We live in a crisis of sovereignty vs. servitude. Who is sovereign and who is served?
Christopher Gillespie
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Today's endless bitching into the void turns tomorrow's dreams into nothing but lies, deceit, and despair.
Are there any breakdowns of the Solari Report coverage of BTC? Fitts platforms Webb and Ver and I’ve had family ask if she’s right.
I can’t believe it’s been three years since we last saw Die Hard. But Plex stats don’t lie.
GM and Merry Christmas!
Marx wrote: “The philosophers have only interpreted the world—the point, however, is to change it.”
This becomes: “There is no understanding the world—only interpretations of it.”
Which then becomes: “Lies that change the world are better than truths that describe it.”
"The Platonic commune does not have God’s command."
--Apology of the Augsburg Confession, XVI, 13.
Even 500 years ago, churches were endorsing collectivist political theories, confusing the two kingdoms.
#lutheran
“Harris is a Baptist who was raised by a Black Anglican father and an Indian Hindu mother, and is now married to a reformed Jewish husband.”
Informed consent requires a good conscience first informed by God’s Word and then by reason and senses.
Our Democracy (TM) is a shibboleth for those of a particular ideology, meaning it’s not yours unless you are ideologically aligned.
Does the citizen have recourse for tax dollars distributed towards fraudulent causes, under misleading claims, or appropriated for illegal actions?
The institutional gatekeepers and algorithm controls assume you lack the intellect, wisdom, and discernment to tell the truth from error.
Is it okay to knowingly impose immoral or illegal actions, only later to retract and redact them when they are no longer publicly acceptable? What would be the purpose of such actions?
Just like many of your favorite film franchises are ruined by retroactive continuity, now your memory of history is being ruined by the same lazy narrative tool.
If federal student loans were predatory, wouldn't that make the US Department of Education the predator and the schools their enabler?
One consequence of the forfeiture of critical thinking to the authoritarians and cultural mob is the ability to read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest the Scriptures critically.
In the USA, those in power may only exercise it under the authority that we, the people, give them.
Commanding power without authority given by we, the people, is illegitimate.
Trying to hold to a narrative based on lies requires more lies.
And all it takes is a little truth for the whole house of cards to fall.
“A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.”
- James Madison
There’s no guarantee that when you seek to reform or abolish an institution, law, or tradition that something better will replace it.