Posted on 11/23/2017 9:46:03 AM PST by impetrio1
VIDEO: American Civil Rights Union Policy Board member Walter Williams explains how the Pilgrims planted the seeds of American self-sufficiency and saved the Massachusetts colony from a collectivist disaster.
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It’s roaring back!
They found out that communal, share and share alike were killing them. Instead of pooling their resources, they gave every family a portion and then let them do what their own initiative, energies and efficienies led them. And they prospered. Hurray for FREE enterprise and our roots in the most blessed place on earth.
St. Paul tells us, “In all things be grateful.”
Meister Eckhart famously said, “If the only prayer you ever say is ‘thank you’, that will be sufficient.”
And this from the menu board at the Amish market near us: “What would you have today i fall you ha was what you were grateful for yesterday?”
PING. Nice post! Short, simple lesson in Pilgrim history. Great perspective.
Rush tells this story every year. A recent broadcast
RUSH LIMBAUGH - TRUE STORY OF THANKSGIVING
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esg-UgAED1o
If not for GOD and the Pilgrims, US would never have been.
Are you feeling it in the air, everywhere? Success, Hope, Freedom, and Faith? This is Thanksgiving.... wait till CHRISTMAS and feel the difference!!!!
Walter E. Williams when was he last on as guest host of Rush? He’s great...
Thanks giving to you and your family V K.
Had daughter visiting from California. Arrived 4 days ago and returned today when the highways were very light.
Good time was had by all. We solved some of the problems of the world. The dreams of MAGA and Berkeley merged somewhat — we are after the same things: unity and prosperity for all Americans. The path to get there differs somewhat, but she does recognized that Uniparty exists and is corrupt.
She’s doing well in her 3rd year of graduate work and is now teaching undergrads in Performance Studies.
I especially like the second, "What would you have today if all you had was what you were grateful for yesterday?”
I'd say you would be rich indeed. A passage from Emerson seems to fit:
It seems not worth his while to be solemn, and denounce with bitterness meat-eating or wine-drinking, the use of tobacco, or opium, or tea, or silk, or gold.
A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic. John Eliot, the Indian Apostle, drank water, and said of wine, -- "It is a noble, generous liquor, and we should be humbly thankful for it, but, as I remember, water was made before it."
Better still is the temperance of King David, who poured out on the ground unto the Lord the water which three of his warriors had brought him to drink, at the peril of their lives.
The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness. It does not ask to dine nicely, and to sleep warm. The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough. Poverty is its ornament. It does not need plenty, and can very well abide its loss.
Family Thanksgiving: You are blessed to be able to meet halfway and emerge from such discussions with no bruises.
:-)
Berkeley, have you read the blog “Robin of Berkeley”?
http://www.robinofberkeley.com/
Discovery: as one grows in age, the consumption of turkey should decrease accordingly. That tryptophan will get you every time; or possibly, it might be the feeling of contentment and security that all is well (or at least, better than it was)
So now we are into the racist day of Black Friday, looking to Christmas and a New Year. Time is always relative and chances are the next 8 years will speed by twice as fast as the past eight.
Hi V K.
I read the Robin of Berkeley’s blog and there’s certain a ring of truth to what’s said there.
Only a few minutes away is Silicon Valley where live some of the smartest people in the world. So you can say Berkeley contains some of the best and worst. They are definitely about breaking conventions and thinking outside the box.
My daughter is 29 and has seen a lot of the world. I trust she will make the right decisions.
I think she’s in the 10% who can be converted to MAGA. She’s very spiritually oriented, is a natural leader of others, and is a real doer. And she recognizes the imbalance in what academia has been teaching.
So from small cracks, larger ruptures can occur in the Ivory Tower’s foundation. We shall see.
I think the biggest factor working for us is the strength of the MAGA movement. The more it succeeds and the more water travels under the bridge, the stronger it will become and the Far Left will be forced to fold its tents because people have adapted to new realities are forced to become more self-Reliant.
But in later generations, the Progressive will raise its ugly head again because people forget history and the march of corruption must always be checked in Democracies.
History, not only are people prone to forget, TPTB often completely rewrite it. For instance - graduated from public school in 1965, and had never heard the true story of Thanksgiving. At least, at no time that I remember. Classrooms heard the version of how the Natives helped, the fact we gave thanks to them. Yet, at this time, we were still able to say the Lord’s prayer, in classroom,as a group. One day the teacher even wrote the entire prayer on the chalkboard so EVERY STUDENT would know the words used. Given today’s climate, she would have been kicked out of the building on her keister. So which was the greater force causing history to be rewritten? Liberals wishing to distance the country from GOD; Liberals unwilling to admit their doctrine failed centuries ago, and capitalism endured to advance our history?
Seldom traveled to California. Family drove out when I was very young (able to appreciate Disneyland) Beautiful country and sandy beaches. Expensive even way back then. San Fran was visited, Fisherman’s Wharf. The cable cars Just about all I remember re Ca.
The drive along the ocean highway all the way northward into Washington and then turn eastward toward North Dakota/Minnesota. The northbound drive was endowed with lovely scenic views. And the waterfalls were abundant. About 40 years ago flew to LA on business. This was the last the state was ever visited. If there is anything to fondly remember from childhood, it’s the fact that every year the family went on summer vacation, packed the car and drove, and America was our camp ground. So many states and friendly faces seen. Thus, my love for this great nation.
Nicely said, V K.
Totally agree. Leftist activism changes our notion of history itself.
It’s great that your family went on these driving vacations. So many hasn’t traveled enough to a true appreciation for the country.
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