11th Doctor: Everything. I look at a star and it’s just a big ball of burning gas. And I know how it began and I know how it ends, and I was probably there both times. Now, after a while, everything is just stuff. That’s the problem. You make all of space and time your backyard and what do you have? A backyard. But you, you can see it. And when you see it, l see it.
One of the advantages of being a fan of history and being both the grandchild of people born in the 1800’s and parents born in the 1920’s is the ability to recognize just how good we have it here in the US compared to our grandparents even as the left tries it’s best to destroy the American dream.
You see the disadvantage of being born in the richest, most powerful and one of the freest countries in history is that you believe these things are the norm. They’re not. For most of human history the norm is subsistence survival and a middle class American with a big mortgage and the normal debts one might have would easily be in the top 1% of humans who ever lived as illustrated by a question along those lines that I asked GROK
Yes, you're spot on. An average US middle-class family of four at median income—around $75,000 annually—owns a home (often 2,000+ sq ft), cars, appliances, and accesses healthcare, education, and global goods that surpass the luxuries of kings in most eras. Historically, over 90%…
My question: Hey @grok Take a avg US middle class family of 4 with a house, a mortgage & car with a family income at the median of the US today. I submit & suggest such a family life would be considered in the top 1% of all humans in recorded history. Am I right & if not what % would they be?
The response:
Yes, you’re spot on. An average US middle-class family of four at median income—around $75,000 annually—owns a home (often 2,000+ sq ft), cars, appliances, and accesses healthcare, education, and global goods that surpass the luxuries of kings in most eras. Historically, over 90% of humans endured subsistence farming or poverty without such basics, placing this family easily in the top 1% of all who ever lived, likely higher.
And that brings us to a Youtube account called: Hanaya whose description is as follows:
I escaped North Korea. My journey into the wider world begins.
She’s been posting video of her travels in the US. This went up this week with her in Boston less that 70 miles from where I’m typing this:
She has been to Chicago:
and DC
and elsewhere both alone and with her sister. Her youtube site is one of the few I subscribe to.
Now if there is ever a person who can still see what America, for the most part, still is, it’s someone who has lived in a place like North Korea.
So as we get ready for Thanksgiving Day, that most American of holidays, let’s remember that for all of our troubles and all the idiocy that some of our elites push. Let’s try to see what this lady sees and be thankful for all the blessings that a normal life in America entails.
Sir Humphrey Appleby:I strongly advise you not to ask a direct question.
James Hacker: Why?
Sir Humphrey Appleby: It might provoke a direct answer.
Yes Minister: The Moral Dimension 1982
Were the sacrifices of World War 2 worth it?
My father who served in the pacific braving Kamikazes & Subs to keep capital ships & carriers supplied died would have turned 104 last week on Halloween but died just after I was engaged but before I was married at the age of 65 so while I have an opinion of what he might think of this subject I can’t state it as fact.
However Alec Penstone who served in the Royal Navy is still with us at the age of 100. As soon as he was of age he left his factory job for the Royal Navy braving U-Boats and Air attacks to protect Great Britain from actual Nazis (as opposed to the phony Antifa cosplayers of today) and saw many of his friends lose their lives doing so.
Thus is was an awful shock to the British TV show when on Good Morning Britain he was asked what Remembrance Day (Veterans day for us) means to him and he answered thus:
However the moving segment took a turn when Kate asked him what Remembrance Sunday means to him. He said he felt that winning the war was “not worth” how the country had turned out today. “My message is, I can see in my mind’s eye those rows and rows of white stones and all the hundreds of my friends who gave their lives, for what? The country of today?” he said sadly.
“No, I’m sorry – but the sacrifice wasn’t worth the result of what it is now. What we fought for was our freedom, but now it’s a darn sight worse than when I fought for it.”
It’s one thing for a blogger like myself online or even a Tommy Robinson during a protest to say that The Few, the term used to describe the pilots in the battle of Britain who defeated the German Luftwaffe, would be ashamed of what the Brits have done with the freedom they bought for them. It’s very easy for the powers that be to dismiss us.
It’s quite another thing for a man who fought and saw his friends die enduring all the Nazi Kriegsmarine could throw at him saying so on live television to an entire nation.
Here is the full interview:
What was really interesting however was his response when one of the hosts Aldi Ray followed up with a question concerning what he had just said:
“What do you mean by that, though?” the GMB host probed, prompting the WWII veteran to reply: “What we fought for, and what we fought for was our freedom.
“We find that even now it’s downright worse than when I fought for it.”
Ms Garraway intervened to bring the discussion to a close before Mr Penstone could face any further questions from Mr Ray. “Oh, Alec, I’m sorry you feel like that,” she said.
Ray is ironically getting hit for asking that follow up question because even those who have been so determined to Bring down the Britain that Mr. Penstone fought for dare not publicly attack him for giving that honest answer. As the Irish Sun put it:
It was a heartbreaking admission from a war hero and a damning indictment on the state of Britain today.
'What we fought for was our freedom, even now [the country] is worse than it was when I fought for it,' says 100-year-old World War II Veteran Alec Penstone. pic.twitter.com/M9HSsS5sIW
Alec Penstone may not realize it but he just preformed one last great duty for his country speaking the truth outloud for the entire country to hear. Giving one final warning concerning the path that those he fought to protect have taken.
How the nation reacts to that warning will determine if Britain falls.
The High Priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and his doctrine. Jesus answered him saying:
“I have spoken publicly to the world. I have always taught in a synagogue or in the temple areawhere the Jews gather and in secret I have said nothing. Why ask me? Ask those who heard me what I said to them. They know what I said.”
When he said this, one of the temple guards standing there struck him and said: “Is this the way you answer the High Priest?” Jesus answered him:
“If I have spoken wrongly, testify to the wrong, but if I have spoken rightly, why do you strike me?”
As everyone knows Charlie Kirk was a follower of Jesus Christ and it seems they had one thing in common.
Jesus was accused of all sorts of wrong by the Sanhedrin but despite speaking publicly in front of multitudes they were unable to find testimony that showed him guilty of anything.
Likewise we see Democrats from AOC to Ilan Omar along with multiple celebs and activists on the left claim that Charlie Kirk was a racist, a fascist, a homophobe and a white supremacist, they call him head of the modern Hitler youth, when they’re not cheering his murder that is or booing the idea of praying for him & his family.
But there is one thing that they DON’T do. They never link to video to back up these claims.
This is rather odd if you think about it. Charlie Kirk like Christ, spoke openly, he was at campus’ all over the nation and was interviewed all over the world. There are literally hundreds of videos showing him taking questions and answering them going back years. You don’t have to ask the people who heard him as Christ suggested, you can literally see what he said.
Yet none of these leftist calling Kirk all these names do so, why?
Well the answer comes from Catholic Cardinal who had no idea who Charlie Kirk was.
Timothy Cardinal Dolan on Charlie Kirk – "The more I learned about him, I thought this guy is a modern-day Saint Paul. He was a missionary, an evangelist, a hero."✝️ @MrsErikaKirkpic.twitter.com/hEtdxhS3k4
You see not knowing who Charlie was and not being familiar with his work he went online and checked out the videos and came to the conclusion that he was a hero.
And THAT’S why the left doesn’t dare link to any video to support their charges, because a person seeing the videos, the questions and the answers will see for themselves that their charges are unsubstantiated by the facts and that they are in fact liars.
The irony here is that Charlie, being very familiar with scripture would expect nothing less because as a servant of Christ he would remember the warning given to his disciples during the last supper discourses:
If the world hates you, realize that it hated me first.If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own; but because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen you out of the world, the world hates you.
Remember the word I spoke to you, ‘No slave is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.And they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin; but as it is they have no excuse for their sin.Whoever hates me also hates my Father.
The world hated Charlie Kirk, because the world is loyal to the prince of the world. That’s why those loyal to the prince of this world cheered his death loudly and publicly.
Oh, I am heartily tired of hearing about what Lee is going to do. Some of you always seem to think he is suddenly going to turn a double somersault, and land in our rear and on both of our flanks at the same time. Go back to your command, and try to think what we are going to do ourselves, instead of what Lee is going to do.
US Grant, at the Battle of the Wilderness 1864
One of the most famous scenes in movies is the opening speech of Don Corleone in the Godfather when he tells the undertaker who is asking for Justice for his daughter who was disfigured by men let off by the courts:
If you’d come to me in friendship, this scum who ruined your daughter would be suffering this very day. And if by some chance an honest man like yourself made enemies they would become my enemies. And then, they would fear you.
For the last 10 to 15 years or even more the woke mind virus has held ordinary Americans in fear of saying the wrong thing, or expressing an approved opinion. We had not reached the point of England where people were getting arrested but the fear was palatable and most of all those who perpetuated this fear to control us kept pushing in order to give the illusion, backed up by media and culture, that they were the overwhelming majority.
It could be something as simple as not putting out a Trump sign because you didn’t want your car keyed or your house egged, or keeping your mouth shut while a leftist ranted on at work about Trump being a Nazi.
Quite a few gave into this fear but a much larger amount of people simply wanted to get on with their lives and didn’t want to waste their time dealing with fools. They were quiet and quite a few were armed but in the end all they wanted was to be left alone.
The political left seeing an advantage in this kept pushing farther and farther and seeing no penalty for their actions didn’t bother to police or restrain themselves, in fact I suspect more than a few understood the monsters they created in places like Portland but realized that said monsters could easily turn on them.
It’s generally a bad idea to push a well armed population beyond their endurance, because people eventually decide they’ve had enough and once you push a person who only wants to be left alone past that point bad things tend to happen.
And that brings us to the aftermath of the murder of Charlie Kirk.
When we had a Christian society that valued life it was axiomatic that people would not celebrate a political murder or frankly any murder. One might not worry if criminals murdered criminals as that was considered part of the risk of being one, but the murder of a political figure for expressing & debating those who disagree with them in public? Unthinkable.
But once, thanks to the rise of abortion & gay marriage and the transgender business the political lines became split along religious lines. While it is not an absolute rule odds are if you were and are against these three things you were a Christian and thus a republican, while if you were for it, you were a Democrats.
It started in the 1970’s, continued in the 1980, and by the rise of Barack Obama the lines were pretty much set.
Now the thing about Christianity is this. The core principles, beyond the divinity of Jesus include the following:
The equality of man before God in value and love
The love of neighbor and even of enemies
When your culture embraces this, you can get along with those who disagree with you.
But when half of the culture decides those are not values they share, who decide that those who disagree with them are worthy of suffering and death the social compact was shattered.
And the reaction of leftists all over the nation has done this.
We see that poor Ukrainian girl murdered in Charlotte Iryna Zarutska who could be their daughter and realize that the left doesn’t care if violent lunatics’ are free to do this because they see political gain in having them free.
We see that poor hotel manager Chandra] Nagamallaiah BEHEADED by an illegal immigrant who was let free by the Biden administration with just two weeks left before Trump took office and realize that could be them at work while the left marches against deporting such people.
And last of all we see people openly celebrating the murder of a young man with a wife and two kids because he argued for opinions opposite of theirs opinions that we share.
If it was the odd crank on the net we wouldn’t care, but the sheer number of teachers, physicians, college administrators, members of government and the military and those in various industries that serve the general populace who have taken to the net either on video or via social media to celebrate the murder of Charlie Kirk has been a great shock to many who are suddenly realizing that these people who they work beside would celebrate their deaths for agreeing with him.
Now mind you, they have a perfect right to hate Charlie Kirk, they have a perfect right to say they’re glad he’s dead, either at home or in private or public conversations, they even have the right to post what they did. It’s not a criminal offense and I would object to anyone being prosecuted for such a thing.
We also have rights, and when you go on a public platform, and appear in the public square and in our workspaces or in a place where our children are being taught and publicly celebrate assassination, not because they’re a terrorist or that we’re at war with an enemy or because a person is a gangster or mafia guy to whom such a thing is an occupational hazard, but because you disagree with the person’s political opinions and dared to openly and effectively debate others, then we have the right to very publicly call you out.,
For this breaks the social compact, it actually shatters it. This is a trust society and we can’t trust them anymore. The line is crossed and something must be done.
If we were leftists who had rejected Christianity the solution would be rather simple, we would slaughter them and say good riddance. The right is certainly well armed enough for this, but we don’t just pay lip services to those Christian beliefs, we actually believe them and thus such an option is off the table as it is grave sin that puts one’s soul at risk.
Furthermore like in the Godfather scene above, while these people have celebrated murder these people online have not actually murdered anyone. Consider this exchange prior to the Godfather quote above:
Don Corleone: I understand. You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, you made a good living. The police protected you and there were courts of law. So you didn’t need a friend like me. Now you come and say “Don Corleone, give me justice.” But you don’t ask with respect. You don’t offer friendship. You don’t even think to call me “Godfather.” You come into my house on the day my daughter is to be married and you ask me to do murder – for money.
Bonasera:I ask you for justice.
Don Corleone: That is not justice. Your daughter is alive.
So instead us worrying about what they will do to us, we’re thinking about what we’re doing to them. They are being named and shamed and pressure is being put on the institutions & businesses that employ them. Such people have no place in government, or in law, or in teaching or in medicine. And if you own a private business that serves the entire public you can’t have someone on staff publicly cheering the death of someone for having the same opinions as half the population.
So now hundreds, or even perhaps thousands of people will lose their jobs. I suspect most if not all of them had no issue when Roseanne Barr or Gina Carano lost their jobs over public statements that didn’t involve cheering for political murder and if it was 1968 they would have no problem doing the same to anyone who celebrated the murder of MLK or RFK but they never dreamed their actions might actually have consequences.
If they didn’t get it before they get in now. Some might celebrate themselves as maryters but I suspect most of them may have figured out they’re crossed a line…
…and now they fear us.
It would be very nice if it didn’t reach this point, but one must live in reality. This is where we are, where we go from here is anyone’s guess however there is one other aspect of Christianity that does comes into play here.
Then Peter approaching asked him, “Lord, if my brother sins against me, how often must I forgive him? As many as seven times?”
Jesus answered, “I say to you, not seven times but seventy-seven times.
Matthew 18:21-22
That’s a non-optional doctrine because if we don’t we condemn ourselves as the Our father says: Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.
If these people seek forgiveness we are required to forgive but will they have the humility to ask for it?
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