What? No Bugdet for Defense? Trump's Gone Crazy!

I am on Gab much more than Facebook and what's more enjoyable than speaking your mind and Not being shadow banned? Posting here to share current events with my friends is a crap shoot because they, social media, have admitted they are utilizing software which was developed for the Department of Defense to target certain words or phrases. If those items are found then the article or post is shadow banned. 

What that means is You the poster see the post on your feed but no one else sees it. The only way anyone will see it at all is to physically check your timeline to see if you posted anything new. This is the same as a newspaper committed to only printing one version of a traffic accident and THEY get to pick which version you get to hear and believe. 

Without hearing or reading multiple versions of the accident how else can we form a well thought out, well rounded version of what really happened? Would you want a jury deciding your fate solely based upon one witness? Would you want the jury of your murder trail limited to hearing or seeing evidence only shown on Wednesdays and your trial will happen on Tuesday ? 

This is what is taking place here on all major social media platforms. This all started out being a place where it was better organized than chat rooms and bulletin boards (remember those, they still exist) to share family photos and local information but then we discovered we could communicate with the world and our universe just opened up wider than we could imagine. 

Well, now we the people have had years to share and receive from around the world and build friendships and now the same people who gave us this amazing tool are now polluting it and stripping our ability to speak openly and freely. We have been transported back to Joseph Gobels of the Third Reich and he taught Hitler to use newspapers and radio programs to shape people's views and opinions as a whole and win the people over. This was the social media platforms of the day and for the most part it worked and people went along with Hitler at first because nothing bad or negative about him was allowed to be heard by the people. 

Jesus tells us in His own words that He will never hold anything back from us. He tells us a slave never knows all that the master knows but He, Jesus, calls us friend and will share all He can with us. Do you see the dichotomy? Can you see how it is the spirit and heart of God that we know all we can in order to truly exercise our free will to make choices and how the father of lies and deception does the opposite? Telling you there are sunny beaches and coconut drinks in hell served in ice water pools? When our ability to form our own opinion is cut and we are then told what to believe we are no longer living in a free society? This is why President Trump wants Article 230 stripped out of the National Defense bill to take away the binders being put on you and me, he wants Our freedom back so we can exercise our minds again and make well rounded, well informed choices again. 

Go elsewhere my friends and find freedom again, you don't have to give up FaceBook but have other places to gather more content, more openness brings well made decisions. 

Remember it's your life and your mind, use it in the vein it was intended, freely without censorship

My friends we are in a time of America where we stand on a precipice

 

Yet does not one in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand, and in his disaster cry for help?

Did not I weep for him whose day was hard? Was not my soul grieved for the poor? But when I looked for good, evil came; and when I waited for light darkness came. My heart is in turmoil, and is never still; days of affliction come to meet me. I go about blackened, but not by the sun; I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help. I am a brother of jackals, and a companion of ostriches. My skin turns black and falls from me, and my bones burn with heat. My lyre is turned to mourning, and my pipe to the voice of those who weep.

Job chapter 30: 24-31 R.S.V Second Edition

    Today we read here the words from Job in the Hebrew Scriptures and we hear and see through them that Job is in spiritual torment of the likes few of us ever see or know. He is a man who has lost much and he has been calling out to God over and over and saying he doesn’t understand why this has happened to him. To lose his children all in one day and to lose his wealth at the same time and within days afterward he loses his health and his wife yells at him to just curse God role over and die. Job has hit a limit very few of us could ever reach, that he stands in the assembly of his three friends and he gives a verbal account of how he saw himself as a righteous man and yet his friends point out that he must not have been so righteous because calamity has come upon him and no one can figure out why else God would allow this to happen.

My friends we are in a time of America where we stand on a precipice and we are looking down into the gorge and we too are asking how could God have brought us to this point? Our Republic and our whole way of life stand in the center of our whole day now. Morning, noon and night our minds are taken up with news reports, blogs from who we consider trusted sources and we discuss things with our trusted friends only, because we dare not strike up conversation with passing individuals because now we suspect them to be of the side of the enemy. The side of indifference and at the worst the side of chaos who would rather see America and our republic go down in flames and be abolished and label our 240 years of existence as a failed experiment. But how can we? Have we not become a nation of laws and of higher standards? Have we not led the charge for racial equality and against segregation? Yes changes did take place in Europe between races and religions but all of them are still subject to the crown! Our Constitution begins with the words, “We The People,” and we chose to govern ourselves, if we give up on our way of life are we not declaring that we the people are not able to govern ourselves? That it takes people who are smarter, more cultured, richer and wealthier than we are to govern over us? Are we declaring that we as a free thinking society are not intelligent enough or with enough integrity to seek and establish laws that are fair enough to equitably govern over our own society? Are we declaring that we just aren’t evolved enough to self govern and that we need to turn back to the masters of old Europe to lead us and to provide for us? Are we not in essence returning to the proverbial plantation of our ancestors and returning to the crop fields and acquiescing to work for the master in the big house because obviously they are the wise ones, look they were born into the wealth and position therefore they must be given to rule out of providence?

Read through the words of Job again and hear his pleading with God about his situation and know that we all seek understanding from God and my friends that is exactly what we are to do, seek God! Cry out to God and raise your fist if your desperation urges you to and say like Job, What is going On! Are we not born from a righteous God and are we not spoken to as brothers and sisters by Jesus Himself? Then we can declare that we are deserved of God’s assistance and intervention. Pray, call out to God and pound on the doors of heaven for your freedom and for freedom for the world because beloved the alternative is enslavement forever and we will have put the chains back on our own wrists.

 

First Letter to the Thessalonians Chapter 5: 1-6

Concerning times and seasons, brothers and sisters, you have no need for anything to be written to you. For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief at night. When people are saying, “Peace and security,” then sudden disaster comes upon them like labor pains upon a pregnant woman and they will not escape. But you brothers, are not in darkness for that day to overtake you like a thief. For all of you are children of light , children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness. Therefore, let us not sleep as the rest do, but let us stay alert and sober.

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What is Paul saying here? He is speaking, it seams, with a believing community, a people who are decided to take seriously the words and parables Paul has related to them and he addresses them stating they are Not without faith and that they are “awake”. He uses the word alert and the word light and I believe he is not just referring to the condition that takes place every 12 hours in nature but more rather he is referring to the spiritual condition of this community which possibly only he himself has raised up and guided, they are devout students and he speaks to them on a more equal level.

For me I see a strong correlation with this community and what is going on today both spiritually and emotionally and the media and political leaders are directly responsible. Peace and safety are the words we are warned about about, the words to which we are to tune our ears for, they are words heard just before utter destruction. For me Paul is speaking with a community who are spiritually awake and know what he is referring to. Take for example, ”for you yourselves are fully aware,” “but you brothers are not in darkness.” Spiritual darkness, being lost in the world, spiritually and emotionally.

Do not let the darkness overtake you could today be said, keep your heads on a swivel or in other words remain spiritually alert always looking not only to what’s in front of you but also what is behind and to either side. I am reminded of the prayer of Saint Patrick of Ireland, it is very long but through it Patrick asks God to be in front, behind, to the left and to the right, up above and down below. Patrick was asking God to go before him in all directions and to allow all whom he made contact with to see Christ first and then see him, Patrick.

May we too ask God to surround us so that we are not caught off guard and to be alert and aware of coming or impending trouble. Check your six would be another phrase or watch your six as in if you were viewing a clock face on the ground and you were at the center and 12 were in front of you and 3 to the right and 9 to the left and 6 to the rear, check your rear, watch your rear, protect your partner’s 6, now your getting it ;-)

Paul was not so much speaking to them about light and dark but being aware and in this time of history we who are watchers and followers of the Christ must remain vigilant and aware, so says Jesus.

Peace to you