Perhaps the #1 question I see raised in our discussion is a variation on “what are we going to do about it?”
It is a profoundly understandable question, yet it would take volumes of manuscript and dozens of hours of conversation to adequately answer. That said, the reason for the complexity of the answer is very simple.
Approximately, 72% of a healthy adult American population took an experimental COVID-19 shot as recommended by, and later demanded by, government. That’s essentially 3 out of every four Americans.
In a recent poll of the 190,000 followers to CTH on Twitter, we asked did you take the shot? More than 80% of the respondents said no.
In a national population where approximately 1 out of every 4 declined the shot, the CTH audience consists of a population where 4 out of 5 declined the shot. The CTH audience is essentially the inverse of the national population. This is a context for looking at the original question.
The proverbial ‘we’ are in agreement as to the scope of the national problem. However, ‘we’ in the larger context are in the minority. That doesn’t mean we are powerless, nor does it mean we cannot affect the change we desire. However, that context does structure the nature of the challenge, and form the baseline for any proposal that would be considered an answer.
Again, in general terms, CTH readers are far ahead in understanding the scale of the problem as compared to the general population. It has been more than a decade since we first outlined the corrupt nature of the Dept of Justice and the specific political activity of the FBI as it was happening. At the time, people said we were nuts; generally saying we took analysis of how the domestic intelligence state was corrupted by politics, too far.
Well, here we are a decade later and the larger population of the American people are now openly accepting the DOJ, FBI and Intelligence Community are corrupted by politics. The very small minority position is now the slightly larger majority position. But it took a decade.
How long did it take the majority to realize ‘ballots’ -vs- ‘votes’ was a real problem? We have had THREE election cycles decided by ballot collection. The BETA test in California (2018 midterm), the national ballot collection rollout in 2020, and finally the midterm election in 2022. Five years since the original data showed ‘ballots’ were the election control mechanism, not ‘votes’. Now, people are awake to the problem, but again it took five years.
Another example: Take the basic construct of our UniParty political system…
♦The RNC wants money.
♠The DNC wants power.
♦The RNC uses power to get money.
♠The DNC uses money to get power.
♦The donor activity of the RNC drives their ideology.
♠The ideology of the DNC drives their donor activity.
This is the essential difference in the two private corporations’ political business models. It is a very nuanced distinction, but it is a distinction. Nothing within that system can change until the people who engage in that system admit this is the system. Right now, less than 10% (my estimation) of the Republican Party followers understand this.
Most self-admitted Republicans think that by changing the head of the RNC, the corporation will adapt a new business model. The majority of those believers are willing to support an RNC corporation insider like Harmeet Dhillon as the change agent. The history of the Club does not support this expectation, yet they believe it.
Those whose hold on power depends on deception are always able to find an audience of those willing to be deceived.
Now, the audience of those willing to be deceived is a flexible group in terms of numbers and identities. Even those who have been in that audience for some time may one day walk away from it. What is it that makes folks stay in that audience? What price are they afraid of paying? What deception are they unwilling to let go of?
While we use the word passive to describe this “willingness to continue in deception,” this is not an experience shaded in peaceful lavenders, mint greens and dappled sunlight. This is the deadly passivity of muscles that no longer fire; tiny electrical charges that no longer leap from one synapse to the next.
This is as passivity says: “I won’t begin resisting, because I know that once begun, I must continue. Rather than assert myself and perhaps fail (or get really scared), I will sustain myself where I am trapped. I will muffle my moans so as not to risk exposure, and I will call it self-control. Winston Churchill would have called it cowardice, but I will call it pragmatic caution.”
And within that framework, there’s the answer to the question, “What are we going to do about it?”
The very first step that’s desperately necessary for our survival, is that we become disillusioned–and quickly. We must stop pretending.
In the interim, if you are one of the 1 in 4 independent-minded Americans, you need to think about your home, the physical surroundings of yourself and your community, as the Alamo.
Fortify your defenses literally in your family.
Then, only if your home is secure, move forward using tactical civics to influence the local election level, city council, school boards, sheriff, judges etc. Each of these local level engagements should be looked upon as setting perimeter defenses against federal and state intrusion.
Once you are confident in your home and family security, and once you have established the safe perimeter to keep your community guarded, then you expand to the larger state offices, via state legislature, state senate and state governor.
Through this process you are constantly leveraging the majority. You are not in the minority within your home; and hopefully you will not be in the minority within your county.
If you are stuck in a blue region, retain the disposition of an insurgent. The rebellion can formulate underground.
You have the better arguments; you believe in freedom. Continued assembly-building will gain the numbers needed to be in the majority.
Keep focused on spreading disillusionment by using the atomic sledgehammer of truth. Never accept the false pretenses that underpin the status quo. The opposition’s arguments are weak, and they are built upon fraud. They require a constant pretending. Denial of truth permits easier trespass.
Use truth as a weapon by learning the core issues better than the other side. Read the history of how events unfolded. Learn the hidden constructs behind the motives carried by those who created the events. Learn their arguments and learn how to deconstruct them.
Then, when you are intellectually armed and fully prepared, openly stop pretending and ask the questions in public that will awaken the audience around you.
Watching “The Fellowship of the Ring” again the other night and wondering if it would mean more to the general population if they were now to hear the part about “we did not ask to be born during these times of evil” (paraphrase?) and “we have no choice about when we are born, but only about what to do with the time which we are given”….all of which I know we are all thinking about so much…
Growing up thinking “all that stuff” (meaning WWII era nazism and fascism) was history, not realizing it is cyclical, not realizing that it was due to return, that my generation was born just a few years after it had ended, so of course, we would see it return…but thinking it beyond belief, beyond my comprehension, yet….here it is.
There is no longer any denying it, but perhaps the worst part is, I thought when evil came, everyone would know…I didn’t realize the insiduous nature … the lonely part …would be that so many do not even know the evil is here….wondering if others feel that way, too…it would be much easier if everyone knew. Only sites like this help keep me sane in an insane time.
Part of the not knowing has to be related to people not knowing history.
Part of not knowing history is the deliberate suppression and revision of history by activists and academics (but I repeat myself).
Most of us are unaware of how under educated we are.
And part of it is due to being Mind-Numbed, like the person who is overwhelmed by the Urgent, Overwhelming Desire to take a nap in the snow of a Blizzard instead of pushing on to Safety in a Warm Cabin ahead.
Missing he who discussed mind-numbed robots……that was Rush Limbaugh.
YRS, its “not knowing” because they don’t WANT to know, I think thats one of the points Sundance was making, …
Does anyone think Mitch has “thrown caution to the wind” and being blatant in showing his contempt for us, NOW?
He and the rest have been blatant for a long time, WE just haven’t wanted to, and so haven’t recognised it; not because it wasn’t THERE, but because WE didn’t want to SEE it, because of what it would mean; that WE would have to DO something ABOUT it.
The good citisen, seeing the corruption and intimidation, keeps their head down because they tell themselves, by doing that they can hold on to what they hold dear; life, liberty, lifestyle, family and hope for the future,…
And fears that if they stick their head up, they may lose some or all of that.
They have their “Patriot moment” when they realise that the opposite is true; keeeping their head down GUARANTEES the will lose ALL they hold dear.
MAYBE sticking their head up WILL enable them to retain SOME of what they hold dear, but its not so much that hope, as the certainty that all is lost if they don’t, that forms the backbone of a Patriot; quite simply He/She has nothing to LOSE.
This “Patriot moment” can and does effect people individual, but sometimes it can effect the masses, all at once, and with little to no notice.
Anyway, DENIAL far more than ignorance of history, is why so many are continuing to pretend, its “safer” to just ignore the evil, than to confront it.
Glad to see your post.
I thought something might have happened to you.
I still have “Dutchman’s Jerry” in my contacts,
didn’t have to use him though.
I know people that know history very well and they are still taken into it. They live on feelings not the true picture. Abortion is an example, “you are putting the mother in danger if something goes wrong when abortion is against the law. ” Another example: Think about Grandparents that will die if you don’t get the vaccine. Children have the right to make a choice about their sexuality, no one knows how they feel except themselves. Some people were born attracted to children, they can’t help it. I can go on and on. Evil is looking us in the face, we are standing toe to toe with it. Do not back down, because it might hurt someone’s feelings.
Amen.
“You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. .. But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds of thousands will join with you, never comes… If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked … But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between comes all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next.”
“And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you and you see that everything – everything – has changed. ..Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed.
Milton Mayer, from,
They Thought They Were Free
That’s a remarkably insightful little book–have had it on my book shelf foryears and reread it regularly.
It actually came and went while we were all watching – Jan 6th but little did we know the significance of the moment. In retrospect we should have rallied in ever increasing numbers in the days afterwards. Look at Brazil, they have not stopped and likely won’t until they get justice.
Try to find any coverage of this monumental moment. One stumbles across the odd bit here and there. But ask 100 random people about it, I’d suspect you’ll get blank stares.
What is happening in Brazil is inspiring and a teachable event. And the Stalinists who rule over this country can’t have that now…can they.
Why are we not doing what Brazil is doing? After all, we are Americans! I can only come up with “we are too cowardly and so many have strayed far from God.” But God said “if my people who are called by my name”, etc. we all know what it says. We have not stood up for God, for we the people, and for our children and now it’s come to this. And we are still not standing up.
The sheer evil we face in our world today is Biblical.
And, sadly, so is our human response here in America. We have come to resist God the Father, becoming lazy and spoiled.
None of this is new, of course, or even unpredictable. Simply read the Bible.
But we have been blessed by God with the ability to make CHOICES. We must CHOOSE to remain God fearing and free.
We don’t believe we will lose everything under a communist regime. The Brazilians know better.
Why? Principlaly because we Americans have been lulled by comfort. The Brazilian peoples are not as wealthy, nor as cocksure as many of us are. Wealth and comfort are the greatest enemies of freedom, and are the principal barriers to obeying God’s word.
They also have an institutional history with a communist takeover that failed back in the 1950s.
How to boil a frog.
The video I cut yesterday nails this point hard, I think. I never really bought into Jim Marrs preaching — until now….
https://rumble.com/v22365q-denial-is-no-safe-option-the-great-reset.html
Your post resonated with a lot of hearts tonight, certainly mine. Thank you for the gift of your words.
Yes, it’s the loneliness that I didn’t expect. Nobody listens to me. They live in some kind of bubble and don’t see what we are seeing reappear from history.
When I was a boy, I always thought the government would always protect us. I thought it was magical. We would always be free and have an abundance of life. I thought they knew everything about our Constitution and would never let anything happen to our country.
Living in a magical world with a true Lord of Hosts will need to come later for us. Now is the time to fight.
Everyone who liked this comment should Control F “p-r-a-y” and take stock of ScarletRedRose’s guidance. She knows her Bible. This battle is huge, it is global, it is spiritual, it is not just for America but for all the chips: human nature, creation, freedom, the human spirit, the future, … everything. The good news is that “the battle belongs to the Lord.” That does not mean that we do nothing. It means we pray, it means we worship, it means we sing. I just finished reading 2Chron 20 this AM, before I read SRR’s comment. Worship is, among other things, spiritual warfare. Uphold the name of Jesus in earnest and seek the presence of the Lord and the enemy flees. Sing Christian songs. The devil hates them. Again, prayer and worship are not doing nothing. This is the role divinely assigned to people of faith when the champion in the ring is God himself. Moreover, 2Chron 20 and dozens of texts like it reveal how God defeats the enemy, i.e., by pitting the enemy against himself.
People are always quoting Lincoln quoting Mark 3: “A house divided …” as a warning and a rallying point for our unity. Fine. The far more important point is this: it is the assurance that Satan’s house is already defeated. “For, lo, his doom is sure.” So wrote Luther, but he was only quoting Jesus in Mark 3. Is this just wishful thinking for our day? Absolutely not. There is a reason why the bloggers at Instapundit have a whole meme dedicated to the left’s “autophagy.”
So, you say, it’s not just the left; it the uniparty. I get it. But here SD has put his finger on the very seam running through the uniparty that will be the first to tear when the church sings and prays at the coming victorious return of Jesus — whenever (!) that happens in history—whether it happens today or 1000 years from now. God always, always, always (!) attends the worship that is offered to him. God’s presence alone scatters the darkness.
But here is the one thing that convinced me from the start of the whole BBB campaign that this was and is the culminating battle: world leaders singing their crap song from the same song sheet like the possessed little puppets they are. The demons riding on their backs are scared to the point of soiling themselves (trying to keep my language clean here) because they and their boss “know the time is short.” If the powers of darkness know they are doomed, why on earth should believers in Jesus be afraid? It’s Christmas Eve. Go to church and sing the sacred songs of the faith. Go tomorrow on Christmas and sing then too. If your church is not meeting, find one that is; or if your house is full of people, then insist that everyone sing as many (sacred) Christmas carols as they know the words to. Better: pass out whatever song books and hymnals you have. Tell them, if you have to, “sing for your supper.” The battle is the Lord’s. Our job — the thing we are supposed to do in this battle more than any other battle — is to sing. The enemies’ fate is that they will devour each other, which they will do. (And it happens over and over again in the Bible.) Then there will be plunder, as at the harvest. SRR knows her Bible. So do I. You can book this victory, because it was already booked in the Bible over three thousand years ago. More than that, if you take account of the Bible’s first prophecy in Genesis 3:15.
P.S. I hope you caught Ed Dowd’s recent comment that atheists and unbelievers whom he knows are opening up to belief in God precisely because they see such evil now on such a scale. They are starting to realize that, if there is this much manifest evil and corruption in the world, there has to be a good God to counter and overcome it. Indeed, there is. His name is Jesus. And he is at the very gates. Call me crazy. Call me a troll. “I know that my redeemer lives and that at the last he will stand upon the earth.” (Job 19)
I should have added: another telltale sign was masking in church, canceling choir, no singing hymns, just humming; no sacraments celebrated; in fact, no meeting at all. Now, SD has posted Tucker’s interview with a woman arrested for silently (!) praying (!) outside an abortion clinic. What clearer signal do we need that Satan himself knows that the worship of the true God weakens him, weakens the arch-liar, who was a murderer from the beginning.
Have you tried reading and applying the Scriptures’ instructions in your life? I politely suggest you’ll derive greater benefit, comfort, and actionable guidance from the Bible than you will from a blog – even one of SD’s quality. And I believe SD – and especially Menagerie – would concur.
Said no to the shot and the face cover-up. After this COMMUNIST illegitimate group of …no word are stopped from selling America we can MAGA.
When Sundance first described voting in terms of ballots versus votes, I thought, this is incitful…
But upon further considerstion, the number of votes candidates can receive is always limted to the number of voters legally registered to vote for that elected office…
So… what is the difference, votes and ballots are the same thing.
Voting -vs- Ballots is like Sending a Letter -vs- Writing an email.
Voting requires a physical presence, active participation and contribution of time in a physical process. It is dependent on the individual taking extensive action.
Ballot assembly requires nothing more than a large-scale collection effort, with little input needed by the voter. A ballot collector can facilitate turning hundreds of ballots into votes.
By filling them in for the ‘person’ they were intended for and then dropping them off in mass at a drop box.
Some work for a living, some vote for a living.
But these days, all some have to do is hand over their ballot, without ever having to leave their house (or, fill out the ballot).
There’s a reason the collectors/harvesters cover their license plates.
As if they have to worry.
Also relates to the justifications for open borders. These people will probably never vote in person, but is millions more names and addresses that can be used for ballots and for the census. Those ballots are used to backfill ALL the voters that don’t go or care to vote. The frenzied voter registration is intentionally creating slightly skewed names or addresses to prevent duplicates because they can never clean up the errors in voter rolls at the rate the new registrations are created. It’s also why the census takers also count people living in cars, stairwells, attics and in the alleys. The vote count cannot exceed the census count. Their motto is “The End justifies the Means”. Fraud = Victory! The Winners write the history books.
One State has twice as many names on its voter roles, as its listed population.
THATS the essence of “ballots vs votes”; candidates that know the fix is in, CAN campaign from their basement, like Hillary, Joe and Hobbs, because they don’t NEED to ask people for their VOTES; because they know they have the BALLOTS, and an operation to mail ballots to every NAME (and voter identifier info) collect those ballots, fill them out and inject them into the system.
Thanks for responding, I guess I just can’t believe people can be so corrupt…
maybe I should change my moniker to Naive Conservative 🤔
There are precincts where the number of votes exceed the number of registered voters, but there are relatively few. The larger issue is that of registered voters, normally only 50 to 60 percent usually vote in engaged districts, less than 30% in districts which are not populated by engaged people. In the less engaged districts with mail in balloting, zip codes or addresses from those who do not normally vote are changed so that mail in ballots are undeliverable, then the ballots are collected in some illegal manner, filled out and stuffed into the ballot box once the number of votes is tallied.
Normal voting cannot beat this system, it is a different game. It is like drag racing a car much faster than yours, the other guy will always beat you by a fender or half a car, no matter how fast you go. They can actually perform much better, but that might give away the game too much, though those of us who have been looking recognize the telltale signs of a cheat. The big tell is that the candidate does not debate and limits public appearances because they suck at it, but somehow pull off the win on election day. For example, Hobbs, Fetterman, Hassan to name three — none debated or only debated once, and lost the debate handily. But the fix was in so they did not care.
Pennsylvania elected a dead guy to their state senate, as another example. Dead, as in not alive, not just brain dead like Fetterman or Biden. It was because the ballots were filled out months before, and lots of ballots.
May voter rolls have ghost registrations and hidden algorithms to create them. This never gets cross-referenced from the Census. Scary.
https://www.uncoverdc.com/2022/08/16/ny-citizens-audit-finds-hidden-infrastructure-in-voter-rolls/
https://auditny.com
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Any locale that has proof of these postal shenanigans needs to file federal charges against the USPO for ‘use of the mail’ to facilitate voter fraud.
I believe there is a statute related to same.
Joe Bribem incentivized that agency to facilitate voter fraud via his quid pro quo to NOT MANDATE the vaccine for the whole of the USPO . . .
You’re making the assumption that they won’t try ‘finding’ ballots for more voters than are registered (or at least, are on the rolls). This is a mistake that I don’t think they’ll make anymore – but it did happen in an embarrassingly large number of precincts in the 2020 POTUS election. What eludes me is how these agregus a cases of voter fraud havn’t gone punished – AFAIK anywhere!
What appears to be happening is the Party with the ‘selected’ to win candidate has the job of ‘finding’ voters names (to go with the ballots) of voters that haven’t voted as of when ‘voting’ is supposed to have ended (typically – 8pm on Election Day proper). Why do you think that counts take DAYS beyond what they used to? In short – they’re finding the voters that are still on the rolls that *haven’t* cast a ballot by mail or in person yet. THESE are the names that can become new ‘ballots’ that are found during the counting. Is that a slanderous allegation? Yes – but only if they’re NOT doing it. Curious question for you: What do you think is the correlation between well kept voter rolls (regularly cleaned of the deceased, and those that have moved their residences) – and how much fraud can be committed via ‘manufacturing’ (aka ‘finding’) ballots?
If we cannot get out and vote in such volumes as to exceed the ‘margin of cheat’, the only way we’ll ever fix this is with the cartridge box, either formally, or informally. I don’t want a CWII, nor do I want my beloved country to fall even farther into 3rd world conditions such that political assassinations (including the likes of judges and election workers) become common place. WE GET TO CHOOSE, even if it’s only which box we use.
Ballots don’t need voters. Voters need ballots.
And you must be keeping your eyes and ears shut if you don’t realize that long before these last three elections were stolen, that there has been a long campaign to mass produce registered voters and a companion campaign to prevent removal of any registered voter for any cause.
Illegal alien, register them to vote and can’t remove them without a legal fight. Moved, or not voted for many years, still takes a legal fight to remove them.
Why do you think these bums fight tooth and nail to prevent signature verification? Not an issue for real ballots filled out by real registered voters.
Why do you think that they fight tooth and nail to stop requiring ID to vote? Not an issue for alcohol purchases, traveling by plane, renting a car, etc, etc.
Skeptical Conservative,
“So… what is the difference, votes and ballots are the same thing.?”
A good question.
You have already gotten many good comments. Here is a little more for your review.
A quick CliffsNotes answer is that election system thieves identify voters who most likely will not vote and use an illegal “proxy” process to take control of those ballots and vote them for the candidate the thieves want to win.
The owner of the original ballot most likely will never know that his “vote” was stolen from him.
You are just at the beginning of your education as to “how elections are stolen.”
A good reference for background information can be found at “True the Vote.”
https://www.truethevote.org
I have suspected for years now that Washington State never mails the ballots to Welfare recipients. The Secretary of State is responsible to register voters, however, in Washington we have motor voter laws. If you request a drivers license or report a new address they are supposed to register you to vote at the DMV. The same thing at the welfare office. The secretary of state registers voters, the Department of Printers is a State operated printer who prints the ballots and Consolidated Mail Services mails the ballots (also a state run department). The state in 2010 determined that only 12% of welfare recipients return their Ballots. I have often wondered if they just never send them out.
There hasn’t been a fair election in the communist state of Washington since “vote by mail fraud” went state wide.
They are able to “vote” without getting sent out
One can’t control how a voter fills out his ballot but one can control how a ballot, collected or otherwise, gets filled out.
For example, how many people showed up on Election Day only to be told they already voted?
Without Voter ID, you have no idea how many times an individual voter has actually cast a ballot. You’ve no idea whether any individual voter is a US citizen or even qualified to cast a ballot.
Ask yourself why they don’t clean the voters rolls of dead + missing people…
Ask yourself why they are pushing Mail In Voting that sits places for long periods of time with no or fake chains of custoy…
https://rumble.com/v20tb4s-truth-is-late-ignored-tyranny.html
What they do is register EVERYONE to vote, legal or not. The people who are not legally able to vote may not even know that they are registered or they may know and either vote or not vote. But either way, SOMEONE casts a ballot for them. The people who are legally able to vote may have never voted or very rarely voted. The crooked people involved in this scheme cast a ballot for these people. They do this for dead people and people who have moved out of state. SOMEONE will cast a ballot for these people.
My guess is that illegals pouring over the border are being registered to vote in one state, moved to another state and being registered to vote, and on and on. Then, even if these people never illegally vote, SOMEONE will cast a ballot for them. They have made it impossible to investigate and see the minute details of their cheating. If we try to scream about it before the election then it is called “election interference”. After the election is certified it is called “no standing”.
It’s time you learned the very deadly difference, like between the deadly coral snake and the similar snake with the same colors and a different Pattern.
One of the snakes that closely resembles the coral snake is the red rat snake, a species of non-venomous corn snake that you can find all over the United States, often mistaken for coral snakes because of the red and yellow bands.
Anyone can MARK a BALLOT. a VOTER is one who make sure He or She is AUTHENTICATED, and has the RIGHT to expect and receive a LAWFUL CHAIN OF CUSTODY as PROOF of that Vote of Integrity.
You NEVER SEE a VALIDATED, AUTHENTICATED VOTE with a Lawful Chain of Custody – coming out of a Ballot Drop Box from an “unsupervised Location” – winding up in the Counting Room of an Election.
You are old enough to know that difference very well, by now.
So whatever else you are besides, “Skeptical”, It will out itself. And you yourself may never even notice when you give yourself away.
But I think you will notice IF you do or say anything that is INCONSISTENT, with your Public image of yourself.
You just don’t expect anyone else to notice.
https://thedcpatriot.com/ben-garrison-daily-cartoon-aha-we-caught-you/
Red and yellow, kill a fellow (coral snake).
Red and black, venom lack (rat snake).
A vote requires a valid voter…the actual person.
A ballot can be bought, stolen, obtained from the list of legal voter registration lists. Groups run huge voter registration campaigns among people they know won’t actually likely vote. Then they obtain their ballots. Then they bulk complete the ballots they obtained, sign them while “legally” reducing signature validation algorithms and standards so that any old scribble will be accepted as proper and legal identification, and drop them off in bunches at the drop boxes they fought for in the name of increased voter participation in a world that is unfair to minority voters.
The truth is, people who care about voting put in the time and effort to get registered and vote. What we have now is all those voters, plus a bunch of ballots harvested by various Democrat organizations who then “vote” in name only in place of the people who wouldn’t have cared enough to educate themselves on candidates or policies and vote otherwise.
Further thoughts…………
Schumer buys votes (power). Happiest as majority leader.
Democrats always want to drive change.
Progressive wing is more audacious/ radical than main ‘establishment’ D’s.
McConnell sells votes/happy to follow (also a type of power). Happiest as minority leader.
Explains, in part, why GOPe/ Establishment Republicans never seem to want to drive to achieve anything.
RINO’s (vs GOPe writ large) are more apt to follow/foster D progressiveness as they are ideologically closer to D’s – one foot in each camp.
♦The RNC wants money.
♠The DNC wants power.
♦The RNC uses power to get money.
♠The DNC uses money to get power.
♦The donor activity of the RNC drives their ideology.
♠The ideology of the DNC drives their donor activity.
Wonderful post Sundance! I too want to do something to turn the tide but I say what do I do? Honestly I feel our country is in decline but I don’t know what to do about it. Any ideas Treepers? And an aside – 2 days before Christmas I truly wish all Treepers/ occasional posters who may celebrate this holy occasion a wonderful Christmas.
Become part of a God-honoring group – even if you’re not solid in your faith. They will help you weather tough times – and help you become an overcomer.
Seek a Bible-believing church. Study doctrine so you can tell good from bad. Avoid emergent churches and seeker-friendly churches and others that will fall away.
This is excellent counsel.
my weakness but when my Southern Baptist Church got militant over masks and 6′ spacing I left
Same here (Baptist and left it, too).
We started studying theology on our own:
We added memorizing scripture, which is very rewarding (to my surprise). We use the Simply Charlotte Mason System (you can DIY it here: https://www.reallifeathome.com/how-to-make-your-own-scripture-memory-box/).
In recent years, we’ve followed one-year and two-year Bible-reading plans. We might try a chronological reading in 2023 or return to the two-year since we liked that pace. There are many at Ligonier to choose from: https://www.ligonier.org/posts/bible-reading-plans
We’re considering having communion at home. But we’re still studying about that.
We are looking for a church, though, for fellowship, but we’re trying to be careful and not rush in.
AND we watch The Bible Project’s books of the Bible videos on YouTube before we begin a new book.
Just a note; you are practicing Chritianity the way it was practiced, at the outset.
Jesus and the disciples didn’t HAVE “Churches”; the disciples encouraged the building of Churches,…AFTER.
Me too. What I didn’t like the most was closing the church. Most, not all, jumped right on the bandwagon. My pastor called me once during this time of shutdown to see how I was doing. Wonder what he did the rest of the time his church was closed down. I never went back. If this is called being the “watchman on the tower” it’s too little for me. And this was a full-gospel church.
My experience as well.
Churchianity is opium for the lazy posers.
Yes I am part of a nice group of like minded conservative church gals that meet. We all know the US is in decline since the occupant of the White House was illegally installed.
You’ve found your home, then. You and your sisters will be God’s light to the greater community. I’d recommend concentrating all your efforts there – you won’t have to double-guess about motives and integrity as you would with secular groups.
Thank you and Amen for your kind words
Merry Blessed Christmas to you
School boards! Start attending the meetings, read the room. Note the agendas. Study the past agendas. Go to
publicschoolreview.com to look at proficiency scores. These statistics, from our year long experience, is the Kryptonite to the school boards. They don’t like the data being discussed or mentioned. They will make excuses. Also, the data on that website is from 2019 and prior, so don’t let them use the Covid excuse.
If you don’t think your schools are important because you a) homeschooled or b) don’t have kids or c) your kids are grown… well, do you have a business or like to use businesses? They will be hiring from people who graduated. Those graduates might draw blood from a loved one or care for an elderly relative. Those graduates are the future. And you are a (they love this word) Stakeholder.
It would be so great to get a thread on this site dedicated to education efforts. Let me know how it goes if you end up doing this.
Then Pray. Most Fervently and all you can. Get yourself some thing to stimulate you to remember to Just Pray, for all you are worth. And find Bible Verses that speak to the Desired Outcome – Psalm 91, Joshua 1:1-9 – Eph 6:10-18, and 2 Chronicles 7:13-15. Study such as 2 Chronicles 20, and Numbers 16, Where God’s people did EXACTLY what 2 Chron 7:13-15 says for us to do. James 3 and Matthew 18:18-20. Read these and PRAY these messages of God’s Word into your prayers to Him, agreeing with HIM for Him to Answer these Passages for us, today.
2 Timothy 1:12 KJV
For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know Whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him against that day.
nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know Whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him against that day.
Amen and amen!
The DNC and RNC—the Castor and Pollux, the Charybis and Scylla of our day—can drop dead on my doorstep before they receive a penny, or a genuflection, from me or my house.
FWIW – When I give to candidates, I Give To The Candidate’s Campaign, NOT the ‘Party’, and hope/assume it’ll filter it’s way down to ‘my guy’.
cash in person for local donations
everybody has that his/hers new car payment.
everybody lives in a quaint cape cod that got remodeled so its worth 500k.
everybody eats somebody else’s cooking every night.
everybody has somebody else to help them do everything except what they do.
everybody is ok with it.
our young are owned.
Sadly, this is true – in the suburbs and the cities.
Where I live, out in the countryside, I know a Christian father who homeschools his son. They work hard all year splitting and selling wood. They just bootstrapped and launched a handyman business. That dad is imparting to his son life and business skills so he can succeed.
I know another father whose son worked with him building houses, decks, laying floors, and so forth. The father told me a story – one time his son joked with him: “You know, dad. You work me too hard.” The dad replied, “Yeah, I know, but how many boys your age (17 at the time) know how to build a house?” That family had sheep, cows, AND that contracting business.
When I think of those fathers, I have a picture in my head of those dads lifting their sons up as high as they can, so they can glimpse a fuller horizon of opportunities.
There are parents like this all across the country. Citizens and legal immigrants. And they love America — they’re happy to work hard for her and enjoy the fruits of their labors. God bless them, they’ll inherit this country, too, as they should.
Nope to all of the 5, for me anyways… I have certainly gotten a lot of crap though about t. I cook my own food & do try to grow my own vegges (although this year was almost a bust with the droughts & high heat n TX); I haven’t owned a car for 8 yrs, use mass transit, & if I need to move big stuff I rent a cargo van or truck; I rent a room, have tools so I can fix things & do what I can, & I’m the only one that needs to be ok with it, which I am.
I am not on Twitter, so I didn’t know & wasn’t able to answer the poll, & I have also declined the shot. Unfortunately, I live in a house with 5 bedrooms & a total of 6 people in the house, and I know of 2 people that have had the shot. One has had 2 & one had 3, & he claims he has an IQ of 140. But, I am very suspicious that is the case (especially since he was in China late 2020 & early 2021 & was suspicious about things) because of the things he does, doesn’t do, & says… In addition, he’s not growing food, he usually goes out for his meals, has no preps at all, & doesn’t like cash at all. I’ve noticed he doesn’t like questions like what if there is an extended power outage? Food shortages in the stores? Won’t buy anything at all used…
IQ doesn’t reflect more than POTENTIAL.
Your room mate MAY have an IQ of 140, thats like having a car with a full tank of gas, that never gets driven anywhere.
Some of the dumbest people I know have college degrees, and some of the smartest, didn’t graduate 8th grade.
Onward Christian Soldiers
Come, Thou long expected Jesus🙏
I’ll ask all here to remember this. We all started from somewhere we no longer are. As you encounter others especially those younger people, be patient. It took you months, years, even decades to prepare.
Give good advice, your greatest value now is as a mentor. Help others to ask the right f’ing questions. I am not perfect, nor dare say I, are you. I am not the brightest bulb in this shed but I do know there are many paths that must be gone down in order to right this ship of state, and when you encounter others going down theirs, don’t be distracted and forget about your mission.
The two greatest attributes we have here is to accomplish the mission, and take care of your people. We can not afford to forget either of those.
I find that young people thirst for meaningful guidance. Thank you for your reminder!
The school boards are a good place to start…..after a PRAYER of guidance from the Holy Spirit.
Thats where the pollution of our childrens minds begin. Better yet: starve the satanic madrassas of $$$ by home schooling.
Amen — 100%
Two steps to taking back the country.
1. Founding an independent sovereign nation pro tempore upon the same principles by which the United States was founded–i.e. contradicting the tyranny of present government. (By “pro tempore,” I mean the lesser estate of HOUSE OF STONE 76 merges back into the greater estate of America once the tyranny is removed from the land).
2. Colonizing (seizing sovereign title in) the lands formerly held by the the illegitimate sovereign–just like the 13 colonies did upon execution of the Declaration of Independence.
What started out as a theoretical novelty for a subject matter jurisdiction argument has become a viable legal option in light of all that’s happened in the past few years.
Here’s the intro to Step One:
DECLARATION OF HOUSE OF STONE 76
When in the Course of human events, it becomes optional for an American to claim all sovereign title formerly held by his Government, and deliver said unclaimed freight to the Judge Advocates General of the military originally charged with its protection, a decent respect for the covenant with our Creator—being the condition precedent for United States sovereignty—requires that he should declare the causes leading to the claim and constrains him to conclude that man has not evolved an inch from the slime that spawned him.
These truths were once self-evident; back when students were taught civics rather than social studies; before they were indoctrinated with disgust for traditional safeguards against tyranny—Family, Creator and our Social Compact. While all men are created equal[1], they are individually endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, That among these are Life, Liberty, and that which makes the Pursuit of Happiness possible—the inalienable right of self-ownership with all its attendant duties of virtue.[2] — That to secure these rights, mankind leaves the state of nature to establish government by consent by ceding certain alienable rights conferring specifically enumerated powers through a constitution adorning and preserving a social compact. That the Declaration of Independence is our social compact; it is “a legal instrument, a juristic act of ultimate solemnity, effecting the most fundamental constitutional change, a change in the very source and foundation of law. … It is our one legal document on which all else rests.” [3] It forms a Real Covenant against Tyranny as the condition precedent for the existence and exercise of sovereign power. — That whenever those entrusted with the powers of Government become destructive of these ends, they effectuate an abandonment of all legitimate claim to sovereign title under the compact, leaving it as res derelictae until justice is restored through the investigation and punishment of those responsible for the treason. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be [reset] for light and transient causes; and accordingly, all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by [restoring] the forms to which they [were] accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is not to be wondered, that they should then rouze themselves, and endeavour to put the rule into such hands which may [restore] to them the ends for which [their] government was at first erected. Such has been the patient sufferance of loyal Americans, and such is now the necessity which constrains the undersigned to challenge the honor of the United States Navy, Army, Air Force and Coast Guard in keeping their oath to defend this nation against its defining enemy. The history of the neo-Machiavellian globalists, deep state, Big Tech, Fourth Industrial Revolutionaries, and their technocratic totalitarian Party of Woke’s illegitimate President is a history of repeated injuries, usurpations and Judas goat betrayals—“jettisoning all the norms and conventions of tennis-court morality”—having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over the people of the United States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
[1]“You must be this tall to ride.” If you think the phrase “all men are created equal” is not a statement of a priori principle—that “the ground of obligation here [must be sought] in the nature of man, [or] the circumstances of the world in which man is placed,”—then you’re too immature to continue reading. Grow up.
[2] For an explication of “duties of virtue”, see The Metaphysics of Morals, by Immanuel Kant
[3] Charles L. Black, One Nation Indivisible: Unnamed Human Rights in the States, 65 St. John’s L. Rev. 17, 27 (1991)
may hold the meaning of life answers but no way I’m wading thru that wall of words
Paragraph breaks, friend
What if some billionaires bought all the 60s tv programming and had an oldies channel for each of the 60s networks. 60s news, soaps, game shows, Milton Berle, Bing Crosby, etc. First year 1960 Eisenhower POTUS, the Nixon/Kennedy debate. As the years go by we see Churchill funeral, Kennedy shot and burried, Keep the ads from the 1960s.
What if some Constitutional freedom-loving billionaires/millionaires put their money in local counties nationwide and fund Patriots that want/desire and need training they cannot afford to attend that will show them how to research and identify the networks and supporters/financiers of those that are working for the other side and how to root them out of their communities/counties legally and lawfully using tactics that may not be “nice” but are effective”?
Instead of continuing to fund the politicians that continue to stab them in the back?
I’m afraid you do not remember some of the 60’s TV as it ACTUALLY IS.
NOT AT ALL!
While there is a lot of apparently good stuff there… there is MUCH that is a nice Cover.
well, we never had a tv so what do I know
A TV was a luxury in a modest house. I swear dad worked a second job just to pay the repairman for the early color sets. I remember going to the local store with tubes to test to save money. I couldn’t have ‘my own’ TV until I could afford to buy it myself, so the house only had one TV for many years.
Yep, some righteous propaganda right there. To cap it off, on the only three channels it was broadcast on, they finished the day with the national anthem to make one feel good before going to the bars on the screen at or around midnight.
I personally didn’t see color bars until shortly after Kennedy was murdered, the first one.
It is indeed time to choose! This is a longer note that attached as I forwarded this piece on to group of successful retired, or soon to be retired, life-long friends.
Make your choice!
This is a very important editorial piece…CTH is placing themselves in the DOJ’s bullseye!
It is probably not news to you guys that I find myself out of the mainstream. In 1987, the FBI and DOJ raided my office and carted off a van full of documents…
Some of which were vital to my ongoing businesses. Within 2 ½ years I exposed the fraudulent documents that they held in secret as the basis for this wrongful and expensive attack, They were after the same type of crime that John McCain was guilty of, and they built up an attack on me based on what they should have known were fraudulent documents!
I watched as Hilary Clinton (the world’s smartest woman) declared “I don’t recall” some 50 times under questioning by the Watergate special counsel. Then I watched George W Bush be corronated as “Leader” of the free world with dirty Dick Cheney at his side…in 1993 I contacted Wyo US Senator Allen simpson and lone Congressman Cheney about a very dirty deal being foisted on my son who had been granted a rare full 4 year ROTC scholarship, only to have it pulled just weeks before the start of classes. Sen Simpson tried mightily to get a favorable reaction by the DOD. Cheney refused to acknowledge me after three attempts.
Then Bush started these “forever” wars with no plan as to how to unwind what he started. Then right before the 2008 election, he got the congress to pass the biggest corporate bailout in US history…which was a boon for incoming Obama. At Cheney’s behest, Bush adopted the Homeland Security initiative. Which should have raised the hackles of every freedom loving American…it did mine! These actions set the table for Barack Obama and the dirtiest administration in our coming on 250 year history. It unfettered intelligence operations against American citizens and blew the lid off of spending constraints. Now we are are paying for that quarter century of installed presidencies.
I believe I am an old man caught in the firestorm of the Alamo…our generation will have to fight for a return to our birthright of Liberty and Freedom…we will choose to sit back in peaceful economic bliss and learn to live with this Bolshvik tyranny that we have allowed to gain power.
As Abraham Lincoln told us…”It will have to be ONE THING, or THE OTHER; it cannot be both!” I choose LIBERTY, where do you find yourself? As I have found out 3 or 4 times in my life, the absolute power of government is overwhelming. If you are not up for the fight, declare yourself so that there is letting loose of allegiances only under threat. I have been in lots of fights, it is important to know who is with you, and who is not!
God is on the move. In the most unlikely places.
Consider Portland – the Bible Project sprung from that troubled place.
Consider Chicago – Pacific Garden Mission has been turning lives around and graduating Biblical scholars.
You’ll find God and His faithful everywhere – if you seek.
We could use a billionaire/millionaire foot the postage to mail to each and every individual American of voting age (personally, I’d move the age of mailings to 16 year olds so at a young age they can see where their money will go before it happens to them) mail box or post office box) a list of EVERY expenditure and the amount going to each, accompanied by a letter signed by a handful or so of respected economists who explain in simple language what our debt is, who pays it, and how much an AVERAGE American citizen of, oh, say, age 26, can expect to pay in just federal taxes in his lifetime. This letter should be no more than two very short paragraphs.
All math teachers know that when you actually quantify something for the individual, attitudes change very rapidly. Americans, unlike Asians, are very bad at thinking quantitatively. We don’t demand that skill of our students, sadly. That inability persists when media always present numbers so huge that it means little to the individual.
Here is what you will pay for this in your lifetime. And that’s only what you will pay for what is in this budget.
Attached should be a picture and name of the House member that represents that citizen’s Congressional District and a picture and name of the two senators representing that citizen’s state.
Think Elon is up to it? Trump?????????????
Sounds like a good idea. Probably close to 50 to 60 million for postage. Then 20 to 30 million misc. ( envelopes,paper,etc.) The hard part is whether the USPS will actually deliver them. The Dems have those types of donors. Would be hard for the readers to fight facts right in front of them. Pray and help others
It would be nice but I do not believe they will let Lake win in Arizona. They will stop her even though we ALL know she really won and has plenty of evidence to prove it.
Would be lovely to see you use the Power of your tongue as God intended – James 3 and Matthew 18:18-20, supporting what GOD is CONSISTENTLY doing
Instead of being Stout against His Purposes for us.
Malachi 3:13
Your words have been stout against Me, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against Thee?
Give the Power of your Tongue and Faith of your Heart to your Creator and Redeemer and SEE what He can do with it.
‘We do these things not because they are easy but because they are hard’
This time of year my house is more like the bar scene from Star Wars.
Juss sayin.
God grants gifts 🙂
Help!! Im stuck in a blue zone and I cant get out.
“They’ve got us surrounded again, the poor bastards.” – Creighton Abrams
Chesty would say….”they can’t get away now”….
If a quarter of US adults did not get shots and the US adult population is around 260 million then we are about 65 million strong. We 65 million are aware of government corruption and want to correct it. The 195 million who were shot are zombies. We can do this!
Well the 195 million zombies are actually decreasing at a higher proportional rate every day
Maybe it wont be too long till the self selecting Darwin award winners are an insignificant minority
Never took the clot-shot, even at the threat of losing my job. They can go to Hades…and they don’t even get the hand basket to make the trip. Spouse didn’t take the poison either.
good for you – don’t break your arm patting your back
Uncalled for.
Suzieq, well done. I’m sure there were some very stressful or scary days during those decisions. I’m glad you stood your ground.
I took the jab and regret it. Never again! I think that there are many like me that took the jab, but have become very much aware of the rigged system that we’re up against. God bless you, Sundance.
My family all took the shot – and they won’t get any more. Some believed their doctors, some took it because they are part of the “vulnerable population” with health issues, others did it to remain in their jobs, still others did it to continue their sports scholarship and attending college. None of them did it for political reasons. My heart breaks when I think how badly they have been abused – how badly we’ve all been abused.
DeSantis’s COVID Committee and investigation can’t come fast enough.
To remain at your job may be a valid excuse
But the shot was a sketchy experimental pushed by known an proven liars.
Nobody else has any excuse for falling for it.
Okay I do not get the shot shaming that goes on.
You are not pure if you got the vaccine?
“Pure Bloods Only”
You cannot be a patriot if you got the shot?
“Pure Bloods Only”
Should I shelf some blood.
Should I ask persons are you vaccinated?
Do I get an upfront parking place next to the law enforcement one if I am not vaccinated.
Where do I get my unvaccinated official certificate?
Dan Bongino is one such person who regrets it. “Worst decision in his life”.
Battered conservative syndrome abounds. I have felt it, wallowed in it and am trying to pull myself out of it.
The local systems are the easiest to access and become part of the change. We have a small group learning about and influencing our local school boards of education.
These boards are strange things. Groupthink and self congratulations abound. We glance at each other when the chorteling won’t stop. Are we in a simulation? Nope, we are inside an almost closed system or time capsule of sorts. Well, we were able to get 4 conservatives on 3 boards! Now we know so much more than we did 14 months ago. We have another and another school board cycle. Each time we advance more.
But now, we have the state gop chair race and that is the shiny object. Sigh. We have to lure people back to education, which is not as “hot” as it was during the heyday of Loudon County, etc.
Good work!
Sundance writes of “healthy” adults (like they really didn’t need the shots). studies show only about 13% of the US population is healthy. mlitary can’t find many “healthy” guys to recruit. so America is basically a country of obese, hypertense sheep. Easy pickings!
Nice picture!
I’m unfortunately 1 of the 5 here who got the initial 2 shots. When they said we would need boosters within 3 or 4 months of that my BS meter pegged and refused to get any more. I never had real vaccine in the past that required a booster in such a short period of time. The big reason I got the first 2 was a good friend of ours is an MD, who participated in the pfizer trial, recommended it. That MD has also gotten the boosters and sometimes asks us if we got boosted. I replied no way. We won’t take any more of these experimental shots. We also need to stop referring to them as “vaccines”, they are not in the traditional sense. It’s been about 20+ months since the first 2, hope we are out of the woods and the junk is out of our systems.
FLCCC has published protocols for just about every COVID scenario (prevention, recovery, long COVID recovery, vaccine recovery, vaccine injury, even some protocols on flu). You might want to read this protocol:
https://covid19criticalcare.com/treatment-protocols/i-recover/
Being deceived by the formerly trustworthy medical establishment (isuppose so?) is kind of an excuse
But you always should think for yourself before listening to “experts”
The gift of being sentient, thinking beings is learning from our choices and accepting we are imperfect.
Being a skeptic can be a lonely existence. Read that as ‘thinking for oneself’. Try going against society and peer pressure for years or decades and report back the results. Some are figuring that out now. I figured it out in the 70’s. It’s a choice. There are consequences.
I have no MD’s as friends like the other member did because, well, I’ve long been skeptical of the medical community. Choice and consequences. Life is full of them.
We’re in a very conservative area of Wisconsin but the taxes are killing us. Going to check out Arkansas for a month. Also looking at Tennessee. Years ago we had planned to retire to Colorado…
Tennessee is a good choice. Beautiful, no state income tax. Just check out the local crime before settling in an area. And stay away from Memphis and Nashville.
Also, TN has a good growing season, if you want to get some land for hoop tunnels to grow your own veg year-round.
We’re rural folk. Yes, want just enough land to grow some veggies and have a few chickens.
10 or 20 acres would be good, lol.
We’re spending February in Arkansas, it was near the top of our list, then both senators voted for the craptastic omnibus. WTF.
I don’t know Arkansas very well, but perhaps there are strong conservative voices there poised to make an example of those senators. (Where I live it’s Capito … no better, but we also have Riley Moore who stood up to the Big Corporations pushing ESG on us. Oddly, Moore is related to Capito. Go figure!).
Not sure if you’re new to gardening, but I highly recommend joining your state’s Extension Master Gardener Program (free except for cost of book) – that is, if you’re not already. TN has one. WI has one. I think every state does.
The programs provide a wealth of information plus access to experts and opportunities. You’ll be a part of the community – learning all the time about the latest gardening and horticulture science and techniques.
For a sampling, see the videos in my state’s program:
Click over to YouTube and you’ll see the entire 17-session program (from soil science to apple cultivars, turfgrass to vegetable growing, etc.).
yeah that Bristol Kingsport Johnson City triangle is God’s Country. I like ol redneck Jellico and the surrounding area n of Knoxville
just between me and you southern Indiana ain’t too bad
If you’re used to Wisconsin winters those in TN will likely be milder. It sure is hot and sticky there in the summer though. Mentioning something trite like weather might seem superficial but it is something one must live with day in and day out.
I tired of the heat of the irrigated desert so moved to the cool, if more humid, coast further north. No regrets. Still rural, except surrounded by coastal forest instead of irrigated crops.
Taxes in some form are always with us until dead. It’s really hard to avoid them. All we can do is make choices which fit our circumstances best. Where I live there is no sales tax but income tax and property tax are a bit higher than where I came from, all else being equal. That’s a choice I can live with in my particular circumstance, which I term ‘purposeful poverty’. Economic war is another term I use.
Best wishes with your choice.
A concern: at the speed that events move these days, a CBDC could be imposed very soon and I don’t hear anyone in Congress even talking about stopping it.
Once in place, the adage that all politics is local may be obsolete.
I know we must still resist, and I will, but never in history has power been so concentrated, so deadly, and so worldwide in scope.
Note: I fled the deep blue Chicago area for a red area of purple NC. Despite a COVID tyrant Dem governor issuing insane edicts, our sheriff said he’d not enforce them. Outside if the occasional medical appointment, my wife and I never masked and refused to patronize the few establishments run by Karens In the midterms we moved the needle toward red locally and statewide. The three contested school board seats went to conservatives and we flipped the state Supreme Court. I’m hoping our term-limited governor will be replaced by a conservative in 2024.
CBDC is coming. Stock up on things you can barter with.
Addendum: One downer is that we haven’t yet heard of a local church that stood up against the COVID diktats and so, after a lifetime of regular attendance, we haven’t been to church in two years.
Yes, there were many churches who did stand up. One of many articles: https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/246237/appeals-court-rules-on-california-churches-that-challenged-covid-restrictions
Also, I have friends who, during 2020, went about God’s business holding Bible studies and evangelizing. They didn’t let little tin gods change their course.
Unfortunately, my nondenominational men’s Bible study group also succumbed to both the edicts and the fear, even to the point of saying that, once back to in&person meetings, they’d be uncomfortable with an unvaccinated attendee.
There is a currency that the elites can’t control. It’s bartering. Yes, the IRS requires that you report that – it has value that is taxed. But the only thing that would prevent bartering is state business licensure. But there is still much that is legal to do.
If we the people say bartering is legal, it is legal. The crooks are just looking for every possible way to take our money.
Important part of economic war, which is an important step to kinetic war which is where we’re headed.
Good news is the enormous population of illegals have developed and perfected the ‘underground economy’ for decades. I lived literally among them in ag land for decades. It’s like a whole different world. Those are the people the regime supports. Learn from them.
Since you have mentioned the Alamo and the Green Dragon Tavern, I would like to say this: As first cousin (x9) to the owner of the Green Dragon Tavern, Mehitabel Minot, during those desperate times, and 6th cousin to Davy Crockett (x7) who fought at the Alamo , 2nd cousin to Benjamin Franklin (x8) and first cousin (x12) to the Captain of the Mayflower, Christopher Jones, as well as many presidents and even Donald Trump’s mother, 12th cousin (x3) I understand the importance of standing up to tyranny. It’s in my blood. My family on both sides have fought in EVERY war for America, including lately in the Texas National Guard on the Border. Are we losing the country my family as well as many of yours, have fought for? I detest Republican sellouts as well as democrats. I have lived a wonderful life but I truly fear for my children’s future. This is very personal to me.
Howdy my fellow Founder ancestor…my children have DNA shared with I believe, John Adams….Yes, personal it is!
When a thug attacks a citizen, the 2A allows the citizen to defend himself or herself.
Likewise, when government officials covertly attack citizens (including by fraud), citizens/militia are (supposedly) allowed to fight back.
However, any potential fight back is negated because the officials have the power of the police and government agencies (including many courts) on their side.
Also, there is a wide belief that the government want a rebellion so they can crack down more. And the suspicion of ‘fed-posts’ seem to support that idea.
Yet, I’m surprised that not one crooked county RINO (aka “Secret Sleepers”) has been covertly snatched, tasered, trussed, interrogated, and terminated.
There are millions of we-the-people who have been waiting for a military fightback… because we don’t have the skills. If we did, I’m sure the fightback would be underway. So, it’s only a matter of time before those who DO have the particular set of skills needed, get pissed off enough to begin covert operations.
And the only way we will know the fightback has begun is when we read a headline that reads, “Respected county official goes missing”, followed a few days later by “Another respected official goes missing”, followed by “Yet another official missing”.
Then, and only then, will some of these RINOs slip into self-preservation mode and quit.
Are you assuming that since the media does not report it that it is not happening?
If it were, the people who are in jeopardy would know about it and threats would be made to the public.
Since the press is a tool of the current regime, yep, likely. Recent history has supported that.
However, in war, it’s quite rare to get at the very few evil people behind the regime easily. Historically, scores, in some cases, millions, of innocent citizens are killed depending on which ‘side’ they’re on.
Guerilla warfare can be effective. It’s ugly though. We’ve seen that with the biological weapon operation. It’s still killing people. Great example of guerilla warfare. We can learn from that.
The RNC/DNC power/money/ideology continuum is all the same merry-go-round.
It starts by attending the local school board meetings, even if you do not have a child in system, as those children will affect your community.
Yeah, on a similar subject, I was just talking about people who like the Comforting “Christians” who “accept everyone right where they are, without demanding Excellence of Christian Virtue from anyone —
We all know the ones, never thinking the ones closest to us are “guilty of it”…
The ones who sing the lullabies to those who are trekking through 1 ft snow blizzards by foot to a nearby town, for their LIVES’ Sakes – and when the stragglers get too tired and want NOTHING more desperately than to lay down on the nice soft snow and take a 15 minute Nap before continuing on this harsh trek to Safety from the Storm. One Person urges them on to SAFETY, telling them to “rest a Few Minutes means CERTAIN DEATH to them”…
There are those who are so “Self-Affirming”, who are singing sweet lullabies to the ones desperate for a short nap, who won’t allow them to be told the “HARSH NEWS” – “DON’T BE SO MEAN!”, they say – that their desperation for SLEEP is not a signal of their NUMBING TIREDNESS, but of their DYING.
That giving into a desire to SLEEP isn’t going to let them wake to Refreshing of Strength, but is a warning sign of their fall from the cliff, to their imminent Death. Instead.
But the voices calling out the Warning are being drowned out by the Chorus of those calling in the Ear of the Dying to those who are “Disturbing the Peace of the “NAPPING” – to say “Oh You MEAN Thing, You!!!”
Correct. We weren’t called to Niceness, we were called to Righteousness. To love people enough to tell them the truth and to share the life-giving gospel of Christ.
gimme 2 of what she has
Everyone should also use their tactics against them. They’re spying on us, spy on them. Join the Democrat party and get involved. Find and record fraudulent acts. There’s still places that will publish your videos or documents. The truth hurts them. Use legal non-violent ways to make them lay awake at night and worry about us.
Reminds me of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
Proud non-GMO Treeper. Cheers 🍻 and Merry Christmas to all! 🎄
“The very small minority position is now the slightly larger majority position. But it took a decade.”
I think it took — 2020 — then a Stolen Midterm. Trump’s victory in 2016 on a Drain the Swamp + Build a Wall platform stunned the Elites + demonstrated a majority of Voters internally understood what is what….
It took Pearl Harbor to instantly flip the Average American from hating involvement in Foreign Wars to accepting going on 70 years of being the world leader in going to war….
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This is as passivity says: “I won’t begin resisting, because I know that once begun, I must continue. Rather than assert myself and perhaps fail (or get really scared), I will sustain myself where I am trapped. I will muffle my moans so as not to risk exposure and I will call it self-control.
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A key is to go from Passivity to Activity in as many ways as you can manage.
And keep in mind — the vast majority Regime Change Ops do NOT involve a majority of the People — far from it. They also do not always involve — open armed conflict + widespread bloodshed.
We are already in such an operation but aimed at us + our way of life. We are finally facing that fact + now need to work against it…
Since we don’t need 51% of the Population out in the street but only a fraction – the vast majority can help out greatly by —— supporting the Orgs that are dedicated to putting pressure on the Elected Officials + beyond as well as the Lines of Communication like Info Sources like CT.
2 key points moving forward — Our % in the Overall Population will — grow — as things get worse — as they will as sure as the Sun rises in the East…
We also need to keep an eye + mind open to —- other countries + regions.
The Elites have the whole planet in the crosshairs.
As things get worse here – they will get even worse in most countries. That increases the % that are Anti-Great Reset + willing to “do something” — and as long as we have the Lines of Communication — we can draw some useful strength from each other…
Lastly — there is no choice…
Every individual is in the fight whether they know/accept it or not.
The whole key to The Great Reset is — you no longer have the right to live your life as you see fit… They preach they must force everyone to live as they see fit — to Save Mother Earth…
If you still doubt this after all we have witnessed – in the USA + beyond – what more do they need to do for you to get there…?????
https://rumble.com/v22365q-denial-is-no-safe-option-the-great-reset.html
Trust in God. Do what you can…. Support others…
“Rather than assert myself and perhaps fail (or get really scared), I will sustain myself where I am trapped.”
This is where life wired me differently as a child.
Before the Midterm, I repeated more than once, “I don’t want a chest thumper in my foxhole before a major battle who keeps talking like Victory will be easy + we’re the real poo + nobody better mess with us….thump thump thump…..
If we are facing a formidable enemy – I want guarding my back someone bloodied + beaten but standing strong so when Shock + Awe arrives, I don’t have to keep an eye on him to make sure he isn’t curled up in the fetal position with wet pants crying for mommy….”
I honestly believe – if someone feels overwhelmed in the face of the future that’s looming — it is perfectly fine to — tune out — to concentrate on things that give you peace of mind…. We are in the majority. We have Truth on our side. There will be plenty to do the light + heavy lifting + all in between.
—- I am not encouraging people to take that path unless they truly feel helpless…
But like with Pearl Harbor + every time we’ve been seriously challenged – those people have been the tiny minority.
I’m just saying – they should not feel ashamed or be told they should… And without the strong will to be in the fight, their value in the cause would be limited… (I’m talking about in a psychological struggle too, not just or primarily physical.)
How long did it take to get from Lenin to Gorbachev? How many millions died? How much sweat did the American taxpayer pour into pressuring the regime externally?
That would be the equation I’m looking at.
Historically, we had an ally who hated the Brits helping us defeat them. Twice. France.
Allies are important in war. Whether that war be in defense of one’s home and liberty or in defense of one’s country. What can we learn from history?
I don’t disagree with anything you wrote.
We are outside of history to a significant extent because of how far globalization has gone + what it has done to alter the nature of the threat.
They are targeting the whole planet. That’s a big task.
They have Allies in the oligarchies all over. You can just see that in Davos + the WEF conferences in the Middle East. They have the Corporate + Banking World.
That means there will be a lot more people wanting to resist. Our allies will not be Governments at first.
I haven’t read much on the history but Russia’s is interesting. There is a theme about how their experience with their version of Feudalism in pre-modern times conditioned them to servitude.
Whereas in the West, feudalism grew out of a period of constant unrest as large masses of people roamed far + wide + in frequent conflict with each other. Instability was the norm. Empires rose + fell later on.
I have no good feel for how this is most likely to ultimately play out. We have the numbers + more on our side. They have developed awesome tools to counter that…
The outcome will be what God has in mind….. I am confident of that…
+ that means — the Odds from the human pov — don’t matter…!!
In fact, it is a clear theme in the Bible of the Jews + Christians — God often wants the odds stacked in such a way —– everybody but those deeply committed to Denial knows ———— Victory was God’s. Gideon is the easiest example but it is a recurrent theme.
So — I don’t care what the odds are.
The Great Reset is not going to leave anyone’s life untouched — it already hasn’t with Covid + the Fake Vaccines — but it wants to do much worse….
+ no matter what preparations they have made for this era — if God wants them defeated — they are already finished.
Prayer + trying to walk the path of Righteousness will be the key…
Forget the Alamo
Think Battle of Bennington.
As Mollie Hemmingway put it:
“There are your enemies. The [treasonous deep state bureaucrats]. They are ours this night else Mollie [Hemmingway] sleeps [disappointed.]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bennington
“It represents a fatal threat to our system of government”
It’s a threat to life itself. To pretty much all our lives + those of our family + the target is global…
SD there is also a population that said they got the shot but they didn’t. I know several people in the medical industry that received ghost shots from medical providers that were like minded. I also know several people who wrote down the the batch number of vaccines people were posting online.
Yep.
I have no idea how many there are but personally know one.
There is not much chance of them identifying themselves, at least not soon.
And they should not identify themselves until this matter is well settled
That’s good example.
Imagine the French underground during the Nazi occupation. They had one face for the Nazis and one face for their countrymen. That’s where we need to be. Learn from the CIA; they are professional liars and our sweat educates and perfects their tradecraft. Ironic.
Thank you, Sundance. My preferred name for you is actually Treehouse.
like a giant oak tree he just stood there alone…
To accept reality as it is without compromise or rationalization requires action. And action, once initiated, requires commitment.
For far too many Americans, this vital bridge–from acceptance to action–is a bridge too far. They know, or at least intuit, the commitment it will take.
And, not to put too fine a point on this comment, the price that might be required for that commitment.
Very true — but also consider the true nature of the threat. Will they be allowed to sit it out?
Will the threat eventually come knocking on everyone’s door in some way that brings the fear into a place they cannot hide from?
It’s far better to get to work now that next year or two years from now — but the point of real decision will reach into every household…
Yes, people will ‘sit it out’. IMO, the vast majority will. History has shown this to be customary.
What I see is people adapting to limit their personal suffering rather than focusing on the conflict itself and why there is conflict.
Watch in D.C. how the cops move the homeless tent camps around. Most people ignore them like they don’t exist. Still, there’s lives in those tents. Conflict. Then some important person gets annoyed and the park gets cleared out and the homeless move somewhere else until the whole cycle is rinsed and repeated.
Our freedom is in that homeless camp. Will average people pay attention? I doubt it. Not until, as you posited, it reaches into their own household in a very personal way. Until then, life as usual.
Bingo!
Recall that in the movie, The Patriot, the hero stayed out of the fight until it knocked on his door. I’m sure that was a pattern for many.
Well done SD…I had already told those in my tribe to get as “secure” as possible so you can make decisions for YOUR circumstance…😀👍
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I found this article recently. I add it here in response to some comments earlier this evening about being undereducated:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/11/the_voting_morons.html
“This started with the progressive reformer John Dewey, probably the most influential educator on record. Starting at the turn of the 20th century, Dewey set about to remake the entire educational system, at that point largely consisting of small, decentralized schools staffed by graduates of normal colleges.”
“With Dewey, all this went by the board. Along with such trends as experiential learning and hands-on education, Dewey believed that the needs of society were paramount. According to his educational theories, students were destined for utilitarian service in an industrial society. They didn’t need all that fustian stuff – Socrates, Cicero, Shakespeare… Instead, they would learn exactly what they needed to know to be a low-class industrial worker, and no more. The rest of their education would be devoted to indoctrination in Dewey’s idea of a “liberal” society.”
We don’t know history and we are undereducated. By design.
Dewey got his educational ideas from the social welfare programs in Otto von Bismarck’s Prussian Empire.
Sundance – a question. Since most of us believe all the polls are manipulated, do you believe that 72% took the shot?
There’s lies, damn lies, and statistics. That’s a historical truism. However, can we infer vaccination compliance from visual cues like the adherence to mask protocols outside of the fascist mandates within private enterprise? A good question.
My bet is those of us alive today will likely never know the truth. Why? People lie. A lot. Particularly when it benefits them. That’s what humans are.
From my experience, I think that’s a low estimate, especially if it’s confined to those eligible to get it.
Sundance is right. Start at home and branch out. President Trump did this. Unlike most politicians, who build their family wealth through graft, he built his through free and fair trade – providing a service. His next step, appropriate to his level of achievement, was the White House.
At my level, with a secure family, the next step will be something like precinct chair or school board – just as President Trump has counseled us.
MAGA has already taken over many county and several state GOP organizations. We just have to keep chipping away at this and eventually we will have a functioning second party – one where the first considerations are the people and freedom.
We can do this!
Well now you’ve gone and done it Sundance. Told them straight up that CTH is a modern day digital Green Dragon.
They didn’t proudly post “Headquarters of the Revolution” until after the revolution for a reason!
Somehow I feel better knowing that the Treehouse has 190,000 regular readers.
Sounds like the treehouse could benefit from a force multiplier.
(i.e. sharing links to other platforms, on a regular basis – to increase readership, and thereby increase situational awareness….. and to increase, the thoughts and actions of ‘what to do’ … etc.)
Merry Christmas
Unfortunately, few if any of them are are elected GOP officials.
Nice post but its not about “majority”
Majority only functions in pure politics and this fight went psywar 30 years ago, information war 20 years ago; and then physical since at latest 2011 .
Combat or opposed fighting is not a majority issue and retaining freedom or blessings of liberty and rights is a contest of much smaller numbers from within the portion of the population that participates in the politic, public, and economic leadership.
We are fully there–contested, open warfare, in and out of physical confrontation (Bundy, Malheur, B’ghazi, Ferguson, Kenosha, J6…many more).
We will “up our game” and be fully engaged way before we get “majority” support. We will have massive edge in legitimacy (and obviously so) over our domestic enemy even if domestic enemy is FBI/DHS/NIH/senate/courts/cops/uni-professors, popes&pastors) that form the “bulk” of our domestic enemy leadership.
In the mean time, I’ll go with your home is your alamo as long as we can chart a “better path forward” than that available to those men there.
Not times for cowards — glad that word was in your article SD.
Positive words: these are the times for courage, faith, wisdom… get-ya some asap.
Excellent post SD, I will re-read and think on this and take action.
The Prisoners Dilemma: the prisoners outnumber the guards but none are willing to risk for the benefit of the others.
Patriots do not have a similar dilemma.
The answer lies in Balaji Srinivasan’s The Network State (free read at the site, where you can also download the PDF of the book – thenetworkstate.com )
Blockchain technology allows all the tools to construct a parallel “group” (can be interpreted as society, social group, nonprofit, etc). I like tribe.
The tribe can have a core belief as judeo-Christian ethics using the founding principles as the guide.
The tribe can grow into a “block” – voting, protest, etc.
Imagine if 2 million CTH followers joined forces to create their own economy: bought meat, eggs, dairy, produce, flour, grain from like minded patriots and then everyone started supporting the goods and services of fellow like-minded patriots.
An NFT could be produced that would allow you to see these businesses on some mapping program where a symbol is only visible to those with the NFT. You’d know which businesses to visit when out-of-town or moving to a new city.
The possibilities are endless, but it needs to start.
Eventually capital could be pooled to purchase land and eventually start a city, then multiple cities across the nation and other countries.
Great suggestion, one I made decades ago. Alternative economy.
Money, or the value it represents, is the key.
You know one exists out there already amongst the ‘commoners’. Who started it decades ago? Immigrants, in my lifetime what came to be known as ‘illegals’. Very robust economy. Stick to their own, use their own native languages, expert liars. Impressive. Learn from it.
Green Dragon Tavern. Headquarters of the Revolution.
Now you see why bars were the first on the covid lockdown list.
Too many wolves who might influence the sheeple. Great point. Notice also gyms were a big target. They can’t let people work out and get/stay more healthy.
Lafayette, you are 100% correct about this and the closing of gyms was also a big target.
No coincidence that the American Communists generally avoid bars because they have no friends and they definitely avoid gyms.
They are subhuman blobs; the nerds when we were in school.
Lots of them were also the potheads and art class denizens at my high school.
… now found in Coffee Shops.
Not every coffee shop is a liberal hell hole.
The Covid attack had as one of its primary targets, our health.
Yes, indeed. Someone in the opposition actually read some American history. The Revolution was fomented in the taverns.
I’ll bet some places of worship were involved too. The patriots were on a mission from God.
“The Black Robed Regiment was the name that the British placed on the courageous and patriotic American clergy during the Founding Era (a backhanded reference to the black robes they wore). [1] Significantly, the British blamed the Black Regiment for American Independence, [2] and rightfully so, for modern historians have documented that:
There is not a right asserted in the Declaration of Independence which had not been discussed by the New England clergy before 1763. [3]”
https://nationalblackroberegiment.com/history-of-the-black-robe-regiment/
The clergy were discussing it because some of it is inherent in our God given free will and some of it was part of British common law emanating from the Magna Carta.
Today, there is an effort to recreate this: http://www.blackrobereg.org/
“The Black Robe Regiment is a resource and networking entity where church leaders and laypeople can network and educate themselves as to our biblical responsibility to stand up for our Lord and Savior and to protect the freedoms and liberties granted to a moral people in the divinely inspired US Constitution. “
The “pro-life” RAT Guv in Louisiana closed down our churches, but left his abortion clinics open.
SOME? Places of worship played a foundational role in both the revolution, and in the forming of the Republican party.
And the reason bars and churches played such a role is because they were the places where lots of people were gathered together, so they could hear and argue the recruiting message of the founders.
People were otherwise BUSY, with all the things we now have done for us.
You want apple cider, you have to press the applrs, you want a fire to keep warm, have to chop the wood.
They”took time out” for church service, and for “a drink of an evening, or an evening of drink” and those were about the only times a large group of ears were available.
They had newspapers and handbills, and that was it for mass communication.
Let’s not forget the closure of PUBLIC schools and the pass that religious and private schools got- they remained open throughout! Further dumbing down the children of non-elite citizens by trapping them at home in front of Chromebooks and iPads.
The elite British of the pre=revolution days did not frequent the taverns of New England where the unwashed of the colonies went to slake their thirsts for quaff and freedom. The elite of our day do not frequent our local bars, pubs, and gyms. Most of us who do frequent these places are of the “leave us the hell alone” political thought. Hence, we, as the great unwashed of out time, had to be kept apart to prevent the sharing of independent thoughts and ideas that differ from our elites in DC. Tyranny is in our collective futures.
So true. Remember the snobby FBI texts about “smelly Walmart people”, and Olive Garden? These people are cliquey snobs, and the mafia themselves named themselves “elite”.
Remember RAT Harry Reid complaining that he “could smell them coming” … his discretion of the Patriots lined up to tour OUR Capitol.
OH, THEY know history, they replayed the bolshevik violence all over America in 2020. It is the AMERICAN “educated” populace that did not recognize the replay, did not know history and who the players were.
Perhaps it was the destruction of small businesses, “Main St”, thinking they were likely conservatives and/or Trump supporters. The enemy of lefties and the DC corruption.
The model Sundance describes aligns with Stephen Covey’s first Habit to Be Proactive and continually expand your sphere of influence.
Thanks to the Internet, the probability that the people perish from a lack of knowledge is small. The challenge today is discerning what is true given the mass amounts of disinformation and cloaking of the truth. Learning and discerning are different skill sets with the latter being the more difficult to master as it requires wisdom. Wisdom begins with fear of the LORD.
Our nation was founded upon the efforts of less than 25% of the population and there was a considerable part of our nation loyal to the old flag of England. It takes wisdom, dedication, diligence, and most importantly, as our Founding Fathers recognized, the Providence of God to be successful.
There should be an article coming out in American Thinker this weekend paralleling the path of discipleship to the path of making America great again. No matter how valiant our efforts, if God is not with us, turning this nation around ain’t gonna happen.
People say “trust the science”. I have made an effort in the last couple decades to understand God our lord and it is of course never ending, never boring but always a challenge for my simple mind. Many writers and great scientists most from long ago, have used science and spirit to understand God. It is very helpful to me because God is all good things, are not sciences “good”?
When they say “trust the science” of course it is the opposite, for science is a way to find truth, God is truth, not produces it, he is truth, as is all his attributes. If it were about science and trusting they would have some parallels to God, or if truth were the object and science the issue then God would be first, science would be verified consequently. Can you see where I’m going with this?
So trusting the science can be applied to God, in every way. Science is verified by God and God by science, do we see that? No, not at all, but the opposite. “Trust in the scientists” the men who make poison.
Our founding fathers knew way more about God then we make them out to be. All was verified by Gods word and principles and his life was then sewn into the fabric of our nation………HIS WISDOM! Can you see that. It’s not just spiritual it is verified facts of science. “All good and perfect gifts come from above.” All higher thought comes from God.
Now an atheist can study words and writings and learn wisdom from another but true thought that is higher is only from God.
This is why God is removed. This is why Wisdom and understanding is darker, because God is not with us, his attributes are not here. It is a scientific fact as well as a spiritual fact or consequence.
You can place God in the forefront of all thought not just religion or spiritual, he is not some one sided God he is all things and science as well as literature, mathematics, thought itself is from God. Scientifically we see the results. I’m absolutely sure it already has been verified but the sounding of such truth or facts will be silent.
God in the forefront of any energy means it will be a higher outcome. It’s the science. Do we ever hear anything even close to that? No, the opposite. Remove God you are free to think and act as you wish.
Well, “as we wish” is a pit that has no bottom without God.
Having said all this comes to this. Dont be lazy or procrastinate, read Gods word, pray meditate on his word, seek his voice all day and when you hear it obey immediately and it will get more recognized in your life. You are the solution, you are the answer. As I said in any endeavor put God first and watch secrets unfold you cannot see without him.
And test all things by his word, but don’t be afraid to seek where he leads. His word is the guide, Jesus.
People must wake up and this is the call.
Science is just a way to know the natural world. It’s not a truth telling device.
Indeed. A better word describing the goal of science is “confidence”. The scientist seeks confidence in making predictions. “Truth” is never achieved through science. In fact, it progresses by questioning the verities of other scientists. Truth is the goal of the mathematician.
And math is a human construct…
^^^^^ This
Math is created by God. There is right and there is wrong. It took sinners to create a gray area. Gray areas do not fit in mathematics. Gray areas do not fit with God. You either do the right thing or you don’t.
1+1=0. Math is a human construct. Math has a lot of gray areas.
There are many videos and lessons like this. Look for them. I was taught this little lesson in 1st semester calculus. Part of the lesson is that reasonable rules have to be applied to form reasonable conclusions. Search Matrix Equations where a reasonableness test needs to be applied to possible solutions. Too much going on to put in a post.
Math simulates reality. It’s a human construct.
So you need an IMAGINARY number to create an IMAGINARY result!?!?
Just like you state a man is a woman and can give birth without an uterus, but Science™!
Please don’t conflate arguments. It’s not functional. We don’t need to apply the use of J numbers in math to a discussion of man’s sinful behaviors.
Keep it simple. In the case of a man and woman, 1+1=1 : and the two became one flesh…
1 life+ 1 life = new life
1 Father + 1 Son + 1 Holy Spirit = One Triune God.
Math is the universal language. We use probabilities and estimations, integration and differentiation because human tools to measure are not fully accurate. God’s measurements are precise. Just like he knows the hairs on our heads, he knows the snowflake that will initiate the avalanche.
Nothing has ever been created by Math. Math is only a means to “help” describe the real world. When you invent something you can use all the math you want to describe it. Its just numbers.
However they require a drawing photo etc., to show what it is and how it works. Math can’t describe infinity. . How much space between two points in math, We created math as a means to describe the real world. There is an infinite amount of number between to points in space.,.
PI is needed to put a satellite in geo syn orbit only two or perhaps three digits. Its discovery allowed humanity advance. But in the end PI and other math constructs are needed to describe a world they live in.
All meat rots. All buildings can fail and turn to dust. You can always make a smaller and smaller fraction.
Drawings and/or photos all required on patents. I was once told. If you a person is describing a math equation. If they can’t turn it into a drawing or photo of what it means. It is just numbers with no real world physical contstruct. It is all in you head so to speak.
“You either do the right thing or you don’t”.
This is how I’ve always tried to live my life & I managed to do it without “wasting a lot of my precious time on Sundays” singing “Praise the Lord” at the top of my lungs, in the Church Choir!
As an “entrepreneur”, my time was always too valuable as I had to work 7 days a week, in order to try to build a successful business. And MOST of the successful self-employed people, did the same (unless their wives made them attend Church).
Or were you trying to make a Political Statement? If so, rest assured that I am a Conservative, not a Republican or a Democrat. Maybe it is time for Trump to create a 3rd option to Vote for?
The truth of math as an expression of nature, one rock plus one rock =2 rocks, is G0d bringing that truth into existence as a foundational way for us to experience the laws of nature. 1+1 = 2, just IS. Everything is from G0d.
No, our God is not only beautifully creative, He is also a very precise engineer.
He used mathematical principles to create the Universe, we can discover and use those same principles to reveal something of His genius, power, and glory.
Math is a language developed by humans to be able to speak, listen, and understand the physical forces that make up the universe.
I don’t think so. Look at nature and the math that is contained in a flower.
Science helps explain the what, but never the why.
WHOse narrative?
Question everything and verify.
Recommend reading Mattias Desmet’s book The Psychology of Totalitarianism for insight into our culture’s fatal flaw. It is the displacement of God with ‘science.” I believe also a terrible dose of materialism, but these things go together. Stop focusing on the right school the corporate-speak job, the mortgage. Those things are gone now. Probably retirement too.
Philosophically when one rejects Creation as the product of a moral Creator, then man becomes the measure of all things. As the Bible instructs, man is a depraved creature unable to set his own moral course, at least insofar as nations and societies. As in Genesis the human seeks to make himself as a god, in general to transcend his limitations. This generally devolves into our worst potentials coming forth with the greatest impact. We see visions of the “perfect” society as en engineering question. The “solution” is to eliminate human consciousness because that is where the suffering comes from. Personally I am on a different path and will not accept this erasure.
Wonderful book from a brilliant man.
As I understand it, Monks were scientists because not only did they have the time, but also because they were looking to understand His creation and see the glory of it.
Whether, science, religion, philosophy, sociology…all education should be about pursuing truth. Every person should seek truth as how often have we made decisions based on faulty information and how well did that work out?
As you point out, God is Truth with a capital “T” for He knows all truths (It comes with the territory of being omniscient). Thus, to follow Christ is to follow truth (John 14:6) and love (1 John 4:8) for He is the wisdom of God (1 Cor 1:24). This is the path forward.
Sadly, education has exchanged truth for an agenda. The root cause is a corrupt heart (Jer 17:9). The poster child for this misguided cognitive bias and motivated reasoning is a statement made by George Wald. Wald won the Nobel prize in biology about a half century ago and made this startling confession and I paraphrase:
We know that life came into existence either by a supernatural God or spontaneous generation leading to evolution. We know spontaneous generation is impossible, proved by Pasteur and others over 100 years ago. That leaves only a supernatural God. But I don’t want to believe in a God, therefore I choose to believe the impossible which is spontaneous generation leading to evolution.
As many have said on this site, the Marxist left ideology is their religion. Yet, I believe that the “true believers” are less than half of the Democratic party. They will be difficult to change. The rest are low information, loyal liberals to the Democrat party and they may be persuaded if they feel enough pain. The only way forward is to turn to God. Nineveh, a pagan city-state, managed to do it, so it’s not beyond possibility.
Science gathers data and forms conclusions. The data concerns thing that were made by God’s hands. If the scientist knows God, his conclusions can be more complete. If the scientist removes God from his conclusions, the results are always flawed.
If one could truly know the mind of God, then there might be little use for science. Consider a genetic disorder like cystic fibrosis. Why should such a thing exist? Is this a moral lesson from God and hence should be revered, or does one, moved to sympathy, study to find the cause and reverse it? Or the moral case for war. How can one kill even to spare the innocent? Is this not faithlessness, or would it be an offense to allow evil unresisted? So the knowledge of God is a murky thing indeed. We must assume this lack of clarity is by design, but it means that we cannot “solve” the puzzle of life even with the best of intentions. This is a humbling idea, and I reckon that is part of the meaning.
God created the substance of science, so I doubt there is little use for it. Dis-ease is a result of a fallen world. God didn’t disorder the world.
Perhaps a review of Job will help answer your question about a moral lesson. It helps me sometimes with similar questions – Sometimes. I’ll need to wait til I see Him face to face to get some answers. When I do see Him, most of my unanswered questions may dissipate. I hope so.
War – God is the ‘God of Armies’. There is a season for everything. Yes, there is a moral case for war. There was/is war in heaven between God and satan. There is a moral case for executing people who do evil; the State is entrusted with authority by God in this regard. Jesus will be using a double edged sword of his tongue when He returns. There is no moral case for Not defending your family when the time comes; Not even unto death.
Knowledge of God is Not murky. It is clarity. The human mind is murky. Lack of clarity is Satan’s design.
Knowledge delivers power to the wise – Proverbs 24:5
It is the glory of God to conceal a matter; to search out a matter is the glory of kings – Proverbs 25:2
Reject the Logos at your peril. Without Logos, Truth, anything can be called “science”.
This reminds me of someone that’s starving but demands a vegan option be made available before eating when offered food.
Trying to inject arguments of morality into politics means you’ll never have to find any principles or make any decisions.
Churchill was absolutely right…
Thank You for “enlightening me” about the importance of GOD, at the time of writing of the Declaration of Independence.
I’ll try to keep this in mind, when something makes me think about what the founding fathers of the USA, wanted America to be like for future generations. They certainly did not want it to have the same system (that they fled from in Europe), because it just did not work (to have a Monarchy) & they wanted something better.
Who knew that what they came up with would result in the “most successful Free Country in the History of the World”! I saw this, as a teenager growing up here in Canada, when the “Smart People” here were moving there, to become much more successful.
And, later in my life, Rush Limbaugh coined the phrase “American Exceptionalism” & “I knew exactly what he meant by it, after he explained it a little more to his Talk Show Audience.
Thank You Rush! You are missed, although I feel that the Dan Bongino Show is going to be a good replacement for your Show. ” If he lives long enough!” LOL!
One important aspect of “intent” of the framers was finding limits and physical checks on power in (1) distribution of power and (2) using natural competition and (3) giving voice to the common man without losing the benefits of guidance/wisdom from natural leaders.
Monarchy as a system depended on bloodlines and claims of “devine determination” which both failed to produce leadership and produce limits on power when power landed in the hand of the mentally deficient, physically challenged, and (Importantly) the spiritually disabled .
The founders thoughtfulness and spiritual depth is quite stunning and in short supply today.
“If he lives long enough!” LOL!
To anyone here that does not understand my wry sense of humor, Dan Bongino mentioned on his Show, that he was having some Health Issues. And he’s only in his 40’s & he’s “falling apart already”! Are all Italian men, this unhealthy? ROTFLMAO!
He’ll be “LUCKY” to make it to Rush’s age, before he “CROAKS”! LOL!
I think people forget or never realized that the American Revolution was a quite ugly, internecine struggle as well as a resistance to British military force. We learned that in grade school, but that was in the 1950s, in a Catholic school. We also learned about the French Revolution, which ought to put anyone who studies it off admiring guillotines.
The RedCoats brazenly marched through towns, menacing the colonists and occupying their homes and businesses. Roughly eighty percent of the colonists succumbed to fear and intimidation. Some turned against their neighbors, reporting them to the British.
Sound familiar?
The patriots eventually outsmarted the English AND their cowardly neighbors, by laying low and appealing to God for guidance against seemingly insurmountable odds.
God never leaves the righteous high and dry. Faith and courage, not fear, will bring miraculous results.
Yikes — “laying low” is not right. Actives in militia and asymmetrical conflict are NOT afforded “laying low” as a tactic.
Much of the “appealing for guidance” was taking place in quite desperate (forcing) circumstances: this after years of toleration, avoidance, hiding, sabotage, and “politics”.
prayers are aligned with your knowing: God never leaves the righteous high and dry. Faith and courage, not fear, will bring miraculous results.
By “laying low” I was referring to ‘stealth’ activities and ‘covert’ actions that took place during the American Revolution.
Well said and so true. People who trust in God are given wisdom for times such as these. I recognized the Covid debacle as an attempt to take down Trump the minute I heard about it. I’m sure others did too. I trusted God, not the “vaccine.” The traitors used it to also set up tyranny in our country. A double-whammy.