The River Doesn’t Care

The river doesn’t care
What you make of it, O man.
It has its life,
And you have yours.
Curse it all you like,
And still it will outlive you.

Or if by chance you should
Take a different mind about it,
You can learn its way
And its bounty
And its strength
And let it bear you on its back–

Though only to the places it goes.

And once you are yielded that
It only goes where it goes,
The river will still outlive you,
For it is what it is
And you are what you are.

But you shall have had In your days
Your river.
And you shall have learned in your heart
Its lesson.
And only then shall you
Discover that the river had prepared you
For what comes next.


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There Come Our Summers

There come our summers and winters.
And no matter how we spend them,
In time will appear the sum of them all,
Looming nearer until its only landing,
When the number of our days is settled once and for all,
When the others will say,
“So that’s how long he lived.”

And whether any shall marvel at the sum or not,
The questions haunt the mind:
Has the sum of his days meant anything?
And has their worth matched their number?

And in answering, we shall reveal ourselves,
Each in his own way, seeing things as he does.

But the question also comes to the one Mind
Whose proper business it is to decide.
And He shall make of us what He does.
And His answer will be the right one.

He will know.

He will know what was given,
And endured,
And overcome,
And hidden,
And what had been expected.

He will know what to do.

And He will do it.

And as for the rest of us,
We can leave it calmly in His hands,
If we dare.
Or we can pretend to know
What is yet unknowable to us.

And either way,
He goes on as before,
Judging his creatures justly,
Knowing just what to think about them,
And being Himself that very great reward for those
Whose time on earth shall have pleased Him in the balance.

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The Reality of Work-for-Food

So far in the history of Planet Earth, what animal species has ever survived without working for its own food?

If this is how nature handles it—if the species work to support themselves—then how is it that certain humans pretend today to have found a better way to thrive than by working for what they need?

The only way to do this, of course, is to steal from others—either taking what they have earned with their own work, and making it your own, or taking the workers themselves as your own property, and making them work for you rather than for themselves.

The latter (chattel slavery) has been flatly condemned in latter centuries in our society. But as to the former, the American people are still somewhat fuzzy on what to think about it. They already live in a system where the main earners are heavily taxed, with over 50% of the net income being taxed away in various ways. Yet surprisingly, there is practically no push-back in regard to this. Rather, it seems that most just throw up their arms and sigh, and then continue to live under a tax burden that is many times greater than the one that sparked the American Revolutionary War in 1775. (They were quite a different people from what we are today.)

We have switched slavery types in this country since 1775. Chattel slavery is now anathema to our culture, but the slavery of over-taxation and over-regulation is well tolerated by the American people. (Again, were are a different sort of people than were the American founders.)

One of the ways that the overlords are manipulating the nation today is by promising non-workers that they have a right to be equal in this world with those who do work for their own livings–to have “equal outcomes” in life, even if there’s a huge inequality of input from one individual to the next. It’s a promise that even though the non-workers don’t survive in nature, they’ll thrive in our society, because we will give them “equality” just for being alive. But they won’t say it this way. No, the way they put it is a lie. They want to frame it as a matter of “race”, such that anything labeled “white” is bad, and anything labeled “minority” is good.

So basically, all those whites who spent all those centuries working for a living—like the rest of the animal species do—had got it all wrong. (Never mind the white bums among them who tried to pretend against reality that there’s a good way to succeed in this world without working to support yourself–and who had miserable lives as do the bums of every other skin color.) And now, we are supposed to believe that the answer for all the minorities finally to have a good life in this world is to redistribute what the white workers are earning—giving it away to people who did not work for it.

Uh-huh. And how long is that going to last? If I give up my house for the bums down the street, how long is it until they are going to ruin the house? Remember, they’re not the sort to maintain the thing, or to make it BETTER. Nope, they are simple users, and when it’s used up, they have no means to build another house. Their only recourse will be to take yet another house from somebody else—another house they did not work for themselves.

A society like that cannot live long unless it is maintained artificially—such as by an unruly government who sees value in throwing unconstitutional money its way in return for votes. Without any such host for its parasitic lifestyle, such a society would be the economic equivalent of a group that does not believe in having children; it will die out quickly. It is not self-sustainable. And that means once the government support dies out, this is a flash-in-the-pan movement. But it has been kept alive for many decades now by the US Government and the cartel that runs the government behind the scenes.

But this is no movement of philosophers and statesmen and problem solvers; it is a movement of irrationals and irresponsibles—and I shall not be in the least surprised to find out that it is funded by the Fascists/Communists who are continuing the process of overthrowing the United States (while we sit idly by and watch).

It’s likely, I suppose, that when the time is right, their handlers will try to stir up the minority mobs to violence against the committed workers—likely as a first round of warfare against those with the real power in this country (the power to get things done–and I’m referring to people who work for their own living). The non-workers will be of no long-term use to the Fascists, but they’ll make useful pawns in the opening rounds of the mounting conflict. But then, once they become a liability to the Fascists, and are no longer an asset, only a fool would think that the Fascists are going to go out of their way to keep feeding a nonworking class. Ironically, they’ll be much more likely to enslave them as chattel slaves, and then, simply to work them to death—even underfeeding them along the way. (And before they die, they’ll long for the good old days when they could suckle freely at the teats of the great American sow, having only to complain for their supper.)

It’s amazing where all one will run in the flight from reality. People end up in some very untenable places. You don’t want to work for a living, so you pin all your hopes on those “Critical Race Theorists” who tell you that you shouldn’t have to work, and that the world simply owes it to you to provide for you, and that anyone who says differently is merely spouting “white” propaganda—and that they can’t possibly know what they’re talking about, because they’re all hopelessly biased, and have no real idea how the world works.

Well, funny, but before “white people” were a thing, there were Semites in the Ancient Near East who were teaching hard work as a paradigm. (Check your Bible for this.) And there are other non-Caucasian cultures who have recognized that the need for hard work is a reality in this real world. Is it not a fair stereotype to mention Japan, for example? Do they not have an obvious national paradigm of diligence and hard work? And are they not prospering? But now, suddenly, we’re supposed to believe it’s a “white thing”, and that that’s all there is to it.

Well, that’s just stupid.

The klaxon culture has been a parasite alongside the classical American body politic for my whole life, at least—people assuming the right to what is not rightfully theirs, and being angry that it’s not being handed to them as they demand. And that culture has thrived as the US Government (and other entities) have learned how to manipulate them by way of their corruption of greed. But that klaxon class will definitely be thinned out in the coming struggle, because they’ll be left eventually to fend for themselves—and fending for themselves is the very thing they refuse to do. They’ll end up shooting each other, and being shot by workers defending their own possessions and safety, and eventually, by the very government that now promises them such uber-rights over everybody else.

You could clear off a continent and populate it nicely with people of any skin color, and the workers among them would thrive while the non-workers would not. The word for this is not “racism”, but “nature”. That’s how it works in the real world, friends. It’s not a “white thing”.

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Liars Are Twisted People

We all live in a real world. It was here before we got here, and it will be here when we’re gone. And it has rules that do not depend the least bit on our own opinions, wishes, beliefs, traditions, habits, perceptions, concerns, or abilities. For example, gravity is always on whether we like it or not—whether we understand it or not—even whether it hurts us or not—-. The law of cause and effect is always on—even when the effects hurt us. The sustaining of life takes work—even when we “don’t feel like” working. Truth exists, even when it hurts our feelings or causes us inconvenience.

There is a certain fabric to reality—metaphorically speaking. It has certain qualities and properties. It works in certain ways. It is what it is. And most people spend a lifetime learning about it to some extent or another—learning how to navigate this real world. We make our mistakes, and we make improvements, and we learn our lessons—some more easily than others. That is, after living here a while, we “learn the ropes”, so to speak—we learn how things work. We figure it out. And to some extent, we adjust our own thinking and beliefs to better map onto the reality that surrounds us.

But some people refuse to let the rules be the rules—at least on some topics. They are unwilling to adjust their own thinking and beliefs to fit the real world, and prefer instead to act as if reality is different from what it is. They take a twisted view of things, believing against reality—against the evidence and against sound reasoning. And to do this, they have to lie.

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Whittling Christianity Down to a Twisted Lie

…the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

The phrase above, taken from the traditional American oath for witnesses in court cases, has developed from the wisdom of the ages. That is, humans have figured out over time that when you talk about truth, you have to get very specific, else some people will try to evade it by either omitting parts of it, or adding to it some things that are untrue.

In this post, I want to talk about the former—about omitting parts of the truth, such that what is left does not paint the true picture at all. The way I see it, this happens with great regularity in America’s churches. Here’s what I mean:

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Trophies and Foundations

If you experienced even one highly-excellent event in your schooling years, you can probably relate to what I want to say here. For some, it might have been winning the big game. For others, putting on a great play or musical. For others, winning the Spelling Bee or the Brain Brawl, or getting a Superior rating at the Band Festival. I trust you’ll know what I’m talking about.

Well, there’s a difference in what people do with those excellent schooling experiences—whether they experience many or few such things. Some people take those experiences as trophies—as things to be remembered—as high-water marks of life. They are the sort to say, “Hey, do you remember that time that such-and-such happened?” A lot of people are like this, and draw joy (whether much or little) from these schooling-years experiences throughout the rest of their lives.

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Jack’s “Runaway Congress” Bill (Dereliction of Federal Duty and Faithless Representation Felonies)

Empowering Constitution-supporting citizens to remove bad-acting members of Congress with the help of state courts. (See the full text of the bill below.)

This is the cover image for my novel, The Extraordinary Visit of Benjamin True.

I’ve drafted a bill to help the states solve one of America’s greatest problems. That problem is that Congress does not very well follow the Constitution it swears to uphold. And who is responsible for impeaching and trying members of Congress who break the rules? Well, Congress is.

Do you see a problem here?

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Why Would Any State Want the Two Major Parties Running Its Politics?

This article concerns a recent chart I put together, so let’s start there.

Suppose you were an imaginary State X, which entered the Union as a sovereign political entity, and only joined because of a handful of intended benefits that made it worth trading off a little bit of your independence. You would get the help of the Union in defending yourself from invasion and insurrection. And you’d be guaranteed fair trade with all the other member states. And in most other matters, you’d get to make your own rules as you see fit.

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The Strange Limits of American Civic Involvement

I’m not writing to create a full essay on American civic behavior, but rather, to point out just a couple of curious things. I posted meme pictured here on Facebook this morning, and then had further thoughts about it that seemed worth sharing.

Let me start by repeating in my own words what a friend replied. He said that we have many rights that are worth defending, but that the 2nd Amendment protects our option to defend our rights with force if necessary. And indeed, I have heard such statements before. So I replied with something like this, which I have since amplified after further reflection:

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Lying to “Justify” Negative Attitudes Toward Others

Once upon a time, there was a fox who could not reach the grapes he wanted. As he reflected on the scenario, he was dissatisfied with the truth of the matter: that he was unable to find a way to get the grapes. So he lied in order to “justify” himself to himself. He declared that those grapes (that he could never taste) were sour. And he did this with no evidence whatsoever that the grapes were indeed sour. It was an irresponsible, irrational, and dishonest assertion about the grapes, but maintaining his own arrogant self-view was more important than maintaining the truth.

And why am I reminding you of Aesop’s “Sour Grapes”? It’s because some people do a very similar thing when they find themselves in conflict with other people. What they want is to be validated by others, and when they don’t get it, they get angry. And then they feel a need to “justify” their anger and their negative attitude toward the others. And I put that word in quotation marks because very often, they cannot really justify it. Rather, they pretend to justify it.

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