I could not agree more. I’m old enough to remember seeing organized militia in the community as a routine part of life, eg every time the river came up, it was the militia stacking sandbags. If you’re a believer in conspiracy like myself, this is precisely why THEY spent the 90s infiltrating, framing, discrediting, and destroying the regular, organized, and unorganized militia from coast to coast. The FBI “had prior knowledge of...” McVeigh and Nichols too. We are exposed in several ways without a local militia, networked with other militia.
Unfortunately treachery is the American way these days. Better get them first b4 they get us. I guess humans have always been this way to some extent. Maybe I was so naive when I was growing up that I just didn't notice it. I am finally recognizing that the great American past time is the pursuit of money and power. Nothing wrong with trying to better yourself and your families position in life. The worship of money and possessions is a false idol. As for those who have a newfound faith in the church, okay 👍. Congratulations. I wish you all the best. Personally I have studied religions enough to not want to be a part of any organized religion. That doesn't mean that I don't believe in the almighty. I do,with every fiber of my being. I've never been able to find God in a church. But I have found lots of folks with an agenda inside the church house.
To each his own. Thanks for your work and your insights Pete. It's been a pleasure to follow your work.
FAITH should provide joy. I recall reading Viktor Frankls book Mans Search for Meaning as he talks about the role of hope in his experience. This is faith, though it does not always mean Christianity, it's a belief in something bigger than oneself,, a belief that there is joy to be shared and even in what may seem the worst of circumstances there are blessings to be noticed.
People get so bogged down by other things that they forget to stop and recognize the blessings they have and the joy they should find in those, no matter how minute. Faith is a foundation to build everything else onto so that should it all fall you still have faith to fall back on and are able to hope and find joy in the smallest of daily things and to rebuild. Without this, life easily descends into nihilism, tyranny, and people become like leaves on the ocean drifting wherever the current waves push them without any ability to make a path for themselves.
The need to have a maximalist approach to Individualism and collectivism seems to be highly American. People drift towards characterizing themselves as some radically atomized individual who has no connections or reliance on anyone (or dependents for that matter), like some sort of rugged mountain man who comes into the trading post once a season and then returns to the wilderness to not be seen again until the leaves change. While at the same time there is a characterization of any type of collectivism as some sort of ant colony (or the borg) where everyone is completely expendable member of the collective with no features or characterization to themselves. No one even in the most collectivist environments to ever exist actually lived that way, and very few people live like the forementioned mountain man. It's a complete fundamental misunderstanding on how people and societies actually work and whenever discussions break down into this type of thinking its arguing over a fictional world that doesn't exist and won't ever exist.
I could not agree more. I’m old enough to remember seeing organized militia in the community as a routine part of life, eg every time the river came up, it was the militia stacking sandbags. If you’re a believer in conspiracy like myself, this is precisely why THEY spent the 90s infiltrating, framing, discrediting, and destroying the regular, organized, and unorganized militia from coast to coast. The FBI “had prior knowledge of...” McVeigh and Nichols too. We are exposed in several ways without a local militia, networked with other militia.
Unfortunately treachery is the American way these days. Better get them first b4 they get us. I guess humans have always been this way to some extent. Maybe I was so naive when I was growing up that I just didn't notice it. I am finally recognizing that the great American past time is the pursuit of money and power. Nothing wrong with trying to better yourself and your families position in life. The worship of money and possessions is a false idol. As for those who have a newfound faith in the church, okay 👍. Congratulations. I wish you all the best. Personally I have studied religions enough to not want to be a part of any organized religion. That doesn't mean that I don't believe in the almighty. I do,with every fiber of my being. I've never been able to find God in a church. But I have found lots of folks with an agenda inside the church house.
To each his own. Thanks for your work and your insights Pete. It's been a pleasure to follow your work.
FAITH should provide joy. I recall reading Viktor Frankls book Mans Search for Meaning as he talks about the role of hope in his experience. This is faith, though it does not always mean Christianity, it's a belief in something bigger than oneself,, a belief that there is joy to be shared and even in what may seem the worst of circumstances there are blessings to be noticed.
People get so bogged down by other things that they forget to stop and recognize the blessings they have and the joy they should find in those, no matter how minute. Faith is a foundation to build everything else onto so that should it all fall you still have faith to fall back on and are able to hope and find joy in the smallest of daily things and to rebuild. Without this, life easily descends into nihilism, tyranny, and people become like leaves on the ocean drifting wherever the current waves push them without any ability to make a path for themselves.
The need to have a maximalist approach to Individualism and collectivism seems to be highly American. People drift towards characterizing themselves as some radically atomized individual who has no connections or reliance on anyone (or dependents for that matter), like some sort of rugged mountain man who comes into the trading post once a season and then returns to the wilderness to not be seen again until the leaves change. While at the same time there is a characterization of any type of collectivism as some sort of ant colony (or the borg) where everyone is completely expendable member of the collective with no features or characterization to themselves. No one even in the most collectivist environments to ever exist actually lived that way, and very few people live like the forementioned mountain man. It's a complete fundamental misunderstanding on how people and societies actually work and whenever discussions break down into this type of thinking its arguing over a fictional world that doesn't exist and won't ever exist.
It makes sense that those who’ve spent so much of their lives searching for truth would eventually find it.