Posted on 04/30/2014 10:49:13 AM PDT by Kaslin
Noted for her groundbreaking work on grief associated with death and dying, Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross was the quintessential physician who cared deeply about the emotional wellbeing of her dying patients. Through her extensive studies and research in psychiatry, Dr. Ross came to the conclusion that there are five unique emotional stages involved in dealing with death: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and ultimately – acceptance.
Looking around this country today, one has to wonder which stage of grief we are all in, because our Judeo-Christian heritage is most assuredly dying. Just last week came the horrifying revelation that at least 40 vulnerable Veterans had been denied their rightful medical benefits and relegated to the pile of people eligible to perish – all at the unmerciful hands of our federal government. While this occurred in Arizona, based upon poor VA hospital standards, it’s likely that this is not an isolated event.
And at almost the same time, shocking evidenced surfaced that the Marion County Resource Recovery Facility in Brooks, Oregon had been incinerating the remains of dead babies in order to provide electricity to nearby homes and businesses.
Although the indecency of using human bodies to warm our homes was primarily blamed on the practices of the waste management company, Stericycle, someone within the government at Marion County had to have signed the agreement with Covanta for the solid waste reception. Since local, state, and federal governments lost their innocence a long time ago, it seems likely that at least one official in the chain would have known.
As with all new news stories, there was limited outrage for a few days, fueled by appropriate calls from Veteran and Pro-life groups demanding an end to these insane practices. But sadly, these tragic events are too soon forgotten, leaving us with a much bigger question percolating right under the surface.
When did the whole of America lose site of the value of human life?
We expect soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines to lay down their lives for our freedoms, displaying the ultimate sacrifice for our wellbeing. Yet no one’s explained to their families how these same individuals became expendable after their term of honorable service had expired. Like so much used fodder, the officials at the VA hospital in Phoenix cast them aside without compassion or concern for their dignity or lives.
As for the human fuel issue, radicals stop at nothing to save a tree, protect a spotted owl and defend the dolphins. Yet those same pro-Gaia fanatics demonstrate actively for abortions on demand and eliminating life that’s not cost effective to sustain. Although liberals campaign against clean and economical nuclear power, oil drilling and coal mining, they were amazingly silent on the Marion county situation, leaving one to postulate on the their apparent complicit willingness to accept a few extra kilowatts generated by fried human remains in order to run their precious televisions and computers.
Aside from the obvious nausea such a concept should evoke, this juxtaposition makes no rational sense. On the one hand, everything plant or animal is sacred, while on the other hand, everything human is inconsequential and utterly disposable.
When Rachel Carson published “Silent Spring” 52 years ago, her radical premises opened the floodgates to the liberal green movement. It was a slow, evolutionary process to get Americans to believe they are a vile plight in the universe. Yet, here we are. And that, coupled with the 1973 Roe V Wade decision for abortion on demand, worked a little black magic. America was systematically hit with two seemingly uncoordinated platforms, but both sides have worked relentlessly to bring the unsuspecting public to the centerline of hedonism and depravity toward those who cannot defend themselves; the very young, the sick, and the very old.
Have we, as a God fearing country, strayed so far down the green-peace path that we can no longer see the forest for the trees? Or is it just that our country is dying and we are numb from the denial? If that’s the case, then we seriously need to move on to the next stage of grieving and get angry about America’s imminent demise. Because if we don’t, it won’t be long before we find ourselves bargaining with the devil or bureaucrats to save our own skins.
And it won’t matter if we’re depressed when the government knocks on our own front doors to inform us that the death panels have decided we’re not worthy to occupy space any longer, because it’ll be too late. In the end, we’ll be powerless to do anything but accept our fateful demise – the very impending doom we denied existed in the first place.
“How do you propose to fight a vacuum”
Wow, that is deep. If I was writing a book, I’d borrow it ;)
“Despite what some posters say here, I am willing to stand up and fight. Giving up is simply a sign of being weak.”
I’m moving to an area that I think will be the start of the revolt. If not, it will be heavily involved, being historically rebellious and conservative.
Getting out of socialist California is my first step to freedom and self-sufficiency, should it be needed.
So I’m with you. My property has a shooting range btw. :)
Beautiful. Love the tractor. And the Amish buggy in the parking lot. They make great neighbors.
The early church climbed into bed with Rome, and became half of the monster that has plagued mankind ever since, in various forms of government-church alliances.
This article is off kilter because the grieving process pertains to the grief after a person's death. The USA is being strangled by (1) evil people with evil intent, and (2) misguided and cowardly people who imagine themselves to be too good, or too helpless, to confront the evil people.
Turning the other cheek when evil needs to be confronted and defeated, is evil itself.
Needs to be repeated.
Four years after Carson published Silent Spring, Stalinist pseudointellectual Susan Sontag gave the ultimate Leftist defi on the subject of environmentalism, in the pages of Newsweek no less (she definitely wanted it out in public):
"The Caucasian race is the cancer of the planet."
Now you know where it is all ultimately coming from -- and therefore, ultimately invalid, bad, hostile, and a malevolent lie.
At least an “idiot child” may be teachable enough to know one end of a gun from the other.
There’s no teaching this crowd.
:)
A post for my own heart. :)
No God, no peace. The population is no longer Christian traditional, or even educated.
Elections will never solve our problems, as the outcomes only reflect the sorry condition of a once Christian people and make only a marginal difference.
Obama showed us how far we have fallen, how much we have lost.
200 years, wiped out and we think an election will bring peace and safety. Hardly.
It would be safe to say I would be part of the 3% or more “this time”...
Seems to me it is almost like getting painted into a corner...The more the forces of tyranny force freedoms loving people into these situations, the less real estate we have to maneuver...
It would be interesting to go back and research what happened to the sympathizers and collaborators that helped the British back during, and after the Revolution...
That would be an interesting topic to research and get the word out to those considering the same course of action...
I’m sure not going to be very sympathetic to their plight if we manage to succeed in our pursuit of re-establishing, or separating from this corrupt, virtue-less federal government...
I know the premise of this website is to not foment such discussion, seriously, but some people do have their limitations...
We have not yet had a serious “shot heard ‘round the world.” just yet...
We still have a few tricks up our sleeves left...
Are you referring to the Fabian socialists???
They started about 20-30 years before that time, but I believe they began to rise in popularity among the academics and other receptive citizenry...
I could be wrong about your analysis...Just thought I would throw my take on your timeline there...
Yep, another solution from their side of the equation...
Yes, you are spot on...
I have always said, and it is basically a rhetorical question not intending a response by anyone in a public forum like this...
It is the ultimate patriotic “gut-check” question...
“What are YOU prepared to do about it? And, what are YOU willing to sacrifice for it?”
Most answers are different, based upon the individual and their level of commitment and courage...
But they are similar in desired outcome...
That is where we are united...We may be separated by internal boundaries, personalities and political tolerances...But we are on the same side...
Like I mentioned in another response here, I would like to think we have more than the 3% it took to beat a worlds super power at the time back in the beginning...
The majority of citizens in this country are without virtue...A simple, faith driven belief that there IS a higher authority than this government that has usurped its basic Constitutional boundaries...And intimidates and is on the verge of full tilt tyranny...
And those people, that continue to placate this tyranny, in some cases are absolutely ok with the government sticking it to those of us who value freedom and liberties more than they do...They love it when our bowels are in an uproar!!!
So I have no sympathy for those destructive and vindictive citizens that are complicit to that tyranny...
Maybe we can pull us out of this nose dive at full throttle...
But until we see a return to very simple virtuous existence, we are unlikely to see any real, viable future for this country...
Sure, we may deserve to exist, but as a whole we have lost our way...
Care to expand on that option?
You know, in a sense the libturds are right. We do not see ourselves in a war on women so we aren’t but we had best figure how to fight one and get to it.
The latest is A Frankenstein Constitution.
Do a keyword search of "17th" and "Article V" for others.
Thanks.
Roughly yes.
But I have to be near mountains or hills to feel at home.
I’ve also had my fill of the ocean, so that is not really mussed either.
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