Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Genesis Three elucidates our need to continue evolving into greater consciousness.

The president and his enablers have replaced conservatism with an empty faith led by a bogus prophet.

America is not suffering from too much government so much as too much trumpism ensconced in business Cowed Washington’s Weakest Political Establishments
https://saved1adrenalinejunkie.blogspot.com/2018/12/america-is-not-suffering-from-too-much_13.html
And That’s How Wannabe Authoritarians Roll.
How Fox News evolved into a propaganda operation https://vox.com/2019/3/22/18275835/fox-news-trump-propaganda-tom-rosenstiel
The RedState Firings and the Decline of Viewpoint Diversity on the Right
The Trump-era GOP: Grifters all the way down.
https://t.co/YtFPMfWFtj?amp=1
Trump breaks with his own guidelines to back conservative anti-quarantine protesters
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/17/trump-states-stay-at-home-orders-192386
Trumpism Is Bad for Business
Trump’s ‘back-to-work’ plan would only make things worse, experts say
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/24/trump-coronavirus-economy-america-business
I’m Not A Conservative And You Shouldn’t Be One Either
https://www.businessinsider.com/conservatism-is-the-problem-2013-6
From the ‘Lectric Law Library’s Lexicon – Unsound Mind, Memory
https://www.lectlaw.com/def2/u066.htm
The coronavirus isn’t alive. That’s why it’s so hard to kill.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/03/23/coronavirus-isnt-alive-thats-why-its-so-hard-kill/
The Case For Voting: Why We Get The Government We Deserve
This Is What Happens When a Narcissist Runs a Crisis
Donald Trump has no strategy, no beliefs, and no principles.
https://saved1recovery.blogspot.com/2019/05/donald-trump-has-no-strategy-no-beliefs.html
Biblical Perspectives On Narcissism and America under siege.
https://saved1recovery.blogspot.com/2018/07/biblical-perspectives-on-narcissism-and.html
Trump’s daily coronavirus press briefings are becoming TV clip shows
https://www.vox.com/culture/2020/4/7/21211394/donald-trump-coronavirus-briefing-clip-show
Trump Wants to Starve the States Into Opening Before It’s Safe https://a.msn.com/r/2/BB12Vn6y?m=en-us&referrerID=InAppShare
The one poll number that could haunt Trump on coronavirus https://a.msn.com/r/2/BB12VpsG?m=en-us&referrerID=InAppShare
WHO head warns worst of virus is still ahead
https://a.msn.com/r/2/BB12VXT1?m=en-us&referrerID=InAppShare
Donald Trump’s murder math: Any death toll under 2 million is a “very good job”
https://salon.com/2020/03/31/donald-trumps-murder-math-any-death-toll-under-2-million-is-a-very-good-job/
It’s not about the size of the government. It’s about competence
https://washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/20/its-not-about-size-government-its-about-competence/
Trump’s Media Attacks Are Always Shameful. But in the Middle of the Coronavirus Crisis, They’re Dangerous.
God is on your side and God has got your back in Christ Jesus Name.
https://saved1adrenalinejunkie.blogspot.com/2018/09/god-is-on-your-side-and-god-has-got.html
Fear not, you worm Jacob, you men of Israel! I will help you, says the Lord; your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
https://saved1adrenalinejunkie.blogspot.com/2018/11/fear-not-you-worm-jacob-you-men-of.html
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Friday, February 7, 2020

What does the Bible say about being mean-spirited?

Answer: A mean-spirited person is one whose natural impulse is to cause harm or trouble for others. 

 We are all mean-spirited at times, but this article will focus upon those whose personalities are characterized the majority of the time by hateful, rude, or spiteful behavior. 

The fictional curmudgeon Ebenezer Scrooge, prior to his Christmas transformation, is a good example of a mean-spirited person in A Christmas Carol.

Mean-spiritedness is part of our fallen sinful nature (Romans 3:10, 23; 8:5).

 We are born selfish with a desire to gratify ourselves at any expense.
Depending upon the effectiveness of our early training, we may learn more socially acceptable ways of interacting with others, but we can still behave in hateful, mean-spirited ways due to the inability to control our own evil tendencies (Romans 7:14–20). Mean-spirited people are not pleasant to be around, so we learn to curb some of those selfish impulses in order to be more popular. However, there are some who don’t care what anyone thinks, and they keep their mean-spirited actions on public display.

The Bible has a lot to say about being mean-spirited and the fact that it dominates the lives of many who reject God. 

 Jesus offers a makeover for us when we give our lives to Him.


Second Corinthians 5:17 says, “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” One of those “old things” that are passed away is our mean-spirited nature. Jesus spent much of His earthly ministry talking about a new way of conducting ourselves. Matthew 5 includes a list of character traits that God finds desirable in us. Verses 5–12 are known as the Beatitudes, and they highlight the behaviors that should characterize followers of Christ.
Christlike living is in direct opposition to a mean spirit. To highlight some differences:

• Our mean spirit wants to get revenge; Jesus says to forgive (Matthew 6:14–15).
• Our mean spirit wants to exalt itself; Jesus says to seek humility (Matthew 23:12).


• Our mean spirit wants to be first; Jesus says we are blessed if we choose to be last (Mark 9:35).
• Our mean spirit wants to fight; Jesus says, “Blessed are the peacemakers” (Matthew 5:9).
• Our mean spirit wants to gossip; the Bible says to guard our mouths (Proverbs 13:3).
• Our mean spirit is rude; Jesus says our speech should be gracious (Colossians 4:6).

A mean-spirited person is living opposite of what the Bible teaches. 

 Often, the reason a person remains mean-spirited is because he does not know how to live otherwise.

It may feel natural to be rude and hostile if one was raised in a rude and hostile environment. But to meet Jesus is to enter a new world, one in which it is impossible to live without His Holy Spirit (Galatians 2:20). When we allow the Holy Spirit free rein in our lives, He can transform even the most mean-spirited person into a Spirit-filled disciple.

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Sunday, December 30, 2018

America is not suffering from too much government so much as too much trumpism - ensconced in business, Cowed Washington's Weakest Political Establishments.

Trump assumes, as do many Americans, that the country’s major problem is too much government.

The United States is not suffering from too much government so much as from too much business all over the government. This president came into office to challenge “the establishment,” only to ensconce the country’s powerful business establishment in his cabinet, at the expense of Washington’s weaker political establishment.

Governments experience all kinds of pressures that cannot be imagined in many enterprises, especially the entrepreneurial kind run by Trump.


 Consider this: Where Business has a convenient bottom line, called “profit,” which can readily be measured,What then determines national Solvency in Law and by Legal Definition determines it's bottom line? Running government like a business has been tried again and again, only to fail again and again. In the 1960's, Robert McNamara introduced the Planning-Programming-Budgeting System as a “one-best-way,” businesslike approach to government. The obsessive measuring led to the infamous body counts of the Vietnam War. Later came new public management, a 1980's euphemism for old corporate managing: Isolate activities, put a manager in charge of each one, and hold them responsible for the measurable results. That might work for the state lottery, but how about foreign relations or education, let alone, dare I say, health care? People in government tell me that new public management is still promoted, though now it might better be called “old public management.”


In the United States, this problem has been developing for a long time. The Republic was barely a qarter-century old when Thomas Jefferson expressed the hope that “we shall…crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength.” In the last century, trustbuster Theodore Roosevelt spoke of the “real and grave evils” of too-powerful corporations, arguing that “it should be as much the aim of those who seek for social betterment to rid the business world of crimes of cunning as to rid the entire body politic of crimes of violence.” A few decades later, Dwight Eisenhower warned that “in the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.” The Supreme Court granted corporations the right to personhood in 1886, and more recently extended that right to the funding of political campaigns — arguably a tipping point in two centuries of shifting toward private sector power in American society. Look around at the scandal of income disparities, at climate change, exacerbated by excessive consumption, and at the unregulated forces of globalization that are undermining the national sovereignty, and thus the democratic institutions, of so many nations. No wonder voters around the world are demanding change, even if some of the consequences are ill-considered. The valid side of their concerns will have to be addressed.
The relationship between business and government, a separation of powers no less vital than that within government itself, has become so confounded that it threatens American democracy itself. When free enterprise in an economy becomes the freedom of enterprises-as-people in a society, to paraphrase Abraham Lincoln, government of the real people, by the real people, and for the real people shall perish from the Earth.

A healthy society balances the power of respected governments in the public sector with both responsible businesses in the private sector and robust communities in what may be called the plural sector — the clubs, religions, community hospitals, foundations, NGOs, and cooperatives with which so many of us engage. The plural sector, although the least recognized of the three, is large and diverse. 

Many of us may work in businesses and most of us may vote for governments, but all of us live much of our lives in the community associations of the plural sector. (The United States has more cooperative memberships than people.) This is the sector that can offset the destructive effects of the pendulum politics that keep so many countries swinging back and forth between public government controls and private market forces. Especially today, we may well have to rely on this sector to restore the balance that has been lost in the polarized, outdated politics of left versus right,conservative versus liberal.






People of the lie don't need the Devil to recruit them to evil; they are quite capable of recruiting themselves.


Has trump proven self doer of God's Word or merely hearer who redundantly deludes self and others?
Expect to hear a lot more about what Watch or Fox sees will keep voters engaged and away from Americas truest threat, Trump and his cronies.
This is how wannabe authoritarians roll. And that goes double when they rule by minority will.
Vigilantly guard your souls - take warning and safeguard your soul.





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