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The soil is turning worthless by the minute. Though not all of it. I know what I would do to my garden if it didn't produce. But I have to say repressive regimes have a tendency to drive the mind from within. Insurgency. This heat is in a way a type of fertilizer that produces enough for the gardener to be content with the results. Who are we to question this method of procreation or existance. Its all about collecting the value. Forming the temple, spriritually described in Revelation. Not by flesh. We need these powers of fear spreading freedom removing agents. They are ingridients that have permeated time, therefore necessary. Quite useful. God himself fought through these forces to bring about true freedom. It is all about the few. The many inadvertantly help in all of this by disbelief. Their seal of disbelief locks them out of the paths the few tread. Yes, it is hard to be the few. But not without reward. God had 7 thousand not bend their knee to Baal. Today we are here and will be until it is over. This is a motivator. To enjoy the trip there knowing you help. Earth is beautiful. Courage if you are inside "the city." Jerusalem from above, the headcourters of our faith. Not earth bound. Courage if you are outside for that is the path your mind can afford. Live it since the sun shines on you and on me the same.

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Oct 5, 2023·edited Oct 5, 2023

I'm cheering with tears right up the "rise up and eject" statement, Mr. Einstein. With this generation, that's like leading a three-year-old out of day care and leaving them at the bus stop with a pat on the back. Our forty-somethings have no idea in the world what we even mean by freedom.

Advances in propaganda science and secret police black ops had obviously made political movements a joke by the 1960s. We are not going to "eject" ensconced power without learning to think, breathe, and practice daily, hourly, personal resistance, and every essay on the subject must at least point to a praxis that leads through first steps . Yes, I am keeping up with reading your qolrm work, and finding much agreement between us. But we need to teach things like, "If you cannot live without debt, you are enslaving yourself and your children. Pare back your lifestyle until you achieve a level you can afford." You know, what used to constitute basic common sense. "Paying five bucks for Cap'n Crunch instead of two-fifty for a box of rolled oats is not just a bad bargain, because colored carbohydrate foam saturated with sugar is a poison lie, not a cereal." And so on, at that level. We have to meet these folks where they are, Mr. Einstein.

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Done.

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I have never and will never understand why we should fear a loving creator that unconditionally loves each of us.

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Well said, Jeff. I couldn't agree more, especially with this: "Freedom is a spiritual life force." My husband and I sold our beloved home in NYS and moved to FL because we loved freedom more... and I have no regrets.

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Well, here in once red in name & politic Colorado (means “colored red”) the How Blue Was My Valley Riders Of The en-Purpling Sage have been pouring in since the hippie-sixties: Blue Heaven, Blue Christmas, Blue Suede/nver Shoes is walking all over youse old redneck pioneer descent types that came before. Like un-blued Oregon wants to join with Idaho (land of Ruby Ridge), a desperate chunk of northern CO wants to join with Wyoming (the land of Cheneys).

Like redrawing, gerrymandering, porous borders around non-existent property rights could reverse the dyeing.

Responsibility. Take my wife (rhymes life) … please. Henny Youngman. Go West, young man. Horace Greeley (which, when the wind is right, smells ~ feedlots ~ a lot closer than it is).

Its an amazing thing. Escapees recreating what they sought to escape. “Freedom” to be the leopard spot (out damn’d spot,! out, I say!).

Comfort & safety. Yeah. And convenience.

Left the garage door open one time. Loud racket: a family of black bears, mom & two cubs in the garbage can. It was the easiest, most convenient thing to do.

So we cheated and we lied and we tested

And we never failed to fail, it was the easiest thing to do ~ Crosby, Stills & Nash, Southern Cross … to bear

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When I grew up and left home, I became an adult with all the risks that entails. I have never since needed a parent, nanny, babysitter, teacher, guardian or any external authority to make decisions for me. Nor have I accepted or consented to them.

I have always and will always rely on my own good judgement and wisdom born of knowledge and experience.

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