Let’s suppose you’re charged with a crime, but you are innocent. Despite your innocence the court was able to ‘prove’ you were guilty and a jury of your ‘peers’ agreed with the evidence presented and unanimously returned a guilty verdict. Does the fact that the judicial system was able to win a conviction against you change the fact that you are innocent? Obviously the answer is ‘No’, though that does not alter the reality that you are now doing time. Continue reading The Sovereignty Series – Swimming with the Sharks – Being a Small Fish in a Big Pond
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Hell in a Hand Basket and Why We’re Going There, Guaranteed (sort of)
The worst mistake I can make when examining everything on a continuous basis is to assume that what humanity is experiencing during my lifetime is unique, a one time plunge into mass insanity, a short term illness rather than a terminal disease passed on from generation to generation.
Our culture demands that we direct our focus narrowly onto the micro, the who, what, where, when and why minutia rather than pull back and attempt to absorb the bigger picture. Living life with blinders on can be dangerous on any level we care to examine.
The following essay by Olduvai, who maintains his own blog and has written a book, is just such an attempt to pull back and see beyond our narrow perspective. Please click this link and read his thoughts.
When Gods War
When I entered high school back in 1969 the small town I grew up in was just introducing a more flexible, dare I say liberal, curriculum to broaden my indoctrination experience. I vividly remember the excitement exhibited by the principal as he (there were no ‘she’ high school principals in Southern New England back then) addressed the incoming freshman class about the educational wonders “We the Guinea Pigs” were about to encounter. Continue reading When Gods War