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Misinformation Train

Daily, individuals are bombarded by all kinds of information about people, events, and theories. Currently in the news, there is talk of car-sized drones above New Jersey, a murder/assassination of a healthcare CEO, and the constant fear of what could potentially be called Word War Three. These are just a few examples. This is the age of unlimited communication with the internet and dozens of news stations bombarding us with both useful and, more often, useless information.

How many really care how Snoop Dog cooks his bacon?

Trying to sift through all the pointless articles to find real news can be a challenge. Even when we find “legitimate” news, we are left with conflicting or bias explanations, distorting the facts. The truth is always elusive. CNN focuses on attacking the conservative minded people while Fox News bashes the liberal audiences. It is a media war that continues to rage and become more volatile on a daily basis.

Dispelling misinformation can be a nearly impossible task. Humanity needs to accept that there are always agendas being played out, conspiracies in the works, brutal fights for power and really bad boxing matches on Netflix. Truth is the hardest thing to see through the thick fog of misinformation. Yet it is there!

One must ask themselves, what is good? What is positive? What benefits humanity the greatest?

There are so many distractions that pull us from the truth. Unfortunately, I am not even sure Occam’s razor can cut away all of the garbage that encloses the truth. So why is it so hidden? Humanity wants to shield itself from accountability and conviction. Hide the truth, then make your own morals that benefits you, the individual, not humanity as a whole.

Wokeness thrives on hiding and distorting the truth in order to move its own agenda of denying accountability. Even if you take God out of the equation (theoretically), humanity cannot survive without a moral structure. For example, there are people who want pedophilia to be a “sexual orientation”. Unbelievable. This act is detrimental to children and emotionally damages them for the remainder of their lives. Nobody would benefit from this behavior if it was accepted. Instead, it drives humanity down a road of self-destruction.

I understand this is an extreme and disturbing example, but the same case is truth for rape, murder, enslavement, theft, genocide, etc. These acts push society closer to chaos and has no benefits to humanity as a whole. Within the philosophical ideal of utilitarianism, John Stuart Mill puts forward the “Greatest Happiness Principle.” In this, actions are “right” in proportion as they tend to promote happiness and “wrong” as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.

This “happiness” is not based on the individual, but rather on humanity. Moral actions will benefit all people while immoral actions are the ones that hurt people, even if the person or persons acting benefit from it.

Our goal should be to strive to reach the higher “good” for the human race as a whole. The less suffering, the more we will find happiness in living. The “anything goes” attitude will lead to the destruction of civilized society. Cut through the garbage that the misinformation train dumps on your doorstep.

Be the insurrection.

Confronting the Fears

What is your greatest fear? All of us, even the bravest of persons, have fears we face and struggle against frequently in life. Fear is a natural emotion that humans experience, especially fear of the unknown. The future can always be unnerving as we plan and adjust our lives in the attempt to have a better outcome. If only there was a magic ball that we could gaze into and see the events and outcomes that are awaiting us.

How different would life be in the here and now if a person knew the future. If a person knew what was ahead and it was something horrible, would they not try to make changes to gain a better the outcome? Yet, to change the outcome and alter the future, what you knew would become invalid…. a philosophical paradox. Alas, could it be true that everything is preset and no matter what a person would do, the outcome would be the same….

Sorry, I am sure your brain hurts now. I know mine does when I flip this question over and over in my mind.

I feel that fear of the “unknown” is essentially the greatest fear a person can experience. We toil and struggle with the uncertainty of our future as we see wars, violence, divided politics, lawlessness, inflation, hostages, human trafficking, and on and on. Turn on the nightly news and there is always something new going on that makes the future look dim and sometimes hopeless. Does humanity have a chance to survive in this treacherous storm that engulfs its existence?

Our world has abandoned its morality and embraced a reckless philosophy devoid of basic principles and structure. It has let itself dive into an environment of hate, depression, hedonism, and the lack of any accountability. Morality cannot exist without accountability, otherwise we are in chaos, and, unfortunately, this world is churning in this chaos now more than ever.

So here we find ourselves with a bleak future as we let the principalities of this world rule our lives, suppressing our ability to embrace higher principles that supersede humankind.

You should be afraid of the future.

Ignoring this chaos or hiding in a hole will only end in disaster. Being brave does not mean that you are not afraid. It means you face the challenge in spite of the fear. It will take many of us to rise up and stand for what is good and trust that we can in a way “change the future.” It begins with an insurrection against the immorality that the world continues to worship.

What will you do? Embrace the fear or let the fear destroy you?

Voting Power

Ah, yes, another presidential election year. Tensions run high, mud slinging continues, and we wait in long lines to cast our ballot.

I am not blogging to tell you who to vote for in this intense election year. Remember,  we will never have a perfect candidate in the running, so we must choose our votes carefully to align with the candidates who uphold the most important issues we feel will benefit our values. Focus your moral compass towards those who most closely stand for what is good and morally right.

The politicians can not and will not repair our corrupted and divided society. We as people are the ones who achieve at repairing our society. We do this by holding firm in our convictions and beliefs. There is too much compromising, leading to resentment, which progresses to hatred. In the end, we live in misery.

Let me close with a line from a powerful song first recorded in 1975:

Wake up, everybody, no more sleepin’ in bed. No more backward thinkin’, time for thinkin’ ahead.

Vote as your convictions lead you to vote. Learn from the past and the mistakes, but focus on our future. Don’t lose this chance!

(Wake Up Everybody, originally recorded by  Harokd Melvin and his Blue Notes, 1975)

It is a Fragile Existence

Take a minute and think about this concept. As a person, you are one living being among billions, standing on a spinning rock, dependent on gravity created by this force in order to hold you on our giant sphere. What is more, you are in the vastness of infinite space depending on the sun to keep you at a proper distance where a slight diviation could end it all.

When I think about this, it overwhelms me and reminds me that we constantly take for granted how fragile this life can be. We may feel very small and insignificant when we look at a bigger picture like this, but I am left in awe of it. We are fortunate beings in that we can recognize the vastness and fragility that our lives have. My cat, Simon, only recognizes what is immediately around  him and is more concerned about getting his dinner, which, according to him, is always late, than he is about the consistent orbit of the earth.

Look to this existence as a blessing and a gift. We are only here a short time in the grand scheme of this universe.  We should be inspired by this truth and strive to live our best life, a morally good life. You may not believe in something beyond this existence, but I do. I will not apologize nor deny that I believe there is a true God who desires us to make morally good choices and offers forgiveness when we fall short.

I want to live within goodness and happiness and not evil, corruption and oppression. We must all strive to strengthen this fragile existence and make this one life count for something. Deceit is our most dangerous enemy in that immorality constantly costumes itself to appear as good and moral. We face the deception of freedom, democracy, science, and hedonism that this world fronts for us. Avoid falling into these traps and seek what is good.

Difficult Motivation

This is a day and age where we can easily dive into a pool of hopelessness and depression. Everything around appears to be crumbling at the seams and spiraling out of control. People are faced with inflation, war, hate, weather disasters, and crime filled streets.

Motivation can be hard to come by. In reality, many have already given up, retreating to quiet corners and closing their eyes, hoping it ends. Others stand up and try to make a difference only to be crushed under the weight of conformity and wokeness

Will you continue to let society control you and your life? It is very easy to just sit back and complain that the world is a mess. You can say, “there is nothing I can do about it.” Yet, we can do something about it. Dig deep find that motivation to make a stand for what is right and moral. Righteousness will always shine in the darkness of adversity.

In a world of darkness, we must rise up and say that we will not be imprisoned by the corrupted values of our society. Be the ones who will not conform and live in fear. Our faith must always be uncompromising and barbaric. There is right and wrong; moral and immoral, and we need to eliminate the moral “grey” area including these fluid ethics this country waves around at us like a cheap carnival prize. Society loves that moral grey area, planting their feet firmly in its mucky ground, looking to suck you down into its putrid stench.

It is time to fight back and make a stand! Be prepared to be resisted. Making this moral stand will make enemies and could label you an outcast. It is a hard road if we choose not to conform and enslave ourselves to this compromised existence. How do you know if you are travelling in the path that is right? You will face constant opposition.

I will close with a quote from Winston Churchill:

“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

Nothing is more powerful than raw, focused motivation. I challenge you to be the difference and don’t bow down to the woke idols.

Climb Aboard! We Will Show You the Way.

Once again, we are at that time when our lives are bombarded by politics. Every four years, we elect a president who is always preceded by a vicious campaign of personal attacks and name calling. Each candidate has a plan to “help” the nation’s citizens.

Is anyone else tired of the exhausting circus? I know that I am.

We become obsessed with our politicians, wanting them to make changes and improve our lives. We are so focused and dependent that we also look to them for moral direction. Don’t forget, they are humans like you and me. They have no authority to give moral direction. Human thinking is flawed and corrupted with power and control being a huge temptation.

There is the old saying; absolute power corrupts absolutely.  It seems almost cliche to the point that we state it like a punchline to a joke. Yet, I like to state that with more power comes more temptation to abuse that power.

Putting our faith and moral direction in the hands of our politicians is a huge risk; dare I say, an easy way to trick ourselves. The trick is that we let another flawed individual or group guide our ethics as we travel through the raging river of existence. Why risk trusting a navigator who may drive the boat into the rocks or even toss you over to make the boat lighter?

Don’t get into the doomed ship and be chained to an oar, hoping to see the light of day as you row the vessel to an unknown destination under the command of a control hungry monger.

Buy the kayak and direct your own way through life. Be an individual, not part of an enslaved collective rowing under the monotone beat of a drum.

One response to “Climb Aboard! We Will Show You the Way.”

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    dutifullygrande0152c653d

    Yes I am tired of all the lies and bashing.Human thinking is flawed and for me I will not get on board the boat of destruction , I choose the kyak for the moral direction through this life. My faith is in the One who made me!

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Who Will You Serve?

Bob Dylan wrote a great song talking about how we must serve somebody. No matter how we slice it, we are serving something or some principle. True freedom is only an illusion. Yet we are told we are “free” by the principalities that we are ironically serving. We are free to make our own choices but will gain favor or suffer consequences based on the action that we choose. This is not true freedom. We are bound by human law.

Follow the rules and you are fine. Disobey and you will regret it.

We are not prisoners in the physical sense, though if you break enough rules, you may become one. It is our minds that are imprisoned. We are being conditioned by the “rule makers” to think a certain way and behave according to their wishes. They say laws are made to protect us, but I beg to differ. Many laws are designed to control our behavior, keeping us in check. There are many who grab political power, not for the betterment of the citizens, but to influence and control. They desire to move their agendas.

So, what is the solution? How do we live?

Morality must always be the higher authority. Do not compromise what is good and right when mankind tells us to behave in a contradictory way. The woke movement wants us to sideline our principles and accept a loose morality that lacks conviction and accountability. Walking the moral path will bring a higher joy than living a morally fluid life.  

Who will you serve? Will you submit to the laws of mankind, or will you cast it aside and follow the higher principles that God has established for humanity. As citizens of a nation, it is our job to hold our leaders and lawmakers to this higher morality. When they fail, we need to take action. Use your voice. Do not be afraid to stand, cross the line and say, “I will not compromise.” I will serve what is good and right!

Will you?

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Tightening the Grip

How do we curb the violence that plagues our streets? Each day, we are bombarded with reports of assaults, road rage, gunshot victims, and even attempts to assassinate a presidential candidate.  It spirals worse and worse each day. I should not have to worry everytime I leave my home that my life could be in jeopardy.

So, what is the response? The first thing I always hear is, “Take guns away.” OK, but it is not guns doing the violent behavior. It is people. If you take guns away, it’s like sticking a large rock in a flowing stream. The water will find a way around it. People will continue to find a way to act out this behavior, not to mention expanding the black market

What about more police? Flooding our streets with more police gives a sense of martial law. Unfortunately, the police forces are already stretched thin thanks to budget cuts and the lack of willing people to take up the task. Even now, in Pittsburgh, there will be no police presence on the streets from 3am to 7am.

Jails are overcrowded and are just holding people for their crimes. In most cases, there is very little effort to reform prisioners with the hope of being able to give people a chance to change their lives for the better. Prisons are not correcting the problem. Instead, they are like a petri dish developing a culture of deep-rooted immorality and violence.

This is NOT what prisons were meant to accomplish.

There is no “quick fix” to the expanding violence across this country. We need to push for reform and a re-establishment of morality in our country. This “anything goes” attitude is driving us deeper and deeper into chaos. We need to focus on the disease, not just treat the symptoms.

“The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.” – Princess Leia

May be a quote from a movie, but a truth proven throughout history.