Friday, August 08, 2014

Democracy Only Works in A Moral Society


"All right, screw it; we're doing it Live"

"Just switch to A T & T and we can stay together forever"

"I'm not gona lie to you - - it's also the U-Verse"

"Delusions from my Father" is a good book title for any "brat" that just inherited everything he believes from his family, without ever once engaging in self reflection as to the state of his Own conscience.

"Don't dis the three year old girl singing Walking on Sunshine"

"May Lee is my least favorite Stephanie Miller regular guest"

"Why doesn't someone play up the religious angle for solar and wind energy?  You know- - like "We should get our energy requirements from God and not man" or something like that"

Merging Sol Invictus with Mithraism is like crossing a diamond with a pearl and unleashing it on the world"

"The Eastern school of Astrology in the one, we learn, begun by the Prophet Daniel, one of the wises men to walk the earth- - therefore the Astrologers using the stars to locate Jesus, were not sinning"

They should show John Mc Cain next to that ISIS leader every time these Media outlets contemplate having John Mc Cain on their show because he's "Low hanging fruit"

"Just don't say I'm - - Damned for All Time"  -Maurie Head
Father Eric was exonorated of all charges but now he's "Just not feeling it any more" - - the call of God upon his life.  He's like Joan of Arc when the voices have gone silent and now doesn't know what to do.

"The whole rapture thing and the Lord coming back isn't Your prediction any more; it's Ours"
(unidentified voice from Sirius A, perhaps John Lennon, but I'm not sure)

Yesterday afternoon I was siting out back on the benches - - and must musing how nowadays every time I try and "Tune In" to what the Federation or Sirius A is saying- - all I hear are crickets"  I was thinking a la Father Eric "Maybe this is God's way of telling me something.  Perhaps God is speaking through his Silence"

Talking to Judy on the phone last night her words struck a cord.  Perhaps all of these congressional investigations ARE a gigantic waste of time.  As a conservative, I find it refreshing of her to admit that.  Because they waste time going into the minutia of things- and meanwhile the real crooks are coming up with new loopholes and evasions and ways of getting around the law, and we're always going to have it this way as long as man's basic evil nature is not changed".

I said "Well, this would be a perfect time for God to come back with the whole world exploding in conflicts the way it is".  And Judy said "The Bible says that human nature has always been this way.  The problem is that we think Democracy will work when the people don't have a basic sense of Morality and Decency to begin with".   And I thought about that- - and couldn't come up with an argument by way of response.

Today is the fortieth anniversary of when President Nixon gave the speech saying that he intended to resign tomorrow as President even though it was "contrary to every instinct in my body"

There will be another super moon tomorrow night.  I was going to give an extended talk on such things as retrogressive verses progressive orbital nodes - - as well as apagees and paragees and the 18 and 54 ecclipse cycle of "Sarons" and each 18 years, a solar eclipse is 120 degrees to the west - - but it all gets too complicated after a very short time.

The President wants Oliver North to know that we haven't just forgotten about ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) but we are doing humanitarian food drops and appropriate bombing strikes on the bad guy.  We learn about Christians, as well as other strange religions such as Zoroastrians, Seiks, and that new Kurdish religion that starts with - - like Yaziti, or something.

"Give God the glory and confess to him, before you die"
-this is a tale, not from the Koran but from the book of Joshua

"These ISIS people are some really bad dudes"  (and the Federation is keeping strangely silent about it)

Yesterday Oliver North said Anne Coulter was wrong in saying that this doctor should not go to Africa to help out people with Ebola.  North said "After all- compassion is what Christianity is all about".  Can I get an "Amen" to that?

The Seven Virtues as I see them are as follows- - all of them I regard as essential, but like the branches of Government must be kept in proper balance.  Here they are

Compassion  This could man manifest itself in such varied forms as generosity, grace, mercy, going the extra mile, patience, understanding - and other Christian values such as these

Faithfullness to one's one beliefs and covenents.   But never make a covenent with evil, and if you transgress against others, you must repent of that, even if it means breaking an oath you made

Integrety   (think also of "made with integrety)

Courage - - bravery
Perhaps the most besetting sin of all with both President Obama and congress is the sin of sheer craven, cowardess

Pursuit of Justice  "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in pursuit of Justice is no virtue

Dilligence  (I think we all know what this means)  Formerly the term in this slot was "perseverence" but Dilligence is a much better term, for it implies responsability but not obsession.

Prudence - - - Wisdom is acquired from circumstance, but we need to do what is prudent to do at any time, even not knowing all of the facts.  I don't see how God can penalize us for not acting on what we don't know, and neither have any expectation of.

For the seven vices check out April of 2010 in "Opera".  I would just say one additional thing.  Averice is Lust turned outward to steal from and violate the rights of others.  Addiction is Lust turned inward upon one's self.  I think we all know what addictive behavior is.  It could be drugs, or gambling, or sex (hard to believe for me at the present time) or notions people "need to believe in" because it feeds something neurotic within them.

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