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 Politics as we have known it has been replaced by conquest at any price.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 It has been replaced by a war like attitude from the Democrats who are no longer Democrats but useful idiots for a big government, top down control over “we the people”.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.

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. 

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 12^th 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.

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.

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.

Maybe

Religion is making so much out of so little.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

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.