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The extremes of good and evil are becoming more pronounced in our world. The masks are coming off. It is as if the good are departing on a ship and evil remains on the land. The apathetic remain on the loading dock. As the ship pulls away, the apathetic, uncommitted, indecisive, unsure, impatient, unfaithful and unloving herd who went through life without armor fall away and drown.
Evil is apathy and apathy begins by having a lack of faith.
The good wins when the apathetic are no more because evil is sustained by apathy.

clipped from willhelm.amplify.com Evil “Apathy and Evil. The two work hand in hand. They are the same, really…evil wills. Apathy allows it.” -Jake Thomas     “Apathy is the glove in which evil slips it’s hand.” – Anonymous     “It is much easier always to prevent an evil than to rectify mistakes.” -G. Washington     “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing” Edmund Burke     “When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love.” – Martin Luther King   Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. (1 Corinthians 13:6-7)

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If there is one person on Earth allowed to be an idiot, it is Paul McCartney. “Get Back” to your bong, dude. Don’t be a “Fool on the Hill”

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American Society and Social Justice

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clipped from www.tenthamendmentcenter.com It appears that there are two popular definitions of “social justice“�. One involves an individual who chooses to give freely to people in need; this one is historically referred to as charity. The other requires the use of government force under the guise of good will to seize production from one and give to another. This one is nothing but theft and historically results in little less than slavery. Unfortunately, this is what most people mean when they speak of social justice. Definition of Justice: “The administering of deserved punishment or reward” Is it possible that adding the word ‘social’� before ‘justice’ can result in a definition that makes it “just” to steal from someone because it is socially acceptable to do so? Promoters of social justice should spend a moment and reflect on which definition they support, why they embrace it and whether their concept of “justice” infringes on another person’s rights or freedom, Definition of Injustice: “Violation of another’s rights”

Charity is an act of compassion by an individual or group of individuals of free will.
The most troubling thing I see resulting from the ideas of social justice is that it absolves the individual to act independently. There has never been a more charitable society than the Unites States. Can we maintain a morality which respects and cares for individuals less fortunate if the role of the individual is diminished and our duty to others is doled out through a government mechanism.
Our humanity will be dissolved further with the erosion of this individual responsibility, which is the nature of the fascist enterprise.
Government cannot issue charity. Government has no money other than takes from the private sector.

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Thoughts on Compassion vs Empathy

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clipped from willhelm.amplify.com One has to wonder to what degree compassion can be developed. Does wisdom follow compassion or does compassion follow wisdom. I would contend it is more a matter of perspective and gratitude in one’s own condition, which ultimately starts by the increase of wisdom, rather than the will. I suppose it can be nurtured, but I guess I am skeptical of the idea that compassion can be developed. I also believe there is a distinction between empathy and compassion. Empathy is more a result of bad awareness and compassion is a result of exceptional awareness. I think we can see the fruits of this in modern society, where the results of the “great society” programs�, which are born out of empathy have led to disaster. Compassion is more focused on the “teach a man to fish” prospect. Empathy does not lead to a better society, it is ultimately selfish. Compassion on the other hand, which again is born out of wisdom, is selfless.

A Brief History of Socialist Plots to End the American Way of Life

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Don’t you just love Leftist revisionism, propaganda, logic, and art?

Public Schools – Disaster, partisan cronyism and money pit. Compare to private schools.

Public Water System – Compared to what? Private water system?

Public highways – Yes, that really has a lot to do with socialism. LOL

Public Parks, introduced by a Progressive Republican and supported by Republicans, this is actually the Fed overstepping it’s reach to control the property of sovereign states. States operate their parks with much greater efficiency than the Federal Gov’t.

Just because you want to pretend the inferiority of progressive ideas is superior doesn’t mean it matches reality.

Of course, we could get into other Progressive or materialist policies and debate the results of them.

Slavery – We know how that ended.

Segregation – How wonderful was that?

Abortion/Planned Parenthood, founded to cull society of the undesirables. Today blacks are being decimated by abortion. Revolution of society vs Evolution of society. 2 sides of the same coin.

The Federal Reserve/Central Bank – Oh yes, we are all loving that crony capitalism.

League of Nations/United Nations. – That just works out so well. And the Left wonders how we get so tied up in the issues of other nations. Thank you Woodrow Wilson. We all relish John Dewey and Woodrow Wilson for illuminating the “social possibilities of war”.

Ahh, yes, and Roosevelt’s Blue Eagle Campaign, which authorized a dictatorship over businesses in America. Too bad that pesky Supreme Court overturned that and enabled the free market economy to turn around and lift us out of the Great Depression Long after all other nations had begun to grow their economies.

Shall we continue?

To the Left “Reason is a tool of Oppresion” – Derrida.

JFK on the Separation of Church and State

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Commenter of Clipmarks post asks:
Where have we gone wrong?

Here is my reply:

Some have pretended that we are a secular nation and there is some backlash to that sort of idiocy. Especially when one considers the fact that it is the secularists responsible for opposing all of the things for which JFK speaks out in support. Where there is a stat-ist, anti-libertarian fervor there is religious intolerance. There has to be be because religion gets in the way of control.
Where there is individualist, libertarianism there is religious acceptance. There has to be because that is love.

One who does not respect the individual liberty of another is neither faithful nor tolerant. One who preaches secularism is neither a patriot nor tolerant.

That said. People are imperfect, which is basically the driving foundational principle of our Nation.

The Tytler Cycle of Society

clipped from www.commonsensegovernment.com From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to complacency; From complacency to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage From bondage to spiritual faith (1760 to 1769) From spiritual faith to great courage� (1770 to 1783) From courage to liberty� (1784 to 1865) From liberty to abundance� (1866 to 1969) From abundance to complacency� (1970 to 1989) From complacency to apathy� (1990 to 2000) From apathy to dependence� (2001 to 2007) From dependence back into bondage� (2008 to ????)

Fascsim

Communism and Fascism: Both are totalitarian
American Right is libertarian: Anti-totalitarian

Fascism is a government focused, statist society
American Right supports individual sovereignty and liberty.

Fascism/Socialism have cultivated war-socialism, state control of media, and compulsory service to the state.
American Right traditionally cultivates a resistance to meddle in the affairs of other nations.

Fascism/Socialism pushes for nationalist or protectionist strategies.
Libertarianism/Right pushes for free trade.

Fascism/Socialist/Progressivism is a top to bottom system of power.( Federal>state>local>individual)
Libertarianism is a bottom up system of power ( individual>local>state>Federal)

Fascism/Communism/Progressivism foster societal mobilization, organic unity.
Libertarianism fosters free will, thousand points of light, the fractally-complex richness of society.

Fascism/Progressives/Communists are controllers, materialists, intolerant.
Libertarians, American Rightist Conservatives are believers in individuals and communities.

50 States, 50 Constitutions, 50 Preambles about God

clipped from neprimer.com Alabama 1901, Preamble. We the people of the State of Alabama, invoking the favor and guidance of Almighty God, do ordain and establish the following Constitution … Alaska 1956, Preamble. We, the people of Alaska, grateful to God and to those who founded our nation and pioneered this great land … Arizona 1911, Preamble. We, the people of the State of Arizona, grateful to Almighty God for our liberties, do ordain this Constitution… Arkansas 1874, Preamble. We, the people of the State of Arkansas, grateful to Almighty God for the privilege of choosing our own form of government… California 1879, Preamble.  We, the People of the State of California, grateful to Almighty God for our freedom .. Colorado 1876, Preamble. We, the people of Colorado, with profound reverence for the Supreme Ruler of Universe .. Connecticut 1818, Preamble. The People of Connecticut, acknowledging with gratitude the good Providence of God in permitting them to enjoy …

The Seminal Point for Materialist Progressivism

clipped from str.typepad.com With savages [i.e., those in more primitive societies], the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated; and those that survive commonly exhibit a vigorous state of health…. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination; we build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed, and the sick; we institute poor-laws; and our medical men exert their utmost skill to save the life of every one to the last moment.  There is reason to believe that vaccination has preserved thousands, who from a weak constitution would formerly have succumbed to small-pox.  Thus the weak members of civilized societies propagate their kind.  No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man.  excepting in the case of man himself, hardly any one is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed….

“If…various checks…do not prevent the reckless, the vicious and otherwise inferior members of society from increasing at a quicker rate than the better class of men, the nation will retrograde, as has occurred too often in the history of the world. We must remember that progress is no invariable rule….”