Our Human Dilemma

We humans are either a byproduct of nothingness or our lives are about something else.  This is the human dilemma that is beyond empirical proof.  Those of us who have accepted the nothingness of this present life form are either very courageous or very stupid.  The nothingness life is simple, get all you can while you can and at the same time console your moral sensibilities with a few good deeds.  The nothingness life may be enough for some of us but what if life is ultimately about the something else?  Are we not looking over our shoulders, wondering and hoping that there just may be something more to it all?  Though we hope, most times the something or someone else seems to be a foggy vapor, our future vision clouded by a multitude of conflicting interests.

When our earthly aspirations come up short, when our expectations are crushed, when we prove to be our own worst enemy, even when we stubble onto a sweet spot in life, changing circumstances will return us to the dilemma of meaninglessness. Despite the progress of modern man to pull back the celestial curtain, we humans stuff our dilemma into a comfort coping cubbyhole, a cubbyhole with a prescribed group think, be it money, success, relationships, religion, politics, good works, the many varieties of excess or an approved ancient text.  Through history we have devised almost as many cubbyholes as there are those of us willing to think on these things.  Philosophers, theologians, writers, scholars and the scientific communities have debated and written a plethora of volumes, each claiming to have a semblance of understanding. 

Each of these thinkers may have something to say to us but none has a verifiable solution for our dilemma of meaning.  To the atheist we could ask, how does it feel to be a byproduct of nothingness?  To the agnostic, we could ask, where did your remote creative force go?  To those of us with a religious definition of the someone else, we could ask, where is your evidence except ultimate faith?  To those of us who champion an inherent human spiritual goodness, we could ask, why is this dynamic a vestigial appendage in so much of humankind?  There is no widely accepted fix for the dilemma of meaning and most of the world lives without the hope for a meaningful hereafter.  When it is our turn to die, what will each of us discover to be the eternal fix, if anything?

This is not an exclusively religious question but a universal human question we all confront, either directly or passively.  As young people, we take our chances but sooner or later the dilemma of meaning looms larger and larger.  The nothingness dilemma is ours to take to the grave while we search for answers in this life.  All we humans have this searching imperative, we want to know, all of us, regardless of age, sex, race, religion or national origin.  Will we experience illumination or black nothingness?  Will we experience a Utopian bliss or eternal hell fire?  Do we get to choose?  What are the qualifications for eternity?  Are there qualifications? 

The cubbyhole voices are out there advocating for their own understanding of what life is about but who shall we trust into the grave?  Where is the truth?  Who knows the truth?  Are we merely to be satisfied with making a small contribution to the flow of humanity?  These are just a few of the questions that bug some of us and to those of us who are profoundly sure of the future, cubbyholes and all, we envy you.

G.Goslaw 

A challenge to the High Desert Star

The new editorial page of the Hi-Desert Star is an improvement over the old mindless insult machine of the past.  The Word on the street section has a broader cross section of both local people and their sometimes-divergent opinions.  It would be helpful if the reader is informed as to the life work of those giving the opinion.  Are they plumbers or teachers, store clerks or truck drivers, government employees or small business persons, day traders or panhandlers?  Such a revelation would help the reader understand where opinion likely originates without further contributing to the political polarization that has infected America.   

The new “Our View” section has at last given the paper an opportunity to put meaningful local and national issues before the readers.  One would assume that in doing so, the paper hopes to stimulate intelligent feedback and an open discussion of possible fixes.  The January 26 “Our View” section is entitled, “It’s time to admit we have a problem”.  This opinion rightly calls the folk of our community to band together to positively address the scourge of drug abuse infecting both our families, the local community and the nation. 

OK, we have a monstrous problem, our children and young adults are dying and becoming virtual life vegetables.  My community is highly infected, rumors abound about our young dying amid mysterious circumstances.  The days of “just say no” and a war on drugs enforcement efforts seem totally inadequate solutions to our present problem.  If tragedy has found your family, this is not the time to hide in shame, it is time to stand up and demand change. 

Why are our law enforcement officers overwhelmed with this problem? Why is heroin as cheap on the streets as cigarettes?  Why are our public schools so ineffective educating our male students?  Why can we regulate smokes away from our young and at the same time open our borders to the drug peddlers of the world?  It makes no sense because our young are being destroyed by the open borders cartel of the political Democratic and socialist radical left.  They say to you and I, our politics is more important than the life of your son or daughter.    

Should you and I accept this bull, should the Hi-Desert Star?  Our paper must have an expanded view that is relevant to our everyday circumstance in real America and not some pie in the sky political theory.  Hi-Desert Star, are you afraid to be relevant and stand with your people?

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca

The America Haters International Union is exposed!

There is a new union in town, it is called the Donald J. Trump Presidency.  Since he has entered the political area, the other union, known as, the America Haters International Union, has had to come out of their closet and demonstrate to all of us their ugliness.  They accuse everyone, other than themselves, of hating when they are the ugly bigots who lie, cheat and steal the greatness of the American ideal to promote America hate.   They are the radical political left and their surrogates who will say anything and do anything to gain control and enslave America, from Washington D.C, New York City, Sacramento, California or the street corners of Yucca Valley. 

America Haters International Union has accomplished phase one of their plan by gaining control of the political elites of the Democratic Party including the House Democratic members who skipped the Inauguration.  The actions of this minority are organized America Hate.  They warped the special interests promoting the killing of babies in the womb to the many invasions into America from everywhere.  They send the IRS after their political enemies.  They invite black lives matter folk to visit the White House.  Former President Obama told illegals to vote illegally in the presidential election of 2016.  They send and fund their anarchist bullies to burn and riot in the streets.  They give tacit approval to the killing of police officers, remaining silent or they give obligatory written statements about the violence.  This organized ugliness is right out of the socialist, communist, big government playbook that is about enslaving the American people.

One man stood up for the people, President Donald J. Trump.  This message is from the people, we now know who you are, please, go stifle yourself!    

G.Goslaw

Landers, Ca

Letter to Jacob

Good morning Jacob.  This is your first day in your new surroundings so your grandpa is writing in support of your choice, I and the entire family are so proud of your decision.  Life is one gigantic learning experience for every one of us, we can learn from books, the testimonials of others but most of all from our decisions that bring positive or negative results.  All of us have experienced both circumstances.  There are no perfect lives in this family or beyond, those human beings that claim perfection are stuck in the denial of their own humanness.  Learning to navigate life is the task before us all at any age because we have the breath that gives us the power to choose our own way.

This power to choose is a unique blessing because all other forms of life are solely mechanical.  A marijuana seed planted in soil and watered will sprout a funny looking life form that will continue to grow at a predictable pace when placed in the sun.  That growing plant has no choice, it will either thrive or wither, depending upon the reality into which it comes to life.  We humans have the power to choose the circumstances into which we choose to live.  This is the challenge to all of us but especially to you, at this time, my grandson.  Trust your unique self, trust the power to choose and when you choose amiss, brush yourself off and have the courage to choose again. 

Fear should not drive your choices even though this world is a scary place.  Most people choose to live like sheep, looking for the safety of whatever group may be convenient.  By joining the group they may feel safer but they also become easily herded.  You have never been one to be herded but you have chosen your group a miss, resulting in a loss of your freedom to choose the future for yourself.  All the great calamities in human history began with a populace who chose to live by pleasing the wrong group or the wrong group think.  People whose first choice is to please a group loose the power to choose their own way and eventually, they will succumb to the power of the group.

Jacob, you have been gifted with so much good stuff to share with this world, discover who you are and then trust who you are!  Grandpa has always and will always believe in you, no matter what!

(Herbert laid his first egg, January 16, 2017, huge!  He has suddenly gotten very aggressive.)

Later,

grandpa 

Trust

Trusting our leaders and their intentions has proven to be a historical loss for the people.  Our futures have been considered expendable as the politicians feather their own nest by way of the finances of the top one per cent of America.  You know, the Wall Street corporate interests and the investor class that flood the Halls of Washington with their treachery.  Mr. Trump, you ran a victorious presidential campaign for the people, giving us an interest again in our government.  While our support and trust remains, in this post-election season, we the forgotten, powerless, deplorable little people are concerned. 

What is happening with the stock market?  The Trump bump, as it has been called, suggests that the investor class has been given an under the table signal that a Trump administration will first protect the interests of these upper crust folk, resulting in a further debasement of the working class.  This may be an unfounded assessment, the rise in the market could also be explained as a reaction to your promised pro-growth economic measures but the bump may foreshadow a deal made with the old failed priorities.  Why the bump, President elect Trump?

   

Will you continue the destructive paper money flow from the Federal Reserve with zero interest rates, thereby signaling business as usual?  This so-called economic policy has made an economy that works for the people impossible and sets the country up for another 2008 catastrophe.  We voted for a change, plain and simple.  The government you are forming seems to be the wealthiest grouping of the rich to come to Washington, ever, are they reformers or co-conspirators with the swamp creators?

 

You, Mr. Trump, are sending mixed signals and we, your supporters, are nervous.  The most problematic choice that you are considering is that of Secretary of State, Mitt Romney, really?   This man made his millions as a free trade guru, he is the poster child for the economic inequity that has devastated the middle class.   You made your billions building great structures not working the system that has failed the people.  Keeping your enemies close cannot justify such a choice and it would be a slap in the face to the Trump train.  

Mitt Romney said many hurtful things about you in order to elect Hillary as president.  This was more than a difference of opinion, it was a betrayal. The investor class believed that her election was a better choice to protect their interests, what was good for the country was not important.  Should you choose Mr. Romney, you will be complicit with this protectionist agenda.  The Romney's of this country are the problem not a solution to the economic inequalities suffered by the middle class.  . 

Just ask President O’bama, how he now feels about choosing Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. How did that work out his legacy? 

Who are you Mr. Trump?

G.Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

   

Our Protest President

We forgotten, powerless and deplorable little people voted to make Donald J. Trump the 45^th president of the United States of America.  The voter turnout was a people’s protest to stop the progressive politicians and their forty-yearlong fire sale of American.  These political elites, both Democrats and Republicans, have traded political control of the people to facilitate the demise of America into a one world government without borders or national identity.  The wisdom of the people saw through their name calling charade and the leadership of Mr. Trump has given America the opportunity to step back from the very brink of the elite’s planned traitorous conspiracy.

     

A great victory has been won by the Trump train but the conspiracy is not dead for it still lives in the swamp of Washington DC, the major corporate news media, academia, open border organizations, the free trade lobby, government unions and the radical left of the political spectrum.  The progressive politicians and their allies will continue the name calling and fight to disrupt the America first agenda of Mr. Trump.  These disruptors reject the rule of law and replace justice with self-interest, gathering all such factions with promises that can only be fulfilled when America ceases to be the America of the people.  As a Trump supporter from the very beginning, I have no advice for Mr. Trump because we the people trust you and Governor Pence to take the fight to the swamp creators through all legal and constitutional means. 

The Clinton, Bush, Obama, Hillary and Washington elites of both parties are the progressive political swamp creators who are the co-conspirators in their criminal enterprise.  They can hide no longer for they have been forced out of their closet by the Republican Primary and presidential candidacy of Mr. Trump.  As Americans, how could we have been so blind to their globalist intentions?  One of our neighbors from Twenty Nine Palms sent me a copy of a paper written in 1974 by Richard N. Gardner, entitled “The Hard Road to World Order”.  Mr. Gardner, an economist and President Clinton confidant, gives this advice to their new under the table one world order movement, we should do “an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece”.  Mr. Gardner goes on to recommend that this “will accomplish more than the old-fashioned frontal assault.”  Much of his paper is beyond my pay grade but this is the path followed by the conspirators.

    

The progressive end run around national sovereignty is an end run around our U.S. Constitution and our legal system.  Is that not what we have witnessed blossoming since 1974 and the longed for assault under President Obama.  A Hillary presidency was expected to be the final victory for the progressive elites who have no respect for our freedoms, historical American ideals or the American legal system.  Does not the criminal decision making of Hillary Clinton explain the motivation behind her stupid mistakes?  By whatever means, the intent was to lock the American people into a nation less state that would fit their global objective.  The price of their conspiracy was paid in American jobs, no growth economy and security for each of our families.  Now, we the people want full disclosure, just how close was America dragged to the world government abyss.  May we never allow ourselves to be so suckered again. 

Protest President elect Trump, we trust your intentions.  The swamp of Washington is the danger.  Until our Washington leaders prove by their actions that they agree to drain the swamp and agree to be accountable to the people, the protest White House should be in the Trump Tower.

   

G.Goslaw

Landers, CA.         

Game on !

Amazing, the sun came up over Goat Mountain.  This is a new day in which America has a last chance to be America.  All the crybabies are trying to tell we Americans that we are wrong, that somehow this country is their fiefdom, their own possession to be exploited for their own agenda.  The traditional American voters rose to the challenge this election day, November 8, 2016 and said, we are the America we were born to be!  The popular divide is stark but some of us will fight for real freedom if that is what they want to happen.  The riots, political corruption and criminal conspiracy of the political left prove their intent.  If war is what you want, game on!

G.Goslaw

Landers, Ca