotiators, along with climate activists, mayors, civil society representatives and CEOs” are expected to make payments to the UN Green Climate Fund established in 2010 via negotiations that took place in Cancun, Mexico. But, as we have learned, the UN Green Climate Fund started in 2010 is “slush fund for global dictators.” Anyone staying in the agreement is contributing to this issue.

COP-27 is the latest convention promoting the pyramid scheme. (You can find the COP27 marketing material on the UN Climate Action webpage here.)

UN: “Faced with a growing energy crisis, record greenhouse gas concentrations, and increasing extreme weather events, COP27 seeks renewed solidarity between countries, to deliver on the landmark Paris Agreement, for people and the planet.”

World leaders, climate groups and activists are meeting in the Egyptian coastal city of Sharm el-Sheikh for the largest annual gathering on climate action. They are there to thrash out plans on how to safeguard the future of the(ir) planet. Expect a lot of photos of pyramid people lined up in solidarity. They will be smiling, ready to shake you down.

These global grifters flew in – using some 400 private jets– to tackle the “climate emergency” and commit to “finance climate action in developing countries” (with your tax money!). Carbon emissions from jet planes? No worries. These nomadic negotiators will chow down on vegan meals and use recycling containers and various “carbon offsets” for unavoidable emissions caused by the conference.

Of course, the busy bodies of Paris Agreement must also tamper with the social climate. The agreement veers into absurd political and ideological language, requiring countries to address extraneous themes like gender equity, biodiversity, poverty eradication, migrants, disabled persons, a “just transition of the workforce,” “creation of decent work,” and so on.

“A pyramid scheme” you ask? Consider that the recruits, called “stakeholders” by the WEF, expect to receive payments in terms of money and political profit from their media-generated recruits (i.e., taxpayers). When the number of new recruits (think psyop targets) fails to sustain the hierarchical payment structure the scheme collapses with most of the participants losing the money (and proposed climate bennies) they put in via taxes. Those at the top of the pyramid (and dictators) make off like bandits. In the meantime, the scheme generates wealth redistribution – from us to them.

(Isn’t it something how the govt. takes money out of our paychecks for Social Security and when we retire the govt. parcels the money back to us as a “Benefit”! The American people have been suckered so many times by so many schemes to separate us from our money.)

And this: The government doesn’t determine what is a “benefit” for me. I do!)

Climate reparations? The climate reparations bidding war is on. What began at $100-billion-a-year at COP-21 in Paris rapidly ballooned to $1.3-trillion on the eve of COP-27 in Sharm-el-Sheikh-Down, Egypt and now stands at $2.4-trillion annually! And we’re nowhere near “going once, going twice, sold.” – Paul Driessen, Escaping From the COP-27 Insane Asylum (townhall.com)

We are being sold into an OT Egyptian type slavery thanks to the pyramid scheme of Greenies. And, you can be sure that slavery will not include free speech. Climate Change “misinformation” censorship is next:

Hal Turner Radio Show – DHS Censorship Agency Strange First Mission: Banning Speech That Casts Doubt On Election

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The last pyramid scheme – the COVID “Crisis” – facilitated a large transfer of wealth.

Big pharma made billions of dollars selling the clot shot. Big box stores did very well. But the little guy had to give it up. He was told to stay home and obey the Fauci TV.

World’s 10 richest men see their wealth double during Covid pandemic | Rich lists | The Guardian

Carol Roth: COVID allowed our government to enact the biggest wealth transfer ever… and you should be furious | Fox Business

We’re Living Through the Greatest Transfer of Wealth From the Middle Class to the Elites in History | Opinion (newsweek.com)

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You won’t hear Psalm 104 read at COP27. The godless and those who think that God is an absentee landlord come up with their own stewardship plans. Their stewardship plans involve your money, your freedom and your life via the climate change pyramid.

With the gathering of the climate grifters near the cradle of civilization, the fertile crescent, it would be good to remind ourselves of just who the ultimate Climate Change Caretaker is.

Psalm 104

God the Creator and Provider

¹Bless the Lord, O my soul.
    O Lord my God, you are very great.
You are clothed with honor and majesty,
²    wrapped in light as with a garment.
You stretch out the heavens like a tent;
³    you set the beams of your^[^a^] chambers on the waters;
you make the clouds your^[^b^] chariot;
    you ride on the wings of the wind;
⁴you make the winds your^[^c^] messengers,
    fire and flame your^[^d^] ministers.

⁵You set the earth on its foundations,
    so that it shall never be shaken.
⁶You cover it with the deep as with a garment;
    the waters stood above the mountains.
⁷At your rebuke they flee;
    at the sound of your thunder they take to flight.
⁸They rose up to the mountains, ran down to the valleys,
    to the place that you appointed for them.
⁹You set a boundary that they may not pass,
    so that they might not again cover the earth.

¹⁰You make springs gush forth in the valleys;
    they flow between the hills,
¹¹giving drink to every wild animal;
    the wild asses quench their thirst.
¹²By the streams^[^e^] the birds of the air have their habitation;
    they sing among the branches.
¹³From your lofty abode you water the mountains;
    the earth is satisfied with the fruit of your work.

¹⁴You cause the grass to grow for the cattle
    and plants for people to cultivate,
to bring forth food from the earth
¹⁵    and wine to gladden the human heart,
oil to make the face shine
    and bread to strengthen the human heart.
¹⁶The trees of the field^[^f^] are watered abundantly,
    the cedars of Lebanon that he planted.
¹⁷In them the birds build their nests;
    the stork has its home in the fir trees.
¹⁸The high mountains are for the wild goats;
    the rocks are a refuge for the coneys.
¹⁹You have made the moon to mark the seasons;
    the sun knows its time for setting.
²⁰You make darkness, and it is night,
    when all the animals of the forest come creeping out.
²¹The young lions roar for their prey,
    seeking their food from God.
²²When the sun rises, they withdraw
    and lie down in their dens.
²³People go out to their work
    and to their labor until the evening.

²⁴O Lord, how manifold are your works!
    In wisdom you have made them all;
    the earth is full of your creatures.
²⁵There is the sea, great and wide;
    creeping things innumerable are there,
    living things both small and great.
²⁶There go the ships
    and Leviathan that you formed to sport in it.

²⁷These all look to you
    to give them their food in due season;
²⁸when you give to them, they gather it up;
    when you open your hand, they are filled with good things.
²⁹When you hide your face, they are dismayed;
    when you take away their breath, they die
    and return to their dust.
³⁰When you send forth your spirit,^[^g^] they are created,
    and you renew the face of the ground.

³¹May the glory of the Lord endure forever;
    may the Lord rejoice in his works—
³²who looks on the earth and it trembles,
    who touches the mountains and they smoke.
³³I will sing to the Lord as long as I live;
    I will sing praise to my God while I have being.
³⁴May my meditation be pleasing to him,
    for I rejoice in the Lord.
³⁵Let sinners be consumed from the earth,
    and let the wicked be no more.
Bless the Lord, O my soul.
Praise the Lord!

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On the back of tee shirt worn by a tornado damage recovery worker:

“LEAVE IT BETTER THAN YOU FOUND IT”

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

Leave the stewardship of the earth to us Hobbits. Elites just go and have your picture taken.

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Informed Dissent:

List of blood pressure medications with cancer-causing ingredients expands | Fox 8 Cleveland WJW

How To Lower High Blood Pressure Naturally (40 Home Remedies) (homeremedyshop.com)

The Funeral Business Is Booming (And Not Because Of COVID) | ZeroHedge

Wot’s in the shots? | The Spectator Australia

[Dr. David] Nixon has shared his findings with Wendy Hoy, professor of medicine at the University of Queensland who has called on the Australian government and its health authorities to explain the apparent spontaneous formation of chips and circuitry in mRNA vaccines when left at room temperature, and the abnormal objects that can be seen in the blood of vaccinated people. Hoy thinks that these are ‘undoubtedly contributing to poor oxygen delivery to tissues and clotting events, including heart attacks and strokes’ and asks why there is no systematic autopsy investigation of deaths to investigate the role of the vaccine in Australia’s dramatic rise in mortality. (Emphasis mine.)

A veteran medical examiner who reviewed 4000 Covid deaths explains how many were REALLY from Covid (and how many were of healthy people) (substack.com)

Pfizer Appears to Have Corrupted the Entire Western World (substack.com)

Brain inflammation and the mRNA vaccines – by Alex Berenson (substack.com)

Warning! Graphic Clips Show People Forced to End their Lives by Severe Zero Covid Policy in Chin (ganjing.com)

https://www.ganjing.com/video/1fd6lj6agir7JaWAV4pXFheBL17o1c

No doubt, the same people who enforced the COVID Insanity will enforce climate insanity:

November 2020. Melbourne security guard chokes a teenager unconscious and carries him out for not wearing a face mask.

Read the ESG warning letter:

Grassley, Cotton, Colleagues Warn Law Firms About ESG Initiatives (senate.gov)

SENATOR COTTON, COLLEAGUES WARN LAW FIRMS ABOUT ESG INITIATIVES – Christian Coalition of America (cc.org)

Thots on the recent midterm elections:

I see everyone on the right fighting about Trump vs DeSantis for 2024 and I just laugh to myself. The presidency in 2024 is a pipe dream, with DeSantis or Trump on the ticket. To be frank I don’t know if we’ll ever see a Republican president again. Millions and millions of illegals pouring over our border and being distributed to key swing states. An electorate trained to believe that hundreds of thousands of mail in ballots appearing is normal. Demographics is destiny. He who controls the machines controls the outcome. We didn’t fix 2020 and we didn’t build the wall so don’t expect another “free and fair” election. – Andrew Torba, founder and CEO of Gab

The Path Forward: Build and Balkanize – Gab News

Babylon Bee editor:

“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.” — The Fellowship of the Ring — J.R.R. Tolkien

More population control climate change activism by the Left:

How European elites think about the rest of us:

Filed under 2022 current events, Climate change, Political Commentary, Politics Tagged with Climate change, COP 27, politics, stakeholders, WEF

Doomsday “Democracy!”

November 6, 2022 Leave a comment

We the People of the Left, in Order to form a more perfect Coalition of power by any means necessary, establish ad hoc social justice, discourage election integrity as voter suppression, provide for our media defense, promote overall dependency, and secure the trappings of power to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this “Democracy!” for the United States of America.

This unwritten and yet fleshed out preamble constitutes what governs the Left. It explains the stolen 2020 election. The Left thereby gained the means to weaponize the Dept. of Justice against concerned parents of school children and questioners of election integrity, disrupt domestic Tranquility with cashless bail and a wide-open border, provide for the Left’s self-defense, promote authoritarian agendas leading to ever increasing loss of liberty, and secure the Left’s place in power with fear-mongering narratives.

We’ve all heard the COVID and climate change doomsday narratives urging us to conform or else. I won’t repeat them here. Now comes the doomsday “Democracy!” narrative: “our entire democracy is now at risk”.

The so-called “scholars of democracy” in the link above warn that Republican-led states are proposing or implementing “radical changes” to election laws. Nothing could be further from the truth. This false narrative is total projection. It is the democrat secretaries of state that have radicalized elections laws, by-passing them to favor Democrat candidates. Republicans want to simply enforce the laws that are on the books and clean up voter rolls. The dead and non-existent are not legitimate voters.

These media “scholars” want National Voting and Election Administration Standards. They have no need for the states. Everything for these tenured narrative-drooling “scholars” is to be federalized so that the power grabbing Left can secure it place in power. Of course, the puffed-up demonic Hillary Clinton, weighed in with her dire prediction:

“We are standing on the precipice of losing our democracy, and everything that everybody else cares about then goes out the window.” . . . “Look, the most important thing is to win the next election. The alternative is so frightening that whatever does not help you win should not be a priority.”

Clinton has repeatedly claimed the 2016 election was stolen from her. But now she has no problem calling out “election deniers”. Clinton also accused Republicans of plotting to steal the 2024 presidential election in the future. So, we are being set up.

Here’s an alarmist rant from another delusional Leftist:

If Republicans win, "our children will be arrested and conceivably killed."

🚨MSNBC Presidential Historian Michael Beschloss with a deranged take days before the midterms.pic.twitter.com/oq8a13qHmZ
— OutKick (@Outkick) November 3, 2022

The governing principle at work in the Leftist preamble precludes a concern about anyone else’s welfare. The principle concerns itself solely with power – obtaining it and maintaining it. Period. This attitude is glaringly obvious in Joe Biden’s recent Union Station speech.

Did you hear any mention about inflation, about gas and diesel prices, about the open border and the 98 individuals on the terror watchlist caught on the border, about fentanyl deaths, about increasing crime? No. It was about threats to the “Democracy!” only the Left ordains and establishes.

Here’s Tucker Carlson’s take on Joe Biden’s doomsday “Democracy!” speech and election interference:

Biden’s speech, given with him dangling the “Democracy!” carrot 37 times, was anything but “We the People” inclusive. It was a snide divisive harangue directed at those of us who question election integrity. And, it was an obvious CYA setup. When things go badly for the Left on Tuesday, they can blame it on a stolen election and on “extremist” MAGA supporters. They might throw in “racism” and “white supremacy” as causes but climate change as a cause would be a bit difficult. They’ll say anything but blame themselves.

With the doomsday “Democracy!” narrative in place, the Left will say “I told you so”. Just wait and see.

. .. for the writing’s on the Union Station walls and tenement halls – Democrat’s days are numbered. They have been weighed on the scales and found wanting.

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Need I remind you? With stolen power, the authoritarian Left – Democrats, Progressives, Anti-white segregationists, Unicorians, socialists, globalists just to name a few – took over life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We were told to march to the beat of their drum and not our own.

Need I remind you? The Left shut down schools, churches, and businesses, and opened wide the border, liquor stores and any place where lottery tickets are sold.

Need I remind you of Intolerable Inflation, Illegal Immigration, and Immoral Injections?

Need I remind you that since the Left took over, Russia invaded Ukraine, North Korea began firing missiles and China is preparing to invade Taiwan.

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Do you want more from the Left?

University of Illinois Professor Calls Herschel Walker Racial Slur, “Subliterate” (thegatewaypundit.com)

Evil WEF Leader Caught Planning ‘Mass Extinction Event’ to Inner Circle – News Punch

The anti-flourishing population-controlling human-hating Left promotes abortion, homosexuality, obesity, mangling children in the name of affirmation, pandemics and spurious vaccines “brought to you by Pfizer”. “religions want “more souls” and the WEF “wants less on the planet.” Listen how the Leftist elites talk about you and me:

Exclusive: The Dossier uncovers WEF-Gates Event 201 launch announcement from Davos 2019 (substack.com)

University of Chicago Plans Winter Class “The Problem of Whiteness” (thegatewaypundit.com)

Washington D.C. to Legalize Public Urination | Frontpage Mag

Hochul’s Bail Reform Claims Another Victim: Mother Killed in Front of Three Children Hours after Husband Freed on No Bail (thegatewaypundit.com)

“I’ve Been Aware of Him for a Long Time” – San Francisco State Senator Who Promotes Drag Shows and Sex with Minors Says He Knows Paul Pelosi Attacker David DePape (VIDEO) (thegatewaypundit.com)

Zelensky gay dance (odysee.com)

The Awful Truth: Paul Pelosi Was Drunk Again, And In a Dispute With a Male Prostitute Early Friday Morning. – Santa Monica Observer (archive.org)

Pelosi Reportedly Refuses To Hand Over Home Security Footage — The Republic Brief

Informed Dissent:

“Pandemic amnesty”? Yeah, right . . .

Emily Oster proposes “a pandemic amnesty,” suggests that “we need to forgive one another for what we did and said when we were in the dark about COVID” (eugyppius.com)

“Let’s Declare a Pandemic Amnesty”—Not (substack.com)

Mandate Idiots forcing children to wear masks:

Our Retirements Gone? Where Did the 21 Trillion Go? | Columnists | thedesertreview.com

As anyone making a tight family budget knows, there are only two ways to balance it. The first is to increase income. The second is to decrease spending. Unfortunately, Catherine Austin Fitts says our government chose the latter to solve the Social Security problem. However, instead of reducing spending, they decided to lower life expectancies by increasing the death rates of senior citizens. As unthinkable as this sounds, it is accurate, and Austin Fitts has the evidence to prove it . . .

If you reduce life expectancy, you can bring the actuarial model back into balance.

And her [Catherine Austin Fitts] message is clear. A Great Reset is coming designed to transfer wealth from you and me to a small group of Oligarchs. And this is being accomplished through propaganda, deception, censorship, and psychological operations. Most significantly, it is backed by at least $21 trillion in dark money – money not officially on the books and money that has been stolen from us, the citizens. She refers to the people controlling the money as “Mr. Global.

The Lull Before the Storm – by Justus R. Hope (substack.com)

Dr. Robert Malone, virologist and inventor of the mRNA vaccine on Covid Vaccines: “We Are Going To See The Pharmaceutical Industry Behind This”

Digital Currency – Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)

“New ways to pay in the future” You’ll pay alright!

You’ll become a Digital ID. With physical cash you the human make your own decisions.

Energy Efficient!?

Filed under 2022 current events, Political Commentary, Politics, Progressivism Tagged with Democracy, election integrity, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, midterm elections, politics, Union Station Speech

Grave Concerns

October 31, 2022 Leave a comment

Scary People, Scary Times elicit grave concerns

Creepy Joe Biden

And family

Vodka Skeletor on Face the Nation:

Pelosi: “When I hear people talk about inflation as I heard it there, we have to change that subject.”pic.twitter.com/EECib2RrdB
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) October 23, 2022

Change the subject?!?

Arsenic and Old Lace

Sec. of the Treasury Janet Yellen saying sweet little things while poisoning the public for their pensions.

They’re coming to take me away! Oh No!

WHAT? Election-Denier Hillary Clinton Says “Right-Wing Extremists” Have a Plan to “Literally Steal the Next Presidential Election” (thegatewaypundit.com)

YIKES!!

The Wicked Witch of the Midwest

Basement Dweller Uncle Fetterman

12ft | The town John Fetterman ran is in ruins – The Spectator World

Every day is All Saints of Sexuality Day for The Party of Perverts (townhall.com)

Newsom Makes California a ‘Sanctuary State’ for Child Sex Changes Without Parental Consent | Human Events | humanevents.com

Informed Dissent:

OB/GYN says covid jabs are triggering “massive,” “unprecedented” adverse events in pregnant women, babies (chemicalviolence.com)

Vaccines never prevented the transmission of COVID – NaturalNews.com

Former EcoHealth VP and Whistleblower Andrew Huff: US Govt. Is Trying to Cover Up Origins of COVID-19 Because Dr. Fauci and US Were Funding Wuhan Lab’s Gain of Function Research (VIDEO) (thegatewaypundit.com)

Breaking Kaboom — New York Supreme Court strikes down Vaccine Mandate for public workers… – CITIZEN FREE PRESS

mRNA Vaccines: The CIA and National Defense (substack.com)

Federal budget 2022: Covid vaccine claims scheme payouts rise to $77m | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site

Lockdowns: The Great Gaslighting – by Michael P Senger (substack.com)

Dr. Peter McCullough is being progressively stripped of his medical credentials (substack.com)

An urgent appeal from microbiologist Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi.

Mandates were about compliance not public health.

Jan. 6^th and the weaponized DOJ terrorizing Americans “We’re coming to haul you away!”

Did you catch wind of this?

Germany Is Dismantling A Wind Farm To Make Way For A Coal Mine | OilPrice.com

(Nuclear would be so much better, but Germany is not that smart.)

Back on earth, mama bears vs the Anything Goes ‘Educators’:

This is how you oppose radical gender theory and "family-friendly drag shows" in schools.pic.twitter.com/MJKfj9mAzz
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) October 13, 2022

https://twitter.com/i/status/1580329838975406081

Americans speak out:

Zeli the Moocher:

Why is the U.S. giving this corrupt man and country anything? Why is the U.S. involved in a proxy war with Russia. Is it diversion from the Great Reset’s plundering of America?

Search for life:

Scientists find new evidence of liquid WATER beneath Mars’ south polar ice cap in major breakthrough | Daily Mail Online

De-Humanization in the name of DEI:

University of York gives students a random code instead of a name-based email to be “inclusive,” avoid “offense” (reclaimthenet.org)

Search for courage:

Kierkegaard on the Psychology of a Risk Averse Society | by 1517 Fund | Mission.org | Medium

Economy:

The FED is vaccinating the inflation pandemic the Biden regime created in his Wuhan lab. The Fed is injecting higher basis point interest rates into the economy with no knowledge of what will happen – just like the deadly effect of forcing the jab on everyone.

Famine:

United Nations Food Chief Warns Of ‘Chaos,’ ‘Hell’ And Wide Spread Food Shortage Next Year: The World Is Facing ‘A Perfect Storm On Top Of A Perfect Storm’ (thegatewaypundit.com)

Liberalism Is Incompatible With Giorgia Meloni’s “God, Homeland, and Family” – Council of European Canadians (eurocanadians.ca)

Oh, and this:

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a Full List of Congressional Republicans Funded by Gates (thegatewaypundit.com)

Newsom Makes California a ‘Sanctuary State’ for Child Sex Changes Without Parental Consent | Human Events | humanevents.com

Joe Biden, Merrick Garland and The Federal Bureau of Instigation hate Christians:

The DOJ sent a team of federal agents with rifles to the home of a pro-life activist named Mark Houck. Now Houck faces 11 years in prison for protecting his son from an abortion extremist. pic.twitter.com/eFmrnKKSO5
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) September 29, 2022

That Hideous WOKE Strength:

Intolerance for dissent is growing.

Behold, the Regime Unveils Its New Catchphrase for All Political Dissent: “Stochastic Terrorism” – Revolver News

BREAKING: PayPal Has Reinstated its Policy to Fine Users $2,500 Directly from their Accounts if they Spread “Misinformation” (thegatewaypundit.com)

Intimidation to silence dissent.

Not only is the FBI showing up at your door to scare you out of your free speech, banks with ties to non-free speech Communist China are de-platforming you because of your freespeech and associations. Ambulance chasers are showing up in kangaroo courts and show trials to de-monetize your voice.

If the Hideous WOKE don’t like your free speech or who you associate with, you are de-platformed, sued or FBI’d.

Chase Bank allegedly shutters bank account of religious freedom nonprofit, demands donor list | Fox Business

BREAKING: Bank of America Cancels Popular Conservative Twitter User Catturd’s Bank Account #BankofAmericaIsCommieTrash (thegatewaypundit.com)

Bank of America’s third-largest shareholder is Woke Blackrock, a financial group with strong ties to Communist China.

You may not like Alex Jones. But what happened to Alex Jones is a terrible precedent for free speech.

“This will make de-platforming looks like child’s play if this verdict is permitted to stand,” says Norm Pattis, attorney for Alex Jones.

Exclusive: Alex Jones Lawyer Responds To Billion Dollar Judgment In Historic Legal Case (infowars.com)

Happy Halloween, your world is being destroyed:

NOT TO MISS: Maria Bartiromo GOES OFF on Joe Biden, His Lies, His Economy, His Failed Administration and Everything He Is Destroying in America Today (VIDEO) (thegatewaypundit.com)

Update: Illinois now has the worst unemployment rate in the nation – Wirepoints | Wirepoints

https://twitter.com/i/status/1585100217732698113

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Filed under Current Events 2020, Halloween Tagged with AOC, democrats, Halloween, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, politics

Not All Roads Lead Home

October 30, 2022 Leave a comment

In truth, all through the haunted forest there could be nothing more frightful than the figure of Goodman Brown.

Before the Technicolor fairy tale of a quartet of troubled characters trekking through a foreboding forest hoping to gain what they lack from the “great and powerful” Self-Gnosis (The Wizard of OZ), there is a tale of a young man taking a similar journey. And though there is no fear of “lions and tigers and bears” in this tale, there is “What if the devil himself should be at my very elbow!”.

It seems to me that both tales are about journeys into the dark side – the nocturnal forest – to look for an esoteric mystical experience that would supply what is missing. But unlike the “There’s no place like home” heartening ending of the OZ tale, we find in the second tale that those who covenant to journey into the forest and the deepest darkest part of it, come home disillusioned and faithless.

Often, especially in our youth, we begin to question the religious beliefs and worldviews of our families, of our mentors and of those around us. We see hypocrisy around us and despise it and yet become two-faced in our own sought out experiences wrought in the dark. We then begin to take on ambivalence about evil, giving ourselves the ‘grace’ to operate in both good and evil ways. Moral relativism is that form of grace.

We tell ourselves that there are people who are restrictive, conservative and Puritanical – “They don’t know me.”. We tell ourselves that we have become too worldly-wise to be like them: “I have Jesus. I’m above all that narrow-minded out-of-date conventionalism. I’m the progressive sort.” So, we journey into the dark forest, into the deepest darkest part of the forest, and think ourselves to be impervious to whatever lurks there. With each step we tell ourselves “I am only seeking understanding”.

We give ourselves permission to investigate the dark side. We say to ourselves “I will do it just one time. Why be left out? Why not join the “communion of our race””? Thus, we journey into the night and encounter evil. And like Goodman Brown, in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1835 short story by the same name, we come home disillusioned, our faith destroyed.

Young Goodman Brown sets out one night to gain existential insight into good and evil. The story, set in 17th century Puritan New England, operates within the Puritan context of sin, grace and unconditional salvific election. I consider the tale an allegory, as it employs symbols starting with the names Goodman and Faith.

In the tale before us, Goodman Brown leaves his saintly wife Faith at the threshold of their home. She is wearing a pink ribbon on her cap. The pink ribbon, mentioned throughout, I read as a symbol of the admixture of purity (white) and sin (red). The color speaks to Goodman Brown’s spiritual understanding based on his Puritan beliefs and also to his rose-colored romance-based naiveté about the nature of evil.

“Poor little Faith!” thought he, for his heart smote him. “What a wretch am I to leave her on such an errand! She talks of dreams, too. Methought as she spoke there was trouble in her face, as if a dream had warned her what work is to be done tonight. But no, no; ‘t would kill her to think it. Well, she’s a blessed angel on earth; and after this one night I’ll cling to her skirts and follow her to heaven.”

With this excellent resolve for the future, Goodman Brown felt himself justified in making more haste on his present evil purpose. He had taken a dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest, which barely stood aside to let the narrow path creep through, and closed immediately behind. It was all as lonely as could be; and there is this peculiarity in such a solitude, that the traveller knows not who may be concealed by the innumerable trunks and the thick boughs overhead; so that with lonely footsteps he may yet be passing through an unseen multitude.

As Goodman sets out, he does so under the cover of night and the cover of assumption: as a Puritan, Goodman Brown considers himself one of the elect. He carries with him a Puritan/Calvinist ‘good hands’ insurance card – the doctrine of predestination. He doesn’t leave home without it. And, as you read above, Goodman assumes that his association with the right people – his wife Faith in particular and the town’s good church folk in general – that he will follow them to the heavenly home. Goodman Brown goes out into the portentous night feeling safe and secure from all alarms. But his predetermined confidence quickly melts away as soon as he steps into the mysterious dark woods.

He had taken a dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest, which barely stood aside to let the narrow path creep through, and closed immediately behind. It was all as lonely as could be; and there is this peculiarity in such a solitude, that the traveller knows not who may be concealed by the innumerable trunks and the thick boughs overhead; so that with lonely footsteps he may yet be passing through an unseen multitude.

Goodman’s first encounter in the woods is an old man who reminds him of his goodly grandfather. The old man appears to be waiting for Goodman. He says, “You are late, Goodman Brown.” Goodman replies “Faith kept me back awhile”.

Though the old man appears similar to Brown in many pedestrian ways the old man also appears to have “an indescribable air of one who knew the world”. And there’s something else Goodman notices and tries to explain away.

But the only thing about him that could be fixed upon as remarkable was his staff, which bore the likeness of a great black snake, so curiously wrought that it might almost be seen to twist and wriggle itself like a living serpent. This, of course, must have been an ocular deception, assisted by the uncertain light.

It is clear to the reader that the old man is the devil who is supported by the serpent staff, He does his best to entice Goodman Brown down the road to what is later called “the communion of your race” where he will learn of the “secret deeds” of his fellow townsfolk and see hypocrisy countenanced.

Goodman balks, claiming to be one of a breed of men who is above the riff-raff.

“Too far! too far!” exclaimed the goodman, unconsciously resuming his walk. “My father never went into the woods on such an errand, nor his father before him. We have been a race of honest men and good Christians since the days of the martyrs; and shall I be the first of the name of Brown that ever took this path and kept—”

Goodman’s journey away from faith is stop and go as wrestles with the temptation of going on. He encounters something he initially resists and uses the honor of his good name and of those before him as a reason to rethink things before giving on to going on. But, he doesn’t use his faith as a shield and so bends in to temptation. He continues his journey with the old man’s urging.

The old man tries to persuade Goodman to get up and continue. He does so by using Goodman’s own argument. The old man conjures up a kinship with men like Goodman. He lies about having personal knowledge and acquaintance of Goodman’s family. He then speaks of townsfolk – deacons and those in power – as personal references. He cajoles Goodman to continue their ‘association’ by journeying on.

Goodman Brown once considered himself impervious to all the devil’s wiles. After all he was one of the elect and associated with the right people. But each step he took in the wrong direction away from faith weakened his resolve. His compromises were reinforced by his inordinate curiosity. He continues his journey into the deepest darkest part of the forest and sees what the “communion of our race” so desires, “that the good shrank not from the wicked, nor were sinners abashed”.

There are several interpretations and critiques of the story. Some will say that Hawthorne is pointing out the hypocrisy of a society that prides itself on its high moral and civic standing and makes outcasts of those who do not live up to its standards. Other interpreters go out on a dark forest limb with their construal:

Modern critics have interpreted “Young Goodman Brown” in many ways. The story as a critique of society stands out to some. To psychologically inclined readers, Brown journeys into the psyche. The village represents the superego, whereas the forest and darkness become equivalents of the Freudian id. The entire story becomes a portrait of one human mind that discovers the usually suppressed and disquieting reality of animal instinct

The story’s symbols lend its meaning to a wide audience and to many interpretations. As you read it you will have your own takeaway. I consider it an allegory or parable about assumptions, hypocrisy and the lure of evil to pull one away from one’s home base of faith toward the “reality of animal instincts”.

The story doesn’t tell us Brown’s motives other than “present evil purpose” Conjecture would lead us to think that young Goodman Brown had become questioning about evil and the devil even though he lived surrounded by strict warnings against both in Puritan village. One gets the sense that Brown goes out by himself to just stick his nose in on evil for the sake of understanding the world he lives in and perhaps the fear of evil inculcated in him by his upbringing.

I have provided some of my take on Young Goodman Brown and some excerpts from the story with the hope that you will read the short story (it should take about fifteen minutes). I invite you to consider what road you are taking when you want to stick your nose in on evil. Consider where it leads and what you will encounter. And, where it will lead you. This road does not lead home.

We are told in Scripture to “test the spirits” so that we may know what is good and true and from God. That is not what is going on in Young Goodman Brown. Rather, this a young man who leaves faith behind and takes a walk on the wild side and ends up at a satanic ritual. His road did not lead back home to faith. It led to nihilism and despair and the resolve to no longer exist.

In truth, all through the haunted forest there could be nothing more frightful than the figure of Goodman Brown. On he flew among the black pines, brandishing his staff with frenzied gestures, now giving vent to an inspiration of horrid blasphemy, and now shouting forth such laughter as set all the echoes of the forest laughing like demons around him. The fiend in his own shape is less hideous than when he rages in the breast of man. Thus sped the demoniac on his course, until…

Well, you’ll just have to read the story:

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Altered States

October 23, 2022 Leave a comment

“Technique has penetrated the deepest recesses of the human being. The machine tends not only to create a new human environment, but also to modify man’s very essence. The milieu in which he lives is no longer his. He must adapt himself, as though the world were new, to a universe for which he was not created. He was made to go six kilometers an hour, and he goes a thousand. He was made to eat when he was hungry and to sleep when he was sleepy; instead, he obeys a clock. He was made to have contact with living things, and he lives in a world of stone. He was created with a certain essential unity, and he is fragmented by all the forces of the modern world.”
― Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society

The term technique, as I use it, does not mean machines, technology, or this or that procedure for attaining an end. In our technological society, technique is the totality of methods rationally arrived at and having absolute efficiency (for a given stage of development) in every field of human activity. Its characteristics are new; the technique of the present has no common measure with that of the past.

― Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society

In his Substack post What did Jacques Ellul mean by Technique? , Samuel Eastlund adds a fourth foundational element to the three mentioned in Ellul’s “technique” definition above:

“Technique is one of the spiritual powers (Col. 1:16, Eph. 6:12) which controls the modern world, which people give their allegiance to and which keeps them in bondage.”

Eastlund continues . . . “As David Gill puts it in his comparison between Ellul and Francis Schaeffer, ‘What is significant and ominous today is that technique itself (rationality, artificiality, efficiency) has become universal, autonomous, and self-automated’. One of the gods of the modern world is efficiency; it is a presupposition of the way we do things that the more efficient something is, the better it is. This becomes obvious when engaging in a discussion about Technique with those not already opposed to it.”

*David W. Gill, Jacques Ellul and Francis Schaeffer: Two Views of Western Civilisation, p. 11

I’m becoming a neo-Luddite of sorts. I have a particular dislike for digital technology as it modifies the means of relating to ourselves, to those around us and to our world. Its dissociative medium detaches us from reality, thereby affecting identity, memory, perception, and truth.

Born into analog times, I enjoyed a continuous stream of organic information that fostered a holistic perspective. During childhood in the 50s and into the 60s, I received information, or better, life in continuously variable physical quantities. I stayed outdoors until it was dark. I rode my bike everywhere. I played with kids – German, Italian, Mexican, Polish and others – on my block. I walked to the library to look up things. With my allowance in hand, I ran to the Five and Dime to see what I could buy. I read the Sunday comics on the front room floor. I watched Howdy Doody, Captain Kangaroo and Lassie on a B&W rabbit-eared tube-filled box. I played 45s on a turntable in my bedroom. I played table games with friends from school and the neighborhood. I attended church. I listened to AM radio on a transistor radio. I learned to play the trumpet.

In high school I played my horn in the band, orchestra and church. I ran cross country and track. I studied French for four years and got into the NHS my senior year. During the summers I worked and took summer school courses. I wasn’t a spectator.

My analog life was harmonized within the perceived analog universe of light, color, sound, force, wind, rain, and seasons. And like a camera and cassette recorder, my analog brain captured a continuous stream of organic information from the real world. I was my own screen saver . . . and social media and Google search.

Those were times before “technique” “penetrated”, “modified”, and atomized life into efficient bits and bytes. Technology didn’t dominate. Like the phone on the wall and the record player, objects were just another thing among many other things. Objects were there to serve, not dominate. I could dial down interest in a thing, walk away, and move on to the more interesting organic things.

In contrast to 0’s and 1’s trying to emulate analog life and the annoying apps with their prompts, pop-ups, and passwords, analog times seemed natural, unintrusive, and rather hassle-free. Digital technology, as it relates to human interface, comes across as contrived and as pushy as a foot-in-the-door salesman and damn frustrating in its effort to achieve maximum efficiency. Add dismissive of your concerns.

In contrast to the soulless 0’s and 1’s programmed to contain life like the characterless pre-fab concrete industrial buildings that contain employees, my childhood was a multi-dimensional free-range human life. I lived life at the speed of life and not at the speed of sound.

Come to think of it, I never swore until I started dealing with computers, hand-held and otherwise, and software. And, even with growing up with talk of a U.S. and Russia nuclear war, I was never alarmed about my times and my country until the rise of That Hideous Strength the technocratic state. The spirit of the age could be felt in the analog times, but now I sense that the spirit of the age is oppressive through technological means.

Consider that technology may have “penetrated the deepest recesses of the human being”. The signs of spiritual oppression include

a fixation on depression
confusion
fear, anxiety
isolation
compulsive thoughts, feeling and behavior
abnormal medical problems

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You live as long as I have (70 yrs.) and you see how technology has modified human existence. Human interaction, for instance.

Every morning I work out at the fitness center in the complex where I live. I arrive 5:30 AM. I am usually the only one there at that time.

As is her habit, a young woman comes into the fitness center about an hour later. She walks over to the treadmill looking at her phone the whole time. She has not once looked up and looked over at me to acknowledge me. She’s in a world of her own.

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To be sure, I am not a technophobe. I have worked as an engineer for most of my life. I am currently working on improving substation communications for a large utility. I see good uses of technology every day including the recent NASA test: diverting of an asteroid. Technology has its place as a servant of mankind and not as its master.

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Well, I’ve given my thoughts. What’s your relationship with digital technology? Has it penetrated and modified your life and to what limit?

Does technology – 4K UHD TV, autonomous vehicles, 5G, esc. – deliver organic value to you? Do the bells and whistles of new technology make life more meaningful?

Are you OK spending time on passwords and renewing passwords and renewing passwords and two-step authentication and One-Time Passcodes. Are you OK paying for cyber security and renewing cyber security and VPNs and renewing VPN software and updates and updates and updates?

Are you worried about being hacked?

Are you worried about your livelihood being held for ransom?

As I am writing this, I received a text message alert from my employer: Cyberattack Impacting Critical Infrastructure. IT Security team received numerous ransomware alerts. The system that hosts the virtual servers in our environment was compromised. It was apparent someone had actively taken over the system and changed the credentials to block access. All systems were shut down at headquarters and offices with data centers.

Of course, normal business is affected. Production has slowed to almost a halt. The “fix” will be expensive. Modern technology with its propensity for “technical efficiency and systemization” can also be used for disruption, chaos and loss of income.

How do you find interfacing with machines? Does an App give you a sense of control, of power, when you punch in inputs and the device ‘replies’ with a programmed message to your commands?

Are you OK inputting to an algorithm and receiving a canned response?

Do you get the sense using a digital device that you are being programmed and used by it?

Are you OK giving out your digital ID and having your data mined and surveilled by Big Tech, Big Brother, and China?

Are you OK with software tracking your online patterns and then using the data to manipulate and increase your engagement with a product or service?

Are you OK being monitored online night and day? Have you watched The Lives of Others?

Are you wondering if you said something ‘wrong’ online and the FBI will show up at your door?

Are you OK with digital cops? Researchers experimenting with concept of a ‘digital cop’ (wnd.com)

Are you OK with Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. censoring your speech based on a politically-biased algorithm?

Do you find interfacing with machines to be off-putting, alienating, impersonal?

Are you OK spending most of your day interfacing with a device? Looking at a screen?

Do you prefer dealing with devices instead of people?

Are you OK dealing with Chat Bots when you have questions?

Can’t get enough of CGI?

Will you accept becoming an AI product of an algorithm in the post-human world of transhumanism?

Would you be OK with an implanted microchip vaccine passport?

Would you be OK with transhumanists replacing eternal “life in the ages to come” with digital immortality?

Will you be OK with digital currency and the monitoring and control of your finances?

Are you OK with a global technocracy that monitors your behavior and arbitrates your social credit score?

Are you OK with RFR (Radiofrequency Radiation) affecting your body, your brain?

Check this out: Well Being: Dangers of 5G – by Robert W Malone MD, MS (substack.com)

Adverse effects observed at exposures below the assumed threshold SAR include non-thermal induction of reactive oxygen species, DNA damage, cardiomyopathy, carcinogenicity, sperm damage, and neurological effects, including electromagnetic hypersensitivity. Also, multiple human studies have found statistically significant associations between RFR exposure and increased brain and thyroid cancer risk. Yet, in 2020, and in light of the body of evidence reviewed in this article, the FCC and ICNIRP reaffirmed the same limits that were established in the 1990s.

Are you OK with technology reconditioning your children?

Here is one parent commenting on Decade at Bernie’s – by Chris Bray – Tell Me How This Ends (substack.com)

Who is Jacques Ellul?

What do you think of the following quote (a screen capture from the video):

-Willem H. Vanderburg: “The Life and Work of Jacques Ellul” (2012)

“If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

Informed dissent:

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: EcoHealth Whistleblower Dr. Andrew Huff: They Created the COVID-19 Virus Using Gain of Function in a Number of Laboratories and They Covered It Up (VIDEO) (thegatewaypundit.com)

The Calm COVID Truth of Dr. Joe Ladapo (substack.com)

EXCLUSIVE: Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano’s Message to Catholic Church Urging Leadership to Revisit Their Stance on COVID-19 Vaccines (thegatewaypundit.com)

Video: Moderna CEO Admits COVID Is Like Seasonal Flu, Only Vulnerable Need Jabs – Summit News

How to Use Ivermectin to Protect Against the Covid Vaccines – Brightwork Research & Analysis

“The Boundary is Children” – by Robert W Malone MD, MS (substack.com)

Safe States for Children: Here’s a List of Republican Governors Who Won’t Comply with CDC Mandates to Force COVID-19 Vaccination on Kids for School (thegatewaypundit.com)

Homeschooling Options and State Exemptions for Childhood Vaccines (substack.com)

Two top cardiologists implicate COVID vax in all unexplained heart attacks since 2021 (substack.com)

Dr. Robert Malone: The CDC Voted Unanimously To Recommend The Covid-19 Vaccine For Children As Young As 5 AND the CDC will provide ‘sneaky’ liability protection for Big Pharma vaccines. The CDV won’t protect you, it will protect itself and its cohorts.

Road map to Control:

In 2016, domains for government vaccine passport websites were registered by the same person. Some of these are in current use now.

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🚨 BREAKING:

In COVID hearing, #Pfizer director admits: #vaccine was never tested on preventing transmission.

"Get vaccinated for others" was always a lie.

The only purpose of the #COVID passport: forcing people to get vaccinated.

The world needs to know. Share this video! ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/su1WqgB4dO
— Rob Roos MEP 🇳🇱 (@Rob_Roos) October 11, 2022

Well, isn’t that special:

The CDC will vote Thursday to permanently shield Pfizer and Moderna from COVID vaccine injury liability (substack.com)

Video: Bill Gates Says European Energy Crisis Is “Good” – Summit News

Musk’s Dangerous Vision for Twitter (substack.com)

Uniformed Consent:

An in-depth look into the Covid 19 narrative, who’s controlling it, and how it’s being used to inject an untested, new technology into almost every person on the planet. It’s not about the virus. It’s about the vaccine. Problem reaction solution. Slogans slogans slogans.

Ch-ch-ch Changes Not:

Angelina Jolie’s Daughter Shiloh Once Thought She Was A Boy And Asked To Be Called John, But She Outgrew It | Evie Magazine

The way of the wicked:

I’m proud to announce a new venture of mine- Defend Our Kids: Texas, where we will be working overtime to get drag shows for kids shut down for good. And Texas is only the beginning.

We need YOU to join us in the fight at:https://t.co/Fztyk27mLC pic.twitter.com/K6MxFDn1iG
— Sara Gonzales (@SaraGonzalesTX) October 19, 2022

Disturbing video from Texas drag show for kids… – CITIZEN FREE PRESS

Take down the WEF:

What is the World Economic Forum? (takedownthewef.com)

REVEALED: The ‘Public Figures’ Attending the 2022 World Economic Forum in Davos. (thenationalpulse.com) Note: A pdf of the full list of attendees is located at this link.

Malthusiasts:

Thomas Malthus believed that so-called “positive checks” (such as plagues and starvation) and “preventive checks” (such as birth control measures and delayed marriage), worked to keep population growth and food growth in balance.

The Left, as prompted by the Davos/WEF elites, are similarly concerned about population growth. That is why they promote the “positive” checks of pandemics and the “preventive checks” of abortion, homosexuality, and mutilating children in the name of affirmation.

In An Essay on the Principle of Population, neo-Malthusians [the authors] tells us what they think is required to make their anti-growth philosophy work:

“organized evasive action: population control, limitation of material consumption, redistribution of wealth, transitions to technologies that are environmentally and socially less disruptive than today’s, and movement toward some kind of world government”

– Paul Ehrlich, Anne Ehrlich, and John Holdren, Ecoscience: Population, Resources, and Environment (San Francisco: W. H. Freeman and Company, 1977), p. 5.

Two-time loser Stacy Abrams is a neo-Malthusian. She holds the view that misery or vice are necessary equalizers between growing population and the means of subsistence:

Childless Stacey Abrams Says Killing Your Baby Is Best Way To Fix Democrat-Created Recession: “Having children is why you’re worried about your price for gas” [VIDEO] (thegatewaypundit.com)

How WEF of her!

Tulsi Gabbard:

“Those in power are denying the existence of women, they are seeking to erase us as an entire category of people… Our kids are having their childhood stolen from them… They need to hear your voices of courage and truth.”pic.twitter.com/GG6KWmt5r6
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) October 21, 2022

Filed under 2022 current events, social commentary, social engineering, Technocracy, technology Tagged with 5G, CDC, Digitalization, Jacques Ellul, technocratic state, technology

Eco-activism Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry

October 16, 2022 Leave a comment

One of these activities is not like the others:

–Man diverts asteroid: NASA tested a new planetary defense mechanism by crashing the robotic Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft into Dimorphos, a small asteroid spanning about 170 meters across. Protecting our Earth from potential future impacts was the impetus to take action.

–Man deigns to keep the lights on: France’s Macron announced the restarting of 10 idle nuclear plants in the coming weeks. Also announced, plans to build up to 14 new nuclear reactors. Action is being taken to provide a buffer against volatile energy prices and to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

–Man develops CO₂ capture projects: Five carbon capture projects in the U.S. and a host of others will act to remove carbon dioxide (CO₂) from the atmosphere These projects endeavor to store the CO₂ deep underground or put it to some use.

–Man defaces sunflowers: Two members of Just Stop Oil vandalized Sunflowers, a Vincent Van Gogh painting at the National Gallery in London. The two vandals then proceeded to take glue sticks, rub them onto their hands, and place their glued hands on the wall next to the painting. Action was taken that but this blow might be the be-all and the end-all of oil production. (Sorry Sorry Day.)

No further comment.

Energy sector:

Why France Has a Nuclear-powered Economy — and America Doesn’t | American Enterprise Institute – AEI

The Green Mile:

Learn about energy while you wait for your EV charge:

https://www.decouplemedia.org/podcast/episode/2dc4a378/the-story-of-storage-mark-nelson-masterclass

Going Deep with Aaron Watson: 526 Nuclear Energy w/ Mark Nelson (libsyn.com)

Inertia and the Power Grid: A Guide Without the Spin | News | NREL

Clean Coal: What It Is, Technologies & Techniques, & More – Better Meets Reality

MIT School of Engineering | » What is “clean” coal?

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I get a charge out of this:

Man Plugs $80k+ Electric Truck Into His House, Finds Out It Will Take Over 4 Days to Charge (thefederalistpapers.org)

“e” is for evacuate!

#Telangana– CCTV visual of #Secunderabad e-bikes showroom fire accident that killed 8 people, left 10 injured. From the video, it appears that there was an explosion, and then the fire spreads to other floors. Cops suspect an e-bike or generator explosion. #Hyderabad pic.twitter.com/Uoxn1YMvfC
— Rishika Sadam (@RishikaSadam) September 13, 2022

One of the green agenda WEF globalists:

Justin Trudeau takes a whooping over his private jetpic.twitter.com/dGGoQbuu8y
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) October 7, 2022

Global Harming:

Bill Gates Caught Admitting ‘Climate Change Is WEF Scam’ to Inner Circle – YouTube

Good Grief Green Energy:

The Global ‘Green Energy’ Push is Causing Fertilizer Shortages and Threatening The Human Food Supply. (thenationalpulse.com)

(WATCH) Power Problems | Sharyl Attkisson

Policies Pushing Electric Vehicles Show Why Few People Want One – WSJ (archive.ph)

Call me irresponsible: Dim the sun and you may as well throw out solar panels and wind turbines. The sun causes wind. Neither of these “green” devices can support a base load as it is.

To better understand the climate change religion:

Convenient Myths: The Axial Age, Dark Green Religion, and the World That Never Was by Iain W. Provan (goodreads.com)

Filed under 2022 current events, Climate change, Political Commentary, social commentary Tagged with carbon capture, Climate change, DART, energy, nuclear energy, Van Gogh Sunflowers

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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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