Why are those Americans Destroying America?
Posted by Buck68 on July 29th, 2010 filed in UncategorizedComments
by Buck68™, July 29th 2010
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I think Newt Gingrich’s article for Human Events, “No Mosque at Ground Zero” [see URL ref], is a clear and simple illustration of our American crisis. I will suggest why by using each of his first three paragraphs.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=38282
1-One of our biggest mistakes in the aftermath of 9/11 was naming our response to the attacks “the war on terror” instead of accurately identifying radical Islamists (and the underlying ideology of radical Islamism) as the target of our campaign. This mistake has led to endless confusion about the nature of the ideological and material threat facing the civilized world and the scale of the response that is appropriate.
Newt’s naming ["radical Islam"] is but 1 of what WE THE PEOPLE are doing DAILY to destroy our Independence and Constitution, and thus our Republic. WE are “naming our responses” to “attacks” … “instead of accurately identifying” and REDEDICATING ourselves to our standards and measures. The first thing “naming our responses” does…is de-legitimize whatever standards we profess and/or represent. EACH time we do NOT ‘walk our talk’ …we destroy what we say we stand for.
Here are some other basic “naming our responses” you hear: fright and outrage, fight back, fair share, profiling, racist, extremist, the best we can, everybody deserves, level playing field.
“Naming our responses” fits where in the problem-solving process? Rationally, a “response” is an action based on conclusions. Now ‘we all know’ conclusions are the last problem-solving step, not the first. Now who always ‘responds’ at ‘the beginning’? Why…all the animals do. Remember “stimulus – response” from school? And don’t our scientists say “reason” is why we humans are…superior? Newt’s simple sentence just puts our natural, instinctive animal responses …into words for us superior beings. Newt is only illustrating how quickly and pandemically our bias and self-interest … bypass humanity for our animal instincts.
Consider what ‘happens naturally’ …instantly …whenever we ‘name’ … ‘it’ as our first response, instead of “accurately identifying” the problem. Newt says it beautifully: we make what we have “named” as “the target of our campaign”.
Is this not what is going on [WIGO] in our country today? Do we not see and hear via media, Tellers labeling he/she/it/them to “target” for Tellers’ “campaigns” of Blame, Fright & Outrage, and Redistributing whatever?
Where else do we see this naming, targeting, and campaigning going on? Well what happens in between and during all the media ‘programs’? Yes…’commericals’. Here’s marketing talk for ‘commericals’: “enticing by imaging to condition into brand loyalty and associatively transfer that loyalty to …whatever you want people to ‘need’ and ‘love’ ”
So what is the source for all this superior human “response naming” – to do what the inferior animals do? Newt’s second paragraph quoted next, suggests a human nature answer.
2-Radical Islamism is more than simply a religious belief. It is a comprehensive political, economic, and religious movement that seeks to impose sharia—Islamic law—upon all aspects of global society.
Why do we “response name” first…instead of problem solve? Because of our “belief”. And what is that “belief” – common to all human beings? Science to the rescue again with the individual term, “self-preservation”. In the group scientific term, “survival of the fittest”. In Newt’s group term, “a comprehensive [the popular term here is 'whatever'] movement that seeks to impose….” What does this “movement” seek to impose? It seeks to impose…whatever it can… on whoever it can…whenever it can. Does any of this natural stuff ’stop’? Nope.
So, what are the signs and consequences of this natural animal response [name it whatever you feel] to impose whatever you feel…on others; and/or join groups that want to impose on others? Newt’s third paragraph provides basic human answers.
3-Many Muslims see sharia as simply a reference point for their personal code of conduct. They recognize the distinction between their personal beliefs and the laws that govern all people of all faiths.
Newt suggests how we “recognize”: we “see”. Omitted here is the rational distinction between ’sight’ [sense] and ‘reality’. Naturally, meanwhile, we instinctively feel whatever we see is real. Synonyms you might have heard: perception is reality, I really feel. Our instincts and perceptions are our natural “reference point”. This is also known as “it happens”. Then Newt provides the Missing LINK to explaining human motivations. What is “the personal code of conduct” for a person who feels “right in his own mind”? The shortest, clearest answer I’ve found is “whatever pleases him at the moment”. The rational description of the Whatever I Feel is Right Code of Conduct, is some combination of my perceptions, my instincts, and whatever “rationalizing” I feel like doing. Rationalizing is the art of perverting whatever into My Thinking is Right by a wonderful array of ironically termed ‘logical fallacies’. What is THEE “distinction” here…the bottom line…the distinction that always counts? Simply – by whatever means…I justify me…over you. AKA… “I’m right…you’re wrong”. AKA “I’m better than you, so you must feel, say, think, and do as I Tell you….”
So, my fellow Americans… human beings… animals: all we are ’seeing’ and ‘feeling’ here today in our “Exceptional” country … is what you can see going on in any barnyard any day any place.
Our problem is that nicer, superior human beings [any of us, at any time] feel justified in imposing as they please on others … because, whenever I feel right…it’s right for my ends to justify my means.
Now our founding fathers… merely tried to declare and establish a means to “experiment” with the freedoms and liberty our Creator always keeps giving EACH person.
And to do that, our founders put two basic rational limits on government. First, they denied ALL powers to government except those EXPRESSLY listed. Second, they enabled each branch and level of government to counter others. The Founders knew no law would restrain superior people right in their own mind – but it might show unaturally ordinary people equitable ways to counter superior imposers as they keep trying to seize more power.
And obviously, the One that IS SUPERIOR, permits this. If our Creator imposed on human beings, like superior humans keep trying to do… then you and I and all of us would be kneeling and worshipping and singing 24/7/365 EXACTLY as God willed. God being…God.
But we’re not, are we? So each one and any combination of us, continually PROVE that our Creator is not an imposer … and … that we, each in our own way … naturally tend to impose.
The net effect, Lincoln [et al] described: “a house divided against itself cannot stand”. Man naturally divides to conquer. God…keeps giving liberty and opportunity to this day…as long as He pleases.
So, what does the unaturally human person do in his moments of ‘coming to his senses’? Well, secularly, we have inherited a Decalration of Independence and Constitution… and millions of imperfect deviations since for all the natural, impositional desires. Here’s a short list of basic ‘what to do’s’:
1-Keep exploring who you are…in Truth. It takes will-power to explore. It takes nothing, to be an animal.
2-On what Authority is ‘honesty’, ‘right’? Upon your answer rests… every human relation and concept.
3-Do you feel whatever you feel? Do you do whatever you can? So then, Who gave you these continuing powers and opportunities; and who tries to limit or remove them? Upon this distinction rests principles of law to “establish justice”.
4- If a human didn’t follow the first rule; if Chosen People kept on breaking 10 Commandments despite many chances; then,
…how will WE THE PEOPLE follow evermore conflicting tens of thousands of laws; reforms that always need… reform; and mountains of transparent whatevering? ”
Yes, I SAID I would give a “short list of basic ‘what to do’s’ “. Did I?
I tried to apply what I just re-learned over again: start at the beginning of the Problem Solving process … not where I naturally do. Feels weird, huh? ;-{)}
Kerry On: Where Do You Dock Your Yacht for Long Term Maintenance?
Posted by Buck68 on July 23rd, 2010 filed in UncategorizedComments
by Buck68™, July 23rd 2010
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Now Senator Kerry [D-MA], Winter Soldier of Vietnam, docks his yacht for long term maintenance in a low tax area … and since this has ’stimulated’ our attention … it means whatever each person feels at the moment.
In other words…as a BREAKING NEWS mouthpiece just said, “the hypocrisy is astounding”.
Except, of course, it isn’t. Hypocrisy…is …ordinary …pandemic … epidemic … human nature. Call it… sin-sear.
Only a willfully blind Brilliant Person would ‘passionately’ ‘believe’ that a nice citizen of the United States would not fulfill his civic duty to ‘minimize’ his taxes by… every available means.
Or jest say it as the song does: “carry on my wayward son…”.
DO NOT …stop … to consider … from this little teeny solitary tidbit of what All The Smarter, Richer People Do Naturally … the
consequences of all the smarter always finding ways to ‘minimize’ their taxes.
Just feel…that The Rich Are Evil …and They Must Pay …More Taxes.
And just feel …that every law raising The Tax bracket % of The Rich … Inevitably…Totally Honestly Actually Really [THAR] … RAISES THE TAXES they… actually… pay.
After all… Nobody Who’s Anybody Has a Yacht in the St Elsewhere of Less Taxes.
Honest.
Now…in the Long Term Maintenance of our Great Society started in 1965 … All the Smarter, Richer People have… bought and maintained how many yachts in St Elsewhere?
Could it be… as many yachts as People Feeling Oppressed so They Need to Get Some More from… yacht owners?
And just who is THAR paying for this Eternal Game between the Rich with Missing Yachts…and the Oppressed with Missing Reparations?
Where it’s Every Elite Hiding More, vs Every Oppressed Getting More … and the ones paying for it all are … the people in the middle?
Or… perhaps the ones paying for it…are only 134 Trillion Dollars … and change … short?
Now, if you are better than others, you already know all this. If you ‘feel oppressed’, you have been feeling about taking since…whenever. So, the only question is…
when are you who have been ACTUALLY PAYING for all this hiding and stealing since 1965…GOING TO WAKE UP???
The Charades of Sherrod
Posted by Buck68 on July 23rd, 2010 filed in UncategorizedComments
by Buck68™, July 23rd 2010
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What is Going On [WIGO] in this Where’s the Beef USDA Case?
What happens when we play ‘gotcha’? Gotcha is a search for a factoid… in order to leap to a desired judgment …in order to ‘put him/her/them in their place’. AKA, the Game of Pretense for Prejudice. The Game of the Demon, by the Demon, for…Demons.
So…all The Smarter Ones conjugate the prejudicial verb ‘to be’: she’s a racist, they aren’t racists, he was racist, they’ll say we’re racists…and call it … ‘breaking news’.
So as ‘the facts come out’ … in the Game of Gotcha … each player exposes himself as the perverted searcher of a Whatever to Blame Her/Him/It/Them With.
And since we’re all imperfect, the Game of Gotcha continues…forever …destroying every player … except those for whom My Ends Justify My Means [Thee Social Justifier … Possesses Thee Socio Path.]
For those with vestigal ethos, we iterate the die-versities of “He Did It Too” and its spinoff game, “He Did It More Than Me” …first ‘discovered’ very soon after the original Gotcha Game … and Reinvented Ever Since. ‘Reinvention’ is the Nature of the Beast.
And periodically we ‘reset or ‘pivot” … with the Game of “Apology”.
…as the country burns… Celebrating DIEversity …
Or, as it was written so long ago: …each of us, going astray …in his own way.
So: who will save us from … our selves? Yet countless times… again?
For God so loved the world that He gave….that whosoever believeth in Him, shall not perish …
So…how amazing my leap from Charade to Sherrod to …God? Well… any more amazing than the transparent charades of creatures possessing creation while denying the Creator?
BREAKING NEWS: remove the Chief Cornerstone, and the building…collapses.
Is it time to Declare YOUR Government, an AMERICAN Sanctuary Government?
Posted by Buck68 on July 15th, 2010 filed in UncategorizedComments
by Buck68™, July 16th 2010
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When in the course of human events, your Federal Government Department of “Justice”:
1- sues a State for supporting and enforcing Federal law, calling that “usurping”; and,
2-”declines to prosecute” those several “Sanctuary” city governments who presently define themselves by making laws harboring criminals, nullifying Federal laws as they choose, and prohibiting lawful coordination between local and higher government agencies; and,
3-consistently obstructs supporting and defending the Constitutional bases of Justice by:
3a- picking and changing various conflicting names, legal statuses, and processes for identifying, surveilling, arresting, detaining, prosecuting, and releasing terrorists and violent radical groups; and,
3b- ‘governing’ by profiling political opponents using various ad hominem pejoratives, and our entire nation as a “nation of cowards”; and,
3c- repeatedly does not recuse itself and/or appoint independent counsel to investigate and/or comply with lawful subpoenas in corruption cases where DOJ and other Federal Executive Branch officials have a conflict of interest; and,
4- repeatedly rationalizes and/or does not address or advise the Executive Branch of ignorance of, avoiding, or conflicting with due process of established and settled law and Emergency authorizations…
5- promotes the unconstitutional and egotistical criterion of “empathy” for Judicial Branch qualification…
IT BECOMES CONSITUTIONALLY and REASONABLY IMPERATIVE FOR other government bodies, in order to fulfill their oaths of office and protect due process of law for all citizens in their jurisdiction, to:
…follow the Attorney General sanctioned, publically stated, and enabled ways DOJ is using to subvert the Constitution, in order to restore and follow our Constitution, by:
…declaring themselves a SANCTUARY for following the Constitution, by nullifying any unconstitutional government law or policy or act of an official; and,
…joining in Constitutional mutual aid with such other governmental bodies as declare themselves Sanctuaries for preserving, protecting, and defending our Declaration of Indpendence and Constitution.
REALIZING that,…no organization or person follows law by blaming; by feeling about it, saying about it, avoiding it, evading it, or cherrypicking it; and so,
THEREFORE, keeping our Republic is a continuing, living, moral duty of each citizen of this Republic, starting with participating in their local government; and that ultimately,
…this Republic will stand or fall on fulfilling the pledges of our “lives, fortunes, and sacred honor” of WE THE PEOPLE.
Who are WE THE PEOPLE? Definition: ordinary citizens who actively defend not themselves but their fellow citizens, from such people foreign or domestic, who feel superior ["right in my own mind"] to others, and so do whatever they feel to others. Put another popular way, ordinary people who defend against such persons whose ends justify their means; who convert the endowed universal concept of ‘justice’ into their personal, passionate diversity of self-justifications.
So it was during the struggle to establish the United States of America, and so it continues. The Great Experiment…or, as Lincoln put it: “whether this Republic, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure….”
How? It starts with each person, each morning, looking at his Man in the Mirror, and asking/affirming “who am I?” Then, as JFK put it, making your next unnatural choice to “ask not, what your country can do for you; ask, what you can do for your country.”
Why? Because liberty requires continual watering by unnatural selflessness, which reveals itself in the unnatural actions of self-control and sacrifice. Or, as Martin Luther King Jr spiritually envisioned it, the ongoing ‘work in progress’ towards that universal mountaintop where individuals judge others “by the content of their character, not the color of their skin“.
God, Men, Country, and the Manhattan Declaration
Posted by Buck68 on July 8th, 2010 filed in UncategorizedComments
by Buck68™, July 8th 2010
©2010 by Buck68™, all rites re-served. Each use whatsoever requires prior written permission from the author [email: abuck68@yahoo.com]
Yesterday, I read The Manhattan Declaration at http://www.manhattandeclaration.org/the-declaration/read.aspx
I presume that the authors are trying to say what they mean, and mean what they say. Applying the world’s human values, they have achieved high standing in education, expertise, influencing others, position, reputation, and material success. By those achievements they gained their means to make their appeal to all people for three positions which they proceed to justify. In my attempt to read precisely and carefully compare word meanings, this Manhattan Declaration is an appeal via the thoughts and intentions of men, in the best of the traditions of men.
I, on the other hand, live somewhere near the other end of the spectrum of human achievement. Thus, in worldly human perceptions, I have little standing, next to no authority – and therefore provide little ‘value added’. Does this ‘make me’ ‘humble’? No. A martyr? Hardly. Oppressed? Depends on how I feel. Irrelevant? Depends on relevancy.
But even from under my Rock, I could continue in any and every manner of evasion and deception to… make whatever point I want to. So could we each and all. Isn’t ‘what I want’ just our natural, common, instinctive, spring-loaded motivation? So, I could just do this time, what I just naturally do all the time. BUT…
BUT…only this time, here, I will try to compare what this Manhattan Declaration says, to what the Bible [NASB version] says. I will not cite references to either. First, for the sake of brevity. Second, in deference to the negative of my veracity. Third, due to the positive ubiquitous availability of word search for any person who values accuracy. Fourth, because the first 3 also cover my laziness, and i “don’t have the time”.
The Preamble declares Christians heirs of traditions. Jesus declares woe to leaders preaching as doctrine the traditions of men. The Preamble reviews the goodnesses of Christians. Jesus says many will come to Him declaring what they did in His Name, and He will say ‘I never knew you’. Does a list of good things by group or issue make individual or groups ‘worthy’? Not if no one is worthy, no not one. Does “devotion to human dignity” …lead Christians? Or, does Jesus say, “Follow Me”? What is “proclaiming the faith”…with other than Jesus’ attitude?
This Declaration begs the continuing primal question of Authority: ‘who’s on top’. Here, it comes in the form of ‘do I follow Him my way…or His way?’ Do I use my language and my “concerns” and my approach…or try to relay and compare to His? If I gathered with another in obedience to God…would not the accuracy of my obedience be measured by living by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God?
Are Christians [or, whatever group you pick] good by doing good deeds…or more good than ‘them’? Or, are we, being evil [an intrinsic condition], able to do good things for those we characterize as ‘children’ [implicitly suggesting our selves as the 'adult']? Or, Good Teacher…why do we call our selves good…if God alone is good? Put another way, …if we did all that we ought to do, would that sterling performance change our condition?
So, is Christian moral concern, and special concerns, and especially troublings…the province or possession of Christians? Is a person a Christian…by professing?
Is ‘truth’, ‘right and wrong’, ‘morals’ – are these concepts relative, changing, based on successive interpretations of human beings depending on what they feel or think…or labels for us or them? Either absolute, objective, righteous AND loving Authority… is essential to these concepts … or they depend on human impositional power…like survival of the fittest.
Who defines marriage and how marriage relates to value standards? If man defines, then the most powerful definer ‘makes it what it is’, and ‘liberty’ is a license to make ‘marriage’ …whatever…you can. On the other hand, if Absolute Authority defines…then the task is to understand and apply the definition and established relationships. And so it goes for defnitions: founded on morals…or the powers of men?
Does a deepest conviction…justify what you are convicted of? If so, the more extremist, the more justified. Is “I’m passionate” …the same as The Passion of the Christ?
Who makes who in whose image? Or, is it all about imaging and makeovers?
What if the wisdom of God were foolishness to the world? Then, simplistically, all I honestly feel…would be upside down and backwards to The Truth…The Way…The Life. Hmmmm.
TODAY, I heard His voice…and tried not to harden my heart. Oops…there i went again. Recovering: first I failed – I hardened my heart being just like i always am – too busy doing whatever. You know…just like when i hear…but do not listen. But then, this time…[somehow, not of my will] I came to my senses…well, a little bit. Then, in a ‘food for thought’ moment – like breaking bread with my heart – I sort of recognized The Stranger already beside me, Helping me. And this…this… attempted relay, watered down in very partial obedience … is one outcome.
