"The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.” -St. Augustine-
“You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.” Victor Hugo
“If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!” ― victor hugos, Les Misérables
“Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.”Victor Hugo
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“We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.“ -Winston Churchill-
Everything seems to be slip sliding away, why are we letting this happen? If the current state of our country and society doesn't bother you enough to pay attention you don't deserve the freedom that better men and women paid the ultimate price for in the past.
Yes....pray for our country but also find the courage and required vigilance from within which is needed to help preserve freedom and our way of life.
Freedom isn't free. Do not forget the brave men and women from the past who paid the ultimate price in preserving freedom. US military veterans deserve the utmost respect. I salute and thank all veterans past and present who served this nation.
People refusing to take action against great injustice is the greatest problem we face today. Tyranny can not exist without compliancy by the many.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQBOUmoLBV0
Benjamin Franklin was walking out of Independence Hall after the Constitutional Convention in 1787, when someone shouted out, “Doctor, what have we got? A republic or a monarchy?”
To which Franklin supposedly responded, with a rejoinder at once witty and ominous: “A republic, if you can keep it.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNwVRapEijs
I enjoy writing, I find myself reading and writing more and more. Writing a story or an article is like putting the pieces of a puzzle together. Always editing and attempting to convey one's thoughts in a better way.
Having a particular website/publisher then print your work, gives you a sense of pride. To have a positive effect upon another person's mind, just simply makes a writer feel good.
Being able to convey and then arouse thinking and emotion within another human being is one of the goals of writing. Just to be able to teach something important to another human being through the use of prose, gives one a good feeling.
Writing is becoming a lost art. Nobody is willing to do it anymore, especially within a world that is severely lacking in patience. People who don't write at all, lose their ability to think, this leads to other people thinking for them, without them even realizing it.
Writing is the exercising of the mind, people who refuse to do so will eventually lose their ability to think for themselves and their ability to recognize the more important things in life. The things which make life what it's all about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AyjKgz9tKg&t=1s
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I write poetry, if you type in poetry above my posts in the search box, a whole bunch of poems I have written will appear. I enjoy writing and touching people's heart, mind and soul through the written word.
You will also find a collection of most of my poems in the collection feature.
I also write about politics. Mainly because the people in power have a huge effect upon our every day lives. If you don't hold them accountable for their policies and laws, then you don't have a right to complain. Shutting off reality doesn't make it go away.We need to get involved in our community and make sure our country remains free. Tyranny is always lurking about looking to take advantage of a society which is willfully ignorant and docile. Become involved in how your country is run or suffer the consequences. Stay informed with multiple news services or be content to exist rather than live, it's your choice.
Some of my favorite quotes:
“If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.” -Winston Churchill-
"A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, ‘You are mad; you are not like us.' " -St. Anthony the Great-
"Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” He also said “The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.” -Dietrich Bonhoeffer-
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." -Edmund Burke-
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free." -Ronald Reagan-
“We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.”-Ayn Rand-
The hardest thing about the road not taken is that you never know where it might have led.” --Lisa Wingate, A Month of Summer--
"Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.” Benjamin Franklin
"If you have to be persuaded, reminded, pressured, lied to, incentivized, coerced, bullied, socially shamed, guilt-tripped, threatened, punished and criminalized … If all of this is considered necessary to gain your compliance — you can be absolutely certain that what is being promoted is not in your best interest.” – Ian Watson-
"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive." C.S. Lewis
I enjoy good conversation and I will give my personal opinion on just about everything, including politics. I tend to be blunt, real and honest. I always wonder to myself, what could have been. I enjoy 40s-80s music, 30s40s50s60s70s80s movies, history, baseball, football, basketball, horse racing, politics and people who have an open mind. I have extensive collections of movies/dvds, books, music and old film/movie star photos.
I aslo enjoy finding and posting quotes with meaning and purpose. I used to jog but have gained a few pounds and I am now walking, hoping to run again one day. I enjoy playing wordscapes, to keep my thinking mind as sharp as possible. I like flea markets and garage sales.
UPDATE.... REGARDING MY WEIGHT, I am currently on a journey to lose 90 lbs, I've been down this long and arduous process twice in my life. I am currently only 11 lbs away from that goal. It has taken 15 months now. I am still walking and now watching what I eat, choosing a better limited diet. I am also able to finally jog over the past six months.
My bloodwork has improved dramatically to almost normal levels, I am no longer pre-diabetic and things are looking better. Anybody can achieve this with grit, determination and consistency.
Life is hard, bad health contributes to depression, we all have the ability to change. It's up to each individual to decide to make the change. I am grateful I have made this choice.
I encourage everybody to get on the road to better health, without good health life is so much harder. Good luck to all who are on the path to better health. Make tomorrow, the first day in changing your life. Changing is a hard process, but well worth it. CONSISTENCY IS THE KEY, I found out that I could cheat and treat myself occasionally regarding a diet, but I realize that I can't do this often. Good luck to those struggling right now.
UPDATE MARCH 2024, I lost the 90 lbs, probably could lose ten more pounds. Working with light weights and still jogging and walking. Need to improve diet.
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Please don't settle for existing in this:
Time marches on, the passage of time forever throws darts directly into the souls which care deeply.
I am a PRO-LIFE Constitutional Conservative Catholic who believes in traditional family values and individual liberty. I believe in America and not globalism. I reject the technocratic police state and all its government over reach. Without individual liberty and freedom of speech, we will no longer have a Constitutional Republic, but rather a tyranny.
I hate cell phones and this age of convenience. It is creating a generation of drones who fear logic and truth. Happiness is meaningless without purpose. Google is not your friend.
Are you an individual or part of a collective hive? [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX4MKIDvXLM]
How do you measure a man? [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYLbASoecyc]
How do you handle your wins and losses in life? [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iShuZvyDHA]
Do you have the patience to listen? [youtube=https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UciwKFyyG8s]
NOSTALGIA, TIMES I WISH I COULD RETURN TO:
Dion - Written on the Subway Wall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4S45U60A3s
Paul Simon - Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard (Official Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6VrKro8djw
Baseball (Willie, Mickey, & the Duke)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCp6D8-NEF4
Sadly at times, you need to let people ride on because you just can't keep up with them.
Wake me up when September ends, The waning memories of a dear old friend, Nothing left to do but pretend, for I am here alone with poems I can no longer send,
Just like two drifting ships with heavy burdens and blowing masts, The haunting memories of a Summer long ago and forever past, A gentle reminder for a solitary soul: nothing ever really seems to last,
Recalling when a renewed springtime engulfed my yearning heart, Now there is only Winter left within a soul completely torn apart,
April she was still, my heart and soul she once did fill,
May she longed to stay, June the flowers were there to pick every single day, two souls just trying to make their way,
July flew quickly by, August brought nothing but empty sighs,
September I said my final goodbye to my dear old friend, The cold Autumn wind brought everything to its predictable end,
No longer able to search for or find, That elusive feeling called peace of mind....
“The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.” – John Stuart Mill-
If we don't respect and defend the most innocent in life, we will forever exist in a world of darkness, where are soul becomes so corrupted, we lose touch with reality.
Life is about the choices we make and the priorities we hold. When we compromise on the important stuff, we lose our ability to see truth. Without truth, we have nothing.
"The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.” -St. Augustine-
"You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor." -Aristotle-
“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” -John Wayne-
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved." -Helen Keller-
"For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?" -Jesus Christ-
"Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul." -Democritus-
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin-
Life is never really changing....In the end we are all human and eventually pass on to the next life. But when we are here we all some want peace of mind and just a nice place to live. We all want to feel good and listen to a good song now and then.
We all want to live but most of us just wind up existing.....Seek the truth and live the truth. Ask this question every day before you get up in the morning and right before you go to sleep....
"To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That’s what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul – would you understand why that’s much harder?" -Ayn Rand-
Victor Hugo: 'Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.'
