11 Monday Mar 2013
Tags
charlatans, free will, God, humility, perspective, thought, understanding
We are only allowed to grope in the dark in reference to all that inspires our incomprehensible machine.
~Voltaire, 1764
…but no sooner than we stop our fumbling about, ever the happy better appears with a torch.
~tdv
28 Monday Jan 2013
Just sitting here thinking how great it would be if somebody randomly reviewed the whole of my life, and then gave me the perfect idea as to what to do with the rest of my life.
Wouldn’t that be great?!
This somebody would see everything that I’ve ever done, every contribution I’ve made, every success small and great within my rucksack of jobs and hobbies and interests, every positive impression I’ve made at work or among family or friends, and see every great idea I ever had that I never wrote down.
This somebody would also see everything I’ve ever done wrong, every failure and error and blunder, every moment that I’d done someone wrong even when I didn’t realize it at the time, and see the dumbest ideas and thoughts that ever came to my mind or spewed from my mouth.
This is great!
Then, this somebody would randomly appear out of nowhere, absent any malice whatsoever, armed with every piece of data that is and ever was, of my heart and mind and hands, this somebody would extrapolate from my long life what exactly I am supposed to be when I grow up, after the fact, and tell me with prophetic hindsight that one thing that I was meant to do on earth that was mine alone to do.
Then I’d smack myself upside the head at the obviousness of what I’d struggled with since youth to figure out. I’d kick myself at the wasted (undisclosed) decades, which if you’ve ever seen someone try to kick themselves, I’d look ridiculous…
Time to get to work.
After this somebody schools me and takes their leave, I am left, aside from the elation at the new truth, I am left with the quick realization that this thing that I am to do, this thing that I’m made for and must make, will be an enormous undertaking. And that somebody didn’t provide the precise detail of my contribution, because then it wouldn’t be mine, of course.
So what did I need this somebody for, anyway? I mean, I’m going to do all the work, I’m the one that did all that I’ve done, I’m the one that built that database. Man, this somebody that I imagine randomly figuring it all out for me, can’t really be anybody but me, accompanied by maybe my God.
Yeah, that’ll be great when it happens, when me and maybe my God figure me all out, what I’m doing here, and I’m not waiting around for it. Best get to work, getting ready to really get to work.
This other somebody stuff… is a fairy tale. I thank God that such thoughts leave my mind as fast as they enter, leaving me much faster than I can think to write them down. And I pity those who cling to such fantasies, waiting on men, because there’s always another “this somebody” willing to take the advantage. Makes me wonder where those kind of ideas come from in the first place.
~tdv
13 Thursday Dec 2012
Posted in Liberty
If we could combine the youthful zeal for liberty with the knowledge and dignity of its experience… well…
…and join with these the higher respect for liberty that comes with sacrificing for it… or that comes with having it denied…
…If we would clothe this liberty in humble reverence to our Maker, who IS its source…
26 Monday Nov 2012
Tags
country, God, learning, liberty, love, obamacare, pravda, random, thanksgving, U.S. Constitution
Wonder if it’s ever too late to learn what needs to be taught before it’s too late? @ 11.25.12
So Pravda says we’re illiterate, the “United Socialist States of America”… I get it, but since when do we care what they say, generally? @ 11.25.12
constitution: n. 6. A system of fundamental principles for the government of Rational and social Beings. ~So THAT’s why the left hates it. @ 11.24.12
Take a number, take a pill, we’ve votes to buy, and just because. ~the central govt. #obamacare @ 11.24.12
Isn’t it so, that the enemies of liberty would wish, precisely, that free men presume themselves defenseless against any trespass? @ 11.23.12
If you cannot love your country, if you cannot love your God, then what can you love? @ 11.23.12
Thanksgiving Day reminded me that Democrats actually have the capacity to be… LIKABLE… :] @ 11.23.12
Note: The preceding random musings are mine, except as quoted/linked. ~tdv (@subconch) The @ symbols take you to the specific quotes on twitter if you care to RT, Favorite, or Reply.
18 Thursday Oct 2012
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american ideal, benghazi, campaign lies, debate, Faith, global warming hoax, God, growing up, invisible, liberty, obama, prepare, romney, servitude, social engineering, soldiers, terror, tyranny
One of my kids acquired ‘after 9pm’ driving privileges today & my brother hit a deer. Same day, no joke… Our Father, Who art in heaven… @ 10.17.12
“And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth. Give us day by day our daily bread. And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.” ~KJV Bible, Luke 11:2-4
Barack Hussein Obama is an Invention… problem is, the Marxists & media can’t even get a Design Patent on him. @ 10.17.12
Nov. 6th is a lifetime away, and to Jan. 20th an eternity… It’s not over, they’re not done. sorry @ 10.17.12
…before the Pres. debate…
Mitt just needs to be Romney, and it won’t matter which Barack shows up to be Obama. @ 10.16.12
I’d like to hear the “role of govt” question from last debate expanded on, specifically, “What is the Role of the Executive Branch?” @ 10.16.12
#ObamaDebateTips Proclaim that you are a socialist, so your base knows you like parties. @ 10.16.12 (fun with hashtags)
…after the debate…
Obama said several times “We need to CONTROL our energy”. Kinda wraps up his political philosophy. Control. This Aint US @ 10.17.12
Wonder how many debate viewers didn’t know about Obama & Co.s Benghazi failures & cover-up till last night? How many will they tell?
@ 10.17.12
It’s really incredible (& sad) that Obama has ANY support left… Imagine that kind of popularity in a Pres. who actually liked America… @ 10.15.12
Romney implied O’s Electoral ownership of 47% of the people. Obama seeks to transform the implication into Actual ownership. @ 10.15.12
How much has this SCAM Cost the U.S. and the World? “Global Warming Stopped 16 Yrs Ago!” @ 10.15.12
Ref: Global warming stopped 16 years ago, reveals Met Office report quietly released… and here is the chart to prove it by Davis Rose 10.13.12
What ratio of our countrymen have rejected the American ideal without ever knowing it first? Guess that was the intention, huh? @ 10.15.12
And what portion still, gain great wealth, then turn that wealth against the profitable environs of the principles of secured liberty?
@ 10.15.12
Have you ever wondered if a single thing you’ve said had a profoundly positive or negative effect on a single human being? Yeah, me neither. @ 10.14.12
What’s his is his, like the servile masses, but he damn sure don’t own the rest of us, the most of us. Fire O’ @ 10.13.12
I think, the least likely to say that it is in vain, is the soldier, and so long as liberty thrives, I’ll tend to agree, with the soldier. @ 10.11.12
We’re all just flickable specks on the finely creased britches of obama, world govt, media, & academe social engineers. @ 10.10.12
Note: The preceding random musings are mine, except as quoted/linked. ~tdv (@subconch) The @ symbols take you to the specific quotes on twitter if you care to RT, Favorite, or Reply.
06 Saturday Oct 2012
We are each, we are the ones that we are.
I am not you, you are not me,
and neither of us have to be either of us.
We are unequal, as we are able and as we will.
We are equal, as nature makes it so.
Living liberty, as each, we are American.
This, our hearts, our souls, I say is of God, as I am able.
~tdv
29 Saturday Sep 2012
There are objects of my mind, some long settled and newly reasoned, things that bear such weight, that the consequence of their mention is prohibitive… at least in my mind.
Words from my reason, my ideas, may not only be such that bind and bend the different soul in a particular circumstance, they as well can be of a sort that cannot be entrusted to any or as many and great, that these may be turned in upon, and find harm to invisible men.
But these same compulsive ponderings on the effect of my expounding, that lead me silent, might have a result counter to my imagining, and do damage by their never being heard.
It is a bit of a curse, I think, a sort of hyper-diligence to duty, to honor and responsibility, that I self-censor so. As well I sit with a bit of distrust. It’s not either that I fancy myself some immortal pillar of virtue, for the contrary is clear. Nor is it that I think so highly of mine own creations, for that opposite potentiality is half of the conundrum.
So I’ll take council with my God, as we have kept and may keep these unspoken, lest a man offer to guide my voice, whom I’ll promptly ignore, and return to my original council.
Existence of a liberty no more justifies its particular exercise, than its passiveness renders it just.
~tdv
UPDATE 10.01.12: To clarify, this writing has NO bearing on our Constitutionally protected freedom of speech! Don’t try to make the connection between this article and recent calls for Americans to shut up to appease Islamic murderers, as I firmly believe these calls are dangerous to our republic, and downright idiotic.
This article is simple introspection, and any correlation inferred by you radical leftist America-haters is pure hog sh!t before it’s even digested.
14 Friday Sep 2012
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animadversion, ask, charity, CotUS, founders, God, govt, hashtags, liberty, limits, nobility, piety, power, random, regret, socialism
How many times have we wished that we’d Not, only to forget long enough to think that we Ought? @ 09.10.12
Starving the beast makes it meaner, as we’ve seen… but in the end it either eats less or starves to death. @ 09.10.12 #govt
Obama’s convention bounce? Lead? More proof that rigamortis has set in large mass on the body of our republic. If inclined, pray. @ 09.09.12
“Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man.” ~Webster’s 1828 ~@
Today’s word, kids, used in Federalist No. 80, is animadversion… which means – criticism. @ 09.07.12
Some Stunning Photos~> West Coast Trail by Patrick Latter
“Yeah, my grade is ‘incomplete’, but its only cuz you stupid Americans won’t shut up and let me finish your lesson!” ~obama’s brain @ 09.06.12
Their greatest maxim is but a maximum hazard, that the fist of their government is the supreme compassionate. ~tdv @ 09.06.12 (re: dnc2012)
Just curious, the word “Czar”, is it not a “Title of Nobility”? Webster’s 1828 says it means “King”, & it is a “Title”. Art.I,§.9,c.8 @ 09.04.12
Fun with HashTags, 09.04.12 edition #DNCin4Words
@ Divide Distract Attack Pretend
@ Beg Borrow Steal … PRINT
@ Return of the KING (plagiarized from proteinwisdom)
@ Classfare Racefare Genderfare Lawfare
@ Demagogic Nihilists and Conjurers
“How difficult it IS for error to escape its own condemnation.” ~Madison,fed41,end. ridiculing claim that Art.I,§.8,c.1 amounts to unlimited power @ 09.03.12
Ya know how when you say “I don’t understand”, then straight away you understand? Well I didn’t say it, & waited, & never understood. ~tdv @ 09.02.12
Read~> Socialism is as Socialism Does by Dr. Robert Owens 08.31.12
…and nobody does it better than obama. Excellent article.
Read~> Is it too late to restore constitutional liberty? by Tom Tancredo 08.20.12
A serious and important question.
You cannot separate God from the founders, or thereby presume that the founders sought to separate God from the people. @ 08.29.12
Further, to fully separate government from God would be to fully separate God from the people who govern… which of course, would be unconstitutional, and an affront to liberty. ~tdv, comments over publiushuldah re God-given rights & safety nets
Note: The preceding random musings are mine, except as quoted/linked. ~tdv (@subconch) The @ symbols take you to the specific quotes on twitter if you care to RT, Favorite, or Reply.
30 Thursday Aug 2012
Is it unconstitutional and immoral for the government to steal from some people in order to give to undeserving lazy others, or anybody, while pitting Americans against each other? Of course, it’s evil theft for the sake of power. And what IS the government supposed to really DO, anyway?
In her latest paper entitled “God-Given Rights, Man-Made Anti-Rights, and Why ‘Safety Nets’ are Immoral”, Publius Huldah makes the case in context with the U.S. Constitution, and other sources, and as is her usual M.O., the study is well outlined, referenced, and footnoted.
It is the dogma of our time that proponents of government safety net programs hold the moral high ground. Accordingly, Democrats preen over their own “compassion”; and Republicans chime in that they too “believe in safety net programs”.
But safety net programs are unconstitutional and immoral. They are unconstitutional because “charity” is not one of the enumerated powers of the federal government.
They are immoral because they are based on a fabricated system of man-made anti-rights which negate the Rights God gave us.
I recommend you read and share.
As well as the discussion at hand, this paper also provides a great and easy to understand overview of our Constitution, and the following section headings:
~tdv
09 Thursday Aug 2012
Tags
america, constitution, declaration of independence, despotism, epa, federalist, God, random, sierra club, states, we the people, yes or no
As the law of averages imparts, the answer of NO is halfwise equally appropriate as the seemful everwise response of YES. ~tdv @ 08.08.12
There are No dangers of government seizures of freedom, where there are No people to mind them. ~tdv @ 08.08.12
~Excerpts from Federalist No.31 pars.11-12 ~Alexander Hamilton
States, by their orig. constitutions, are invested with complete sovereignty. […] strength is always on the side of the people; @
Every thing beyond (the federal powers delineated in the constitution), must be left to the prudence and firmness of the people; @
…the people; who, as they will hold the scales in their own hands, it is to be hoped, @
…hoped, (the people) will always take care to preserve the constitutional equilibrium btwn the general and the state govts. @
~~Once universal understanding of American government and faith in the America people… forgotten. ~series tweeted 08.08.12
“This doctrine supposes the perfections of God to be the representatives to us of whatever we perceive in the creatures.” ~Locke ? @ 08.07.12
EPA’s Ex, Armendariz ~ Recycled Tyrant @ 08.06.12
Siezera Club… Comrade Commandeered. Forward the American Averse. ~tdv @
Ref: Ousted EPA administrator vows to “stop the construction of any new coal plants in Texas” by Rob Bluey 08.06.12
Other Abuse: City Moves to Cut 1/3 of Austin’s Power & Jack Up Prices
h/t @Libertarian_ish
“declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.”… “establishment of an absolute Tyranny” @ 08.05.12
from the Declaration of Independence
Note: The preceding random musings are mine, except as quoted/linked. ~tdv (@subconch) The @ symbols take you to the specific quotes on twitter if you care to RT, Favorite, or Reply.
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