Sunday, November 2, 2025

Winners

The baseball Gods were with the Dodgers this post season. For some strange reason, the twists and turns of the game of baseball allowed them to win the World Series, congratulations you Dodgers. You were out played, out hit, out homered and except for a few games out pitched. Your defense was at times sloppy and at times miraculous but the tide always turned just enough.

Allow me to make an application. Our lives are like the game that is not a game. Life is for real. There are times when the mojo is working and times when everything seems to be a great disappointment. We have all been there, at these bad times, despite our sloppiness at life, if we listen for the voice of God and that gentle nudge that is bigger than all our disappointment, God will reassure us we are winners in the game that is not a game. 

Travel on my friends.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.    

   

Saturday, November 1, 2025

Birds

Every morning at first light I wander out to check out the owls roosting in the big Eucalyptus. The females are hiding high up and behind as much foliage as possible. On the rare occasion there is a male owl, they roost on the blower branches and look you straight in the eye as if to challenge, this world is mine.

One could easily assume I am making a value judgement between male and female but that is not the point. Among we humans there is room for adjustments considering personality and capabilities but the point is that we all have a roll to play in life and most all of us are naturally better equipped to stay in our natural, God given lane. Travel on you birds.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

 

Power

Doing the right thing is so very hard to do. Have you not found it so? Washington knows so. Our politicians cannot avoid doing the wrong thing at the right time or the right thing at the wrong time. The easy stuff such as spending our tax money is a joy ride for these gutless wonders. Throwing money around is good back home. When the chips are down, however, when it really matters, they jump ship and go home for Halloween.

This time we are talking primarily about the “good o’ boys” of the Senate. The Peoples House, with the narrowest margins, has done their job and passed a clean temporary funding bill to keep the government running, a funding bill that was written by former President Biden.

So why have the Democrats of the Senate voted 14 times in the last month to defund the federal government? Why do the Democrats want federal employees, including the war department, federal law enforcement and air traffic people, insanely working without pay? Why do the Democrats want federal benefits like snap and child care to cease? Why are the Democrats putting the lives and well-being of so many people at risk? The Democrats are now starving the very people that they count on as Democrat clientele?  

It is all about Washington power. Republican Senators, do you not know who you are dealing with? Politics is no longer a gentleman’s game. The world wars of the last century were nothing compared to our present fight from within, these are also deadly times. You and I cannot play nice with those who want to kill us. Playing nice with a gun to the back of your head is more crazy than the crazies who are pointing the gun.

Republican Senators, please join the all-out fight for America. The Democrat party, as presently constituted, will quickly trash the “filibuster rule” when and if they should win a majority in the future. Common sense would say, let’s be a real democracy now. Send the power grabbers home. Join the lead of President Trump who has laid it all on the line for America. To do otherwise will be recorded as the beginning of the end.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.   

  

Friday, October 31, 2025

Vote

Why can’t Kamala be honest about the four years she was Vice President? She can’t be honest because if she was honest she would have to answer the question, if Biden was incompetent, who was running the country?

The answer to that question would trash for decades all democrats. The actual president was Barack Hussein Obama who is still fighting against the freedom of the people so that he can establish his reordering of America.

Some of us love our country as it has always been, a Constitutional Republic that has the voting people in control of their future. 

Obama go home, wherever that may be.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca. 

Common Sense

Even if one is absolutely sure that the gun is empty, one should never point the gun at another human being and pull the trigger. Gun safety 101, to do otherwise is crazy. If you are so sure, first put the gun in your mouth and pull the trigger. Then you can safely go about your horseplay.

Is it to much to ask for religion and politics to live under the rule of common sense?  

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

 

 

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Crazy

Democrats are flush (95%) with unaccomplished people.  At all levels of politics, beginning with Barack Hussein Obama, they and their unaccomplished cohorts are about taking a bigger and bigger chuck from the people’s coffers because they have never had to earn a living like the rest of us. They believe that there is no honorable career except living on the public dole. 

This is reason enough not to vote for any Democrat. Wake up you long time Democrat voters, you no long have a Party that is relevant with you or we the national rank and file.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

 

Monday, October 27, 2025

Religion Lie

If you were truly spiritual, you would be just like us.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

Sunday, October 26, 2025

Readiness

Spirituality is quiet, patient, personal, and for the helpless. Is it any wonder that spirituality is a lesser traveled journey among the religious or the secular? 

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

Saturday, October 25, 2025

Now

What is the Radical Democrat left up to with the government shutdown? It is as plain as the nose on every American face. Everything they do, every decision is about creating chaos in America. The chaos will happen in our streets at the end of this month when Snap food benefits are stopped because of the shutdown. The Snap people will riot like never before making our Federal resources powerless. Why would the Radical left Democrat politicians, who shut down the government with their votes in the Senate, starve their own supposed political base and cause such pain?

The left cares not for people, people are expendable, they value only power, no matter the cost in American lives. More than anything, the radical left wants to destroy our America, our Constitutional Republic. it is that simple.

The Republican Senate must use the nuclear option and their simple majority to reopen the government, now! Senate tradition be hanged.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

Thursday, October 23, 2025

Fundamentalism

Christian Fundamentalism proved to be one of those religious fads, here today and gone tomorrow.  Jerry Falwell would be disappointed. Charles Hartshorne, one of the founders of process thinking, published his book, "Omnipotence and other Theological Mistakes" in 1984 when the author was 89. Fundamentalism (he didn't use the word) was one of the glaring mistakes considered. According to the fundamentalist, the Bible is the ultimate authority for faith and life, every word supposedly being from the mouth of God. 

No thinking adult who knows the history of the Bible can defend such a claim. The Bible is full of truth but also full of contradictions, somebody has it wrong. There is no simplified version. The fundamentalist can only slander and despiritualize those who ask real questions of the Bible. In response Charles Hartshorne asks:  

“Is it desirable that religion should seem more and more an affair of the intellectually undistinguished or mediocre?”

Charles Hartshorne, “Omnipotence and other Theological Mistakes”. P. 44.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

Why?

Thus as Fechner, Berdyaev, Tillich, and, probably independently, Whitehead held (and Berdyaev most neatly formulated), our existence from moment to moment “enriches the divine life”. And this is the ultimate meaning of our existence.

Charles Hartshorne, “Omnipotence and the other Theological Mistakes”, p. 27.

This works for me, I have found no better understanding as to why we are here, why is this world filled with multiplied dangers, why is life so unpredictable and random? Why does life and death look like the bouncing white ball of the roulette wheel? The only answer possible is that when we look up in spite of our circumstances, it pleases God, joy gushes from his or her belly and enriches the divine life. 

Some day, if the opportunity presents itself, I shall ask God, could you not have gotten your jollies another way?   

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

No Deal

You are leaving on a long vacation, who do you trust with the keys to the house? The United Nations? An international conglomerate? The United States doesn’t want troops on the ground, so who does Israel’s trust? Shall Gaza be divided again leaving the monsters a safe haven from which to kill again? It is time for the U.S. to get out of the deal making business in Gaza.

Give the whole mess to Israel, letting Israel do what is best for Israel!

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Fuss

Christian Universalism is as old as Christian Revivalism (Evangelicalism). Both understandings of the God plan of salvation have always been among us with the times dictating their relative popularity. The preaching of the Church of England Priest George Whitfield in the mid 1700’s began what has been named “the Great Awakening”.

In the Whitfield congregation was the Rev. John Murray who, after hearing about the universal God plan of salvation from James Riley, spoke up with questions and was summarily excommunicated from the church, the kingdom of God or whatever, who knows? Rev. John Murray went to America to share the greater atonement.

In America “The Great Awakening” already had a head of steam and Jonathan Edwards was preaching, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”.  The Rev. John Murray became an itinerant preacher on horseback in New England, spreading his Good News. The vastly different gospels were gathered from the same Bible* but one God plan was more marketable considering the times.

The times were hard for most of the people around the known world of circa. 1750. The ruling classes were busy feathering their nests but the vast majority of peoples were living on the edge of survival. Soon France would erupt into open revolt and the guillotine before the end of the century. All the while, the established clergy, of whatever flavor, took their cues from the ruling moneyed folk.

George Whitfield, John Wesley and Jonathan Edwards all blamed the people for their own lack of upward mobility and excusing God for the hard times. Desperate people will buy into anything that offers a suave for their future. It is ironic that the God suave was already in place for “the whatever” of life. Why all the fuss?

* “The Universalist’s Book of References”, Rev. E. E. Guild, 6th Edition reprint, Boston Publishing House, 1853.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.      

 

Friday, October 17, 2025

Soft Targets

The British-American Christian revival movement of the last 250 years will pass away in the next 250 years. There is a God cycle in politics and religion, a 500 year cycle of rising and falling. Over time revivalism becomes trite or common, turning off more people to spirituality than it entraps in the corral of acceptable thinking. Just as the socialist will eventually run out of other people’s money, the revivalist will eventually run out of soft targets.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

 

Spiritual Truth

This morning I was awakened by a tune banging around in my head. Do not fear, it is not contagious. Getting personal is not my style but please grant me this one exception. I promise that I will not burden you with repeating what has become for me personal, lifelong unfolding truth. Every tidbit of truth that God has given me can be summed up in the words of this old Christian Hymn (circa 1880) by Clara M. Scott, “Open My Eyes that I May See”.

The words are most important but it was the tune that was banging around in my head. Why a tune? Why this tune? Who knows? Maybe, I should look it up the words? The lyric is as follows.

Open my eyes that I may see

Glimpses of truth thou hast for me;

Place in my hands the wonderful key

That shall unclasp and set me free.

Second verse:

Open my ears, that I may hear

Voices of truth Thou sendest clear;

And while the wave-notes fall on my ear,

Everything false will disappear.

Third verse:

Open my mouth, and let it bear

Gladly the warm truth ev’rywhere.

Open my heart and let me prepare

Love with Thy children thus to share.

Each verse is followed by the refrain:

Silently now I wait for Thee

Ready, my God, Thy will to see;

Open my (eyes, ears and heart) –illumine me,

Spirit divine!

These words mean to me the following:

Truth is always unfolding, always personal and never static. Every given understanding is only a now deposit on the full truth that is not a part of our earthly future. Our now will ever be influenced by our history, personal circumstances and corporate culture. Religion wants to define your truth.

God is a respecter of all persons and our now truth but wants us all to never stop moving. Never shall we stop being personally led by new revelation brought to us through the Spirit of God in whatever context. Freedom resulting from the truth search in our now, it is the ultimate good to be experienced in this life, experienced over and over as we journey on. 

After all, what is truth? Truth is mine to discover. My truth is not necessarily your truth and my truth places no disrespect upon your personal truth search. We are in this life together and the truth search is much like an Easter Egg Hunt on the White House lawn. Finding one egg, as Clint Eastwood once said, “makes my day!” Tomorrow there will be another hunt, God willing.

Journey on.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

 

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Legacy

Godliness is a two headed coin. Heads is goodness and tails is freedom. Goodness alone represents God as a haughty self-righteous spirit and freedom alone is only license. Godliness is goodness/freedom that enables respectful dialogue among us all. Goodness alone builds walls between people. Maybe, the balance that Charlie Kirk brought to us should be a model going forward?

Mr. Kirk and I would not have agreed on everything, particularly the role of religion in our lives but I respected the man from afar. Charlie appeared to have a rare style; he was first a listener and then he would make a respectful faith based response without putting anybody down. Thinking out loud like that is a rare talent in colleges or our religious circles but Charlie seemed to love it. Most of America considers Charlie a friend who will be greatly missed. We extend our condolences to the family.    

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

 

Sunday, October 12, 2025

Missing?

If God can dump what some call wisdom on this 70 year old, foul, ignorant, stubborn and deluded human, all of us are potentially gifted with spiritual ears. It would seem that this is the way God impacts our world (google Jacob Boehme), one set of ears at a time. Such a slow God plan has to have a slow impact in terms of actual numbers. So many of us, for one reason or another, missed or are now missing the bus. Does God not care for those of us without a ticket?

If one claims to believe in God, a caring God, a God of order, a God with a plan, one has to believe in the unlimited seating of eternity. To believe otherwise, is to be less than a God believer. That one is only a cold religion believer.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

Thursday, October 9, 2025

Adult Theology

The Christian philosophers are stuck. They shall remain stuck as long as their God motive is goodness, where is it, what is it? The good God is a misnomer. We were told the minute we jumped out of the cradle, now, be good little boys and girls. Goodness to some means obedience. We have shaped our God, our theology and our philosophy to fit our human reality. Is God humanlike? Shall we define God with trite human life patterns?

The Godless philosophers tell us there is no God and ours is a completely natural world governed only by mathematics. Maybe, maybe not. Following their advice means we live only for the moment. Suppose there is another alternative? Suppose our God definition is slightly off kilter. God’s motive for our created order has to be something other or something bigger than just goodness. Goodness is always crushed in our world.

Maybe, God has created a world that teaches us about what God most clearly respects, freedom. The time has come for an adult theology, a masculine theology that is rooted in the competitive world we came from and not the Platonic bedtime stories that seemed appropriate 2500 years ago. God is freedom, total freedom, freedom is good. We are here in our now to experience freedom or the lack of freedom.

We learn best about God freedom when we don’t have it. Therefore, evil is a necessary evil in our world. We are slow learners, stubborn idiots who think that life is about gathering up all the available goodies, even when there are none to be had. We religious humans of every flavor tie up our Gods in neat humanlike packages where there is no God freedom. Grow up all "ye" God thinkers.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

 

Monday, October 6, 2025

justice

The uglier this your world may be, the grander the intensity of your eternity.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.


Thursday, September 25, 2025

Dated

Could suffering be the God appointed, redemptive thing?

William Dembski, Christian Theology, p. 48. Quoted by William Hasker, The Triumph of God over Evil, 2008, p. 108.

“I frankly doubt that a static, dull, monotonously perfect world is what God had in mind in creating our world. The world that God originally had in mind is the world we in fact inhabit, a messy world filled with tragedy, comedy, romance, and adventure. There never was any other world.”

There is no other choice nor has there ever been another choice. There was no Garden of Eden. Suffering is normal. Therefore our world is good “as is”, suffering is the plan. Religion will tell you otherwise, they say that, somehow, suffering is always your fault. Sometimes it is and sometimes it isn't. Religion is always dated.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

  

Monday, September 22, 2025

Heaven

What is heaven you ask? Heaven is the land of no regrets and no surprises. Heaven is the bucket list of every experience of every human that has ever seen the face of this our earth. Heaven is that much multiplied a trillion times. Put that on the internet, “oh ye of little faith”! Amen!

So why wait?  God delays the inevitable reality of heaven for us because you and I, every one of us, has an ever so small contribution (testimony) to make in our short time in this our world. Every contribution is a possible door to heavenly things to be experienced by others in this world. There is a method to God's madness. The goal is to change us, all of us, in this world and not to bring heaven to earth. Ours earth shall remain an "as is" world that fits the purposes of God. Tarry on my brother.  

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca. 

Rabbit Hole

Things were looking bleak. Almost all of my days seemed wasted and wondering, in and out, bobbing and weaving through life without a clear focus. The future was of little concern, tomorrow would take care of tomorrow. Well, not exactly, maybe that summary is a bit skewed or a gross oversimplification. True confession, maybe I was just scared. No maybe’s about it, I was scared but didn’t want anybody to know it, least of all me. Maybe, that is how most of us live our lives.

Then one day in 2012, at age 67, I bought a house. Focus had arrived. No longer was the world and my place in it an overwhelming concern. No longer was the weight of the world seemingly on my shoulders. There was only one concern, all by myself, it was me and my house against the world, nothing else mattered. Why then or why now? Why a house? Who knows? My wife Karen used to say in times like these, no one knows the answer but “the stars and their courses”. There is a reason for everything but some things will ever be a mystery.

Therein lies our frustration. Life is so unpredictable and confusing, so much so that the life that you and I have been given is simply gory. We are told by some voices that the where or when of our being deposited into this world matters little but our experience tells us that most times it matters a whole lot. The contradiction is grotesque. In some worlds there are no good choices.

Sooner or later we have to engage the facts of life, life is about dying. Choosing about how we should live is about choosing how we shall die. That big picture is the search for meaning that has always been and ever will be a life and death issue. We shall discover meaning in this life when we stare down the rabbit hole of death, regardless of our history, and then look upward. All the other stuff about living is mere window dressing.  

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca. 


 

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Hallelujah

God allows gross evil in our world because God wants us to experience freedom. Perfect freedom not perfect goodness, is who God is. Knowing or experiencing freedom means that we have to experience, first, the lack of freedom, better called evil. Thus we have to experience wars, the Holocaust or the killing of Charlie Kirk. Evil is an unavoidable consequence resulting from a world that is lacking a freedom priority. Is the search for freedom an adequate justification for evil? 

One would think not. However, all earthly evil, when properly understood and experienced, gives us, at best, only a shallow dive into true freedom. In this world the race is on requiring a shallow racing dive that just skims the surface of freedom. We have only a few undetermined years to run our race. 

The deep dive into freedom and what we understand to be God, that Perfect Freedom, one day we shall all experience as the deep dive. 

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

 

 

Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Hope

Hope is a bus ticket. Hope is God given permission to travel on. Hope is a window seat. Hope is protesting the pain. Hope is the trip home.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

 

Sunday, September 14, 2025

Losers

Believers of every flavor have at least one thing in common, "this world is not our home". We, all of us, the good, the bad and the ugly, including the sexually challenged, are born to be citizens of another better world.  

There are those Christian ideologues (useful idiots) who want to turn the assassination of Charlie Kirk into an evangelical revival meeting. All God believers do not look to such an atmosphere to be close to God. The crazed Godless are the displaced persons of this world, they are dangerous and the unprovoked enemy of all God believers, not just Christians. Christianity has historically and falsely claimed or assumed that the message of Jesus was the exclusive purview of their exclusive religion. Some of us believe that there is enough evil around in this world to engage all of us, regardless of one’s preferred religion or lack of religion.

As long as it is only a Christian fight, Christianity will always be on the defensive and probably the loser. And then we all lose.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

 

Friday, September 12, 2025

Stand Up America

How should we, among the crowd of Charlie Kirk supporters, respond in the wake of his assassination? Our hearts and minds are full of anger and loathing for that crazy cowardly punk that did the deed. The dirt bag is subhuman. The radical left Democrat politicians are blaming the victim, Charlie, for his own death because he said some things that enraged the shooter. Charlie, you just wouldn’t shut up!

There is a righteous call from the governor of Utah for national unity. These are nice words in a perfect world but they are meaningless because they are divorced from our earthly reality. There has never been unity in America for we are a democracy, the majority rules. It will not happen in our world, now or any time in the future. Forget it, earthly unity is not the future God plan for our world. God must like a good scrap. God must be bigger than our scraps.

We were all put here in our world to live as if we were already home. That is the God plan, to share mercy with the unmerciful, to share forgiveness with the undeserving, to suffer the slings and arrows of the haughty, to run where the weak dare not go, to care for something or someone besides our own well-being. It is hard and against our nature but that is the God plan.

Most of us play the noncommittal waiting game, hiding in the bushes, avoiding having to declare one way or the other, nursing our fears and wants, not Charlie. Charlie stood up to say, our lives do not belong to us, life is a gift from God (Christ). The religious context in which we choose to express our faith is not the important decision. The important decision is to live fearlessly knowing we are destined for the better world, the better unified world. A world with an atmosphere of pure freedom for love is freedom.

Shall we also stand up? Yes or No, check the box?

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

 

Community

If you had a twenty year old socially challenged son with a room full of guns and ammo and no interest in hunting animals, what would you think and do? Some of us don’t get it, these young monster assassins have waved the red flags for years, so how can the parents, family, relatives, friends and neighbors remained silent?

How can the passengers on a public transit train in North Carolina remain cowardly uninvolved when a killing happens in their midst and the victim is left alone bleeding and struggling for her life? One would think we are a nation of robots or demented scarred cats.

Maybe we have always been this way or maybe we, as a society, have lost our sense of interrelatedness or community. Maybe we should have cell phone burnings and start being human again.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

 

 

Thursday, September 11, 2025

Offense

Some have taken offense to the term “useful idiot” in this blog. A useful idiot is not dumb. A useful idiot is one who has set beliefs and conclusions that are considered absolute. There is no need for discussion, in fact, discussion will likely push the useful idiot off the deep end. A useful idiot is desperate to see their truth to be your truth. A useful idiot is easily motivated or manipulated by applause.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

 

Foul

So they say that the assassination attempt in Butler Pennsylvania was not a conspiracy of the many but one solo nut job. Really! The useful idiots are everywhere, in the pew and behind the pulpit. On orders from above, the security plan by the Secret Service on that day is deliberately sabotaged and a shooting perch is identified prior to the event. On the day of the event, all security at the perch is ordered elsewhere.

Months prior to the event, a useful idiot is identified, prepped and motivated to gain hero status among democrats by killing the president. The useful idiot is told of the perch and was assisted in planning the shoot by a solo shadowy perpetrator.

The Secret Service sniper team on the other warehouse roof had standing orders never to fire until a threat first fires. We all are allowed one murder. Prior to the assassin’s barrage of bullets, the sniper team had to have had the threat in sight for as soon as the threat fired, they took him out. You are a hero no more.

Why is this not an extreme likelihood? All the moving parts of a conspiracy are there, however, such a scenario would be very difficult to trace. We can be sure that the assassination of Charlie Kirk in Utah has a similar scenario. Or, the democrats just got tired of playing games and hired a professional assassin.

No wonder democrats are united and fearful of the radical communist left in their party, most are not useful idiots, they know that any perceived dissent will be extinguished. As a result of democratic cowardice, all democrats, the politicians and the regular voters, are as guilty of murder as the shooter. Democrats have earned a foul reputation that will be long remembered.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Emergency

It is time. The American people need our president to address the nation from the oval office. The Commies are coming from within and without. It is time to stop all imports from China. It is going to get messy no matter what actions we take or don’t take. This emergency requires America to pull out all the stops. 

We the people are behind our president, tell us, how are we to remain a free people? The cost is irrelevant, we all will be heroic Americans in our generation just as many heroic American generations have done for the last two hundred and fifty years.  God and Country forever.

G. Goslaw

Landers, CA.

 

Monday, September 8, 2025

Warning

Sean Hannity you are not that dumb. Me thinks you just want your guests to answer one question but every one of them avoids answering. Please explain that, can’t you find a guest who is willing to state the obvious? Why do Democrats insist on a crime ridden America? Why do they subject every large Democrat run city to rampant crime chaos regardless of the consequences?

Answer: chaos is right out of the Marxist playbook. Democrats are no longer American. The plan that they advance has worked around the world. First trash the legal system, have your partners in crime create total chaos, defend the criminal and thereby destroy the country. The helpless country, in this case America, can then be built back the communist way. Someone needs to speak up and state the obvious.

What do you say, Sean Hannity?

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

 

 

 

Ponder On

Luke 2: 19.  

KJV:  But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart.

TNIV: But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart.

One might ask, what things? The surrounding stories would suggest the appearance of the angel Gabriel, shepherds, a company of singing heavenly hosts and a message locating the birth of the long expected birth of the Messiah-Savior. This is not Christmas time so let’s get real. Some or all of these stories may be true or they may not, that is not the point of their telling. The possibly exaggerated stories were told only to convince the listener, nothing else. They were not deceitful stories, they were stories told to add an exclamation point.

Was Mary pondering the stories or something else? If you or I were an unmarried pregnant teenager, what would we be pondering? If you or I were an unmarried pregnant teenager who had heard from somewhere that God was up to something in and through your child, what would we be pondering? If you or I were a newly wedded pregnant bride, with a doubting virgin husband, what would we be pondering? If you or I were a homeless couple taking shelter with the animals, what would we be pondering?

Maybe Mary was pondering over the question, "Is God really in the midst of my circumstances?" How can it be?  

Yes, Mary, your child will be speaking my things to your world, some will listen but most will not. By trusting in the midst of your questions and doubts, you have done your part.     

For us, take heart, we too are not alone in our questions. The only answer that matters is yes, I shall trust today and fight the fight of faith again tomorrow. 

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

 

 

Tradition?

So, the television puppeteers are threatened. Could it be that this blog is making sense out of the Bible? They say, no Christian commentator has ever proposed such a conclusion based on Scripture. Therefore it is not Christian. Fair enough, some of us just say, “thank you for the compliment”.

In some quarters, love for the Bible is about the search for truth for living. The truth search is holy while all religions, including Christianity, block the search for the people. If there is disagreement be honest and make an argument. Religion hides behind tradition.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

Sunday, September 7, 2025

Freedom

“What we have here is a failure to communicate”.  Cool Hand Luke

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.


Saturday, September 6, 2025

sparrow

There are a few words in the Bible that we might consider to be Jesus words. You know, those Jesus words that some scholars tout to be historically authentic. The words that could have been spoken before all the interpreters of religion stacked the deck with additions. Jesus had a thing for sparrows, to him, the sparrow is the national bird of God’s world.  

Why did Jesus use the sparrow to teach us about God? Sparrows are everywhere, they are short lived, they are of little earthly value and they have no power. Every day, every hour could be their last, they are at risk of everything. They are totally fragile but as Jesus said, God cares for them! Despite all the evidence to the contrary, God cares for them. 

Jesus may also ask us, is it therefore lunacy to believe that God could also care for all of us, for you? Well, it is lunacy and it is not lunacy. Shall we ask the sparrow? .

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca. 

Freedom, Freedom

If there be a God, that God is to be experienced as freedom. Dictators are all about this world, even the dictators who use only the name God. They are ignorant of what it really means to live our days in the fresh air of freedom.

How do we know that God loves freedom? God loves freedom because all of us were dumped into this risky, dangerous world where the monsters are allowed to live among us. God wants us to learn of the other world by living in ours. Our world is a teaching tool, are you learning?

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

Tuesday, September 2, 2025

Scandal

The scandal of particularity is a God scandal that looks human. It is a scandal for any human to say to this world of multiplied billions of humans that somehow, God has noticed me. Some would say such a claim is craziness and that may very well be. However, is such a claim only Tom foolery? Does or can God scandalously influence the particular individual?

Some say that God does so influence the individual, one on one, and that religion most times is at war with these same individuals. Religion and God are not always comingling because religion is about control and God is about freedom. Those who have been impacted by God do not talk about it, they just go on about their God directed business. They are not broadcasters, they are doers. They are not virtue signalers, they give virtue away.    

The ultimate scandalous question needs to be asked. Could God likeness be advanced among men through the life of an individual as seemingly undeserving as that of a bastard individual? You know, those of us who did not ask to be born at a particular time and place but born they were, born to live their lives in the midst of a very real social stigma and the resulting turmoil. Such a notion would even be a bigger scandal. Some of us believe that God did just that when he scandalously chose to influence Jesus.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

 

December

What are you 31/ATLAS? Are you an interstellar object on a parabolic orbit through multiplied solar systems to return again in thousands or millions of years? Better yet, are you an interstellar life probe from a distant solar system looking for others of us? We are about to find out in three months. Will our world be a stopping point or will the interstellar object merely wave to us from its orbit, 168 million miles from earth? Hold on to your hats.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

Saturday, August 30, 2025

Fun

The Bible as in every word is either, truth from the lips of God, or none of the words of the Bible are truth from the lips of God. We believers cannot have it both ways, picking, choosing and ignoring the words that are discomforting. The Bible has been passed to us as a hand me down from God but it is not true blue God. That supposed Bible is an idol, along with the other everyday idols of God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit.

Every writer of every book is a unique interpreter of God with unavoidable blind spots and expressed God clarity. All the words of the Bible have value but only as they are put into the context of their historical time, made relevant to our time and the 5000 year God narrative. All Scripture has value but not equal value, that is where you and I come in. The complicated can be fun.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca. 

Thursday, August 28, 2025

What if?

Good morning Mr. Westman, welcome aboard. You are dead before your time and so are the children, do you feel any better? Looking up, Robin responds, well, no. 

Could it be that believing a mother’s lie can have eternal consequences? What say you? Dejected, Robin looks down and is silent. The prosecutor says, “God don’t make mistakes!” The Judge says, "Please go to the back of the bus".

Court of no appeal.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.  

 

Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Hope

There is absolutely nothing we can do or confront in this life that would warrant the taking of another life or the life that God has given to us. God will always have our backs in the midst of all of our suffering because hope is so much more than wishful thinking, hope is God given permission to journey on.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

Monday, August 25, 2025

Sick

America is sick. We are a nation of hypochondriacs, obsessed and disengaged from living by an overwhelming concern for how we look and feel. Big Pharma and the cosmetics crapola are racking in the dough treating our wrinkles, pains and aliments.

Look around among us, what do you see? Those of us who are taking street drugs are sick. Those of us who buy supposed healthy gimmicks are sick. You folk are the reason some of us have to tolerate the druggy, gimmicky commercials. Go on, get your needed exercise by peddling a machine while sitting in the easy chair. Sickness is craziness.

Maybe, it’s a death wish. Maybe, it’s a cry for interpersonal attention. In any case, stop talking about your sicknesses and start looking in the mirror, get a life. Stop talking about your inabilities and start doing for the betterment of yourself and those around you. Better yet, get a backbone and live regardless of your age or supposed pain. 

Sorry, there are more important things in life than how you feel. No sympathy here. Knock on wood.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.     

Saturday, August 23, 2025

Freedom

Forget all the Trump hate pundits on Fox News and Newsmax. They are lily livered. Please tell the people what’s really going on. The radical leftists of America are not just obsessed with Trump, they are filled with America hate. They will hate with equal intensity anyone who gets in their way. For now it is Trump, tomorrow it will be whomever. The freedom loving people of America cannot relax with a few Trump wins, as miraculous as they are, the wins must be bigger than Trump.

The wins will be bigger if the radicals are exposed as the frauds they really are. They are not about the freebees for the people, the Democrat radicals want to be the new American power center, the people be damned. 

The America haters will never completely go away but we the people can make them practically powerless in the midterm elections of 26 and the presidential election of 28. When that happens, whoever is buying their hate will then go broke but as they say, never relax, freedom will never be free.

Maybe, nothing can be won without a real January 6!

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

War!

Forget the niceties, America is now at war! Politics as we have known it has been replaced by conquest at any price.  The two hundred and fifty year American tradition of respectful political dialogue has gone by-by. It has been replaced by a war like attitude from the Democrats who are no longer Democrats but useful idiots for a big government, top down control over “we the people”. This control has many names but they all mean no personal or national freedom.

The control of Socialism and Communism means that your life is no longer your own, your life and livelihood belongs to the government which has ownership of everything, including your children. Socialism is a thin minority of very small, incompetent yet powerful people dumping on the majority of us in order to inflate their own imaginary self-worth. They are takers. They know nothing but politics, protest and living off the system. They are the crazies who will only kill our national identity as a free people. They will kill you if you get in the way.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Blank

There is no heaven as popularly understood. Eternity, if there is one, is not a social paradise open to the few who are somehow qualified. That much is a lie. That truth is religion. Please don’t start quoting Scripture that may have some value but it is not truth from the lips of God. 

Some of us believe there is a boundless eternity for all when we die. Whatever that eternity may be, it will be a good fit because it is planned. Of course, we all could be wrong and there is only a blank space in our future. This possibility is worse than any picture of hell painted by men.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca. 


Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Missed

There is no Teddy Bear God that we can snuggle up to when the going gets tough. That Teddy Bear God is for sale by every television ministry and in a large majority of pulpits around the world. In a real sense, that God is a lie, some of the people know it but most devotees don’t know any better. God did not bring this world into being in order to get cozy. We humans value a family support system; God is an adult; God values freedom.

God is an earthly influencer not a dictator. God decides when and where God will pull a couple of strings in our world. God decides; we don’t. Prayer changes us not God. God acts to allows even the monsters freedom. God acts without partiality, he or she is not flipping the channels on Sunday morning. God picks on the nobodies, avoiding the well qualified. The prophet Samuel, led by the spirit of God, reluctantly chose the 12th son, the tail end of the family, David, to be King for the people. God directed the assassin’s bullet to miss in Butler, Pennsylvania.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

Monday, August 18, 2025

Peculiar

Some of us have a peculiar moral ethic. There are only two no, no’s. The evil of all evil’s is the lie, the telling of an intentional untruth. There are no excuses, to exaggerate is to lie, and there are no good or kind lies. Any lie is a moral failure. The second moral failure is to ask, seek or delude others to lie for you or to tag along with you in your lie. That’s it, our peculiar morality in a nutshell.

How do we know there is a God? We humans all have spiritual ears and we all lie. The Perfect awaits us.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.


Saturday, August 9, 2025

Legacy

We all have a time and a place, this much is for certain. Maybe, this is the only certainty, only the now, our now, is for certain. For all of us, time and place are like the weather, ever changing from the norm of shared expectations. We desperately clutch these shared norms as a sailor clutches the mast of a sinking ship. These shared norms give us a fleeting feeling of longevity. Shared norms such as friends, family, religion, money, property, social status, politics or any other devised legacy. The idea of God can be another dead end legacy or God can be an adventure.

When our clock ticks down to practically nothing, some of us wonder about our place among the many.  What does it all mean?  We humans have been asking that question for millions of years. Our lives have to mean something, if so what?  Do you have any clues? 

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Maybe

Religion is making so much out of so little.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

Monday, July 28, 2025

Caged

Some of us are generalists, experts at nothing. We dabble on, delving into the whatever, forming opinions which are always subject to the greater wisdom. Some may call generalists accursed because our culture rewards the experts. However, the typical one category expert is not likely to catch the attention of we regular folk. Experts that have walked the general broad road are the blessed thinkers and have earned our respect.  

Some of us pray not for fortune or fame but the gifting of just one thinker who can share expertly, competently and independently, the truths of God, religion, history, philosophy, anthropology, cosmology, psychology and science. These folk are rare birds, indeed. These birds are less apt to be trapped in a cage of someone else’s making. 

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.  

Sunday, July 27, 2025

Immunity

Department of Justice Memo: Ex-President Obama is here to for under indictment for leading a treasonous conspiracy to dethrone the duly elected president, Donald J. Trump, during his entire term (20016-20). The opinion of this DOJ is that such a conspiracy is not a part of the presidential powers that bring to any past president the shield of immunity.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.    

Tuesday, July 22, 2025

WOW

WOW. The possibility of an amoral eternity woke some folks up. Just because few of us would make such a claim does not mean that such a claim makes no sense. Ours is an amoral world, an amoral existence. Morality is a social issue not a God issue. Jesus was not a moralist, in fact, the moralists persecuted him, slandered him, put him on trial for claiming a spiritual status apart from the moralists, dragged him through the streets, put him on a cross for a slow death and ultimate humiliation. Was that moral? Jesus appeared among us not to make us or enable us to live right, whatever that may mean. Jesus appeared among us to show us a door to walk through.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

 

Monday, July 21, 2025

Universalism

There is no way a God believer can be anything other than a Universalist unless that believer is selling a book, serving a bureaucracy or living a lie. God is about accountability but not eternal damnation. How God will work that out post death, we can only guess? Christian theologians of every sort have been guessing throughout the ages. This writer believes that there is no consistent God thinking for hell despite the endorsement of the likes of Billy Graham, Jimmy Swaggart and N.T. Wright.

Almost all books are written to please an audience, a market, the very few significant writings are written "come what may". A.T. Robinson's "Honest to God", was such a book. However, few writings of this sort arrive from the religious establishment. However, should another, "come what may" book be written, it may read something like this: God is not a religious extremist who condemns 90% of we earthlings to a Dante Inferno. The hell scenario is in lock step not with God but with our devilish human nature that delights in the misfortune of others.

St. Anselm (1033 - 1109 A,D.) gave God equality with the devil with his satisfaction teaching. God must somehow satisfy his holiness by the mass eternal torture of all nonbelieving souls in the resurrected Christ. Does this sound like a God win? Is God that concerned with looking righteous?  

Universalism like hell is not a new spiritual fad or gimmick. Both understandings have been around since the get go. History has always chosen the winners and losers but do we believe in history or do we believe in our God awareness?

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca. 


  

 

Opiate

Our world is not a conflict or contest between good and evil. We have been sold a bill of goods. The Cartesian dualism of good verse evil is rooted in a bedtime story told to the kiddies by the dualist in Chief, Plato. His intent was to give the very young a handle to navigate the blessings and risks of life. Question, could there be another answer to explain our fragile lives?  Many of us have been thinking on that one for a long, long time. 

Recent Old Testament scholarship (Copenhagen International Seminar) has dated the Genesis story of the Tree of Good an Evil at 325 B.C., at Alexandria Egypt, by a large group of Hebrew and Hellenist scholars. Moses had been dead for some 1500 years, leaving no material of this sort that can be dated to his time. As a result and as Karl Marx rightly told us, these (bedtime) stories have become the opiate of the people. How so?

The bedtime stories place the ultimate victory of Good verses Evil beyond this life and our demise. Therefore, the one who believes is shielded against the ravages of today and tomorrow because they are not of ultimate consequence. The reality of this believed victory, may or may not be true, but certainly it will never be verified in this life.  Some say, when bad things happen to good people just believe, have faith in the ultimate victory of God over Satan. This is the “whatever comes my way” opiate.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca. 

      

 

 

Tuesday, July 15, 2025

FED

The United States Federal Reserve is supposed to be independent of politics but never has been and is now an unabashed Democrat influencer. Let's rename this body politic "the Jerome the Ripper Fed", in honor of another of us who preyed upon the people so many years ago. Those voices calling for more of the same, have a vested interest in the treachery and thievery of the Federal Reserve. 

Chase’s Jamie Diamond, the big bank guru, please take a long walk off a very short pier. 

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

 

Sunday, July 13, 2025

Killers

There exists among us a shadow government pulling the death strings that determine our future.  This shadow government that some of us call, “the deep state”, rains turmoil upon the people in order to hide their treason. The deep state hides within the bureaucracy of Washington. Being popular with the people, gaining political influence apart from the deep state, is a death sentence. The deep state will not tolerate winners. “Make America Great Again” could eventually expose and eliminate the power of the deep state.

The deep state has killed and will kill to preserve their power. Butler Pa. was not a multiple failure, Butler was intentional! The Florida assassination (killing) attempt on the life of presidential candidate Donald Trump was intestinal. The Viet Nam War was intentional. The assassination (killing) attempt and wounding of President Ronald Reagan was intentional. The assassination (killing) of President John F. Kennedy was intentional. The killing of presidential candidate Robert Kennedy was intentional. Martin Luther King was killed and a victim of deep state terrorism. The deep state killed its own in the jailhouse death of Jeffery Epstein. The deep state ordered national security to ignore the threats levels prior to 9/11 and these orders resulted in a death toll equal to that of Pearl Harbor. Igniting a war in the mid east was more important.

All were not failures, all were intentional. The deep state cares not about the holiness of human life. What’s next? President Trump, do not relax anywhere, hire your own personal security and carry a gun. The Secret Service is a paper tiger. The deep state is still scheming. We sense that you are working now under treat. The deep state includes those who take orders, those who know but stay silent, those who choose to remain ignorant and the few who refuse to bow down.

Please Mr. President, set everything else aside, hunker down, and go to war with the deep state. Death to the deep state is our only possible democratic future as a free nation.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

 


Saturday, July 12, 2025

Beginning

Probably the most recognized Bible verses, even in the secular world, are Genesis, Chapter 1, verses 1 and 2. The King James Version says it this way, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.”

The more modern translations replace “void” with “empty”, the more immediate translation of the Hebrew. Both words describe our reality at its start as a blank space, a void, an emptiness or a nothing space. The traditional understanding among theologians is creation “ex nihilo”, creation out of nothing. Could it be possible that how you start is more important than how you finish? Is matter eternal or is God eternal?

Some say, there has always been God, then came matter. Some say, our world order cries out for God.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Think

We might ask and Texas is certainly is asking, why is life in our world so very fragile? How can a good God or any God be so seemingly sadistic? There are no safe spaces. The Guadalupe River swells 29 feet above normal levels in just 45 minutes, on a holiday and at midnight of July 4. If God had control of any of these circumstances, why did he or she allow the waters to rage? Can a seemingly apparent remote uncaring God be called good? Is not this God’s very existence called into question?  Maybe, as some have supposed, there is no God?

The television networks are interviewing religious leaders of every flavor and asking this question. The consensus from every quarter is that there is no answer, all we can do is nurse the fallout. Every time religion comes up short it becomes a so called “mystery”. There is a lot of mystery going around. If we remain as children stuck in the God is all powerful tree, there will be no sensible answers. God did not put this world into motion to display his powers or his authority.

Maybe God wants his people to think up to there potential. If we remain as children, accepting the “whatever” of others, we will remain as children. Thinking is not about education, it is about coming to understand the obvious and then making adjustments. Common sense thinking is available to all of us.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.          

 

Saturday, July 5, 2025

Destiny

I am now doing what I was always meant to do. It only took me a lifetime to get there, hard headed as I am. Established religion was no help. I finally died to all earthly expectations and just listened. 

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

 

Good

A false dichotomy is used by one philosopher to justify his assent to Christian doctrine. Who am I to call him out but here I am? This philosopher with mighty credentials and literary accomplishments, makes an elemental mistake. In defense of doctrine, he posits a false choice for the reader, a choice between the 300 year old Enlightenment understanding of human nature or a choice for the 1700 year old traditional Church doctrine. Enlightenment says that we humans are essentially good and Christian doctrine says that we are essentially evil (original sin).

After quite thoroughly tearing down the “man is good” extremism, this thinker seems to assume that we should choose Church doctrine for want of a better alternative. Could it be that the “man is evil” understanding is also an extremist view of human nature (forgive me dear St. Augustine)? Extremes are rarely consistent. Could there be a middle ground?

Who are we? We are the obvious, we are all obviously and hopelessly self-centered, no more, no less. Like the rest of creation, we are all momentary survivors. We can do “good” by mitigating our self-involvement or do “evil” by nurturing our selfishness. All of us do both, there are no good guys but we are freely choosing one or the other, that is good.  

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

 

  

 

 

Friday, July 4, 2025

authentic

We are all in the same boat. We seek an experience with the beyond and then turn to seeking validation in the experience of others. That is how religion gets started. As hard as we may look for a commonality, it is for naught.

Religion as a substitute avoids the simple fact of this our reality, there is no common experience on which to construct a perceived normal spirituality. We all are abnormal, abnormally solo seekers. My experience is not yours and yours is not mine. 

Why are spiritual chops ever so obscure?  Maybe, the authentic is not to be spoken of. 

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.   

 

 

Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Tragedy

History was so boring in my early years. Now that I am historical, I have become a bit of a history buff. Learning about the ancient Greek thinkers is a real trip. They seemed to be about finding how we and our world function. Their explanations came close to being a scientific mindset. Aristotle was for all intents and purposes a biologist. The pre Socratic thinkers were talking about atoms. Each was in an investigative mood.

Question: what would our world be like if it had not taken a deep dive into the top down empire of religion?  Circa: the Council of Nicaea, St. Augustine of Hippo and the politically and spiritually repressive Roman Catholic Church. Could the 1000 year period of “the dark ages” have been avoided?  Let’s hope so.

All of us should be thinkers because it matters. Just a little common sense prevents a lot of tragedy. Please, get the kids thinking.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca. 

Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Juice

God is a moving target. To Aristotle, if it moves, it is God, it is Soul. This made the reading of “On the Soul” by Aristotle a bit disappointing. Some of us were or are anxious to hear again all the spiritual mumbo jumbo, even from the ancients. Instead, what we get is a detailed description of all our moving parts. The word that comes to mind is sterol, “On the Soul” is a sterol description of our reality. Where is the juice of life? Why are we here? Why have we all been here for thousands and millions of years? To be moved?

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.   

 

Wisdom

Aristotle taught that, first we must know ourselves and our place in this world and then we can start all that God talk. Not popular religion, we believers first go God shopping. Is it a Teddy Bear God to nurse our emotions? Is it the Judge enforcer God to keep us and the other guy on the straight and narrow? Is it the Patriot God to wave the flag? Is it the Daddy God to give us a bit of supposed security? Is it the God of ancient Greek culture that made our human frailties acceptable? Where ever there is a man, there is a God, some say.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

Thursday, June 26, 2025

Personal

I have been trying to get into philosophy. Why? God only knows. I have gotten to know some philosophers by the highlights posited by those thinkers who are discussing a variety of life issues. Reading beyond the highlights in the thinkers own words, however, expecting to be convinced, is a tough road. Take Aristotle’s “On the Soul”; my brain matter is definitely inferior but I have one criticism. If you can’t just say what you mean and mean what you say, very few of we intellectually challenged persons, will sit through all the arguments.

Philosophy seems to be a game. Who can make the best argument? It is arguing with no answers. Arguing for the sake of arguing. Many books have a conclusion, I try to go there first. Tell me what you believe or all your thinking is for naught. All philosophy books seem to be written to impress the thinking community not those of us who want answers.

Shall I give up? Hell no!

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.    

 

Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Real

Socrates was a confirmed conversationalist. He could engage in a conversation with almost anyone because Socrates was an expert listener. Listening is more than language and simpler than 2 plus 2. Listening was a rare talent 2400 years ago but is even more so today in our world. Listening is more than sound waves bouncing against the ear drum, listening is focus, awareness and a hunger to know and understand one another. Socrates was a good listener.

Socrates did not go around preaching and advising as if he was an authority person or expert. He asked questions. Socrates listened and then asked questions about what was being said. He challenged the popular accepted understandings that may or may not be correct by asking questions. This method got him into a lot of trouble with the people who became offended. We prize our delusions.

How many of us spend our days just talking? How many of us spend our days reclining behind the walls of our own little world? How many of us spend our days seeking entertainment or the next adventure or the next high? 

Maybe, we should listen to Socrates and become a real person, a good listener and conversationalist.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.   

 

 

Sunday, June 22, 2025

Simple

There is an intellect and then there is an intellect. The total human intellect is more than brain function bound to the body. Our companion human spiritual intellect is a message center that will live forever, “he who has ears, let him hear”, as the Bible often says.

Socrates was the real deal, he named his spiritual intellect “daimonion” or inner voice with whom he listened. His students, Plato and Aristotle preferred to listen to the brain function intellect. Likewise, as most philosophers followed their lead, our understanding of who we are got more and more complicated through the centuries.

We can know who we are if we would just listen.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.    

 

Saturday, June 21, 2025

Pain

Forty eight hours have passed since “Ma Ma” left us. Barron spent yesterday running around barking at the fence, barking at nothing, barking a different bark. He was crying out for his “Ma Ma“, where are you? The bark was an expression of painful separation. For the last five years, Ma Ma and Barron have been constant companions and playmates in the front yard at 1990 Gibralter.

For now, the fun is gone. Please don’t tell me that dogs don’t have separation woes or depression. Dogs have feelings too. Will he adjust as we humans adjust? Probably, we shall see but death is so final and our post separation world will never be quite the same.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

 

Thursday, June 19, 2025

Apologies

The Iranian Ayatollah has been killing Americans for the last 45 years. Suddenly, when they are about to get their come up in’s, they are not our enemy? Just because we have had eight different presidents over these 45 years singing the same song, means that the Ayatollah has not changed his strips. He is who he is, a murderous religious fanatic who needs to go down with his ship.

As for the people of Iran, you got what you asked for and there are no apologies for the end being messy.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

 

Monday, June 16, 2025

Peace?

Give it up! Expecting or hoping that the Iranian Ayatollah is anything other than an irrational religious fanatic hell bend on killing off western civilization is delusional. It is them or us. It is them or Israel to the death. Peace is a pipe dream.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

Saturday, June 14, 2025

Vision

Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics should be mandatory reading at the High School level as their life long decisions are being made. There are no mulligans in life, no do overs. No matter where one starts, the striving for excellence in whatever we do, will bring to us the better way called happiness or fulfilment.

Most books in this book are rather short, easy to read but a bit wordy. Every page has fantastic discussion points. Get the kids talking about real life and the happiness possible with decisions for excellence.  

Where there is no vision, the people perish (authored by another wise man, Proverbs 29: 18).

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.  

  

 




Birthdays

Happy 250th Birthday of Our United States of America Army Corp!

Our Flag is flying at `1990 Gibralter Rd. Landers, Ca.

(Democracy is messy but freedom is worth the fight.)

Happy Birthday President TRUMP our fighter in chief!

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

 


Thursday, June 12, 2025

Broken Dreams

Certain supposedly conservative news outlets defend Obama by pointing out his deportation record. This was never who Obama was or is to this day. As president he had to keep the lid on the radical left because he was much too busy getting rich. The mortgages had to be paid on all those mansions. Oppositional heat would spoil the stew.

When the presidential torch was passed to Biden, the controls were no more because he no longer had to take the heat. Obama could run his socialist, communist ferry land by proxy with his supposed reputation intact.  Biden tried to enrich himself like his boss but he wasn’t as cool about it.

Meanwhile the radical left, Obama’s radical left, was running the country visa the auto pen. The radical left governed with a Marxist game plan which is in short, “burn to the ground what has been in order to build back the socialist ideal”.

The supposed ideal is only government control of everything and everybody, control by the few. Democrat leadership is and has been clamoring to be among the privileged few. The socialist ideal is ignorance resulting in broken dreams for the rest of us. We live to dream.

May Obama’s daddy worship never again work its evil among us? As President Reagan warned, as a country, we are never more than one generation away from socialism. Democrats want the people dumb and unaware.   

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.