BobCav
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Citizen wrote:
I don't need to buck up at all, thanks,I'm just fine. I've handled both adversity and power equally well for a very long time. And through a deliberate and thoughtfulstudy ofhistory do indeed know these problems havebeen around for a very, very long time. This is just a simpleexpression of the frustration that could fill a 50 page chapter in a book. And it may very well! Of course I have hope, as do the rest of us, or we wouldn't be here.
Admitting that we are experiencing the same things that have happenedfor millennia, by those empires that have all inevitably failed and for the same reasons, is to admit that wehave also failed to learn the lessons of history and are thus are heading down that same path to share their fate! The true tragedy there lies in that our founders designed this nation to prevent that very fate!
So then which is the true America? The original genius designor that which it has become? Which has a greater right to exist? Some people today would be HORRIFIED to live in the actual free American society as it was designed, merely because they would lose their political,financial and/or criminal advantages, thus their control over the people. As would our founding fathers be equally if not more HORRIFIED to see what America has become! America is coming to a crossroads, thechoice of which path is to be taken must be made by deliberate and thoughful discernment by an educated population, not by some MySpace poll or American Idol call in.
I have always studiedthe past, acted fortoday and held hope for tomorrow. That doesn't mean it doesn't get frustrating. Even Jesus overturned the money changer tables in the temple. Perhaps it's time again...
Citizen wrote:
BobCav wrote:Buck up, buddy! These things have been with us for a very long time.Christ and the Apostles didn't set out with their message because they thought things were going great. The philosophers down through history didn't rack their brains to persuade usinto being more civilized because things were going good.This country is exactly what you would expect fromahumanity limited bythe personal shortcomings of its members. Its a country that self-governs.1. More often than not these daysI look at all the garbage such as this that we're forced to muddle through as a people; all the corruption in government, the self-serving interests of our police, poor representation, the self-serving press, our weak national will, and most of all the blind, ignorant andapathetic populationand I find my heart filled with agreat and deep sadness and disappointent.
2. Why? Because people just can't do the right thing in the first place. Not our government, not our legistlators, not our press, not our police. Sadly still is that there is great money to be made in fear and failure.
3. This is not the America I served for 20 years to protect and save. I want my America back.
Buck up, buddy! Blind, ignorant population?Blindness and ignoranceareexactly what the philosophers were combating. Apathy? Religions have at their corea common element: hope. Holy men throughout history have kepthope alivefor those who needed help with it.
Buck up, buddy! Things have deteriorated since '87; butyou looked around and discovered more than just the deterioration. Now you see what has been with usfor a very long time.
This leaves the deterioration, such as it truly is, not how the media portrays it to us.The mediaalways make things seem worse than they are because they onlypresent the bad news. Walk past a school and watch the kids at play. Go to the mall and watch an elderly couple walking hand in hand.Say something nice to that woman behind the counter and watch her smile.
Ican'tcorrectall deteriorations everywhere. Butthat doesn't meanI can't do something. I like firearms. I've chosen tocontribute to arresting or resisting that piece of thedeterioration represented byloss of2A rights. You have, too.
How are you doing now?
I don't need to buck up at all, thanks,I'm just fine. I've handled both adversity and power equally well for a very long time. And through a deliberate and thoughtfulstudy ofhistory do indeed know these problems havebeen around for a very, very long time. This is just a simpleexpression of the frustration that could fill a 50 page chapter in a book. And it may very well! Of course I have hope, as do the rest of us, or we wouldn't be here.
Admitting that we are experiencing the same things that have happenedfor millennia, by those empires that have all inevitably failed and for the same reasons, is to admit that wehave also failed to learn the lessons of history and are thus are heading down that same path to share their fate! The true tragedy there lies in that our founders designed this nation to prevent that very fate!
So then which is the true America? The original genius designor that which it has become? Which has a greater right to exist? Some people today would be HORRIFIED to live in the actual free American society as it was designed, merely because they would lose their political,financial and/or criminal advantages, thus their control over the people. As would our founding fathers be equally if not more HORRIFIED to see what America has become! America is coming to a crossroads, thechoice of which path is to be taken must be made by deliberate and thoughful discernment by an educated population, not by some MySpace poll or American Idol call in.
I have always studiedthe past, acted fortoday and held hope for tomorrow. That doesn't mean it doesn't get frustrating. Even Jesus overturned the money changer tables in the temple. Perhaps it's time again...