Posted on 09/08/2021 11:06:44 AM PDT by rebuildus
Shame–where have you gone?
We often hear people say, “Doesn’t (some lost soul who’s making a fool of themselves) have any shame?”
No, they don’t.
But I rarely hear anyone say, “Don’t I–or we–have any shame?”
I mean, think about this: We are supposedly intelligent beings, and we certainly consider ourselves pretty smart, for the most part. And yet we are being ruled by utter fools!
So who is the bigger fool?
I can see the folly of the typical intellectual, left-wing fool. They have rejected a connection to God–the Source of wisdom. So all they have left is their own foolish musings, which always bring disaster in the end.
But what is OUR excuse?
We supposedly have not rejected God (uh, I would double-check that!).
We have the Bible, and the Declaration, and the Constitution, and hard work, and families, and friends just like us, right?
Now, you could say, “There’s nothing wrong with us!” WE should be in power! THEY stole the election!”
And I would say, “True, they did steal the election, but I could also say that the election was ripe to steal. I could say that we have known for years–decades–that our election process was rotten, and yet we did very little to safeguard it. Isn’t that foolish?
But let’s take a step back from this election and think about all of the deadbeats that we’ve put into office over the years. “But they LIED to us!” They said one thing to get elected, and then switched on us!”
“True,” I would say. But we let ourselves be fooled. Basically, we didn’t want to do the work, so we let those who were enthusiastic–or at least appeared that way–do the work of leading.
Read Deuteronomy 28 some time, where it speaks of blessings and curses, as they relate to a nation either ruling or being ruled. The problem before us is all there. First, a sample of the blessings a nation will receive if they love and obey God:
The LORD will make you the head and not the tail; you will only move upward and never downward, if you hear and carefully follow the commandments of the LORD your God, which I am giving you today. Do not turn aside to the right or to the left from any of the words I command you today, and do not go after other gods to serve them.
Deuteronomy 28:13-14 Hmmm… “Do not go after other gods and serve them.” There are many “other gods” we have served… And here’s a sample of the curses a nation will bring upon themselves if they forsake God:
Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart in all your abundance, you will serve your enemies the LORD will send against you in famine, thirst, nakedness, and destitution. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.
Deuteronomy 28:47-48 WE have p—-d away the greatest nation there has ever been. Let me repeat: WE have done this. It was not taken from us. We have corrupted from within, and until we face this squarely and quit blaming the Left for doing what the godless naturally do, we will continue to slide.
The answer is to simply look at OURSELVES, and to stop blaming those who are acting as their perverse nature dictates! THEY are not going to change! And they have no intention of taking their foot off of our necks! In fact, they intend to STOMP HARDER!
I’m going to close with a famous quote by a man who was not even a Christian, yet his words are a meditation for our time–a time to stop the blame game and look hard in the mirror:
“BE the change that you wish to see in the world.” –Gandhi
A little humility is all that is needed from us, and I believe that God would be more than happy to step in and heal our land.
Stop the huffing and puffing about what you are going to do–nothing else is going to work, if it doesn’t include true humility before our Creator.
Patrick Rooney is the Founder of OldSchoolUs.com. He communicates clearly and fearlessly during perilous times about natural health, success, and freedom. To reach Patrick, email him at info@oldschoolus.com.
So this is your last blog post?
Take a look at your last paragraph where you write about yourself in the third person.
Then re-read your advice. Repeat until the light dawns upon you.
Instead of complaining about the government, become the government. Instead of complaining about the republican party, become the republican party.
“So this is your last blog post?”
Yup, last one for today...
Complacency while the Left was openly infiltrating crucial elements of government and society.
“Take a look at your last paragraph where you write about yourself in the third person.
Then re-read your advice. Repeat until the light dawns upon you.”
Yup, HG, you nailed it! The sin to end all sins!
Organized vote theft should be a capital crime.
Arrest. Prosecute. Convict. Sentence. Execute.
“BE the change that you wish to see in the world.” –Gandhi
‘Instead of complaining about the government, become the government. Instead of complaining about the republican party, become the republican party.’
NICE!!!
“When you listen to fools - The Mob Rules!”
Indeed.
You need to repent. Realize that you are no better than those
you wish to influence and mine for page views. Jesus said your
page views will indicate your status in hell. The more views you
rip off and fraudulently obtain, the lower level in HELL you will inhabit.
Check yourself, discover that you have no business educating
or instructing anyone about anything. You are no better than
others, and given that you are trying to score traffic by "telling"
people of your "wisdom", it's likely that you are significantly
less literate and wise than your average truck driver.
Get a job.
But not ashamed enough to get rid of the fool for fear of the fool-in-waiting.
“But not ashamed enough to get rid of the fool for fear of the fool-in-waiting.”
I see your point :)
“You need to repent. Realize that you are no better than those
you wish to influence and mine for page views. Jesus said your
page views will indicate your status in hell. The more views you rip off and fraudulently obtain, the lower level in HELL you will inhabit.”
So let’s drill down a bit on your line of thinking here, HG. You’re saying, “Jesus said your page views will indicate your status in hell.” Can you point to the particular place in the Bible that Jesus said this? I’ll wait.
And you’re saying I “rip off and fraudulently obtain” page views? How exactly am I doing that?
And lastly, you keep bringing up the point that I somehow think I’m “better” than other people and my writings show that? Do you actually READ them?
Very often in my writings, I display something that I have failed at or been mistaken about. I learn from my mistakes and pass on what I’ve learned. In church it would be called a “testimony.”
Whatever wisdom I’ve obtained has been via seeing the truth for myself and from the school of hard knocks.
Perhaps you should re-read some of my posts you despise so much—but do so with a clear mind. You’ll feel better about the whole thing.
“When you listen to fools - The Mob Rules!”
That is true!
2 Peter, 2:18:
For, speaking loud boasts of folly, they entice by sensual passions of the flesh those who are barely escaping from those who live in error.
And you’re saying I “rip off and fraudulently obtain” page views? How exactly am I doing that?
Are you sitting on a stump counting the views of your blog?
Or are you counting the views provided by Free Republic?
And lastly, you keep bringing up the point that I somehow think I’m “better” than other people
Why else would you be pretending to "tell" or "inform" people?
Otherwise... wouldn't you be ASKING instead of TELLING?
Perhaps you should re-read some of my posts
You first, Hoss. You TELL people, you pretend to INSTRUCT.
You don't know anything about what your audience does or does not know.
You ASSUME superiority and begin to pontificate, pretending superiority.
You’ll feel better about the whole thing.
I feel better already.
But I'll bet you continue to pretend and "instruct" those you feel to be inferior to you.
Patrick: You are insane...
The only fools are the sheeple who allowed these communists to take over the country...
The winners are not the “fools”, they won and are getting away with murder (so-to-speak)... If anything, they are brilliant...
You have a lot of “answers,” but you haven’t answered anything at all. You seem to be dead serious in your idea that you’ve somehow got a bullseye on what Jesus meant. Okay, I’ll humor you. You’ve got a right to believe that. Just like I’ve got a right to comment on the sayings of Jesus or others. But you don’t really think I do.
You make a lot of accusations. That’s what the Devil does. He’s also known as “The accuser.”
You never deal with the substance of anything I post about. You only go off over what you THINK my intentions are.
For some reason, you seem to have it in for people who post on blogs. As if we’ve committed some great crime. Did you start a blog once, or have another vocation or project you loved, but then quit or something? I am curious as to what your problem really is. And trust me, it’s not me.
I’m going to continue to post. You have a choice: read the posts, or not. If you don’t like ‘em—don’t read ‘em! Pretty simple.
I do hope—for your sake and your loved ones—that you make peace with yourself and others. I do wish you well.
“Patrick: You are insane...
The only fools are the sheeple who allowed these communists to take over the country...
The winners are not the “fools”, they won and are getting away with murder (so-to-speak)... If anything, they are brilliant...”
Almost all of us have some role in allowing these communists to take over the country. If you examined yourself honestly, it’s likely you have played a role too.
And you can call these evil people in charge “winners” if you want. In the end, they won’t have “won” anything. They are fools, and most of us are fools for losing our country to them.
Look at the thread title.
Look at my post.
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