Wednesday, September 30, 2020

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Please tell me where is the everlasting emergency? Where is the all-consuming fire, the endless smoking nightmare? One could well suggest California burning and overwhelming evidence supports that hellish state. The wildfires are real and a true emergency, however, at some point, the fires will burn out either from natural fuel exhaustion or through the extraordinary firefighting efforts of first responders; sooner or later the emergency will be over or at least put on pause for a year or two.

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Tuesday, September 29, 2020

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Have you ever had the feeling, a growing suspicion deep down that you have been had, scammed, bamboozled, played for a fool? Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you felt damned if you do, damned if you don’t? If you are firmly convinced you have neither suspected nor felt either, I would suggest you check your pulse and your temperature then check yourself into the nearest morgue for a final fitting.

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Monday, September 28, 2020

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America has lost all sense of culture. It is true, for there “is no culture without a felt encounter with the divine. It is a contradiction in terms. There are mass habits, but no culture, because people lose the sense that they have anything of surpassing value to pass along.”[1] Apparently, CCW (Cancel Culture Warriors) have yet to get the memo, or, if they have, they have either cancelled their subscription or never subscribed, most likely the latter.

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Colloqui Vol 04 No 50

27. September 2020 · Write a comment · Categories: Colloqui

September 25, 2020

In this issue:

Dwelling in the Unreal City: Believing the unbelievable More »

Tuesday, September 22, 2020

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My Thoughts

When then is truth the truth? It is difficult if nigh impossible to discern what is true in a world blanketed with the fog of vague accommodation, exacerbated by the smoke and mirrors of unholy hallucinogenic carnival now set before us. It is a nightmare within a nightmare, everlasting should we perchance never awaken. For a frightening moment now The Matrix seems far too real to be dismissed as mere science fiction. Could it possibly be reality is but a dream? Where is Neo when we need him? Who among us is willing to take the red pill and wake up to reality, to know the truth, to be freed from the umbilicus of the propaganda machine?

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Monday, September 21, 2020

21. September 2020 · 2 comments · Categories: Reflections

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A long time ago, 1964, I was in my senior year in high school and it was an election year. The Republican nominee, Barry Goldwater was running against the incumbent Democrat Lyndon Johnson, who would go on to win a second term in a landslide. As I now recall, there were three Republicans in my home town, only one was old enough and eligible to vote: the owner of our newspaper along with myself and a fellow classmate, neither eighteen at the time; the voting age was then twenty-one. Recent events caused me to recall a speech by a then up and coming former Democrat, turned Republican from California, Ronald Reagan.

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Friday, September 18, 2020

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Why is anyone paying the least attention to these nihilistic, imbecilic, disgruntled losers cancelling everything? It used to be, back in the days of common sense and sanity, people saw good in others and aspired to be the best that they could be. It used to be we reached out to touch the stars, dreamed lofty dreams and challenged ourselves to achieve those dreams. It used to be hard work, honest effort, risk acceptance, and determination were considered admirable qualities, the more difficult the task, the harder the challenge, the higher the risk, the greater the admiration and reward for individual achievement. Failure, and there were always failures, were met with firm resolve to learn from our mistakes and not repeat them for we knew nothing ventured, nothing gained.

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Thursday, September 17, 2020

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It takes no genius to recognize the troubled times we are experiencing. So much of what surrounds us is dystopian, a thing straight off the pages of Orwellian fiction and yet, it is real, so real, so terribly wrong. For most of the heartland beyond the peripheries of power, pomposity, and population there is dis-ease, a vague disquietude, of life now faded into nameless gray. I am reminded of the novel Atlas Shrugged which described a world gone mad. It seems so déjà vu all over again. Santayana wrote, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Let us add to it, “Those who rewrite history condemn themselves.”

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Wednesday, September 16, 2020

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How shallow we have become; how utterly hollow our kaleidoscopic lives. Imagine if you will a life so busy doing, never idle for a moment, never not doing, not going, not busy, just being. Unimaginable? I suppose it is for most of us. It is, or so it seems to me, the condition for the lot of the everyday and commonplace: too busy to take a moment to simply think, to breathe, to read, to live, to love, to pray, to know the truth, reality.

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Monday, September 14, 2020

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Saturday was a new Memorial Day for me, one I certainly will never forget although some of it I have no memory of at all. While I have exercised my right to vote in every election since I came of age (which is a perilously long time ago) I have never participated in any political rally or event. Never. That is until Saturday last when I attended the Trump rally in Minden, Nevada.

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