(updated 5/24/2023 je)
While it is humanly impossible for humans to be totally good, we always can do much better than we have been doing if we individually want to do so! There is no concept that humans can totally achieve in this life. This applies individually, in groups or collectively.
The pathologies of today’s culture are apparent. However, they are called benefits & loudly proclaimed. They must be clearly seen as dangerous & wrong to our once-free country!
They are deliberately destroying Christianity, our country, our families, our individual personhood & our individual freedoms. Does this seem to be too extreme a statement?
Our media are calling evil “good” & good “evil”. Should that be totally right & silently allowed? Free speech & opinions must not live there? Freedom of speech is not absolute. This severe problem should be curtailed & limited within the proper bounds & situations!
Is it possible or allowed to seek those limits that do not destroy freedom of speech itself?
America’s founders hated partisan politics. All we have today is that type of politics & it is out of control! They understood that humans are tempted to do this. Our American System of Government was designed to limit it. Our government has not been working on that original plan since at least Woodrow Wilson’s Administration & maybe somewhat earlier. Political party cannot be the measure of good or evil. It has become so! It & the bureaucracy have become the government! Neither of them are mentioned in the Constitution! They were very negatively discussed in the Federalist Papers. Why was that so? Both things were considered to be temporary activities pointed at certain needs. This is ad hoc, “to this (only)”, which was the original consideration & view.
The Ivy League universities were originally created as seminaries to teach reading so our people could read & see the wisdom in the Christian Bible. Our national educational system is out of control except for those who wish to replace our schools with current cultural & political concerns. Education is for the purpose of teaching children & young adults to read, do math & write their ideas sensibly. Literature, economic concerns & science need those tools as well as the religious seminaries.
With humans & our individual views, discussion of issues has always been necessary. Today that is not allowed. We may repeat only the required narratives, but we may not disagree with them or even discuss the positive & negative views that they may present? Seeking wisdom, true information & applicable direction today must remain the “way forward” in every generation. Doing this is “misinformation” & “extremist”? That in itself should be causing alarm bells for peaceful, law-abiding citizens!
Much of our information class is totally leftist or biased that way. American citizens must see this clearly. These people are the source of many of our current problems. The mark of their action in the last 150 years or so has been destruction of the existing institutions of our country. This has been so worldwide. “Expert” Leftists present a glorious Utopia that is humanly impossible except for themselves. If they get close to establishing it, then they must violently suppress those of us who do not support their desired political situation. That is exactly what has happened in the countries of the world where they have been successful!
It is not glorious for those citizens that they have not murdered at that point. Murder is their medicine for those of us who cannot agree with or support them!
I suggest PragerU, The Rubin Report on Locals & Rumble, Family Research Council & their Washington Stand, James Dobson’s blog, American Family Association & their American Family Radio, KLOVE, the BlazeTV contributors, Larry Alex Taunton, Dinesh D’Souza, Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, Matt Kibbe, “Uncommon Freedom” with Peter Robinson and anyone that the media slurs at all. Are they biased? They are! They state what it is instead of denying any bias! They ask important questions. There are several others. Anyone or any views site that claims to have no bias is lying—it may be unconsciously or deliberately! [These are my sources!—I know, you didn’t ask. I am heavy on sources.]
I personally prefer sites that are pro-Christian, pro-America, pro-family, pro-opportunity,
pro-business that is not in corrupt collusion with government & finally, in favor of our
GOD-given freedoms as stated & meant in the Bill of Rights! My bias and these organizations’ bias is much wider than the Leftists’ bias! If you don’t agree, we should be able to discuss our differences and agreement points! I guarantee that we have more agreement points than those we may disagree about! This would not be America if this were not true! My bias is the founders’ Biblical & American truth! Today’s media & political truth are not those! America has been increasingly off those truths at least since the very early 1900’s, maybe even since the Civil War.
Our information sources today are varied. We should be able to figure out answers to our problems. Most of what we may hear as peaceful citizens is scorn & hate from our media. We must find & support the ones who are telling identifiable truth & talking about solutions that humans can accomplish! We almost must redefine our terms to even understand what is true anymore!
Note to these notes: Your individual freedom as a person includes the right to seek information and decide how you are going to use it! Forced compliance does not allow for your seeking. The other side of the same coin is the discernment whether you have enough information to make an informed decision and to proceed with an action. Desiring perfection should not paralyze you from doing what is necessary & possible!
I added a resource that I had forgotten about and haven’t looked at recently.
(also on Thinkering2go.substack.com)
This is one of my meditations and themes for the last several years. It is like a unfathomable, universe-wide subject. This is a good starting discussion of this subject. It is packed with meaning.
Humans are made in GOD’s Image and HIS likeness.
That Image in humans is this: our individual spirit & attributes.
The reason is so that we can relate to HIM. Our excuse that GOD isn’t human and a figment of our imagination is totally destroyed by Jesus. Freedom is in this discussion.
GOD created humans to be able to relate to HIM. Jesus came to be our individual, sinless Lamb of sacrifice. He will come again as the Messiah that the Jews are expecting but it will be to return believers (all those who have chosen to believe forever) to the Eden relationship with GOD. {The Biblical book of Leviticus is what perfect obedience would look like.
I finally understand its meaning and use.}
What GOD and a human creates are reflections of themselves. They are alike enough for the ...
I do not support ANY, ANY political personality cults!!!! Left, Right, middle, it doesn’t matter! If you take the political part out, it is still so! Is this clear enough? I don’t support cultish “groupyism”!
My expectation is that any American who wishes to serve America in a political office would speak and act in support of our cherished American principles that are reflected in the best writings of our founders and all sensible people since then!
I am disgusted by the pragmatic politics and the excessive partisanship that the media love, especially for Democrats, it seems. I am disgusted with the pro-to-total leftism in our media. They do not represent thinking, peaceful citizens’ views! Individual humans are all over the belief spectrum with the issues. That is why discussion is necessary!
The people that I enjoy watching and reading at least attempt to tell the truth as they see it and are willing to listen to varying opinions and discuss them! From libertarian to center ...
There have been 4 “trans” shooters out of the estimated 7-10% of our nation who are
leftist-oriented. I will give anyone interested the source. May I define a term reasonably? Killing another individual person by an individual for any reason, just or not, is murder! Personal reasons, political reasons, on a whim, due to insanity, all these are murder. They may be treated differently. There are laws that apply in those situations.
[The real numbers are:
for 7%, 0.000001724, or 0.1724 per million
for 10%, 0.00000001201, or 0.121 “ “ ]
{There is a source for the 7-10% of the population, but I don’t remember who it was! I still don’t remember who quoted it, but it was of Pew Research, and, the statistics are mostly white people! Is there no shame remaining in the American Left, or their news media????)
It is obvious if we stop and think about it. This is not a justification of the shootings. These will almost always be criminal unless they are provably ...
