The memories many; moments come flooding back. There’s nary a thing in this life, I ever lacked. I’ve loved and lived, as every man should, With joys and sorrows, both grim and good.
Life’s twists and turns, I’d’ve never guessed, Humbled and grateful; I am immensely blessed. May the Lord walk before me where’er I go; Keep my kids faithful, and help them to grow.
It’s getting dark; it’s getting late, The flames turn to embers; my bed awaits. I’ll arise on the ’morrow, for a new day awaits Til my time is done, and my steps abate. These are the things I contemplate, As the years slip by, and I turn 58.
I often refer to what are known as the transcendentals, or, the three immaterial properties of being. The ancient philosophers wrestled with these concepts as they attempted to understand the world and the purpose of the universe. A transcendental refers to something that exists outside of the material world; something that we know exists, yet is not part of time, space, or matter; and are essential to the human experience when we speak of the nature of being and reality. They are universal values that we long for and seek. We yearn to want, and to know, the Good, the Beautiful, and the True.
The Ancients saw these as attributes of God Himself, and therefore essential elements of the created order and part of who we are and what we desire. They believed that it was through these elements that Divine meaning was communicated to us. Man desires the good, loves the beautiful, and yearns to know the truth. These things can’t be explained by some mindless, directionless, evolutionary process for they exist independent of the physical and are properties of the spiritual nature of man. These values have transcended people groups and cultures throughout time, and man has never grown weary of them, as they are the hallmarks of, and point towards, the existence of perfection. While the nature of these transcendental values may be subjective to many, their existence is innately objective to all.
We desire goodness in our lives, and beauty excites and motivates us. But that which is true is of greatest value, for no matter how good or beautiful something may be, if it is not true, then it is of little worth. It is truth that defines reality, and allows us to know what is good, and appreciate what is beautiful.
Our lives should seek to reflect these values and have our minds filled with the knowledge of them. These three transcendental qualities point to the reality of something outside ourselves, something greater than ourselves, something truly meaningful, something that itself is the Source of all things Good, Beautiful, and True.
As the Apostle once wrote, “…whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report…think on these things.” -Phil 4:8
-Abortion: women exterminating their own children for whim and convenience.
-Abortion: the murder of the most vulnerable in society out of complete selfishness.
-Abortion: the most selfish act a woman could ever possibly commit.
-Abortion: making racism, sexism, and inequality, look glorious by comparison in the hierarchy of abominable acts.
-Abortion: women being convinced it’s about bodily autonomy and letting men off the hook since 1973.
-The insanity of Privilege Theory cannot be overstated. It is the subtle racism and sexism of the Marxists, based on a persons immutable traits.
-One of the worst things you can do is meet your hero. As a boy I met a hockey player I had idolized, and was so disappointed. I learned early that looking up to athletes and celebrities was the past time of the fool.
-If we praise and celebrate a mother killing her own child in a clinic, can we really be shocked at the amount of violence now overtaking the whole of society?
-Veganism is the marketing and normalization of malnutrition.
-Veganism elevates the ontological status of animals to a place they do not belong in the natural hierarchy of creatures. It is a moral belief. It is a religious belief. Scientifically, it is not a healthy diet.
-Our taste buds “evolved” as a warning system. That initial disgust at the taste of alcohol is our body warning us that the toxin is not good for us. “Acquiring a taste” for it is overriding your bodies built in warning system to your own ill health.
-There has been no lyric more poignant in the last decade than Strangers by City and Colour. It describes perfectly the despair and loneliness of the modern day functional nihilist.
-If a show or movie does not contain some form of sexual content, the modern mind will turn it off out of boredom. Their dopamine receptors have been abused, hi-jacked, and programmed.
-If you want a strong, masculine man, to care for you, you will have to submit to him.
-I am pro-choice in a sense. You can choose abstinence, contraception, adoption, or motherhood. Murder is not a choice a civilized society should allow.
-Everyone deep down knows that killing your own unborn child is wrong. That’s why we have so many euphemisms for it: choice, reproductive health, reproductive freedom, healthcare, etc.
-Porn is popular because people are starved for real intimacy and connection in a fake online, social media world.
-“Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.” -Aristotle. “Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” -Chesterton. Our society is crumbling at the altar of tolerance upon which we’ve sacrificed so much and ignored the wisdom and warnings of the past.
-There are no atheists. Everyone worships something. Most people just haven’t figured out what master they serve.
-The mental health of the women in a society will determine the future health of that society.
-At their heart, nations are a homogenous group of people. Multi-ethnic nations do not prosper or survive for any great length of time. Liberal immigration policies will destroy the West, for we know that the greater the diversity in a population, the greater the conflict.
-Sex, drugs, and alcohol, exemplify the empty folly that enslaves this generation. Nihilism is the modern religion of the masses.
-Progressivism creates nothing. It destroys the happiness created by past traditions, out of envy.
-If you’ve ever wondered how or why “good Germans” participated in the atrocities of the Holocaust, look no further than today’s “woke” leftists. It’s the same anti-human ideology. It’s the same evil. If history is our teacher, we have a good reason to oppose it, and stand against their hatred.
-In a prosperous and selfless society, the adults will sacrifice themselves for their children and the future generations. In a sick and selfish culture, the adults will sacrifice their children for their own prosperity and comfort.
-Western civilization arose from the combination of three things: the European nations, Christianity, and the Greco-Roman rule of law and philosophy. If any of these three pillars crumbles, the whole house will begin to fall. All three are under attack. They need to be protected at all costs.
-The rejection of the Christian sexual ethic leads to abortion, single motherhood, perversions, and the destruction of family units. The sexual revolution has stolen our long-term contentment in exchange for short term pleasure.
-Many years from now, the pro-abortion advocates will be viewed much like we view the slave owners of the past. They were for the selfish subjugation of another. They believed their leisure and convenience was more important than another’s life and freedom.
-Failure is hard. Admitting you failed is harder.
-“Climate science” is for those who want to cloak themselves in the veneer of science.
-Atheism is a sign of a collapsing society. It is destructive by its very nature.
-The unintelligent and incompetent use “wokeness” in order to replace those more intelligent and more competent than themselves because they can’t compete on a level playing field.
-True peace is being content in the mundane things of daily life.
-“If God be my judge.” Imagine if we all lived knowing that that will be the reality.
-Every cemetery and every gravestone should be a reminder to us that our time here is finite, and that we should awake each day with purpose.
-The “rod of correction” can sting for a lifetime.
-There is nothing more soulless than a city.
-The “silent treatment” is a killer of relationships. There is nothing more immature and selfish than ignoring someone and staying quiet. It is a weapon born of malice and contempt.
-The advent of the birth control pill made the legalization of abortion an eventual necessity.
It is hard to go anywhere, or read anything these days without someone somewhere blathering on about equality and how important it is to be striving for equality in such an unfair and uncaring world. It has to be said: the world is indeed unfair and uncaring, AND the notion of equality is a complete myth, and an impossibility to achieve. It does not exist, and never will. If it actually did it exist, we would not have to hear about it incessantly by the malcontents who use it as a bludgeon and a weapon to coerce and control others.
Let me state it clearly so there is no confusion: humans are equal in value, but they are not equal in any other way. Every person, no matter their station, is of equal worth, for they bear the image of God. (That is why in every godless, atheistic society in history genocides occurred because some were seen as worthless and expendable in the eyes of the powerful). But, and it should be obvious to all, there exists no two human beings that are equal in ability, intelligence, motivation, skill, and a host of other individualistic traits that make us unique. By definition, humans cannot be equal.
Much is said about racial inequality but I find that topic almost irrelevant. Skin pigmentation should not even matter and these people differences are more cultural in nature than they are in colour. I think the more interesting topic is that of male and female, especially in this age where the gender lines are purposely being blurred.
Men and women are not equal. They never will be. They are complementary to one another; neither one more valuable than the other, and both necessary in a functioning society. Men are the builders of civilization, and women are the nurturers of it; each role important in its own right. (I’d argue that the latter is actually the most important role of the two).
Destroying the proper functioning of male/female relationships can only serve to weaken society. The promotion of effeminate men and masculine women does a disservice to these attributes that are necessary to pass along generation after generation. Camille Paglia, the lesbian, feminist historian, has remarked that, “as androgyny in a society becomes more prevalent, it is a sure sign that a civilization is starting to unravel. You find it again and again and again in history.” This has always been one of the seminal markers of societal decline as a culture descends further into decadence and perversion, and we are witnessing a great unravelling of this societal fabric as the trans activists attack every traditional structure with their hate-filled rhetoric.
Men and women are not at war. The sexes need not battle one another. These divisions are meant to weaken and divide us and we should resist all talk of sexism and inequality. We should look to the other as necessary and complementary to what each has to offer. I have said nothing new or revelatory here. This was understood for millennia. I have merely stated the observational truth of history and what has worked from the beginning of time. Those that want to dismantle these things that are good, and beautiful, and true, need to be opposed. Society needs strong, complementary, male/female relationships to function as they were meant to.
…I found in my study that history is cyclic, and everywhere in the world you find this pattern in ancient times: that as a culture begins to decline, you have an efflorescence of transgender phenomena. That is a symptom of cultural collapse….So rather than people singing the praises of humanitarian liberalism that allows all of these transgender possibilities to appear and to be encouraged, I would be concerned about how Western culture is defining itself to the world…Because in fact these phenomena are inflaming the irrational, indeed borderline psychotic opponents of Western culture …Nothing better defines the decadence of the West…than our toleration of open homosexuality and this transgender mania now.
We need to celebrate and affirm traditional masculinity and femininity as the achievable ideals for society so that we can maintain order and function and build strong relationships and families. We need not view the other as the enemy, but rather, as a partner in building something beautiful together, each with a different, but necessary role.
-A partner that brings a quiet contentedness to life is a rare and beautiful thing.
-I can’t wait to get older. Hopefully some of the memories and scars of life will fade.
-Parties are just events where people can drink and drug themselves in a socially acceptable manner.
-Living with guilt is its own punishment.
-Lying in their bed near the end, no one will ever have wished they had gotten drunk more, or did more drugs; they will only lament the lost moments and wasted time. They’ll wish they’d pursued things of value and meaning, and put away their childishness.
-Some sins are impossible for us to ever atone for. That’s why true atonement must be fully outside ourselves.
-Life is a combination of joys and heartbreaks.
-It’s hard not to read the book of Proverbs as anything other than a warning against every thought I’ve ever had.
-Demons walk the earth. They are pleasing to look at and listen to. That’s part of their deception. They are those who entertain us; those who pervert every good and beautiful thing, and lead our hearts and minds to embrace every form of ugliness. Demons are never who we think they are.
-The Pride movement is the embodiment of pure evil on earth. It is a political movement used for control of thought.
-Everyone who drinks regularly and uses alcohol for an altered state; no matter how slight; has a drug problem. And it’s easy to hide it as “socially acceptable” because so many need it to numb themselves.
-Dogs just may be angels. I would’ve laughed at this sentiment years ago. But they truly are a gift from God while we walk this earth.
-People throw “parties” for the sole purpose of getting drunk. What a meaningless and depressing existence that is. They are to be pitied.
-Liberalism is the exaltation and celebration of ugliness and perversity.
-Forgiveness is hard, but essential.
-Trans ideology is mental illness. Affirming someone in their unwellness is by definition unloving.
-There is no such thing as hate speech. It is a concept antithetical to free-speech. The term is merely used as a dishonest way of gagging the speech of those one does not like or agree with.
-Christianity tells people they are what’s wrong with the world and improving themselves will improve the world. Secular atheism tells people they are as they should be in whatever state they are, so it is their duty to change the injustices caused by those around them. This is why the latter always leads to a world of despair and unhappiness, for it can never correct those things.
-The amount of alcohol one consumes is directly correlated to the amount of despair in one’s life. There is no other reason to use this drug, if not to numb one’s senses to these depressive feelings.
-One of the reasons I believe in God is because of what happens in the world when people don’t. If history has taught us anything it’s that those societies that annexed Christianity and made belief in God illegal and punishable, ended up creating the greatest human genocides and atrocities. In the 20th century alone, the body count under atheistic regimes exceeded more than 100 million.
-Nihilism is the dominant philosophy of the world. It is impossible for that to end well.
-We are all very quick to question the character of God, and very slow to question our own.
-When a person tells you who they are, watch them. When they show you who they are, believe them.
-People hurt one another out of selfishness.
-To the drinker, alcohol becomes more important than people; the drug, a better comfort than real relationships.
-Hurting someone you love can be one of the cruellest things you do to yourself.
-Our most lucid and terrifying thoughts are in the quiet, dark of the night.
-Imagine needing booze to feel joy. What an empty, despairing life that would be.
-Why don’t people want better for themselves? It’s all too common to watch others slowly destroy themselves.
-Until you live it, there is no way to understand the quiet brutality of divorce. It is something that scars you; that you feel every day.
-The acceptance of trans identities is the rejection of God and the created order.
-If “climate science” is science, then so is astrology.
-The sexual revolution was started by men, for men, and has been a boon for men. The alleged freedom women gained from it is a myth. Women were lied to.
-Envy is at the root of much of modern politics. It is people wanting what they do not have, and have not earned.
-Think of how broken and evil a society is that convinced its women that it’s noble and empowering to exterminate its unwanted babies.
-Masculinity isn’t toxic, but the lack of it certainly is.
-Habits are changeable when chronic laziness is overcome. However, few have the strength of will to do it.
-The gross overuse of the word “nigga” in hip-hop is not about reclaiming a hurtful and negative word, but rather, it is about power and control over the language of others. Just look at the way Kendrick Lamar shamed a white girl for singing the lyrics to a song he wrote.
-Those that seek pleasure as an end in and of itself, cannot escape the despair that necessarily comes from it.
-Rock concerts are worship services for the secular soul.
-The modern person who rejects faith and family is a functional nihilist; despair is the destination to which their journey will lead.
-One of the best lies a man made women believe was that showing off your body was about female empowerment.
-This is a generation that is so uninteresting, so uninterested, so boring, that they are unable to cope with even the smallest hardships without turning to drugs and alcohol.
-More narcissists have gym memberships than those who are concerned about their health and fitness.
A society that allows the chemical castration of children under the Orwellian and nonsensical newspeak of “gender affirming care,” when we now know that almost 90% of those adolescents with gender dysphoria will self-correct through puberty (and that there’s no decrease in suicidal ideation after transition), has signalled that its descent into pure evil is accelerating. When a culture does not protect its children from such harms, it is lost.
Transitioning kids is a full frontal attack on the most vulnerable in our society. We have consent laws for a reason, and ignoring these to transition children only opens the door to have consent ages lowered, or done away with altogether. It doesn’t take a genius to know where that will lead, or rather, where we’re being led. Those who are pushing this malevolence are the demons that walk amongst us.
It was once said that ‘the only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do [or say] nothing.’ We are watching the lives of thousands of children be destroyed as this perverse and deviant ideology grips the masses and causes crippling fear in any who would dare speak against it. History will not be kind to those complicit in such evil.
For some time now I’ve carried Field Notes notebooks with me to write down and record various thoughts when I have them. It is something I wanted to become habit-forming and enjoyable over time. I like to write and sometimes jotting down a quick note is enough. I think that in the computer age many people’s hand-writing has suffered, mine included. I’ve always thought there was something more beneficial to writing things down and recently Andrew Huberman of Stanford confirmed this:
I am not claiming there is anything wonderful, or original, or ground-breaking, in any of these thoughts and musings. On the contrary, sometimes they are the product of those boring moments when the mind wanders. There is no organization to them although the themes at times seem common. I will record them here in the way they were first written, only correcting any grammatical and punctuation errors.
Each completed book of notes is too much for one blog post, so most notebooks, once filled, will be broken up into three or four parts and posted over time.
-The promotion of the blurring of gender lines is a sure sign that a society is on the decline. When effeminate men and masculine women are celebrated, a culture cannot withstand that kind of assault.
-Christianity is the only worldview with explanatory power about the true nature of man.
-Covid was real, but the least talked about aspect of it was the fear psyop run by the government on its citizens. Many will never recover from having their brains destroyed by the crippling fear they perpetrated.
-You can never convince an emotional thinker that they are irrational. Dialectic and logic will be lost on them.
-Modern society is an exercise in the loss of meaning: empty lives filling themselves with those things that can only lead to despair.
-Modern liberalism destroys everything it touches. It does not build. It does not create. It demolishes all that is good, beautiful, and true.
-Alcohol is the third most addictive drug behind heroin and cocaine. Most people drink because they are weak and don’t understand the danger. We wouldn’t hang out with friends and shoot heroin, but we joyfully drink with friends and take them further down the road to addiction. Casual drinkers are complicit in society’s alcoholism problem.
-Atheism is incoherent. It is the most irrational belief system. It is a positive belief in spite of the protests to the contrary.
-I will no longer use the word “trans” for that lends credibility to the delusion. Female impersonator and male impersonator is how we should refer to those suffering from this mental affliction.
-Sin has two purposes: 1) it reveals us for who we are, and damns us, or 2) it sends us head long to the foot of the cross of Christ.
-Despair is a powerful word, and an even more powerful emotion.
-Utah and Arizona are as close to heaven on earth as one can get. Pure, unimaginable beauty.
-Politics is all about creating illusions. There is no longer any care for people or wanting what is best for them. It’s the illusion of care, and wholly corrupt.
-A godless culture will be an anxious, fearful, and nihilistic society that can only lead its people further into emptiness and ruin.
-Christianity is true. It is the only worldview or philosophy that can properly explain the world. Its explanatory power about the nature of man is unparalleled.
-There is no such thing as “free speech.” It is just an alternating set of “blasphemy laws” determined by those in power.
-The rejection of the Christian sexual ethic is at the root of almost every social ill in the world.
-Alcohol is the social elixir of the weak and boring. The need for a social drug is the hallmark of a decaying society.
-Christmas devoid of Christ is meaningless. For the world it is merely a time to eat, drink, and be merry; another time of fleeting pleasures with no lasting significance.
-War is the greatest evil in the world. That some agitate for it and promote it, is the embodiment of evil Satanic influence over the hearts of men.
-There is no greater blessing a person can have than loving and supportive parents.
-The sinful nature is the greatest impediment to goodness.
-The brighter the light, the more thorough the vanquishment of darkness seems.
-Politics is the art of façade. Nothing in the world is as it seems.
-I live every day with both the fear and regret that I have failed my children.
-Christmas is hope. It’s a remembrance that all will be well. Eventually.
-A person who lacks discipline and purpose will distract themselves with pleasure.
-I will always live with certain regrets. They are their own punishments.
-Watching children grow, mature, and build their own lives, is both gratifying and sorrowful. They are the greatest earthly blessing a man can have.
-To argue for right or wrong on any issue is a philosophical admission that God exists. There can be no objective delineation between good and evil without an ultimate arbiter of truth and goodness that defines the categories.
-“To save the life of the mother” is one of the greatest lies of the pro abortion crowd. Every doctor knows this is never a necessity. Abortion is sanctioned to preserve the “lifestyle” of the mother and nothing more. It is a barbaric choice of convenience in a decadent, disposable society.
-Abortion is the greatest evil of the modern age. There is no close second.
-If I could go back, I would change so much. Regrets are with you always.
-Atheistic belief is just ignorant narcissism.
-The theory of evolution by natural selection is mathematically impossible. There is nowhere near enough time available for the number of required mutations. The theory is false. Never trust the “science.”
-The theory of evolution exists only so that man can have an excuse to reject God and try to free himself from the guilt. It is absurd on its face and entirely untenable as a working theory of origins.
-For one to make a supposed, rational defence of atheism, one must adopt Christian categories. It is highly derivative and cannot logically stand on its own as a coherent worldview.
-Everyone should experience marriage. No one should experience divorce.
-You don’t have to be an alcoholic to have a drinking problem. Anyone who drinks regularly, or every time they go out, has a problem. Alcohol is an alluring and highly addictive drug.
-The youth of today are weak and lead mostly meaningless, hedonistic lives. That is why they have turned en masse to drugs and alcohol. They have lost their ability to live with purpose. Substance use is the sign of an empty life.
-To not speak up and speak out against evil is to be complicit in it.
-Abortion is Satanic. The devil is a merchant of death and it’s in abortion clinics where some of his most prolific work is done.
-The financial system is set up in such a way as to syphon money from the government and average taxpayer into the banks and institutions of the elite. The average person doesn’t stand a chance.
-Divorce embodies every ugliness of the human condition.
-As I age, I doubt myself more and fear the world less.
Butterfly, butterfly, drift on the breeze;
Feel the sunshine so warm on your face.
Keep to the light, and away from the dark;
Live with meaning, and purpose, and grace.
Ladybug, ladybug, keep your heart pure;
Let all decadence pass by the way.
Hold fast to traditions you once held so dear,
And watch all the words that you say.
Firefly, firefly, let your light shine
Til the darkness gives way to the day.
Stand firm in will, choose friends with great care,
For in weakness they’ll lead you astray.
Honeybee, honeybee, don’t stray from your hive;
Beware of the nectar which lures.
For it will poison both body and soul
And its enslavement can never be cured.
Dragonfly, dragonfly, beware of the storms
And the people that mean you all harms.
Remember the good, the honest, and true,
And the care of these comforting arms.
Hummingbird, hummingbird, flutter about;
Fly under the care of the sun.
Cherish the moments; live life to the full,
For joy awaits when you’re done.
Damselfly, damselfly, stand bold for the truth;
Don’t care what strangers may say.
Be strong in spirit, don’t follow the crowd
For your crown awaits on that day.
Butterfly, butterfly, remember thy Lord
And the great love He has for thee.
Spread your wings and head for the skies;
He’ll be guiding you as you fly free.
For years now I’ve seen some of my favourite authors and leaders recommend the reading of Meditations by the stoic philosopher and Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius. Some have even gone so far as to say they reread this work every one to two years and advise others would be well served to do the same. Born out of the gnostic tradition, I’ve never found stoicism as a philosophy very interesting or compelling, but some of the writings can be helpful. So I decided it was time to read Aurelius’ famous Meditations.
I searched online for a good recommendation on which translation would be most beneficial and settled on one done by Gregory Hays. The intro gave a good overview of both Marcus Aurelius and the nature of Stoicism to shed some light on what followed: the 12 books of Meditations, or short sayings and aphorisms of the Greek philosopher.
I was underwhelmed to say the least and found it quite tedious in many parts. It did not seem to me worth the praise I had seen from many. Now, for those familiar with the wisdom literature of the Bible: Ecclesiastes, Job, and specifically the book of Proverbs, which are beautifully written and hit right to the core of the nature of man and the problems he faces, Aurelius’ work can only pale in comparison. Perhaps my expectations had been set too high from the continued praise the work receives, but I can only think those who esteem it highly are unfamiliar with the Biblical counterparts.
While it may be helpful to some, I can’t recommend this ancient work with any excitement. It did have some highlights, however, and a few of my favourites were:
Book 2:1 – When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can’t tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own–not of the same blood or birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine. And so none of them can hurt me…
Book 3:6 – If, at some point in your life, you should come across anything better than justice, honesty, self-control, courage–than a mind satisfied that is has succeeded in enabling you to act rationally, and satisfied to accept what’s beyond its control–if you find anything better than that, embrace it without reservation–it must be an extraordinary thing indeed–and enjoy it to the full…
Book 4:17 – Not to live as if you had endless years ahead of you. Death overshadows you. While you’re alive and able–be good.
Book 6:7 – To move from one unselfish action to another with God in mind. Only there, delight and stillness.
Book 6:33 – It’s normal to feel pain in your hands and feet, if you’re using your feet as feet and your hands as hands. And for a human being to feel stress is normal–if he’s living a normal human life. And if it’s normal, how can it be bad?
Book 7:31 – Wash yourself clean. With simplicity, with humility, with indifference to everything but right and wrong. Care for other human beings. Follow God.
Book 8:59 – People exist for one another. You can instruct or endure them.
Book 11:23 – Socrates used to call popular beliefs “the monsters under the bed”–only useful for frightening children with.
Book 12:13 – The foolishness of people who are surprised by anything that happens. Like travellers amazed at foreign customs.
We must read books of the past to understand the nature of humanity and how we’ve arrived at where we are. So I laud the reading of the ancients and would not consider it a waste of time to read the Meditations, but time would be better spent reading the book of Proverbs, in my opinion. I am happy to have read this classic and benefitted from it, but I will not consider ever having to reread it like some suggest.
I never make resolutions because they will invariably set me up for disappointment. No one likes to make their own failure inevitable. But I did commit to making 2023 the year of getting back to reading more good books and spending less time reading online. I use to read a lot. I want that aspect of my old life back. So the first book of the year was a short, easy read to start things off: Johnny Cash – Forever Words.
Johnny Cash is an interesting man. Some of his music I love, while some I don’t. He is dichotomous in so many aspects of his music, writing, life, and character, and there is no denying the depth of emotion that certain phrases or songs from him can elicit.
The one constant throughout his life was that God was central to who he was; both in triumph and in failure. He suffered some early family tragedies, and struggled with addiction and relationships almost his entire life. Yet through it all he always came back to the One he loved.
This book is an easy read and gives the admirer of Cash a little glimpse into who he was through a small selection of his unpublished poetry. To be honest some of the selections were not to my liking and seemed somewhat remedial and not what I expected; while others you could almost hear being read in Cash’s growly, weathered voice:
Liquid, tablet, capsule, powder Fumes and smoke and vapor The payoff is the same in the end Liquid, tablet, capsule, powder Fumes and smoke and vapor Convenient ways to get the poison in
The hidden gem is this book is the little introduction by John Carter Cash, Johnny’s son. It’s interesting to hear a son reflect upon both his father’s legacy; both the good and bad elements of his life, while also expressing a deep love and affection for the man he called “Dad.”
My favourite lines come from a poem called Does Anybody Out There Love Me?
It’s a long and endless journey When you’re on the lost pathway Today will not be different Than a hundred yesterdays
But maybe there’s a new life Dawning with the morning sun And I’ll be a better man For where I’ve been and what I’ve done
There are many other books on Johnny Cash that give much deeper insight into the man. This is not a ‘must read‘ by any stretch, but rather, a taste of who the man was behind those dark and brooding expressions. For good or for ill, maybe we can see just a little of ourselves in the “Man in Black” and the words he wrote in prose and song.
It is often asked that, ‘if God is real, why does evil and suffering exist?‘ In other words, why would a good and loving God permit the cruelties and sufferings we witness on a daily basis? That those who reject and mock the very notion of God would think that this same God should and would create a world to their liking, and let them live lives with not even a passing thought towards their Creator, belies the nonsensical nature of the question they ask.
It is true that the world is full of evil, and sorrow, and suffering, and tragedy, and all of it resulted from man’s rejection of God. Man wanted to live as his own god with no duty to the One who created him. We, like sheep, have gone astray, and our hearts are only interested in living for ourselves.
Man was done with God, but thankfully, God was not done with us.
On this day we celebrate God sending his Son into the world to save those who rejected Him. He took on the form of man. He came humbly, born amongst animals in a stable. He lived a perfect life so that we may too shall live. Jesus came to reconcile man with God.
The original question is asked poorly. That evil even exists necessitates a need for this Saviour. The question should not be ‘why would a loving God allow evil?‘ but rather, ‘why would God save those who rejected Him at all?‘ Christianity is the only answer for the existence of evil; it is the only way to make sense of evil in the world. No other worldview can account for, and deal with, all the wickedness. Only Jesus can.
We celebrate Christmas to commemorate God coming into the world to defeat sin and evil once and for all. If this is not at the heart of your celebrations today, then you are not celebrating Christmas; you are not celebrating God’s goodness to those who rejected Him and embraced evil. We celebrate that which is good, and beautiful, and true, this day, for we know that evil has been conquered, and we look forward to the day when it is no more.
For those that know me, they will generally know of my total opposition to alcohol consumption and its regular use as a recreational drug. For almost 40 years now I have made statements that have raised eyebrows and made people think I was crazy. It’s cost me friendships and not something I’ve ever taken lightly. I’ve probably read more about the effects of alcohol on the body and brain than 99.9% of the population. My opinions are strong and sometimes unintentionally offensive, (especially to drinkers who quickly get defensive), yet all of them are based on the science, studies, and professionals who research the most common psychoactive drug used worldwide. It’s my opinion that most people have been easily brainwashed into our drinking culture will little to no thoughts of its harmful effects, and been encouraged to partake in the adolescent “rite of passage” of alcohol experimentation at a time in their brain development when the substance is its most addictive. It’s hard to convince people of anything these days that they won’t let themselves believe; even in the face of the strongest evidence. I can only hope for those that stumble upon this post that the data presented is at least a little compelling in moving the reader to consider pouring their favourite drug down the drain for good.
I recently watched Dr. Andrew Huberman’s podcast on alcohol. Huberman is a neurobiologist and runs The Huberman Lab in the School of Medicine at Stanford University. This podcast was quite revealing and certain things he said about alcohol shocked me. He relies only on the latest data and science. For anyone interested in this issue, this is one of the best, most thorough talks I’ve ever heard on the issue and it gets quite in depth on the destructive nature of alcohol on the brain and body. It is well worth your time, and was the motivation to finally finish this post that I’ve started, what seems like, countless times.
Alcohol is a liquid. It is medically classified as a toxin. It is its’ properties as a poison that causes drunkenness; ie. the state of drunkenness is a literal poisoning of the brain when the alcohol (acetaldehyde) crosses the blood/brain barrier. The horrible aches and feelings of a hangover the next day is the process of purging the last remnants of alcohol from the body, very similar to drug withdrawal. Alcohol is a depressant, which, after its brief euphoria phase produces long lasting feelings of depression, anxiety, and mood swings; as long as 7-10 days after an evening of just 4 or more drinks. Eight ounces of pure alcohol will kill you almost immediately. Humans have learned to masquerade its taste with fruity flavours, glamourize its appearance with vibrant colours, and market it with names that make us long for one after another, all in the name of “a good time.” Every single alcohol commercial markets their product as the only essential ingredient for a fun night out on the town, when nothing could be further from the truth. The lies of both omission and commission by the alcohol industry, along with a high level of propaganda, have fooled almost everyone into believing this drug is nearly harmless.
The majority of humans are self-destructive creatures. From drugs, alcohol, sugar, processed foods, social media, porn, etc., very few can properly regulate their desires and often choose short-term destructive pleasures over their long-term well-being. There is no question there is an addiction crisis in affluent nations around the world with easy access to all these things that do us harm. Most drinkers are surprised to learn that alcohol is one of the most addictive substances on the planet. In lists of addictive drugs, alcohol ranks anywhere from second to fifth depending upon the methodology used; usually ranking only behind heroin and cocaine. People cannot believe it is considered more addictive than meth or barbiturates. For example, on the Henningfield and Benowitz scales, alcohol ranks 2nd behind heroin yet higher than cocaine for its ability to addict its users. The US based Addiction Center also ranks it 2nd. Another medical rehab center ranks it 3rd. The Pathfinder Recovery Center ranks it 4th. There is just no question that there is a strong addictive pull to alcohol, and even among casual drinkers who are not alcoholics, there is a milder draw towards it outside of their control, especially in social settings.
From the data we know that 1 in 8 adults, almost 13%, are alcoholics and it appears that between 15%-20% of the population have some sort of alcohol use disorder (AUD). (When you consider that only about 60% of adults are “drinkers”, that equates to 30-35% of all drinkers having a problematic relationship with their booze). It is estimated that 33% of all adults will suffer from an AUD at some point in their life. These are staggering numbers. Look around at your next party. If it’s a party of 20 people we know statistically that 3-5 of them have a problem with alcohol; even more if they are all drinking. Yet we have made the ingestion of this drug a “harmless” social norm. Would you do meth or cocaine with your friends and help feed that addiction? Of course not. So why do we casually participate in parties with friends where excessive drinking is not only normal but encouraged, and help to lead some of them down the path of addiction? People don’t like to hear it, but they are complicit in both their own, and their friends, drinking problems. The American Addiction Center describes the addictive effects of alcohol this way:
Alcohol acts on dopamine levels to enhance mood, like other drugs, but it also serves as a central nervous system depressant, slowing down nerve firings and the functions of the central nervous system. This results in lowered blood pressure and heart rate. It also promotes sedation and impairs motor skills and cognition. When people are under the influence of alcohol, they are likely to engage in risky behaviours as inhibitions are lowered. They may also be more talkative and sociable, and may experience mood swings and impaired decision-making and impulse-control abilities.
Alcohol abuse, especially when alcohol is consumed in heavy or binge drinking patterns, can lead to a dependency on the substance. When alcohol begins to leave the body, withdrawal symptoms can range from mild to life-threatening. When the effects of alcohol wear off, the brain may try to restore a chemical balance, causing a kind of rebound of some of the nerve firings that were suppressed by the alcohol. Anxiety, depression, insomnia, tremors, sweating, irregular heart rate, hypertension, nausea and vomiting, headaches, abdominal pain, and even psychosis and seizures are potential alcohol withdrawal symptoms. A desire to keep these symptoms to a minimum may lead to using alcohol as a form of self-medication for alcohol withdrawal and can therefore perpetuate alcohol addiction.
Heavy drinkers, even while building their tolerance to alcohol in the short-term, can have noticeable impairments to brain function years later. This explodes the notion that many falsely believe: that once a tolerance to alcohol is built up, its negative effects are no longer worrisome. Even moderate alcohol intake can reduce the brain’s ability to produce new cells by 40% and this causes long term memory problems as the production of new cells in the hippocampus is greatly reduced. Regular alcohol consumption will most certainly deteriorate brain function over time.
Binge drinking, the most common form of alcohol consumption, is associated with increased mortality and morbidity, and findings indicate that even a single alcohol binge results in increased serum endotoxin levels which in turn leads to greater levels of depression. Women had higher elevated endotoxin levels in their blood after a binge than men did, and perhaps this is one reason we see higher levels of depression in women as well. Women tend to use alcohol to self-medicate for immediate relief of anxiety and depression when in fact it exacerbates these problems they are seeking relief from, leading to a greater number of functional alcoholics who rely on its effects to cope with life. While we are on the topic of female consumption, it is worth noting that alcohol use by women is accelerating rapidly and of deep concern to health authorities here in Canada. Binge drinking by childless women has doubled. (I’ll let the reader draw their own conclusions from that). Women face greater risks in consuming alcohol than men do and female drinking is reaching troubling levels. No matter how you look at it, the news is not good.
Most people downplay their consumption and think they can easily handle their alcohol. More people would be surprised to find they are classified as heavy drinkers rather than just a casual imbiber. What constitutes a heavy drinker? Well for females, 8 or more drinks per week and 15 or more for males would make one a heavy drinker; and at an alarming risk for an AUD. The CDC has reported that 10% of all deaths between the ages of 20 and 64 are due to excessive alcohol consumption. Alcohol and excessive consumption is a far bigger societal problem than most people would guess. This article does a good job of breaking down consumption habits by decile. It’s refreshing to see that the bottom 40% of the population consume almost no alcohol at all which should be encouraging for those who drink because of peer pressure, to fit in, to be one of the “cool kids”, for social status, or any number of other reasons.
Look, I understand the arguments for drinking that people use, but none of them are compelling when put up against the clear risk data. Every single one amounts to opting for short-term pleasure and temporary “good feelings” at the expense of one’s mental and physical health. This is the trade-off that every single hard drug user makes as well. This is the hard reality; this is the science.
If you need a drink at the the end of a hard day; you have a drinking problem. If you need a drink to have a good time with friends; you have a drinking problem. If you can’t go out without drinking; you have a drinking problem. If you need a drink to feel normal; you have a drinking problem. If you need a drink to help you mask or alleviate emotional pain; you have a drinking problem. If you need a drink to escape the difficulties of life; you have a drinking problem. Some of these are understandable, but most are not. People use substances every day for “fun,” or to self-medicate, or to lessen anxiety, or to forget. I’m not unsympathetic to those who are hurting or trying to forget a trauma, but a substance is never the answer. Alcohol has never once solved a problem, but it has, on countless occasions, created them. It has created pain, grief, sorrow, anger, and embarrassment. The reliance on alcohol has caused so many people to unwittingly become slaves to a substance; a substance that ruins lives.
Ultimately, alcohol is used by the weak; those who need a crutch, those who can’t cope or produce on their own. They drink because their life is missing something they think they will find in the bottom of a bottle. They can’t produce happiness on their own. They can’t produce confidence on their own. They can’t produce contentment on their own. They can’t have “fun” in a sober state. So they turn to a drug to produce the feelings that they cannot, rather than do the hard work of improving themselves and that which is necessary to construct a full, fun-filled life. There are no shortcuts. Alcohol is not a shortcut. It produces the illusion of happiness, of fun, of confidence, of sexiness; only to leave those who rely on it worse off when its temporary, fleeting effects wear off. The continued reliance on a substance in order to find peace or fulfillment or happiness or whatever an empty soul is yearning to find, will ultimately render its user subservient to its addictive power.
Society at large suffers from a spiritual problem. There is a lack of meaning and purpose in the modern, aimless life, which causes it to distract itself with pleasure and consumption. A night out drinking helps to cauterize their hollow feelings. Alcohol creates these fake and transient pleasures as a way of escape from this empty reality. People have little meaning or purpose so they chase after superficial, ungratifying pleasures which leaves them unfulfilled, depressed, and lonely. They lack the tools to cope so they seek solace in a substance who’s only promise is to give them more of the emptiness and pain that they are running from. They yearn for human connection through the social use of alcohol, but fail to understand that meaningful human connections can never be built through drunkenness, and your soulmate will never be found passed out at the end of a bar at 2am. We substitute real connections for fake, substance-induced interactions for fear of being vulnerable and real. Booze gives them the safe barrier to hide behind. Drinking is drug use, and as much as people decry this description, factually and scientifically it is.
Society has a drug problem and alcohol is the most common drug of choice. 70% of Americans are on meds. 25% of people over 18 take something for their mental health. There were 300 million prescriptions for antidepressants written in 2021 in the US; many of those for people who spend their weekends drinking a depressant and wondering why they are moody and down most of their waking sober time. We need to fix this. We need to encourage people to find the joy in a sober life without wasting it in dingy bars and slowly killing themselves in the process. We need to stop drugging ourselves to death and look to seek meaning and fulfillment outside the “easy fix” of a drug that can provide neither. I understand why people drink because most people bow to peer pressure and are followers. “Drinking is a social thing” is the great justification they use to follow the crowd. We need to encourage people to be strong, to be individuals, to strive for personal strength of conviction, and to search for greater meaning for their lives. We should seek out those things that are good, beautiful, and true; and do away with those things that are destructive and unhealthy. True freedom only comes when we pursue a totally authentic and sober life, experiencing people and the world in all its beautiful reality, while putting away the childishness and immaturity of trying to create this artificially through the use of alcohol and other substances. We will be stronger for it if we do.
No matter how dark it may get, and it will get darker than anyone ever plans it to get when they are mired in a reliance on the bottle, there is always hope. Light conquers darkness. Sobriety will always, always, always, be greater than the casual or serious enslavement of alcohol.
Karl Marx once called religion the “opiate of the masses,” meaning that religion served as the “drug” to stupefy and dull the people. In our modern day, alcohol serves the same purpose, leaving people and society all the poorer and dysfunctional for it.
Post script:
1) There are few things more hilarious than watching “experts” sit around regaling one another with their thoughts on the merits of one wine over another or how their favourite “paint thinner,” otherwise known as whiskey, is better than another. Studies have shown that it is not objective, and primarily a psychological phenomenon of wanting to seem “cultured” or “sophisticated” or an expert. (Must read this, and this).
2) An excellent report on Canadian drinking habits. This covers almost every issue, some I didn’t have the time or space to mention.
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Notice Dr. Huberman’s purposeful use of the word “seem”. Alcohol creates the illusion of normal, the illusion of fun, the illusion of happiness. What it creates is fake and fleeting. We know this because when its effects wear off, the person is left in a worse state than they were before.
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Alcohol cannot bring happiness or contentment, only addiction. It takes work to create happiness and pleasure in your life and the alcohol shortcut is always a poor trade of easy instant gratification for the long term consequences of disease and/or addiction.
There is no prettier time of year when the joyful exuberance of summertime gives way to the aging blaze of colour in autumn; before the grey and cold winter signifies another year is done. I’ve gone for a number of long walks just to soak in the beauty of fall. Few things uplift the soul like colour on the trees and sunshine on the face.
Seasons change. Life changes. The old must die so that the new may once again flourish in spring. We all have those things in our lives that we want to put to death, and things we want to change, so that the beauty of the new life may fill us again with the wonder we once knew. Autumn shows us how beautiful it can be to let some things go.
The richness of the Artist’s pallet is a wonder to behold this time of year. The beauty of His brush strokes seems unending and infinite in its creative majesty. We never fully comprehend the depth of the beauty around us and the colours of fall help to amplify nature’s glory and draw our attention back to the Creator. Autumn should be a contemplative time for us; both, of the things above, and the things below. May we never grow tired of nature, nor of the One who bestowed such a gift upon us.
“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.” –Emily Bronte
By now it should be apparent to anyone paying attention that the Covid pandemic is long over and has been for awhile; the virus has mutated into a common cold virus, and the vaccines have been by almost any sane measure, colossal failures. Despite the govt propaganda, there is absolutely no possible argument to be made for continued vaccination when all the data shows that they have been a colossal failure.
Let’s look at what we now know, that largely goes unreported in the mainstream media news, that shows not only how ineffective and unsafe these vaccines are, but immensely damaging as well.
In a new study, scientists from Harvard and John Hopkins have found that the vaccines are 98 times worse than the Covid virus for human health and assert that it is “ethically unjustifiable” to continue vaccinating people with this experimental technology. The abstract can be found here, with more explanation found here.
The new Bivalent Covid vaccine from Pfizer allegedly has protection for Omicron and the newer BA4 and BA5 strains, as well as the original ancestral strains. (Why on earth are we vaccinating people against the now extinct original strains?) Pfizer presented evidence for this booster from a trial performed on 8 mice. Read that again: 8 mice. All 8 mice did get Covid after being injected. Pfizer also ceased the human trial of the new booster because apparently ‘this update was badly needed and their wasn’t enough time.’ The FDA rubber stamped it.
We now know from a new study that the Covid vaccines are almost 100 times more likely to cause a young adult serious injury than prevent him from being hospitalized with Covid. It has been apparent from almost the beginning that the vaccines have been detrimental to those under 70 years of age and had negative impacts on general health. They have not stopped people from catching the virus, nor spreading it, nor being hospitalized from it.
Denmark has now banned the mRNA vaccines for people under 50 because the risks of the vaccine far outweigh its benefits to healthy people. This was known from the beginning, yet countries like Canada and the US are still pushing these as the only solution. Think about what this means: people are better off getting Covid than they are taking the mRNA vaccines.
We know from new studies coming out regularly that the vaccines do not work. In fact, we know that they actually helped the Omicron variant spread further and faster. Top virologists warned against vaccinating people in the middle of a pandemic; apparently this was a basic scientific principle, yet Big Pharma and the govt pushed these onto a fear-stricken population anyways. These vaccines were neither safe nor effective. They knew this. They knowingly lied.
We know that deaths around the world are soaring. All cause mortality numbers are up between 10-20% globally in highly vaccinated nations. All cause deaths did not really spike in 2020 when Covid was it’s deadliest, but they have ever since the vaccine mandates were put in place. It is not even debatable anymore: more people are dying of all causes since the Covid mRNA vaccines were introduced. Edward Dowd, an ex-Blackrock portfolio manager, has gone over insurance data on mortality rates and there is no question that the vaccines are killing people.
More and more evidence is piling up and showing that the spike protein produced by the vaccines is toxic to the heart. Many were sounding the alarm bells early on about the toxicity of these proteins, but they were silenced and some deplatformed for speaking out. We now know they were right. Myocarditis is real and vaccine induced myocarditis is far more prevalent now than myocarditis from Covid.
We now know from Pfizer’s own documents, that 44% of pregnant women who took the vaccine in the trial, miscarried their babies. Pfizer knew this yet lied to the world that it was safe.
We are seeing a massive spike in cancer cases since the vaccination program started. Can some of it be explained by missed screenings and doctor appointments? Sure. But what is more clear now is that the vaccines are destroying people’s immune systems and many diseases are on the rise. The vaccine destroys that which God designed to protect you.
You “trust the science”? You “trust the experts?” There is no more foolish thing that you can do than blindly trust doctors, Pharmaceutical companies, and govt officials making recommendations about your health. They have been objectively wrong on so many issues and have lied to protect themselves. We know from a recent study that 70% of all medical trials are faked. It is about money; it is not about health.
In Canada, not one person on the Covid response team had an epidemiological or public health background, yet these were the people telling us to “trust the science”? Evil people forced medical treatment on those under their care, not based on any real science, but for their own control and political gain. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ordered more vaccines per capita than any other country on earth. We are now disposing of hundreds of millions of wasted doses that were paid for by taxpayers with tax dollars that could have gone towards a crumbling health care system that is now broken beyond repair.
A Canadian Liberal MP had an independent study commissioned on the effectiveness of the mRNA vaccines only to find out the vaccines did nothing to help reduce sickness and death from Covid for those under 60, with many suffering horrendous vaccine injuries.
It was never a “pandemic of the unvaccinated.” Anyone with an IQ over 70 knew this was an observable, easily falsifiable, lie. They said this to con more people to get vaccinated. That was it. It was never based on scientific data. They knew this, they lied, they did not care.
It is now apparent that the virus was man-made through gain of function research in Wuhan and released purposely to take away more freedom from people. The vaccines were introduced to harm people and begin a slow depopulation process. I know this sounds almost impossible to believe but there is no other rational explanation for the cult-like adherence to a failed injection. Fear and propaganda crippled the planet and many complied just to “get their lives back.” But as the saying goes, ‘you can never comply your way out of tyranny.’ We must never let this happen again. We must never comply with govt edicts regarding our health; that decision is ours, and ours alone. We must never blindly trust the medical community again for they have failed us. We must stand up to the evil in our midst: name it, point it out, and do not let it control our friends and family. The truth will come out one day, and that which seemed far-fetched and ridiculous will be shown to be the truth. It was not by accident that these things happened.
An atheist was walking through the woods and wondered aloud:
“What majestic trees! What powerful rivers! What beautiful animals!”
As he was walking alongside the river, he heard a rustling in the bushes behind him and he turned to look. He saw a 7-foot grizzly bear charging towards him.
He ran as fast as he could up the path. He looked over his shoulder and saw that the bear was closing in on him. He looked over his shoulder again, and the bear was even closer. He tripped and fell to the ground. He rolled over to pick himself up but saw that the bear was right on top of him, reaching for him with his left paw and raising his right paw to strike him.
At that instant the Atheist cried out, “Oh God!”
Time stopped. The bear froze. The forest was silent.
As a bright light shone upon the man, a voice came out of the sky.
“You deny my existence for all these years, teach others I don’t exist, and even credit creation to cosmic accident. Do you expect me to help you out of this predicament? Am I to count you as a believer?”
The atheist looked directly into the light and said, “It would be hypocritical of me to suddenly ask you to treat me as a Christian now, but perhaps you could make the bear a Christian?”
“Very well,” said the voice.
The light went out. The sounds of the forest resumed. And the bear dropped his right paw, brought both paws together, bowed his head and said:
“Lord bless this food, which I am about to receive from thy bounty. Amen.”
I can’t remember where I found this little story but it helps to illustrate another facet of the incoherence of atheism. We’ve all heard the tired line that, ‘if the Christian God was truly loving then there would be no evil in the world or we wouldn’t face difficulties in life,’ or something similar.
Most atheists see this as a “kill shot” in that their superior intelligence just did away with thousands of years of religious belief. The objection is easily dismissed and rejected.
One, God never promised our lives on earth would be easy and that they wouldn’t be without pain and hardship. In fact, they are to be expected. And two, why would anyone think that if they rejected God’s commands on how to live a peaceful and fulfilled life, that peace and fulfillment would come of their own accord? If you reject God, why would God feel some sort of obligation to you to ensure that your life was free from hardship? It’s an absurd claim to make, especially for an atheist who believes there is no purpose or direction to the natural order.
In his heart, the atheist does not want to believe in anyone above him. He has set himself as the god of his own life and only to himself will he have to answer. This objection to God’s existence is merely the outworking of his unbelief in order to soothe his conscience in that unbelief. It is not logical. It is not rational. Atheism by its very nature is incoherent and should never be taken seriously by anyone.
Majestic in appearance, silent in flight, unmoved and stalwart as they command their surroundings from high above, birds remind us of our own limitations and the glorious creative mind of their Creator.
“But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.” -Isaiah 40:31
-On June 24th, 2022, Roe v. Wade, the 1973 US Supreme Court decision that magically invented a constitutional right to abortion, was overturned. It was bad law from the beginning (even Ruth Bader Ginsburg has admitted this) and most who understand how a constitutional republic operates, know this. Yet that didn’t stop abortion advocates from crying about having their “rights” taken from them, which did not occur.
-Abortion is the single greatest evil in society today, by far. A culture that tells mothers they can purposely kill their children and rid themselves of the “burden” they have created, will eventually fall; it cannot survive such willful, ongoing barbarism. Human life starts at conception; this is an undeniable scientific fact. The belief that a human is just a “clump of cells” until mysteriously turning into a human at some random point in pregnancy is the one based on pseudo-religious superstition. Ask any pro-abortion advocate to define a “person” and watch them twist and contort normal words into a pile of meaningless nonsense.
-It is difficult listening to the vapid arguments of the pro-abortion crowd. They will say anything, no matter how silly or dishonest, to state the case for “choice” being all that matters. They are not truthful in the least bit. Everything they say is meant to frighten women, obscure the truth, or denigrate life. Very few can be open and honest about what they are advocating for. I heard one woman in a recent protest video say, “Yes it’s a baby, and yes I’m OK with killing it. I don’t care.” At least she had the fortitude to state the obvious truth that they all really believe. Her words were evil and inhumane, but also a rare moment of truth.
-Great evil can only be overcome when strong men and women stand up and fight against the darkness that has engulfed the hearts and minds of those who would advocate and champion the murder of the unborn. A good society cannot stand if it tolerates such unfettered evil to persist. Even in the face of death threats, the stalwarts of the US Supreme Court should be lauded for their bold stand against injustice towards society’s weakest and most vulnerable.
-A principled Clarence Thomas puts it this way:
-What few understand is that abortion is big business and it is the money behind this industry that fuels the protests, demonstrations, and riots. Hundreds of millions of dollars are made every year from the promotion of abortion for the harvest of organs for resale, and to help with population control; mostly in the communities of the “undesirable.” Those who fight on the side of life profit nothing from abortion, nor from abortion being made illegal. They receive nothing for their tireless work other than the knowledge that they saved lives and did what was morally right. As is the case with most things, if you follow the money, you can usually uncover the motivations of those pulling the strings.
-The weekend following the Roe reversal, twenty-one Crisis Pregnancy Centres were vandalized and attacked, so don’t for one second think these people care about women and their healthcare decisions. They attacked the very people trying to help women through a difficult time when they chose life. If you don’t advocate for abortion on demand for all nine months, they have no interest in you.
-It’s hard to fathom that we live in a world where someone would rather kill their baby than not have sex. I do support the concept of choice for one’s own person and there are many choices along the chain of events in this debate. I support the choice of abstinence, of contraception, of motherhood, and of adoption. I just have to draw the line where some would rather choose the convenience of murder. If someone says they are “pro-choice,” yet also stand for gun control or vaccine mandates like many leftists on that side do, they are not pro-choice at all, but rather, pro-abortion and anti-choice. We need to point out to them this inconsistency and make them own the fact that they advocate the killing of babies according to the whim of the mother.
-The line between good and evil when it comes to abortion can’t be any clearer. History will look at the overturning of Roe much like it looks now at the abolition of slavery or the liberation of Jews from the Nazi concentration camps. History will look back on the pro-abortion side as the bad guys; they will look back on them with scorn and derision for what they perpetrated on the weakest and most vulnerable in society. Black slaves were considered 3/5ths a person, while the unborn baby is considered no person at all. Dehumanize the target, and it becomes far easier to mistreat or exterminate.
-At its heart, abortion is a war against women. It tells women not to fulfill their highest calling. It tells women that with a simple procedure they can allow men to walk free from responsibility. It tells women that a life of casual sex is more fulfilling than motherhood. It tells women that their young party years are something of value. It tells women that life is meaningless if they decide it’s meaningless. It tells women their sole political power in this world rests in their ability to kill their children. Women become the victims under the strong hand of the abortion lobby, yet are told they are strong, liberated, and free. Just another lie they are brainwashed to believe.
-When we consider the magnitude of the lives lost over the decades to the abortionists syringe and scalpel, this might just be the greatest victory for human rights in the history of the world. So June 24th was a good day, but it is only the beginning. The war is not over. Until abortion is ended and looked upon with disgust, there is still much to do. We need to pray for a revival of decency and changed hearts, to view life as something beautiful and worthy of protection. Perhaps it might be easier for some to understand what happened this way: Roe v. Wade was just a clump of words that got aborted on June 24th, 2022.
The US has one of two choices facing them: national divorce or civil war. We are already in the midst of an ideological cold war between left and right and have been for decades, and the divide is only growing wider. If we don’t start the process of separation soon, the only inevitable outcome before us is a real civil war. I know this seems radical to even suggest, but it has become abundantly clear that the left and right can no longer co-exist together. There is no longer any common ground between them. There is no mild language I can use to write about this, for evil must be boldly opposed.
This past week we learned of the leak from the US Supreme Court (in and of itself a criminal act of insurrection against the courts) that they are on the verge of overturning the Roe v. Wade decision of 1973 that found the “right to an abortion” within the constitutional Right to Privacy. It was always seen as bad case law but no one had the political will to do anything about it. Overturning Roe v. Wade will not ban abortion in the US, like many of the leftist, blue-haired banshees are screeching about, but rather it will send the issue back to the states to decide for themselves. This is how democracy is suppose to function, allowing the people to decide the laws that will govern them. But leftists hate another’s freedom and do not want a functional democracy where their power is diminished. Summer leftist riot season is now upon us and things are about to turn ugly.
We talk of a “mental health crisis” in this country yet no one is willing to name it: it is modern liberalism or leftism; the ideology of the mentally unwell whose beliefs are anti-human, dyscivilizational, and destructive of all that is good, beautiful, and true. It is a sickness of the heart and minds of these people fuelled by self-loathing, divisiveness, hatred, and cruelty, which they cloak in fake virtue. These are the people that want to laugh, cheer, and celebrate when a baby is ripped from the womb, yet cry at the thought of someone not using their make believe pronouns. These are not good people. They are a dangerous combination of weak and evil, like most tyrants throughout history.
In this latest round of the abortion debate, we have seen the most grotesque the left has to offer. Just today they bombed a crisis pregnancy centre in Wisconsin, and many online praised it. Everything they stand for is anti-human. They champion the murder of babies in utero while trying to save every animal or insect; and yet the irony is lost on them. They want to expand the bounds of assisted-suicide to include the homeless and mentally ill. They want to stop the use of fossil fuels which has lifted more people out of poverty than anything else in history. They want to “protect the earth” through their fake science of “climate change” which will bankrupt nations and kill millions. They want to give drug addicts needles to kill themselves slowly rather than give them the real help they need. They want to let criminals out of jail so they can offend again and again. They want strict population controls that take away the choice of others to procreate. And as the Covid pandemic has clearly shown us, they want to take away your informed consent as to what medications you can and cannot take. They have become a cult that wants control over everything you do. They want the “right” to abort babies up to and including the moment of birth when they are fully formed and viable. This is the depth of depravity we are dealing with.
The Romans use to let babies die from exposure (leaving them in a field to die from the elements) and other ancient cultures use to sacrifice their babies to the god Moloch. The modern left today has returned to a more sanitized version of baby sacrifice to the same god, on the altar of convenience and ease. Abortion is now a sacrament in this new secular religion; a rite that is celebrated by the godless. They despise hardship or the thought of their lives having any unnecessary discomfort. They want to bear no consequences for their own irresponsible behaviours. They want the easy way out. We are no better than the Ancients if we permit this modern version of barbarism to happen to our most vulnerable.
The time has come for a national divorce; the left and right can no longer live together when their views on life, liberty, and virtue are diametrically opposed to one another. We must separate for the sake of peace for we cannot continue down this road of constant division, for it will inevitably result in war. If history teaches us anything it’s that evil will always lead to death and destruction. Without question, abortion is the purest form of evil in society today. We need to geographically separate. We need to allow the leftist death cult to live in the world they desire where life is devoid of meaning and pleasure is the only worthy pursuit. And when their nihilism leads them into such despair that they will do anything to escape it, only then can we let them over the wall to where the light shines. Until then, we can “have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness,” and we “must expose them.” There can be no compromise on abortion. Ever.
On this Mother’s Day we lament what the left has made of motherhood; of womanhood. We feel the pain of many mother’s whose only child became “medical waste.” We sorrow over the millions exterminated for convenience. And we long for a time when a future generation will look back on abortion as the heinous and immoral crime that it is, much like we view slavery today. We can only hope.
It needs to be said: it is now scientifically accurate to say that all these Covid19 vaccines have been a colossal failure. Here is a look at this morning’s data in Ontario:
Before Covid, if someone had gotten vaccinated for the measles and then contracted the disease, almost everyone would have agreed that their vaccine had failed. People were once honest and rational. But we are living in times now when you are not to believe what your eyes plainly see. Our governments and medical leaders have failed us, lied to us, and killed many of us.
It is clear from the data above that the fully vaccinated and boosted have two times the likelihood of catching Covid (per 100k people) than the unvaccinated. Would this not mean that it’s a “pandemic of the vaccinated” who are keeping the virus alive and spreading? Ever wondered why the phrase “pandemic of the unvaccinated” has disappeared from every media outlet and government official’s vernacular? Because it was, and is, false. They lied in order to get people to comply. Yet here in Canada, we are the only country in the world who will not permit the unvaccinated to board a plane or train. We are led by evil and incompetent people who are doing their best to destroy our way of life over what is now a cold virus. There is now no other explanation than this is on purpose and according to plan.
Only the scientifically illiterate would agree that these vaccines should continue. They are harming our immune systems in such a way as those who have taken them now more easily catch the virus; their immune systems are compromised and can’t fight it off as effectively. The more shots one takes, the greater their chance of illness and death. We are seeing massive rises in all-cause mortality in 2021 since the vaccine mandates have started. This will go down as the greatest crime against humanity in history. They know, and they do not care to stop it.
Watch Edward Dowd explain the massive rise in all cause mortality here. The “evil genius” behind these mRNA vaccines is that they destroy your natural immune system and allow other diseases to flourish and kill you. We have never seen evil on this scale.
-Abortion: women exterminating their own children for whim and convenience.
It is hard to go anywhere, or read anything these days without someone somewhere blathering on about equality and how important it is to be striving for equality in such an unfair and uncaring world. It has to be said: the world is indeed unfair and uncaring, AND the notion of equality is a complete myth, and an impossibility to achieve. It does not exist, and never will. If it actually did it exist, we would not have to hear about it incessantly by the malcontents who use it as a bludgeon and a weapon to coerce and control others.
Butterfly, butterfly, drift on the breeze;
For years now I’ve seen some of my favourite authors and leaders recommend the reading of Meditations by the stoic philosopher and Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius. Some have even gone so far as to say they reread this work every one to two years and advise others would be well served to do the same. Born out of the gnostic tradition, I’ve never found stoicism as a philosophy very interesting or compelling, but some of the writings can be helpful. So I decided it was time to read Aurelius’ famous Meditations.
It is often asked that, ‘if God is real, why does evil and suffering exist?‘ In other words, why would a good and loving God permit the cruelties and sufferings we witness on a daily basis? That those who reject and mock the very notion of God would think that this same God should and would create a world to their liking, and let them live lives with not even a passing thought towards their Creator, belies the nonsensical nature of the question they ask.
For those that know me, they will generally know of my total opposition to alcohol consumption and its regular use as a recreational drug. For almost 40 years now I have made statements that have raised eyebrows and made people think I was crazy. It’s cost me friendships and not something I’ve ever taken lightly. I’ve probably read more about the effects of alcohol on the body and brain than 99.9% of the population. My opinions are strong and sometimes unintentionally offensive, (especially to drinkers who quickly get defensive), yet all of them are based on the science, studies, and professionals who research the most common psychoactive drug used worldwide. It’s my opinion that most people have been easily brainwashed into our drinking culture will little to no thoughts of its harmful effects, and been encouraged to partake in the adolescent “rite of passage” of alcohol experimentation at a time in their brain development when the substance is its most addictive. It’s hard to convince people of anything these days that they won’t let themselves believe; even in the face of the strongest evidence. I can only hope for those that stumble upon this post that the data presented is at least a little compelling in moving the reader to consider pouring their favourite drug down the drain for good.
Alcohol is a leading 
Heavy drinkers, even while building their tolerance to alcohol in the short-term, 
Ultimately, alcohol is used by the weak; those who need a crutch, those who can’t cope or produce on their own. They drink because their life is missing something they think they will find in the bottom of a bottle. They can’t produce happiness on their own. They can’t produce confidence on their own. They can’t produce contentment on their own. They can’t have “fun” in a sober state. So they turn to a drug to produce the feelings that they cannot, rather than do the hard work of improving themselves and that which is necessary to construct a full, fun-filled life. There are no shortcuts. Alcohol is not a shortcut. It produces the illusion of happiness, of fun, of confidence, of sexiness; only to leave those who rely on it worse off when its temporary, fleeting effects wear off. The continued reliance on a substance in order to find peace or fulfillment or happiness or whatever an empty soul is yearning to find, will ultimately render its user subservient to its addictive power.
There is no prettier time of year when the joyful exuberance of summertime gives way to the aging blaze of colour in autumn; before the grey and cold winter signifies another year is done. I’ve gone for a number of long walks just to soak in the beauty of fall. Few things uplift the soul like colour on the trees and sunshine on the face.
By now it should be apparent to anyone paying attention that the Covid pandemic is long over and has been for awhile; the virus has mutated into a common cold virus, and the vaccines have been by almost any sane measure, colossal failures. Despite the govt propaganda, there is absolutely no possible argument to be made for continued vaccination when all the data shows that they have been a colossal failure. 
An atheist was walking through the woods and wondered aloud:
-On June 24th, 2022, Roe v. Wade, the 1973 US Supreme Court decision that magically invented a constitutional right to abortion, was overturned. It was bad law from the beginning (even Ruth Bader Ginsburg has admitted this) and most who understand how a constitutional republic operates, know this. Yet that didn’t stop abortion advocates from crying about having their “rights” taken from them, which did not occur.
