Reflections From a Murky Pond

It’s Your Soul On The Line November 4^th

My fellow Americans, the 2014 midterm elections are upon us. I urge you to vote – to vote against the evil that is the modern iteration of Liberalism, even if you can’t vote for the candidate who’s in the position to be arrayed against it. I urge this not only for the sake of our country and culture but for the sake of your very souls.

You will die and you will go before the God(s) for the judgement of your life. In no way, shape, or form do I believe for even an instant that your and my inactions will be weighed against us any less than our actions.

It’s your soul though. Do what you want with it.

Tags: 2014 Elections | America | Damnation | Dietrich Bonhoeffer | Ethics & Morality | Evil | Politics | Quotes | Silence | Voting

This entry was posted on Sunday, November 2nd, 2014 at 10:39 am and is filed under 2014 Election, Ethics & Morality. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

The first century or so of America’s life saw the rise of a great number of very wise men and women who helped shape the character of the nation.

One of these wise men was one of the most prominent religious leaders in the United States at the time, Rev. Dr. Thomas Talmage, whose sermons were published in more than 3,000 journals, reaching in excess of 25 million readers.

One great gem of wisdom from Talmage was:

The American of 100 years from now is to be different from the American of today. German brain, Irish wit, French civility, Scotch firmness, English loyalty, Italian aesthetics, packed into one man, and he an American! It is this intermarriage of nationalities that is going to make the American nation the greatest nation of the ages.

— Rev. Dr. Talmage
“Before They Adjourn” (1896)

Sadly for us, this wisdom has been lost and assimilation in America is now deprecated by large swaths of the residents of our country. The Liberals and Progressives do not tolerate it, preferring to have foreigners stay foreign for generation after generation.

Then there is the relatively new problem of the “Black Community,” whose members, upon reading such wisdom, would rant,“Them’s all be White People! America is racist!”

Rev. Dr. Talmage described the America of his future. A hundred years later we’re living the consequences of his having been wrong due to his overly optimistic view of his countrymen and their progeny.

Tags: America | Assimilation | Blacks | Culture | History | Immigration | Liberals | Oikophobia | Progressives | Quotes | Racial Activism | Racial Politics | Society | Talmage | Wisdom

This entry was posted on Thursday, November 1st, 2012 at 5:49 am and is filed under Society. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

As Thomas Gray penned some 270 years ago, “Where ignorance is bliss, ’tis folly to be wise.” We’re all doomed, either by our own hands or those of others to read the wheel of fate, ever repeating our failures and losses.

We’re All Doomed To Repeat History

You see, George Santayana was overly optimistic when he wrote, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” He only got it half right. He didn’t understand that, more often than not, those who do remember the past are just as doomed – or more so, because they can see what is happening – as those blissfully ignorant masses who, en mass, are the only ones with the power to effect change.

So I shall follow the true wisdom of King Solomon and too commend joy, for man has no good thing under the sun but to eat and drink and be joyful, for this will go with him in his toil through the days of his life that his God has given him under the sun.

~*~

The Universe spirals downward to dissolution while the Reaper sits by, drinking tea sweetened with dead stars.

Tags: Doom | History | Humor | Ignorance | Irony | Philosophy | Quotes | Santayana | Sarcasm | Society | Thomas Gray | Wisdom

This entry was posted on Sunday, October 21st, 2012 at 1:10 pm and is filed under Humor, Musings, Philosophy, Society. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

The most common variant of Fred R. Barnard’s phrase, “A picture is worth a thousand words” is certainly a truism. It’s also a damn fine thing at times…

Even better, it still holds true even when the words in question are in another language – German in this wonderful case – viewed reversed through a mirror.

Tags: Babes | Barnard | Beauty | Erotica | Germany | Language & Idiom | Marketing | NSFW | Quotes | Women | Writing

This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 5th, 2011 at 11:39 am and is filed under Society. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

To quote the 17th Century playwright and poet, William Congreve, “Music hath charms to sooth the savage breast.”

Ah – those words spoken by the character, Princess Almeria of Granada which open The Mourning Bride have titillated people for centuries, lasting in our collective consciousness far longer than the play itself or it’s creator.

Tags: Babes | Breasts | History | Humor | Music | Quotes | Theater | Women

This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 27th, 2011 at 12:11 pm and is filed under Humor, Music. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.