Maggie's Farm

I just want to know one thing. If an Ice Age returns will Maggies Farm continue to post those beautiful pictures of Theo's girl's or some from a similar venue. I mean we do have concerns.

Contra position: Love cannot exists without pain Anchoress


Why I Am Not A Christian
by Bertrand Russell

The Existence of God
To come to this question of the existence of God: it is a large and serious question, and if I were to attempt to deal with it in any adequate manner I should have to keep you here until Kingdom Come, so that you will have to excuse me if I deal with it in a somewhat summary fashion. You know, of course, that the Catholic Church has laid it down as a dogma that the existence of God can be proved by the unaided reason. That is a somewhat curious dogma, but it is one of their dogmas. They had to introduce it because at one time the freethinkers adopted the habit of saying that there were such and such arguments which mere reason might urge against the existence of God, but of course they knew as a matter of faith that God did exist. The arguments and the reasons were set out at great length, and the Catholic Church felt that they must stop it. Therefore they laid it down that the existence of God can be proved by the unaided reason and they had to set up what they considered were arguments to prove it. There are, of course, a number of them, but I shall take only a few.

• The First-cause Argument
• The Natural-law Argument
• The Argument from Design
• The Moral Arguments for Deity
• The Argument for the Remedying of Injustice
• The Character of Christ
• Defects in Christ's Teaching
• The Moral Problem
• The Emotional Factor
• How the Churches Have Retarded Progress
• Fear, the Foundation of Religion
• What We Must Do

http://users.drew.edu/~jlenz/whynot.html

Caution: Not recommended reading unless you want to have your beliefs severely challenged.

Jephnol,

Great words of wisdom and insight. I do not subscribe to Russell I simply threw him out there. Your "I have many faiths that exist apart from proof, but I've adopted Rilke's admonition to embrace the question and move on...always living", is as good a human approach as I can think of.

Since ultimately God's existence rests on faith, I believe I'll go with the faith part.
Thanks for the great insight.

Yesterday large parts of Florida went "grid down". The cause remains definitively undefined to the general public but one thing does not.

Bringing the US to a total "grid down" situation is noy a difficult task. As my wife and I have traveled this state I have often pointed out "soft points" to attack in bringing down large parts of the grid. Many of these soft point are no more than thirty feet off the road, protected by only a chain link fence.

From my 30 year old training in sabotage I can tell you that a length of chain thrown over the fence will often times do the trick. Things today are much more sophisticated and a computer hack is probably the best way. It can be done from half way around the globe or from outer space.

The point here is that you'd better damn well be prepared for a "grid down" situation lasting at least a week if not a month or two ( look no further than Katrina, a natural disaster , not an operational attack)...food , water ,medicines, armed protection from marauders all come into play. Be prepared..and most of you aren't.

Read Survival Blog daily http://survivalblog.com/

Luther,

Great article http://pajamasmedia.com/xpress/phyllischesler/


I have mentioned before that our Constitution and Bill of Rights was not meant to be a suicide pact. That Islam is allowed the status of a religion is fine and dandy for the world, but the United States would be better served by classifying it as an ideology, a clear and present danger philosophy , given it's history and ideology.

If we can recognize nations as legitimate or illegitimate then we can certainly do the same to false "religions" whose professed ideololgy is to subjugate us into slavery.

I know it is difficult to get over local or long standing prejudices, yet if we will suffer ourselves to examine the component parts of Islam we shall find them to be the base of tyrannies, compounded with some trappings of "religion"

We can not allow this ideology to take hold in this country under the guise of a "religion", for if we do we will soon find our foundations challenged by philosophical ideologies inimical to the freedoms we now possess.

I challenge the warmest advocate for reconciliation, to show, a single advantage that this continent can reap, by harboring Islam within our shores. I repeat the challenge, not a single advantage is derived.

But the injuries and disadvantages we sustain by that connection, are without number; and our duty to mankind at large, as well as to ourselves, instruct us to renounce Islam as a religion and formalize it as an inimical ideology just as was National Socialism or Communism: Because, any submission to Islam will eventually involve this continent in a civil war, as the variances of goals between Islam and the Judeo Christian ethic are too great to overcome peacefully.

I can't emphasize enough reading Survival Blog every day.

I would also buy his book, Patriots, which has a good story line laced with practical knowledge, It's a page turner.


Here is a small portion of Patriots....just to get the wheels turning http://tinyurl.com/2v8xwu


I've also included another section of the Survival blogs writing:

http://tinyurl.com/2kohqe


Have your wife read the book excerpt and see what she has to say..it usually scares the hell out of people who believe this could never happen.

Best
Habu

http://survivalblog.com/

Luther,

I believe you're right. The one possible shot we have short of a massive attack on the US is that used by the conservative movement. It took from the late 1950's, and really the 1964 run by Barry Goldwater and the riveting speech by Ron Reagan for the movement to begin to gel. By 1980, just 16 years, Ronald Reagan was in the WH and conservatism was a force. It's still is a force ,just now leadership is the problem.

If we continue to let our Congressmen know our feelings their are some who will carry that water. If that fails I truly believe we're in for a shooting war on this continent. I simply do not see any other way out given Islams avowed pledge to place us in submission. I will not submit, nor I would bet, will you.

Semper Fi

Wages,money, what money ?

Most Americans have to work; they depend on their earnings to live. Without the income from their labor, they'd be destitute in a matter of weeks.

But inflation reduces the value of wages. The gold-linked dollar was never a perfectly stable currency. It went up and down. But the dollar of 1930 was still worth about as much as the dollar from Washington's era. Then, the link with gold was weakened; between '30 and '71, the greenback lost about 70% of its value. After 1971, there was no link to gold at all and the dollar fell even faster. If a dollar was worth 100 cents in 1930, by 1971 it was worth only 30 cents…and by 2007…only about 5 cents.

The decline of the dollar, along with the competition from low-cost Asian and Mexican laborers, is why Americans have had no real wage increases in 30 years. For every gain they make, the dollar goes down in value to offset it. In the last 6 years alone, the dollar has lost 36% of its value - as measured against other currencies. Shops in New York are beginning to take euros, reports the Washington Post