Tuesday, November 24, 2020

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I must apologize. Sincerely, I have said this before—so many times I no longer remember how often—but if the shoe fits … “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, and expecting different results.” So, call them crazy, but anyone who “honestly” still believes the canard that repeated mass mandatory masking works to reduce the spread of the coronavirus, should be concerned for their mental health. Facts and data are seldom considered these days unless and until they have been cherry-picked to support the preferred narrative. Listen to the science, but only the science that supports the maskeradors agenda.

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Monday, November 23, 2020

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To paraphrase Franklin Delano Roosevelt, yesterday is a day that may well live in tyranny for a long, long time. It is seldom that such tyranny is perpetrated on a free people, thank God for that; one must trust the injustice will soon pass from memory. There are questions never asked in need of answers never given. What once could never come has come to pass, seems never ending. Life goes on until it doesn’t, the flame of liberty slowly dying.

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Saturday, November 21, 2020

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Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I never understood tyranny, couldn’t wrap my mind around all the isms of hate (communism, socialism, fascism, nazism, cronyism, fanaticism, elitism, etc., etc.). Never understood the crucifixions of victimhood, the litanies of oppression, the rosaries of grievances, and the chains of cruel ignorance. I grew up poor, though never knew poverty of spirit; I grew up rich in all that mattered: family, friends, love, faith and God. Grew up wondering why any people would allow themselves to be so enslaved by bitterness and hate. Now I have begun to understand. Apathy, complacency, silent acquiescence and a willingness to believe the “experts” because … well, they are experts (in what, they seldom admit) after all … so, who am I to judge?

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Friday, November 20, 2020

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Have you ever heard of the Allegory of the Cave? I suppose your answer may well rest upon what the meaning of an allegory is to you. An allegory is a literary device, typically a story or narrative used to illustrate or convey complex ideas and concepts in ways that are comprehensible, to make the difficult easier to understand; sort of like comic books with fewer pictures.

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Thursday, November 19, 2020

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Have you ever walked up on a rattlesnake? Have you ever looked into the eyes of a grizzly bear? Have you ever offered a hand to a crocodile? If you have, how did that experience work out for you? Seriously. The reason I ask is it seems to me, most people who have been confronted with something so deadly, so frightening—and live to tell about it do so recognizing the immediate danger and reacting in such a way as to remove themselves from the danger entirely or by mitigating the situation, like turning tail and running away, climbing a tree or shooting the varmint before it grabs hold of you. Sounds fair. But then, there is always the fool …

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Wednesday, November 18, 2020

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Though not as frequently found in Scripture as is the word love, it is surprising to find the word “hypocrite” or “hypocrites” used thirty-one times—eight times in Job, once in Proverbs, twice in Isaiah, fifteen times in Matthew, once in Mark, and four times in Luke. Clearly, hypocrite is not used as a term of endearment nor a sign of deep, abiding respect for others. For those who might be guilty of hypocrisy but know not what it means, it is the practice of engaging in the same behavior or activity for which one criticizes another or the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one’s own behavior does not conform. In morality, it is the failure to follow one’s own expressed moral rules and principles. Does any of that sound familiar?

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Tuesday, November 17, 2020

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I am literally under siege. Literally. I must confess I besieged myself with what some might call an addiction of the intellect. I am, I must admit well and truly addicted both of a tactile and of a mindful sense; what I suffer so grievously is that which has been identified as severe bibliophilism, a form of blatant bibliomania, aggravated by a euphoria caused by oversensitive bibliosmia. There is no cure, no vaccine, no palliative remedy; the only known preventive for further addictive behavior: an empty wallet.

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Monday, November 16, 2020

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There are days when certain words come to mind and stick like superglue between your fingertips. “Trust takes years to build, seconds to break, and forever to repair” (Unknown). How those words ring so true. Any trust one might have had (and it is questionable at best) in our election process has, for the vast majority of Americans, been broken, for many, perhaps, well beyond repair. Every day our trust becomes ever more tenuous. Trust in the media, in government, in public “science”, and corporate America are now so low as to be non-existent. The truth is we have come to mistrust our own eyes and ears, for so long have we been told “two plus two equals five” and that truth depends solely on opinion polls.

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Friday, November 13, 2020

13. November 2020 · 2 comments · Categories: Reflections

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Elon Musk sure has a confounding way with words, often perplexing, at times contradicting himself in mid-sentence. As Paul Bois wrote for the Daily Wire, “Though it’s doubtful that Musk will ever be a friend to conservatives, it is fair to note that he has always marched to his own drumbeat and has never conformed to lockstep Silicon Valley leftism.”

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Thursday, November 12, 2020

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Ask a stupid question and you can quite mindlessly expect a stupid answer. There are, however, those who are firmly convinced that the only stupid question is the one never asked; this raises the obvious when such a question, though unasked, receives an unsolicited, unquestioned response. There are of late an overwhelming number of stupid answers to stupid questions, either asked or unasked; there are an abundance of reasoned and reasonable questions (rational and of some intelligence) that are left unanswered or summarily dismissed ad hominem, undeserving any reasoned, rational response from the unquestioning people.

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