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Leave It All Behind

Leave It All Behind

We have a Creator — Jesus Christ.   I would not want to allow the impression that He  conforms to  our expectations.   Jesus Christ never made himself popular. Quite the contrary, He is a “stone of stumbling and a rock of offense.”   This is on purpose.  Jews and Gentiles all stumble over Jesus Christ.  The “Jews seek miracles, and the Gentiles seek wisdom.”  He never positions himself to be acceptable — most of his disciples walked away when He said you must “eat my flesh,” and “drink my blood.” We partake of this today in Holy Communion.   If He wanted to appeal to our intellect, why would He say something so difficult?   If He was “reasonable,” then faith would have no place.  

Humility before God is necessary, and Faith is humbling.  That’s the fundamental point of faith.  Eve’s sin was deciding she could judge whether or not what God said was true.  Satan tempted her with independent  knowledge — mankind wants to determine truth for himself.  That’s pretty hard considering  how finite we are in comparison to all of time and the universe and languages that we don’t speak or math we cannot comprehend.

Faith  relegates one’s  intellect to the proper relationship with God.  No one can judge whether or not God is true or whether or not what he says is truth.  

As Paul said, “If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that He rose from the dead you shall be saved.”    This act of faith places a believer under the Almighty.   Humbling? Yes.  That’s the point.

When I was a young man I had a hard choice to make  — to serve God or not.   And part of the struggle (for me, then) was  unappealing Christians (which sounds silly now) along with normal doubts and questions.  I think God allows that on purpose.    The point is this: I was not joining a fraternity — I was humbling myself before my Maker.    Every other consideration was worthless.Nothing But the Blood of Jesus - Christian Instrumental ...

 It is the blood of Jesus Christ that cleanses us of sin.  One must be born into His family in the same way that children are born into any family.    We don’t “join” a family — we are born into one.

Nothing outside of Jesus Christ  — the Savior Creator of the universe — saves us from the ingrained nature of sin we were born with.    

Believe because God is calling you to faith in His Son.
Everything else is left behind.

Contemplating War Within and Without

Contemplating War Within and Without

JR Nyquist is a treat for those addicted to geopolitics: Listen to his interview on Geopolitics and Empire.  A couple of observations:

Paraphrasing Nyquist:  German, France and the US are not ready to go to war against Russia.  Aircraft carriers in the age of hypersonic don’t make sense.  Three years ago a top General said our nuclear forces were timed-out on service life, yet we are till a long way from recapitalizing the devices . . . 

B&F: I said this a few years back — Russians have a window where the US is unable to compete between hypersonics and other advanced weapons.  Russia would act during this window.  I compared the current situation with Russia to that of the Japanese in the 1930s and early 1940s leading up to Pearl Harbor.  I think that analogy still stands.  Japan’s “mistake” was not the attack — it was that it was not big enough.  Russias Relationship with the West: Two Centuries of War.  This is not a defense of Russia’s position.  Wars cannot be avoided.  Hand-wringing about “who is right” is silliness.  

Paraphrasing Nyquist:  Today’s fusion (hydrogen) bombs produce vastly less harmful radiation that the fission bombs on the 1960s. Nuclear War entirely “winnable.”

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Podcast: Nuclear War and More

Podcast: Nuclear War and More

09:00  Radiation Free H-Bomb?
11:00 Governments Lie, Question Science and the Bureacrats
13:00 Practicing Liberty Means Using Your Voice
17:20 Realistic Expectations for the Next Five years
20:30 Change is Here
24:45 Fundamentally Rethinking the Assumptions of Society
27:35 Impossibility of “Tolerance”
30:15 Ancient Hebrews (No relation to modern Jews) as a Model
33:20 Seeking an Organic People

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Hoping For Yesterday Is Not A Plan

Hoping For Yesterday Is Not A Plan

The cure to the disease requires fundamentally challenging the assumptions that caused us to arrive at 2022 in the first place.

The Left is way ahead in thinking hard — they imagine us as chipped and drugged urbanites requiring permission to travel and speak. Dissent to be eliminated as  always  — mass murder.

Abandon the idea that someone will save the future. We save our own children.

This starts imagining big:

  • Independence of thought and speech.
  • To govern ourselves as we see fit.  
  • The right to keep and bear arms in order to establish and defend ourselves, just as “colonists” did in 1775, and just as every military and police force does today.  Are the “police” super-citizens with more rights than average people?
  • End all immigration — our progeny will work.  
  • End all imports of goods — we will build what we need, or we won’t need it at all.
  • Our own geographic area where “others” aren’t going to impose guilt and unearned rents upon us because we are not like them.
  • Our own geography to grow our food and live under the laws of our God.
  • No alliances  with the Cult of global homogenization.

We have to outpace them intellectually.
We must thinking bigger thoughts than they are.
We have to stop thinking about yesterday.

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Groundhog Day, 2022

Aftershow: Half-Time Report

Aftershow: Half-Time Report

It’s half time and the Left has dominated yards rushing and time in possession. Yet, the Left has woken up a giant around the world. Momentum has shifted. Now the Left must counter with another Covid or a War.

Philippians 1 and 2

Philippians 1 and 2

  • First two chapters of Paul’s Epistle to the Philippians.
  • The centrality of Jesus Christ.
  • As Paul suffered, others spoke boldly because of him.
  • Peace in the face if your opponents is proof on their destruction.
Podcast: Mass Thought Control — How They Do It

Podcast: Mass Thought Control — How They Do It

00:00 The pre-Speech control regime
09:00. Mixing religion and politics
10:30.  Courage and the Cowed.
17:00. They Need the Big War
18:30 War is Revolution
19:15 War will be an opportunity for us, as well
20:00 Requirement to reject their rules and live by our own

Aftershow: Destabilization Accelerates in 2022

Aftershow: Destabilization Accelerates in 2022

Destabilization increases in 2022. No expectation that Congressional Elections of 2022 will result in a “victory” for Traditional Americans even if the GOP sweeps the House. If the Covid VAX turns out to be mass poison, that will accelerate the already full-throated distrust of the elites and the system. And why not layer all of this with a possible war with Russia? History cannot be controlled.