Years ago I was doing some temp work at the Museum of Fine Arts in San Francisco and they decided to replace all of their computers. A few of my co-workers rummaged through to find the working keyboards, mouses, and monitors which they then sold.
My first forays into dumpster diving began in college as I observed my peers tossing perfectly good furniture, paintings, etc. into the already overflowing dumpsters. Over 40 years later, I've still got a numbered image of the Olympia beer girl which might actually be worth quite a bit now.
Yesterday, I spent 15 minutes shopping in one of the local thrift stores and purchased two really nice Hawaiian shirts for a buck a piece. For some reason, inflation hasn't hit the thrift stores yet. I've got two brand new golf shirts with the original price stickers still on them for a dollar each. A savings of over $40.00
Someone parked a chair outside our dumpster and outfitted their child's dorm for next fall that way--got a Keurig, a rug, a mirror, plastic drawers...all free.
You are refreshing and valiant in your truth and courage. I grew up in the late 50's and 60's~I feel your pain. I experienced the changes in our culture through the years and felt our strength slipping away and become chaotic. disjointed and scattered. All in the plan. The younger generations have an extremely hard future ahead of them., but then the cycle continues. I've wondered through all of this why we can't get off this treadmill and learn from thousands of years of empires collapsing. Why can't this time be different? Why can't we rise to overcome? I spent years trying to tell people of the communism coming and the slavery their children would face but normalcy bias wins out, almost always. I'm not getting any younger and so I am embracing the rest of my life devoted to God and enjoying his world as it was meant to be held sacred and appreciated. May your children always be courageous and rise to the good fight as I hope others will. I believe God is listening and waits~
Thank you, Rose, and so nice to hear from you. What beautiful words, and it's so encouraging to receive them. Walking with God in the later decades of life is finishing well, and I am even now embracing that same vision.
You are correct that people get used to decline, and it becomes normal, acceptable--the bar drops lower every year. However, I'm somewhat hopeful that the younger generation is beginning to tire of the depravity and idiocy that now passes as "culture" and "government" in our country. Perhaps they will realize that not one single shred of evidence suggests that rejecting God and abandoning faith has brought a single positive thing to our country. You could show people all the timelines and data pointing to this obvious truth, but if their eyes have not been spiritually opened, it is in vain.
Therefore, all my hope must be accompanied by daily prayer for regenerated hearts and transformed minds among our young, which is a prayer consistent with God's will. Thank you, again, for sharing!
This essay isn't about genocide, and only you can decide what it implies. Rather, this essay is about a country and belief system worth defending. I will never apologize for loving my country or its flag, even though the values they represent have become unfashionable. Such wisdom is ignored by those who think communism, socialism or Islamic rule somehow offer bright and more equitable futures. Therefore, when the good, the true, or the beautiful are still found among us, I celebrate it.
RT - this country you try to defend no longer exists - and our problem is NOT communism, socialism or Islamic rule. The question that needs to be asked is: How did we get here and who is our enemy? Please listen to to both Jesus and His apostle John - DaSynagogue of Satan is our enemy and a death cult - https://crushlimbraw.blogspot.com/search?q=DaSynagogue+Satan&updated-max=2024-02-12T11:25:00-08:00&max-results=20&start=0&by-date=false&m=1 - a list of headnotes to articles by various authors archived in DaLimbraw Library on DSOS - it was destroyed as a geographic entity in 70 AD by the Romans - and is rapidly gaining enemies as we speak. Unfortunately - or perhaps fortunately - it will take down DaUSA and Europe as well, since they're both mindless puppets of DSOS.
Anything DSOS touches gets destroyed......just give it time.....including themselves.
This clown show will continue until the pulpits and pews get their act together and destroy churchianity - which is nothing more than pretending to be Christianity!
I expect this reality will be very difficult for anyone to see or comprehend who has been deceived by endless propaganda in our public schools, media and many of our churches.
The Bible clearly instructs us as Christians to examine ourselves and prove all things and not be deceived by wolves in sheep's clothing.
And BTW - did you notice what our congressional house passed just a few days ago?
Of course we are to examine ourselves and not place our eternal and ultimate hope in earthly kingdoms and systems of government. The world and its systems will one day pass away, but we are not to obsess over the unfolding of times that are known only to God. He has told us to be faithful to the end--scripture is clear on how to live a life pleasing to God, even in a country that has strayed far from his word. Paul warns against strange teachings and futile arguments.
Your original article lauded the frat boys (I was one many moons ago btw) for flag raising and you clearly denigrated the protesters against genocide in Gaza. You might read both posts at Unz today for better perspective - https://www.unz.com/
If 'we are not to obsess over the unfolding of times that are known only to God'........ but what if those unfoldings are shown daily on TV and visible to the whole world......as in Gaza? What exactly is our purpose here on earth as Christians.......to be silent and innocent bystanders.....while genocide is being conducted by our 'best ally' using our weapons and apparently unlimited American funding?
The silence of the churches today is truly deafening! Compare that to the Apostles who conquered pagan Rome at the cost of their lives. Christians are not potted plants!
DaSynagogue of Satan would be unable to do anything without the aid and willfully ignorant cheerleading of churchianity with a seared conscience – both are servants of Satan!
Take it from a former churchian zionist- until I discovered that today's jews are NOT Old Testament Israel, I was just as confused as most of today's pundits - trying to complete a puzzle with major missing pieces.....and those missing pieces are spiritual.......but with material consequences.
The big picture ongoing war which started as described in Genesis and runs as a thread all the way through Revelation, and is literally still being waged as we speak - https://crushlimbraw.blogspot.com/2021/03/in-essenceit-always-wasand-still-isa.html?m=0 - history confirms this, if one is paying attention to history. Unfortunately, most folks are as ignorant of history as everything else.
Today's Israel, for all intents and purposes, is yesterday's Pharisees, Sadducees etc - their bible is the Talmud and NOT the Old Testament.
Another interesting 'coincidence' - those Pharasaic religious leaders 2000 years ago used the services of DaRomanEmpire to have Jesus crucified........sorta like today's Israel is using Uncle Sam's services to fight its enemies.
Some interesting ideas, along with some strange and unbiblical musing. Your terminology such as "DaSynagogue" etc is bizarre and off-putting to say the least. I'm definitely not interested in arguing about anything you've discussed in your long commentary. You'll need to go elsewhere to find a debate partner.
First - I have zero interest in debates - I present evidence I've gathered over the last almost 9 years written by other authors who did the hard work of research which I read and thus learned from. I'm not in public relations - I'm a librarian - DaLimbraw Library - almost 10000 posts - all I do is occasionally connect some dots by linking articles and their authors on a common theme or subject.
Second - my comments on your site linked at least 8 to 10 different authors on the subject covered - including their evident exposure of the church having retreated from our nation's culture. If you didn't read them, that's not on me - Ezekiel 33?
And if my Da-prefix which I use occasionally for my reasons is off-putting, try this - https://crushlimbraw.blogspot.com/search?q=Synagogue+of+satan&updated-max=2021-06-11T10:55:00-07:00&max-results=20&by-date=false&m=1- a word search on Synagogue of Satan in Da:)Limbraw Library. Dozens of articles listed for those interested - I have found that when I read.....and read......and read - lo and behold.......I learn. That routine started 15-20 years ago - with the result that I realized what I had learned previously was almost all bullshit and propaganda - kinda humbling, but quite edifying and useful. Sadly, I've also discovered that most folks will defend their delusions to their death - as evidenced by facts on the ground.
100% wrong about fraternities which are occult. I renounced mine and burned everything. Then I had to have the generational curses broken and be delivered from the Antichrist spirit.
I was in a restaurant out in San Diego when a patron asked me where I got the Hawaiian shirt I was wearing. After naming the thrift store, he then informed me that this particular authentic Hawaiian shirt can be found hanging on walls as art in some restaurants and nightclubs in Hawaii.
In my experience, frat-boys are paper tigers, have little philosophical back-up for what they do, and fold quickly when facing principled opposition. Sad to say. The Left endures, and keeps enduring, because they are motivated by more than "good times", beer and money. IF frat-boys are now the champions of the West, then God help us!
That's what made the whole story so enjoyable. Who knew some frat boys would take a stand on something? The Left is the most joyless and humorless gathering of humans, and that's quite at odds with most frat boys attitudes. I'm not claiming that this is the Greatest Generation. One must look for small examples of courage these days--but I find there are many ready to condemn even the smallest positive steps. Like it or not, the BULK of our young are not voracious readers, stalwarts of libertarian or conservative thought, or hardened by the furnaces of real affliction. I am always heartened to see "a few good men" standing up, regardless of the setting.
You're correct that most people are paper tigers, and that's not unique to fraternity boys by any means. To their credit, these boys aren't destroying university property and looking like a bunch of goons while people are trying to attend classes and get business done. The face of the left has become so irrational, crazy, insufferable, and anti-American that normal people who have little interest in debating political ideologies find them, at minimum, very annoying. The Left takes its ideology to more extremes than the right, despising every healthy norm, and one cannot build a productive life or sustain a country that way.
I identify with neither. I saw the film of the frat boys at Ole Miss haranguing the Pro-Pals, and I saw just as much virtue-signaling and approval-seeking there as among some on the Left. But, yes, the Classical Liberalism is long gone, and the Left might be the ones who destroyed it. Classical Liberalism would care for neither side, IMO.
It's definitely an immature display in some instances, but nonetheless this is a flicker of life in a brain-dead generation. They are the phone generation, but a few can still at least defend the idea of a country. Many libertarians seem to hate patriotic sentiment, but we had a free nation, a beautiful heritage--if flawed, as all things are--and it is worth defending that vision. Classical liberalism was ideal for a virtuous people, and we are no longer such people, sadly.
Years ago I was doing some temp work at the Museum of Fine Arts in San Francisco and they decided to replace all of their computers. A few of my co-workers rummaged through to find the working keyboards, mouses, and monitors which they then sold.
My first forays into dumpster diving began in college as I observed my peers tossing perfectly good furniture, paintings, etc. into the already overflowing dumpsters. Over 40 years later, I've still got a numbered image of the Olympia beer girl which might actually be worth quite a bit now.
Yesterday, I spent 15 minutes shopping in one of the local thrift stores and purchased two really nice Hawaiian shirts for a buck a piece. For some reason, inflation hasn't hit the thrift stores yet. I've got two brand new golf shirts with the original price stickers still on them for a dollar each. A savings of over $40.00
I get my microwaves from the college dumpsters. Perfectly good.
Someone parked a chair outside our dumpster and outfitted their child's dorm for next fall that way--got a Keurig, a rug, a mirror, plastic drawers...all free.
Thank you for this wonderful commentary. Amazing what goes in the dumpsters! Everyone needs a good Hawaiian shirt from a thrift store.
You are refreshing and valiant in your truth and courage. I grew up in the late 50's and 60's~I feel your pain. I experienced the changes in our culture through the years and felt our strength slipping away and become chaotic. disjointed and scattered. All in the plan. The younger generations have an extremely hard future ahead of them., but then the cycle continues. I've wondered through all of this why we can't get off this treadmill and learn from thousands of years of empires collapsing. Why can't this time be different? Why can't we rise to overcome? I spent years trying to tell people of the communism coming and the slavery their children would face but normalcy bias wins out, almost always. I'm not getting any younger and so I am embracing the rest of my life devoted to God and enjoying his world as it was meant to be held sacred and appreciated. May your children always be courageous and rise to the good fight as I hope others will. I believe God is listening and waits~
Thank you, Rose, and so nice to hear from you. What beautiful words, and it's so encouraging to receive them. Walking with God in the later decades of life is finishing well, and I am even now embracing that same vision.
You are correct that people get used to decline, and it becomes normal, acceptable--the bar drops lower every year. However, I'm somewhat hopeful that the younger generation is beginning to tire of the depravity and idiocy that now passes as "culture" and "government" in our country. Perhaps they will realize that not one single shred of evidence suggests that rejecting God and abandoning faith has brought a single positive thing to our country. You could show people all the timelines and data pointing to this obvious truth, but if their eyes have not been spiritually opened, it is in vain.
Therefore, all my hope must be accompanied by daily prayer for regenerated hearts and transformed minds among our young, which is a prayer consistent with God's will. Thank you, again, for sharing!
Great stuff!
Does this essay imply that the genocide conducted by DaSynagogue of Satan is OK?
This essay isn't about genocide, and only you can decide what it implies. Rather, this essay is about a country and belief system worth defending. I will never apologize for loving my country or its flag, even though the values they represent have become unfashionable. Such wisdom is ignored by those who think communism, socialism or Islamic rule somehow offer bright and more equitable futures. Therefore, when the good, the true, or the beautiful are still found among us, I celebrate it.
RT - this country you try to defend no longer exists - and our problem is NOT communism, socialism or Islamic rule. The question that needs to be asked is: How did we get here and who is our enemy? Please listen to to both Jesus and His apostle John - DaSynagogue of Satan is our enemy and a death cult - https://crushlimbraw.blogspot.com/search?q=DaSynagogue+Satan&updated-max=2024-02-12T11:25:00-08:00&max-results=20&start=0&by-date=false&m=1 - a list of headnotes to articles by various authors archived in DaLimbraw Library on DSOS - it was destroyed as a geographic entity in 70 AD by the Romans - and is rapidly gaining enemies as we speak. Unfortunately - or perhaps fortunately - it will take down DaUSA and Europe as well, since they're both mindless puppets of DSOS.
Anything DSOS touches gets destroyed......just give it time.....including themselves.
This clown show will continue until the pulpits and pews get their act together and destroy churchianity - which is nothing more than pretending to be Christianity!
I expect this reality will be very difficult for anyone to see or comprehend who has been deceived by endless propaganda in our public schools, media and many of our churches.
The Bible clearly instructs us as Christians to examine ourselves and prove all things and not be deceived by wolves in sheep's clothing.
And BTW - did you notice what our congressional house passed just a few days ago?
Of course we are to examine ourselves and not place our eternal and ultimate hope in earthly kingdoms and systems of government. The world and its systems will one day pass away, but we are not to obsess over the unfolding of times that are known only to God. He has told us to be faithful to the end--scripture is clear on how to live a life pleasing to God, even in a country that has strayed far from his word. Paul warns against strange teachings and futile arguments.
Your original article lauded the frat boys (I was one many moons ago btw) for flag raising and you clearly denigrated the protesters against genocide in Gaza. You might read both posts at Unz today for better perspective - https://www.unz.com/
If 'we are not to obsess over the unfolding of times that are known only to God'........ but what if those unfoldings are shown daily on TV and visible to the whole world......as in Gaza? What exactly is our purpose here on earth as Christians.......to be silent and innocent bystanders.....while genocide is being conducted by our 'best ally' using our weapons and apparently unlimited American funding?
The silence of the churches today is truly deafening! Compare that to the Apostles who conquered pagan Rome at the cost of their lives. Christians are not potted plants!
DaSynagogue of Satan would be unable to do anything without the aid and willfully ignorant cheerleading of churchianity with a seared conscience – both are servants of Satan!
Take it from a former churchian zionist- until I discovered that today's jews are NOT Old Testament Israel, I was just as confused as most of today's pundits - trying to complete a puzzle with major missing pieces.....and those missing pieces are spiritual.......but with material consequences.
The big picture ongoing war which started as described in Genesis and runs as a thread all the way through Revelation, and is literally still being waged as we speak - https://crushlimbraw.blogspot.com/2021/03/in-essenceit-always-wasand-still-isa.html?m=0 - history confirms this, if one is paying attention to history. Unfortunately, most folks are as ignorant of history as everything else.
Today's Israel, for all intents and purposes, is yesterday's Pharisees, Sadducees etc - their bible is the Talmud and NOT the Old Testament.
Another interesting 'coincidence' - those Pharasaic religious leaders 2000 years ago used the services of DaRomanEmpire to have Jesus crucified........sorta like today's Israel is using Uncle Sam's services to fight its enemies.
There are no coincidences!
Some interesting ideas, along with some strange and unbiblical musing. Your terminology such as "DaSynagogue" etc is bizarre and off-putting to say the least. I'm definitely not interested in arguing about anything you've discussed in your long commentary. You'll need to go elsewhere to find a debate partner.
First - I have zero interest in debates - I present evidence I've gathered over the last almost 9 years written by other authors who did the hard work of research which I read and thus learned from. I'm not in public relations - I'm a librarian - DaLimbraw Library - almost 10000 posts - all I do is occasionally connect some dots by linking articles and their authors on a common theme or subject.
Second - my comments on your site linked at least 8 to 10 different authors on the subject covered - including their evident exposure of the church having retreated from our nation's culture. If you didn't read them, that's not on me - Ezekiel 33?
Finally, and very simply - https://crushlimbraw.blogspot.com/2016/03/what-is-this-blog-archive-all-about-cl.html?m=0 - in order to learn, we need to read, read and keep reading......and libraries are a help. The real work begins with YOU! And with ME!
And if my Da-prefix which I use occasionally for my reasons is off-putting, try this - https://crushlimbraw.blogspot.com/search?q=Synagogue+of+satan&updated-max=2021-06-11T10:55:00-07:00&max-results=20&by-date=false&m=1- a word search on Synagogue of Satan in Da:)Limbraw Library. Dozens of articles listed for those interested - I have found that when I read.....and read......and read - lo and behold.......I learn. That routine started 15-20 years ago - with the result that I realized what I had learned previously was almost all bullshit and propaganda - kinda humbling, but quite edifying and useful. Sadly, I've also discovered that most folks will defend their delusions to their death - as evidenced by facts on the ground.
Sorry about the wordiness.....but I'm done.
Keep at it, RT!
100% wrong about fraternities which are occult. I renounced mine and burned everything. Then I had to have the generational curses broken and be delivered from the Antichrist spirit.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XhgskjkGE-g&pp=ygUnY2FtcHVzIG1pbmF0cmllcyB0cnV0aCBhYm91dCBncmVlayBsaWZl
take you US imperialism anti First amendment pro israel zionist Genocide bs elsewhere This Jew supports Palestine and Ist amendment
I'm sorry you don't share my views, but thank you for sharing your thoughts. God bless you anyways!
John 8:44
Revelation 2:9
Revelation 3:9
1 Thessalonians 2:14-16
Acts 7:43
I was in a restaurant out in San Diego when a patron asked me where I got the Hawaiian shirt I was wearing. After naming the thrift store, he then informed me that this particular authentic Hawaiian shirt can be found hanging on walls as art in some restaurants and nightclubs in Hawaii.
In my experience, frat-boys are paper tigers, have little philosophical back-up for what they do, and fold quickly when facing principled opposition. Sad to say. The Left endures, and keeps enduring, because they are motivated by more than "good times", beer and money. IF frat-boys are now the champions of the West, then God help us!
That's what made the whole story so enjoyable. Who knew some frat boys would take a stand on something? The Left is the most joyless and humorless gathering of humans, and that's quite at odds with most frat boys attitudes. I'm not claiming that this is the Greatest Generation. One must look for small examples of courage these days--but I find there are many ready to condemn even the smallest positive steps. Like it or not, the BULK of our young are not voracious readers, stalwarts of libertarian or conservative thought, or hardened by the furnaces of real affliction. I am always heartened to see "a few good men" standing up, regardless of the setting.
You're correct that most people are paper tigers, and that's not unique to fraternity boys by any means. To their credit, these boys aren't destroying university property and looking like a bunch of goons while people are trying to attend classes and get business done. The face of the left has become so irrational, crazy, insufferable, and anti-American that normal people who have little interest in debating political ideologies find them, at minimum, very annoying. The Left takes its ideology to more extremes than the right, despising every healthy norm, and one cannot build a productive life or sustain a country that way.
I identify with neither. I saw the film of the frat boys at Ole Miss haranguing the Pro-Pals, and I saw just as much virtue-signaling and approval-seeking there as among some on the Left. But, yes, the Classical Liberalism is long gone, and the Left might be the ones who destroyed it. Classical Liberalism would care for neither side, IMO.
It's definitely an immature display in some instances, but nonetheless this is a flicker of life in a brain-dead generation. They are the phone generation, but a few can still at least defend the idea of a country. Many libertarians seem to hate patriotic sentiment, but we had a free nation, a beautiful heritage--if flawed, as all things are--and it is worth defending that vision. Classical liberalism was ideal for a virtuous people, and we are no longer such people, sadly.