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Freedom vs Liberty

the same liberal cult that wants to make us un-free also tries to take away personal responsibility, replacing it with government force.

The sad truth is what fuels the anti-liberty agenda of the liberal cult: masses of fools simply won’t know what they’ve got ’til it’s gone.

And it’s a really big deal when somebody takes yours away. But if you inherited it, and never were without it, you don’t really appreciate it, and just think it’ll always be there.

Social is good doers and busybodies want to have power over that which is not their property. They are the ones who infringe on others freedom via property right violations. They say; “it becomes my business if you actions infringe on my freedom. You may think you have an unbridled freedom to do whatever you want, whenever, but you will have to accept the responsibility for what may follow from your selfishness. We have to reach an accommodation, an agreement. That’s called compromise, and is what community and being a good neighbor is all about.”

My response is; ” I don’t compromise my liberty. If it is not your property, it is not your business.”

The doo-gooder response will be along the line of; “So you can defecate upstream in the water I have to drink? I don’t think so.”

It happens everyday.

Such thinking as yours pushes responsibility from you for you to others.

For instance, I once went backpacking along pristine Lake Superior. Others who got the mandatory lecture from the park ranger were appalled the ranger recommended filtering your water. In defense the park ranger put the burden on the drinker saying, you don’t know if a beaver just peed in the water around the bend or a dead moose is decaying in the water just out of sight.

If you own the water as it flows along your property, it is YOUR responsibility to make sure it’s purity meets your high standards.

Liberty is bounded by attendant responsibility; freedom is not.

Consider, for example, that the word “freedom” is rarely used in our organic charters, and in the published arguments for and against their ratification. Instead, when natural rights are concerned, the word “liberty” is used, to denote a latitude tempered by the responsibility not to violate the equal rights of others.

The quintessential example of the word freedom in our organic charters comes, of course, from the First Amendment guarantee that “Congress shall make no law… abridging freedom of speech, or of the press…” That admonition secured a pair of civil liberties against prior restraint. It does not refer to the right of speech or of the press, which are bounded by the equal rights of others, but rather secures the boundless freedom against government intervention before the fact.

That is to say, freedom of speech is the entirely limitless latitude to say anything at all without restriction beforehand. The right of speech, a facet of liberty, is the latitude to say that which does not necessarily violate the equal rights of others.

So imagine I say something defamatory about you that destroyed your reputation and ruined your livelihood. When you sue me in a court of competent jurisdiction and win a judgement against me, that court is providing remedy because I trespassed beyond the natural definition of liberty because my latitude of speech violated your rights. But that court had to allow me to make the defamatory statement before it could act. If it punished me before I uttered the defamatory words, it would have violated my freedom of speech, because freedom is unbounded and absolute.

My freedom to swing my arm has no limit, but my right to swing my arm usually ends at your nose… unless you are presently violating my right to my life, liberty, or property, at which point I have every right to punch you and more.

Freedom is liberty’s amoral cousin.

Freedom and responsibility go hand in hand. This is why the same liberal cult that wants to make us un-free also tries to take away personal responsibility, replacing it with government force. Patriots do the opposite of that. And this is a fundamental difference between the two camps.

Liberty requires taking responsibility for one’s personal well being and one’s own actions.

Liberty is like money and sex: it only seems like a big deal when you aren’t getting any of it.

Revelation 6:12-14?

The Hawthorne area had been mined since the 1850’s, and the studied geology, high level of earthquake activity, & prolific geothermal eruptions in region should have been enough to indicate it would be a bad choice to store millions of pounds of explosives on top of it.

¹²And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;

¹³And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.

¹⁴And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.

A magnitude-6.5 earthquake rattled western Nevada just before sunrise May 15, 2020 waking up people at 4:03 a.m. local time, well before their morning alarms went off, according to news reports.

This is the strongest earthquake to shake Nevada in 65 years. As of 5 a.m. local time, six magnitude-4 or higher aftershocks had already rocked the region, including a magnitude-5.1 aftershock just 23 minutes later, at 4:26 a.m. local time, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

The earthquake struck 34.7 miles (56 kilometers) west of Tonopah, Nevada, near the California-Nevada border, about 120 miles (193 km) southeast of Carson City. Shaking was felt as far away as Sacramento and Reno. People also reported feeling shaking in Las Vegas, about 200 miles (330 km) southeast of the quake’s epicenter. So far, there aren’t any reports of injuries.

The earthquake originated 1.7 miles (2.8 km) underground, in the shallow crust of the North American plate. The USGS has classified it as a strike slip fault, which happens at vertical fractures when the rocky plates that make up Earth’s surface move horizontally. To visualize this movement, place two fists together and move one backward, or watch this 1-second USGS video.

The earthquake happened within Walker Lane, an active seismic zone located along part of the California-Nevada border. The Walker Lane zone is a hotspot; it contains up to 25% of the motion where the North America and Pacific Plate interact, USGS said. The remainder of that motion largely happens in the San Andreas fault system.

Over the past 50 years, about two dozen magnitude-5 or higher earthquakes have hit within 62 miles (100 km) of today’s spot, largely to the west and south, USGS reported. In roughly the same region, for instance, a magnitude-6.8 earthquake struck in December 1932 and a magnitude-6.5 quake hit in January 1934.

I have a contact that lives in the vicinity who made the following email report;

“Yeah, I was sitting at my computer facing due East, and I felt it coming at me from out of the Southeast. The hanging lights confirmed that with the direction of their swing. It had the rolling “feel” of a shallow quake with some pretty good force pushing it.

My best first guess for origin was the Hawthorne, NV area, and at a force over 6.0, since Hawthorne is about 130 to the Southeast, the felt force & the distance would just about be right for the way it felt passing thru here.

Hawthorne always concerns me, since it is built right over one of the thinnest surface crust areas in North America, and is also one of the largest repositories for ordinance & high explosives in the U.S. The Hawthorne AAD* is 226 sq miles of explosive bunkers, of which about 200 Sq Mi are in actual use the last time I read the published stats. The actual bunker count is numbered at 2,427, and they claim status as “The Worlds Largest” ordinance depot. They did supply the majority of the ordinance used to fight WWII, so there is that.

The origin of Hawthorne AAD might be seen as beginning with the Black Tom Depot explosion in New Jersey in 1916. Then the Morgan Munitions Depot explosion in 1918, also in New Jersey. There was a popular belief that German sabotage might have been the cause. The Germans did have motive, means, & opportunity, but when an explosive depot cooks off, there isn’t much left in the way of forensic evidence, and no case was ever made to a positive conclusion. Then in 1926 The Lake Denmark Naval Ammunition Depot blew up, also in New Jersey. These were all massive explosions that killed or injured people at great distance.

Congress got involved, and passed a pretty open ended mandate, that a Depot be commissioned in the West, and no farther that 1,000 miles from the coast, which would put in play the entire State of Nevada, and about half of Utah to boot.

I’d guess the final location decision in 1930 was made on a Friday afternoon, by a mid level D.C. bureaucrat, who just stuck a pin in a map & called it good. Watching the news these days, I really don’t think things have changed that much.

*Hawthorne Army Depot (HWAD) is a U.S. Army ammunition storage depot located near the town of Hawthorne in western Nevada in the United States. It is directly south of Walker Lake. The depot covers 147,000 acres (59,000 ha) or 226 sq. mi. and has 600,000 square feet (56,000 m²) storage space in 2,427 bunkers. HWAD is the “World’s Largest Depot” and is divided into three ammunition storage and production areas, plus an industrial area housing command headquarters, facilities engineering shops, etc.

Maybe it’s the beginning of the promised apocalypse?

What we have learned – Part 2

I have learned that we have far more sheep than I had originally thought. The sheer amount of people posting on Fakebook that support our government and their actions, and many of them think they haven’t done enough, and are begging for more.

“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.” Edgar Allan Poe

10 lessons:

1. The numbers are wrong

2. Don’t trust the government

3. It’s all about money

4. Don’t trust the government

5. Much to do about nothing

6. Government idiots abound

7. Don’t trust the government

8. We have a country full of mice, not men

9. Have a good stock of books

and finally…..

10. Don’t trust the government

I have learned that my government is far worse than I imagined. I used to believe, “They would never do that, they may posture about doing it, political chest thumping, but when push comes to shove, they really wouldn’t.”

Now I know, “Yes, they would!”

Many (most?) people want to be governed. The prospect of objectively looking at those who govern us and concluding “they’re full of shit”, and that we should decide for ourselves what to do is absolutely terrifying to many people.

The people I thought were self-sufficient and self-reliant have proven themselves. That’s refreshing. Some people I had thought were intelligent and rational have proven they aren’t that way when something like this happens. And by “like this” I don’t mean the pandemic but the government overreach.

It has taught me that the mentally ill, drug addicts, alcoholics, etc. are going to be even more dangerous in a post-SHTF world than they are in a normal world. Crime has slowed down with everyone staying home, except for the aforementioned groups (and those who like to hit their spouses). While police are going to less calls and dealing with less “routine” stuff, what they are seeing is more dangerous and more unpredictable.

I think it has also taught me that the older people who are the most at risk tend not to give a shit about pandemics, while many of the younger people who have very little risk are freaking out.

Not sure if it’s age, perspective, wisdom, or what. I see people in the 65+ age group out and about regularly with no Personal Protective Equipment, but most of the 18-30 crowd look like they are going to perform some kind of medical procedure just to gas up their cars.

I never honestly imaged an armed insurgency against our government. Now, I can see it is only a breath away. A few more rights ignored/denied and I can honestly say I see bullets starting to fly. I have also learned that there would be a substantial number of Americans firing those bullets. And those not initially firing themselves, would probably be wishing them well as they fly by.

I don’t think our government has realized the Can Of Whoop-Ass they have potentially unleashed with their recent ill-conceived decrees and incompetence.

Once the Whoop-Ass has escaped the can, there is no police force in America that could do a damn thing to stop it. The military could, but I honestly think most of them would be on the Whoop side rather than the Ass side.

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We hold these truths

The denizens of the Deep State, (and I would sadly include many of the Executive Branch, including Atty General Barr), have, most certainly, become destructive of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

For those who have continued to believe that sooner or later there would be justice done and the swamp drained… guess again peons.

The US attorney general said Monday he did not expect to investigate either former president Barack Obama or former vice president Joe Biden over the 2016 Russia election meddling case, despite President Donald Trump’s call for a probe.

“We cannot allow his process to be hijacked by efforts to drum up criminal investigations of either candidate.”

This, after saying; “original investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia in the 2016 election was a “grave injustice” to the president and based on “utterly baseless” suspicions.”

For those who slept through, (or never had), Civics class;”We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.”

The denizens of the Deeps State, (and, sadly, I would include many of the current Executive Branch, including Atty General Barr), have, most certainly become destructive of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. They have perpetuated a two-tier system of jurisprudence, one for the elite, ruling class and another, inferior one for the peasants. The republic, as envisioned and produced by our Founding Fathers is, without further doubt or discussion, one of the walking dead.
It is time to either accept our fate as chattel of the state or withdraw consent and institute new government as is described in the Declaration of Independence.

What have we learned?

I was/am amazed at how easily the masses can be controlled. I had no idea it would be that easy.

Well, if nothing else, I have learned a few things during the last few months that Covid-19 has been “all the rage”.

At the start of this thing, I figured there would be some things to be learned from it all. Here’s my preliminary list:

Having pandemic supplies will not do a thing unless you and your whole family stay home alone and nobody comes to visit. I realized, that’s just not me, even though I’m a bit of a hermit.

It’s also not realistic for the majority of people to do this long term. Sorry, but if something really nasty comes along, I will probably die because even if I stayed home, wife won’t. Besides, I’m not staying at home forever out of fear. That’s a life I’m not willing to live.

Getting truthful information is nearly impossible, even without a comm shutdown! I doubt HAM radio operators got any better information than I did on the idiot box or internet.

Trying to sort thru all of it was a mind trick. Now, I’m just angry because I don’t believe the media, I don’t believe the politicians of either party, I don’t believe the medical experts… I flat-out don’t believe anybody! At this point, I’m just thinking……..BRING IT ON!

I was pretty stocked up on food and still am, but I do get bored cooking and planning every single meal.

I also didn’t realize how important fresh veggies were to my mental health. Canned and frozen veggies get monotonous really quickly. I don’t think I’ll ever underestimate fresh celery, lettuce, spinach, tomatoes and mushrooms again.

Also, even though we have lots of freezer space and when your spouse still gets carry-out fast food, when you cook every meal at home,even for just yourself, that food disappears rather quickly.

Watching YouTube videos and reading books on how to cut hair doesn’t hold a candle to actually cutting hair.

I learned I need to get my dog grooming supplies cleaned up and that cutting hair will have to be a learned skill. Combs! I need to get some combs!

I learned which of my family and friends are or aren’t fearful of these sorts of things. The majority of our friends and family are not fearful.

Are they (and I) stupid, stubborn, fed up, all of the above?? Who knows? Only time will tell. But any fear I may have had has morphed straight into anger because at this point, I think this is all a big farce and and experiment in social engineering.

I was/am amazed at how easily the masses can be controlled. I had no idea it would be that easy.

However, after this thing blows over, I don’t think it will be so easy in the future. At least, that is my hope!

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There is no shortage of fear

If it was the plan of the Deep State to set out to deliberately destroy an economy, requesting most people to stay home has been a very effective way.

Is anyone else wondering what effect the ‘lockdown’ will have on food production and distribution.

It is a fragile and time sensitive system. Crops need to be harvested and moved to market on a steady basis. Warehouses need to rotate stock on a constant basis, to keep it fresh and available.

Consider a major warehouse distribution center, a HUGE place that moves massive amount of produce, meats, dairy, seafood and so on. It is all perishable and needs to be rotated fast. Think of all the produce needed to supply restaurants and major grocery chains in a city. It comes and goes through only a few major hubs.

Now, think of the supply chain that gets it all there. From farm to market so to speak, only in massive quantities. When one part of the system slows down, it has to back-up another part of it. Food stuffs accumulate and expire all along the chain.

It will find an equilibrium, eventually, as it did when building up. But, it is going to take time for that chain to build back up to the amounts it was at before the lock down. Is this all because of a virus with a mortality rate of less than .10%?

Things are not adding up. They are dumping milk as well; it is claimed because restaurants,, institutions and schools aren’t buying, but they are limiting how much you can buy at the store. Shortages are being created by someone and for some reason and they may succeed in making them real, fatally real.

These are the issues that will come to a head some months down the road. Nobody really thinks of the logistical chain, or the steps in the process. We only think of truckers and distribution most of the time.

What if workers are sick and can’t get into the field to harvest, or aren’t allowed to harvest, sick or well? There won’t be anything to ship. If farmers can’t get into the field to plant there won’t even be anything to harvest. If cattle, hogs and poultry have been destroyed there won’t be anything to process.

As many who follow this blog already know, the virus was the catalyst and not the cause.

When the repo markets started blowing out last September the timer on the bomb started ticking down. The whole world economy was going to come apart at the seams anyway and the elites, (call them The Powers That Be, The Shadow Government or the Deep State), needed a scapegoat to blame and now there is one.

The Fed has already dumped more liquidity into this then they did back in 2008 and it‘s hardly having any effect at all. Unfortunately we are not going back to what was considered as normal before this started. We have to go down this road now which is starting as deflation and goes into a hyperinflationary depression.

We are still on the deflation side of the equation. Sooner or later they will have to go beyond the $1200 stimulus checks and start a universal basic income or direct helicopter money dumps.

From the perspective of economic theory and practice, government spending during World War II demonstrated how massive government spending at a time of severe economic downturn and dislocation can indeed get an economy humming again.

During WW II Government spent money on aircraft, ships, landing-craft, weapons, tanks, trucks, jeeps, food for millions of soldiers, supplies, and so forth. Government spending not only skyrocketed to over 40% of GDP during the war, but it was accompanied by a command and control economy, with Government agencies directing what was to be produced, Soviet style.

When the stock market crashed in 1929, the Dow plummeted from its September peak of 381.17 to a low of 41.22 in July 1932. Unemployment increased, to a peak of about 25 percent in early 1933. Gross domestic product fell steadily, ultimately declining by about 30 percent.

The economic crash caused by the coronavirus, if anything, will be sharper and steeper. If it was the plan of the Deep State to set out to deliberately destroy an economy, requesting most people to stay home has been a very effective way.

Fear of the virus is disrupting production, and the “public health” response to the virus is economically catastrophic. Given the scale and rate of likely economic collapse, we could easily see G.D.P. decline by Great Depression levels, and at a much more rapid rate than in the early 1930s.

It took WW II to stimulate us out of the last depression. I am seeing some very troubling parallels here.

Science is the new secular religion – part 4

They were exhibiting blind faith – accepting the theories without comprehending them.

Science is horribly misguided and mistaken on a practical level.

Science has been totally corrupted by special interests who fund and determine the outcome of much of the research. They can pay for whatever “scientific result” they want for their agenda, not only because one’s very act of observation determines one’s reality, but also because they can slant, distort and omit data in line with their goals.

Simply put, a scientist discovering the “wrong” result will be quickly rejected and defunded.

This fake and fraudulent science, which is not true science at all but rather corporate junk science which passes under the rubric of science, is all pervasive.

Science Will Bend to Accommodate Modern Trends

If you think scientists are immune to the pressure to conform to public opinion – think again. I am not even going to consider the announcements made by scientists under totalitarian regimes (such as racist “conclusions”), because I consider these to be forced aberrations.

Instead I will use the scientific approach to homosexuality.

It was included in the list of personality disorders of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder (DSM) up to its 1973 edition. It was then removed – only to be replaced a year later by a close variant, before being removed entirely in 1986.

Upon what evidence rested the changing decisions to include or exclude homosexuality among mental disorders? Public sentiment, backed by convenient “empirical evidence”, played a leading role.

Most of Science is Unfounded

Dark Matter, Dark Energy, Quantum Strings and Ego – all of them sound like plausible stories. But can anyone point out the Ego locus in a dissected brain? Or use the concept of Dark Energy for anything besides helping to explain the expanding universe – another scientific theory? There is no actual proof for any of these theories.

That’s right – we have no proof for the existence of 96% of what science thinks the universe is made of – and yet the theories explaining it (we call them theories to avoid calling them stories) we hold to be true. Why? you ask. Because we have faith.

Science Requires Faith

Even highly-specialized scientists will often pursue a certain line of thought, and explore the implications of certain theory while rejecting others, based on nothing more than intuitive preferences, and their sense of what is elegant and right.

Most people who reject the religion they once accepted will claim to have done so in favor of the reasonable, clear-cut answers provided by logic and science. When asked to explain the existence of the universe, they’ll mention the Big Bang and M Theories; when asked to explain the existence of humans, they’ll mention evolution.

When pressed to explain any of the above, however, they soon realize that they actually understand very little. They were exhibiting blind faith – accepting the theories without comprehending them. If you don’t understand something, yet accept it as the truth, then you’re simply a Believer – and like much of science, you’ll find yourself well within the territory of religion.

Mainstream scientists will probably feel aghast to hear it, but the truth is that science is a religion with its own high priests – they just wear white coats rather than black gowns. It requires belief (faith) in its theories (doctrine) which can never ultimately be proven (Evolution, Relativity, Big Bang) because they are full of assumptions and contradictions. There is always at least one question that can never be answered, and constantly redefining terms, omitting numbers or inventing new factors becomes, at a certain point, like twisting facts to suit theories, rather than twisting theories to suit facts, as the fictional character Sherlock Holmes liked to say.

Science is the new secular religion- Part 3

Anything contradicting this dogma is simply rejected and ignored, or ridiculed for as long as possible.

Science is not so much about knowledge as doubt. Never in the field of human inquiry have so many known so little about so much.

If this all sounds rather rarefied, consider science at its most practical, scientific experiments don’t end with a holy grail so much as an estimate of probability.

For example, one might be able to accord a value to one’s conclusion not of “yes” or “no” but “P<0.05”, which means that the result has a less than one in 20 chance of being a fluke. That doesn’t mean it’s “right”. They cannot determine The Truth. And Truth, with a capital T, is forever just beyond one’s grasp.

But, the fiction of settled scientific truth is still dangled out there for the homage of the public.

Scientists are looked upon as wizards, men like gods, who either have more than the regular human complement of little grey cells, or access to occult arcana denied to us ordinary mortals.

They are our secular priests in vestments of white coats, tortoiseshell specs and pocket protectors. We don’t dare criticize them. We don’t engage with them – we bow down before them.

Science Has Its Own Code of Ethics

There are state laws, and there are moral laws. And now, according to science, there are “laws of scientific conduct”. All kinds of atrocities are committed in the name of science – take a doctor, for example, who has to give placebo pills to a number of his patients in a drug trial, knowing that they will suffer or die much sooner than if they had received proper treatment.

But scientific advancement almost always claims precedence over personal morality. And – unless you’re a zealot yourself – its ethics will clash with your personal code of conduct.

Science Has Its Own Priesthood

Newton, Darwin and Einstein serve as the holy trinity of western science. And below these are the elders: Watson, Crick, Dawkins, Hawking, Dennet, Chomsky, Penrose and Sagan. And then you have the High Priests: the Nobel Prize winners, the popular writers and the media celebrities… and recently we have Cardinal Fauci.

Their opinions are received as sermons, and their statements are quoted like sacred texts.

Ordinary people are ridiculed, if they doubt the interpretations of this priesthood. Even for scientists, questioning a member of a higher tier is done only at your own risk. After all, all scientific work (from papers to grant applications) is peer reviewed, remember?

Science is Based on Established Dogmas

Ever wonder how for centuries, the best doctors could insist on blood-letting as a cure – without ever noticing that their patients did worse? The answer: belief in blood-letting was part of the scientific dogma at the time.

Anything contradicting this dogma is simply rejected and ignored, or ridiculed for as long as possible. Currently the doctrine seems to be belief in the mystical power of a yet untested and unproven vaccine. Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead! Science thus has the trappings of a full blown religion.

Once again, I have posited enough blasphemy to make your average adjunct professor’s head explode. So enough for today. Join us tomorrow for some final heresy’s regarding the secular scientific sacredotals.

Science is the new secular religion – Part 1

Materialism vs. idealism is really the philosophical battle between the ideas that matter exists independently (and that consciousness doesn’t exist or is secondary), as opposed to the idea that consciousness, thought and energy are primary (and that matter is secondary).

Mainstream science, despite all its claims of objectivity, and despite the fact it attempts to lay claim to the truth, is itself a religion.

Science places itself on a pedestal and assures everyone it has dispassionately arrived at its conclusions. Meanwhile, however, it is full of assumptions, denials and limitations, and makes the serious mistake of presenting its theories as facts.

The errors of mainstream science are gladly seized upon by technocrats, eager to use science and technology to further their own ambitions of control, and include forcing the vaccine, GMO, surveillance, man made global warming, geoengineering, SMART and microchipping agendas onto an unsuspecting public.

Materialism, the driving force behind mainstream science, has been shown again and again to lack the capacity to explain the world around us, especially in relation to idealism or other theories that account for the energetic nature of reality. Yet, despite this, we remain collectively bedazzled by materialism, because science is a religion that has induced a certain faith in us.

This is certainly not the first time we have struggled with the debate of whether the world can best be described by materialism. The ancient Greek philosophers and scientists thought long and hard about the issue.

Materialism vs. idealism is really the philosophical battle between the ideas that matter exists independently (and that consciousness doesn’t exist or is secondary), as opposed to the idea that consciousness, thought and energy are primary (and that matter is secondary).

Democritus championed the first viewpoint (and his ideas were taken further by Aristotle), whereas Plato proposed the second with his famous theory of the World of Forms or World of Ideas. According to Plato, our materialist reality is an inferior copy of a more perfect world.

This is exactly in alignment with what various cultures, shamans, religions and spiritual traditions have been saying about the preeminence of energy and mind over matter.

Over the course of the next week I will share some thoughts on how we have abandoned the spiritual in favor of the “material”, and, in so doing have, as a society bowed down to a secular theology with it’s own catechism, it casts out and persecutes heretics, has and reveres it’s own saints, has it’s own theology to explain our origins, has it’s own ethics and morals, has it’s own priesthood, strictly follows it’s own dogma, tends to be mostly unfounded and requires blind faith from it’s acolytes.

Follow along, (if you dare), during the next few days and challenge beliefs rather than parroting facts.

Prayer for Saturday, May 9, 2020

Comforting lies are never as beneficial as loving truth.

³²And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

The most enticing aspect of sin is the promise of freedom. Even from the first temptation, in the garden of Eden, man has assumed that defying God is a way to control his own destiny. In fact, the opposite is true. Nothing enslaves like sin—it corrupts our thinking, controls our actions, and destroys our peace. Worst of all, it separates us from God (Ephesians 2:12) and condemns us to an eternity of loneliness and shame (Matthew 8:12). Jesus, on the other hand, represents the truth—that is, Himself. This is theme Christ will return to often in His teaching (John 14:6; John 8:12). No other claims are true, and nothing but truth can really free us.

Comforting lies are never as beneficial as loving truth. Even when the truth is not what we want to hear, we can’t expect to make good decisions or correct choices when we’re operating under the control of a lie.