We have two homes on our street that holds one giant family of indian immigrants. The kids run in and out of both homes. There is one man who seems to be the leader of the klan. I can't count how many families live in these two homes.
They converted their back yards to giant gardens where the older women and young girls can often be seen working together. At night, the men will sit on the deck smoking and talking as the children run around.
I resent my family for not living like this because it is so obviously better than what we americans consider to be the default way of living.
At one point my Great Grandfather owned almost half of a small town in West Virginia, there where entire streets where he owned every single building. Nnow no one owns any of it because no one felt the need to keep it or pass it down or to even stay in the area. The issue with all of this is if someone chooses to not continue the chain of heritage the next person in the line can't simply nullify it. It's broken, it's done, you need to start over. The story about the boomer german father who sold half his land and screwed over all future generations of his family comes to mind as the epitome of this. The bigger problem with starting over at least for Millennials is that because of immigration and the treating of property as an investment buying your own land and homes is prohibitively expensive now.
The prior generation didn’t teach the value of keeping the land. Of having somewhere to call home. Or they didn’t identify the benefit of it and how it could be bad to loose it. Also, nobody wants to stay where they grew up - Industrial Revolution and all.
I do actually have family land and a family cemetery. I'm not sure the land will be there by the time I'm up to inherit it though (and I am, theoretically at least). My aunts and uncles are boomers, some stereotypically so, and I'm concerned they might eventually sell if off. Though the cemetery I expect will stay in the family. It's some ways outside a ghost town in the middle of nowhere too, and the old homestead is little more than a pile of bricks.
But if it comes to me I'll hold on to it, and hopefully find some way to make it meaningful again, even if it means passing it to another family member who can look after it. It's where our family settled when they came here and I can't think of any reason anyone else should ever have it.
I am trying to achieve this for my family (again). I work closely with Amish and Mennonite's. They've never abandoned this model since coming here. It works. While usually quite well off financially, these people put priority on faith, family, and building things that stand the test of time. My wife's family still has their old homeplace and it is occupied by family. I fear the day the current occupants pass on.
We are building a cathedral; it will take generations to claw our way back to a just, righteous culture. Along with moving to a place we can achieve and wield political power we must emphasize this to our children and their children.
When I was born, my parents dedicated me to the Lord. I had been born crippled and during the prayer while my pastor was holding me, the Lord healed my feet.
I said that to say this, why are we dedicating ourselves, our homes, and families to something that intends our servitude or destruction of our humanity?
As long as we keep laying ourselves and what and who we love on the altar of evil, all we will reap is death... whether quickly or drawn out over time.
We talk about the horror of children being taken from parents and being raised in state ophanages in Eastern Europe during communism but isn't how it's progressing here but just at a slower rate?
Exodus 9 deals with God telling Pharoah to "Let my people go so that they may worship me."
They were in a society under a system that was so antherhicial to life that their only option to survive was to leave and be led OUT.
The whole time, they are saying,"Cant stay here, gotta go!" Pharoah is trying to squeeze them for all they are worth and keep them under control.
Keep in mind that the same system had them engaged in menial harsh labor with punishment and subjugation as the priority and not contructing and actually creating something of value.
When will we get to the place where we wake up and say,"This no longer makes any sense for me to participate in something meant for my destruction and eradication."
In the words of Friedrich Nietzsche, "He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how."
By taking our homes, our families, and perverting the bonds of peaceful fellowship among humanity, they obliterate our "why".
We have two homes on our street that holds one giant family of indian immigrants. The kids run in and out of both homes. There is one man who seems to be the leader of the klan. I can't count how many families live in these two homes.
They converted their back yards to giant gardens where the older women and young girls can often be seen working together. At night, the men will sit on the deck smoking and talking as the children run around.
I resent my family for not living like this because it is so obviously better than what we americans consider to be the default way of living.
At one point my Great Grandfather owned almost half of a small town in West Virginia, there where entire streets where he owned every single building. Nnow no one owns any of it because no one felt the need to keep it or pass it down or to even stay in the area. The issue with all of this is if someone chooses to not continue the chain of heritage the next person in the line can't simply nullify it. It's broken, it's done, you need to start over. The story about the boomer german father who sold half his land and screwed over all future generations of his family comes to mind as the epitome of this. The bigger problem with starting over at least for Millennials is that because of immigration and the treating of property as an investment buying your own land and homes is prohibitively expensive now.
The prior generation didn’t teach the value of keeping the land. Of having somewhere to call home. Or they didn’t identify the benefit of it and how it could be bad to loose it. Also, nobody wants to stay where they grew up - Industrial Revolution and all.
I do actually have family land and a family cemetery. I'm not sure the land will be there by the time I'm up to inherit it though (and I am, theoretically at least). My aunts and uncles are boomers, some stereotypically so, and I'm concerned they might eventually sell if off. Though the cemetery I expect will stay in the family. It's some ways outside a ghost town in the middle of nowhere too, and the old homestead is little more than a pile of bricks.
But if it comes to me I'll hold on to it, and hopefully find some way to make it meaningful again, even if it means passing it to another family member who can look after it. It's where our family settled when they came here and I can't think of any reason anyone else should ever have it.
I am trying to achieve this for my family (again). I work closely with Amish and Mennonite's. They've never abandoned this model since coming here. It works. While usually quite well off financially, these people put priority on faith, family, and building things that stand the test of time. My wife's family still has their old homeplace and it is occupied by family. I fear the day the current occupants pass on.
Preach!
We are building a cathedral; it will take generations to claw our way back to a just, righteous culture. Along with moving to a place we can achieve and wield political power we must emphasize this to our children and their children.
When I was born, my parents dedicated me to the Lord. I had been born crippled and during the prayer while my pastor was holding me, the Lord healed my feet.
I said that to say this, why are we dedicating ourselves, our homes, and families to something that intends our servitude or destruction of our humanity?
As long as we keep laying ourselves and what and who we love on the altar of evil, all we will reap is death... whether quickly or drawn out over time.
We talk about the horror of children being taken from parents and being raised in state ophanages in Eastern Europe during communism but isn't how it's progressing here but just at a slower rate?
Exodus 9 deals with God telling Pharoah to "Let my people go so that they may worship me."
They were in a society under a system that was so antherhicial to life that their only option to survive was to leave and be led OUT.
The whole time, they are saying,"Cant stay here, gotta go!" Pharoah is trying to squeeze them for all they are worth and keep them under control.
Keep in mind that the same system had them engaged in menial harsh labor with punishment and subjugation as the priority and not contructing and actually creating something of value.
When will we get to the place where we wake up and say,"This no longer makes any sense for me to participate in something meant for my destruction and eradication."
In the words of Friedrich Nietzsche, "He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how."
By taking our homes, our families, and perverting the bonds of peaceful fellowship among humanity, they obliterate our "why".