Beauty, love, and energy are sought by everyone; regret, sorrow, and failure are never welcome. There is no exception to the before rule demonstrating common ground for all humanity: the former proves goodness is a free gift and the latter proves there is evil we must fight.
I don't know much, but I believe in God. My belief in God is intrinsic, a priori. That doesn't make me any more stubborn or blind than anyone else, because at the base of everyone's consciousnesses is a principle that proves everything they believe.
The accumulation of wisdom is my chief priority--it is not the attainment of truth but the discernment between truth and error.
Practice is much better than education. Education introduces more ideas (of which there is no shortage), while practice separates the good ones from the bad ones. Education is preferred currently for the same reason it is inferior: it insulates from failure and loss, the real teachers.
Our culture is demanding more free education and insurance; but of course we can't make anything free or secure, we can only hide the costs and hazards.
Insurance is designed to mitigate risk, but may accomplish the reverse. By dispersing risk among many, actions are separated from consequences, less is learned and the whole gets closer to a large disaster.
To learn the most, we should observe everything that can teach us. Pain, cost, failure, recession, anger, and war are teachers that are popularly avoided. Therefore pain killers, socialism, the Federal Reserve, and pacifism make us feel good but keep us stupid. They block information. Why is war important? It differentiates between the pleasant and the essential--indeed somethings are more precious than life itself.
I believe we should consider patriotic that which is faithful to freedom and virtue, not simply faithful to the United States. How honorable is it to just go along with the majority?
I would like to see the slow and peaceful drift of the US toward a large and powerful central government, reverse in like manner back to more power distributed to the local governments.
Institutions that are too big to fail are too big to learn; bailing them out only defers the disaster until the problem has grown. The biggest bailout is every time congress increases the debt ceiling.
If a partial government shutdown is a disaster, perhaps we are relying too heavily on something that lacks fiscal discipline.
How can we value liberty and institutionally embrace debt? That is a glaring contradiction.
Moral integrity is speaking and acting consistently to conscience. No one, not even myself can influence my conscience, but compromising conscience is a sure way to lose a grip on it.
God is love. Therefore if I ever act contrary to love, I compromise my conscience.
God is truth. Therefore if I ever deceive or justify error, I compromise my conscience.
The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. Galatians 5:22,23
I don't know much, but I believe in God. My belief in God is intrinsic, a priori. That doesn't make me any more stubborn or blind than anyone else, because at the base of everyone's consciousnesses is a principle that proves everything they believe.
The accumulation of wisdom is my chief priority--it is not the attainment of truth but the discernment between truth and error.
Practice is much better than education. Education introduces more ideas (of which there is no shortage), while practice separates the good ones from the bad ones. Education is preferred currently for the same reason it is inferior: it insulates from failure and loss, the real teachers.
Our culture is demanding more free education and insurance; but of course we can't make anything free or secure, we can only hide the costs and hazards.
Insurance is designed to mitigate risk, but may accomplish the reverse. By dispersing risk among many, actions are separated from consequences, less is learned and the whole gets closer to a large disaster.
To learn the most, we should observe everything that can teach us. Pain, cost, failure, recession, anger, and war are teachers that are popularly avoided. Therefore pain killers, socialism, the Federal Reserve, and pacifism make us feel good but keep us stupid. They block information. Why is war important? It differentiates between the pleasant and the essential--indeed somethings are more precious than life itself.
I believe we should consider patriotic that which is faithful to freedom and virtue, not simply faithful to the United States. How honorable is it to just go along with the majority?
I would like to see the slow and peaceful drift of the US toward a large and powerful central government, reverse in like manner back to more power distributed to the local governments.
Institutions that are too big to fail are too big to learn; bailing them out only defers the disaster until the problem has grown. The biggest bailout is every time congress increases the debt ceiling.
If a partial government shutdown is a disaster, perhaps we are relying too heavily on something that lacks fiscal discipline.
How can we value liberty and institutionally embrace debt? That is a glaring contradiction.
Moral integrity is speaking and acting consistently to conscience. No one, not even myself can influence my conscience, but compromising conscience is a sure way to lose a grip on it.
God is love. Therefore if I ever act contrary to love, I compromise my conscience.
God is truth. Therefore if I ever deceive or justify error, I compromise my conscience.
The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. Galatians 5:22,23
