If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care, and so on. The only thing lacking…is freedom. - DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
If you want to get rid of somebody, just tell him something for his own good. - FRANK MCKINNEY “KIN” HUBBARD
Good Morning Digital Neighbors & Friends! I hope everyone had a great weekend! Nothing spectacular about mine, but it was very good. Next week I will shift into some Christmas quotes. poems, prose and the like, but another week of quotes and commentary seems worthwhile.
Regarding President Eisenhower - If society mirrors prison life, will we be afforded the same (limited and almost non-existent) freedoms? Perhaps the bane of excessive prosperity is the desire to preserve it above all else and we shift from growth and risk to security and diversion. Eisenhower comes up a lot about his final speech warning about the military industrial complex. It seems to come up every few weeks from various podcasters. Unheeded warnings of the past have consequences that may take as long to remedy. Just listened to Dave Rubin playing the remarks of Marian Turski about the slow creep of oppression of the Jews in Germany, step by step transformation. It happens in the loss of rights, it happens in the insanity that is mainstreamed and normalized.
Almost anyone we thought was in need of help mentally, emotionally or socially near the last half of the previous century we now celebrate and honor. I exaggerate, but not by much. For instance, the Trans-revolution will herald a new chapter for women-non-women making great strides in the name of women who were just held back by not previously being men. Pronouns? - Ask El Conquistador about his pronouns? I can indulge the name changes with no problem, I will happily call you whatever name you want, but insisting that I patriciate in your madness will not garner my empathy or understanding. We (Or at least I) want an expansion of rights and liberty not a constriction. It is hard to distinguish between good reform and slow creep. For example, the evolution of same sex marriage - while not something I am in favor in my Catholic world, I don't have a problem with in society. I am still not happy that the Supreme Court interfered, but I am not losing sleep over it. I think it was a good reform for rights & liberties for same sex couples, but as soon as that hill was climbed, the next one was sought.
The problem with Cultural Crusaders is that they can never win and lay down their weapons, they must pivot to the next cause because that was really what it was all about. Causes matter more than reality. Let that sink in and ask how much happiness or contentment you will find when you are a Cause Crusader vs a person trying to discern & accept reality? Sadly when the causes worth consideration are accomplished, the list turns to the marginal and insane. I have all kinds of questions, concerns and doubts about trans-evangelism and the push for it as something that everyone must adjust to in the new world unfolding for us. TRANS-PHOBE!!!! I'd prefer a nuance of Mentally-ill-Phobe, (not all trans issues are mentally-ill, there are individuals with actual diagnosed genetic issues, the REAL {Is that an acceptable word anymore} Trans-issues among us) but maybe I'm just closed minded because I am repressing my trans-species aspirations. I have always wanted to be Blue Jay. 👀😉 Well enough of this before I alienate people who once thought I was a reasonably tolerable chap and an open-minded dude.
Regarding the Hubbard quote - Whenever someone tell you something for your own good, know that they have a real PRONOUN problem. They are telling it to you for THIER own good. Offers to help with skin the game are easy to assess as authentic, but advice with no involvement or offer to help is much more difficult to assess. Free advice is seldom cheap. Happy Monday my friends!
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Today marks the three hundred and thirtieth birthday of the Frenchman François-Marie Arouet, better known by his nom de plume, Voltaire (1694-1778).
Born into a bourgeois family during the reign of Louis XIV, the “Sun King” (r. 1643-1715), Voltaire suffered tragedy at a young age when his mother died. Never close with his father or brother, Voltaire exhibited a rebellious attitude toward authority from his youth. His brilliant mind was fostered in the care of the Society of Jesus, who introduced him to the joys of literature and theater. Despite his later criticisms against the Church, Voltaire, throughout his life, fondly recalled his dedicated Jesuit teachers.
Although he spent time as a civil servant in the French embassy to the Hague, Voltaire’s main love was writing—an endeavor where he excelled in various genres, including poetry, which led to his appointment as the royal court poet for King Louis XV. Widely recognized as one of the greatest French writers, and even hyperbolically referred to by ...
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Kind of. This "explanation" tries to pin it on being a bit naive, being a bit too aggressive in their analysis...
No. Climate narrative was a global conspiracy to allow a global elite to rule the world. To delete 80% of the world population. To destroy all western governments by forcing them to ruin their economies. By forcing immigration to destroy the backbone of western civilization. By poisoning the world population with drugs and fake food and spraying them with chemicals. You will own NOTHING, not even your children. Their goal is to enslave and remove all rights for the rest of humanity, whomever survives.
They are doing a hell of a job implementing this. In the meantime, here's their shit mea culpa.
XIII
The Proud Minister
One day there came into the Garden a man in torn clothes badly bruised and cut, who said to the Lover, “In the name of the Beloved I demand your help.”
So the Lover and the Disciple let him in and dressed his wounds and prepared the best of the vegetables from the Garden for him to eat. When his wounds had been dressed and he had eaten and rested the Lover asked him how he had fallen into this plight, to which the man replied, “I was Minister of the Beloved in a city near this place, where I preached His gospel and expounded His doctrine to the people. I pointed out to them how their sins had made them wholly hateful to the Beloved and how therefore they were utterly beyond the range of His love and He would condemn them to eternal torments, whereon some fell into despair and wept bitterly but many were angry. One day the magistrates called me before them and begged me to leave the city and preach elsewhere for they said I had made many people so angry and desperate that they feared there might be a riot and they might not be able to protect me but that I might suffer some injury. I, however, very zealous for the Beloved and believing that the magistrates only feared that their own sins might be proclaimed, preached the more vehemently, denounced the magistrates and made it abundantly clear that the whole wicked city was foredoomed to eternal punishment by the just provision of the Beloved. Whereon a mob, stirred up no doubt by the corrupt and venal magistrates, fell upon me with sticks and stones, nearly killing me and driving me out of the city in the state in which I came to you.”
“My friend,” said the Lover, “this was not a good deed of yours, for besides denying the unfathomable compassion of the Beloved, you have by your obstinacy caused these people to commit a grievous sin, and this cannot be pleasing to the Beloved, that through you who profess to be His minister the people should become worse. Surely you remember that He Himself said, ‘If they persecute you in one city flee to another.’”
Therefore the man was very angry, and cursing the Lover, said, “I see that I have had a very false report of you and I do not believe that you are a servant of the Beloved at all. When I came to you so injured for the Beloved’s sake you set before me only herbs and fruits although the garden is full of birds which you could have killed to make me a worthy meal. I shall proclaim everywhere that you are no true servant of the Beloved but a mere falterer who dares not suffer in the cause of the Beloved. Be sure that you are foreordained to eternal torments who suffer nothing here.”
For the man was so blinded by his own pride that he could not perceive the scars on the hands and feet and the brows of the Lover nor how the cloth beneath the armpits of his tunic was dyed with a red dye. So he went out of the Garden cursing and shouting.
But the Lover looked sad and said, “A man like this does much harm to the cause of the Beloved, for by thus speaking falsely about the Beloved he may bring men to fear Him but none to love Him, and by love alone can any man approach the Beloved.”
