You Begin and End With The Relationship

 

What relationship?

If you have received Jesus Christ, The Son of God, then you belong to Him.

You are no longer your own.

You are no longer just you.

You have been redefined – you are a new creation.

 

You began living because of Jesus Christ.

 

After this, whether it’s giving your testimony or discussing theology, your relationship with The Godhead by Jesus Christ is The Foundation of any discussion.

Don’t wander from it.

 

We easily throw up the barriers, the bulwarks of personal world view.

“Are you Calvinist or Armenian?”

“Do you believe in Once Saved, Always Saved?”

“Have you read so-and-so’s book?”

No, no, no.

These approaches are a great waste of time, for they are not first person, First Love Relationship.

They get you out of His Word, The Bible.

The megaphone is not The written Word that reveals Jesus The Living Word – the megaphone has been passed to dead theologians, a false doctrine, or extra-biblical Christian authors.

Don’t be conformed to this world and its distractions, not even Christian distractions.

You’re not entitled to your own opinion or world view.

You’re only supposed to pass on what Christ is saying and doing in you like He did His Father.

Ask Christ to guide you by His Spirit and His written Word.

He’s fully able to do that.

And if you think that He does not or cannot do that or that The Relationship is not the main point of the Christian life, then maybe you don’t have a real relationship with Him….

 

See Also:
Personal Relationship Topic

Why ‘Abiding’ Doesn’t Click in our Understanding

 

“(4) Abide in Me [Christ], and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine; neither can you, unless you abide in Me. (5) I Am The Vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit. For without Me, you can do nothing. (6) If a man does not abide in Me, he is cast away as a branch, and withers, and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are consumed. (7) If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done to you. (8) In this is My Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; so shall you be My disciples. (9) As The Father has loved Me, so have I loved you: continue in My love. (10) If you keep My commandments, you shall abide in My love; even as I have kept My Father’s commandments, and abide in His love. (11) These things I have spoken to you, that My joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.” John 15:4-11

Abiding

We see the word, hear its Greek meaning from pastors, evangelists, and teachers, and come away empty-handed.

Huh?

μένω :

  • 1) to remain, abide
  • 1a) in reference to place
  • 1a1) to sojourn, tarry
  • 1a2) not to depart
  • 1a2a) to continue to be present
  • 1a2b) to be held, kept, continually
  • 1b) in reference to time
  • 1b1) to continue to be, not to perish, to last, endure
  • 1b1a) of persons, to survive, live
  • 1c) in reference to state or condition
  • 1c1) to remain as one, not to become another or different
  • 2) to wait for, await one

 

Seems pretty cut and dried, pretty obvious….

We’re supposed to understand.

We slowly, hesitatingly nod ….

 

Then, we wonder why nobody asks the obvious question.

How?

“If I knew how, if the speaker would say how, I might get somewhere.”

“Maybe everyone else gets it, and it’s just me that doesn’t. I better keep quiet.”

 

No speaker tells you how for a very simple reason.

They cannot teach what they don’t know.

There’s a lot of proverbial bricks built upon God’s foundation, and abiding is a supporting root brick, not a branch brick.

This is a missing foundational brick in our understanding.

Let’s fill the gap.

Let’s state the obvious.

 

Abiding necessities The Presence of  The Abider.

Without The Abider holding you, abiding is impossible.

He must do the holding, for the Christian life is a we relationship.

Christ is saying to you, “You need Me to hold you, so that you can continue and remain in Me.”

You cannot hold yourself!

Holding obviously requires Another to hold you.

Once, hopefully, your mother, your father, someone caring for you, held you and you abided in them.

But, eventually, we grew up and left their arms.

We couldn’t continue to remain, abide in them.

And, after them, no teacher, professor, or pastor could have you abide in them, for they were not Jesus.

We lost the sense of abiding, we lost the intimate presence of them with whom we had abided.

But our Lord Christ’s Presence isn’t gone.

We may mistakenly think He is now only in heaven seated at the right-hand of The Father until the second coming.

But, that’s not what Scripture reveals. Christ is in you.

 

We were never meant to be absent of oneness with Him.

We were not taught that He is in us and with us, holding dearly to us, His beloved.

“Lord, never let me go.”

 

As in earthly marriage, so is the heavenly one in and with Christ.

Marriage is firstly the union of His Spirit with your spirit.

He and you cleave and hold tight.

You abide in Him and He abides in you.

 

See Also:
It’s Really About Him and You
100% Love Talk
What Matters is a New Creation
Godhead in You

 

A Place Where We Are Safe

 

 

 

Safety …

Against what?

Natural disasters, accidents, tragedies, ….

We want safety from all.

However, we cannot control natural events.

But, for those things which we can control, seek personally and publicly to promote and protect life.

Anything that doesn’t promote and protect life ultimately destroys life and is evil.

In governmental policy, such contrary actions are ultimately a way for getting citizens to pay for what they don’t live nor approve.

 

Safety …

What about safety from bullying, persecution, tribulation, violence, genocide?

Is there safety from these rabid behaviors?

We were all raised by someone ranging from the most positive, very best parents to the most negative, devilish, non-parental monsters.

The first raises to love and respect others, the latter raises to hate and destroy them [and themselves].

The them includes a bullseye on you, if you raise your voice against such promulgators of hell.

We love to see the former coming, but either fear, pretend not to see, or steel ourselves against the latter, for the latter have the good of none in mind or heart.

No one should ever admire or cheer the latter destroyers who typically mind your business, not their own; call for destruction; thrive in lawlessness; libel and slander their opponents; hide their identities; and clothe themselves in darkness [also these].

 

If you in principle and practice, don’t promote and protect all life, races, and ethnicities, you are actually a destroyer.

If you single out anyone for disparate, harsh and evil treatment, you have no Truth, for the True, Holy God, The Father of our Lord Jesus Christ died for all and now lives for all.

God alone has the right as Creator to deal with His creation.

He has chosen to love and save.

 

You must stand with God and other lovers of life.

But if you don’t have people’s good in mind and heart, then leave them alone, don’t bother them. Don’t stir up a hornets nest and get stung. And don’t be a rabid dog that cannot live around anyone. Rabid dogs are regrettably destroyed.

 

11 Rescue those being led away to death;
    hold back those staggering toward slaughter.
12 If you say, “But we knew nothing about this,”
    does not He Who weighs the heart perceive it?
Does not He Who guards your life know it?
    Will He not repay everyone according to what they have done?

Proverbs 24:11-12

 

 

What Does It Mean to Live By Christ Instead of The Law?

 

How do we accomplish anything?

We learn steps, methodologies.

Do this, then that.

Great performance earns the compliment, the atta-boy/girl, the gold star, the award, the trophy, the promotion, the raise.

Merit is the goal, but without living by Christ Jesus, the self-powered battery of merit runs down and stops.

How to get recharged?

“How do I recover what I’ve seemed to have lost? Apart from my responsibilities, the things I want and need to do, what is my reason to exist and carry on?”

 

Living by Christ doesn’t involve outer methodologies.

A so-called spiritual  book that tells you steps to do, isn’t actually a spiritual book. In reality it’s a book of law, how something works, i.e. how God works.

In The Old Testament, God worked by The Law, which declares God’s righteousness and demands that those following it obey every one its 613 laws.

The Law challenges each person to prove their self-righteousness by their actions, by the things they were commanded to do or not do.

Those things are outer, impersonal, and the only thing The Law actually proves is that every person has broken it and is in dire need of The Savior Jesus Christ.

“No flesh shall be justified by the works of The Law.”

No, Christ Jesus is The One Who justifies.

 

In Christ, we’re living by Him, The Person only, a relationship, not a set of rules.

He Is, not has, The Way, The Truth, The Life, The Door, The Cornerstone, Love, Wisdom, Power, Sanctification, Redemption, The Light of the world.

We ask The Person, Christ, what He is saying and doing, then partake/share Him saying and doing them.

We manifest Him through us.

This is what it means to live by Christ Jesus – a real relationship with The real Person Who indwells those who have placed their faith in Him.

 

 

What The Hell Is a Life Partnership?

 

What The Hell Is a Life Partnership <And why you should you never be in one!>?

Yes, Hell is not a foul curse word here, but an accurate description in this title, for this life partnership BS is a lie, a cheat, and a scam out of the pit of hell.

A life partnership is a supposed life-long commitment to a person but without God’s design of marriage, it’s only a counterfeit.

What is a life partnership based on, apart from God?

… fallible mankind ….

It sounds so grown-up, like two young people who choose to live together. It’s the un-marriage, like test driving a car with no money down, no references, and no collateral. No dealership will stay in business on such terms, and neither will a life partnership.

A life partnership is a pseudo commitment, not a real one, premised on no vows, no ceremony, no ring, no guarantees, and no legal protections. Love isn’t even a required checkbox. [All feelings aside, if there is no commitment, there is no actual love. Love is much more than what turns out to be fleeting feelings that can turn on a dime or on and off!]

A pseudo commitment is also like a salesman using tactics to get you to buy a car. He may say, “If I can get you this price, will you buy this car? If so, sign or initial this line <on a notepad>.”

It’d be stupid to do that <ask me how I know :>)>, because you’d feel obligated – after all, YOU GAVE YOUR WORD!

The one saving disgrace of this life partnership nonsense is that not even a divorce is required. You can drop out before starting a life partnership by replacing your yes with your no, or you can take what you can get and walk away with nary a comment, or you can just poof, disappear.

It’s been said that “Money can’t buy you love.”

But it can buy you this abortion of a non-relationship.

It makes the pseudo-proposed to recipient say, “SHOW ME THE MONEY!!!!” and cheapens both.

A life partnership is more similar to cosmetically clean prostitution. reminiscent of a pig with lipstick. The buying one is soliciting, driving around looking over the fleshly merchandise, and the selling one is naively getting into a car never knowing what will happen on the other side of the door. Hopefully the picked up one is safe the next morning, but some end up on Dateline NBC episodes. Either outcome will be laden with regret, because neither were considered valuable, worthy people, who deserved the highest.

Instead, each are ultimately in their own minds left-overs unworthy of a marriage proposal and commitment.

No serious, honorable, thinking person will engage in such a fraud.

A life partnership isn’t worth the paper it isn’t written on….

Here is a tool that might save you from trouble when considering whether to accept someone’s offer to be their life partner.

Have them send you a notarized ten page letter describing why a life partnership with them should be considered a good and honorable relationship and stipulate what they’re promising. If they do promise something, have them take it to a lawyer to draw up the legal documents. And if they do this, ask them, “Why didn’t you just ask me to marry you?” There’s no marriage or life partnership possible with the buyer. So, opt-out, they’ve earned a solid, “No.” Don’t even add, “thanks,” for their insulting you by not even asking for your hand in marriage deserves none.

See Also:
49 Bible Verses About Marriage, Love, & Commitment

Taking Issue With Vain Words Like ‘Frick’

 

As a young marine the peer usage of every other word was composed of four letters beginning with the letter f and ending with the letter k.

No, the word was not funk.

As young men taught to make other men die for their country, using foul language was a way to counter the niceties of life to get to the other side of hardness and death.

Okay, there’s some logic to that.

And at a small Bible college I went to as an older 20s student, some younger ones started using the word honking or honkin’.

Though this word did not begin with the letter f, it was still a euphemism for the same four letter f..k word.

Just so you know, words that really don’t have any meaning but are being used as placeholders for known words not acceptable to speak, are known as vain words.

 

And this year I attended a retreat on discipleship training.

The speaker liked the worldly word fricking or frickin’ for short.

Things were frickin’ this and frickin’ that.

Things were, “Frickin’ awesome.”

Man, the speaker was frickin’ awesome.

 

Should he be saying this word?

Should you be saying this word?

 

Perhaps picturing Jesus may help you figure this out.

Do you think Jesus went around saying He was “The <vain word> Light of the world.” or “I Am The <vain word> Way, The <vain word> Truth, and The <vain word> Life.” or “<Vain word> follow Me.”?

If He had uttered such nonsense filth, nobody would have followed Him.

But He didn’t.

You won’t find any part of frick/f..k  ever used in any legitimate English translation of The Bible.

I suggest you shouldn’t use it or any other vain word either.

But you don’t need to listen to me.

Listen to Jesus.

He’ll tell you to drop such unwholesome vanity.

 

Cultural Marxism’s Hell is Destroying You Today

 

… and it’s only getting worse ….

Much like spoofing the boogey man that isn’t there or the existence of the devil, cultural Marxists hope you similarly don’t detect them accomplishing their goals.

Cultural Marxism’s adherents target God, nations, and families.

 

The metastasizing of cultural Marxism within freedom loving peoples is unmasked in

  • social justice
  • rewriting history [for example, The 1619 Project “aims to reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national narrative.”
  • reintroducing racism [whose actual definition is simply singling out by color]
  • creating privileged classes (at the exclusion of others) around politics, economic theory, gender identity and sexual orientation, such as LGBTQIA+ (Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer or Questioning/Intersex/Asexual/Plus [yet to be described and added]) [“Ideologues must infiltrate institutions and all of society and “raise the consciousness of ‘the oppressed’ with a new cultural worldview, or narrative.”]
  • deconstruction [paraphrasing from philosophy/literature: because of the ambiguity of language, something expressed cannot be truly known, i.e. truth cannot be ultimately known . <Therefore> God does not define Truth and freedom – the government does, and therefore the government can take truth and freedom away][political example][“Can you define what is a woman?” – response, “I cannot….”]. Deconstruction is being used to destroy truth, commonsense, science, and reality.
  • destroying fundamental Constitutional rights like freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly, freedom of the press the right to petition, the right to bear arms, and instead attacking them by censoring, coercing, harassing, ruining, libeling, threatening, mob violence, determining what can be said in public discourse, the military, and houses of worship
  • DEI (Diversity/Equity/Inclusion)
  • ESG (Environmental/Social/Governance)

 

Cultural Marxism is a “… totalitarian, soul-destroying ideology.”

 

Traditional Marxism was based on economic class.

But, …

“… workers in the West were refusing to wage a revolution that they intuited would hinder their own economic interests and diminish their freedoms. Because of that, Marxism had to evolve to find other revolutionary agents: “’Marxism and feminism, Marxism and deconstruction, Marxism and race—this is where the exciting debates are,” said Jonathan Wiener, professor of history at the University of California at Irvine.

That insight from Professor Wiener was important, as it foreshadowed the identity-based Marxism of the 21st century. The struggle would no longer be based on economic class but on identity—based on ascribed characteristics, such as race, sex, or national origin, that are inherited at birth and over which the individual has no control. The reasons were simple: Economic classes fluctuate, especially under capitalism, where people can, and often do, change their stations in life. Race, sex, and national origin are, however, immutable. They are thus superior loci of revolutionary change. This is why the new Marxism emerged victorious on college campuses and elsewhere in American cultural centers starting in the late 1980s, whereas it had failed when it relied on social class and guns. This new mutation of Marxism was cultural—“cultural Marxism.” It began to be debated and written about in the 1920s and the 1930s, by Antonio Gramsci in Italy and the so-called Frankfurt School in Germany, but this cultural Marxism only came to full fruition in the late 1960s when Gramsci was first translated into English and the Frankfurt School’s Herbert Marcuse came to prominence among university students. Gramsci was translated by the British journal New Left Review, and Marcuse came to be known as the guru of the New Left. This Special Report discusses the dangers posed by this new mutation, one hatched by the 1960s’ New Left.

On American, Canadian, Western European, and even Japanese college campuses in the early 1960s, rebellion found fertile ground in a rising generation of students. It was there that the New Left was born. Universities then continued to serve the revolution by providing a supportive ecosystem to those radical students as they entered adulthood and became professors, where they could indoctrinate subsequent generations.

The strategy to achieve the new cultural Marxism was also no longer predicated on Marx’s original prescription, the violent overthrow of the system by the working class, or in Marx and Engel’s own words, “formation of the proletariat into a class, overthrow of the bourgeois supremacy, [and] conquest of political power by the proletariat.”4

Marx and Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party, p. 50.

Rather, the strategy now draws on Gramsci’s concept: Ideologues must infiltrate institutions and all of society and “raise the consciousness of ‘the “oppressed’ with a new cultural worldview, or narrative.

Marxism had failed in Western societies when it relied on economic status and violence.5

When it did succeed in Eastern Europe, it was as a result of occupation by Stalin’s troops and successive military interventions by the Warsaw Pact.

But this time it had a real chance of succeeding. This is the reason that cultural Marxism today presents a far more serious and existential threat to the United States than did Soviet communism.” [Source]

 

 

 

See Also:
America Rewritten
The Philosophy of God’s Existence
Regrets of a former LGBTQ+ activist

Depression When You’re Sick

 

Someone told me, “When I’m into the fifth or sixth day of being ill, I get very depressed.”

Having just recovered from a several week illness, I recognized that depression had hit me too.

This is a pattern I had not seen, for usually, after several bad days, we start to see marks of improvement.

But, this time, that had not happened. Symptoms grew worse and pressed into a second week. My mind couldn’t focus and thoughts feared this was not going to end.

What if I wasn’t going to get well?

How do people with long-term or terminal conditions, who may be bed-ridden, endure the mental weight and anguish that plagues them?

Mine was little in comparison, for after several more weeks I recovered.

 

Depression is even more acute when illnesses are endured alone.

You can second-/third-/fourth-/…- guess, “Should I have gone early on to a doctor?” “Do I need to be hospitalized?”

 

So, what do you do when you don’t know what lies ahead, and fear and despair are choking you?

You grasp The only Anchor of your soul Who can never lie nor be moved from His mooring hold on life and eternity.

Your Anchor Is The risen Jesus Christ, The Lord of Life for those who belong to Him.

 

He Is The only One Who can keep you in your right mind when fear and depression divide it and scatter your thoughts.

What I did may be useful to you – not things, techniques, tactics, etc. These are never the answer.

The Answer is always based on relationship.

I needed to connect with The Father, Jesus The Son, and The Holy Spirit.

They, The indwelling Godhead, are always into you, reaching to you, wrapping you up in Themselves in whatever way you uniquely need.

You need to receive Their embrace, Their bear-hug, or whatever your image or perception is of being loved.

Nothing and no one else can do it.

Your heart and life were meant for your First Love, The God Who loves you, Who would do, and did do, everything possible, even endure death on a cross, to save you from sin and death.

He even rose from the dead to prove to you that not even death could stop Him from having hold of you, and never leaving nor forsaking you.

 

So, recognize that The Lord Is The Source by Whom you live.

Apart from Him, you cannot do anything.

Your believing, thinking, feeling, desiring, obeying, yielding to His/our Father, wanting and willing, being self-controlled, loving, being joyful, being at peace, being patient, being good, kind, and gentle ALL depend on Him.

You rest in Jesus The Christ.

He has no expectation that apart from Him that you can experience any of these on your own.

These attributes that we seek are actually embodied in Him and are only experienced in, with, and by Him.

And, you are a partaker, a sharer, of our Lord Christ’s Life.

So, if you want to know what love looks like, then you’ll find that God Is Love [1 , 2], and you see it demonstrated in Christ loving.

 

While ill, in my mental and spiritual struggle (and anytime we feel disconnected from Him), I spoke to Him as often as needed through the above italics like this: “Lord, I am doubting, but You are always believing. May I share You always believing?” Similarly: “Lord, I am despairing and afraid. May I share Your joy and courage?” You may also think of this as exchanging your despair for His joy, your weakness for Him being strong in you.

And, to our requests, He spiritually communicates with us, telling our spirits, “Yes, of course, you can have as much of Me as you want. I came to be your all.”

Why does connecting with Him like this work?

Because the Christian life is a relationship with The three Persons of The Godhead, God The Father, God The Son, and The Holy Spirit, and Christ Is The Source of all these for mankind. We were never intended to live alone. He intended us to live together with Christ as our Life, depending on Him, for we are spiritually married to Him.

Once you came to Christ Jesus and trusted Him with your life, The Godhead came to you to always live together in and with you. Your connection, with all the above italics you want to experience, was established in Christ Who Is The perfect God-Man. The Father, because of our humanity, made His Son The preeminent One for you, because He lived as us and knows first-hand what human life is. Christ Is our Example and The One we’re told to follow.

 

Now, there is no law, no limit, no restraint against having as much of Christ as you want. (22) ” the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness, goodness, faith, (23)  gentleness, self-control. Against these things there is no law.” Galatians 5:22-23

 

On our own, we doubt, are afraid and despairing – that’s who we are and what we do, for our humanity is weak.

But our Lord Jesus Christ always lifts us up to walk in and with Him.

He is so amazing.

How could anyone not love Christ Who loves us so greatly?

 


 

“He who says he remains in Him walks like He did.” 1 John 2:6

“In this is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as He is, so are we in this world.” 1 John 4:17

“(1) #To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of Asaph. I cried to God with my voice, even to God with my voice; and He gave ear to me. (2) In the day of my trouble I sought The Lord: my sore ran in the night, and did not cease: my soul refused to be comforted. (3) I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah. (4) You hold my eyes open: I am so troubled that I cannot speak. (5) I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times. (6) I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with my own heart: and my spirit made diligent search. (7) Will The Lord cast off forever? And will He be favorable no more? (8) Has His mercy gone forever? Does His promise fail forevermore? (9) Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has He in anger held back His tender mercies? Selah. (10) And I said, This is my infirmity, but I will remember the years of the right hand of The Most High. (11) I will remember the works of The LORD: surely I will remember Your wonders of old. (12) I will meditate also of all Your work, and talk of Your doings. (13) Your way, O God, is in the sanctuary: Who is so great a God as our God? (14) You are the God Who does wonders: You have declared Your strength among the people. (15) You have with Your arm redeemed Your people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah. (16) The waters saw You, O God, the waters saw You; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled. (17) The clouds poured water: the skies sent out a sound: Your arrows also went abroad. (18) The voice of Your thunder was in the heaven: the lightning lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook. (19) Your way is in the sea, and Your path in the great waters, and Your footsteps are not known. (20) You led Your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.” Psalm 77:1-20

What Is Truth?

 

What is truth?

Truth can never be a what, a thing, even like values.

My values, your values, their values – are any of these The Truth with a capital T?

Absolute Truth?

A thing, not even values, can ever be The Truth.

Why?

Because they don’t go deep enough, not to The Root.

If there is The Truth, it would of necessity have to be based on The Root, The Basis of The Truth.

It cannot be values, things, not even if they’re The Best Practices of Humanity.

Those would be just laws, whether good or bad, that describe a culture’s morality.

 

Only humans contemplate The Truth.

So, of necessity, Truth must be personal, a person, and not just any person, but a perfect Person.

 

Is there such a Person?

 

Seemingly in politics, people search for the perfect person.

But scratch the surface and their flaws show.

Their sins show.

The perfect person, who is only like you and I, doesn’t exist.

There’s no regular, ordinary perfect person.

The sin test proves this.

We commit, whether by commission or omission, sins and lies – we try to hide our dirt and our skeletons.

 

But One has claimed to be The Truth and proved it by beating death by rising from it.

That is something neither you or I can do on our own –  beat or cheat death.

But Jesus Christ is perfect God and simultaneously perfect Man.

We humans are made in His Image and can know Him Who Is The Truth.

Jesus said, “I Am The Way, The Truth, and The Life.

Jesus said, “I came to testify to The Truth.

There’s only one Way to God, and that is by Him.

 

Let me introduce you to Him.

 

See Also: The Philosophy of God’s Existence

 

 

How You Will Likely Vote

 

This post is not telling you for whom to vote.

You should vote for candidates who live in the real world of commonsense, practicality, and experience, whose characters give the best evidence of carrying through on their campaign promises, not just telling you what you want to hear based on some imagined utopian/partisan fantasy. Don’t vote for someone you wouldn’t even want in your family or as a friend. Vote for the candidates who are most likely to be a blessing to this country and its citizens. Never vote for those who foment, tolerate, or even hide their faces from hatred and division.

This post is helping you connect the dots between your beliefs/thoughts and their logical conclusions.

If you get angry at the following logical conclusions, re-evaluate your own beliefs and thoughts.

 

If you don’t believe in The Golden Rule, you’re likely to vote Democrat.

If you vote following your family traditions, you are actually voting for the dead without thought for the country and probably should not vote at all. After all, the dead aren’t supposed to be able to vote anymore. Be able to critically think for yourself.

If you have no stake in the country, and are not a good and productive citizen, you probably should not vote at all.

If someone needs to tell you for whom to vote, you probably should not vote at all.

If someone can buy your vote, please do not vote at all.

If you vote for a candidate solely because of color, sex, gender, all forms of identity politics, you should probably not vote at all.

If you think lockdowns, vaccine (insufficiently tested) and mask mandates, open borders with its drug cartels/human trafficking/fentanyl deaths, making us energy dependent by abandoning fossil fuels in favor of the premature technologies of the green new deal including the depletion of the strategic oil reserve for votes/pandering to OPEC for temporary oil production until the midterms, inflation resulting in high gas and food prices, recession, supply chain disruptions, baby formula scarcity, the doubling of mortgage rates, high crime instead of law and order, defunding/dismantling the police, siding with criminals instead of victims, masked smash and grab criminals, releasing repeat offenders through no bail, district attorneys who won’t prosecute crimes, labeling concerned parents as domestic terrorists, the main stream media who spin the news rather than report it, creating crises but never solving them, pushing equality of outcome instead of opportunity, entitlement like free college/guaranteed incomes/redistribution, acting in racist ways, operating by fascist tactics (BLM/Antifa) while labeling your opposition as fascist, condemning the entire opposition rather than the lies and bad ideas of individuals, supporting ways of living that result in sickness and death, the desire to throw out the 1st and 2nd Amendments, making government and nature replacement gods over God are not very important realities (because they haven’t yet touched you or yours?), you’ll vote Democrat.

If you cannot define what a woman or a man are, you’re woke, and you’re likely to vote Democrat.

If you know what a woman and man are, but due to woke-ism, will never acknowledge biological truth, then you’re likely to vote Democrat.

If you reject biological, chromosomal identifiers of sex in favor of mental constructs of what people want to feel they are, you’re likely to vote Democrat, because you believe that feelings are more important than biological facts.

If you disagree with traditional marriage as defined by being between a biological man and a biological woman, then you are logically against your own mother and father and any of your siblings born to them, so you’ll also ultimately be against yourself. If this defines your choice/belief, then you’ll likely vote Democrat.

If you think a biological woman should choose contraceptives instead of abortion, if she doesn’t want to become pregnant, you’re likely to vote Republican.

If you think biological men can become pregnant, a fantasy, then you’ll likely vote Democrat.

If you consider abortion to be an alternate contraceptive, you’ll likely vote Democrat.

If you think that a fetus is merely tissue, but will not acknowledge that the same tissue is a developing baby, then you’ll likely vote Democrat. Never does the tissue become anything other than a baby at birth.

If you want to ban sonograms that show the tissue is actually a baby, you’ll likely vote Democrat.

If a biological woman chooses to have sex with a biological man, her first choice was to give her body to him. So her political slogan My Body, My Choice should be changed to My First Choice Was To Give Him My Body & My Last Choice Is To Kill My Developing Baby.  If you believe in this example of truth in advertising, you’re likely to vote Republican. Another way to say this is, if you got yourself pregnant by an immaculate conception, then it would be 100% your choice on whether to get an abortion. But, other than Jesus, immaculate human conceptions do not occur, and a baby and the baby’s father are involved and should be considered before having an abortion.

If you think that a Supreme Court nominee, who cannot define what a woman or man are because of modern-day woke-ism, should still be able to understand the roles of women and men in human history up to the point of the nominee’s modern-day woke-ism (rather than trying to retroactively redefine all previous history into the woke paradigm), then you’ll likely vote Republican. Voters need to evaluate whether woke-ism is a type of dementia where the brain’s cognition disappears, where people can no longer remember the definitions of man and woman, or whether it’s just The Emperor Has No Clothes stupidity.

If you think that government’s business is to pick winners and losers in policy rather that choosing policies good for all citizens in the Republic, then you’ll likely vote Democrat. The government’s leaders are supposed to focus on the lowest common denominator policies that benefit all citizens. Nothing else is its business. For example, if some desired social issue is in fact good, then at the end of an extended test period such as ten years, there should be tangible, evidential benefits, such as peoples’ IQs increasing or that they can run faster, jump higher, etc. But, if in fact, people became sick, poorer, or died due to some proposed policy, then it should be immediately discarded without debate without any further waste of time or funding.

If you don’t believe in God and instead make government your god, you’re likely to vote Democrat.

If you demonize your political opposition and call for them to be deprogrammed or reeducated in camps, which are communist ideas, you’ll likely vote Democrat.

If you think people who disagree with your politics should be forced to pay for that which they cannot agree, you’re more likely to vote Democrat. If an issue is truly important to you, you should be willing to pay your own money for your own partisan politics.

If you think DHS volunteer employees should be personal assistants to illegal immigrants at the southern border, you’ll likely vote Democrat.

If you think you have the right to cancel the Constitutional rights of others who disagree with you, you will likely vote Democrat.

If you want to get rid of the Constitution, you will likely vote Democrat.

If you’re part of the cancel culture, book ban-ers, you will likely vote Democrat.

If you want any speech that disagrees with your opinions to be labelled as hate speech, you’ll likely vote Democrat.

If you want to change governmental institutions (pack the Supreme Court, get rid of the Electoral College) that have served us well for nearly 250 years, you’ll likely vote Democrat.

If the idea that the borders/limits/standards to anything should always be changing, you’ll likely vote Democrat.

If you don’t believe in absolute truth (for you, truth is always changing, therefore nothing can ultimately be known as true), you’ll likely vote Democrat.

If you believe and assert the equality of outcome rather than the equality of opportunity, you’ll likely vote Democrat.

If a person’s skin color should dictate outcome and not the person’s merit and character, you’ll likely vote Democrat.

If you’re for reparations, you’ll likely vote Democrat.

If you assent to violence against whose with whom you disagree, or at least won’t speak against such violence, you’ll likely vote Democrat.

If you give BLM and Antifa passes even though their protests result in destruction, violence, and death, but won’t give passes to nonviolent, conservative protesters, then you’ll likely vote Democrat.

If you agree with tearing down statutes, you’re likely to vote Democrat.

If you let news agencies tell you what to think by slanting the news, rather than by reporting the news, then you’ll likely vote Democrat.

If you believe coercion and intimidation are tools you can wield against your opponents while denying their right to resist you, then you’ll likely vote Democrat.

If you think you need a driver’s license to be legal to drive, but don’t need such an id to vote, then you’ll likely vote Democrat.

If you cannot find defined rights to abortion or other social issues in The Constitution, but you insist on these rights any way, then you’ll likely vote Democrat.

If the necessary qualities to maintain a healthy society are caring, fairness, loyalty, respect for authority, purity, and liberty, but you only adhere to caring and fairness, then you’ll likely vote Democrat.

If you support defunding the police that increases violence against people, you’ll likely vote Democrat.

If you want to make everything racist, including charging extra for roomier airline seats, you’ll likely vote Democrat.

If you don’t think there should be consequences for criminals, particularly based on their skin color, then you’ll  vote Democrat.

If you believe in sanctuary cities or states and district attorneys that won’t enforce the laws of those entities, you’ll likely vote Democrat.

If you’re for hamstringing and bankrupting American by backing the spending of hundreds of billions of US dollars trying to set very low carbon emissions, while China adds dozens of new coal burning facilities yearly and emits nearly three times the amount of greenhouse gases, then you’ll likely vote Democrat.

If you think that the government through its state-sponsored teachers unions have the sole/dominant role and right to teach woke-ism to your children apart from your permission as parents, then you’ll likely vote Democrat.

If you believe the hype that parents who disagree with what their children are being taught in school are domestic terrorists, then you’ll likely vote Democrat.

If you think drag queen programs in our children’s schools are ok or at worst benign, then you’ll vote Democrat.

If you believe that lockdowns and mandates are controlling tools that end up ruining children’s’ educations, bankrupt businesses and close churches, you’ll vote Republican.

If you believe that COVID-19 vaccines are not thoroughly tested and should not be forced upon anyone until safety rates are much higher, then you’ll vote Republican.

If you believe that open borders should first be proven to be good policy by a ten year experiment where the promoters of open borders throw open their own household doors to anyone and everyone. After the ten year culmination of this experiment, both the owners and dwellers will be evaluated as to whether they are all healthier, wealthier, and wiser. If they are, then the country can consider debating whether to have such a federal policy. Those who think such a test experiment is a smart idea will likely vote Republican. But the reality is that the Democratic leadership will never open their own doors to illegal immigrants. Plus, such an experiment would bankrupt the promoters who would then call for a federal bailout.

If you think it’s good for black clothed, identity hidden protestors to roam the night stealing, killing, and destroying when they should be home in bed sleeping, getting ready to work the next day, then you’ll likely vote Democrat.

If you think putting military young men and women in close quarters is a good idea, that pregnancies, rape, and sexual harassment and other assaults are not the logical and real outcomes, then you don’t understand the birds and the bees and are likely to vote Democrat. The two sexes put in close proximity are like gasoline and a lit match.

If you know that US military strategy over itself and all trained allies depends on air cover above all military operations, then you understand why Afghanistan fell so quickly once Bagram Air Force Base was abandoned. If you realize how disastrous this was and still is among people who are still trapped in Afghanistan, you’ll vote Republican. Maintaining the recommended 2500 military personnel to keep it functioning against terrorist groups and supporting the Afghani government was the only prudent and logical course of action.

If burn it all to the ground is your mindset, you’re an anarchist who should be in jail, disallowed to vote for anyone.

 

Forrest Gump made an important observation: “Stupid is as stupid does, Sir!”

Don’t vote stupidly.

Vote for life and peace, not death and chaos.

 

See Also:
Can Liberals Listen?
God in Government video
Thanksgiving Day Historical Documents
What Is Racism?
Hate Speech and Discrimination
Recognizing Hate Speech