tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17505369899227690092024-03-18T22:02:09.447-07:00The Metaphysical PeregrineHave Thought Will Travel. Ruminate on ideas, philosophy, culture, society, books, music, politics, religion, movies...and see where it takes us.Steven Dexterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15299032034330006689noreply@blogger.comBlogger2194125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1750536989922769009.post-67331439427611568972021-01-17T10:36:00.001-08:002021-01-17T10:36:42.922-08:00Going to Chuch Against the Dictates of Our Secular Leaders <p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghRcQoP3OwWdfHeUR-jtrgcXoEG8TV4zyg2ewJNd4ECAnGV0Xu3qIzbCb02sJ42exQASyaf52s0J9yOlhyphenhyphen5VER2gZkAuI3rZbH6EgxaV_jFDLsQPGoX7r5tLpdXejvTc9urRB757UeJIg/s313/church+people.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="313" data-original-width="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghRcQoP3OwWdfHeUR-jtrgcXoEG8TV4zyg2ewJNd4ECAnGV0Xu3qIzbCb02sJ42exQASyaf52s0J9yOlhyphenhyphen5VER2gZkAuI3rZbH6EgxaV_jFDLsQPGoX7r5tLpdXejvTc9urRB757UeJIg/s0/church+people.jpg" /></a></div><br /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</xml><![endif]-->Going to church, being in a building with fellow worshipers. So many Christians find it okay that we don’t need corporate worship?
So here are a few scriptures on why it’s necessary, then some observations.
Going back to the earliest times, God planned for us to meet in a building. He
said to build a tabernacle, and said, “Make a place where I may dwell among
you. There I will meet with you, and I will speak with you.” (Exodus 25:8-22)<p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Praise and prayer individually is an important discipline of
Christians. That’s only half the equation. The church is the Bride of Christ,
and can’t function if people don’t attend, serve, and worship together. Back to
Exodus, where the idea of gathering together was God’s idea, not us mere
mortals. “From everyone who gives it willingly with his heart you shat take My
offering…And let them make Me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them...And
there I will meet with you, and I will speak with you from above the mercy
seat. (Exodus 25:2, 8, 22). As we know and have experienced, lots of people
come up for reasons not to go to church in the best of times. Now the Enemy has
a built in one, convincing so many that sitting on the couch or recliner is
adequate corporate worship.
</p><p class="MsoNormal"> We must not only attend as good disciples, but prepare for
it. “Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of
some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day
approaching.” [Day approaching is about preparation for the Second Coming]
(Hebrews 10:25)
</p><p class="MsoNormal"> Lastly and perhaps most importantly, Jesus himself made sure
he went to church (in his case tabernacle), and methinks a disciple it’s way
important to emulate Him as best we can. Luke 4:16----“So He came to Nazareth,
where He had been brought up. And as His custom was, He went into the synagogue
on the Sabbath Day, and stood up to read.”
</p><p class="MsoNormal"> Then the Apostle Paul says: “<i>On the first day of the week </i>let each one of you lay something aside, storing up as he may prosper, that
there be no collections when I come.” </p><p class="MsoNormal"> Four reasons to go to church. 1.We will find that grace is
released to us, because we make room for that grace through our obedience and
acceptance of the discipline of attendance. 2. It gives us a chance to
acknowledge with humility, I need the Body of Christ. We need to be with the
local body because we are member of a living Body, and the ‘member’ separated
from its body will decay. 3. We acknowledge a distinct accountability to the
Body of Christ, we show a practical availability to serve, and we allow a place
and time for correction. We show up and, by our presence, thereby acknowledge
we are righteously submitted to Christ’s rule in, and through, His Church. 4. We manifest a model: ‘In all things showing yourself to
be a pattern of good works’. (Titus 2:7) By worshiping together at an appointed
time, we show a pathway for other to observe---not as a self-righteous display
but rather as a demonstration of the Lord’s way. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> I suggest to all using this lockdown to keep people out of
church is the work of the Enemy. I suggest reading or re-reading CS Lewis’ “The
Screwtape Letters” for clarity on how Satan deceives us. It’s at play on this
issue right now. Obey God, reject the Deceiver.
</p><p class="MsoNormal"> Politicians don’t have the legal or moral authority to be
locking Christians out of their churches, and Jews out of their synagogues.
They are doing to work of the Enemy, the great deceiver. This planet has been
through many pandemic and epidemics. Believers and knowers of God, of Jesus,
always went to church.
</p><p class="MsoNormal">Going to church, being in a building with fellow worshipers. So many Christians find it okay that we don’t need corporate worship?
So here are a few scriptures on why it’s necessary, then some observations.
Going back to the earliest times, God planned for us to meet in a building. He
said to build a tabernacle, and said, “Make a place where I may dwell among
you. There I will meet with you, and I will speak with you.” (Exodus 25:8-22)
</p><p class="MsoNormal"> Praise and prayer individually is an important discipline of
Christians. That’s only half the equation. The church is the Bride of Christ,
and can’t function if people don’t attend, serve, and worship together. Back to
Exodus, where the idea of gathering together was God’s idea, not us mere
mortals. “From everyone who gives it willingly with his heart you shat take My
offering…And let them make Me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them...And
there I will meet with you, and I will speak with you from above the mercy
seat. (Exodus 25:2, 8, 22). As we know and have experienced, lots of people
come up for reasons not to go to church in the best of times. Now the Enemy has
a built in one, convincing so many that sitting on the couch or recliner is
adequate corporate worship.
</p><p class="MsoNormal"> We must not only attend as good disciples, but prepare for
it. “Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of
some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day
approaching.” [Day approaching is about preparation for the Second Coming]
(Hebrews 10:25)
</p><p class="MsoNormal"> Lastly and perhaps most importantly, Jesus himself made sure
he went to church (in his case tabernacle), and methinks a disciple it’s way
important to emulate Him as best we can. Luke 4:16----“So He came to Nazareth,
where He had been brought up. And as His custom was, He went into the synagogue
on the Sabbath Day, and stood up to read.”
</p><p class="MsoNormal"> Then the Apostle Paul says: “On the first day of the week
let each one of you las something aside, storing up as he may prosper, that
there be no collections when I come.” No italics on Facebook, so let’s say ‘on
the first day of the week’ is italicized.
</p><p class="MsoNormal"> Four reasons to go to church. 1. We will find that grace is
released to us, because we make room for that grace through our obedience and
acceptance of the discipline of attendance. 2. It gives us a chance to
acknowledge with humility, I need the Body of Christ. We need to be with the
local body because we are member of a living Body, and the ‘member’ separated
from its body will decay. 3. We acknowledge a distinct accountability to the
Body of Christ, we show a practical availability to serve, and we allow a place
and time for correction. We show up and, by our presence, thereby acknowledge
we are righteously submitted to Christ’s rule in, and through, His Church. 4. We manifest a model: ‘In all things showing yourself to
be a pattern of good works’. (Titus 2:7) By worshiping together at an appointed
time, we show a pathway for other to observe---not as a self-righteous display
but rather as a demonstration of the Lord’s way. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> I recommend to all using this lock-down to keep people out of
church is the work of the Enemy. I suggest reading or re-reading CS Lewis’ “The
Screwtape Letters” for clarity on how Satan deceives us. It’s at play on this
issue right now. Obey God, reject the Deceiver.
</p><p class="MsoNormal"> Politicians don’t have the legal or moral authority to be
locking Christians out of their churches, and Jews out of their synagogues.
They are doing to work of the Enemy, the great deceiver. This planet has been
through many pandemic and epidemics. Believers and knowers of God, of Jesus,
always went to church.
</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
Steven Dexterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15299032034330006689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1750536989922769009.post-28450882947817667042020-11-14T10:28:00.004-08:002020-11-14T10:28:48.218-08:00The Difference Between Patriots and Soldiers and the Left/Democrats<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Army veteran Charles M. Province:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It is the Soldier, not the minister, who has given us
freedom of religion.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> It is the Soldier, not the reporter, who has given us
freedom of the press.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> It is the Soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom
of speech. </p><p class="MsoNormal">It is the Soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us
freedom to protest. </p><p class="MsoNormal">It is the Soldier, not the lawyer, who has given us the
right to a fair trial. </p><p class="MsoNormal">It is the Soldier, not the politician, who has given us
the right to vote. </p><p class="MsoNormal">It is the Soldier who salutes the flag, Who serves beneath
the flag, And whose coffin is draped by the flag, Who allows the protester to
burn the flag.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Now me:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It is the Democrats taking away our freedom of religion.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It is the Democrats taking away our freedom of the press.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It is the Democrats taking away our freedom of speech.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It is the Democrats taking away the freedom of Republicans,
Christians and Conservatives to protest.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It is the Democrats taking away our right to a fair trial.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It is the Democrats taking away our right to vote.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It is the Democrats that rejects the flag.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It is the Democrats that advocate more war (they have
stopped, protested or delayed every attempt to withdraw from war.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It is the Democrats that don't honor the fallen in the
draped coffins.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It is the Democrats burning the flag; not Republicans,
Conservatives, or Christians. <o:p></o:p></p>Steven Dexterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15299032034330006689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1750536989922769009.post-27956563380422550602019-06-17T10:05:00.000-07:002019-10-28T10:46:57.806-07:00My Big Problem with Pete Buttigieg <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Leftist radical Pete Buttigieg, a minor political player
from a minor town weighs in on the attack by Iran on the oil tankers. He said
Trump lacks credibility, and there’s no real proof Iran did it. So he sides
with Iran against the United States. Buttigieg is an anti-Christian bigot homosexual.
Iran is a Muslim state, and Muslims murder homosexuals.<br />
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The US lets gays go about whatever they want. Won’t
see any gays as mayor of any towns in Iran. Maybe enough murdered gays to
populate a town.<br />
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Buttigieg lies about Christians, specifically Vice President Pence.
Pence is super careful about even the perception of impropriety. Buttigieg attacked
Pence, who has said only kind words about the untruthful mayor. He said, <i>“That’s the thing that I wish the Mike Pence’s
of the world would understand,” (</i>Pence opposes same-sex marriage).<i> “That if you have a problem with who I am, your
problem is not with me. Your quarrel, sir, is with my creator.” </i></div>
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Pence’s response <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">was "I
have my Christian values. My family and I have a view of marriage that's
informed by our faith. And we stand by that. But that doesn't mean that we're
critical of anyone else who has a different point of view." "I have
my Christian values. My family and I have a view of marriage that's informed by
our faith. And we stand by that. But that doesn't mean that we're critical of
anyone else who has a different point of view." </i>Pence has also said he’s
had a great working relationship with Buttigieg and has worked very closely
with him. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></div>
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Given the number of Christians in this country, well,
probably not a good idea to attack them. This by a guy the claims he can unite
people. <br />
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He is of course pro-abortion, pro-union, pro-LGBT, for the ‘green
new deal’ though he’s done some back pedaling on that when it turned out to be
so massively unpopular. He’s anti-second amendment, thinks climate change is a
national security threat, wants every house in America to be a ‘net zero’ consumer of
energy, and is for single payer health care. He is open borders, but its nuanced so people not paying close attention won’t think so. </div>
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He touts his overseas military service like it’s a brave
thing he's done. He was there in Afghanistan, living a comfortable life, in the NATO
coalition's Afghanistan Threat Finance Cell in Kabul. Mostly he was his bosses’
driver. He had to be armed doing that, so has a bunch of pictures of himself
looking armed and manly. He spent seven months there (some say nine). <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>In ‘Nam we called these guys Rear Echelon
Mother F**kers (REMF’s). He was an accountant and driver. Worthless in combat.
A lot of<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>REMF’s were good at
disrespecting those of us in the field. </div>
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So with him supporting the New Green Deal, single payer
health care, being an anti-Christian bigot (while claiming to be a Christian no
less) and using a bogus military profile, this guy is as phony as a three dollar
bill. My disgust with him started when I found out he was misrepresenting
himself at the beginning and changed to the truth once he got on the political
map. </div>
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DR. DREW PINSKY: We have complete breakdown of the basic
needs of civilization in Los Angeles right now. We have the three prongs of
airborne diseases, tuberculous is exploding, rodent fleas. We are one of the
only major cities in the country that does not have a rodent control program.
Sanitation has broken down. We had a typhus outbreak last year, we will have
typhus this summer. I'm hearing from experts that bubonic plague is likely,
it's already here, it will get onto the rat fleas. And then now finally we have
this oral-fecal route contamination which is tyhpoid fever. Three cases. One
confirmed, probably three. This is unbelievable. <br />
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I can't believe I live in a city where -- this is not third-world, this is
Medieval. Third-world countries are insulted if they are accused of being like
this. No city on earth tolerates on this. The entire population is at risk. And
God forbid is measles. This is a population that's suboptimally immunized. If
measles gets in, I just have an image of myself on my knees in the gutter
tending to people.</div>
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<br />Steven Dexterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15299032034330006689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1750536989922769009.post-79859218111726755842019-01-24T13:59:00.000-08:002019-01-24T13:59:39.981-08:00The Hatefill Covington Event <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hopefully, all are aware that the Jurassic Press took a
snippet of a vid and created from whole cloth the lie they were
confrontational, racist, and created a racist confrontation. Then when the rest
of what happened was released on vid, the corrupt lying Jurassic Press had to
walk it back. Some tweets were removed, even a couple apologies. Some faux conservatives
and Republicans jumped on the going-off-half -cocked bandwagon which is not
surprising. </div>
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A couple days have passed. Yesterday alleged reporter Savannah
Guthrie peppered Nick Sandmann, a high school student, with no media
experience, questioning him like he was guilty of everything the Jurassic Press
lied about. Some of her questions<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">: “Do
you feel, from this experience, that you owe anybody an apology? Do you see
your own fault in any way?” “What’s it been like to be at the center of this
storm?” “Did anyone say, ‘Build the wall’?”</i> (This after all the vids
showing no one said that<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">.) “Have you
looked at that video and thought about how it felt from the other’s
perspective? In other words, there were a lot of you, a handful of the others.
Do you think they might have felt threatened by a bunch of young men kind of
beating their chests?” “There’s something aggressive about standing there,
standing your ground, you both stood your ground, and it was like a stare-down.
What do you think of that moment?” “As for the red 'Make America Great Again'
hats that some students were wearing, Do you think if you weren’t wearing that
hat, this might not have happened or it might have been different?”</i> Are
only Christians and Conservatives responsible for how the respond and act? Now
the MSM have doubled down, going back to the original lies and again acting as
if they were true. </div>
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Sandman’s family and others hired a public relations firm. I
would think they would do that because being in the hateful biased spotlight
wasn’t something they knew how to deal with. Being honest and truthful isn’t adequate
for the PR arm of the Leftist/Democrat political machine. </div>
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Now all those kids have been doxed, gotten bomb threats as
have the school. BTW, neither the school nor the Diocese waited to see what
happened, they jumped on the kids at the initial lies. Super shame on them. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></div>
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Plus it turns out that Nathan Phillips never went to Viet
Nam, was not a Ranger, had spent time in the brig, and was discharged as a
private, what you are when you enlist. The Black Israelites are a vile hate
group that were shouting vile things at the kids. In the vids, much had to be
bleeped out because of the profanity. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></div>
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Then Don Lemon of CNN (arguably the most stupid man on TV<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">): “OK. The MAGA hat, the MAGA hat carries a
certain connotation that provokes a conditioned reaction from many people.
Especially from marginalized people,” Lemon said. “For example, Pocahontas,
right? This was a Native American. Their chaperone should be keenly aware of
that. Those kids should know that. And let’s say that the kids didn’t know that
because they are kids. Their chaperones should be responsible enough to educate
them. After all, they are students.”</i> Goes back to who’s responsible their
responses to events, others of self. What, now Leftists tell the rest of us
what we can wear? </div>
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These were high school kids. How would you have acted at 17
years? </div>
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Shame on the kids’ school and Diocese for not supporting
them, the Jurassic Press for lying about them, the conservatives and Christians
that didn’t support them; now some of these same people are doubling down on
the lie. </div>
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I was watching a conversation between Dave Rubin and Jordon
Peterson this past January 1<sup>st</sup> and an amazing thing was revealed to
me. It’s been going on for a bit and is scary and stunning in its implications. </div>
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We’re aware of censorship of Christians, Conservatives,
Republicans, NRA members and others that don’t adhere to the Leftist, Corporate,
socioeconomic orthodoxies. Google, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram etc.,
are the biggest known violators. What’s been going on that I didn’t know about
is the Banks are doing it to.</div>
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In the vid with Dave Rubin, he and Jordon Peterson have announced
they are leaving Patreon, which is their main donations platform. Sam Harris,
also a member of the “Intellectual Dark Web” had already left. The way Patreon
and other platforms are doing this is by using financial institutions, and here
I’m focusing on MasterCard and Visa to not only censor but cause massive life
damage. If you are Conservative, Christian, NRA member, or you engage in what
they, from their Leftist perspective is “hate” speech, your institutional
finances will be cut off; your access to money. </div>
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Several conservatives have had this done to them. Not for
actual violence or something life destructive, but simply that they <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">might </i>cause violence or create some
discomfort to a Leftist or their organization. Some names of censored people
are Lauren Southern and Brittany Pettibone, neither of which has slandered,
libeled nor physically attacked anyone. Southern is the woman who brought
attention to the murder, beatings and rapes of white farmers in South Africa;
including the destruction of the farmland and infrastructure. Pettibone was censored
by Patreon for supporting a group called <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Generation Identity because Patreon sees them
as a violent group, even though they have done nothing violent and have spoken
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Who has not been financially kicked off Patreon or MasterCard/Visa,
are Leftist Mike Stuchbery that calls Trump a Nazi and his supporters Brownshirts.
Another Leftist, Heidi Culliman, says the same but actually advocates for Trump
and his supporters punching them. ANTIFA, which destroys property and beats people
up still have social media and bank accounts. </div>
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The question arises, why not just start a conservative free
speech social media platform? With financial institutions like Stripe and
PayPal and others not allowing access to financial services, how are they going
to do it? You need a payment processor. </div>
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Coming soon to you, no financial services, no credit, if you
disagree with Leftist orthodoxy. Think it can’t happen? It already is. Twitter
kicking conservatives and traditionalists off their platform. The same with
FaceBook, Google, Instagram. Just because you’re a small fry, doesn’t mean it
can’t happen to you. </div>
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Now banks. This is seriously disturbing and dangerous. </div>
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I'll follow-up with who people like Southern and Pettibone are.<br />
<br />Steven Dexterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15299032034330006689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1750536989922769009.post-69890241723349293882019-01-01T17:26:00.000-08:002019-01-01T17:27:55.458-08:00Counter Cultural 3- The Intellectual Dark Web<br />
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I'd like to name these people The Intellectual Light Web, for obvious reasons; they shine the light of rationality, tolerance and free speech. This is the third counter cultural element that is pushback to
the PC lockstep crowd that is against free speech and for absolute conformity to
orthodox Leftism. This is the Intellectual Dark Web….major rational thinkers. Up
front are Dave Rubin and Jordon Peterson, along with Joe Rogan. I have problems
with Sam Harris, but he’s definitely worth listening to. Here’s the link for an
introduction to the group if you’re not up on them. </div>
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This is a link to the Intellectual Dark Web...it has bio's of the major players. Site here: <a href="http://intellectualdark.website/" target="_blank">People of the Intellectual Dark Web</a> I watch Rubin's YouTube cast every week, along with Joe Rogans...learn so much. </div>
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Tik Tok is a short form vid, limited to about 15 seconds. It’s
music based but is showing itself to be a bit of a challenge to the orthodoxy
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<br />Steven Dexterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15299032034330006689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1750536989922769009.post-25953993041711568742019-01-01T16:06:00.001-08:002019-01-01T16:06:35.926-08:00Counter Culture 1 - Katie Hopins
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Some of my fellow socio-political economic religious
thinkers get almost depressed or feel hopeless, seeing our civilization being
beat down. It seems no one is fighting back and speaking for the regular folks.
This and a couple of other posts I’m setting up today is just to make a few of
you on the edge of despair aware of a couple things and a few people that have
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Katie Hopkins is a media presenter, commentator and
journalist. She’s part of the counter cultural movement against anti free
speech, anti-freedom, and the outrages of the elites that ignore our votes. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Some examples are ignoring the vote on Brexit,
massive illegal immigration push into Europe, and in the US protecting our
southern border. This is a half hour vid that covers just about all the issues of
our own “leaders” killing western civilization. I first saw her on Tucker
Carlson and on Stefan Molyneux’ YouTube program. Both interviews were great and
worth watching. This is just full bore Hopkins. I hope you watch it. Leftists,
secularists, elitists will hate it. They should watch it too; step out of their
bubble. </span><br />
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<br />Steven Dexterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15299032034330006689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1750536989922769009.post-10207403455244402092018-12-22T08:40:00.000-08:002018-12-22T08:41:54.712-08:00Luis Gutierrez and Hate Speech in Congress. Shame on Him<br />
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This man is so indicative of what many on the Left drip
with. Disrespect, lies and hatred. This is a representative, an official in the
government. I read the comments on YouTube and was astonished that most agreed
with this lying low life hateful, spiteful person and amplified his hate speech. Members of Congress, or any
government official should never speak and behave in such a vile and horrid
manner. When DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen started to quietly and
professionally respond he left while she was talking. Shame on him. </div>
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At about 4:20 in the clip, he brought Christian religion, the baby
Jesus, and made up a story about what happened to Jesus, Mary, and Joseph and ‘the
wall’. Just what a bunch of hooey. This man, with so much hate in his heart, so
many lies in his mind, so much misinformation in his speech, needs at least our
prayers for redemption and healing. </div>
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I’m almost overcome by the amount of hatred, vitriol and
lack of forgiveness directed at people that aren’t Leftists/Cultural Marxists.
These people have no love in their hearts. We all need to be taught love, and
with the popular culture never having been taught, the hatred, lies and
intolerance grows. What they don’t know is this from the Apostle Paul, from
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If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels,
but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I
had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and
possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains,
but didn’t love others, I would be nothing. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>If I gave everything I have to the poor and
even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it, but if I didn’t love others, I
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kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its
own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It does not rejoice about injustice but
rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith,
is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.</blockquote>
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We all listen to the attacks on Trump, attempting to
criminalize his every thought and deed. It’s about destroying lives. An example
being the destruction of Kavanagh, using the liar Christine Margaret Blasey
Ford to turn him out to be a serial gang rapist. The comedian Hart recently has
to withdraw from being host of the Oscars. Oklahoma quarterback Kyler Murray
won the Heisman, gave a wonderful heartfelt faith filled acceptance speech, and
at the same time a USA Today writer released a tweet from when Murray was 14
years old that is deemed ‘homophobic’. While the country was mourning the
passing of Bush, the intolerant hate-filled Joy Behar was railing against
Trump, was called on it, that they should be talking about Bush, she exploded.
Lastly, Don Lemon, arguably the most villainous hate-fill talking head on TV,
when Trump at the Bush memorial, reached across to shake Obama’s hand, Obama
took the gesture. Lemon said he couldn’t bring himself to shake Trump’s hand. </div>
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All these things, at the heart, shows the lack of love, the
lack of forgiveness. These people, and most of the people on the Left, the neo-Bolsheviks,
the cultural Marxists, officially represented by the Jurassic Press and
Democrat Party lack everything the Apostle Paul said about love. They aren’t patient,
not kind, they are jealous, boastful, proud and rude (Behar inappropriately
railing about Trump, and Lemon not shaking an offered hand). They are
irritable. They demand everyone see things their way or have their lives
destroyed. They rejoice about injustice (General Flynn did not lie, Mueller
said he did), and hate the truth. They are never hopeful. They do not love.
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">They need prayers. They need guidance. Somehow they
need to be instructed in Judeo-Christian courtesy, behavior, manners, and
compassion.</span><br />
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It’s not a lack of civility, it’s a lack of decency. It
isn’t merely a lack of civility to run people out of restaurants, or go to
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This is what Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI) said on NBC when
asked about what happened to Ted Cruz: “This is what happens because when you
look at white supremacists and all that, this is what’s coming forth in our
country. There is a tremendous divisiveness in our country. This is the kind of
activism that occurs and people make their own decisions. If they violate the
law, then they have to account for that.” Ted Cruz is Hispanic. So how can he be a White Supremacist? His family is
from Cuba. (Same situation with Ben Shapiro, and orthodox Jew that wears a
yarmulke and leftists call him a Nazi.) Hirono also told all men to shut up. <br />
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Mitch McConnell has been accosted at a restaurant and an
airport. There were chants of “We know where you live!” Elaine Cho, his wife and the
Transportation Secretary has been accosted several times. Rep. Steve Scalise
was shot (not followed by calls for gun control by the Left) when a Democrat
gunman opened fire on a group of Republicans. </div>
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The Daily Caller: ‘Martin Astrof was arrested after he
threatened to kill supporters of Congressman Lee Zeldin and President Donald
Trump,’ Suffolk PD said. ‘Astrof went to the campaign headquarters of
Congressman Zeldin and became irate with a campaign worker at approximately
11:15 a.m. After threatening to kill the campaign worker and other supporters,
Astrof backed his car up in an aggressive manner nearly striking the worker.’</div>
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Richmond Times-Dispatch: “On Saturday, a woman reportedly
screamed at former White House advisor Steve Bannon, who was shopping at a
bookstore in Richmond, Virginia. The woman called Bannon a “piece of trash” and
continued to yell at him until the bookstore owner called the cops.”</div>
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Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen
was yelled at and run out of a Mexican restaurant. </div>
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ABC News: “A DHS employee who lives in the Washington DC
area found a body of a burned, decapitated animal on his front porch, ABC News
reports.</div>
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Idaho State Rep. Priscilla Giddings was threatened with rape
and told to kill herself. </div>
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White House advisor Stephen Miller had wanted posters in his
neighborhood. Once when he went to pick up an order at a restaurant an employee
flipped him off and started yelling at him.</div>
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When these are pointed out to Leftist talking heads, these
activities are justified by them. Free speech, because these are White nationalists, racists, bigots, homophobes, etc. </div>
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Nothing new here, it’s been going on for years. Leftists go
to people’s homes, publish their personal info, and get them fired from their
jobs. Ever hear of Brendan Eich? He lost his job for supporting and
contributing to Prop 8 in California a few years back that supported the notion
that marriage should be between a man and a woman, the traditional view. At the
time he worked for Mozilla which he was the co-founder of. He was the inventor
of the Firefox browser. He wrote JavaScript. That was reduced to just “Java”
and is the most used computer language in the world. Last laugh, he was going
to retire, was ticked off by this, invented a new computer browser, made an
additional $36 million with it in crypto-token sales. </div>
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Justice Kavanagh was lied about. His family (with small
young children) was exposed to the lies and hatred. </div>
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Then yesterday CNN’s alleged “journalist” kept attacking
Trump, did a hate filled lying filibuster, pushed away an aide trying to take
the microphone and continued to berate the President. Leftist talking heads all
praised Acosta and said it was all Trump’s fault, and Trump was the rude one.
Then another reporter that had not been called, went after Trump for being a
White nationalist, and leading White Nationalists with his rhetoric. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></div>
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Last night Tucker Carlson’s house was attacked. His family
was home and he wasn’t. </div>
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Going back years the Left has been doxing (releasing
personal info), harassing, being violent, rioting, destroying, and causing
people to lose their jobs just because they have different socio-economic,
religious values. It’s why I call them neo-Bolsheviks. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></div>
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The recent win of the House of Representatives by
Leftists/Democrats will embolden them more, just like electing a Black man made
charges of racism by the Left even worse. Stand by for more dangerous and
indecent behavior by them.<br />
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I’ve just written about the imbalance in the Arizona senate
race. One with leadership experience, training and education, McSally and an
anti-capitalist, anti-military pink tutu wearing protester with no leadership
creds and a degree in social work. This imbalance shows elsewhere.</div>
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In Georgia, Democrat Stacey Abrams is leading in the polls.
This weekend Black Panthers marched through Atlanta brandishing AR15’s chanting
‘power to the people’ and ‘black power’. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Of course she supports banning “assault”
weapons even though it would be unconstitutional. She’s walked back that stance
and said it should be done through legislation.</div>
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She’s for all the standard Leftist issues, and like the rest
of the Leftist radicals running for office, tones down, explains the nuance
causing the misunderstanding of what she’s said before. </div>
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Educationally and the government experience is about the
same between her and her opponent, Brian Kemp. Difference is one is anti-second
amendment, has the support of the violent Black Panthers, open borders, pro
illegal immigration, and the rest. Kemp, though not entirely conservative
supports immigration law, and the rest of the Trump agenda.</div>
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Beto O’Rourke has accomplished nothing in his life, yet
seems to think he can win because celebrities have given him oceans of money. A
media blackout isn’t letting the public know he’s probably sending money to the
“caravan”. Ted Cruz has Texas locked down.</div>
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In Florida Andrew Gillum has a lot of corruption charges
against him as Mayor of Tallahassee and if it’s brought up you’re a racist. He’s
for open borders, for abolishing ICE and the usual Radical Leftist programs. His
opponent is Ron DeSantis, who went to Yale then Harvard law school, and served as a Jag officer, was in Seal Team One, was in Fallujah. Again a person with life experience,
combat experience and leadership experience and training. </div>
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I know I’m a partisan, but good grief, when you have person back peddling, softening their policies and position to move
themselves to the center, have been political operatives all their lives, don’t
support the rule of law, vs, people with military, combat, leadership
experience, have been to various leadership schools, say what they stand for
straight up without covering up those policies and principles; to me choices
are clear. That half the country prefers people that only talk talk talk
without the walk walk walk and that astounds me. </div>
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So I’m counting on McCallum, Kemp, DeSantis, and others with
experience in the real world, with leadership experience and training, believe
the rule of law is the rule, are selected to lead their communities and the
corrupt liars and political operatives are kicked to the curb.<br />
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Most politicians are corrupt, vile, low life bottom sucking scoundrels.
I think that bar has been lowered.</div>
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Take a look at Arizona Senate candidate Kyrsten Sinema<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>'These
women who act like staying at home, leeching off their husbands or boyfriends,
and just cashing the checks is some sort of feminism because they're choosing
to live that life.' “That’s bullshit. I mean, what the f*** are we really
talking about here?” </i>That she said in 2006. She called Conservatives ‘Neanderthals’.
Nice. <br />
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Project Veritas has a tape of Sinema and her unfiltered thoughts.
She’s for banning guns, yet denies it, open boarders, yet denies, has protested
a lot against the policies of the US, said its okay if a person wants to join
the Taliban and fight against Americans, and yet denies it. The denials come in
form of challenging nuance of what she really met. </div>
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Arizona state troopers withdrew their endorsement. Much of
what she says on the campaign trail is to present herself as a centrist, not
the leftist radical she is. She’s lied about being homeless. She was in a poor
home but had a home. She co-founded an anti war group Local to Global Justice.
This group had a flyer in 2003 saying: ““You can help us push back U.S. terror
in Iraq and the Middle East.” Another: "All out against Bush and he Fascist Imperialist War."</div>
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Yet she presents herself as pro military. </div>
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On the other hand, her opponent, Martha McSally, was a
fighter pilot that has flown combat missions. She was a squadron commander that
rose to Colonel before she retired after 26 years of service. Plus she fought for eight years to change the policy that US Servicewomen had to wear Muslim
clothes off base. She has Master’s degrees in John F. Kennedy School of
Government from Harvard and U.S. Air War College in Public Policy and Strategic
Studies, where she was first in her class. Plus a whole bunch of other stellar accomplishments. </div>
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Compare that to Sinema’s Bachelor degree in Social Work and
her membership in the Green Party, and in a 2002 article in the Arizona
Republic denouncing capitalism.<br />
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<span style="margin: 0px;">I’m appalled that such a suspect person, anti-military, anti-capitalist,
small achievements that misrepresents herself to move her public persona to the
political/cultural center could be even considered and equal to a proven leader
with many accomplishments under her belt. I mean, really, a leader and warrior
in a flight suit vs an anti-American that dressed in a pink tutu to protest.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">You’ve seen it with talking heads panels on TV, and probably
experienced it yourself. You’re talking to a
Leftist/Progressive/Democrat/Social Justice Warrior and you make a statement
about the weather, marriage or whatever and you get the response: you’re a
racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe, etc. You get that every time. No discussion
possible. No matter what the subject. Same when you see or listen to Leftist
talking heads on radio or TV. They’re on the air so they use euphemisms for the
same thing. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">For us seasoned citizens this is like the old talking dolls.
Pull a string and it says something, then again and it says something
different. How cool is that?! Pull the string a sixth time and it says what it
said before, and again what it said before. Then you realize it has limited
statements. Well, that’s not cool. Move up to the modern era and we have
gamers.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">There are characters in these called Non-player Characters
(NPC’s). [‘A non-player character, also known as a non-playable character, is
any character in a game which is not controlled by a player. In video games,
this usually means a character controlled by the computer via predetermined or
responsive behavior, but not necessarily true artificial intelligence. In
traditional tabletop role-playing games the term applies to characters
controlled by the gamemaster or referee, rather than another player”.] These
are the extras, some are just there, and some have a line or two that they can
only repeat. It has no personality, no thought, canned answers, and just
preprogramed responses. The same with the Progressives/Leftists. Ask one where
the X restaurant is and the response is “Socialism is the answer, capitalism
sucks”.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Say it’s a nice day and the
response is “climate change is real”. Say someone did or say something wrong,
“you’re a racist”. (I once challenged a person who called me a racist, and was
told that defending myself proved I was a racist).</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">There you have it...the reason why one can’t have an
informed, intelligent conversation with a Leftist. They’re all NPC’s for
Leftist ideology.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The pic here is a cake! Yesterday had a most fabulous time
with friends in Salt Lake City. There was a house warming party; Dick had
bought a house and had it remodeled. A lovely new crib. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Amazing Greek food, and a lot. At least thirty
people there. A full spread, lots of laughter, good conversations. They’re an
Italian family, so the desert was Italian. A great combination. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Some things happened over the past few days, which I’ll be
writing about in more depth. Main things were two funerals, Aretha Franklin and
John McCain. Aretha went through some horrible things in her life. It looks
like memorial turned into a political rally against whites, Republicans and
lots of Trump bashing. What the hell? Focus not on her. That’s what Leftists/Democrats have been
doing of decades at memorials. They've corrupted everything with their politics. Sports, religion, movies, journalism, and of course funerals. I’ll chronical that sordid history. Then John McCain’s
memorial was the same, though mostly it was Trump bashing. I’ll be speaking ill of the
dead. He did some amazing and good things, and led a good life. What he did his
last few years was destructive to the country and his legacy. Even to the end, to his funeral and memorials he blocked people from attending. Never heard of
anyone doing that; they wanted to pay their respects and honor him. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Well, I’ve done some yardwork this morning, now need to
assemble some furniture. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">All days are good. God is good. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">I haven’t written since last September. The time since then
to now was not good. Things that happened at work made me miserable, which
caused me to retire earlier that I planned. I couldn’t write or read anything
of note. Thus no blog posts. I <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">was</i>
going to work until 2021, way over 65
years old. My misery at work got me to take action and retire now. It’s a
good thing, better than I imagined. Two years ahead of what I planned, I now
own and live in a house overlooking a valley and mountains, I can see stars at
night, and hear crickets. One morning when I opened the curtains a fawn was
outside my window. I’m not working, having to be monitored and critiqued about
everything I said and did. Being treated that way causes a free spirit to
suffer. I toughed it out and here I am.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Yesterday was a retirement party at work, my last day. It
was also an event for my friend Paul, also retiring. We’ve know each other for
years, and I’m glad he too is free to pursue his dream. It was an emotional
event, testimonies about both of us and how we had such a good and memorable impact
on people. Given that, I am happy to leave. UPS was a mostly miserable place to
work; many unhappy people there because of it. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The first Sunday in August I also left my church, First
Christian Church, Disciples of Christ, Las Vegas. That was also emotional, and
more deeply so since it is a place and people I love. A place I was accepted
and helped and appreciated. I learned and taught guided and was guided. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It is sadness for me to leave. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">All of which lead me to thinking of departures past. The
first departure was from high school…bittersweet. Athletic glory days and some
academic success. That summer I ended up at the Bright Angel Lodge at the Grand
Canyon busing tables. Tips got me enough to get me into Northern Arizona University
(plus a hundred bucks from Dad). </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">I completed my freshman year, carrying 17 hours and a full
time job at a restaurant. I knew I couldn’t do three more years of that, so I
joined the Army and they gave me a Southeast Asia vacation, all expenses paid.
Unlimited bullets and beer. Quite a formative experience for a twenty year old.
That was a happy departure. Out of the Army and out of Vietnam February 10<sup>th</sup>
1971. That was unbounded joy. From there back to college on the GI Bill and a
part time job in the university library. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Departure from college was painful. I loved the academic
life, the scholarship, reading, friends, discussions, and of course the
parties. Met and lived with the love of my life. I was working in an alcoholism
center too. All at once, I graduated (I got a letter from the university
telling me I was done, time to go), broke up with my girlfriend that major
league broke my heart, and the center where I worked lost its funding. I had a
breakdown. Everything was gone at the same time. That was the most painful
departure ever. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">I ended up in Rock Springs, Wyoming, and for the next couple
years worked as a roustabout in the oil patch. Worked on a rig, took off for a
few months until I ran out of money and found another rig. I wasn’t invested in
that work, so departure was an emotionless passing through kind of event. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">I wanted to travel the world some more, so joined the Navy.
Not a good experience. Couldn’t stand it, but I was stuck. I did get to visit
some great places and had some good friends. That was a happy departure. I
remember standing on the quarterdeck, requesting permission to go ashore the
final time, and when I started down the brow, a bunch of guys on the flight
deck threw their hats in the air and started cheering and yelling out my name “Dex”.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The Captain and XO were on the quarter deck
scowling at me. I wasn’t too popular with the brass. Like I said, it was a good
departure. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">My job after that was a good departure, glad to get out of
there. Conflicts with management, a lifelong issue. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Then the move to Las Vegas and twenty years as UPS. Made a
few friends there, and met some super smart people. And twenty years at Church,
lots of super smart and talented people. This last has a hard departure. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Each of these are a stage of life. I first became aware of
these stages reading a book by Erik Erikson about Gandhi. I was twenty something.
To get an idea of how long ago that was, tuition for college was $163 per semester,
for all classes. I carried 17 credits, $163. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">In youth, the first stage, I learned music, how to play an
instrument, how to be a winning jock, how to read with discernment, and study.
In the second stage of young adult, I grew in combat and weapons knowledge, scholarship,
working outdoors doing manly labor, traveling. In most maturing paths, this
part of life is learning a skill for the third stage. That stage usually one
meets a person that becomes a spouse, an occupation is maintained and hopefully
some wealth for later years to maintain the fourth stage. That stage is to get
right with God. That’s for me. Others like Freud, Jung, Hindu’s, Buddhists have
different descriptions, but it all about focusing things from and in the spiritual
realm. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Now in my fourth stage, I’m back to religion, church, the
Holy Spirit, scripture. I need to revisit Dostoevsky, Solzhenitsyn, CS Lewis, Kierkegaard,
Goethe, Pasternak, and yes Ayn Rand too. Just to name a few. These were
influential in my second stage. It’ll be interesting to see how differently I
read and experience those writings. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Lastly it’ll be interesting how I’ll influence others, what
I have to teach, share, and what more do I have to learn. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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</a><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><u></u><u></u><u></u><u></u><u></u><u></u>Steven Dexterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15299032034330006689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1750536989922769009.post-7844581290814758062017-08-20T13:36:00.001-07:002017-08-20T13:48:51.768-07:00TEOTWAWKI. Apocalypse, Gathering <br />
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Given the massive strife here in the US, and the evil
blossoming from the Middle East, and all the dystopia and apocalyptic shows and
movies, I sometimes wonder. I’m not so concerned about the apocalypse, but
TEOTWAWKI, The End Of The World As We Know It. </div>
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Will Europe still be Europeans, will we have anything even
close to privacy with all the government and corporate surveillance, will the
hatred exhibited by Black movements (Black Lives Matter, New Black Panthers,
Black Panthers), White Supremacy and the racist clash between the two result in
a race war?</div>
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The meme for Comic Book based TV shows. I’d hate to live in
the DC world. Good guys teaming up and arguing with each other, blaming
themselves for things they have no control over, bickering, while the evil guys
are focused and kicking ass. In the Marvel world much the same. </div>
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In movies, film scholar Kristen Thompson: “…twenty-five
disaster movies appeared throughout the eighties. But in the nineties fifty-six
disaster movies were released… From 2000-2009 over sixty apocalyptic films were
released, and about the same 2010-2016. </div>
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Incessant doom and gloom. Incessant race and cultural
conflict. Incessant climate doom and gloom, we’re all going to die soon. Much of the
angst is because of all the divisions between groups, male against female, race
against race, governments doing terrible and stupid things, corporations doing
terrible and stupid things. What do we turn to? More government, more breaks
for corporations, more riots, more technological surveillance, and more political
failure. Just doubling down on what got us here in the first place. Before when
we talked about apocalyptic events, they were religious or spiritual. All those
things mentioned earlier, are all secular. Yet we keep turning to secular solutions.
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The idea of this arose out of the sermon today, based
partially on Isaiah 56:1-2.</div>
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1: This is what the Lord says:</div>
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“Be just and fair to all.</div>
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Do what is right and good,</div>
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and to display my righteousness among you.</div>
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2: Blessed are all those</div>
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who are careful to do this.</div>
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Blessed are those who honor my Sabbath days of rest</div>
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and keep themselves from doing wrong.</div>
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Gathering on the Sabbath, whatever day you select, shows the
answer is in gathering together. At our jobs we have all races, all religious
backgrounds and beliefs and work together just fine. Gathering together on the
Sabbath, looking beyond secular solutions, to corporately share something
outside that secular life we experience daily, has the answer. More technology,
business and government don’t. </div>
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Just for starters, if every person that calls
himself/herself a Christian actually gathered with other Christians on the Sabbath, how
calming that would be? </div>
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Apocalypse means unveiling, revelation. From that we know that on the other side of it, will be revealed good news; it is an ending to
all this horribleness and divisiveness. Our <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">not</i>
going to experience that, the gathering to reconnect with each other outside of
the secular, leaves us almost entirely with the secular and solutions that don’t
work. </div>
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At the center of any Sabbath gathering is the Eucharist, Communion,
sharing at the table, sharing bread and wine. Nothing is more important than doing this every time Christians come together. That gathering for
that ritual, brings us all so very close together, brings a calm. </div>
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Personally, I’m not a calm man, and this centering every
week is vital to me. If it’s vital to one, then that means it vital for many,
and I hope for all. All Christians going to Church would have a profound impact
on the conflict and hatred rampant in the world. There are about 247 million
people in the US that claim to be Christian. Think of the calming effect on the
nation if we all went to Church. That experience moves out into the secular world. We
know this “apocalyptic” time looks to gloomy and ultimately destructive because
no one, including Christians that don’t gather, can see beyond the secular. They can’t see God’s heavenly creation beyond: can't see what is revealed. </div>
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Think how much conflict and hatred would be reduced, if
millions more that professed Christian faith, would gather together. How
helpful that it would be to be just and fair to all, and do what is right and
good, and know that Christ will come to rescue us, and see heaven and righteousness,
and how blessed all of those that do this thing would be.</div>
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Pie in sky? I think not, but Christ in the sky, revealing
Good News? I think so. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><br />
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Certainly it’s most important to keep studying and reading,
going to sources that one wouldn’t do ordinarily, because stuff never even
considered shows up as really important. I’m saying this as an ancient citizen
from experience. The effect that denying gender causes pain, suffering and
death to women because of medicines prescribed to them is one of them.</div>
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Regardless of what feminists, PC psychologists and
psychiatrists, scared neurosurgeons and neuro researchers, are saying about
there being no difference between men and women, when it comes to dosage
between the two genders, when no adjustment is made, women suffer and sometimes
die. With the side effects of that sometimes women have accidents and people
get killed.<br />
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For example, in 2013 the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
cut the dosage in half for Ambien, having known for 20 years women metabolized
the active ingredient zolpidem more slowly than men. That and a sleeping pill,
Restoril, may have caused about 500,000 early deaths; from overdoses, car
crashes and falls. </div>
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I’m ancient enough to remember the Thalidomide tragedy of
the 1950’s. The research on the effects were primitive. An FDA scientist,
Frances Oldham Kelsey, for years did research on it, and it took years of her
collecting data before anyone accepted something really bad was happening. This
drug, by the way, was for morning sickness during pregnancy. Women in Europe
were taking it, and about 2,000 children died, and about 10,000 were born with
defects; no or partial limbs. The lab tests for this drug on animals were only on male animals. (Fortunately the FDA didn’t approve it. Knowing their track record and
corruption, we can only thank chance.) </div>
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From that time until 2014, in all tests and studies, it
was never mentioned in reports that almost exclusively male animals were
tested on. Even when tests were done for female specific diseases, only 12% of
the animals tested were female. Excuse given was there are too many things,
like chemical responses, to test for variables. </div>
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That’s the base. Drugs designed for women were rarely tested
on women. The FDA approved these, causing a lot of damage to women. </div>
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Which brings us to the present. There are differences in
brain hemispheres, and how left and right brain interact. There are differences
between brain parts, like the hypothalamus and hippocampus, different baseline
amounts of neurotransmitters (serotonin and dopamine). </div>
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If you’re a neuroscientist, or neurosurgeon, and you point
this out, you’re labeled as a ‘neurosexist’ and your report on findings are ‘neurotrash’.
<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Your study can be blocked from science
journals, you can lose funding. This is done by anti-gender feminists and other
various PC people, none of whom have any neuroscience education or training. They
are usually people from the “soft sciences” like sociology and psychology.</div>
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Even with hard science data stating that because a man came
up with the results, it’s biased and by definition sexist. They believe reality
is different for men and women. I have a hard time squaring this with their
argument there is no differences between the sexes; or that there is more than one gender. </div>
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Another charge that just stuns, is that unless a
neuroscientist has been trained or had classes in “gender scholarship” their
hard science findings are invalid. This is scary stuff, and for some reason the
non-gender, anti-science people have been able to get such power scientists are
afraid to speak out, though a few have. </div>
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At the core of “gender scholarship” is “intersectionality”.
I’ve heard the term before, and still have a hard time wrapping my mind around
it. Here’s the definition: “…the principle that important social identities
like gender, ethnicity, and social class mutually constitute, reinforce, and
naturalize one another”. I think what that means is one must take race over
gender (black over white), female over male, and class (poor over rich). White
males I’m sure are at the bottom of this fabricated hierarchy. Apparently hard
science results are unacceptable unless “intersectionality” theory is applied. </div>
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As a result we have women overdosing on meds, having
increased traffic accidents (involving others), and incorrect or ineffective
medical treatment. All because PC Totalitarians that have power and don’t know
what they’re talking about are forcing the people that do know what they are
talking about to do their bidding or suffer the consequences. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><br />
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Steven Dexterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15299032034330006689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1750536989922769009.post-13098564261918852192017-08-18T16:29:00.001-07:002017-08-18T16:36:46.612-07:00Some Thoughts on the Transgenderist Movement<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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With the full throated attack on Trump moving from Russian
Collusion and Transgender issues, I’m back-peddling a bit to some thoughts on
the Transgender Movement. It’s a movement. It is forcing people to not only
accept, but to advocate and endorse a surgical procedure that purports to
change genders. This is from the same group of people that claim Conservatives
and Christians deny science. </div>
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Here’s the science. Males bear an XY chromosome and females
XX. No amount of surgery, or training and no amount of psychiatry or
psychological conditioning can change that. There’s an internal sense of one’s
maleness or femaleness, and that subjective gender identity gets confused in
some, and it’s been named as “gender dysphoria”.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It’s in the American Psychiatric
Association’s fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental
Disorders (DSM-5). Psychologists and psychiatrists working in this field have
done many studies showing most children that experience this, by their teenage
years, identify with their birth gender. </div>
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That’s one of many reasons why gender reassignment is so
wrong on many levels. More specifically it’s child abuse. What kind of parent
or professional sanctions this monumental change? How many of us have heard
some middle age celebrity say they’re finally “comfortable in their own skin”? <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>(A meaningless and worthless statement).Yet
that same mindset advocates for this radical surgery because a child wants it? </div>
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It also means dependency on the medical system for the rest
of their lives. Side effects often include cancer and deep vein thrombosis. Psychiatry
must be ongoing. Children that go through with this are five times more likely
to commit suicide that other kids in their age group.</div>
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The totalitarian mindset displays itself with the
transgenderists. They turned it into a civil rights issue, saying if one doesn’t
agree with them, the civil rights of the child is being violated. Civil Rights can be
weaponized too. And of course, you’re a bigot (of some sort).</div>
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As an example there’s a K-12 charter school, Nova Classical Academy, in St Paul,
Minnesota. Very prestigious. In 2015 the school sent a letter to parents that the
school is in support of a trans-gendering student. Part of the letter read: “…describes
children whose identities, appearances, behaviors, or interests do not fit
traditional societal expectations associated with their sex assigned at birth.
It is important to note that this expression of gender is ever-changing as
students are constantly exploring many different aspects of their identity…”
That would be the basis for teaching all the kids in the school about the desirability
and beauty of being transgender. </div>
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Parents for the most part objected, and many were outraged.
The school quoted laws that said they were obligated to support and teach that transgenderism
is good and desirable. There were meetings between the school and parents. Want to
guess who showed up, protesting and threatening violence? LGBT activist groups.
Lots of ugliness ensued. </div>
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Psychiatrists, psychologists, doctors involved know this is
harmful, dangerous and wrong. They see all the inherent problems and see it as
child abuse, are afraid to speak out. Totalitarian mindset and weaponized civil
rights laws. Those that don’t have been cowed and are in fear of the
anti-gender activists. Remember, if you disagree with the Left, you will be
hunted down and destroyed. Of course there are some PC professionals, and in my view if they support this should be stripped of their license. </div>
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Nothing is mentioned in the, well, not debate, but directives,
from the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Education (thank you Orwell), about the damage it does
to families. If a father transgenders, what’s that do to the kids, the wife? Or
if the mother transgenders? How does it affect friendships? There are huge
social consequences. </div>
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Natural law is rejected, and these people believe that
whatever “self” believes is itself reality. “Self” overrides everything.
Christians believe that God’s creation is perfect, we are created in His image.
Natural Law is how it’s expressed. There’s an order to things. We have free
will, and can use it within those laws to manifest what good there is in nature
and in Self. Look back at the excerpt of the school letter, “…with their sex
assigned at birth”. What? God assigns, or nature assigns, the wrong chromosome
and puts it in the wrong gender? Don’t think so. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></div>
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This is rejecting science, natural law, biology, and
neuroscience. This is not good. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><br />
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The lies and accusations are that Charlottesville was President
Trump’s fault. What Leftists/Democrats do is blame others and become the
victim. Yes, they have millennial snowflakes at the height of political power,
one percenters, that are well into their 50’s, 60’s, 70’s that play that victim
card, and the race card even if they're rich white people. And of course all those
born from the late 1970’s on, whatever you want to label them. Here are the
players that refused to accept the results of their decisions. </div>
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Starting with Jason Kessler who founded the Alt-Right White Supremacist
organization "Unite the Right" is no doubt a political manipulator. He's the one that launched to protest. Legally, with permits. It’s difficult, by the way,
to get straight information on this guy. Southern Poverty Law Center is a
radical Leftist, racist, anti-white hate organization. Another site, “Business
Insider” labels “The Daily Caller” as an extremist right wing publication. It's pretty much just old fashioned traditional journalism. What
can be said is Kessler's White Nationalist claim began late 2016. Up until then he
was a Leftist involved in “Occupy Wall Street”, and a Clinton, Obama supporter. The Southern Poverty Law Center
(SPLC) web site: </div>
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“Rumors abound on white nationalist forums that Kessler’s
ideological pedigree before 2016 was less than pure and seem to point to
involvement in the Occupy movement and past support for President Obama.</blockquote>
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At one recent speech in favor of Charlottesville’s status as
a sanctuary city, Kessler live-streamed himself as an attendee questioned him
and apologized for an undisclosed spat during Kessler’s apparent involvement
with Occupy. Kessler appeared visibly perturbed by the woman’s presence and
reminders of their past association.“ </blockquote>
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A shady lying manipulator.</blockquote>
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Terry McAuliffe is another Leftist/Democrat schemer. He’s
governor now, and made a lot of shady deals moving upwards in the Democrat
Party. He was once head of the Democratic National Committee. He was a Clinton
operative, did dirty tricks during election cycles for both Clintons, and is
currently under investigation for some shady and probably illegal business dealings
with the Communist Chinese. It looks like he was part of the decision for the
police to stand down even though it was known the Antifa, Black Lives Matter
and other violent Leftist groups were going to be there. He said an internal
investigation will suffice, but US AG Sessions is having none of that.</div>
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Methinks the biggest culprit in this mess is Black Vice
Mayor Wes Bellamy. Big time known racist, now reports are coming out he was
responsible for holding the police back when the violent Leftist hate groups
Antifa and Black Lives Matter, that didn’t have a permit, started physical
confrontations with the other group that did have a permit. Bellamy has had his
tweets taken down. Here’s a couple examples: “I hate seeing white people” and “beanpole
white women.” He even hates Black people that talk white. </div>
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So here’s a vid of the Antifa people showing up. By the way,
when the police did finally take action, they funneled the people (don’t care
if they’re white supremacists or not for now) there, with a permit, to protest
the taking down of the Robert E Lee statue, into the Antifa organization. Antifa and other professional Leftist protesters wear the same uniform at all the protests they bring violence to all over the
United States. Black clothes and masks. Just like ISIS and terrorist worldwide
do. </div>
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I’ve been working since 1966, and have worked with all races
of people. Was in combat with all races. In all the jobs I’ve had, with one
exception in the Navy, there wasn’t racial conflict. (A guy in the Navy attacked
me for being white.) In all the jobs I’ve had, I didn’t and don’t see conflict
or animosity between any race or ethnicity. I heard a Black guy call into a
talk show recently, and he had traveled across the north of the United States,
and said he was always treated like a regular guy, saw everyone working together,
and there just wasn’t any racial conflict going on. </div>
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This current mess is all generated by a Leftist Race Industry.
Created and maintained for years by the race hustlers (and Leftists) Al
Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. Al Sharpton led a riot that got a Jewish man
murdered. Jesse Jackson got away with calling NYC, “Hymie Town”. Democrat
Robert Byrd was high up in the KKK, yet a “lion” in the Democrat Party. Now it
looks like indoctrinated White Leftists are carrying on the violence of Al
Sharpton and the anti-Semitism of Jessie Jackson.</div>
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What I’m afraid of is the racist hatred generated by the
Left will seep into the lives of the rest of us. We just go to work, provide
the best possible products or service, and take care of, and help, each other.
What is being pounded into the culture incessantly, by the White Liberal
Jurassic Press, that there is white hatred, white racism toward Blacks. Most
people are just living their lives, and what they hear is what they know, and
eventually what they know becomes what they believe. </div>
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I think this because as I talk to people, they express
whatever the zeitgeist is. Most don’t want to spend the time I do reading
history, philosophy, political commentary and draw my own conclusions. (I say ‘want
to’ not ‘can’t’ because we always can make time for what’s important to us.) For
that reason, those of us that do take or make the time and have the curiosity,
have to educate and inform. We have to do it with a soft touch, with subtle
influence, because a push, because of their indoctrination, creates resistance
and the wall goes up. </div>
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That’s on the personal side; at work, with friends. Don’t
need walls there. In the public square though, we need to use every tool we
have, and the Left has, and kick some ass, break down walls. Push back. Keep repeating the truth.
Call them out. Confront. Use the law (something that wasn’t done the previous
eight years) to imprison those breaking the law (blocking traffic, protesting without
a permit for example), and litigation that ties them up in court and costs them
a fortune. </div>
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Growing up, we didn’t know our parents’ politics, the
politics of the people that ran businesses, didn’t talk or think about race. We
had family, served our country, had neighbors and friends, attended church
which brought us all together. We lived our lives without everything politicized
and lies the acceptable meme.</div>
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We need to go back to living lives in service to each other. </div>
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My thoughts at the end of the year. I haven’t written since mid-year.
I notice when I write so infrequently both my thinking and speaking diminishes
in quality. I get wrapped up in video. Good stuff too, mostly. I got Curiosity
Steam with endless documentaries. Great way to keep up with science stuff. I
read Bill Bryson’s <u>A Short History of Nearly Everything</u>, which was, like
everything he writes, exceptional. It’s very much a history of science, and I
liked going to Curiosity Stream and watching a documentary and see what he was
writing about. </div>
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My reading this year was light. I finished the year reading
Al Michael’s memoir. Great stuff, highly recommended. There were some Kevin
Kearny mysteries, a couple religious books. Ivan Doig, one of my all-time
favorites; read his last book he wrote before his death, <u>Last Bus to Wisdom. </u>A
great finish to a great writing career. The list of my reading is off to the
right. Noticing my reduced reading this year, and the lightness of the fare, I
recognize the need, indeed the desire, to increase the literary, theological, philosophical
stream. I’ve already started reading <u>The Hemlock Cup</u> [Socrates, Athens, and
the Search for the Good Life] by Bettany Hughes. It’s not so much a book about
Socrates or philosophy, though it’s there, but a history that gives a sense of
place. What it was like to live in Athens in those times, and fleshing out some
of the main characters. I’ll also be indulging in <u>The Daily Stoic</u> [366
Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living] by Ryan Holiday. </div>
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I have a lot of Cicero and Demosthenes downloaded; been
sitting there for a while. Time to follow up on the intention, and actually
read them. I’ve read bits and pieces of them, but not gone full in. The idea
here is to immerse myself in that time, ancient western civilization. I've done
this type of thing before, had a focus for a year. Not exclusively, but mostly.
The Stoics very much have my attention. If there was ever a dismissed,
overlooked, oversimplified group or philosophy, this is it. </div>
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There were no standout movies for me. Maybe "The
Intern" with De Niro. It was a surprising and charming movie that actually
praises men and the traditional man. I was surprised by it. The Sci-Fi was fun
and met expectations, “Ben Hur” and “Risen” were solid religious movies. Movies
I’ve seen too, off to the right. Spent a lot of time streaming vids. Binge
watching. That’s something that needs to be modified. More time in the Kindle,
less on the screen. </div>
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Politically the year was exhausting, in case you haven’t
noticed. The hatred and violence spinning totally out of control. The vitriol. Who woulda thunk Trump would take it? Clinton, besides not being a
likeable person, got buried in all her lies. Trump has hired a lot of good
people, but also quite a few Bushies and RINO’s. The prayer is I hope they don’t
get Trump to be “sensible and moderate” like them. Leftism. It’s a disease. How
many staunch Conservative, TEA Party people, get to Washington and belly up in
the Sea of Lies and Cowardice? </div>
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Church. Had my struggles this past year plus. As a reminder
or to inform you that don’t know me, I’m a member of the First Christian
Church, Disciples of Christ. The national and regional leadership is all in on
Statism, and has put worshiping at the altar of the State ahead of worshipping
God, and align themselves with those wishing to destroy the Church and cripple
Christianity as much as possible. That’s pretty much a big thing outside of my
sphere, so all I can do is pray that God will intercede and they’ll once again
put God first, and politics and the State way down where it belongs. I also had
some personal confrontations that religiously and emotionally crushed me. There
were many that surrounded and showed me true Christian love and support, and
buttressed me until I recovered. </div>
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Now I’ve been asked, and accepted, to take a major leadership
position in the Church at a level I’ve never done. I like being a small occasional
voice of influence. This for sure will be different from the leadership
positions in my jobs that I’ve had and have. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I’ll have a good mentor, and many have come to
me and said to let them know if there’s anything they can do to support me. I
have a good pastor, good mentor, and a loving, caring church. How things
transpire. </div>
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I traveled a lot last year. Trips to Bryce Canyon, Death
Valley, North Rim of the Grand Canyon, Colorado River, La Sal Mountains, Arches
National Park, Canyonlands, Wind River Mountains, and the topper was the Grand
Tetons where I floated down the Snake River. While in the Tetons I saw mileage
signs that Yellowstone was only eighteen miles away! Making plans for 2017. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></div>
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I won’t be going to so many places this year. Tetons and
Yellowstone and some daytrips around here. Nevada has lots of cool places away
from the city. This coming year will be my year of being monastic (more than
usual), studious (more than this past year) and Stoic (not the wrong way people
understand it). And of course, do those things to improve my Christianity. My faith has never waivered. Christ is within me. We all can do better. </div>
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Unlike many it seems, 2016 was a good year for me. I wish
all healthy happy holy 2017. </div>
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I wrote in a previous post <a href="http://metaphysicalperegrine.blogspot.com/2016/07/rethinking-how-we-christians-respond-to_10.html" target="_blank">here</a> about how we Christians are
responding to the incessant attacks on Christians and our Church. Mostly we
respond as victims, the zeitgeist of victimology infecting even us. </div>
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I recently read an article by a guy, T L Jernigan ("On Anselm's God & the Virtue of Existing"-Touchstone), contrasting
St Anselm and Nietzsche. The ideas here are his, I take no claim to them, only
my response to the article. </div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nietzsche we all know
said God is dead. Anselm we don’t know so much about. He was the 11<sup>th</sup>
Century Archbishop of Canterbury. His main thing was to prove the existence of
God by combining science, logic and reason with experience and knowledge of the
Divine.<br />
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He said, God is good, so reality is good. I remember a
sermon or reading from awhile ago, that said at each stage of creation, God saw
it was good. So what could be better than good? <br />
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Anselm:<i> “We believe that you are the thing than which
nothing greater can be thought…it is the one thing to have something in the
understanding, but quite another to understand that it actually exists…And
certainly that than which nothing greater can be thought cannot exist only in the
understanding. For if it exists only in the understanding, it is possible to
think of it existing in reality, and that is greater.”</i> <br />
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Existence is good. It’s <i>great</i> in fact!<br />
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Then here comes Nietzsche, who considered existence horrible
and horrid. It’s something inflicted on us. <br />
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Nietzsche: <i>“Oh wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance
and misery, why do you compel me to tell you what it would be most expedient
for you not to hear? What is best of all is utterly beyond your reach; not to
be born, not to be nothing.”</i> Jeeeeez, sad to be him. <br />
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Life is tough, and maybe some sometimes would like it to
end. Augustine thought:<i> “while [the suicidal man’s] error make him believe that
he will no longer be, his nature makes him wish for rest, that is to say, an
increase in being. It is why, since it is impossible not to love being, the
fact that we are must not be a reason for us to show ingratitude toward the goodness
of the creator.”</i> (Being and Nothingness) I'll just bet you Nietzsche loved persons and sometimes even life. I would suggest he loved life so much he spent his life trying to understand and explain it. Volumes worth!<br />
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Sometimes we just need a break. We need to lie beside still
waters. God provides it when we need it. Nietzsche isn’t wanting a rest, he wants it all to end. Nihilism. Would one expect anything else when one thinks God
dead? With God dead there is no redemption, no rest, only endless suffering. <br />
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Now we live in a Nietzschean world. Euthanasia is good.
Abortion is good; what better than to snuff out existence before a soul is
aware of it? Suicide is good, we’ll even murder you while telling you you’re
committing suicide. <br />
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A universe created by goodness, surrounded goodness,
inhabiting goodness. We are created in His image, and it is good. I’ll be
anti-Nietzschean, thank you very much. I think one of the things that moved me out of Buddhism is
that it’s nihilist. From nothing to nothing. Ultimately I couldn’t accept that.
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John Paul II: <i>“…the first and basic good for every creature…All
other good derive from this basic good. I can only act while I am. Man’s
multifarious works, the reasons of his genius, the fruits of his holiness are
only possible if the man-the genius, the saint-comes into existence.”</i> <br />
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I came from these ideas in the article heartened, and know
that we mustn’t fall into Nietzschean thinking that life is horrible at its
base, and it’s best if we snuff it out however we can. Sorry for the sad man,
he’s a bad man.<br />
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We can’t whine as Christians, bemoan our plight; especially
here in the New Amerika where it’s lawsuits, harassment and government
suppression and threats, and we aren’t getting slaughtered like in the Middle East, or imprisoned/murdered
like in China. <br />
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To back into our Christianity with just a taint of
Nietzschean nihilism, or defeatism is to exhibit a weakened faith, a not
serious belief of redemption. Not a serious knowledge that Life is Goodness and
that God will not forsake us, Christ will return, and all
we have to do is live scriptural, Spirit-filled lives. <br />
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Witness sensibly by showing understanding and talk to people
from their perspective using their language, be careful of our words, listen to
them (you have two ears and one mouth), be of service. James: “<i>If you are wise
and understand God’s ways prove it by living an honorable life, doing good works
with the humility that comes from wisdom.”</i> By this way we can take control of
the helm and move the ship of humanity back to God, by sharing the Good News. <br />
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Steven Dexterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15299032034330006689noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1750536989922769009.post-84091812849197062862016-07-17T16:00:00.002-07:002016-07-18T06:17:30.244-07:00Occupy Democrats, Lies, & Why I'm Unfriending Longtime Friends from Facebook Because of Their "Occupy Democrats" Posts<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyp2asv_fErVBbcWJVLvshrQkM5Hqap75zitQGWJz2YAprzr72Yip2trhEQj66GtIAqH9SLMUSrcN7RCUk0Ivc_YVYA2ReFD0MacHRAh5sGnUokgsDR_6uYam43kp6lpx4jzSQTW45Scs/s1600/13718656_1186031951489857_498135801823288708_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyp2asv_fErVBbcWJVLvshrQkM5Hqap75zitQGWJz2YAprzr72Yip2trhEQj66GtIAqH9SLMUSrcN7RCUk0Ivc_YVYA2ReFD0MacHRAh5sGnUokgsDR_6uYam43kp6lpx4jzSQTW45Scs/s320/13718656_1186031951489857_498135801823288708_n.jpg" width="278" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyp2asv_fErVBbcWJVLvshrQkM5Hqap75zitQGWJz2YAprzr72Yip2trhEQj66GtIAqH9SLMUSrcN7RCUk0Ivc_YVYA2ReFD0MacHRAh5sGnUokgsDR_6uYam43kp6lpx4jzSQTW45Scs/s1600/13718656_1186031951489857_498135801823288708_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a>“Occupy Democrats” has this post. “So let me get this
straight- He is a compulsive liar, he is a con man, he is a racist, he is a
religious bigot, he is twice divorced, he robs American students with a fake university,
he is a billionaire who pays zero taxes, he is a serial philanderer, he treats
women like trash, he has the manners of a spoiled child, he is a failure in
business with 4 bankruptcies, he has no military or political experience
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If you'll remember the "Occupy" movement, it began with Occupy Wall St and that was followed by several other demonstrations. There was filth, destruction, abandoned babies, fights, murder and clashes with the police. Posts by Occupy Democrats are just blatant lies, like this one. This one is tame compared to many. I've 'unfriended' two people from Facebook, and about to do two more, maybe three. It may seem immature or whatever to 'unfriend' based on politics, but the hatred conveyed by this group, posted by people I respect and often have been long time friends, takes into a realm of political hatred and intolerance, lies and destruction I just can't stand. The horrendous ugliness of what they say is no less than the filth of any of the other things the Occupy movement has brought. I accept, even endorse discussion of any issue, but when faced with lies and hate created entirely out of imagination...how does one have a discussion? This is pure intolerance while claiming to be tolerant. They claim wanting diversity, but seek to destroy with lies anyone that disagrees with their ideas. Stalin would have loved them. </div>
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We look at the fabricated lies (nothing even slightly base on truth as any good lie must be) as if Dems are the practitioners of traditional values.
Hillary headed the “Bimbo Eruption” task force to cover for serial philander
husband, destroying several women’s lives in the process, including a rape by him; that he pays
zero taxed is provable BS (this is nonsense like when Harry “Dusty” Reid
claimed with no evidence that Romney had not paid taxes for ten years when
there was published proof he had. As for treating women like trash, no women
have come out saying so. No woman, like in her husband's case said she had been raped by him. Neither Obama nor H Clinton has any military
experience. H Clinton’s political experience is riding on the coat tails of her
husband. Like H Clinton’s not a liar? Will list below. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What exactly has Trump lied about politically?
The bankruptcies were all restructuring, no write offs I’m aware of. Really,
divorce is a disqualifier? Damn puritan Democrats anyway. </div>
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H Clinton, that the Democrats want to elect president, has
the cattle futures scandal, lied about and was not indicted. Rose law firm
billing records that were subpoenaed and disappeared that showed up five years later
that she lied about. Whitewater real estate scandal covered up and lied about,
not indicted. Travelgate that she fabricated lies about the long time WH Travel
office staff, got them fired and destroyed Billy Dale’s career (head of the
Travel Office). There were never any documents supporting the claims of H
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The worst to my mind is Benghazi, 13 hours under attack and
nothing done to help them, resulting the death of several Americans. Tens of
$millions taken, while Sec of State from nations hostile to the US and put in
the Clinton Foundation, her bank account or campaign coffers. While claiming to
promote women’s rights, these nations stone women to death that were raped, they
can’t leave the house without a male escort, can’t drive, have extremely
limited education opportunities, and are murdered in honor killings. Anyone
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Then the $millions she gets from speeches to major Wall
Street donors, while she at the same time attacks them for being so wealthy and
greedy. Not that she’s a one percenter herself. She’s gotten $millions from
this. Anyone really believe no quid pro quo there? Neither Islamist
dictatorships nor Wall Street give money for nothing.</div>
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The estimated worth of the Clintons is estimated to be over
$111 million. They earned this creating what? Starting what businesses?
Employing whom? She call's Trump a business failure. What the hell has she ever done but be a corrupt political operator? The Clinton Foundations has assets of about $277.8 million. H
Clinton won’t release the transcripts of her speeches, and their foundation isn’t
a traditional charity, and it doesn’t meet any standards of accountability or
transparency. No one know WTH is going on with that. </div>
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Then the email scandal. Used unsecured email servers while
Sec of State, a Felony. Said she turned over 55,000 emails and deleted 30,000
that were personal. Several of those personal emails turned up later, and had classified
info in them. (Some of the emails were intercepted by the Communist Chinese having to do with missiles that they used to modify their's to become more effective. There were a lot more felonies committed by her, listed by the
FBI director, who concluded that since she didn’t intend to break those laws
will not be indicted. So if you or I broke a law, and said we didn’t intend to,
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So compare what was said about Trump (whom I don’t like)
being held to puritan standards that Dems don’t practice nor believe in, which this list essentially is, to the
30+ years of lies, scandals, cover-ups and perjury of H Clinton. But her
supporters don’t care, and will vote for her anyway because she’s a Democrat
and/or has a vagina. <br />
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