tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8087579267875815182024-03-13T16:13:15.860-06:00Libertarian Spirit Shared By EveryoneChristian Prophethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10020964652943679070noreply@blogger.comBlogger182125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808757926787581518.post-53067695649865991822019-08-10T11:24:00.001-06:002019-08-10T11:24:08.493-06:00From Losing Freedom ... to Winning!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The freedom-loving Libertarian Party has been active 47 years, yet manages to gather only a minuscule percentage of the vote. Many would say this is pathetic.<br />
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The Republican Freedom Caucus in the House of Representatives heroically saves America from a disastrous re-application of the ObamaCare premise that dictatorship of people's health insurance is government's business ... a rescue effort for which they should be presenting themselves as national champions. Instead they allow themselves to be portrayed as villains. Maybe not pathetic, but a mixed bag.<br />
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It's not that freedom is no longer considered a value among Americans. It's that modern freedom lovers haven't yet learned how to win fully, completely, without limitation.
Liberty lovers achieve only partial victories because we do not have a <i>winning mindset</i>.
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To achieve complete and lasting victory liberty lovers need to <i>transform their minds</i> and think like winners.<br />
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To do this we must first train ourselves to thoroughly understand that <i>thoughts held in mind produce after their kind</i>. This is not some pie-in-the-sky philosophy. It's reality. Our mind radiates energy of success or failure, and there is an extremely powerful level of our subconscious mind which works to support what our conscious mind believes, whether we believe ourselves 100% winners or half capable of losing.<br />
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If Libertarians, for example, consider themselves a minor party, that's all they will ever be. Republicans started a new party in 1854, considered themselves winners, and won seats in the House of Representatives that very year. Six years later (not 47 or 48 years later), Republicans riding the wave of their winning mindset won the presidency.<br />
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Libertarians of course have their excuses ready. "But nowadays there are ballot restrictions and mega-donors who block our success."<br />
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If we blame others for our lack of success, then lack of success is in our mind, and lack of success is what we'll create. Every football team faces other teams doing everything possible to block their success, but every coach will tell you the ball always finds a way to bounce in favor of those who thoroughly and deeply believe they cannot lose.<br />
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Other freedom lovers try other excuses. "But even if we are wise enough to get elected as Republicans, the odds are against us." <br />
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Nonsense. A winning mindset creates odds in one's favor. Just look with honesty at Donald Trump's campaign to win the Republican nomination. During that campaign he projected himself as a winning winner who doesn't lose, and voters who aren't themselves addicted to a losing attitude found his winning attitude very attractive.<br />
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In addition to developing a winning attitude we must train our minds to <i>set aside ego-vested interests and listen inside to deeper wisdom</i>. Ego is not who we really are, but false self-identification. A politician or activist who is pursuing ego-vested interests is perceived as fake, not real. Such a person is felt as lacking integrity. It is impossible to sense Nancy Pelosi or Hillary Clinton as real. The reason the two have been able to win elections is another story, but it has not been because of any projected integrity.<br />
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Rand Paul projects integrity. He actually tries to listen inside and follow a deeper wisdom than the usual "conventional wisdom." Sometimes he takes an unpopular stand joined by no one else. Other times he is willing to compromise because his inner wisdom guides compromise. Either way, he is acting from a deeper place inside, not from ego. Therefore he is seen as real, not fake. Rand Paul's championing of liberty will have far deeper and longer lasting effects than Nancy Pelosi's championing of liberal-progressive dictatorship.<br />
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Notice that non-compromising stances are sometimes guided by inner wisdom (Rand Paul), and are other times nothing more than ego satisfaction (Nancy Pelosi, as well as too many liberty lovers). We must not fall into the trap of satisfying our ego with self-righteous non-compromising stances which sabotage ourselves in the long run. We must learn to quiet our ego's intellectual self-righteousness and listen deep inside before taking our stances and before deciding which issues to focus our energies on. It's called "choosing one's battles wisely."<br />
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In the words of one of the world's great teachers, "All experiences are preceded by mind, having mind as their master, created by mind." It's about transformation in our mind. If we train our mind to banish all excuses and see ourselves only winning ... and if we train our mind to listen deep inside to the guidance of inner wisdom ... liberty is assured of victory.<br />
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<strong>fas-cism<br />noun<br />a socialist governmental system led by a dominant elite which seeks to control industry and commerce, and uses legislation and governmental decree to force Utopian programs on people.</strong><br />
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<strong>free-dom<br />noun<br />one's natural state of being; a governmental system reflecting one's natural state, including voluntary funding and voluntary willingness to join and cooperate with minimal intrinsic rules, but with no programs of "good intention" forced on people "for their own good."</strong><br />
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If you are newly waking up to your innate libertarian core and want to investigate deeper the underlying nonsense of the liberal-progressive religion of government worship, give yourself the pleasure of reading Ayn Rand's epic and masterful novel, <em><strong>Atlas Shrugged.</strong></em><br />
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"God's laws will keep your minds at peace, because peace IS His Will, and His laws are established to uphold it. His are the laws of freedom, but yours are the laws of bondage. Since freedom and bondage are irreconcilable, their laws CANNOT BE UNDERSTOOD TOGETHER. The laws of God work only for your good, and there ARE no other laws beside His. Everything else is merely lawLESS, and therefore chaotic." -<strong>Jesus Christ</strong> in <strong>A Course in Miracles</strong><br />
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Interesting factoid: for the last election year studied (1998) some of the highest percentage of votes for Libertarian Party candidates were for candidates who had been studying free of charge the lessons of: <a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/2007/12/course-in-political-miracles.html" target="_blank">Course in Political Miracles</a><br />
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For a great discussion on Christianity vs. State Socialism see: <a href="http://acimmessages.blogspot.com/2008/05/clinton-obama-socialism-opposite-of.html" target="_blank">Christianity vs. State Socialism</a><br />
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<strong><em>“I did not understand what made me free, nor what my freedom is, nor where to look to find it. Father, I have searched in vain until I heard Your Voice directing me. Now I would guide myself no more. For I have neither made nor understood the way to find my freedom. But I trust in You. You Who endowed me with my freedom as Your holy Son will not be lost to me. Your Voice directs me." </em>(Prayer from A Course in Miracles)</strong><strong></strong>Christian Prophethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10020964652943679070noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808757926787581518.post-29841258477033453732017-03-01T07:59:00.000-07:002017-03-02T15:39:14.765-07:00The Winning Tao Of Liberty<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>One who follows the Liberty Way with people, </i><br /><i>does not use weapons to enforce his will. </i><br />
<i>Initiating force always leads to pain and suffering. </i><br />
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<i>With the Liberty Way where armies once gathered,</i><br /><i>briars and brambles now blossom. </i><br />
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<i>A liberty leader exercises his leadership, </i><br />
<i>and that is all. </i><br />
<i>If he uses force, it is not to seize for himself. </i><br />
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<i>He skillfully overcomes liberty's enemies, </i><br />
<i>but is not proud. </i><br />
<i>His progress might be admired, </i><br />
<i>yet he is not boastful. </i><br />
<i>His work may even win accolades, </i><br />
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<i>He fulfills his purpose for liberty, </i><br />
<i>because he knows he has no other choice. </i><br />
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The above is a liberty interpretation of a passage from the ancient spiritual classic Tao Te Ching. As in all spiritual works which have been venerated worldwide down through the centuries a difference is recognized between (1) the use of force by ego determination for ego purposes, and (2) the use of force in defense of the freedom to act according to one's deeper inner nature.<br />
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Notice that living the Tao means not attempting to force one's will on others. Jesus Christ, in his modern revelation explaining his teachings, <i>A Course in Miracles</i>, states the same idea this way:<br />
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<i style="font-style: italic;">Freedom cannot be learned by tyranny of ANY kind, and the perfect equality of all cannot be recognized through the dominion of one will over another.</i><br />
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This is the essence of the Tao. ("Tao" is translated as "The Way." Early followers of Jesus called themselves "followers of the Way" before outsiders eventually started calling them "Christians.") And this spiritual teaching can easily be seen as also being the essence of the Liberty Way ... having no interest in one's will ruling even one other person.<br />
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While this essence of the Liberty Way can easily be seen, it is much harder to see that liberty cannot be permanently secured by intellectualism alone, intellectualism divorced from other aspects of one's true nature. Without going into a lengthy study of the dynamic between who we think we are (ego) and who we really are (a study which can be pursued in <i>A Course in Miracles</i>), suffice to say that the intellect is very often a tool commandeered by ego ... and we are far, far more than merely ego.<br />
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Ayn Rand understood this. She kept within reach at all times a note to herself (which she used as an ironclad daily reminder while writing) to constantly verify that her intellectualism wasn't contradicting her inner being. In another note to herself she wrote:<br />
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<i style="font-style: italic;">Concentrate on the concrete physical events-- but don't forget to keep in mind at all times how the physical proceeds from the spiritual.</i><br />
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Our intellect divorced from our inner being becomes a tool of ego. Allowing the intellect alone to guide one's actions without looking inside to verify that one's true nature feels no contradictions can easily lead to unimaginable pain, suffering and death (witness the history of Marxism).<br />
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Liberty does not and cannot rest on a foundation of intellectualism alone. Using one's intellect in the service of one's true innermost nature rather than in the service of one's ego, one is living the Liberty Way.<br />
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A person living in ego is easily detected as "fake" or "phony" or even "mentally unbalanced" like Karl Marx, while an individual living naturally is said to appear "real." The Liberty Way is not the way of the ego, but the way of who we really are. Because of this, the Liberty Way is extraordinarily attractive and influential.<br />
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The Tao Te Ching and other spiritual classics are worth studying. They teach us that living in ego is destructive and self-sabotaging, while the Liberty Way is the winning way.<br />
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<strong>fas-cism<br />noun<br />a socialist governmental system led by a dominant elite which seeks to control industry and commerce, and uses legislation and governmental decree to force Utopian programs on people.</strong><br />
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<strong>free-dom<br />noun<br />one's natural state of being; a governmental system reflecting one's natural state, including voluntary funding and voluntary willingness to join and cooperate with minimal intrinsic rules, but with no programs of "good intention" forced on people "for their own good."</strong><br />
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If you are newly waking up to your innate libertarian core and want to investigate deeper the underlying nonsense of the liberal-progressive religion of government worship, give yourself the pleasure of reading Ayn Rand's epic and masterful novel, <em><strong>Atlas Shrugged.</strong></em><br />
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"God's laws will keep your minds at peace, because peace IS His Will, and His laws are established to uphold it. His are the laws of freedom, but yours are the laws of bondage. Since freedom and bondage are irreconcilable, their laws CANNOT BE UNDERSTOOD TOGETHER. The laws of God work only for your good, and there ARE no other laws beside His. Everything else is merely lawLESS, and therefore chaotic." -<strong>Jesus Christ</strong> in <strong>A Course in Miracles</strong><br />
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Interesting factoid: for the last election year studied (1998) some of the highest percentage of votes for Libertarian Party candidates were for candidates who had been studying free of charge the lessons of: <a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/2007/12/course-in-political-miracles.html" target="_blank">Course in Political Miracles</a><br />
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For a great discussion on Christianity vs. State Socialism see: <a href="http://acimmessages.blogspot.com/2008/05/clinton-obama-socialism-opposite-of.html" target="_blank">Christianity vs. State Socialism</a><br />
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<strong><em>“I did not understand what made me free, nor what my freedom is, nor where to look to find it. Father, I have searched in vain until I heard Your Voice directing me. Now I would guide myself no more. For I have neither made nor understood the way to find my freedom. But I trust in You. You Who endowed me with my freedom as Your holy Son will not be lost to me. Your Voice directs me." </em>(Prayer from A Course in Miracles)</strong><strong></strong>Christian Prophethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10020964652943679070noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808757926787581518.post-32509872865401000482017-01-01T08:08:00.002-07:002017-01-01T08:08:51.602-07:00The Libertarian Way: So Much More Than The NAP!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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How often do we hear the word "libertarian" being used in contexts relating to politics or some kind of political understanding? Even most dictionary definitions of "libertarian" emphasize political implications.
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Yet libertarians will never experience the full personal benefit of their libertarian impulse, and never be completely successful in any political activism they undertake, unless they understand the Libertarian Way is much deeper and more basic than concern with political conditions.<br />
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Before there is politics ... before there are relationships ... there is <i>life</i>. When human beings feel their deepest-rooted inner desires (as opposed to addiction to intellectualism for the purpose of avoiding the depths of their being), they sense inside themselves a yearning for the <i>fullness of life</i> to shine forth and be experienced.<br />
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"Fullness" is the key. Liberal-progressive dictators will tell you their programs and agendas help people have a better life, but they really don't mean very much more than material life ... food, shelter, a good wage, health care, bicycle trails, a little comfort, a measure of politically correct happiness. All these things are well and good (liberal-progressives mean well), but liberal use of government dictatorship denies people the true fullness of life, a supreme fullness which includes spirited exercise of one's sovereign will and freedom to experience the results of one's choices so life's lessons can be thoroughly learned.<br />
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Notice that extravagant exercise of free will is not the primary goal, but merely one of the necessary conditions of the very natural ultimate human goal ... complete experience of the fullness of life.<br />
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What about the NAP, the vaunted libertarian Non-Aggression Principle?<br />
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Just as individually our deepest impulse is to live fully, so in relationships our natural impulse is to let live because we would have to close down <i>our own</i> fullness of joy and love and inner peace in order to feel the urge to abort or inhibit another's possibility of living fully. This natural impulse to <i>live and let live</i> we call the Libertarian Way, in which <i>live fully</i> is the overall objective and <i>let live</i> is a necessary sub-intention (resulting in the conceptualization of the NAP as a corollary principle).<br />
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But if <i>live and let live</i> is so deeply natural why do so many people favor dictatorship to achieve their goals? Why do husbands sometimes seek to control their wives, or mother-in-laws try to insert themselves into the children's married lives? Why do the rules of some employers seem overly dictatorial? Why do politicians make laws containing "mandates," a deceptive word for blatant dictatorship?<br />
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The answer is lack of trust. If husbands truly trusted their wives, they would not seek to control. If mother-in-laws really trusted the children in marriage, they would not try to insert themselves. If employers fully trusted their employees, they would feel no need for excessive rules. If politicians actually trusted people's deepest instincts, there would be no attempts to force people to operate according to political mandates.<br />
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Lack of trust arises from fear, and fear is not our natural state of being. Fear closes down the full expression of life. Attempted dictatorship rising from fear (in any relationship) is the opposite of the Libertarian Way.<br />
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"Well almost everything has to do with relationships, so what's wrong with focusing only on the NAP?"<br />
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If every issue is evaluated only in terms of the question "Does this violate the NAP?" it is easy to fall into the trap of evaluating issues solely intellectually divorced from one's full being. This can lead to observers forming the impression that we are dispassionate and uncaring regarding anti-life activities such as convenience-favored abortion, dangerous drug use, police being murdered, or carnage and genocide in foreign lands.<br />
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To honor the true and natural libertarian impulse, the deeper question which a libertarian must ask when evaluating any issue is: <i>"Does this serve the fullness of life?" </i><br />
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Yes, the Libertarian Way is observing the NAP ... but it is so much more! The Libertarian Way is honoring, supporting, and celebrating the fullness of life.<br />
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<strong>fas-cism<br />noun<br />a socialist governmental system led by a dominant elite which seeks to control industry and commerce, and uses legislation and governmental decree to force Utopian programs on people.</strong><br />
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<strong>free-dom<br />noun<br />one's natural state of being; a governmental system reflecting one's natural state, including voluntary funding and voluntary willingness to join and cooperate with minimal intrinsic rules, but with no programs of "good intention" forced on people "for their own good."</strong><br />
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If you are newly waking up to your innate libertarian core and want to investigate deeper the underlying nonsense of the liberal-progressive religion of government worship, give yourself the pleasure of reading Ayn Rand's epic and masterful novel, <em><strong>Atlas Shrugged.</strong></em><br />
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"God's laws will keep your minds at peace, because peace IS His Will, and His laws are established to uphold it. His are the laws of freedom, but yours are the laws of bondage. Since freedom and bondage are irreconcilable, their laws CANNOT BE UNDERSTOOD TOGETHER. The laws of God work only for your good, and there ARE no other laws beside His. Everything else is merely lawLESS, and therefore chaotic." -<strong>Jesus Christ</strong> in <strong>A Course in Miracles</strong><br />
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Interesting factoid: for the last election year studied (1998) some of the highest percentage of votes for Libertarian Party candidates were for candidates who had been studying free of charge the lessons of: <a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/2007/12/course-in-political-miracles.html" target="_blank">Course in Political Miracles</a><br />
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For a great discussion on Christianity vs. State Socialism see: <a href="http://acimmessages.blogspot.com/2008/05/clinton-obama-socialism-opposite-of.html" target="_blank">Christianity vs. State Socialism</a><br />
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<strong><em>“I did not understand what made me free, nor what my freedom is, nor where to look to find it. Father, I have searched in vain until I heard Your Voice directing me. Now I would guide myself no more. For I have neither made nor understood the way to find my freedom. But I trust in You. You Who endowed me with my freedom as Your holy Son will not be lost to me. Your Voice directs me." </em>(Prayer from A Course in Miracles)</strong><strong></strong>Christian Prophethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10020964652943679070noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808757926787581518.post-41894705192524547332016-11-01T09:49:00.000-06:002016-11-26T15:28:26.533-07:0010 Reasons Why Voters Shun The Libertarian Party<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Libertarian Party has historically avoided taking personal responsibility for poor vote percentages. LPers seem to be experts at projecting their failures away from themselves and onto the other guys. "<i>They</i> won't let us in debates." "<i>They</i> control a rigged system." "<i>They</i> won't cover us in the media." "<i>They</i>...." "<i>They</i>...." "<i>They</i>...."<br />
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Here are 10 important reasons the Libertarian Party is its own worse enemy.<br />
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1. <b>The LP does not take a strong enough stand for life in all stages.</b> The LP abortion position needs to state something like: " Life is our standard. We recognize all human life in every stage of development from initial inception to old age has a right to choose it's own destiny. We see abortion as a violation of this freedom of choice and seek to end all government support of abortion."<br />
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2. <b>The LP does not take a strong enough stand for life in other lands.</b> The LP foreign policy position needs to state something like: "Life everywhere is our standard. We support efforts to preclude and prevent violations of life regardless of borders, regardless of the rank or prominence or entrenchment of the violators. It is not our government's business to police the world, but our government must always encourage voluntary aid to those fighting against violations of life."<br />
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3. <b>The LP does not take a strong enough stand for life at its healthiest. </b>The LP position on self-ownership needs to state something like: "Life at its healthiest is our standard. We support efforts to encourage maximum health. It is not our government's business to prevent people from making life-style choices which may be unhealthy. Nor is it our government's business to save people from the lessons of the bad choices they have made. But our candidates always encourage the healthiest choices."<br />
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4. <b>The LP does not take a strong enough stand for life in its fullness. </b>The LP position on religion needs to state something like: "Life in it's fullness is our standard. We support any efforts to help people express maximum love and joy and inner peace, whether those efforts are made by religions or secular organizations. Our candidates always encourage and never in any way hamper such efforts.<br />
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5. <b>Over-yapping the NAP (Non-aggression principle).</b> Our deepest natural impulse is to <i><b>live</b></i>. But we are not living life to the fullest unless we <i><b>let live</b></i>. Thus the Libertarian Way: live and let live, of which the NAP is the "let live" portion. But constantly yapping about "let live" without first and foremost standing strong for "live" invites people to interpret the LP as favoring "anything goes." In other words voters very easily see the LP as libertine, which to their everyday common sense is repulsive.<br />
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6. <b>Insulting voters.</b> Most people have voted in the past, many of them having supported either the Republican or Democratic Party. People who have supported these parties may have been mistaken, but they don't want it rubbed in their faces. They are not won over by calling the parties they have supported "evil." When libertarians label Republicans "evil," or Democrats "evil," those who have sided with Republicans or Democrats feel insulted and can hardly be blamed if they respond: "These libertarians think themselves so holy? I don't think so!"<br />
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7. <b>Attacking others verbally. </b>People sense at some deeper than surface level that we are all in this together. They vaguely feel that an attack on any human being is on some level an attack on each of us. Certainly holding attack thoughts in mind sabotages one's own love and joy and inner peace. LP supporters extending love would be attractive. LP activists expressing joy would be fun to be around. Libertarians feeling inner peace would be magnetic. But LPers who attack are ugly and repulsive. Who would want to support ugly and repulsive?<br />
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8. <b>Holier than thou "we are the party of principle." </b>All political parties have their principles. The Green Party, the Democratic Party, the Republican party ... they all publish a statement of principles they stand for. There is no party that is not a party of principle. The LP should declare itself not the party of principle, which begs the question of which principles, but the party of <i><b>life in it's fullness</b></i>. Then they can explain that the human spirit is free and cannot express life in its fullness without political liberty. People deep down <i>really, really want</i> life in its fullness.<br />
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9. <b>Intellectual arrogance. </b>Voters are intelligent men and women who are at least somewhat in-touch with the wisdom of their deepest inner life force. In other words, they enjoy some degree of balance between their intellect and what might be called "common sense." So when libertarians seem to act as if mental masturbation provides all their pleasure, but what common people do is outmoded, voters look away. To most voters sterile intellectualism is as much a turn-off as spinelessness, wishy-washiness, flaunted ego masquerading as individualism, or pot-headedness.<br />
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10. <b>Avoidance of brutally honest self-examination. </b>What the LP offers <i>needs to be</i> the most appealing alternative available in politics. Otherwise, why bother? But if the LP had been offering the most appealing alternative in the most appealing way, it would not have been floundering for over 40 years. It would have long ago become the most prominent and influential political party on the scene. LPers simply do not honestly with wide open minds ask themselves, "how are we sabotaging ourselves?" Their holier than thou attitude more often has them saying something like, "you tell us how we are sabotaging ourselves, and we'll argue that you are wrong."<br />
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<strong>fas-cism<br />noun<br />a socialist governmental system led by a dominant elite which seeks to control industry and commerce, and uses legislation and governmental decree to force Utopian programs on people.</strong><br />
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<strong>free-dom<br />noun<br />one's natural state of being; a governmental system reflecting one's natural state, including voluntary funding and voluntary willingness to join and cooperate with minimal intrinsic rules, but with no programs of "good intention" forced on people "for their own good."</strong><br />
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If you are newly waking up to your innate libertarian core and want to investigate deeper the underlying nonsense of the liberal-progressive religion of government worship, give yourself the pleasure of reading Ayn Rand's epic and masterful novel, <em><strong>Atlas Shrugged.</strong></em><br />
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"God's laws will keep your minds at peace, because peace IS His Will, and His laws are established to uphold it. His are the laws of freedom, but yours are the laws of bondage. Since freedom and bondage are irreconcilable, their laws CANNOT BE UNDERSTOOD TOGETHER. The laws of God work only for your good, and there ARE no other laws beside His. Everything else is merely lawLESS, and therefore chaotic." -<strong>Jesus Christ</strong> in <strong>A Course in Miracles</strong><br />
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Interesting factoid: for the last election year studied (1998) some of the highest percentage of votes for Libertarian Party candidates were for candidates who had been studying free of charge the lessons of: <a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/2007/12/course-in-political-miracles.html" target="_blank">Course in Political Miracles</a><br />
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For a great discussion on Christianity vs. State Socialism see: <a href="http://acimmessages.blogspot.com/2008/05/clinton-obama-socialism-opposite-of.html" target="_blank">Christianity vs. State Socialism</a><br />
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<strong><em>“I did not understand what made me free, nor what my freedom is, nor where to look to find it. Father, I have searched in vain until I heard Your Voice directing me. Now I would guide myself no more. For I have neither made nor understood the way to find my freedom. But I trust in You. You Who endowed me with my freedom as Your holy Son will not be lost to me. Your Voice directs me." </em>(Prayer from A Course in Miracles)</strong><strong></strong>Christian Prophethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10020964652943679070noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808757926787581518.post-13740782144663617802016-10-02T08:49:00.000-06:002018-02-17T13:57:12.399-07:00Lifting Others Up To The Libertarian Way<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Probably everyone has experienced moments of the fullness of life: the enthralling love that radiates from our heart when it seems we have met our destined soulmate, the joy that explodes out of our being when at the very last split second our team scores the improbable win of the century, the peace that flows from the depths of our soul when the sunrise suddenly bathes our mountain fishing lake and all seems momentarily "on earth as it is in heaven."<br />
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The fullness of life is within us, but doesn't too often emanate from most of us because our minds employ many devices for closing down our being. Yet there is a Way which leads us to constant heart and soul opening and nearly uninterrupted experience of the fullness of life. In common street language this Way is often called "live and let live." Although this encompasses all areas of life, when practiced in the context of people's political interactions it is called <i><b>The Libertarian Way</b></i>.<br />
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Notice that when we are in resistance to how others live such resistance serves to close us down. While we are in resistance we are neither radiating love, nor expressing joy, nor enjoying peace. By resisting we have limited the flow of the spigot of our being. Thus by not "letting live" we are not experiencing life in its fullness. If "live" (within the "live and let live" frame of reference) refers to pursuing life in its fullness, then "let live" (the libertarian NAP) is seen as an indispensable aspect of "live."<br />
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Consider the logic:<br />
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Deep inside, below all the devices our minds use to close down our being, we all really want the fullness of life.<br />
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The Way allowing for the fullness of life when living among people is "live and let live."<br />
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Therefore deep inside, below all the devices our minds use to close down our being, we all really want merely to live and let live.<br />
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In a political context "live and let live" is <i><b>The Libertarian Way</b></i>.<br />
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Therefore deep inside every one of us human beings, we truly want to live<i style="font-weight: bold;"> The Libertarian Way</i>.<br />
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"Deep inside" is an important caveat. Until we get in-touch with what we really, really want deep inside ourselves we spend a great deal of our lives focusing mostly on surface needs, seeing others as different from ourselves, generating a sense of separation, creating fears, choosing resistance to others, experiencing conflict.<br />
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But let's assume we are beyond any sense of separation, fears, resistance and conflict. Assume our lives are already well into <b><i>The Libertarian Way</i></b>. How do we then help others let go of their surface focus and begin feeling more fully their true heart and soul desire? The answer is not intellectual arguments about surface conditions, because intellectual arguments are a form of resistance containing the potential for disagreement and conflict.<br />
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There is only one answer. Others need to experience <i>our own</i> freely extended love, <i>our own</i> freely released joy, <i>our own</i> freely flowing out and permeating peace, an experience which is felt much deeper inside themselves than any surface argument. In feeling <i>our </i>effulgence of freedom, t<i>heir</i> mostly sleeping innate inner desire for freedom glories in recognition, and awakens as never before.<br />
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There is an old spiritual truth which indicates we teach what we are<i> </i>showing others. If we are resisting, we are teaching resistance. If we are in conflict, we are teaching conflict. If we are fearing, we are teaching fear. But if we are simply living fully, which includes letting live, we are teaching and lifting others into <i><b>The Libertarian Way</b></i>.<br />
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<strong>fas-cism<br />noun<br />a socialist governmental system led by a dominant elite which seeks to control industry and commerce, and uses legislation and governmental decree to force Utopian programs on people.</strong><br />
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<strong>free-dom<br />noun<br />one's natural state of being; a governmental system reflecting one's natural state, including voluntary funding and voluntary willingness to join and cooperate with minimal intrinsic rules, but with no programs of "good intention" forced on people "for their own good."</strong><br />
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If you are newly waking up to your innate libertarian core and want to investigate deeper the underlying nonsense of the liberal-progressive religion of government worship, give yourself the pleasure of reading Ayn Rand's epic and masterful novel, <em><strong>Atlas Shrugged.</strong></em><br />
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"God's laws will keep your minds at peace, because peace IS His Will, and His laws are established to uphold it. His are the laws of freedom, but yours are the laws of bondage. Since freedom and bondage are irreconcilable, their laws CANNOT BE UNDERSTOOD TOGETHER. The laws of God work only for your good, and there ARE no other laws beside His. Everything else is merely lawLESS, and therefore chaotic." -<strong>Jesus Christ</strong> in <strong>A Course in Miracles</strong><br />
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Interesting factoid: for the last election year studied (1998) some of the highest percentage of votes for Libertarian Party candidates were for candidates who had been studying free of charge the lessons of: <a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/2007/12/course-in-political-miracles.html" target="_blank">Course in Political Miracles</a><br />
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For a great discussion on Christianity vs. State Socialism see: <a href="http://acimmessages.blogspot.com/2008/05/clinton-obama-socialism-opposite-of.html" target="_blank">Christianity vs. State Socialism</a><br />
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<strong><em>“I did not understand what made me free, nor what my freedom is, nor where to look to find it. Father, I have searched in vain until I heard Your Voice directing me. Now I would guide myself no more. For I have neither made nor understood the way to find my freedom. But I trust in You. You Who endowed me with my freedom as Your holy Son will not be lost to me. Your Voice directs me." </em>(Prayer from A Course in Miracles)</strong><strong></strong>Christian Prophethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10020964652943679070noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808757926787581518.post-12135337443248188562016-09-01T08:47:00.001-06:002016-09-01T08:47:48.925-06:00Libertarian Selfish Ego-Vested Interest Party?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In the past we have heard some fairly scathing criticism of the Libertarian Party, but recently we heard a rant to which some would cry "Ouch!"<br />
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<i><b>"</b>Because the LP sees women's personal selfish convenience on a par with newly conceived human life not yet born, because so many LP members think their selfish desire to freely use marijuana is the most important liberty of all, because the LP nominates bogus libertarian candidates who thrive on ego glorification over principle, and because LP leadership is more interested in attacking other parties than in bringing people together to work toward common goals, I have decided to call the LP the <b>Selfish Ego-Vested Interest Party</b>.<b>"</b></i><br />
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To which we say: Whoa! Wait a minute! Hold on!<br />
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In the first place, <i>all </i>political parties now in existence are based on the selfish ego interests of those involved. There are no political parties based on men and women listening deep inside to their spiritual nature, to the universal oneness we all share. Perhaps 99% of all people who associate with political parties or participate in politics do so because their ego tells them it is in their self-interest ... ego interest, not true universally shared interest.<br />
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Okay, but just because everyone is doing it doesn't make it right. Right?<br />
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Yet let's look at this from a different angle.<br />
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Some religious people using spiritual language could ask: "Although God wants us to listen deep inside to our spirit, we have the ability to listen to our ego. Why?"<br />
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Quantum physicists using scientific language might ask the same question in this way: "Although we are holograms of the entire universe containing all its wisdom, we nonetheless choose to act like separate beings with separate interests and limited perception. Why?"<br />
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Why are we free to choose our little ego viewpoint and ego misguidance instead of universal viewpoint and the guidance and wisdom of all-knowing expanse?<br />
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We understand that asking "Why?" in this matter is just another ego attempt to feel the self-importance of thinking we can know everything. Yet we nonetheless notice that every time we close down our true nature to hang out in ego, it's like breathing in; while every time we learn a lesson causing us to abandon ego viewpoint and open to universal wisdom, it's like breathing out. The process seems as necessary as breathing.<br />
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Even foregoing any "Why?" speculation we recognize that the lessons we create for ourselves are <i><b>needed</b></i>.<br />
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This is an important libertarian principle. Every liberal-progressive and many social conservatives believe government dictatorship is justified to save people from making mistakes or from experiencing the results of their mistakes ... to save people from themselves. The libertarian way, "live and let live," on the other hand allows people to create lessons for themselves and eventually learn as needed.<br />
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In a societal context <i>"survival of the fittest"</i> can sound harsh. But if rephrased and taught as <i>"survival of peaceful civilization because people have been allowed to learn their lessons"</i> then all political parties would quit their insanity of trying to shield us from the damage caused by following our ego.<br />
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The Libertarian Party is an association of people who in this respect are just like everyone else. If indeed there are LPers who are breathing in right now, wallowing in ego and catering to ego ... forgive them; for they know not what they do. Eventually their lessons will be learned. Eventually they will breathe out, abandon ego, and open up to universal wisdom. If that happens sufficiently we will enjoy watching the Libertarian Party become a widely appealing and efficient party for nourishing liberty, wouldn't you imagine?<br />
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And with the wisdom of insight we also forgive the reactive rants by those impatient with the Libertarian Party, for such rants are also of the ego. Ego always imprisons itself in impatience. But the true libertarian impulse inside all of us, the impulse to total freedom, only laughs at ego antics and abides in infinite peace.<br />
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<strong>fas-cism<br />noun<br />a socialist governmental system led by a dominant elite which seeks to control industry and commerce, and uses legislation and governmental decree to force Utopian programs on people.</strong><br />
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<strong>free-dom<br />noun<br />one's natural state of being; a governmental system reflecting one's natural state, including voluntary funding and voluntary willingness to join and cooperate with minimal intrinsic rules, but with no programs of "good intention" forced on people "for their own good."</strong><br />
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If you are newly waking up to your innate libertarian core and want to investigate deeper the underlying nonsense of the liberal-progressive religion of government worship, give yourself the pleasure of reading Ayn Rand's epic and masterful novel, <em><strong>Atlas Shrugged.</strong></em><br />
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"God's laws will keep your minds at peace, because peace IS His Will, and His laws are established to uphold it. His are the laws of freedom, but yours are the laws of bondage. Since freedom and bondage are irreconcilable, their laws CANNOT BE UNDERSTOOD TOGETHER. The laws of God work only for your good, and there ARE no other laws beside His. Everything else is merely lawLESS, and therefore chaotic." -<strong>Jesus Christ</strong> in <strong>A Course in Miracles</strong><br />
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Interesting factoid: for the last election year studied (1998) some of the highest percentage of votes for Libertarian Party candidates were for candidates who had been studying free of charge the lessons of: <a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/2007/12/course-in-political-miracles.html" target="_blank">Course in Political Miracles</a><br />
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For a great discussion on Christianity vs. State Socialism see: <a href="http://acimmessages.blogspot.com/2008/05/clinton-obama-socialism-opposite-of.html" target="_blank">Christianity vs. State Socialism</a><br />
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<strong><em>“I did not understand what made me free, nor what my freedom is, nor where to look to find it. Father, I have searched in vain until I heard Your Voice directing me. Now I would guide myself no more. For I have neither made nor understood the way to find my freedom. But I trust in You. You Who endowed me with my freedom as Your holy Son will not be lost to me. Your Voice directs me." </em>(Prayer from A Course in Miracles)</strong><strong></strong>Christian Prophethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10020964652943679070noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808757926787581518.post-81216244716468119412016-08-01T07:42:00.000-06:002016-08-01T07:42:28.162-06:00The Libertarian Republican Party<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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If you want to sabotage the cause of liberty, then stubbornly hold onto the misconception that Republicans are every bit as anti-liberty as Democrats.<br />
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<i>Far from true!</i><br />
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Although it may be correct perception that misguided GOP leadership has been inept in recent years when dealing with Democrats and the mainstream media, nonetheless the vast majority of Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives hold strong liberty-oriented beliefs, as the above chart based on their voting record shows. This 2015 Liberty Index was compiled by Clifford Theis, Professor of Finance and Economics at Shendendoah University, an author at the Independent Institute and a long-time liberty activist legend.<br />
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Unfortunately, Professor Theis does not abandon the false dichotomy between social liberty and economic liberty (as if social issues don't have an economic impact and economic issues don't have social influence), but he does create for each member of the House a "both sides of the same coin" combined score.<br />
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To read the entire summary and explanation click here: <a href="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/016dd7df6198d95f9d07131a2/files/LibertyIndex2015.pdf" target="_blank">Liberty Index</a><br />
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The top 20 liberty scorers in the U. S. House of Representatives were Republicans, while the worst liberty scorers were all Democrats who Professor Theis refers to as "progressive socialists."<br />
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Please consider contacting and expressing your appreciation to these top 20 liberty scorers:<br />
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These are liberty's champions, individuals who have done what it takes to get themselves elected to positions of influence and who do their best to fight for liberty where it really counts, in the U.S. Congress.<br />
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In the U.S. Senate, the highest liberty scorers were Republicans Rand Paul of Kentucky with a combined score of 93, Ted Cruz of Texas (92), and Mike Enzi of Wyoming (92). As with members of the House, Republican senators were vastly higher liberty scorers than Democrats.<br />
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To advance the cause of liberty it is important to abandon the faulty and misleading liberal vs. conservative spectrum and teach the correct and meaningful spectrum of libertarian vs. progressive socialist. Please share this information from the Liberty Index as widely as possible.<br />
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<strong>fas-cism<br />noun<br />a socialist governmental system led by a dominant elite which seeks to control industry and commerce, and uses legislation and governmental decree to force Utopian programs on people.</strong><br />
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<strong>free-dom<br />noun<br />one's natural state of being; a governmental system reflecting one's natural state, including voluntary funding and voluntary willingness to join and cooperate with minimal intrinsic rules, but with no programs of "good intention" forced on people "for their own good."</strong><br />
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If you are newly waking up to your innate libertarian core and want to investigate deeper the underlying nonsense of the liberal-progressive religion of government worship, give yourself the pleasure of reading Ayn Rand's epic and masterful novel, <em><strong>Atlas Shrugged.</strong></em><br />
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"God's laws will keep your minds at peace, because peace IS His Will, and His laws are established to uphold it. His are the laws of freedom, but yours are the laws of bondage. Since freedom and bondage are irreconcilable, their laws CANNOT BE UNDERSTOOD TOGETHER. The laws of God work only for your good, and there ARE no other laws beside His. Everything else is merely lawLESS, and therefore chaotic." -<strong>Jesus Christ</strong> in <strong>A Course in Miracles</strong><br />
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Interesting factoid: for the last election year studied (1998) some of the highest percentage of votes for Libertarian Party candidates were for candidates who had been studying free of charge the lessons of: <a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/2007/12/course-in-political-miracles.html" target="_blank">Course in Political Miracles</a><br />
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For a great discussion on Christianity vs. State Socialism see: <a href="http://acimmessages.blogspot.com/2008/05/clinton-obama-socialism-opposite-of.html" target="_blank">Christianity vs. State Socialism</a><br />
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<strong><em>“I did not understand what made me free, nor what my freedom is, nor where to look to find it. Father, I have searched in vain until I heard Your Voice directing me. Now I would guide myself no more. For I have neither made nor understood the way to find my freedom. But I trust in You. You Who endowed me with my freedom as Your holy Son will not be lost to me. Your Voice directs me." </em>(Prayer from A Course in Miracles)</strong><strong></strong>
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What do you really, really, really want?<br />
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Imagine what would happen if you suddenly set aside all your previously formed beliefs and completely released every fear and every grievance that ever imprisoned you. You would "magically" be in touch with your innermost being, would you not? You would see clearly that your natural state of being is free, and living out this freedom is your deepest innate activity.<br />
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Feeling this innate need to freely live, you would also instinctively find yourself craving to experience a maximum extension of freedom in your outer world, right? You would desire liberty in every respect.<br />
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It would be clear to you that despite your good intentions all your previously held philosophical, theological, or culturally conceived ideas actually lied to you about what you really, really, really want ... unless ... unless they were ideas aligned with your innermost being.<br />
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It would further be obvious to you that your desire for freedom to express who you really are has infinitely more creative power than any other desire ever felt. Understanding the same is true for everyone you might even blurt out in amazement, "Wow! I can see that liberty <i>will</i> be achieved on earth ... guaranteed! The only thing in question is the time it will take for mankind to wake up."<br />
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When we consider all the hardship, suffering and death caused by government dictatorship, delaying the advancement of liberty is tragic. Yet nothing could be more delaying than trying to sell liberty using intellectualism. Intellectual considerations are necessarily controversial since they depend on perception and belief, and can therefore be accepted or rejected. All intellectualism is potentially controversial and those who want controversy will find it. Talk about a snail's-pace process!<br />
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To speed up the evolution of liberty we must offer an <i>experience</i>.<br />
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"But how do we offer an experience of liberty when liberty does not exist out there in our world?"<br />
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True, liberty does not exist out there. But freedom exists <i>in here</i>. We <i>are</i> free deep inside. Suppose a man feels or senses <i>your</i> expression of <i>your</i> innate freedom. Regardless of his surface beliefs, his own deeply buried freedom nature resonates and his own inner desire to extend freedom is awakened.<br />
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He might ask: "What is it about you?"<br />
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You could answer: "I <i>live and let live</i>.<br />
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He may say, "Well, I also believe in live and let live."<br />
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You would be justified in asking him: "Have you ever supported a politician who votes for preemptive regulations, a form of dictatorship?"<br />
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But even if there is no conversation, his own free inner nature has already lit up, ignited by your expression of freedom.<br />
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To teach freedom, radiate freedom!<br />
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To create liberty, radiate inner liberty!<br />
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At this point you could be tempted to resist, "But wait! I'm far too caught up in fears and grievances to live consistently in my true freedom." (For example: fearing Donald Trump, or holding grievances against Barack Obama.)<br />
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Yes, the likelihood that we harbor freedom-blocking fears and grievances rising out of our faulty past learning is exactly why we need a preparation device to help us release all these blocks and allow the experience of our natural inner freedom to expand.<br />
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There are many such preparation devices, but at this time in the context of expanding liberty the one we highly recommend is:<br />
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<strong>fas-cism<br />noun<br />a socialist governmental system led by a dominant elite which seeks to control industry and commerce, and uses legislation and governmental decree to force Utopian programs on people.</strong><br />
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<strong>free-dom<br />noun<br />one's natural state of being; a governmental system reflecting one's natural state, including voluntary funding and voluntary willingness to join and cooperate with minimal intrinsic rules, but with no programs of "good intention" forced on people "for their own good."</strong><br />
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If you are newly waking up to your innate libertarian core and want to investigate deeper the underlying nonsense of the liberal-progressive religion of government worship, give yourself the pleasure of reading Ayn Rand's epic and masterful novel, <em><strong>Atlas Shrugged.</strong></em><br />
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"God's laws will keep your minds at peace, because peace IS His Will, and His laws are established to uphold it. His are the laws of freedom, but yours are the laws of bondage. Since freedom and bondage are irreconcilable, their laws CANNOT BE UNDERSTOOD TOGETHER. The laws of God work only for your good, and there ARE no other laws beside His. Everything else is merely lawLESS, and therefore chaotic." -<strong>Jesus Christ</strong> in <strong>A Course in Miracles</strong><br />
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Interesting factoid: for the last election year studied (1998) some of the highest percentage of votes for Libertarian Party candidates were for candidates who had been studying free of charge the lessons of: <a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/2007/12/course-in-political-miracles.html" target="_blank">Course in Political Miracles</a><br />
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For a great discussion on Christianity vs. State Socialism see: <a href="http://acimmessages.blogspot.com/2008/05/clinton-obama-socialism-opposite-of.html" target="_blank">Christianity vs. State Socialism</a><br />
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<strong><em>“I did not understand what made me free, nor what my freedom is, nor where to look to find it. Father, I have searched in vain until I heard Your Voice directing me. Now I would guide myself no more. For I have neither made nor understood the way to find my freedom. But I trust in You. You Who endowed me with my freedom as Your holy Son will not be lost to me. Your Voice directs me." </em>(Prayer from A Course in Miracles)</strong><strong></strong></center>
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With his first novel Erne Lewis charges out of the gate as a victory-bound writer. Reading "An Act of Self Defense" you cannot help but feel what the characters are feeling, not only the heroes who have you cheering but the villains who have you cringing. Conflicting political viewpoints are masterfully interwoven in short non-irritating readable bursts.The story flows with unending extreme situations and tension-creating close calls as compelling desires of human ego clash with plausible human mistakes. It is a "can't put it down" novel.<br />
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But there are 7 very strong temptations which might arise if you read this novel.<br />
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(1) The story might tempt you to start thinking that <i>all</i> professional politicians are willing to sell their souls and sell out the American people in exchange for riches and ego gratification ... too broad a generalization for a healthy mind.<br />
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(2) The plot could tempt you to believe bureaucrats in government departments likely have no hesitation about destroying innocent people's lives if it serves their career advancement ... too severe a judgment to be holding in one's thoughts.<br />
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(3) The narrative may tempt you to start believing that all swat teams are made up of brutal trigger-happy thugs, which ignores the existence of many swat team members who work with compassion and care for people.<br />
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(4) Reading this novel you might even be tempted to think politicians and bureaucrats of a government which tries to run your life ought to be killed, or stolen from, or otherwise caused difficulties. Such diabolical thoughts would close down your heart, ruin your happiness, and place an ugly blemish on your soul.<br />
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(5) The circumstances of the story could tempt you to adopt a dark pessimistic attitude toward government in general. Such pessimism would dissipate your natural inner peace.<br />
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(6) The conditions and turn of events of the saga may tempt you to feel that the political system of your society is like Goliath, and it's hopeless for you to try to be a David ... a feeling which would sabotage your natural joy and love.<br />
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(7) The novel offers the temptation to honor giving your life for a higher cause when actually liberty can only truly be furthered by those who reject death and worship the opposite: <b>Live and Let Live</b>.<br />
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Of course it's possible to read many fiction works which tempt us to think negative thoughts, or feel negative emotions, or become radicalized into beliefs which do not serve us. We usually avoid such reactions by saying to ourselves, "Well, it's only fiction."<br />
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With this novel it's harder to write off the story's state of affairs as merely fiction. If you do read "An Act of Self Defense", your strength at resisting the above temptations will be tested. You will be challenged to reexamine what is really sacrifice vs. what is really the fullness of life.<br />
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<strong>fas-cism<br />noun<br />a socialist governmental system led by a dominant elite which seeks to control industry and commerce, and uses legislation and governmental decree to force Utopian programs on people.</strong><br />
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<strong>free-dom<br />noun<br />one's natural state of being; a governmental system reflecting one's natural state, including voluntary funding and voluntary willingness to join and cooperate with minimal intrinsic rules, but with no programs of "good intention" forced on people "for their own good."</strong><br />
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If you are newly waking up to your innate libertarian core and want to investigate deeper the underlying nonsense of the liberal-progressive religion of government worship, give yourself the pleasure of reading Ayn Rand's epic and masterful novel, <em><strong>Atlas Shrugged.</strong></em><br />
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"God's laws will keep your minds at peace, because peace IS His Will, and His laws are established to uphold it. His are the laws of freedom, but yours are the laws of bondage. Since freedom and bondage are irreconcilable, their laws CANNOT BE UNDERSTOOD TOGETHER. The laws of God work only for your good, and there ARE no other laws beside His. Everything else is merely lawLESS, and therefore chaotic." -<strong>Jesus Christ</strong> in <strong>A Course in Miracles</strong><br />
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Interesting factoid: for the last election year studied (1998) some of the highest percentage of votes for Libertarian Party candidates were for candidates who had been studying free of charge the lessons of: <a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/2007/12/course-in-political-miracles.html" target="_blank">Course in Political Miracles</a><br />
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For a great discussion on Christianity vs. State Socialism see: <a href="http://acimmessages.blogspot.com/2008/05/clinton-obama-socialism-opposite-of.html" target="_blank">Christianity vs. State Socialism</a><br />
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<strong><em>“I did not understand what made me free, nor what my freedom is, nor where to look to find it. Father, I have searched in vain until I heard Your Voice directing me. Now I would guide myself no more. For I have neither made nor understood the way to find my freedom. But I trust in You. You Who endowed me with my freedom as Your holy Son will not be lost to me. Your Voice directs me." </em>(Prayer from A Course in Miracles)</strong><strong></strong>Christian Prophethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10020964652943679070noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808757926787581518.post-7842361907432661942016-03-28T09:43:00.000-06:002016-03-28T09:43:30.342-06:00Election 2016 Lesson One: Remember To Laugh<br />
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The democratic process (election campaigns) has become one of the ego's greatest excuses to choose denunciation, fear, anger and a hundred other mechanisms of unhappiness. In this year of intense campaigning for presidential nominations we do well to remember every ego mechanism is self-defeating. Every temptation we might have to fear, or feel anger, or hold a grievance, or attack an opposing party or candidate, is simply sabotaging our own happiness and therefore sabotaging our own cause.<br />
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It must have been much easier to see from a non-ego viewpoint during the first two American Presidential elections when there was <strong><em>no campaigning</em></strong>. George Washington didn't really want to be President, but was willing to serve and was elected by the electoral college <strong><em>unanimously</em></strong> in both 1789 and 1792. Maybe if we didn't have presidential campaigns and the electoral college was required to find a man or woman who they could all unanimously feel right and good about ... everyone in all states could more easily find a way to choose happiness.<br />
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The process of unanimous consensus which was used to choose George Washington is not outmoded. It is used even today, for example, to select the president of the LDS church:<br />
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<strong><em>"The appointment of a new president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints happens in an orderly way that — remarkably in today’s world — avoids any trace of internal lobbying for position or rank. It is devoid of electioneering whether behind the scenes or in public.<br /><br />"Moreover, it is not only the structure of Church organization that governs this process. There is also a deeply ingrained tradition in the Church that personal aspiration for leadership at any level is inappropriate. Instead, the emphasis is on personal worthiness and a humble willingness to serve when invited."</em> - LDS Living Magazine</strong><br />
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Some would argue that America was formed as a republic and the more democratic it has become the more the electoral process has fostered dirty politics, dishonesty, and cheating in every way. A democracy and a republic are not only dissimilar but incompatible. There is a fundamental difference between (a) pandering to voters in a democracy which allows the majority to rule over what is right for individuals of a minority (dictatorship by a majority of voters), and (b) a Republic under a written Constitution which safeguards the rights of individuals in the minority.<br />
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America has abandoned its Constitution to the point where not only do we now have serious "tyranny of the majority" (which was foreseen by the great French social scientist Alexis de Tocqueville) and blatant "violence of the majority faction" (which was considered the highest danger by "the father of the Constitution" James Madison), but even individuals not part of the majority feel the need to "do what it takes" to defend. The American electoral process has become more than chaos. It has become war. Perhaps it should be called "evil."<br />
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No matter what we imagine for our ideal society politically (some would rather be non-political), an important short-term temporary step might be to honor George Washington's example of willingness to serve by re-energizing a personal resolve to work peacefully aiding any efforts to junk the democratic process as it has evolved and pull America once again back to a republic which strictly adheres to its Constitution.<br />
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Whatever provisional steps we take, we must keep our focus on our true nature. Even while helping right the wrongs the ego has put into place, our success depends on keeping our focus on the love, peace, and joy of our deepest underlying nature. We must have fun "enjoying the game," so to speak.<br />
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Especially crucial to the maintenance of joy while serving to change the political atmosphere is the understanding that we cannot judge our brothers. <strong><em>All individuals on earth are learning from a different perspective, teaching themselves different lessons.</em></strong> Those who support a socialist dictator like Bernie Sanders, or a populist dictator like Donald Trump, or a "holy cruiser" like Ted Cruz, or an addicted loser like Gary Johnson do so because they are teaching themselves what they need to learn. It serves no purpose to judge the supporters of these various candidates except the purpose of our own ego satisfaction, which in turn sabotages our own underlying cause.<br />
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So this election cycle even while watching all the political "evil" let's choose constant happiness by maintaining a 100% commitment to honoring not our ego's intellectual insanity but only our deepest spirit of joy ... and by laughing with amused detachment whatever the results.<br />
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<strong>fas-cism<br />noun<br />a socialist governmental system led by a dominant elite which seeks to control industry and commerce, and uses legislation and governmental decree to force Utopian programs on people.</strong><br />
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<strong>free-dom<br />noun<br />one's natural state of being; a governmental system reflecting one's natural state, including voluntary funding and voluntary willingness to join and cooperate with minimal intrinsic rules, but with no programs of "good intention" forced on people "for their own good."</strong><br />
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If you are newly waking up to your innate libertarian core and want to investigate deeper the underlying nonsense of the liberal-progressive religion of government worship, give yourself the pleasure of reading Ayn Rand's epic and masterful novel, <em><strong>Atlas Shrugged.</strong></em><br />
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"God's laws will keep your minds at peace, because peace IS His Will, and His laws are established to uphold it. His are the laws of freedom, but yours are the laws of bondage. Since freedom and bondage are irreconcilable, their laws CANNOT BE UNDERSTOOD TOGETHER. The laws of God work only for your good, and there ARE no other laws beside His. Everything else is merely lawLESS, and therefore chaotic." -<strong>Jesus Christ</strong> in <strong>A Course in Miracles</strong><br />
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Interesting factoid: for the last election year studied (1998) some of the highest percentage of votes for Libertarian Party candidates were for candidates who had been studying free of charge the lessons of: <a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/2007/12/course-in-political-miracles.html" target="_blank">Course in Political Miracles</a><br />
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For a great discussion on Christianity vs. State Socialism see: <a href="http://acimmessages.blogspot.com/2008/05/clinton-obama-socialism-opposite-of.html" target="_blank">Christianity vs. State Socialism</a><br />
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<strong><em>“I did not understand what made me free, nor what my freedom is, nor where to look to find it. Father, I have searched in vain until I heard Your Voice directing me. Now I would guide myself no more. For I have neither made nor understood the way to find my freedom. But I trust in You. You Who endowed me with my freedom as Your holy Son will not be lost to me. Your Voice directs me." </em>(Prayer from A Course in Miracles)</strong><strong></strong>Christian Prophethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10020964652943679070noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808757926787581518.post-91316307161634614762016-03-03T09:49:00.000-07:002016-03-03T09:49:21.437-07:00The False Choice of Liberty vs. Security<br />
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Benjamin Franklin is said to have declared: <strong><em>"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty nor security."</em></strong><br />
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The Early American sage was certainly seeing clearly when he recognized that security can only be fleeting if liberty is given up. He might better have said: <strong><em>"They who give up liberty for security end up losing both."</em></strong><br />
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But it is interesting that even in Benjamin Franklin's day a false political question must have been arising which during the 20th Century proved to be agonizingly hurtful as the world views hurt. The question was whether people should give up some degree of their liberty in order to enjoy a greater degree of security ... as if the two were contradictory experiences. <br />
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Communist countries experimented: "We'll find out the answer! We'll attempt giving away <strong><em>all</em></strong> liberty in exchange for the hope of <strong><em>total</em></strong> security. We'll see what happens." Each such experiment became a disaster as the world sees things. Both liberty and security were equally and inevitably lost in political tidal waves of pain, suffering, and death. These wrong-minded experiments did, of course, give a clue to the answer: liberty and security are indivisible.<br />
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Christians pray in gratitude, "You give us this day our daily bread." But one doesn't have to be a Christian to understand the feeling of gratitude. Even atheists can hear inside the voice of their life force and inner reason guiding them, and atheists who enjoy liberty can follow such guidance until all their needs are provided. <em><strong>Liberty is the only state of being that allows people to find true security, security that is not an illusion. </strong></em><br />
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But some human beings are slow learners, wouldn't you say? For example, so many political activists in America continue to try to elect their loyal party comrades so they can continue experimenting with legislatively taking away liberty and offering "security," "insurance," and "safety-net" programs. American politicians say, "We are not Communists! Our <em><strong>methods</strong></em> are different." Big difference! Both liberty <strong><em>and</em></strong> security are lost, but at a slower pace. Pain and suffering continue to increase, but more gradually. <br />
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As with all foolish human mistakes, the history-making misery caused by Communists in the 20th Century could have been avoided. Likewise, future disasters already set in motion by American politicians in the 21st Century can be avoided. It is only necessary to teach that liberty and security are two sides of the same coin. True security cannot be experienced by tossing liberty in a wishing well.<br />
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<strong>fas-cism<br />noun<br />a socialist governmental system led by a dominant elite which seeks to control industry and commerce, and uses legislation and governmental decree to force Utopian programs on people.</strong><br />
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<strong>free-dom<br />noun<br />one's natural state of being; a governmental system reflecting one's natural state, including voluntary funding and voluntary willingness to join and cooperate with minimal intrinsic rules, but with no programs of "good intention" forced on people "for their own good."</strong><br />
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If you are newly waking up to your innate libertarian core and want to investigate deeper the underlying nonsense of the liberal-progressive religion of government worship, give yourself the pleasure of reading Ayn Rand's epic and masterful novel, <em><strong>Atlas Shrugged.</strong></em><br />
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"God's laws will keep your minds at peace, because peace IS His Will, and His laws are established to uphold it. His are the laws of freedom, but yours are the laws of bondage. Since freedom and bondage are irreconcilable, their laws CANNOT BE UNDERSTOOD TOGETHER. The laws of God work only for your good, and there ARE no other laws beside His. Everything else is merely lawLESS, and therefore chaotic." -<strong>Jesus Christ</strong> in <strong>A Course in Miracles</strong><br />
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Interesting factoid: for the last election year studied (1998) some of the highest percentage of votes for Libertarian Party candidates were for candidates who had been studying free of charge the lessons of: <a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/2007/12/course-in-political-miracles.html" target="_blank">Course in Political Miracles</a><br />
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For a great discussion on Christianity vs. State Socialism see: <a href="http://acimmessages.blogspot.com/2008/05/clinton-obama-socialism-opposite-of.html" target="_blank">Christianity vs. State Socialism</a><br />
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<strong><em>“I did not understand what made me free, nor what my freedom is, nor where to look to find it. Father, I have searched in vain until I heard Your Voice directing me. Now I would guide myself no more. For I have neither made nor understood the way to find my freedom. But I trust in You. You Who endowed me with my freedom as Your holy Son will not be lost to me. Your Voice directs me." </em>(Prayer from A Course in Miracles)</strong><strong></strong>Christian Prophethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10020964652943679070noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808757926787581518.post-57100236723701311272016-01-24T13:05:00.000-07:002016-01-26T08:47:26.123-07:00Who To Vote For?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In the days of Will Rogers government could be considered laughable. Today's government hurts far too many people to any longer be funny. And those who want to still live in civilization but hope to escape the pain, sickness, suffering and death caused by government usually decide to vote in self-defense.<br />
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But who to vote for? Who would best defend against all this pain, sickness, suffering and death caused by government?
All politicians have their unique aura and offer special promises, but we simply have no way of knowing what any of them will <i>really</i> deliver when the time comes. Even the most liberty-oriented, least socialist politician who promises to get government out of our way may possibly in the future be blackmailed or coerced, might be bought, could start thinking differently. Most people change their minds in various ways as they face new and different experiences.<br />
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So who to vote for?
If we are honest our answer is: <i>our best guess would only be a guess.</i><br />
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But there is an intelligence which knows every factor we can imagine and more ... knows everything past, present, and future. Modern scientists call it the quantum hologram which comprises all life and all existence. Ancient religious people might have called it our holy spirit. No matter what it's called, it contains knowledge of what the future holds and knowledge of what is best for all. As you would expect with a hologram, we are within it and it is within us.<br />
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Inner wisdom.<br />
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Those who wish to vote in self-defense <i>can</i> know who to vote for, but not by intellectualizing or responding emotionally. They can know who to vote for by stilling their minds, setting aside all past beliefs and preconceived ideas, letting go of all emotions, and listening inside to inner wisdom which knows the entire future and knows everyone's highest good.
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<strong>fas-cism<br />noun<br />a socialist governmental system led by a dominant elite which seeks to control industry and commerce, and uses legislation and governmental decree to force Utopian programs on people.</strong><br />
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<strong>free-dom<br />noun<br />one's natural state of being; a governmental system reflecting one's natural state, including voluntary funding and voluntary willingness to join and cooperate with minimal intrinsic rules, but with no programs of "good intention" forced on people "for their own good."</strong><br />
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If you are newly waking up to your innate libertarian core and want to investigate deeper the underlying nonsense of the liberal-progressive religion of government worship, give yourself the pleasure of reading Ayn Rand's epic and masterful novel, <em><strong>Atlas Shrugged.</strong></em><br />
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"God's laws will keep your minds at peace, because peace IS His Will, and His laws are established to uphold it. His are the laws of freedom, but yours are the laws of bondage. Since freedom and bondage are irreconcilable, their laws CANNOT BE UNDERSTOOD TOGETHER. The laws of God work only for your good, and there ARE no other laws beside His. Everything else is merely lawLESS, and therefore chaotic." -<strong>Jesus Christ</strong> in <strong>A Course in Miracles</strong><br />
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Interesting factoid: for the last election year studied (1998) some of the highest percentage of votes for Libertarian Party candidates were for candidates who had been studying free of charge the lessons of: <a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/2007/12/course-in-political-miracles.html" target="_blank">Course in Political Miracles</a><br />
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For a great discussion on Christianity vs. State Socialism see: <a href="http://acimmessages.blogspot.com/2008/05/clinton-obama-socialism-opposite-of.html" target="_blank">Christianity vs. State Socialism</a><br />
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<strong><em>“I did not understand what made me free, nor what my freedom is, nor where to look to find it. Father, I have searched in vain until I heard Your Voice directing me. Now I would guide myself no more. For I have neither made nor understood the way to find my freedom. But I trust in You. You Who endowed me with my freedom as Your holy Son will not be lost to me. Your Voice directs me." </em>(Prayer from A Course in Miracles)</strong><strong></strong>Christian Prophethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10020964652943679070noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808757926787581518.post-19555851693774067592016-01-11T10:47:00.000-07:002016-01-11T10:47:15.780-07:00Make Yourself A Winning Player For LibertyDonald Trump, when asked about his tariff proposals, has famously said, "I'm for free trade, but you have to be smart." Many liberty lovers, when asked about politics, might similarly answer, "Down deep I don't like politics, but I have to be smart."<br />
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The libertarian NAP, which is most easily understood when stated <b><i>"live and let live,"</i></b> assumes we are all in this together, everyone's life affects everyone else's life. A quote attributed to Jesus Christ in modern day revelation states: <i style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b>"</b></i><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b>As long as a single slave remains to walk the earth, your release is not complete."</b></i><br />
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So as much as we dislike the game of politics, the heroic nature inside all of us will not allow us to chicken out and forfeit the game.<br />
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But as long as we're going to play the game, we would do well to make ourselves the best players ever, right? It's time for liberty lovers to quit sabotaging their cause (really sabotaging <i><b>everyone's</b></i> true cause) by refusing to make themselves winning players. That's called "being smart."<br />
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Vow to rise above the level of those liberty lovers who sabotage the cause of liberty. Vow to learn the following lessons which are absolutely necessary for liberty lovers to assure the success of their endeavors (links to the lessons can be found at the end of the list of lesson titles):<br />
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<span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Lesson 1: "Whatever I really, really, REALLY want comes to me very quickly."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Lesson 2: "Nothing comes easily if I hold in my mind contradictory desires."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Lesson 3: "There is nothing I cannot do if I put my mind to it."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Lesson 4: "There is nothing I cannot do if my heart is in it fully."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Lesson 5: "My heart and mind are unbelievably creative ... when I am ready."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Lesson 6: "The achievement of my goals depends on feeling my spirit."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Lesson 7: "My inner peace gives me enormous power to achieve my goals."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Lesson 8: "I access my inner peace instead of emotions against my goals."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Lesson 9: "Only my thinking can take me out of peace."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Lesson 10: "As I stay in touch with my peace, I bring peace to the world."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Lesson 11: "Fear or thoughts of limitation cannot keep me down."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Lesson 12: "I choose to rise above fear, thus teaching freedom."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Lesson 13: "I replace fear with trust."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Lesson 14: "My joy brings me everything I have ever wanted."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Lesson 15: "Worrying damages my cause; my joy keeps me safe."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Lesson 16: "My safety lies not in defensiveness, but in joy."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Lesson 17: "My belief brings me what I really want."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Lesson 18: "In place of frustration or anger, I quickly substitute love."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Lesson 19: "My love gives me everything that is really important."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Lesson 20: "I see clearly we are all in this together."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Lesson 21: "I open to love by seeing things in a different light."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Lesson 22: "I enjoy experiencing my enemies as allies."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Lesson 23: "I see my enemies working for my success."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Lesson 24: "All things are working together for my good."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Lesson 25: "By letting go of guilt I teach freedom."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Lesson 26: "The future will bring far more good than I can imagine."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Lesson 27: "My inner voice guides me perfectly."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Lesson 28: "First things first creates the lasting."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Lesson 29: "I think of myself as a freedom zealot."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Lesson 30: "I see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Lesson 31: "I emphasize areas of likely agreement."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Lesson 32: "I raise the world up from dictatorship."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Lesson 33: "I am serving the highest in the universe."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Lesson 34: "I release all resistance and all good rushes my way."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Lesson 35: "I campaign for non-retaliation and forgiveness."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Lesson 36: "I find ways to trick the trickster."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Lesson 37: "Nothing works like non-resistance."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Lesson 38: "There is nothing more powerful than an idea held in mind."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Lesson 39: "Liberty's light is the light of love."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Lesson 40: "I create liberty by joining with others."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Lesson 41: "I break the chains of bondage by listening inside."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Lesson 42: "Inner seeing shows me the way to freedom."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Lesson 43: "I plant positive associations in people's minds."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Lesson 44: "I experience invulnerability when I surrender outcomes."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Lesson 45: "I want nothing and gain everything."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Lesson 46: "I look inside for novel ways to sell liberty."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Lesson 47: "I make an offer which can't be refused."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Lesson 48: "My patience and common sense assure success."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Lesson 49: "I am in your service!"</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Lesson 50: "I join Ayn Rand, educating spiritually!"</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Lesson 51: "When I'm serving liberty I'm at my best!"</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffffcc; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Lesson 52: "Yes!"</span><br />
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<span style="color: #000066;"><a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/2007/12/course-in-political-miracles.html" target="_blank">Introduction</a></span>
<span style="color: #000066;"></span><a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/2007/12/course-in-political-miracles-lesson-1.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000066;">Lesson 1</span></a> <span style="color: #000066;">
</span><a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/1995/01/course-in-political-miracles-lesson-2.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000066;">Lesson 2</span></a> <span style="color: #000066;">
</span><a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/1995/01/course-in-political-miracles-lesson-3.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000066;">Lesson 3</span></a><span style="color: #000066;">
</span><a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/1995/01/course-in-political-miracles-lesson-4.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000066;">Lesson 4</span></a> <span style="color: #000066;">
</span><a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/1995/02/course-in-political-miracles-lesson-5.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000066;">Lesson 5</span></a> <span style="color: #000066;">
</span><a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/1995/02/course-in-political-miracles-lesson-6.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000066;">Lesson 6</span></a><span style="color: #000066;">
</span><a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/1995/02/course-in-political-miracles-lesson-7.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000066;">Lesson 7</span></a> <span style="color: #000066;">
</span><a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/1995/02/course-in-political-miracles-lesson-8.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000066;">Lesson 8</span></a> <span style="color: #000066;">
</span><a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/1995/02/course-in-political-miracles-lesson-9.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000066;">Lesson 9</span></a><span style="color: #000066;">
</span><a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/1995/03/course-in-political-miracles-lesson-10.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000066;">Lesson 10</span></a> <span style="color: #000066;">
</span><a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/1995/03/course-in-political-miracles-lesson-11.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000066;">Lesson 11</span></a> <span style="color: #000066;">
</span><a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/1995/03/course-in-political-miracles-lesson-12.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000066;">Lesson 12</span></a><span style="color: #000066;">
</span><a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/1995/03/course-in-political-miracles-lesson-13.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000066;">Lesson 13</span></a> <span style="color: #000066;">
</span><a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/1995/04/course-in-political-miracles-lesson-14.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000066;">Lesson 14</span></a> <span style="color: #000066;">
</span><a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/1995/04/course-in-political-miracles-lesson-15.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000066;">Lesson 15</span></a><span style="color: #000066;">
</span><a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/1995/04/course-in-political-miracles-lesson-16.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000066;">Lesson 16</span></a> <span style="color: #000066;">
</span><a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/1995/04/course-in-political-miracles-lesson-17.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000066;">Lesson 17</span></a> <span style="color: #000066;">
</span><a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/1995/05/course-in-political-miracles-lesson-18.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000066;">Lesson 18</span></a><span style="color: #000066;">
</span><a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/1995/05/course-in-political-miracles-lesson-19.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000066;">Lesson 19</span></a> <span style="color: #000066;">
</span><a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/1995/05/course-in-political-miracles-lesson-20.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000066;">Lesson 20</span></a> <span style="color: #000066;">
</span><a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/1995/05/course-in-political-miracles-lesson-21.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000066;">Lesson 21</span></a><span style="color: #000066;">
</span><a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/1995/06/course-in-political-miracles-lesson-22.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000066;">Lesson 22</span></a> <span style="color: #000066;">
</span><a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/1995/06/course-in-political-miracles-lesson-23.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000066;">Lesson 23</span></a> <span style="color: #000066;">
</span><a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/1995/06/course-in-political-miracles-lesson-24.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000066;">Lesson 24</span></a><span style="color: #000066;">
</span><a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/1995/06/course-in-political-miracles-lesson-25.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000066;">Lesson 25</span></a> <span style="color: #000066;">
</span><a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/1995/06/course-in-political-miracles-lesson-26.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000066;">Lesson 26</span></a> <span style="color: #000066;">
</span><a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/1995/06/course-in-political-miracles-lesson-27.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000066;">Lesson 27</span></a><span style="color: #000066;">
</span><a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/1995/07/course-in-political-miracles-lesson-28.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000066;">Lesson 28</span></a> <span style="color: #000066;">
</span><a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/1995/07/course-in-political-miracles-lesson-29.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000066;">Lesson 29</span></a> <span style="color: #000066;">
</span><a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/1995/07/course-in-political-miracles-lesson-30.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000066;">Lesson 30</span></a><span style="color: #000066;">
</span><a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/1995/07/course-in-political-miracles-lesson-31.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000066;">Lesson 31</span></a><span style="color: #000066;">
</span><a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/1995/07/course-in-political-miracles-lesson-32.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000066;">Lesson 32</span></a><span style="color: #000066;">
</span><a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/1995/08/course-in-political-miracles-lesson-33.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000066;">Lesson 33</span></a><span style="color: #000066;">
</span><a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/1995/08/course-in-political-miracles-lesson-34.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000066;">Lesson 34</span></a><span style="color: #000066;">
</span><a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/1995/08/course-in-political-miracles-lesson-35.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000066;">Lesson 35</span></a><span style="color: #000066;">
</span><a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/1995/08/course-in-political-miracles-lesson-36.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000066;">Lesson 36</span></a><span style="color: #000066;">
</span><a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/1995/08/course-in-political-miracles-lesson-37.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000066;">Lesson 37</span></a><span style="color: #000066;">
</span><a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/1995/09/course-in-political-miracles-lesson-38.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000066;">Lesson 38</span></a><span style="color: #000066;"></span>
<a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/1995/09/course-in-political-miracles-lesson-39.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000066;">Lesson 39</span></a><span style="color: #000066;"></span>
<a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/1995/09/course-in-political-miracles-lesson-40.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000066;">Lesson 40</span></a><span style="color: #000066;"></span>
<a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/1995/09/course-in-political-miracles-lesson-41.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000066;">Lesson 41</span></a><span style="color: #000066;"></span>
<a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/1995/09/course-in-political-miracles-lesson-42.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000066;">Lesson 42</span></a><span style="color: #000066;"></span>
<a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/1995/10/course-in-political-miracles-lesson-43.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000066;">Lesson 43</span></a><span style="color: #000066;"></span>
<a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/1995/10/course-in-political-miracles-lesson-44.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000066;">Lesson 44</span></a><span style="color: #000066;"></span>
<a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/1995/10/course-in-political-miracles-lesson-45.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000066;">Lesson 45</span></a><span style="color: #000066;"></span>
<a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/1995/10/course-in-political-miracles-lesson-46.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000066;">Lesson 46</span></a><span style="color: #000066;"></span>
<a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/1995/10/course-in-political-miracles-lesson-47.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000066;">Lesson 47</span></a><span style="color: #000066;"></span>
<a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/1995/11/course-in-political-miracles-lesson-48.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000066;">Lesson 48</span></a><span style="color: #000066;"></span>
<a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/1995/11/course-in-political-miracles-lesson-49.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000066;">Lesson 49</span></a><span style="color: #000066;"></span>
<a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/1995/11/course-in-political-miracles-lesson-50.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000066;">Lesson 50</span></a><span style="color: #000066;"></span>
<a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/2009/03/course-in-political-miracles-lesson-51.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000066;">Lesson 51</span></a><span style="color: #000066;"></span>
<span style="color: #000066;"><a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/1995/11/course-in-political-miracles-lesson-52.html" target="_blank">Lesson 52</a></span>
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<strong>fas-cism<br />noun<br />a socialist governmental system led by a dominant elite which seeks to control industry and commerce, and uses legislation and governmental decree to force Utopian programs on people.</strong><br />
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<strong>free-dom<br />noun<br />one's natural state of being; a governmental system reflecting one's natural state, including voluntary funding and voluntary willingness to join and cooperate with minimal intrinsic rules, but with no programs of "good intention" forced on people "for their own good."</strong><br />
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If you are newly waking up to your innate libertarian core and want to investigate deeper the underlying nonsense of the liberal-progressive religion of government worship, give yourself the pleasure of reading Ayn Rand's epic and masterful novel, <em><strong>Atlas Shrugged.</strong></em><br />
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"God's laws will keep your minds at peace, because peace IS His Will, and His laws are established to uphold it. His are the laws of freedom, but yours are the laws of bondage. Since freedom and bondage are irreconcilable, their laws CANNOT BE UNDERSTOOD TOGETHER. The laws of God work only for your good, and there ARE no other laws beside His. Everything else is merely lawLESS, and therefore chaotic." -<strong>Jesus Christ</strong> in <strong>A Course in Miracles</strong><br />
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Interesting factoid: for the last election year studied (1998) some of the highest percentage of votes for Libertarian Party candidates were for candidates who had been studying free of charge the lessons of: <a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/2007/12/course-in-political-miracles.html" target="_blank">Course in Political Miracles</a><br />
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For a great discussion on Christianity vs. State Socialism see: <a href="http://acimmessages.blogspot.com/2008/05/clinton-obama-socialism-opposite-of.html" target="_blank">Christianity vs. State Socialism</a><br />
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<strong><em>“I did not understand what made me free, nor what my freedom is, nor where to look to find it. Father, I have searched in vain until I heard Your Voice directing me. Now I would guide myself no more. For I have neither made nor understood the way to find my freedom. But I trust in You. You Who endowed me with my freedom as Your holy Son will not be lost to me. Your Voice directs me." </em>(Prayer from A Course in Miracles)</strong><strong></strong>Christian Prophethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10020964652943679070noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808757926787581518.post-85448427511085387442015-09-12T09:48:00.000-06:002015-09-12T09:48:49.404-06:00Rand Paul: Builder Of The New Republican Party<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Liberty lovers laugh when they see pundits making pretzels out of their brains trying to explain the meaning of the rise of Donald Trump, Ben Carson, and Carly Fiorina; and the burning of those candidates who had built a reputation as Republican Senators and Governors.<br />
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The explanation is actually very simple. What is happening in Republican politics is a manifestation of a natural law: the old must die before the thoroughly new can be reborn, as portrayed in the myth of the phoenix, summarized by Dr. Gail Brenner: <i>"Near the end of its life, [the phoenix] settles into its nest of twigs which then burns ferociously, reducing bird and nest to ashes. And from those ashes, a fledgling phoenix rises – renewed and reborn."</i><br />
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Compare what is happening in the Republican Party to a devastating forest fire in Western Montana. All the old forest is left charred, black, seemingly lifeless. There doesn't seem to be any forest remaining. But wait! The intense heat has burst open pine cones and other seed pods which could not otherwise open. The land is reseeded for the first time in decades, maybe centuries. A new and lively forest begins to grow which will soon provide far more value than the old worn out forest.<br />
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The Republican Party is burning to ashes ... preparing to rise again.<br />
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It has happened before. Once upon a time there was an old Republican Party dominated by ideological progressives. From Wikipedia:
<i>"In general, Rockefeller Republicans opposed socialism and government ownership. They supported some regulation of business and many New Deal–style social programs. A critical element was their support for labor unions. Nixon set up the Environmental Protection Agency, supported expanded welfare programs, imposed wage and price controls, and in 1971 announced he was a Keynesian."</i> The Republican Party, in other words, was dead wood, ready to burn.
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Along came Barry Goldwater who ignited a conflagration. It took a couple election cycles, but the old Republican Party, the ideological progressives, became ashes. The new Republican Party rose from the ashes as a conservative party with Ronald Reagan serving as the builder.<br />
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Now a half century later, the Republican Party has once again become a massive accumulated ground cover of hardwood litter, the dried out mislabeled "compassionate conservatism" of John Boehner and Jeb Bush laying around as kindling ready for combustion.
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This time the fire starter was Rand Paul's father, Ron Paul, with his attempts to gain the Republican presidential nomination. A blaze was started which cannot be extinguished.<br />
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Some might imagine Donald Trump as the new builder since his background is real estate. But Trump's job is actually to quicken the fiery destruction. Trump has arrived as hot, dry gusty wind to accelerate the firestorm. The builder of the new, much more libertarian Republican Party rising out of the ashes will be Rand Paul.
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No one else is in a position to build a new Republican Party. Can you imagine Ben Carson building an entirely reborn political party? Or Carly Fiorina? Or a polarizing figure like Ted Cruz? Or any other Republican? Rand is in the right place at the right time ... and ready.<br />
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But don't expect Rand Paul to be the same kind of builder as Ronald Reagan. Don't waste time trying to compare the two. The lay of the land is now different. The blueprint will be different. Rand's building techniques will be very different. Rand may never even become president as Ronald Reagan did.<br />
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But we know a builder when we see one. For the rebuilding of the Republican party into a liberty party ... <i><b>Rand's the man!</b></i><br />
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<strong>fas-cism<br />noun<br />a socialist governmental system led by a dominant elite which seeks to control industry and commerce, and uses legislation and governmental decree to force Utopian programs on people.</strong><br />
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<strong>free-dom<br />noun<br />one's natural state of being; a governmental system reflecting one's natural state, including voluntary funding and voluntary willingness to join and cooperate with minimal intrinsic rules, but with no programs of "good intention" forced on people "for their own good."</strong><br />
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If you are newly waking up to your innate libertarian core and want to investigate deeper the underlying nonsense of the liberal-progressive religion of government worship, give yourself the pleasure of reading Ayn Rand's epic and masterful novel, <em><strong>Atlas Shrugged.</strong></em><br />
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"God's laws will keep your minds at peace, because peace IS His Will, and His laws are established to uphold it. His are the laws of freedom, but yours are the laws of bondage. Since freedom and bondage are irreconcilable, their laws CANNOT BE UNDERSTOOD TOGETHER. The laws of God work only for your good, and there ARE no other laws beside His. Everything else is merely lawLESS, and therefore chaotic." -<strong>Jesus Christ</strong> in <strong>A Course in Miracles</strong><br />
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Interesting factoid: for the last election year studied (1998) some of the highest percentage of votes for Libertarian Party candidates were for candidates who had been studying free of charge the lessons of: <a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/2007/12/course-in-political-miracles.html" target="_blank">Course in Political Miracles</a><br />
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For a great discussion on Christianity vs. State Socialism see: <a href="http://acimmessages.blogspot.com/2008/05/clinton-obama-socialism-opposite-of.html" target="_blank">Christianity vs. State Socialism</a><br />
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<strong><em>“I did not understand what made me free, nor what my freedom is, nor where to look to find it. Father, I have searched in vain until I heard Your Voice directing me. Now I would guide myself no more. For I have neither made nor understood the way to find my freedom. But I trust in You. You Who endowed me with my freedom as Your holy Son will not be lost to me. Your Voice directs me." </em>(Prayer from A Course in Miracles)</strong><strong></strong><br />
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<br />Christian Prophethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10020964652943679070noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808757926787581518.post-39898000537092595942015-08-12T08:52:00.000-06:002015-08-12T08:52:05.129-06:00Libertarian Party? Liberty Republican? Or Coyote Campaign?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Our spirit is free. So unless our minds are almost 100% ruled by ego and ego-vested interests there comes a time when we feel the urge to live in a world that reflects the freedom of our spirit. Ultimately that urge grows into a desire to somehow assure political liberty in our world.
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At this point, one's intellect re-engages and asks: "But by what means? What will be the fastest, most efficient method?" And the merits of various approaches can be argued forever. That's what intellects do ... mental masturbation is pleasureful to those whose egos still hold sway somewhat. In the Liberty Movement we've seen endless arguments on the pros and cons of aligning oneself with the Libertarian Party, or with Liberty Republicans, or with a coyote campaign.<br />
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But the fact that such arguments go on endlessly should give us a clue that the intellect has asked the wrong question and offers wrong answers.<br />
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The real question is: "What method is right for <i>me, </i>for<i> me personally</i>? Where will I learn what <i>I</i> need to learn, and teach what <i>I</i> need to teach?" And the answer can only come from our spirit because our spirit is interested in freeing us <i>psychologically</i> as well as politically. Our spirit wants us to be free from self-created bondage as well as from political bondage, and our spirit knows the uniquely individual path each of us needs to follow in producing our own and everyone's freedom.<br />
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The answer comes from <i>listening inside</i> to our spirit.<br />
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"But I have a dilemma. My ego's intellect is so noisy I can never hear my spirit."<br />
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Those who are really serious about inner hearing might take up the practice of meditation, the art of quieting the intellect and listening inside.<br />
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But trial and error will lead us to the right solution anyway because our spirit is always, every moment at work guiding us. We try different situations ... and some work for us and feel really right, while others just do not fit our particular psychological state of being at the time. Metaphorically speaking, some doors slam shut, other doors open as if by magic.<br />
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Given each individual's current predisposition and unique path to total freedom, will the Libertarian Party be right for some? You bet. Will the liberty wing of the Republican Party be perfect for others? Without question. Will some find a better fit in coyote campaigns? Of course.<br />
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We can ask ourselves: Is it freedom-serving to argue endlessly over what is the best approach? Or is it wasting time and sabotaging our cause?<br />
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<i>"Those who seek controversy will find it. Yet those who seek clarification will find it as well. They must, however, be willing to overlook controversy, recognizing that it is a defense against truth in the form of a delaying maneuver."</i><br />
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What if controversy <i>within</i> the liberty movement is a delaying maneuver?<br />
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People ask questions like: "The Libertarian Party has been around for over 40 years. If liberty is so appealing, why have their results been so pathetic?" Or, "There are only 16 solid Liberty Republicans in Congress. Shouldn't liberty attract many more?"<br />
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Part of the answer to these questions is that change takes time. Liberal-progressive Utopian schemes and the accompanying worship of government dictatorship have been deeply entrenched in American thought for a long, long time and will not be sufficiently erased overnight.<br />
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The Libertarian Party <i>has</i> made some progress over the years. And so have liberty Republicans. 16 staunch liberty Republicans in Congress is a lot more than in 1976 when Libertarian Party presidential candidate Roger MacBride called a meeting of liberty-minded Republicans to organize the Republican Liberty Caucus, which was later chaired by Ron Paul. Change <i>is</i> slowly happening.<br />
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But another part of the answer is simply internecine warfare within the liberty movement. Constant fighting over which way is the best way to go has sabotaged liberty's progress, delaying liberty's success.<br />
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So which way to go? We need to go in the direction our inner spirit guides us. The Libertarian Party. The Republican Liberty Caucus. A coyote campaign. Different strokes for different folks. But we all need to ask ourselves, "What do I really, really, really want? Success for liberty? Or more delay?"<br />
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<strong>fas-cism<br />noun<br />a socialist governmental system led by a dominant elite which seeks to control industry and commerce, and uses legislation and governmental decree to force Utopian programs on people.</strong><br />
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<strong>free-dom<br />noun<br />one's natural state of being; a governmental system reflecting one's natural state, including voluntary funding and voluntary willingness to join and cooperate with minimal intrinsic rules, but with no programs of "good intention" forced on people "for their own good."</strong><br />
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If you are newly waking up to your innate libertarian core and want to investigate deeper the underlying nonsense of the liberal-progressive religion of government worship, give yourself the pleasure of reading Ayn Rand's epic and masterful novel, <em><strong>Atlas Shrugged.</strong></em><br />
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"God's laws will keep your minds at peace, because peace IS His Will, and His laws are established to uphold it. His are the laws of freedom, but yours are the laws of bondage. Since freedom and bondage are irreconcilable, their laws CANNOT BE UNDERSTOOD TOGETHER. The laws of God work only for your good, and there ARE no other laws beside His. Everything else is merely lawLESS, and therefore chaotic." -<strong>Jesus Christ</strong> in <strong>A Course in Miracles</strong><br />
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Interesting factoid: for the last election year studied (1998) some of the highest percentage of votes for Libertarian Party candidates were for candidates who had been studying free of charge the lessons of: <a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/2007/12/course-in-political-miracles.html" target="_blank">Course in Political Miracles</a><br />
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For a great discussion on Christianity vs. State Socialism see: <a href="http://acimmessages.blogspot.com/2008/05/clinton-obama-socialism-opposite-of.html" target="_blank">Christianity vs. State Socialism</a><br />
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<strong><em>“I did not understand what made me free, nor what my freedom is, nor where to look to find it. Father, I have searched in vain until I heard Your Voice directing me. Now I would guide myself no more. For I have neither made nor understood the way to find my freedom. But I trust in You. You Who endowed me with my freedom as Your holy Son will not be lost to me. Your Voice directs me." </em>(Prayer from A Course in Miracles)</strong><strong></strong><br />
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On the surface Rand Paul's appeal to people <i>seems</i> to be related to his attractive stance on various issues such as eliminating government spying on its own citizens, strong yet non-trespassing defense, or liberty being more important than elitist schemes. But the real appeal of Rand Paul to a vast majority of voters will be much deeper, an attraction which none of the other presidential candidates can match.<br />
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A politically neutral person who can see auras or sense auras will verify, "Rand Paul is much more open to his innate spirit than the other candidates." [Atheists please forgive this article's use of the term "spirit." Consider substituting for "spirit" the scientific phrase "universal holographic nature."] <br />
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It will also be verified to us that the overtly religious candidates like Mike Huckabee and Ron Santorum are actually more closed to our innate spirit, as if their religious beliefs at least in some ways render them closed-minded.<br />
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"Okay, but why is it so attractive for a politician to be open to spirit?"<br />
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Understanding the answer can bring a very worthwhile change in one's entire evaluation of all political candidates, so bear with the details. <br />
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Whether we consider ourselves religious or atheist or neither, we are nonetheless spiritual human beings. We experience a physical body, feelings, thoughts, and spiritual impulses. Many deny their spiritual impulses from time to time, but those impulses are present inside us ... and when we are honest we admit to them.<br />
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It is our spiritual nature which moves us to do marvelous things. We might be moved to write a wonderful novel, discover a cure for cancer, be a good mother, build a business that produces goods, or rescue a little animal who is trapped. Maybe we are moved to do something we can't even see the value of at first, but we do it because something deep inside us tells us it is right for us to do. That something deep inside us is our spiritual nature.<br />
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It is our spiritual nature which speaks to us from deep within saying, "We are all in this together ... every living being. What is <em>truly</em> good for one is good for all. What is <em>truly</em> good for all is good for one."<br />
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It is our spiritual nature which also says deep inside us, "It is I who will show you what is truly good."<br />
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<strong>OUR THINKING MIND CANNOT SHOW US WHAT IS TRULY GOOD</strong><br />
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Our thoughts are based on limited information and limited perception. In order to make a correct intellectualized judgment as to what is truly good, we would have to be 100% completely aware of an inconceivably wide range of factors; past, present, and future. We would need to have certain advance knowledge of all the effects of our judgment on everyone and everything. We would have to be <em>absolutely sure</em> that we didn't have the slightest slanted angle of perception.<br />
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Who could possibly have this magnitude of information? Who except in the height of fantasy could imagine themselves to have such a totally all-seeing and all-knowing viewpoint? How many times have we been so thoroughly sure we knew the facts upon which to base correct judgment, only to find out later how wrong we were?<br />
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Because philosophers and lawyers are just like ourselves, subject to limited information and limited perception, neither can we rely on even the most scholarly who use the best intellectual reasoning to help us discover what is truly good.<br />
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<strong>OUR EMOTIONS CANNOT SHOW US WHAT IS TRULY GOOD</strong><br />
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Our emotions are brought about by our thoughts and ideas. Since our thoughts are based on very limited information and a very limited viewpoint, so are our emotions. Should our thoughts not serve us well, neither will our emotions serve us well, even unto breakdown.<br />
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<strong>OUR PHYSICAL BODY CANNOT SHOW US WHAT IS TRULY GOOD</strong><br />
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Our physical body is literally only a servant doing the bidding of our thoughts and feelings and spiritual impulses. Would a man ever risk bodily danger for a higher good if his body was his guide?<br />
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<strong>ONLY OUR SPIRITUAL NATURE CAN SHOW US WHAT IS TRULY GOOD</strong><br />
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Our spiritual nature on the other hand, because it is shared with every living being, <em>knows</em> what is truly good for all. Our spiritual nature is present inside us to influence, teach, and guide our thoughts, emotions, and physical body. Whether or not we listen inside ourselves to our spiritual nature is another story, but our spiritual nature is inside us waiting to be heard.<br />
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In any situation, if we quiet our thoughts, quiet our emotions, quiet the urges of our body, and listen inside ourselves to our spirit, we <em>know</em> what is the truly right thing to say or do. We don't need a legislator, or philosopher, or psychologist, or political correctness detective, or church authority of any kind to tell us what is right. If we are honest with ourselves, we <em>know</em> the answer is inside of us. Our spirit is our guide.<br />
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Rand Paul, being more in-touch with our spirit than the other presidential candidates, knows better than these other candidates what is right. This translates with crucial importance in the political realm.<br />
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<strong>THE BEGINNINGS OF LAW</strong><br />
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We don't always listen inside to our spirit, do we? Maybe sometimes we listen to our thoughts, emotions, or even the urges of our body, instead of listening to our spirit. Does our spirit know we are not going to always listen deep inside? Of course. Our spirit knows about human shortcomings and mistakes.<br />
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So our spirit says, "Here ... in case you forget to listen inside yourself, I'll let you know in advance that I am never going to guide you to murder, nor am I ever going to guide you to commit adultery, nor am I ever going to guide you to steal, nor am I ever going to guide you to bear false witness against your neighbor. If you want to, you can call these <em>laws</em>."<br />
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Thus laws are born. In the beginning, laws are born of our spirit ... as reminders.<br />
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<strong>LAWS NOT OF THE SPIRIT</strong><br />
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After a long time, when the beginning has been forgotten, many, many laws are born not of our spirit, but of the egos of men and women.<br />
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Therein lies the first and main reason why governments, legislatures, and laws should <em>always</em> be suspect. They may not be in rapport with the spiritual nature inside of men and women. They may be instruments of men and women's egos and not instruments of our spirit.<br />
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Rand Paul, being more in-touch with our spirit than other candidates, is therefore less influenced by ego than other candidates. <i>Thus he can be trusted more than the others with the guardianship of laws.</i><br />
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People with strong ego-vested interests in the political realm will hate Rand Paul and attack him because he represents danger to ego-vested interests. But voters who sincerely want the highest good for everyone will automatically sense (maybe quite clearly, maybe more vaguely, but sense nonetheless) that Rand Paul is the best candidate. Because on a level deeper than thought or emotion or body ... the spirit we all share rejoices when seeing itself in Rand Paul.<br />
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<strong>fas-cism<br />noun<br />a socialist governmental system led by a dominant elite which seeks to control industry and commerce, and uses legislation and governmental decree to force Utopian programs on people.</strong><br />
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<strong>free-dom<br />noun<br />one's natural state of being; a governmental system reflecting one's natural state, including voluntary funding and voluntary willingness to join and cooperate with minimal intrinsic rules, but with no programs of "good intention" forced on people "for their own good."</strong><br />
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If you are newly waking up to your innate libertarian core and want to investigate deeper the underlying nonsense of the liberal-progressive religion of government worship, give yourself the pleasure of reading Ayn Rand's epic and masterful novel, <em><strong>Atlas Shrugged.</strong></em><br />
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"God's laws will keep your minds at peace, because peace IS His Will, and His laws are established to uphold it. His are the laws of freedom, but yours are the laws of bondage. Since freedom and bondage are irreconcilable, their laws CANNOT BE UNDERSTOOD TOGETHER. The laws of God work only for your good, and there ARE no other laws beside His. Everything else is merely lawLESS, and therefore chaotic." -<strong>Jesus Christ</strong> in <strong>A Course in Miracles</strong><br />
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Interesting factoid: for the last election year studied (1998) some of the highest percentage of votes for Libertarian Party candidates were for candidates who had been studying free of charge the lessons of: <a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/2007/12/course-in-political-miracles.html" target="_blank">Course in Political Miracles</a><br />
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For a great discussion on Christianity vs. State Socialism see: <a href="http://acimmessages.blogspot.com/2008/05/clinton-obama-socialism-opposite-of.html" target="_blank">Christianity vs. State Socialism</a><br />
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<strong><em>“I did not understand what made me free, nor what my freedom is, nor where to look to find it. Father, I have searched in vain until I heard Your Voice directing me. Now I would guide myself no more. For I have neither made nor understood the way to find my freedom. But I trust in You. You Who endowed me with my freedom as Your holy Son will not be lost to me. Your Voice directs me." </em>(Prayer from A Course in Miracles)</strong><strong></strong><br />
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<strong><em>"If libertarianism means anything, it means abandonment now and always of government attempts to better the lives of citizens economically." --Anonymous</em></strong><br />
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From U.S. Dept. of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics: <a href="http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS15000000" target="_blank">92,986,000 16 yrs and older not in labor force</a><br />
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The reason "The Forgotten Man" by libertarian writer Amity Shlaes is important reading for current Americans is that President Obama has spent several years pursuing in essence the same destructive policies Shlaes describes in her book, and the latest Democratic Party presidential aspirants want to double down with even more insane Utopian policies.<br />
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The Obama Administration has been following the footsteps of the Roosevelt Administration from the 1930s: attempting to "cure" perceived economic problems by vast government expenditures to fund Utopian welfare programs. Just as in the 1930s, insane government spending (even ignoring idiotic modern levels of business regulation) continues to pour sugar into the gas tank of the job-creating, prosperity-creating engine of capitalism. Maybe you are one of the lucky ones who is thriving economically, but how many other Americans are at the mercy of government elites who know not what they do?<br />
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Government by so-called "progressives" can only be economically regressive; creates more poverty than ever; eventually leads to citizen-robots going through the motions, feeling their spirit stirring only occasionally in forbidden black markets; and if carried far enough inevitably ends in martial law and slavery to government.<br />
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In Ayn Rand's astoundingly prophetic novel "Atlas Shrugged" (which every liberty lover should trumpet far and wide) the elites have destroyed the economy to such a degree that they feel the need to issue a dictatorship directive (while of course providing for themselves):<br />
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<i>"I have a question about Point Seven </i>[of the directive]<i>," said Kinnan. "It says that all wages, prices, salaries, dividends, profits, and so forth will be frozen on the date of the directive. Taxes, too?"</i><br />
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<i>"Oh, no!" cried Mouch. "How can we tell what funds we'll need in the future?"</i><br />
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Politicians and bureaucrats using government policies to meddle in an economy always begins and ends in dictatorship. Meddling in the economy is not the reason governments are formed. It is an unnatural function artificially inserted into government by the dictatorship urge of progressives. Just as human beings were not born to live under water like fish or to fly from treetop to treetop like birds, so it is not and can never be a proper function of governments to mind the economic welfare of people.<br />
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Libertarians say "No!" to a welfare state telling people how they must live, and robbing people of the opportunity to teach themselves (through the lessons they create for themselves) how to survive and thrive. Libertarians say to politicians and bureaucrats, "Mind your own business! We'll mind ours!"<br />
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Libertarians are grounded in natural law, not man-made law. If in the minds of libertarians there is any reason at all for government's existence, the sole and only reason is to uphold natural laws. Spiritual libertarians might say "laws given by God," while atheist libertarians might say "common sense laws." No difference. People cannot live together in peace if they are allowed to murder each other, steal from each other, bear false witness, defraud each other, etc. The highest good for everyone is served only when men and women live by a "rule of law." But not just any law. Not man-made law, not ego-made law which stifles risk-taking spirit in the vain dream of lessening people's material challenges.<br />
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In "The Forgotten Man," Amity Shlaes illustrates how starry-eyed communist sympathizers ruled within the Roosevelt Administrations and would have wrecked the American economy forever had it not been for a few heroic men and women who said "No!" to an American fascism masquerading under the label "progressive." While Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" illustrates in fiction the deeply warped psychology of liberal-progressives, Amity Shlaes' shows the very real effects of such a warped psychology ... in very real world history.<br />
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<strong>fas-cism<br />noun<br />a socialist governmental system led by a dominant elite which seeks to control industry and commerce, and uses legislation and governmental decree to force Utopian programs on people.</strong><br />
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<strong>free-dom<br />noun<br />one's natural state of being; a governmental system reflecting one's natural state, including voluntary funding and voluntary willingness to join and cooperate with minimal intrinsic rules, but with no programs of "good intention" forced on people "for their own good."</strong><br />
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If you are newly waking up to your innate libertarian core and want to investigate deeper the underlying nonsense of the liberal-progressive religion of government worship, give yourself the pleasure of reading Ayn Rand's epic and masterful novel, <em><strong>Atlas Shrugged.</strong></em><br />
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"God's laws will keep your minds at peace, because peace IS His Will, and His laws are established to uphold it. His are the laws of freedom, but yours are the laws of bondage. Since freedom and bondage are irreconcilable, their laws CANNOT BE UNDERSTOOD TOGETHER. The laws of God work only for your good, and there ARE no other laws beside His. Everything else is merely lawLESS, and therefore chaotic." -<strong>Jesus Christ</strong> in <strong>A Course in Miracles</strong><br />
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Interesting factoid: for the last election year studied (1998) some of the highest percentage of votes for Libertarian Party candidates were for candidates who had been studying free of charge the lessons of: <a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/2007/12/course-in-political-miracles.html" target="_blank">Course in Political Miracles</a><br />
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For a great discussion on Christianity vs. State Socialism see: <a href="http://acimmessages.blogspot.com/2008/05/clinton-obama-socialism-opposite-of.html" target="_blank">Christianity vs. State Socialism</a><br />
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<strong><em>“I did not understand what made me free, nor what my freedom is, nor where to look to find it. Father, I have searched in vain until I heard Your Voice directing me. Now I would guide myself no more. For I have neither made nor understood the way to find my freedom. But I trust in You. You Who endowed me with my freedom as Your holy Son will not be lost to me. Your Voice directs me." </em>(Prayer from A Course in Miracles)</strong><strong></strong><br />
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Liberal-progressives feel the need to prove to themselves they are open-minded by championing diversity and ever new Utopian schemes. However, their feeling that they need to resort to government dictatorship to attempt to create their Utopia shows they are not really open-minded at all. Honestly open-minded men and women <i>trust</i> that if something is truly of value it will evolve in it's own way and time, and does not need to be forced into existence by government.<br />
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American conservatives are far more trusting of the natural evolution of mankind's thinking and circumstances. They feel no need to force into existence new conditions or new lifestyles, and are usually open to new ways of seeing unless.... Unless what? Unless the new thinking contradicts age-old "wisdom?" Unless the new perception is pointing out how the U.S. Constitution, even if influenced by God, was put together by men of flawed understanding?<br />
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Libertarians, however, enjoy a glowing opportunity. Libertarians have freed themselves from the need to force their values on others; and because they are willing to consider the possibility that age-old "wisdom" could possibly be incorrect, and are willing to consider that the U.S. Constitution could be improved; their minds are not constricted in the ways liberal-progressive and conservative minds are constricted. At least in these respects, the door to true open-mindedness is open to them.<br />
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But not all libertarians take advantage of this golden opportunity. Remember, ego's goal is to sabotage whatever is of value. Ego offers strong and constantly renewed temptation to close one's mind in some way or another. This series of articles has already discussed "puritan" libertarians who use their intellectually derived conception of purity to slam shut their minds when viewing imperfect candidates who in reality could actually further the progress of liberty. "Give me liberty!" is a sentiment arising from our spirit, which is free. The add-on "or give me death!" is ego's insertion.<br />
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Truly open minds do not say, "I'll take death if I can't have what I want," or some basically equivalent statement like, "I'll take political failure before I'll accept the lesser of two evils." Truly open minds actually understand that in reality they don't know everything, and in reality any judgment they make using limited perception and intellectual reasoning based on such narrow perception is more likely to be wrong than right.<br />
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How then are political decisions to be made?<br />
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When faced with a decision, a truly open mind immediately lets go of all past learning and preconceived ideas. A truly open mind looks at each situation with the attitude "I have no idea what is going on beneath surface appearances, and therefore I cannot judge what is in my own best interest. So I'm open to being taught."<br />
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But who then is the teacher?<br />
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Remember, it is our deep inner spirit having us proclaim "Give me liberty!" So why not listen to our deep inner spirit regarding how liberty is to be achieved? Why not forgo the unreliability of intellectual guesswork and ego-satisfaction, and listen inside to the voice of reason rising from the depths of our being?<br />
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Recall the old adage: <i>"Thoughts held in mind produce after their kind."</i> Every moment we are teaching what we are experiencing inside. To <i>truly</i> teach freedom, men and women's minds must be free<i> </i>of the bondage of ego thoughts. A closed mind is self-imprisoned and unconsciously teaches servitude. An open mind is free and intentionally or not ... teaches liberty.<br />
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<b><i>To fully grasp how insane the psychology of modern "liberal progressives" really is, read Ayn Rand's novel "Atlas Shrugged."</i></b><br />
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<br /><br />"God's laws will keep your minds at peace, because peace IS His Will, and His laws are established to uphold it. His are the laws of freedom, but yours are the laws of bondage. Since freedom and bondage are irreconcilable, their laws CANNOT BE UNDERSTOOD TOGETHER. The laws of God work only for your good, and there ARE no other laws beside His. Everything else is merely lawLESS, and therefore chaotic." -<b>Jesus Christ</b> in <b>A Course in Miracles</b> </center>
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Christian Prophethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10020964652943679070noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808757926787581518.post-66445502080312273972015-04-12T08:23:00.000-06:002015-04-27T20:33:41.977-06:00Traits of True Teachers of Liberty: #6 Tolerance<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In one respect, today's libertarian movement is like the Protestant Reformation of the 16th-century.<br />
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Although the Protestant Reformation helped many, many individuals free themselves from Catholic Church oppression, some of the reformers pursued to extreme what they considered to be moral purity, and became known as "Puritans."<br />
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Puritans never attracted a widespread following for two reasons: (1) They were viciously judgmental of any who were not as "pure" as themselves. (2) They could not accept those who were less pure, join with them fully, and enjoy life fully.<br />
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Puritans eventually disappeared from history. Their stance was simply too dishonest to be perpetuated.<br />
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Are there puritans in the current libertarian movement? Oh, yes!<br />
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We know them by their manta, "Principles above political success!" as if political success would not further their principles. To see how illogical this is, imagine liberal-progressives saying, "We don't want to take over the Democratic Party because some Democrats don't really want the same dictatorship over people's lives that we want."<br />
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Because political success can further principles, and because liberty principles apply in a political context and are not furthered in the absence of political success, the mantra, "Principles above political success!" identifies a lose-lose position.<br />
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We also know libertarian puritans by their attacks on Rand Paul or any other liberty-oriented Republican who believes in expanding liberty through actual political success.<br />
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Finally, we know puritan libertarians by their refusal to join in spirit with, and work with, those who they perceive to be less pure than themselves.<br />
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As has been pointed out in previous articles here, libertarians believe in "live and let live," where "live life to the fullest" is the fundamental axiom and "let live" [the NAP] is an important corollary. The very essence of "let live" is tolerance. But questions also arise from the axiom. Is it living life to the fullest to eschew political success? Is it living life to the fullest to be on the attack rather than extending love and joy and inner peace? Is it living life to the fullest to hold oneself apart from joining with others who share extensive common beliefs?<br />
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By not being tolerant and accepting, libertarian puritans are not living the libertarian ideal.<br />
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But wait! Puritans are dishonest?<br />
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Yes, because of their fierce pre-judgment of others. Our Course in Miracles addresses such judgments this way:<br />
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<b><i>"To judge is to be dishonest, for to judge is to assume a position you do not have. Judgment without self-deception is impossible. In order to judge anything rightly, one would have to be fully aware of an inconceivably wide range of things; past, present and to come. One would have to recognize in advance all the effects of his judgments on everyone and everything involved in them in any way. And one would have to be certain there is no distortion in his perception, so that his judgment would be wholly fair to everyone on whom it rests now and in the future. Who is in a position to do this? Who except in grandiose fantasies would claim this for himself?</i></b><br />
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<b><i>"Remember how many times you thought you knew all the 'facts' you needed for judgment, and how wrong you were! Is there anyone who has not had this experience? Would you know how many times you merely thought you were right, without ever realizing you were wrong? Why would you choose such an arbitrary basis for decision making? Wisdom is not judgment; it is the relinquishment of judgment."</i></b><br />
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Relinquishing judgment until the future brings proof is the wise strategy of true teachers of liberty. True teachers of liberty do not point to what may or may not actually be contradictory positions of a professed liberty candidate and say dishonestly, "This proves he is not really for liberty," or "This proves he will never learn and grow and shed seeming contradictions," or "This proves he will never change his position after becoming elected and learning new facts," or "This proves.... (whatever)." Honesty says "nothing whatsoever has yet been proven."<br />
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As the liberty movement grows, there will be many candidates who profess to be working for liberty and who are obviously sincere about liberty, but who may or may not be mistaken on some issues. A true teacher of liberty does not judge beforehand. A true teacher of liberty does not close down his or her love and joy and inner peace like a puritan ... but opens up and happily radiates tolerance.<br />
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History tells us that in the New England colonies, individual freedom only began gaining successes where Puritanism weakened. That's the way tolerance works. So you might want to join with us in declaring:<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Tread on me? That's funny! I'm free!"</span></div>
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The libertarian core lifestyle is "live and let live," where "let live" is one of the main corollaries to the fundamental axiom "live life to the fullest." [See <a href="http://spirituallibertarian.blogspot.com/2014/12/traits-of-true-teachers-of-liberty-2.html" target="_blank">Traits Of True Teachers Of Liberty #2</a>] Therefore to really recognize those who are truly teaching liberty it is necessary to understand what it means to live life to the fullest.<br />
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Ayn Rand did her best to portray fictional heroes who lived life to the fullest. Her novel The Fountainhead begins with the words, <i><b>"Howard Roark laughed."</b></i> Then a few paragraphs later in her narrative: <i><b>"<span style="background-color: white;">He laughed at the thing which had happened to him that morning and at the things which now lay ahead." </span></b></i>That morning Roark had been expelled from Architectural school. The authorities were doing their best to tread on Roark and squash his future. But Roark could only feel the laughter of his deep-seated inner joy. His freedom did not depend on any authorities.<br />
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In Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged, liberal-progressive dictatorship has caused the country to fall apart, all hell has broken loose, and Dagny Taggart has dedicated herself to the impossible task of saving Taggart Transcontinental Railroad or die trying. Her assistant, Eddie Willers, is in emotional chaos and he finds his occasional cafeteria acquaintance, John Galt, the novel's hero, sitting at a lunch table. Eddie joins Galt and begins venting his troubles and frustrations, rambling on. Galt listens, saying little. Suddenly Eddie focuses on Galt:<br />
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<i><b>"You know, I never thought you cared whether you saw me or not, me or anybody, you seemed so complete in yourself, and that's why I liked to talk to you, because I felt that you always understood, but nothing could hurt you - and it made me feel free, as if ... as if there were no pain in the world. Do you know what's strange about your face? You look as if you've never known pain, or fear, or guilt."</b></i><br />
<i><b><br /></b></i>Did you catch Eddie's admission? <i>"And it made me feel free."</i> Do you see how Galt was a true teacher of freedom? He taught wordlessly by being free of pain, or fear, or guilt inside himself.<br />
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Later in their conversation Galt laughs joyously. Willers responds, <i><b>"Stop it, will you? Why do you laugh like that?"</b></i> It doesn't take much for a joyous laugh to erupt spontaneously from Galt. Without pain, fear or guilt, his inner natural joy is always happily percolating just beneath the surface ready to burst forth.<br />
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Our true nature is joy. When we are free, we can't help feeling joy. Yes, we can imprison our joy, lock it down, hold it captive inside ... by creating pain, by thinking there is something to fear, or by letting guilt grip us. And such pain, fear, or guilt would teach bondage to the world. But our joy teaches freedom ... and our joy attracts people to us to learn from us.<br />
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It is impossible to truly teach liberty without joy because those who are not experiencing joy are in some way restricting themselves inside, and those who restrict themselves are teaching restriction to the world, not liberty.<br />
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Some libertarians like to think of themselves as porcupines. But true teachers of liberty do not get their quills up and squeal "Don't tread on me!" True teachers of liberty are more likely to laugh with joy like Howard Roark, and with sparkling eyes pronounce something like:<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I'm free!"</span></center>
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<b><i>To fully grasp how insane the psychology of modern "liberal progressives" really is, read Ayn Rand's novel "Atlas Shrugged."</i></b><br />
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<br /><br />"God's laws will keep your minds at peace, because peace IS His Will, and His laws are established to uphold it. His are the laws of freedom, but yours are the laws of bondage. Since freedom and bondage are irreconcilable, their laws CANNOT BE UNDERSTOOD TOGETHER. The laws of God work only for your good, and there ARE no other laws beside His. Everything else is merely lawLESS, and therefore chaotic." -<b>Jesus Christ</b> in <b>A Course in Miracles</b> </center>
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Christian Prophethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10020964652943679070noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808757926787581518.post-61457996191193154782015-02-11T08:57:00.000-07:002015-02-11T08:57:02.341-07:00Traits of True Teachers of Liberty #4: Patience<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Spirit of Liberty speaks to us in a half-whispered voice: <b><i>"If you patiently build it, they will come."</i></b><br />
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It's hard to say if our dear friends in the <a href="https://freestateproject.org/" target="_blank">Free State Project</a> are patient. Because they advertise themselves as an effort to encourage thousands of liberty loving people to immigrate to New Hampshire in the hopes of creating an intense focus of education and influence toward their goal: <b><i>Liberty In Our Lifetime</i></b>.<br />
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"Liberty In Our Lifetime" is an appealing mantra which can sound less like fantasy, maybe even realistic, to young people who have many years yet to live. In their minds it is a heroic goal which subconsciously engenders a sense of urgency similar to "A Worldwide Caliphate In Our Lifetime" for young Islamic radicals, or "A Utopian Dictatorship In Our Lifetime" for Liberal-Progressive Democrats. We all appreciate the motivation of: "Let's get it done ... now!"<br />
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Hearing this, many older men and women peacefully smile. <i>Their</i> lifetime has taught them it will be done when the universe is <i>darn good and ready</i>. They know impatience actually holds their goal off at arm's length, so to speak, and often creates serious problems. Impatience is a self-imposed bondage which these older and wiser folks do not experience. They feel free. Feeling free, they are extending freedom to the world.<br />
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This series of articles has repeatedly emphasized that every moment we are teaching what we are experiencing inside. To really teach freedom, we must <i><b>be</b></i> free. To the degree men and women are free <i>inside themselves </i>of ego bondage, they are teaching freedom to everyone.<br />
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<i>"But how can a liberty lover be patient when every day brings more slavery to liberal-progressive Utopian fantasies and heightened threat from radical Islamic insanity?"</i><br />
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We are patient because we know the final result. We know liberty is our natural condition, and unnatural circumstances carry the seeds of their own destruction.<br />
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Men and women need political liberty to experience the fullness of life. They need to be free to follow the guidance of their spirit to their highest well-being. They need freedom to experience the consequences of their mistakes so their lessons become integrated deep inside themselves. Nothing is more sure than mankind's progress depending on liberty.<br />
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Likewise, nothing is more certain than liberty ultimately prevailing. The natural condition cannot be ignored forever. We can speed up the time it takes to build liberty by reconsidering all past habits, abandoning those which are actually self-sabotaging, and adopting wiser and more efficient strategies. But we cannot change the end result. The social expressions of the nature of mankind cannot fail to evolve to a mode of liberty.<br />
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Those who understand the certainty of the liberty outcome have no fear of liberal-progressive Utopians. Any such forced Utopian system is destined to self-destruct, as Ayn Rand showed in her novel <i><b>Atlas Shrugged</b></i>. Although the strategy John Galt used in <i><b>Atlas Shrugged</b></i> did indeed serve to speed up the downfall of the story's liberal-progressive rulers, when John is compared to his buddies Francisco d'Anconia and Ragnar Danneskjöld ... we see John lived in supreme patience.<br />
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Neither is there any fear of Islamic militants in one who is certain liberty will prevail. The worship of death is unnatural, so those Muslims who worship death merely defeat their own life. Life always prevails ... patience always prevails.<br />
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A man or woman who is free of the self-imprisoning ego device of impatience is a true teacher of liberty.<br />
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Our dear friends in the <a href="https://freestateproject.org/" target="_blank">Free State Project</a> ... do they feel the peace and joy and love and freedom of patience? Hopefully. Because a true teacher of liberty understands with his or her entire heart and soul that liberty is inevitable, and therefore any piece by piece steps taken in building liberty are experienced as the happy peace by peace steps of patience.<br />
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<b><i>To fully grasp how insane the psychology of modern "liberal progressives" really is, read Ayn Rand's novel "Atlas Shrugged."</i></b><br />
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<br /><br />"God's laws will keep your minds at peace, because peace IS His Will, and His laws are established to uphold it. His are the laws of freedom, but yours are the laws of bondage. Since freedom and bondage are irreconcilable, their laws CANNOT BE UNDERSTOOD TOGETHER. The laws of God work only for your good, and there ARE no other laws beside His. Everything else is merely lawLESS, and therefore chaotic." -<b>Jesus Christ</b> in <b>A Course in Miracles</b> </center>
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Christian Prophethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10020964652943679070noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808757926787581518.post-18058021746779971092015-01-12T11:02:00.001-07:002015-01-12T11:02:38.119-07:00Traits of True Teachers of Liberty: #3 Good Will<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This series of articles has shown that the primary foundation principle of the liberty movement is man's right to live life to the fullest, while an accompanying (but corollary) principle is letting others live life to the fullest. We even define a true teacher of liberty by his or her adherence to <b><i>live and let live</i></b>. (See <a href="http://spirituallibertarian.blogspot.com/2014/10/who-are-true-teachers-of-liberty.html" target="_blank">Who Are the True Teachers of Liberty?</a>) But there is more. There are other secondary principles.<br />
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It is possible to <i><b>let live</b></i> in the sense of not forcing or defrauding my neighbor, while yet holding something against him in my mind. I may still be judging him negatively, attacking him in thought, holding a grievance against him. Psychologically, attack thoughts and holding grievances are a way of holding my neighbor in my mind as if in a jail without bail. I am not teaching freedom to the world.<br />
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<i><b>Who could be set free while he imprisons anyone? A jailer is not free, for he is bound together with his prisoner. He must be sure that he does not escape, and so he spends his time in keeping watch on him. The bars which limit him become the world in which the jailer lives, along with him. And it is on his freedom that the way to liberty depends for both of them. Therefore hold no-one prisoner. Release instead of bind, for thus are you made free.
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- Jesus Christ in his modern day revelation, <a href="http://constitutionparti.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">A Course in Miracles</a><br />
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To <i><b>really</b></i> teach liberty to the world my mind must be free of attack thoughts, which means I must live with goodwill toward everyone. I must hope everyone finds the fullness of life. A true teacher of liberty is infused with <i><b>goodwill</b></i> toward others, because simply letting live in the physical sense (although a prerequisite) is not all that goes into my own living life to the fullest.<br />
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Some might ask, "But what if your neighbor thinks it's okay to rule your life as long as it is majority rule? Why would you want to wish the best for him?"<br />
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The answer is because what is best for him is not what he thinks in this case. He may be unaware that his ego-desire to rule is actually hurting him, not serving him. Wishing him the best means wishing him what is <b><i>really</i></b> good for him. In this circumstance, his true good is giving up his addiction to majority rule dictatorship (democracy).<br />
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Our goal in the liberty movement is to help people get in touch with their natural but possibly deeply buried desire for liberty. When we attack others or see them as unworthy of good, we are actually sabotaging the achievement of our goal. Only our goodwill frees others to let down their defenses and experience the freedom we would experience with them. Liberty thrives on goodwill.<br />
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<b><i>To fully grasp how insane the psychology of modern "liberal progressives" really is, read Ayn Rand's novel "Atlas Shrugged."</i></b><br />
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<br /><br />"God's laws will keep your minds at peace, because peace IS His Will, and His laws are established to uphold it. His are the laws of freedom, but yours are the laws of bondage. Since freedom and bondage are irreconcilable, their laws CANNOT BE UNDERSTOOD TOGETHER. The laws of God work only for your good, and there ARE no other laws beside His. Everything else is merely lawLESS, and therefore chaotic." -<b>Jesus Christ</b> in <b>A Course in Miracles</b> </center>
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Christian Prophethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10020964652943679070noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808757926787581518.post-45914082162031817572014-12-09T16:56:00.000-07:002015-01-11T10:55:11.969-07:00Traits of True Teachers of Liberty: #2 Heart & Soul Desire<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We have seen that the cornerstone principle of true teachers of liberty is <b><i>live and let live</i></b>. (See <a href="http://spirituallibertarian.blogspot.com/2014/10/who-are-true-teachers-of-liberty.html" target="_blank">Who Are the True Teachers of Liberty?</a>) Yet the two parts of this principle are not on the same level. <i>Live</i> is deeper and constitutes the <b><i>reason</i></b> for <i>let live</i>. A true teacher of liberty is primarily moved by a strong inner desire to live freely in the way the depths of his heart and soul guide him to live. And only because he is in touch with his desire to live as his free spirit wants him to live does he then feel an accompanying desire to let others live as so guided ... to <i>let live</i>.<br />
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"<i>Let live</i>" in a more complex society is also known as "political liberty." Our inner spirit (life force) is already free and guides us in any particular outer context to the maximum happiness possible under the circumstances. But our spirit wants for us political liberty because if freedom in society is at its greatest then our spirit can give guidance for the greatest creativity, the greatest lessons, the greatest fulfillment.<br />
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This desire to let live is felt at a deep heart and soul level because at this level we intuitively know we are all in this together, really all one in spirit. (Christians will recall the words of Jesus: <i><b>"Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me."</b></i> --Matthew 25:40)<br />
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But in situations where there is a collision between the two parts of <i>live</i> and <i>let live</i> ... <i><b>live</b></i> takes precedence. If someone is shooting at him with a gun, a man in touch with his deepest desire <i><b>adheres to</b></i> the principle of <i>live</i>, and in this instance <b><i>acts against</i></b> the principle of <i>let live</i>. Philosophers might argue that <i>let live</i> is a corollary which only applies in a context of two or more, and it is the attacker who abandons the principle of <i>let live</i>.<br />
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Expanding this logically, because political dictatorship is an attack on one's freedom to live life to the fullest, a man in touch with his heart and soul does not let live when responding to political dictatorship. His heart and soul does not want dictatorship to live. Such a man may feel guided to speak for political liberty, teach political liberty, market political liberty, and in the United States maybe even run as a Libertarian Party or Republican Liberty Caucus candidate to gain leverage in influencing for political liberty. In other places or times he may even take up arms and fight for political liberty. In doing his part to end dictatorship he <b><i>is</i></b> being loyal to his deep desire to live life to the fullest.<br />
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By way of contrast, consider a liberal-progressive who is willing to be a dictator (or vote for a dictator) to achieve his Utopian ideals. His ideals <i><b>seem</b></i> to him and many others to be beneficial, so why is he willing to be a dictator? Because his agendas and schemes are intellectually derived, constructed in his brain, rather than heard from (or felt from) the depths of his heart and soul. They are goals based on spiritless brainy cleverness rather than on the infinite volcanic power of heart and soul, so he doesn't trust they can be achieved without dictatorship. He is afraid of what would happen if he totally let live. Feeling such fear, and the accompanying impulse to control others, he is not living life to the fullest. It is impossible to find a liberal-progressive who feels truly deeply fulfilled ... because there are none.<br />
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To a human being living among others, liberty is a deep natural desire. Those who have not used ego-intellectualism to block out, bury, and deny this natural desire feel its power in their heart and soul moving them. At one time in history it was called the "spirit of liberty" and recognized as infinitely more powerful that any possible intellectual justifications for dictatorship or for submitting to dictatorship.<br />
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To our heart and soul, life is the expression of our spirit not the movement of our physical body. So there may be severe conditions under which without freedom our spirit is so closed down that it's not even worth going through the motions of physical life. In the film "Braveheart," William Wallace rallies an entire army by putting them in touch with their heart and soul desire:<br />
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<b><i>"Aye, fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live... at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willin' to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take... OUR FREEDOM!"</i></b><br />
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<b><i>To fully grasp how insane the psychology of modern "liberal progressives" really is, read Ayn Rand's novel "Atlas Shrugged."</i></b><br />
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<br /><br />"God's laws will keep your minds at peace, because peace IS His Will, and His laws are established to uphold it. His are the laws of freedom, but yours are the laws of bondage. Since freedom and bondage are irreconcilable, their laws CANNOT BE UNDERSTOOD TOGETHER. The laws of God work only for your good, and there ARE no other laws beside His. Everything else is merely lawLESS, and therefore chaotic." -<b>Jesus Christ</b> in <b>A Course in Miracles</b> </center>
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Christian Prophethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10020964652943679070noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808757926787581518.post-9155422331280587892014-11-03T21:16:00.001-07:002014-11-03T21:16:06.916-07:00Traits of True Teachers of Liberty: #1 Trust<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The first and foremost, bottom-line principle of true teachers of liberty is <b><i>live and let live</i></b>. (See <a href="http://spirituallibertarian.blogspot.com/2014/10/who-are-true-teachers-of-liberty.html" target="_blank">Who Are the True Teachers of Liberty?</a>) Now observe those who truly live and let live. Their most obvious fundamental characteristic is <i><b>trust</b></i>.<br />
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This is because it is impossible to fully, consistently live and let live without trust. Those who are not trusting tread through their days with vision obscured and steps made unsure by a cloud of fear. Those who trust stroll forward with head held high and a bounce in their step every moment as if trust is their bright sunlight. Those who are not trusting cannot help but feel the need to sometimes manipulate or control others. Those who trust can afford to simply laugh and let others be.<br />
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In the early 1860s when "In God We Trust" was added to American coins, the original proposal was to add "Our Country, Our God, Our Trust," almost as if trust was important separate from belief in God. Of course the proposal came from spiritual people who claimed that the trust they referred to was trust in God. But the way it was originally proposed leads to deeper thought.<br />
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Whether one's trust is considered to be trust in God, or trust in the laws of nature, or trust in a deeper innate goodness in human beings which doesn't always show on the surface, or trust in angels, or trust in visitors from outer space ... it's trust. And liberty cannot be truly taught, in every respect, every moment of every day by those who lack trust.<br />
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True teachers of liberty have learned that the world is not governed by laws the world has made up. They recognize the world is governed by a power working in everyone and everything beneath surface appearances everywhere at all times. Being conscious of such a power (whether they give it a name or leave it nameless), they understand that everything is unfolding in some kind of perfect order. They can now trust.<br />
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True teachers of liberty see that in everything cycles are at work. "Here today, gone tomorrow" is not fearful to those who trust. Neither is any currently difficult situation, which they know will change soon enough. They understand that as a whole the human race is evolving, and even seeming steps backward are part of the process. They are at peace with change, knowing all change is helpful.<br />
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<b><i>It is one kind of new vision to realize that if my most adamant "enemies" release resistance to me, they are working for me without knowing it. It is even a broader vision to see that ultimately everyone is working in my favor. Finally, it is a totally enlightened vision which sees that all things are working together for my good ... no matter how situations might look when judging by mere surface appearances. -- <a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/1995/06/course-in-political-miracles-lesson-24.html" target="_blank">Course in Political Miracles, Lesson 24</a></i></b><br />
<b><i><br /></i></b>The trust which permeates true teachers of liberty imbues them with a happy lightheartedness that is very attractive. People want to be around such teachers, listen to them, and absorb their ideas both consciously and subconsciously. No better teachers exist.<br />
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On a deeper level, perhaps it is trust itself that is so heroic and attractive. Perhaps it is trust itself that teaches liberty. Even so freedom zealots can do no better than to march forward with the motto:<br />
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<b><i>To fully grasp how insane the psychology of modern "liberal progressives" really is, read Ayn Rand's novel "Atlas Shrugged."</i></b><br />
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<br /><br />"God's laws will keep your minds at peace, because peace IS His Will, and His laws are established to uphold it. His are the laws of freedom, but yours are the laws of bondage. Since freedom and bondage are irreconcilable, their laws CANNOT BE UNDERSTOOD TOGETHER. The laws of God work only for your good, and there ARE no other laws beside His. Everything else is merely lawLESS, and therefore chaotic." -<b>Jesus Christ</b> in <b>A Course in Miracles</b> </center>
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Christian Prophethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10020964652943679070noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-808757926787581518.post-38351218236563531562014-10-05T10:12:00.000-06:002014-10-05T10:12:47.495-06:00Who Are The True Teachers of Liberty?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Who are the true teachers of liberty?<br />
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The answer is: anyone who makes a conscious and determined choice to <b><i>live and let live</i></b>. There are no other qualifications. We teach what we are. If our deeply felt goal is to live our lives in the way we prefer while not interfering with others living their lives as they so choose, we are teaching liberty. If we have no interest in imposing our values or schemes on others and no desire for others to force their beliefs and designs on us, we are teaching liberty.<br />
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<i><b>Live and let live</b></i> are "two sides of the same coin," so to speak. Once we have made the choice to be responsible for our own lives we cannot logically deny others the same possibility. Any attempt to do so would be a dishonest betrayal of our own value since we cannot with integrity see our interests in this respect as different from anyone else's. A choice to live life according to our own choosing while not in any way trying to limit the same opportunity of others makes us true teachers of liberty.<br />
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True teachers of liberty come from anywhere, from every political background or from a life of no political interest whatsoever. They are simply those who have felt their true innermost desire for peace, and awakened to the knowledge that <i><b>live and let live</b></i> is the necessary precondition of peace. They have discovered that by experiencing peace in their own dealings with others they teach mankind one of the crucial final lessons mankind is to learn: complete relinquishment of attack. True teachers of liberty do not attack others either in thought, word, or deed; nor through lawful or lawless agents. Thus they are the only teachers who teach peace to the world.<br />
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As the world learns to <i><b>live and let live</b></i>, fear of others is released everywhere; for who would fear others if mankind has learned not to attack? When fear is released, love rushes in to fill the vacuum; for fear is merely mankind's device for holding back the natural flow of love. Thus true teachers of liberty do not teach with fear, but teach only love.<br />
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The call of love and liberty is universal, within every man, woman, and child. It is everywhere a never ending beckoning to be heard by those who are ready and willing to hear. Someday everyone will answer, so a <i><b>live and let live</b></i> world is inevitable. Yet eons of time can drag on before that day. So true teachers of liberty ... teachers who truly experience peace and joy and love extending to all without exception ... are needed for mankind to make progress.<br />
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<i><b>"Live and let live happens to be a very meaningful injunction. Twist reality in any way, and you are perceiving destructively. Reality was lost through usurpation, which in turn produced tyranny. I told you you were now restored to your former role in the Plan of Atonement. But you must still choose freely to devote your heritage to the greater Restoration. As long as a single slave remains to walk the earth, your release is not complete."</b></i> -- Jesus Christ in his revelation for the 21st Century, <a href="http://constitutionparti.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">A Course in Miracles</a>.<br />
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Your decision to become a true teacher of liberty is your answer to the highest calling among mankind.<br />
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<b><i>To fully grasp how insane the psychology of modern "liberal progressives" really is, read Ayn Rand's novel "Atlas Shrugged."</i></b><br /><br />
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