Currently Reading

Currently reading- John C. Calhoun A biography definitely interesting and all great men have their failings, unfortunately it is obviously written by a modern author with a distain for the principles that made America great.

As is the case with most authors this one tries to point to slavery and minimize the sectional differences and the unequal power excercised by the Northern states.

Reviewing the past

I was looking over some old posts and reminiscing on how long I have been on xanga nearly 4 years now.  Below is a post and comment from 2005.  What I found interesting about this one is specifically the comment seems to address mush of today’s moral  climate. 

Monday, June 27, 2005

 In the year 1834 a poet named Heirich Hein assesed the situation in Germany,although not a Christian he recognised Christe's power, in what he termed the talisman of the cross. He knew what would happen when the  influence of the cross waned.

"Should the subduing talisman, the cross break, then will come roaring forth the wild madness of the old champions, the insane berserker rage of which northern poets sing . That talisman is brittle,and a day will come when it will pitifully break..."

comment- That day hails the dawn of the living dead.

Posted 6/27/2005 4:04 PM by FKIProfessor - delete - block user - fix language - reply

Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only true gift is a portion of thyself-Emerson

Hypocrisy

Hypocrisy in actions is basically lying and putting up a front. So it's interesting to me that some people who have a big problem with hypocrys, no disagreement on this point, seem to not believe falsehood and  and all manor of moral depravity are really no big deal. This is an interesting judgement system.

The mask

Some say he’s just a troubled boy

Some say the mask is an evil ploy

Others its all just a joke

This mask

This mask on heroes and villains

This disguise thrills school children

This dream rides the very clouds

This mask

Some say it’s just a coward’s way

Others it’s the only logical solution

For men to make a contribution

This mask

Some say it’s a flash in the pan

A mere illusion of all so grand

But behind everyone is a soul

The mask

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We call it the past

It’s a strange thing we call the past

We all say we would have done it

Given all that was asked

But it’s never easy-the road isn’t soft

So gvive it up Revolutions dropped

It took blood violence and prison

It took hope in the face of derision

It took character and moral stance

Once more it took God to do it

To put Manifest Destiny in hand

It’s a strange thing our history is

Good and evil in a battle of wit

John Calhoun and Robert Marse

Lincoln, Washington Patton and like

Revolution - a thumb in the dike

Calling them fanatic, patriot, or prick

The flag the Bible and freedom is rich

Freedom of states and freedom of man

Moral restraint  writing in sand

Like it or not God ruled this land

Casket

The streets are lined

A starlit host

Honored not in life

Now laughs his ghost

The casket

The shell of the past

His achievements

More than dust last

Like Elvis in velvet

The casket

Some say an icon

Like many have passed

Others fixated on stories

Gory seems to attract

The casket

Gloved hands now rest

Seeming in repose

Any chances like curtains

Have fallen closed

On the casket

Men are qualified for civil liberty , in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites; in proportion as their love of justice is above rapacity In proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding　 is above their vanity of presumption; in proportion 　as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels　 of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within , the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. -　Edmund

Burke(1791)

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith. -Alexis de Tocqueville

America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great. -Alexis de Tocqueville

In matters of style swim with the stream, in matters of principle stand like a rock- Thomas Jefferson

Falling stars

Einstein couldn’t pass the grade

They thought him slow

Unable to persuade

Yet he outgrew them all

Even so his own fall

For he would not dare equate

The Universe in growing state

So many of his stubborn rules

Founded by unbelieving doubt

What greatness he refused

Falling stars and Tesla’s mind

Man it seems God made blind

So many stars fall into abyss

Forever they are extinguished

And We hear only a hiss

Habbits that have become mastesrs

We all have habits that are hard to change and to hear someone say you just don't care especially if that person is a friend or boss really hits home. Unfortunately as we get older the price for these things gets higher. Just as it is impossible to change without the calling of  and submission to Christ, Sometimes when we are in bondage it takes a power higher than ourselves to be free.

Liberty in the news

Liberty University- I read the other day how in accordance with scripture liberty no longer supports a student organization with views opposed to its core principles. Way to go. I find it strange that in todays society so called tolerance means we supposedly have to allow actions we know are wrong in our own communities and families.

Quotes
A great many people think they are thinking when they are simply rearanging their prejudices-William James

"Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hanged." - Abraham Lincoln

"We have this day restored the Sovereign, to Whom alone men ought to be obedient.  He reigns in heaven and... from the rising to the setting sun, may His kingdom come."- Samuel Adams

Atheists Book review 2

I warned you of this author

Who puts morality in all tales

I mean really how repugnant

Virtues are surreptitiously regaled

Mans depravity is not massaged

It’s made to look like rebellion

A higher power calls from pages

Of the series of Sci-fi reptillions

This authors fantasy is worse

It carves the human heart

Why did I give her another chance

Yet-I’m almost at the best part