The Collapse of the American Dream
People don’t understand what is about to transpire or the reasons.
Are the modern bankers really banksters or “money changers”?
Is there a reason that Jesus was most upset and physical toward the “money changers” than other people?
Categories: Humor, Politics/Economics
economics, laughs, politics, western civilisation
CL
7man
Fun and worth watching.
Sad thing that most western men aren’t spartan-esque.
Not a huge fan of this, but the point it makes that capital gains are taxed on a nominal and not an inflation-adjusted basis is well-taken.
For those that want to consider these concepts further, you can watch
The Secret of Oz (by Mr Bill Still)
(but it is almost 2 hours long)
7man and CL:
Feel free to take the link of my blog off your site. I will not be offended. Apparently they are coming for you next for not being as holy as you should be and for supporting a degenerate sinner such as myself, heading straight to hell. Good luck. For me, I am sick of it all.
I find it funny though that despite the fact that they say they hate my blog, consider it sinful, they still read it, seeing they are aware of my recent posts. haha…
This is Kathy from Collards blog: http://davidcollard.wordpress.com/2012/02/23/153
“Interacting with sinners and sanctioning their sinful actions are two different things 7 man. You have long supported Racer and link to his blog. That is sanctioning sin.. His blog is disgraceful. If the Truth is the Truth you will realize Racer’s blog for what it is a Blasphemous pornographic site. Nothing uplifting or edifying there. I’ve seen it. I know..”
“You need to get it through your head that viewing pornography is a sin. It’s a sin if you view it.. And it’s a sin if I view it. That you completely ignore this and for instance brand a good Catholic woman ‘evil’ for chastising her husband for viewing Porn, whilst lauding a perverted man like Racer who indulges in and promotes all manner of deviancy and sexual sins… as well as sanctioning abortion just makes me shake my head in dismay..”
She is very holy and will not tolerate dissent of any form. She is a judge of who is and who is not a true Christian, of what is sin and not sin. You need to get that through your head, 7man, and do what she says, or else.
Yeah, pretty good. The fleeting mention of the Rothschilds is funny.
Unfortunately, for your average Boobus Americanus, 30 minutes is too long for his attention span.
@Carnivore
Rothschild means “Red Shield.” The bad guys where scary.
“It is well that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” – Henry Ford
@Racer,
No, we will not remove you. We can respectfully disagree with some of what you write but still know you contribute to those that are searching.
We will not succumb to judgmental bullies. There are those that will think by keeping your blog on our blogroll that we endorse everything you write. The conclusions to which they jump say more about their own judgmental natures than about what we believe or don’t believe. There are other blogs we link to that we don’t necessarily always agree with and this should be a given on any blogroll on any blog.
Some would do well to meditate on this for a while:
That is the highest and most profitable lesson, when a man truly knoweth and judgeth lowly of himself. To account nothing of one’s self, and to think always kindly and highly of others, this is great and perfect wisdom. Even shouldest thou see thy neighbour sin openly or grievously, yet thou oughtest not to reckon thyself better than he, for thou knowest not how long thou shalt keep thine integrity. All of us are weak and frail; hold thou no man more frail than thyself.
CL: 7man and I constructed this comment together and we stand as a unit on this issue. Those who wish to silence anyone with whom they disagree or of whom they disapprove are not welcome around here.
The particular evil of silencing the expression of opinion is that it is robbing the human race, posterity as well as the existing generation – those who dissent as well as hold the opinion. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity to exchange error for truth, if wrong they lose what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth produced by its collision with error.
And for your further entertainment, Leonidas has some STRONG choice words for bankers. Yes, good men get mighty upset and angry at banking/government shenanigans when it affects their ability to provide for their families.
Whoa guys Racer’s blog is about the most judgmental blg you could ever read, are you guys this clueless?
There is a difference between self righteousness and principled rejection of dangerous thought, particularly the kind that presents itself as the truly authentic Christian conscience. If Racer puts his hand up to speak with this voice and you both choose to single him out with his own category lol you have to be prepared to get the provoked thoughts you encourage and ……to just you know ….. deal.
It’s totally soft-cock to call the critique ‘bullying’.
Racerx’s philosophy is banal, it is sub-Christian, if he’s working out some trauma or something, don’t advert to it, but show Christian charity.
My thoughts from the
post[comment] left unpublished stand.7man: Racer is “singled out” not due to content, but merely due to the fact that some people read blogs at work. NSFW does not mean that Christians should avoid it. Christians have sex, but don’t do that at work either. Feel free to keep visiting his blog to be offended. Your first attempt to comment was non-sensical and poorly articulated.
Calling someone sub-Christian reveals a low level of intelligence. Please endeavor to elevate the finesse of your insults.
Now, I could never link to you because of your judgment that there is some real misunderstanding between Christianity and Racerx’s pseudo pagan eros. I can deal with that you should too.
7man: I am not familiar with your blog, so why should it bother me in the least that you refuse to link to us?
Well if you publish it it will show everyone just how unreasonable or lacking intelligence I am.
Christians have sex but they don’t philosophise the way Racer does nor stridently hold themselves up as a Magisterium over against the witness of traditional Christianity.
You published a justification for why you link to him, I assumed by even bothering to do that you welcomed discussion and even dissent, we’re all Christians. My strident language could be given context if my post was published.
Of course who I am is irrelevant, of course this isn’t about throwing influence around otherwise I would have name dropped. Perhaps I am a teacher who worries about causing ‘liile ones to stumble’ who cares? what matters is who is right.
Now by your defensiveness I can tell you have some work to do, it is none of my business when and how you do that, as I tried to explain I understand I can take or leave your blog, but I would rather take. You can do the same with what I thought was well grounded criticism.
God bless
7man: You confuse my explanation with a justification. Stop whining about your first comment (it was NOT a post). Defensive… uh… NO. I’d rather be offensive. I fail to see how Racer merits so much ire. I respectfully disagreed with him in a comment I left on his blog.
Yes I am working out my “salvation with fear and trembling” and hope to “run the race” to the end. Thank you for your kind blessing.
NT Wright:
“The same is true for the meanings of “god” within postmodernity. We are starting to be more aware that many people give allegiance to “gods” and “goddesses” which are personifications of forces of nature and life. An obvious example is the earth-goddess, Gaia, revered by some within the New Age movement.[7] Following the long winter of secularism, in which most people gave up believing in anything “religious” or “spiritual,” the current revival of spiritualities of all sorts is an inevitable swing of the pendulum, a cultural shift in which people have been able once more to celebrate dimensions of human existence which the Enlightenment had marginalized. But one cannot assume that what people mean by “god” or “spirit,” “religion” or “spirituality” within these movements bears very much relation to Christianity. I even heard, not long ago, an Italian justifying the pornography which featured his high-profile wife on the grounds that its portrayal of sexuality was deeply “religious.” The Pope, he thought, would welcome it.
Eros has of course been well-known to students of divinities time out of mind. But only when a culture has forgotten, through long disuse, how god-language actually works could someone assume that the deeply “religious” feelings, evoking a sense of wonder and transcendence, which serious eroticism (and lots of other things) can produce, could be straightforwardly identified with anything in the Judaeo-Christian tradition. Did they ever hear of paganism?
It is vital that in our generation we inquire once more: to what, or rather whom, does the word “god” truly refer? And if, as Christians, we bring together Jesus and God in some kind of identity, what sort of an answer does that provide to our question?”
Well then, if not let me distil it’s essence, RacerX’s mode of sexual expression if followed as he enjoins his readers to do, inevitably leads to more children killed in the womb and the social chaos of malformed families we see around us. If Christians can’t be of one mind about how to order sex who will? On a mundane level it’s these not inconsequential goods that RacerX jeopardises http://downloads.frc.org/EF/EF09H36.pdf (Family Research Council)
7man: I choose my battles and my manner of engagement. Your condemnation of me for not condemning others may have merit when you have condemned all the other blogs owned by those believing in abortion or failing to condemn others silent on abortion. Frivolous divorce is my issue because it hurts living children. Others are called to fight the abortion battle.
Then you’ve already lost the fight, the very meaning of the human person is ceded to our enemies – why care at all about alleviating suffering and misfortune if human beings derive their worth from the desire of adults and can be killed because they are small? Adult desire, the law says, trumps the right to life, what’s a little emotional hell for a child ‘at least I let them live’ abortion laws teach.
I would have resiled from using the word ‘condemn’, but after reading your last comment I think it apt. Your excuse is exactly the same one used by secularists when defending child killing ‘what about x? ha? ha?’ If Christians cannot defend the very foundation of the moral law, then law is meaningless and your words about justice for married adults. The very language of right is undermined if we can kill the innocent. If we as a society can go along with killing babies there is nothing worth saving of that society.
That isn’t to say everyone must be a Fr Pavone, or Lila Rose, but at a minimum do nothing that promotes the killing. RacerX does implicitly. That is to be condemned in a Christian.
It is ludicrous to insist that we must remain silent until all those outside the Christian community stop the murders, when inside we give the practice succour. And you are not being singled out or victimised, you are receiving loving correction from a brother in Christ.
7man: Have you not read enough of my posts to have found Abortions Lead to Divorces.
I care about the children (including my own) that grow up in a house without a father, which only a fool would confuse with thinking I condone abortion or am in favor of abortion. I have no more patience for you since you inflate yourself by saying ‘at least [you] let them live’ and implying that I don’t care. This is the last comment from you I am letting through, because you have insulted me on my blog. Take your “loving correction” elsewhere.
Jeepers H. Crackers, I’m away from the computer for a day and look what happens around here!
@ M;
I understand what you are trying to do here but surely there are better ways than this. The fuss you are making is all out of proportion to the stimulus. As it has already been explained that a blog on a blogroll doesn not necessarily represent the views of the blog owners, I’ll ask you if you think we as Christians should not be friends with those who disagree with us. Racer is an old friend of this blog and of my previous blog and I’m just not the sort to turn my back on a friend who is struggling.
That’s really the end of it, and if that’s a problem for you to the extent that you feel the need to leave a total of 9 comments, some quite long-winded, just to comdemn us all, then perhaps you ought to take a look inside yourself and ask God to guide your heart rather than pointing out the mote in your brother’s eye.
@M; “That isn’t to say everyone must be a Fr Pavone, or Lila Rose, but at a minimum do nothing that promotes the killing. RacerX does implicitly”
Jeeze….on one blog I am called a drooling pig by one group of compassionate Christians, and here I am indicted as a murderer by another. And you wonder why I need a break from religion at the moment?
These people need to chill out. The discussion on my blog is about a HEALTHY sexuality…not one that is repressed, suppressed, hypocritical, or whatever. I happen to honestly believe that a lot of Catholic dogma can lead to an unhealthy sexuality. I understand a lot will not agree, but a lot do, including priests, bishops and theologians. There is more than enough evidence for this in today’s world. I also like to have fun with eroticism, which is clearly very uncomfortable for many people. No where do I advocate that people should have unsafe or unprotected sex leading to unwanted pregnancies and abortions. I honestly don’t care that much about abortion, really, even though I do not condone the practice. It is a fact of life, has been, and always will be. To me it is a woman’s choice, one way or the other, and she (and the man involved) will have to live with decision for the rest of their lives, one way or the other. There is little the state can do to stop it, especially given modern technology.
@CL: “Racer is an old friend of this blog and of my previous blog and I’m just not the sort to turn my back on a friend who is struggling.”
Thanks, I appreciate that. Most people don’t understand that our two blogs go back a ways now. After all this I am probably going to end up a Neo-Pagan, worshiping the Olympian gods of Greece and Rome, so I hope we can still be friends then…haha.