Or is it?
It is
astonishing to me to discover how many folks ‘feel’ that there is
something in the air that isn’t quite right and they’re unable to put their
finger on it; that previously supposed certainties in life are no longer
certainties. Maybe it is me. Maybe, as I gain in years, I can see more clearly
now the rains have gone, so to speak.
Or, maybe, we’ve
all become a bit sated or jaded; we aren’t any longer excited or persuaded
about the way we live; we’ve had an excess of good things and our appetites
have changed, perhaps, and we can see that what seemed to be the ‘norm’ cannot
go on indefinitely.
I’ve got to a
point where most of the time I no longer want voyeur-vision in my living room.
I mute the sound whenever adverts come on and often I mute it for the weather
forecast, too. The news is persistently depressing yet is attracts me like a
moth to a light and I have the sad feeling that, too often, I’m not being told
the truth or anywhere near the whole truth. There is always an opinion, a
slant, added to so many basic news stories. And how they can switch from
reporting a disaster or a tragedy somewhere in the world to announcing the
cricket or football results almost without taking breath, beats me.
I truly
don’t want to become one of those people who voice ego-centric opinions about
everything and his Dad; those who tell us ‘you know what that’s all about,
don’t you?’ and then proceed to inform us, regardless of our initial answer.
Barrack room lawyers, I think they’re called. But I do reflect on these things
and, sometimes, I draw conclusions – and, occasionally, I ask you to consider
them with me.
Thus far
I’ve concluded that we’re not living in the way that God or nature intended,
and the reason for the unease that I meet continually, is that more and more of
us are coming to the same conclusion. And if not God or nature’s intention . .
. whose intention? Let’s call it THE STATE.
Speaking to
a friend the other day I mentioned that the love of money is the root of all
evil. My friend considered this for a while before beginning to reply with: ‘If
money is the root of all evil . . . .’
And there I stopped her. Not money.
The LOVE of money.
(1 Timothy, chapter 6, verse 10 – the
Bible). There is a difference.
So, when our politicians, economists
and bankers, our newspapers and TV/radio news
So, what am I to make of all this? I
look at it this way: if I walk down my road and see a discarded drink container
or potato crisp packet or empty cigarette packet, I have a number of choices. I
can ignore it and walk on without further thought; or I can walk on in the
belief that someone, paid or unpaid, will pick it up sooner or later – after
all, I didn’t drop it; Or I can pick it up and carry it to the nearest rubbish
bin, or take it home. Apart from the last solution, the other suggestions beg
other answers. If not me, WHO? If not now, WHEN? Why not me, now?
I did say it was MY road, didn’t I?
Yet the same questions and answers apply if I’m walking in YOUR road. There is
no need for me to be selfish about these things. I’ve no doubt that you seek
life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness just as much as I do.
Now that I’ve worked out that many supposed ‘truths’ in
life aren’t true at all, what can I, you, we do about it? The answer is so
obvious. We need to change it, whenever we’ve determine what ‘it’ is; I need to
change me; you need to change you. And we must take action to restore truth.
Just musing won’t fix anything.
Don’t overlook the fact that those
who are powerless to change their surroundings and circumstances are, by anyone’s
definition, either prisoners or slaves or quislings. Only free men can make their
own beneficial changes. I call them Sovereign Beings, which is what I
believe they are. They/we have the power to make changes and permission isn’t
required. Determination, desire, action and understanding are required, but not
permission. For those who feel that it is a step too far to be described as a
Sovereign Being – I can’t think why they would do so but, clearly, some folks
do think that way – there is some good news that media, politicians, the
education system, and Uncle Tom Cobley and all, withhold from you.
The good news is that King John of England, tyrant
thought he was, gave us some astonishing rights and permissions all those years
ago (in 1215 to be exact) in a treaty he made with his subjects at that time to
avoid civil war and to remain as king. The treaty, we call Magna Carta,
pre-dates parliament and it states that it is intended to continue ‘in
perpetuity’.
King John applied his royal seal and
later his signature to the treaty. Our job is to keep a tight hold on it.
Parliament can’t cancel it because it has nothing to do with Parliament. It is
a treaty between the sovereign and his people. It gives his people the right to
let him and his heirs know when essentials to life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness are being withheld, especially when they’re withheld by people with
no right or authority to do so. It gives us the right to say ‘thus far, and no
further’ and take action to restore the intended checks and balances.
I ask you: WHO
would want to prevent that? Someone who has a great love of money (already
noted as the root of all evil) and a greater love of power, that’s who. Someone
who believes that repressive legislation – preferably legislation that will
cost you money if you transgress - is the way to control people. Someone who
cares little about trying to change the heart and mind of people; someone who
believes that legislation, rules, and regulations are the cures for all our
ills. I’m telling you, that person isn’t your friend and he or she cannot be
your benefactor.
In your heart of hearts you KNOW IT.
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A good read x
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