Libertarian Spirit Shared By Everyone

" 'I will forgive you if you meet my needs, for in your slavery is my release.' Say this to anyone and you are slave. And you will seek to rid yourself of guilt in further bargains which can give no hope, but only greater pain and misery." ~ Jesus Christ The fundamental question of political philosophy is: how much slavery are you willing to live with? If you are willing to fight battles over who pretends to be "master" and who appears to be "slave," then it doesn't matter whether you call yourself liberal, conservative, moderate, authoritarian, or libertarian ... for in any case you are willing to enslave yourself by holding fixed ideas as to what is right and what is wrong for yourself, and others . The only freedom, the only non-slave state of being, is a totally open mind which listens inside and says: "Here is what my spirit (Christians, read: Holy Spirit) is guiding for ME. I have no idea what the spirit in others is guiding for THEM...

"We have learned that behavior is not the level for either teaching or learning. This must be so, because you can act in accordance with what you do not believe. But this will weaken you as teachers and learners because, as has been repeatedly emphasized, you teach what you do believe. An inconsistent lesson will be poorly taught and poorly learned." -A Course in Miracles The Republican Party under John McCain cannot survive as a republican party. A split mind cannot teach consistency, and a political party which abandons its commitment to constitutional republicanism is equivalent to a parasite eating its host and finding itself with nothing left to sustain its life. And yet the Republican Party is crucial to saving the U.S. Constitution and republican government. So what is Ron Paul to do if McCain becomes the nominee? A strategy must be put into place which 1) saves the Republican Party from itself, and 2) creates a consistent and integrated Republican Party for the futu...

"Your past learning must have taught you the wrong things, simply because it has not made you happy. On this basis alone, its value should be questioned. If learning aims at change, and that is always its purpose, are you satisfied with the changes yours has brought you? Dissatisfaction with the learning outcome must be a sign of learning failure, because it means that you did not get what you want." -A Course in Miracles The 2008 election cycle is fascinating to watch because everyone agrees it is about change , but with the possible exception of Ron Paul and Mitt Romney nobody seems to understand that change depends on learning something very different from what has been learned in the past. Hillary Clinton's idea of change is to take over power from George Bush and institute a continuation of the former Clinton administration of the 1990s, only this time with Democrats in control of Congress so programs can be passed which work toward perpetuating Democratic Party rule...

"The Holy Spirit has the task of UNDOING what the ego has made. It must undo it in the same realm of discourse in which the ego itself operates, or the mind would be unable to understand the change." -A Course in Miracles Ron Paul may have substantial support in the ultimate Louisiana GOP delegation. Uncommitted delegates who lead the slate are committed to not supporting McCain. Ron Paul was next in line. Despite the establishment media's mantra that Republicans will very soon be down to a three man race: McCain, Romney and Giuliani ... Ron Paul even before Louisiana had 4 times as many delegates as Giuliani. (Actually, Real Clear Politics has reported that Giuliani has only one delegate so far, while Ron Paul has 4. Of course the accuracy of this count is not real clear, since The Green Papers shows Ron Paul with 8 delegates and Giuliani with zero.) However many delegates he has, Ron Paul is happy because his message is being heard and money keeps rolling in so he can ...

"I once asked you to sell all you have and give to the poor and follow me. This is what I meant. If you have no investment in anything in this world, you can teach the poor where their treasure is. The poor are merely those who have invested wrongly, and they are poor indeed! Because they are in need it is given you to help them, since you are among them. Consider how perfectly your lesson would be learned if you were unwilling to share their belief in poverty." -Jesus Christ The Barack Obama frenzy seems like a cultural fad which on the surface appears to have grown out of Obama's youth, beauty, and spell-binding oratory. Nonetheless, there are dozens in the radio, television and film industry who are young, handsome and captivating speakers. So there has to be more to the Obama phenomena. The answer lies in Obama's Marxist "Liberation Theology." Not that voters would support Marxism if Obama was honest about his beliefs. But the Marxist establishment, nowa...

"We said that peace must first surmount the obstacle of your desire to get rid of it. Where the attraction of guilt holds sway, peace is not wanted. The second obstacle that peace must flow across, and closely related to the first, is the belief that the body is valuable for what it offers." -A Course in Miracles The "mainstream" media (read "liberal-left" media) has adored Ron Paul's talk of leaving oppressed people (oppressed by socialist governments) to fend for themselves, not volunteering to intervene to help them. To be sure, Americans have been brainwashed by the left-wing media day in and day out, night in and night out, for years now. Probably some Ron Paul supporters have grown up never hearing any other side of the story. But a close observation of the majority of Ron Paul supporters shows they are not all anti-intervention mudddleheads. For most Ron Paul supporters, for example, the Iraq war is not the main issue. Their "first things ...

Arkansans talk for, against Huckabee in Iowa Friday, Dec 14, 2007 By Aaron Sadler Stephens Washington Bureau (Click to read entire story: Arkansans Talk For, Against Huckabee in Iowa WASHINGTON - Dueling bands of Arkansas travelers hit Iowa on Thursday with drastically different accounts of Mike Huckabee's record as governor. Republican ex-legislators squared off on a Des Moines, Iowa, radio talk show, then campaigned in the state ahead of its GOP presidential caucus Jan. 3. Huckabee brought to Iowa a group of five Arkansas Republicans who praised his tenure and compared him to GOP icon Ronald Reagan. Meanwhile, Huckabee foes from the governor's native state said Huckabee was more like a former president that Republicans disdain. "He's a pro-gun, pro-life Bill Clinton," said former state Sen. Jim Holt, R-Springdale, "(with) his communications skills, his likability and the way he's governed with taxes and all." A five-day visit to Iowa by Holt and fo...