the game……
For another terrific Covid-19 Conference organized by the great Patrick Coffin, . The Conference will have many wonderful speakers and is free to view at Truth Over Fear Summit II (restoretheculture.com) on April 30, 2021.
See you there!
(The conference was actually held this weekend, on another platform. It’s a long story…… 🙂 But I believe that you can still view the videos — I purchased a premium pass and so can view them for up to a year….)
Hillsdale College— Wonderful free Courses on History, Literature, Politics, Philosophy and Religion.
Gatestone Institute- International, non-profit think tank offering insights into important issues that affect America and the world around us.
Leadership Institute– Conservative Leadership Training
Campaign 1776—From the Woodson Center — www.woodsoncenter.org
https://1776unites.com/robert-woodson/
“Independent voices who uphold our country’s authentic founding virtues and values and challenge those who assert America is forever defined by its past failures, such as slavery.
PragerU–https://www.prageru.com/playlists/
Wonderful, often short, podcasts that teach on a number of important issues of the day. Full of wisdom, humor and lots of information!
TurningPoint and Heritage Foundation–Great activist sites, great articles, some grants available, wonderful for those who want to get involved in the fight! I love the crazy professor watchlist on TPUSA! Fighting back against the garbage that is being taught to the next generation of students.
A list of some Conservative Sites https://rightsmarts.com/top-conservative-websites/
The Christian Classics Ethereal Library — Online classic Christian literature, Bible studies and courses
Shakespeare courses — by Harvard University and EDX (free to audit)
The Great Books of the Western World–(I’ll come back with links to Librivox and Project Gutenberg versions of these books. We will also have a discussion group—a “book club” on some of these ideas. )
Additional volumes from a 1990 update
The contents of the six volumes of added 20th-century material:
1) THEY SAY….
Can you explain why you believe what you believe? Have you really thought through it? Do you know the reasons behind your beliefs?
Everybody thinks….experts agree….we all know…..all the cool kids believe….all the smart people think…..
The anonymous “they say” is used quite often to lie about things, and is used extensively in propaganda. It works particularly well when someone doesn’t have an evidentiary basis to convince people of some idea that he wants them to espouse, like that a product works or that a politician is correct about everything and his/her opponent is wrong about everything. It’s an easy way to con unsuspecting people into believing things that aren’t true or are highly suspect.
Facebook is notorious for using this approach and often ends up convincing people into believing things that their Facebook friends or promoted sponsors, especially political sponsors, want people to believe. Facebook users end up making decisions about complicated and important issues based upon cute quips or memes, or a joke from their favorite performer. They base their opinions on an emotional reaction to a 2-second view of a post. They just assume that everyone in their Facebook group of “friends” supposedly believes the same thing, or that some random “expert” somewhere can explain why what they say they believe is true. And it doesn’t matter to the Facebook viewers that they themselves can’t explain why or whether the idea is true, because they have the “backing” of this “they say” group,—the “all the cool kids think,” “experts agree” “everybody believes” factor is enough for them to not have to think about the issue on their own or to form their own opinions based upon any real thought or evidence.
https://www.prageru.com/video/how-socialism-ruined-my-country/
This might be the reason why so many believe that Socialism is a great thing when they don’t really know what Socialism is. Or why they are so quick to judge someone with an opposing viewpoint without knowing exactly why they disagree. All that they know is that their “group” or at least someone in or behind their group believes this and so they are with the cool kids, they believe what the anonymous “everyone” knows so they don’t have to consider the issue further.
That is dangerous. It is dangerous because it makes you vulnerable to being manipulated by other people. It is dangerous because until you learn to think for yourself, you aren’t really living the life you ought to live. It’s dangerous because there are people out there who have reasons to want to deceive you, whether it’s because they want to sell you a product, or because they want to take away your freedom and have total control over everything that you do. Especially now, it’s time to put down the phone and step away from the social media, or at least pause to give yourself a chance to think vs. react to things
Especially today, it is also important to question your teachers, who may not be telling you the truth about things like history, philosophy or morality. There are some teachers who have been hired by universities who teach ridiculous things, especially lately. There is some curriculum that is being shoved down the throats of students today that is pure trash—completely deceitful and even manipulative. Students of today come out of college heavy laden with monumental debt, possessing useless degrees and less able to handle the real world than when they went in. Some students have even been manipulated into a kind of paranoia about the world around them. They think that they are eternal victims and that the rest of the world is oppressing them. They believe that they have no power to determine their own lives, and that any effort to do so is futile. Such students end up with psychoses and even as violent criminals. The graduates of yesterday built America and were a blessing to their families, their communities and themselves. Today’s graduates firebomb cars. Don’t get caught in that hopeless web of lies. You are worth much more than that. Think for yourself and determine your own future. You were made for this time and you have a purpose to fulfill.
QUESTION EVERYTHING!
It is so important to THINK and not just blindly accept ideas that are presented to us, especially when we don’t really know that background of either the people who are presenting it or the details of why they espouse what they espouse.
REMEMBER TO:
THINK FOR YOURSELF
DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH
READ ALL SIDES OF AN ISSUE AND THINK ABOUT IT ON YOUR OWN BEFORE YOU JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS
READ, THINK, ANALYZE A SUBJECT BEFORE YOU FORM AN OPINION.
This will keep you from being deceived or tricked by people who may not want the best for you.
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”
Can you guess who said this? It was Margaret Mead, the anthropologist.
Wise words indeed.
And it is so true. As I look at the news tonight, and see that the House Democrats just voted in a bill that checks off another Communist goal, “transfer powers of arrest from police to social agencies,” my heart begins to pound and I feel panicked. The truth is, looking at how many of the goals the Communist movement has already achieved in this country and the weird things that are happening right now, I am scared.
So many very strange things have been happening recently: the dangerous suspension of our rights and transferring of almost whimsical power to low level bureaucrats, the weird collaboration of government agencies and the media to do things that are unthinkable, such as looking at rioters who loot and destroy and kill and doing nothing to stop it or to keep us safe. The government sits on its hands and the media praises the mob. If that’s not weird, I don’t know what is.
And then there are the “swatters,” the ones who destroy people’s lives, their jobs, their reputations on very, very flimsy evidence as if they are trying to get these people out of the way. And the media is complicit in the beat downs to the level of providing the supporting propaganda. Some call it Cancel Culture, others call it terrorism. Whatever it is called, it is a horrible injustice for these people, and no one is standing up for them.
Then there’s the annihilation of our history and our culture by vicious mobs tearing down and burning our cities and monuments. In the back of my mind I know that cultural annihilation is an integral part of every fascist-socialist revolution— including Hitler’s in WW2 —since time began. This is not good. Add to that the unremitting stream of bizarre events that seem to be orchestrated to keep us all off-kilter and frightened, even imprisoned— when it is common sense that society should be starting to open up, freedoms should be restored and life should be getting back to some semblance of normalcy right now.
And now tonight the House votes in a bill that will decimate the only protection that we have on our side, the local police, and gives the power over us to a social agency whom I’m sure will be made up of the same people who are trying to bring down our society and our culture.
When I look at the Communist goals that were listed so many years ago and see how many of them have already been accomplished, and one more tonight with the Democrat’s vote to transfer the local firepower of the police who are there to protect us to a social agency run by Communists -(-actually, two more goals accomplished as it also fulfills the Communist goal of takeover of at least one American political party), I am terrified that we are at the tail end of a very long quest by the Communists to take over this country. I fear that we are in the middle of a Communist revolution that shows no signs of abating and I wonder where we will be by next year and under whose control. Maybe the Democrats don’t care that Joe Biden can’t put two coherent sentences together because they know there will be no election in November.
But I’m trying to look at the bright side. I also see that what this means is that I need to step up and take a stand. Maybe the people in charge of the mainstream media have taken it irrevocably to the left and become a part of this problem, but that does not mean that I can’t use my voice to oppose them. With comments and blogs and any other way to get my message across, I can be a part of the solution, not just by defending America from the Communists who want to destroy it, but by taking the offense and pushing back on the goals which they think they have a lock on right now.
If their plan was to infiltrate the schools and teach anti-American garbage, my plan is to do whatever I can to teach the truth to people in every way, including about the greatness of our country and her founders.
If their plan is to take God out of our culture, my job is to bring Him back as an integral part of our lives, and to do whatever I can to help to bring us back to Him in order to restore the goodness in our souls.
If their plan is to tear apart families and small children in the womb, to take fathers out of the home and demoralize and belittle men and their role in society, then I can push back and show how important men are to our society and how vital the family is to the integrity of — to the very survival of — all of us.
I remember people used to say that promiscuity doesn’t hurt anyone. But they were wrong. The truth is it destroys everyone, because a part of the reason why we are being attacked by Communists is due to the decay of our integrity, which has severely weakened us a nation. Communists are hyenas, vultures, roaches—feeding on the dying carcass of our American culture. They could not have gotten this far if we were a strong, good and moral country.
“America is great because America is good,” said Alexis de Tocqueville. “And when America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.”
It’s time to regain that goodness and that greatness be a part of the new American movement—the Resistance. It’s time to push back, take a stand, start talking, start acting, and start combating the evil. . Time to organize and send those darned Communists back to Hell where they came from. Time to turn around, to turn back to God, to our roots, to our values, back to the freedom that so many have sacrificed their lives for and back to the laws that were put in place so many years ago by brilliant men who were aware of the evil that is trying to encroach upon us and that threatens to swallow us up whole right now.
I vow to resist the Communists, no matter what it takes.
In Genesis 18:32 Abraham bargains with God, asking Him to forego His wrath on the city. Abraham asked God, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak just once more. What if only ten (good people) can be found there?”
And God relents and agrees that for the sake of the 10, He would not destroy the city.
I’ve always envisioned this as a kind of magic wand thing. God could bring it down to smite the city, but because of those 10 He decided not to use it.
But after looking at the situation we are in now, I wonder if this is really what that passage means? Look at the Communist goals; every single one of them is about attacking our integrity, our morality, our connection with God and each other. The goals that they accomplished made us more promiscuous, broke apart our families, broke apart our relationships, made us no longer desire goodness, truth and beauty, and got rid of our connection to God and our duty to follow His laws. In other words, the goal of all of these things was to destroy our integrity in order to get us to crumble into decay. And at the point of decay, when we were so weakened by our lack of integrity, they began their attack in earnest, certain that we would be too weak to overcome their attempts to crush us.
Look at what is going on right now. I will explain more about the con job that the Marxist trained organizers are playing on us in later posts, but it’s kind of easy to see the absurdity of the things that deceive us. We fall for manipulated words—for reacting without thinking to their gaslighting of us. We fall like lemmings for the propaganda, for actually very silly, very obviously false propaganda that they’ve convinced us of because of a few tricks they learned in community organizing school.
And we’ve got real problems with morality beyond not being able to think clearly. We kill our children so that we can have unrestricted pleasure, we are too cowardly to speak out against injustice or even take a stand against human rights abuses by just refraining from buying cheap trinkets from a country with a horrible record of that sort of thing. We allowed God to be removed from every aspect of our culture and are even codifying immorality and child murder in our laws. We did not object strongly enough to the removal of the 10 Commandments in the public square because we thought we’d be good people without them, and we were so wrong. Why not steal and burn and kill? Who is to say those things are wrong without God’s word?
Poor countries are generally poor due to corruption. Poor countries in fact are often rich in resources, but everything gets stolen, no one is safe and there is no order. Transactions can’t be trusted because laws aren’t followed, no one trusts anyone else enough to make contracts with them. In corrupt countries crime goes unpunished and no one is safe. That’s exactly what makes those countries so poor–it’s the corruption, it’s the decay. And this is the kind of country that the Democrats are leading us to—that the Communists behind the masks are trying to turn America into.
So I look at Abraham’s conversation with God and I think–maybe virtue is its own reward. Maybe if just 10 people are God-fearing enough and good enough—if just 10 people have integrity, it will keep the bottom-feeders from swooping in on us to feast on the decay.
Maybe we are not in the midst of a fascist-socialist revolution. Maybe this is just a small minority of people who are using the media to appear larger and more powerful than they are. And Maybe there are lots and lots of good people in America—many more than 10 —- and we will overcome this challenge because of it.
Or maybe we are really that far gone. Either way, the only thing to do is to turn back to God. All of us right now, we are living in this place at this time for a reason. And it truly only takes a committed group of people to turn things around and change the world. What have we got to lose by trying?
I vow to be a part of the resistance. How about you?
Here is a video of two of my favorite people in the whole world:
What happens when you start to think for yourself?
1) You get attacked.
2) You become the person whom you were meant to be.
It reminds me of Jesus’ words in Matthew 10:39
“He that findeth his life shall lose it and he that loseth his life for My sake shall find it.”
You can’t be afraid of standing for the truth, of doing the right thing. If you try to hold on to your old life of sinking in to the routine and going along with the world in order to keep yourself safe and comfortable, you never really live, you never do what God put you on this earth to do and your time on earth doesn’t really make a difference.
But if you are willing to lose the comfort of an easy life, and you are willing to think for yourself and stand up for the truth, knowing that you will face hardship and that you will be attacked for your faith and for righteousness, you find your purpose in life, and you fulfill the reason why God put you on this earth at this place and at this time.
