Why aren’t more Americans more opened minded when it comes to what they think is true and factual, when they are shown that it is not? Why when ideas are debated do some turn so violent they will attack fellow Americans? America was founded on ideas that were debated and talked out. Some of the ideas were found to be good and other no so much. But our founders did debate and did manage to create a country we should all be proud of!!!
For more than 30 years folks who attended centers of higher learning were taught there is only one way to look at anything, and views that differ from the “norm” should be defeated, not just through debate, but if needs be these differing views need to be violently opposed. Anti-freedom ideas are to be advanced at any cost, and those who are opposed to them are labeled with some of the most hateful rhetoric that can be found!!!
America, freedom, and liberty are ideas that need to be defended. We can’t force folks to believe in these ideas, but we can debate these ideas to see if they stand up to fair scrutiny. We need to oppose the violence of the anti-freedom crowds as they try to shut free speech down and control the ideas that affect the American way of life.
To walk through life with a closed mind will make you intellectually poor, and your life will be lessor for it!!! To challenge what we and others believe with a loving attitude is a long, good and well established tradition of America, and if we loose this tradition, we will cease to exist as a nation!!!
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Some of the best political theater!!!
What a show yesterday!!! I sat and watched the two hour open senate hearing with James Comey testifying, and heads did explode in the anti-freedom movement in America. All over the anti-freedom lamestream media they were working overtime to spin what happened during the hearing.
Former FBI director James Comey came off looking weak,and sometimes confused about his role as the head of the FBI!!! Not standing up to president Trump and telling him how inappropriate he was in asking not telling Comey to let go of the Micheal Flynn investigation. Part of the FBI directors job is to the president is to inform him if he is getting or crossing a line. Comey had a duty to inform and he didn’t!!!
James Comey’s testimony exonerated president Trump and his campaign with regards to Russian collusion. This will not stop the anti-freedom lamestream media from spinning this, but with their credibility in a free fall, Americans should question where they get their news from!!!
All in all I wasn’t surprised by any of the testimony, except the part where Comey was the leaker. One question I have, was Sen. John McCain awake while he asked Comey his questions???
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James Comey testifies, and heads will explode!!!
Ex-FBI director James Comey was testifying before the show, and because of show prep, I wasn’t able to watch it live. However I did read Mr Comey’s written statement. It was seven pages long and chucked full of information.
One of the big take aways from my reading was that the fake news was just that fake news. James Comey said and I’m paraphrasing this, “the press and their sources who think they know about the intelligence they are reporting on don’t, and the ones who know aren’t talking to the press”
Another big take away was that their isn’t a Russian story with regards to a connection with president Trump and his campaign or administration. Again the lamestream media and anti-freedom groups are making it all up!!!
This whole drama has been fabricated like much of the news about it, because some Americans can’t figure out why their candidate lost against president Trump. These anti-freedom Americans don’t know how to handle loosing, because they never had to face the consequences of loosing, or for that matter the trials of growing up!!! And lets not forget the older Americans who thinks it ok to shield their children from the “agony of defeat” and not allow them to mature properly, they bear a lot of responsibility for what is going wrong with America today!!!
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Why is what we believe more important than the truth!!!
There are a lot of Americans going around stating what they believe in the news and on social media. That is a good thing to a point. What happens when we find truths and facts that contradicts what we believe? One thing for sure we are never the same person. Either we draw nearer to the truth and modify what we believe, or the truth drives us further away from it, because we never want to believe we were ever wrong!!!
Today it is simpler than ever before to research what we believe and discuss it with other folks to get input and ideas that either bolster what we found out or dismiss it as a falsehood. Questioning ones beliefs id simpler, but not easy!!!
American need to question what they believe to be true, and always question the narrative of others. Someone could be conning you, or simply doesn’t know any better, but it is up to each American to keep looking for the truth, and once they have found it, hold onto it and never let it go!!!
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Do we really know what we are taught growing up???
This past Sunday at the Susquehanna Valley Church of Christ we had a guest speaker named Wissam. He help a lecture Saturday night about his journey from Islam to Christianity. It was a very good series and very enlightening. Wissam is originally from Baghdad, Iraq, and his journey was a long one!!! He went to school here in America to learn more about God’s word and evangelism. He now works in Taylor Michigan reaching out to the Arab community and sharing the Gospel!!!
Wissam said something in the morning Bible study that really rang true for me and made me rethink some positions I have been taking out life in general. Wissam said that a lot of Muslims he has been teaching really don’t know and understand Islam, because they were just raised in Muslim home and never really learned Islam for themselves!!!
I think this applies to a lot of different things in life. We grow up being taught something and we go through the motions because it is what our parents want, but we never really learn what it means. This could be religion, politics, culture, ethics, morals, and the list could go on. If we never take the time to internalize an ideology and make it our own, and question it, we will never truly be free to take our own path in life!!!
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Question the Narrative!!!
So many Americans have so many differing opinions, and believe the opinions of so many other Americans, and the narrative that they craft, it’s hard to tell who is right and who is wrong. Having an opinion and believing a narrative is ok as long as they are based in fact and reality!!!
Too many Americans totally believe everything that government tells them, without question. Too many Americans believe that if someone is elected to a governmental office, that person must be very smart and knowledgeable. And to complicate the matter, too many Americans check out of politics after an election and don’t check up on their vote to see if the office holder is doing a good job or not.
In Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience,Thoreau was paraphrasing the motto of The United States Magazine and Democratic Review: “The best government is that which governs least.” Too many Americans rely on the judgment of government, and forgets that government is made up of flawed people just like us!!! Americans seem afraid that if we stop relying on government, the country is going to fall apart. That just is not true, America was not built by government, it was built by simple folks just like you and me!!! Always QUESTION THE NARRATIVE!!!
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It seems today more than any other time in America, our federal and state constitutions are under attack. From freedom of speech to the 2nd amendment, and how we think we should be governed. The lamestream media doesn’t take is 1st amendment protection of freedom of the press serous enough!!! Having restraints on a government when it comes to the press, is a keystone of freedom in any country!!!
We have a large anti-freedom movement in America, that threatens the very foundations of our Republic!!! The anti-freedom crowds don’t like any constitutions, because constitutions gets in their way of how they think things should work at a governmental level. Anti-freedom folks like Democracies, because they can drive the emotions of the mob to drive the nations narrative when it comes to governance. Republics are slow and cumbersome when it comes to implementing laws and agendas, and anti-freedom folks can’t stand this because everything is a crisis in their minds!!!
A Republic is the best way to protect the freedoms and liberties of the people against the whims of the Democratic mob!!! America being a Republic is an anomaly in the world, a deterrent to tyrants, and an example to other countries on how to govern!!! The American Republic needs to quit nation building, getting entangled in foreign alliances, protect our own country!!! If the American Republic is strong and healthy, it will be a deterrent in the world and be seen as such, instead of being viewed as an empire!!! Protecting our constitutions is a good step towards being the best example we can be in the eyes of all the nations in the world!!!
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Freedom and liberty are incompatible with immorality!!!
Morality is a personal taught ideology, and everyone has morals, some good and some bad. Most folks with bad morals either are persuaded to change them, or they get in trouble because of their bad morals. Most folks with bad morals are subjective in the way they approach their morality.
Most folks with good morals are less subjective about their morals and more objective with the standards they use too determine their morals. Most folks with good morals tend to be more forgiving of those with weak or bad morals. I believe that good moral standards come from God’s word, and He teaches us what good morals are and why it’s important to live by them. But it is up to each of us to determine for themselves if they will be moral or immoral.
Freedom and liberty can not survive for long when a people are immoral!!! If folks don’t do what is right and moral in their relationships, those relationships don’t last for very long. If people are immoral when it comes to communicating with folks, they will tell and push lies onto people to try to advance an agenda that they want. In order to be free and have liberty, we must behave in a good moral fashion in all aspects of out lives!!! Immorality corrupts freedom and liberty and enslaves folks!!!
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