Remember Citizen

Remember citizens, go to work and don't fear. That disrupts society and at a community level that is all bad. And what are you really? Just a little piece of the community. The community is what matters, not it's expendable assets. Nose to the grind and if you drop you drop. But the community will survive. Thus in a sense you will survive. You must put the community over self. Actually, paying attention and seeing danger and taking action to avoid it is not only prudent but if people depend on you it is responsible. It doesn't in and of itself mean you are putting your compassion on the shelf. It doesn't make you anymore selfish than before unless afterwards you become more selfish then you were. This thought...that somehow you are a bad person if you look out for yourself when danger is coming is ridiculous, especially if you plan to look out for others too as you are able. I guarantee that the elite of the "community" will have the best prep possible, the best care available, and the best information at their finger tips. While they smile and say carry on they are making the moves they are assuring everyone else are not necessary. Many of them will avoid danger while asking others to sacrifice. If you choose to sacrifice that is noble and good, but do it from a point of having knowledge that guides rational self interest that you make the decision to willingly lay down for a greater good that you have thought and prayed about, not from a position of where you outsourced your self interest as a commodity to be traded by others who view you as an expendable clog in the gears.

A Facebook Rant about Guns and Global Warming

This was a rant in response to the pic down below to one of my relatives...who stated the global temperature had risen 10c this year...

Side point, there is debate if this year's temperate is 10 degrees warmer. There is also debate about how much of climate change (note I didn't say global warming) is due to man made activity, and if it is to what extent. There is no debate that pollution is bad. While everyone is talking about trying to bring some sort of carbon tax into play that is really just a scam that will enrich the usual political/corporate mafia we are for the most part ignoring seriously real ecological catastrophes, like dumping plastics into the ocean and Fukushima. As to guns, one gun death is a tragedy, 30,000 gun deaths is an epidemic. Using your above logic we should be targeting sugar and automobiles which kill way more per year than firearms do, but interestingly few post about those. But I would also like to remind people that these are macro figures in a nation of 313 million people, and how was that magic number calculated? I'm not questioning the number's rough level of accuracy, just what qualifies as gun deaths. Gang on gang violence, defense of home invasions, accidents, what? I'm assuming all...which makes that number less meaningful. And lastly, my biggest point. It would be naive to assume that that corrupt millionaires in both political parties have our best interest in these two areas at heart when they consistently sell out the American people at every turn. You think anthropomorphic climate change, real, imagined, or in the process of being understood, would magically not be used by politicians with nefarious ends to further hidden agendas? Every other issue is...but yet we are expected to automatically believe in the moral purity of those who propose draconian and fascist measures to help prevent climate change...sorry if I'm skeptical. Also those 30,000ish gun deaths, I've studied the numbers some. Less than 500 of those deaths come from the types of weapons (assault rifles) that the government continues to try to ban. Criminals often go for smaller weapons that they conceal more easily. Some other things to ponder...since the UK and Australia banned guns the murder rate went down, but evidence is that it is creeping up again. Also rape, robbery, and other violent crime rates went way up...a correlation? I don't know but the link should be explored regardless of political convenience. There are millions of firearms in possession of the public, these will not magically disappear when laws are passed to ban them and these guns will remain in criminal hands indefinitely, unless you want to create an uber police state to "keep us all safe" which would essentially end American freedom. But that is in process. For some good reads check out The club of Rome and eugenics / depopulation quotes. I'm a conspiracy theorist sure, but out of the mouths of those who the public trusts to deal with guns and climate change comes some very, very interesting quotes for those willing to listen...

Just say'en. I don't know what the answers are (I would agree that arming teachers is a way less than optimal solution...though the "receive the first bullet" logic applies to any known armed person on campus if they are known and if the attackers are methodical psychopaths). I just wish people would stay skeptical. Everyone acknowledges that the federal government has some serious issues with being captured by special interest (banksters, trans-national corporations, radical ideological fringes), but yet many argue that we need to give the federal government constantly more power to deal with problems. I'm not sure given the current state of things that is wise. Especially knowing history. And especially when most of the proposed solutions involve giving up more and more personal freedoms for promised returns that may or may not materialize that are also often littered with unforeseen or quietly down-played consequences. Perhaps the first place to start is to try to get honest people to represent us in office. It doesn't matter what ideology they are, as long as they tell the truth, have all their cards on the table, and have a minimal level of corruption (I'm too jaded to think zero corruption is possible). Having conversations about all the issues that society faces is good and I welcome them. There should be no sacred cows... Just the potential solutions I'm seeing that are getting the most political traction as well as the groups behind said solutions make me shutter...

Step Up

As my country slouches into a corporatist tyrannical banana republic, destroying half the world's wealth as it spins into decline, I won't sit by and say nothing. Men stand. Women stand. Cowards don't. History is inconvenient. Life will come to an end sometime for all of us. How will you respond to both? In willful ignorance and fear? Or boldness and standing up for truth and what is good? Just living your life ignoring what is happening condemns future generations to a forming dystopic techno dark age. Your life's path tells creation who you are, not your intentions. Man up and take your spot on the wall. Start pushing back, peacefully, legally, but loudly!!!!! If you don't some day your descendants, if you are lucky enough to have any, will wonder why you didn't....if they even retain the cognitive ability to understand their plight, as even that might be taken from them ...STAND UP AND PUSH BACK AGAINST CORRUPTION!!!!!

It is a time for heroes.  Will you be one?  There are cost associated with being a hero in time, effort, and blow back.  Right now it is relatively easy in this society to criticize elites, take stands, protest, talk openly about politics.  But EVERYTHING is being tracked...if not enough of us stand those who do some day in the future may be marginalized, categorized, threat assessed, persecuted, and perhaps even one day face prison time or extermination.  Now is the time to stand in mass while it is easy.  In the future it may not be so.  Count the cost.  But remember the cost of hiding and pretending, although not as immediate, is often much higher than the cost of standing for righteousness.

"What we do in life echos for eternity."  Your life is now.  Become more than a footnote in the pages of God's history book. 

"As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord."  We aren't brave, but this is where we aim, and in God's strength provided in His Son maybe we can be the heroes God is looking for to stand firm and hold back the growing tide, even if just by a little bit or by a lot.