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Post by Brad Nelson on Jan 15, 2022 11:40:05 GMT -8
This is confirmed daily by every fine-toothed "woke" diktat.
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Post by kungfuzu on Jan 15, 2022 11:59:53 GMT -8
They are the Ten Commandments, not the Ten Suggestions/Aspirations. From this base flowed the Mitzvah and the basis of Jewish communities for over a couple of thousand years.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jan 15, 2022 12:18:15 GMT -8
"Thou shalt not kill" does sound like a higher aspiration than "Mind your carbon footprint." But that's where we are.
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Post by kungfuzu on Jan 21, 2022 9:35:03 GMT -8
Readers may recall a comment I posted a couple of weeks back regarding the fact that battery technology is the Achilles Heel of the Green Movement as the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow all the time. Here is an excellent piece that shows exactly how far from the truth the nonsense being spouted about "Climate Change" truly is. The KFF panic was just a dry run for the big one, the "Climate Change" panic, which will be brought to you by the leftist globalists who wish to bring us back to feudalism and total control by elites. Low battery
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jan 21, 2022 11:10:37 GMT -8
Just need a few more of these. Back in the day when they made cool-looking batteries: Sounds as if 10 minutes of battery backup is about enough to make popcorn. Not much more. But I'm sure the Church of Global Warming will just double-down on this "green" baloney. It is their faith.
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Post by kungfuzu on Jan 21, 2022 12:51:41 GMT -8
I believe that would be very fitting. We could eat popcorn as we watched the world collapse after the "Greens" stopped the use of fossil fuels. Talk about Goetterdaemerung.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jan 30, 2022 12:20:03 GMT -8
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Post by Brad Nelson on May 25, 2022 8:29:08 GMT -8
I line I thought of the other day and am waiting for the opportunity to use: "Don't talk to be about 'sustainability' when you can't even sustain free speech and free thought."
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Post by Brad Nelson on May 25, 2022 8:33:59 GMT -8
Oh oh oh. Not so fast. Haven't you heard about the new solar panels that generate electricity at night?
Dave Jones has a noted electronics YouTube web site, the EEVblog. Regarding electronics, this guy knows his stuff. But he's full-on Austrialian atheistic libtard. One of his children is named "Sagan." That will tell you something.
Still, I ran into his critique of some libtard propaganda regarding solar technology.
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Post by kungfuzu on Jun 7, 2022 10:02:58 GMT -8
Here is the true reason behind the insane way our government has been handling the energy problem. These people don't want the price of fossil fuels to go down. They want it to continue rising. We need alternative energy now, aahhhhhh
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jun 7, 2022 12:48:46 GMT -8
Yes. The end game is to get rid of fossil fuels. Supposedly that's to bring in "renewable" energy. But there isn't enough of that to be a replacement. They know this. Thus the end game is really to set humanity back a couple centuries in order to "save the planet." This sound weird when you say it bluntly like that. But I believe that is the end game.
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Post by artraveler on Jun 7, 2022 14:34:49 GMT -8
Thus the end game is really to set humanity back a couple centuries in order to "save the planet." The end game is the same it always has been; power to the elite, and desperate bare survival for the plebs. these elites don't give a hoot about saving the planet, just as long as they can sit their candy asses on pillows and drive in a SUV. If the destruction of American culture, which they have always resented, is the logical fallout from their policies they are ok with that. From the time of the Mayflower Compact this country has always been for the common man, not wealthy elites sipping espresso at $10 a shot, or elected officials who desperately desire to be invited to the table of the powerful and are always excluded. It took a 1000 years to turn Rome from a republic into a failed state our demise may not take as long, but the effect on the rest of the world will be no less catastrophic. There is no Eastern empire to absorb the shock. When America falls the world will bleed for centuries.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jun 7, 2022 16:23:14 GMT -8
I don't know why that phraseology made me chuckle. I should be horrified. But I did laugh. Bare survival of the plebs.
As a good Jew, you will, I hope, allow me a bit of psychoanalyzing of the left.
When a dam bursts and floods a town, destroying it completely, we might remember the primal impulse behind it all: a single drop of water. But multiplied a zillion times, it can erode anything.
I didn't necessarily get along with my parents...at least all the time. Nor does nature intend this to be the case, I'm sure. But I did have two parents who enforced appropriate limits (although my father's diktats would often range far into the arbitrary).
I was an observer, not a participant of the Flower Power generation. But my older brother and sister were smack dab in it. And what is so clear to me now is that all of the pathologies of the Left center on one factor (on one drop of water): Rebelling against parental authority.
Another way to say this is that the children rejected authority itself and thereby wished to remain children forever. This is a reason the Left is so fond of utopian dreams.
Our culture is not awash in an excess of maturity. It is exactly the opposite. We are forever chafing at the very idea of parental authority. We have in every area of life raised the attributes of a child as the standard. To be brash, spoiled, impatient, uncouth, undisciplined, unwashed, ignoble, inconsiderate, and ungrateful (forever aggrieved) is where most of the culture is at.
We now, like a spoiled child, demand that government take care of us. The easy compliance with government authority during the KFF was the sign of a culture of children looking to be taken care of. The idea of "Give me liberty or give me death" is a non sequitur for our current generations. To have no value over one's own immediate needs is to be like a child in a highchair throwing his strained peas against the wall when he doesn't immediately get what he wants.
The Left is, at heart, an ongoing rebellion against maturity and any kind of authority that would restrain our passions instead of unleash them into a never-ending surfeit of Drag Queen Story Hours.
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Post by kungfuzu on Jun 7, 2022 16:47:53 GMT -8
The Judeo-Christian worldview maintains that such rebellion is where all our problems began, to wit-Lucifer's rebellion against God. Some things don't change.
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Post by artraveler on Jun 7, 2022 16:54:12 GMT -8
Another way to say this is that the children rejected authority itself and thereby wished to remain children forever. This is a reason the Left is so fond of utopian dreams.
Utopian dreams? I can live with that. What I cannot live with is the destruction of the most compassionate, inventive and stable nation the world has seen to force those utopian dreams come true--they never will, dreams are ephemeral and transitory. It is always the left, or its political equal that seek to destroy all culture for those utopian dreams. At one time, in the not too distant past it was a utopian dream to have fresh, clean water in every home, to have a safe clean sewer system and lights at the flick of a switch. All of these we take for granted today but our grand fathers would be amazed. They were achieved by people who had dreams of making life better for everyone. Our modern utopians have no dreams for humanity, but only for themselves. In short, they don't give a damn about Joe Doaks, Sally Soaks and all the folks. They are selfish to the core and the hubris is bringing down our nation. The generation of the 22nd century, if there is one that can read, will look back at us in bewilderment.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jun 7, 2022 18:07:24 GMT -8
I have no doubt of that. I humbly suggest that the path for any decent person in this current culture is a path specifically outside and around that culture. We'd all like to convince the nuts and flakes to not be so nutty and flaky. But we can read the writing on the wall. Men now pretend to be women and that might be the least of the offenses against normality. And they are all now well ensconced in the framework of things.
So we must live for an idea higher than mere consumerism. And immersed as we are in this culture, it's difficult for anyone not to measure one's life by what one owns or consumes. We'd all like the good life, but the good life will never be found by people just giving you things (other than the Constitution and the foundation for a good society). We need a purpose higher than just scratching a series of momentary itches.
That's why the idea of man being made in the image of god is so important. It's not about believing this doctrine or that doctrine, per se (although doctrines are important...some better than others, of course). It's about living not like an animal but as a human being with values and aspirations that are noble and high. And anyone who does so probably already understands that they will have scorn heaped upon them. That's the price paid for not being a dumb sheep.
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Post by artraveler on Jun 7, 2022 19:12:14 GMT -8
It's about living not like an animal but as a human being with values and aspirations that are noble and high As people no longer in the hormone invested cycle of love and hate, but with I hope, a clear eye of the strength and vitality of our culture. Let us strive to teach those younger and less experienced that the life we live is important to our posterity. We have/are planting the seeds that will grow into the next cycle of our grand culture. Have we done enough? A fair question, whose answer lies beyond our view. If we have convinced one person, kin or not, to question the mega-government is it enough to keep the dream alive? Hard to say. Elie Wiesel, as a teenager was sent to Auschwitz concentration camp. He later wrote of his experience there in a place where freedom was sent to die he felt the most free. I have read of other camp survivors who expressed similar thoughts. These men and women knew that true freedom is not bound by goods and services but in the mind. Martin Buber in I and Thou expressed the nature of G-d as knowing your relationship with G-d and not confusing it with someone else's. Dealing with G-d as an I and not a thou. I don't know what G-d is. I don't claim to have a heavily direct line to whisper in His ear. I do know that some 5000 years of Jewish history has given ourselves and the world access to wisdom not given to any outside the Judo-Christian world. That wisdom mainly addresses how to live in community with others with the least amount of strife. Is it perfect? No, for reasons we can not understand the system fails some and rewards others beyond our control. I doubt it ever will be perfect, maybe it was never intended to be. A system without failure is a system that cannot grow. Perhaps the wisdom of Talmud and Torah are incomplete and need new tests for relevance. And maybe, they are intended to be either obscure or incomplete to edge us to learn more. I don't know.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jun 8, 2022 7:11:35 GMT -8
Yes, we should at least try to do that. I don't have any children but I spent a lot of time around my nephews growing up. I was somewhat their daycare provider here at work off and on. And I still stress to them now that they are grown up not to do drugs, no matter what. Don't get in the car with someone who has been drinking, no matter what. And kick peer pressure in the ass because sheep are dumb.
I think of that 12-year-old who got hit by the car the other day. And circumstances are still unknown. But while they were with me, they were constantly being reminded "Don't run into the road. Never. No. Not." Kids (ages 1 to 14, if not older) are naturally inclined to run into the road without looking.
This is a metaphor for other things and for older kids (and even adults). Regarding nutty things like allowing men to compete as a "woman," we are all the time running into the road without looking. Legalizing pot when what we need more than ever is sober men to help lead. Running into the road without looking. Defunding policing and de-criminilizing many offenses. Running into the road without looking.
Yes, we need to teach the young. I kind of think the older folk need some basic education as well.
That leads me to think: How many people are imprisoned by "social" media?
Yep.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jun 8, 2022 7:30:42 GMT -8
I believe in rebelling against power-hungry and narrow-minded religious authorities (or secular authorities, for that matter). Man was ejected from the Garden of Eden. But it's doubtful he could have lived there for long anyway. Inside of us God put the desire to learn, to think, to create, and to pursue our destiny. We do not have the spirit of sheep. It wasn't for nothing that god stuck that low-hanging fruit in plain sight on the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
Of course, Eve being the first Democrat voter (easily swayed by the demagogue, Satan), she believes his lies and eats the fruit and gets Adam to eat the fruit. She did this either because she wanted to be like god ("“For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”) or because she just couldn't be happy as she was. In a beautiful, perfect garden. With God. In my experience, women seem to be put on this earth to propel men to share their innate dissatisfaction and unhappiness.
Whatever the case may be, rebellion from religion is the state of things today. Even inside many denominations there is inherent rebellion as Progressive dogma replaces biblical dogma. God is deemed unnecessary because we have Darwin as an explanation. Man man has today eaten from the tree of experts and liars. Yeah, some things don't change.
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Post by kungfuzu on Jul 5, 2022 9:35:10 GMT -8
Dutch farmers are standing up to the evil globalists' left wing "green" agenda. This is everybody's fight. Pray the government falls The Dutch are the most efficient farmers in the world. By the way, Nitrogen is inert and makes up 78% of the air we breath.
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