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Moderating

Looks as if things will turn more seasonal later in this week. Will take some time away from the daily chores on the farm to coax a few catfish into the boat !

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A Guarantee of Freedom

“Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms. … the right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, and one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible.”

– Sen. Hubert Humphrey

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Contending with Human Passions

“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

– John Adams

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How ‘Truth’ is Shaped.

Of the roughly three hundred bishops in attendance at the Council of Nicea, two bishops did not sign the Nicene Creed that condemned Arianism.  Emperor Constantine also ordered a penalty of death for those who refused to surrender the Arian writings, his words:

“In addition, if any writing composed by Arius should be found, it should be handed over to the flames, so that not only will the wickedness of his teaching be obliterated, but nothing will be left even to remind anyone of him. And I hereby make a public order, that if someone should be discovered to have hidden a writing composed by Arius, and not to have immediately brought it forward and destroyed it by fire, his penalty shall be death. As soon as he is discovered in this offence, he shall be submitted for capital punishment.

Emperor Constantine against the Arians

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Carry Logic–Feeble Mind

“To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic.”

– Ted Nugent

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Einstein on God

Your question is the most difficult in the world. It is not a question I can answer simply with yes or no. I am not an Atheist. I do not know if I can define myself as a Pantheist [one who believes that God’s divinity is manifested in all of Creation]. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds.

May I not reply with a parable? The human mind, no matter how highly trained, cannot grasp the universe. We are in the position of a little child, entering a huge library whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of the human mind, even the greatest and most cultured, toward God.

We see a universe marvelously arranged, obeying certain laws, but we understand the laws only dimly. Our limited minds cannot grasp the mysterious force that sways the constellations. 

I am fascinated by Spinoza’s Pantheism. I admire even more his contributions to modern thought. Spinoza is the greatest of modern philosophers, because he is the first philosopher who deals with the soul and the body as one, not as two separate things.” –

Albert Einstein

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Milano’s Twisted World

HT Daily Gator:

Milano believes men must pay for past transgressions, whether or not those transgressions happened. To Milano, the proper way to correct past discrimination is not to do all we can to eliminate discrimination, but to punish different groups. She does not mind discrimination, as long as it pleases her.

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I Weep for Our Nation

“You have no souls to be influenced. You are spineless, flaccid things. You pompously call yourselves Republicans and Democrats. There are no Republicans nor Democrats in this House. You are lick-spittles and panderers, the creatures of the Plutocracy.”

Jack London

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That Every Man be Armed

“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined…. The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might have a gun.” –

Patrick Henry

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Democratic Soy Boy Arrested For ‘Doxing’

According to the U.S. Capitol Police, Cosko has been charged with Making Public Restricted Personal Information; Witness Tampering; Threats in Interstate Communications; Unauthorized Access of a Government Computer; Identity Theft; Second Degree Burglary and Unlawful Entry—more charges may be forthcoming.

Public records show Cosko has worked for several Democrat Senators on Capitol Hill, including, U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), and Sheila Jackson Lee (D -TX),

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Feminism 101

Hat tip to Victory Girls.

“We are in a dark age as humans. We demoralize men to the point of rompers and skinny jeans, all while we demoralize ourselves as women justifying that it is perfectly okay to snuff out a heartbeat of another individual living inside of us after a night of indiscretion with said “feminist” in skinny jeans. Our kids are seeing this and don’t even think for a minute that they are not paying attention. All of this talk of toxic masculinity but what about toxic feminism?”  Full article here

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Deep

A few days ago I jotted down a my thoughts on the first few words of Saying 3 in the Gospel of Thomas and posted them on this site.  Since then, almost daily, I’ve ponder on the balance of the saying.   Here is what I came up with:  It’s deep!  The full saying is below:

(3) Jesus said, “If those who lead you say to you, ‘See, the kingdom is in the sky,’ then the birds of the sky will precede you. If they say to you, ‘It is in the sea,’ then the fish will precede you. Rather, the kingdom is inside of you, and it is outside of you. When you come to know yourselves, then you will become known, and you will realize that it is you who are the sons of the living father. But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty.”

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Post Prep– The Long Game

There is no shortage of good planning resources for those who wish to prepare for SHTF scenarios.  These sites provide planning suggestions for events that range in scale from short term needs driven by natural disaster through a total, long term, societal collapse.  What would the world look like after a collapse?  Superficially, it may look like Slab City.  This ‘City’ has been called the last free place on earth. It has no rules(laws). Only consequence and a few customs for dealing with those consequences.  This bizarre, lawless land in the California desert is inhabited by drug addicts, eccentrics, army vets, hippies and just plain old weirdos.

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Around the Farm

After a couple of days of much needed rain it dried out on Saturday and Sunday.  The break in weather gave me the opportunity to shore up the slope near the front of my house.  I moved 10 railroad ties into position and created a a series of small retaining walls that tiered the 3 foot drop.  Will move dirt into my creation in the next few days.