and stay out of debt. Debt makes a man a slave. Pay cash for as much as you possibly can. If you must take a loan, make it as small as possible and pay it off as fast as possible.
Live modestly. Nobody NEEDS a 7000 square foot home. Nobody NEEDS 5 Cadillac Escalades. Nobody NEEDS rooms full of different shoes or sport jackets. Live within…
and stay out of debt. Debt makes a man a slave. Pay cash for as much as you possibly can. If you must take a loan, make it as small as possible and pay it off as fast as possible.
Live modestly. Nobody NEEDS a 7000 square foot home. Nobody NEEDS 5 Cadillac Escalades. Nobody NEEDS rooms full of different shoes or sport jackets. Live within your means. Learn to live on less.
Eat less. The majority of Americans are fat and obese and as such extremely unhealthy, dependent upon drugs and medications and doctors. Free yourself from this. Humans are designed to go periods without food. Fast once in a while. Have just two meals per day. Avoid processed foods, junk foods and fast foods. Get healthy.
Grow a garden. I grow my own potatoes. A human can survive on potatoes alone. Potatoes will keep for months if kept in a dark cool place.
Love your family and your children and teach them principles that will help them govern themselves independently. Teach them personal responsibility, consequences, God, and morality. Teach them to not idolize other men and women as men and women will always, inevitably, fail and let them down. Even their parents.
Tritorch is correct. No single man is going to save us. We must first correct ourselves inwardly. We must first correct our own homes. Then everything else will fall right in line.
It is not human nature. Most people are inherently non-ambitious, and it worsens with age. Most people want someone to make their decisions for them, to tell them what to do, to play nanny state. America is just the latest in a long history of states that have succumbed to the whims of the mob, become socialistic states and dissolved as the people have lost their identity. We are right in the middle of this process. Of all the people that you know, how many identify as Americans and are willing to fight for its Constitution?
As JHK harps over and over, what has happened to the American Common Culture? I would say it is encased in our memories.
OK then. Now expand upon it. What does that fact say about the viability of Democracy? Does it not indicate a strictly hierarchical society where the few control the many? Of course it does.
Control can be benign. We don't have to be ruled by sadistic demons. Pretending that everyone is equal always get you that.
Feudalism is the ultimate hierarchical society, where everyone has their place, period for a lifetime. Power is born into, the rest work the “fields”.
Now, the antithesis to the feudal structure is cities. The development of cities in the Middle Ages caused the Renaissance and the Age of Enlightenment. Today, if we spin back to feudalism, the cities will lose their function and become cesspools of humanity. Crime explodes, addiction increases, infrastructure crumbles, gangs proliferate, business moves away, the politics deteriorate, judicial systems become for sale, corruption spreads. Just like we are witnessing. Cities need a function, something to put their people to work to support their families. Otherwise, ??????
Exactly. Some creativity and social mobility is fine, in fact it's wise from the pov of the rulers. And JUST in a higher sense. But it must be controlled.
The United States allowed settlers to do whatever they wanted. So they were often starting trouble with the Indians that led to all out war. Canada didn't allow settlement until a given tribe was pacified. Settlement happened in both cases, one way was just far more rational and peaceful is all.
Of course the Indians started trouble too. And they were losing their lands in both cases.
Ha, look at you, spending hours taking pot shots at people of faith and other people you disagree with. Do you own a mirror, I think you might look in it.
You statement from Hitchens is bullshit, as it actually negates just about everything you say.
Read and weep my ignorant friend. New Zealand, has consistently been ranked as one of best country's in the world to live in in quality-of-life studies. That goddam socialism!
Frank Turek, the Christian apologists, claims "Morality comes from God" and naturally, he claims it's his "Biblical God"...the same God who committed genocide and ordered genocide. (Remember the Amalek).
An atheist says genocide is wrong and immoral. In fact, all but the Christian apologists say that. Only the Christian's say "Genocide is fine if my God does it or orders it."
and stay out of debt. Debt makes a man a slave. Pay cash for as much as you possibly can. If you must take a loan, make it as small as possible and pay it off as fast as possible.
Live modestly. Nobody NEEDS a 7000 square foot home. Nobody NEEDS 5 Cadillac Escalades. Nobody NEEDS rooms full of different shoes or sport jackets. Live within your means. Learn to live on less.
Eat less. The majority of Americans are fat and obese and as such extremely unhealthy, dependent upon drugs and medications and doctors. Free yourself from this. Humans are designed to go periods without food. Fast once in a while. Have just two meals per day. Avoid processed foods, junk foods and fast foods. Get healthy.
Grow a garden. I grow my own potatoes. A human can survive on potatoes alone. Potatoes will keep for months if kept in a dark cool place.
Love your family and your children and teach them principles that will help them govern themselves independently. Teach them personal responsibility, consequences, God, and morality. Teach them to not idolize other men and women as men and women will always, inevitably, fail and let them down. Even their parents.
Tritorch is correct. No single man is going to save us. We must first correct ourselves inwardly. We must first correct our own homes. Then everything else will fall right in line.
I hate to caste shade on this great post.
It is not human nature. Most people are inherently non-ambitious, and it worsens with age. Most people want someone to make their decisions for them, to tell them what to do, to play nanny state. America is just the latest in a long history of states that have succumbed to the whims of the mob, become socialistic states and dissolved as the people have lost their identity. We are right in the middle of this process. Of all the people that you know, how many identify as Americans and are willing to fight for its Constitution?
As JHK harps over and over, what has happened to the American Common Culture? I would say it is encased in our memories.
OK then. Now expand upon it. What does that fact say about the viability of Democracy? Does it not indicate a strictly hierarchical society where the few control the many? Of course it does.
Control can be benign. We don't have to be ruled by sadistic demons. Pretending that everyone is equal always get you that.
Feudalism is the ultimate hierarchical society, where everyone has their place, period for a lifetime. Power is born into, the rest work the “fields”.
Now, the antithesis to the feudal structure is cities. The development of cities in the Middle Ages caused the Renaissance and the Age of Enlightenment. Today, if we spin back to feudalism, the cities will lose their function and become cesspools of humanity. Crime explodes, addiction increases, infrastructure crumbles, gangs proliferate, business moves away, the politics deteriorate, judicial systems become for sale, corruption spreads. Just like we are witnessing. Cities need a function, something to put their people to work to support their families. Otherwise, ??????
Exactly. Some creativity and social mobility is fine, in fact it's wise from the pov of the rulers. And JUST in a higher sense. But it must be controlled.
The United States allowed settlers to do whatever they wanted. So they were often starting trouble with the Indians that led to all out war. Canada didn't allow settlement until a given tribe was pacified. Settlement happened in both cases, one way was just far more rational and peaceful is all.
Of course the Indians started trouble too. And they were losing their lands in both cases.
You are so correct, JohnAZ. If evolution were real, why can't humans evolve past this?
"Most people are inherently non-ambitious, and it worsens with age."
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.” - Christopher Hitchens
Ha, look at you, spending hours taking pot shots at people of faith and other people you disagree with. Do you own a mirror, I think you might look in it.
You statement from Hitchens is bullshit, as it actually negates just about everything you say.
The big red, white and blue dick that is being jammed up your ass every day!
You nailed it, George Carlin!
Americans like you John know everything - but not enough to know that capitalism is fucking them up their ass!
Where did that US$485,000 of my wife and my life savings disappear to in 2008?
Merryl Lynch: "Dennis and Anne, you just have to trust the American system. The free market and we are the experts. Just relax."
Yeah right! Now bend over and pull down your pants!
https://www.numbeo.com/quality-of-life/rankings_by_country.jsp?title=2023
Read and weep my ignorant friend. New Zealand, has consistently been ranked as one of best country's in the world to live in in quality-of-life studies. That goddam socialism!
This is outstanding! Thank you Cankerpuss!
The Christian God and morality do not belong in the same sentence, Cankerpuss!
God's Hypocrisy: The Case Against Objective Morality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pdYmIwxYTE
Christopher Hitchens destroys the myth that morality comes from religion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG-JLmc4Krw&t=217s
They’re LYING About Morality Coming From GOD | Dr. Richard Carrier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=px_dPORDFDQ
"Religion Makes Society Better"...Until We Start Listing Facts. LOL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSYY75DAsVk&t=10s
Frank Turek, the Christian apologists, claims "Morality comes from God" and naturally, he claims it's his "Biblical God"...the same God who committed genocide and ordered genocide. (Remember the Amalek).
An atheist says genocide is wrong and immoral. In fact, all but the Christian apologists say that. Only the Christian's say "Genocide is fine if my God does it or orders it."