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Folks, I am Discouraged (Vanity)

Posted on 10/10/2016 3:56:55 PM PDT by 2nd Amendment

Fellow Freepers, I need some encouragement about the 2016 Presidential Election. I've got the same sinking feeling that I had before Obama's 2 elections. I've stated before that Trump was not my 1st choice for the Republican nomination. But he won and I wholeheartedly endorse his campaign. All major media outlets (including Fox) has actively come out against him. A 12 yr old "hot mike" slang conversation is being used to destroy him. Paul Ryan and a host of other establishment Republicans are working to elect Hillary Clinton. Even after a brave and domineering debate performance the talking heads like Rove put him almost double digit down to one of the most corrupt individuals in American History. Americans seem content to pack the Supreme Court with people who don't believe in law. They are about to elect a President who set the Mideast aflame. She believes Christians only have the right to espouse their beliefs in a Church. SisterK and Stars and Stripes have faithfully that America wakes up before we leap into this precipice of moral extinction. I've said all this to say that I need encouragement. My fellow Christians say that I should not fret because God is in control. But I still worry about the pain that is about to reign down upon our beloved America. I know Donald Trump is flawed like all of us but he really believes in fighting for the neglected people in our country. Please give me some perspective on the next 20 some days ti the election. Thank all of you Freepers for the island of freedom you have carved out.


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To: 2nd Amendment

LOOK around this country there are people having their trucks, cars, boats, 18 wheelers, billboards custom painted with Trump 2016 on them!!!!! His rallies are WALL TO WALL people waiting for HOURS to see him!!! I have NEVER in my voting life seen this it is REMARKABLE, Trump WILL NOT LOSE the press has the agenda to TAKE HIM DOWN!!! Vote early and often VOTE VOTE VOTE!!! He IS going to win in a landslide!!!


101 posted on 10/10/2016 4:24:53 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: 2nd Amendment

I think you need a bourbon or two - maybe a hat trick - go get a good hot meal and turn off the “Hillary for President” TV


102 posted on 10/10/2016 4:25:30 PM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: pieceofthepuzzle

Well said.


103 posted on 10/10/2016 4:25:35 PM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt
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To: Eddie01

How’d you guess Eddie?


104 posted on 10/10/2016 4:25:49 PM PDT by 2nd Amendment (Proud member of the 48% . . giver not a taker)
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To: 2nd Amendment

This was going to be the story whoever was the GOP candidate.
The reason I didn’t support Cruz after he went Full Beck is it was unlikely he was going to be successful an ANY Blue States.

Trump has PA, IA, CO and possibly WI in play.
Cruz was going to loose all these States and probably more.

Again, this was NEVER going to be easy.
Relax and don’t stress.
You are a valuable contributor at FR!


105 posted on 10/10/2016 4:26:17 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: 2nd Amendment

What? Over? Did you say “over”? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Heck no!

Germans?
Forget it, he’s rolling.
And it ain’t over now. ‘Cause when the goin’ gets tough...

The tough get goin’! Who’s with me? Let’s go!


106 posted on 10/10/2016 4:26:58 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (I don't want better government; I want much less of it.)
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To: 2nd Amendment
Thank all of you Freepers for the island of freedom you have carved out.

You are, and were, and always will free - there is no real island. That you were free along along and always will be and are in this moment is a statement of existential fact, not a faith. It is what it is. It's self evident. Examine the moment and you'll see it.

What happens in the 'World' is worth fighting for, but only in the sense that you express your spiritual self in it. Nobody can touch your spirit but you. It's also an existential fact that it can't be touched by anyone but you.

It's your choice how you feel that Wednesday, but you need to make that choice now - that it can't touch you - and even if it does - as I think Roarke said 'the suffering only goes so deep.' Billions of happy warriors were free and happy in societies far worse even than a Clinton administration accelerating the destruction of the country.

Your choice ... but as long as it's based on conditions ... especially political, you put the quality and very experience of your entire life in the hands of the Devil, because he's the one who runs the World of appearances. You don't beat that world. Even if Trump wins, it hasn't been beaten. You can only transcend it, or else be a ship tossed in a storm - which is how you sound now.

To transcend it, you have to detach from conditions - I don't mean detach from God, I mean conditions. Then act upon the conditions as a happy warrior, rather than having them act on you.

If you had any idea what God put inside you when you were born ... you would care and be involved in this election, but see it for the film of dust it is. Treat it like everything, but know that it's nothing. Sound and Fury, Dust, a Veil ... call it what you want. To sin means literally 'to miss the mark', and doesn't carry with it any ethical or moral baggage. In that sense, the greatest sin of all is to miss the mark by mistaking the temporal conditions for the reality.

The reality blows away anything that may or may not happen in this election by infinity.

On the level that matters, the election is totally insignificant, and totally out of your control.

Vanity, also a sin, which properly understood carries no moral baggage or judgment ... no negativity or positivity ... but is what it is, and destroys lives at a rate of a billion to one compared to elections ... is what troubles you.

So, worry not that you will wake up with President HIllary, but that you will wake up with Vanity. Even worse, that you will name it 'President Hillary,' and chain yourself to it for 8 years, thinking it's she rather than a deluded belief in a costume of a world that's bringing you down, rather than an insistence that an Illusion is Substance, and therefore holds sway over you.

107 posted on 10/10/2016 4:27:00 PM PDT by tinyowl (A equals A)
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To: 2nd Amendment

Sounds like you need some

Johnson-Weld

to reattach your manhood


108 posted on 10/10/2016 4:27:05 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
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To: 2nd Amendment

You have one vote. That’s all you control. Push the button or check the box you want. None of the other rigamarole matters.


109 posted on 10/10/2016 4:27:35 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (I had a cool idea for a new tagline and I forgot it!)
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To: 2nd Amendment
Read Scott Adams blog. He's been calling a Trump win since July 2015. Here's a list of his Trump blog posts. In several of the posts he describes the "third act" where the triumphant one overcomes an impossible difficulty. This is what happened this weekend.

Do a YouTube search for "Donald Trump prophecy". You must judge prophecy, but some of these encouraged me. The Bible says we should take heed to prophecy and by it "wage a good warfare", which is what we must do through faith and prayer. Here's a prophecy I've been standing on for years. Also, we are to "despise not prophesying". Surely the Lord God will do nothing, except He reveal it to his servants the prophets.

Here's another encouraging article. I know Lance personally and trust his observation.

110 posted on 10/10/2016 4:28:45 PM PDT by The Truth Will Make You Free
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To: Byron_the_Aussie
You’re from Utah?

More like Missouri or Iowa.

111 posted on 10/10/2016 4:28:49 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! - vote Trump 2016)
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To: 2nd Amendment
Look at the bright side. Even should Trump lose (he won't) the Republican elite has been curb stomped and the base of the party (we Deplorables) will be in a position to either chart our own course or remain in the party and take it over entirely. Either way Hillary will never be our president & we will control our destiny. And I thought the 60s were a revolutionary time - that era hold nothing on the here and now!

Chin up, chest out and hold steady.

112 posted on 10/10/2016 4:28:51 PM PDT by JonPreston
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To: 2nd Amendment

Put on your “big boy pants” and fight...


113 posted on 10/10/2016 4:28:54 PM PDT by Rumplemeyer (The GOP should stand its ground - and fix Bayonets)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Well, after Hillary gets elected, I’ll have over 200 genders to select from!


114 posted on 10/10/2016 4:28:55 PM PDT by 2nd Amendment (Proud member of the 48% . . giver not a taker)
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To: 2nd Amendment

latrine duty... you ... just do it


115 posted on 10/10/2016 4:29:00 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
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To: Rumplemeyer

All you mean SOB’s on FreeRepublic have just got me mad. Now I’m gonna leave and destroy some HIllary signs!


116 posted on 10/10/2016 4:30:04 PM PDT by 2nd Amendment (Proud member of the 48% . . giver not a taker)
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To: 2nd Amendment

Remember that they manipulated the Brexit polls and the Netanyahu polls


117 posted on 10/10/2016 4:30:49 PM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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To: 2nd Amendment
I am more than sick and tired of your negative trolling, can't wait to post something negative about Trump BS. Your embarrassing support for Lyn' Ted, bundling money for him even while knowing he was a worthless, lying sack of S$#&T, is pathetic. Your lack of integrity undermines anything you might ever say or have said. Give it up!

Support Trump or be honest about supporting Clinton. There is no gray area.

118 posted on 10/10/2016 4:31:12 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Trump/Pence or Crooked Hillary & Kreepy, The Pedo Klown)
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To: 2nd Amendment

Do what you can to win. There were 14 million Trump primary voters. Find 4 non-primary voters, and convince them to vote. If all we did that, landslide.


119 posted on 10/10/2016 4:31:47 PM PDT by mainerforglobalwarming
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To: Daffynition
The BEST is yet to come.


120 posted on 10/10/2016 4:32:08 PM PDT by ETL (TRUMP-PENCE 2016!!!)
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