Why Me? Sheep to wolves
Wolf: A complex community forming wild dog that hunts with strength and cunning. Wolves form a community so socially complex that the pack has served as the survival model for indigenous people groups.
Left to our own wants and desires, we all evolve from a complex community of wolves into isolated, wayward, and lonely sheep.
We begin to wrap up this “Why Me?” series this week, moving from the historical context of what got us into this mess, to what we can do to move from our fears into a world in which our fears are suppressed, because of the vision of an external responsibility that in some unknown way, gives reason to all the chaos that surrounds our world.
When I was stationed in Germany during the rise of the environmental movement, without a television, I had time to read a lot of books. My educational training outside the military at that time was in secondary education and sciences. The focus of that training was in terrestrial ecology and chemistry.
Reading the environmental books that were then available I quickly became disillusioned with the whole process. Virtually all of the books began with the premise that the world was going to hell, time was of the essence that we do something about it, and then the writer appended a couple of simplistic chapters about their preliminary thoughts, that might lead to a change in the current direction.
What I have learned in the passing of time is that this type of bloviating is truly the American genre of communication, not only in writing, but also in speeches and preaching.
Did you know that before he began any speech Adolph Hitler would come to the stage, gaze into and through the crowd for two full minutes before he uttered a word? This was preceded by at least a half an hour of appropriate music to get the crowd ready for de fuehrer.
The question I have never bothered to research, did Hitler gain his speaking prowess by adapting the style of American revivalist preachers of the Second Great Awakening?
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The Law of Malignant Enlightenment
Cutting through all the composting entropy, the rhetoric revolves basically around two mutually exclusive loci. A traditional or conservative spin states, “With the passage of ObamaCare the path to mutually assured destruction has been coated with black ice.” On the other side, now spun in the leftist or liberal construct, “America has now reached Beulah Land and the shining eternal city is just across the Serendipity Plain.”
Furthermore a little research into the Law of Unintended Consequences shows that the abstract is probably the best usage, since in that form the law can be used whenever one would like to make a point without really needing to rely on any points at all. “Essentially, in time the spectrum of unintended consequences will become clear, and I am just focusing on a few that fit my talking points, for talking points after all, is why I make the big bucks.”
Along that line, the talking points tend to focus on specifics of the actual ObamaCare bill such as, its size, cost, repeal, or replace, the list being very vendor specific. What all this tends to show is that the shallow shortsightedness that gave us the bill in the first place, will be used in the opposite direction to make it much better. With all these ignored, but now so plainly unforeseen and unintended consequences so apparent, the truth seems to be that ObamaCare must either be in its current form, created through intelligent design, or something, or some other unseen natural law must be working its magic.
This brings us to a more refined, contemporary, and previously undiscovered natural law: The Law of Malignant Enlightenment. Departing from the unintended law, we shall briefly define the Law of Malignant Enlightenment and then give three examples on how the law allows its applications to reach beyond the specifics of ObamaCare and touch the universal attributes that can be altered to achieve positive results in a world of limited resources and unlimited possibilities.
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Palm Sunday: Morning & Evening for March 28th - Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Morning
The
love of Christ which passeth
knowledge.
Ephesians 3:19
Did earth or heaven
ever behold a sadder spectacle of woe! In soul and
body, our Lord felt Himself to be weak as water
poured upon the ground. The placing of the cross in
its socket had shaken Him with great violence, had
strained all the ligaments, pained every nerve, and
more or less dislocated all His bones. Burdened
with His own weight, the august sufferer felt the
strain increasing every moment of those six long
hours. His sense of faintness and general weakness
were overpowering; while to His own consciousness
He became nothing but a mass of misery and swooning
sickness. When Daniel saw the great vision, he thus
describes his sensations, "There remained no
strength in me, for my vigour was turned into
corruption, and I retained no strength:" how much
more faint must have been our greater Prophet when
He saw the dread vision of the wrath of God, and
felt it in His own soul! To us, sensations such as
our Lord endured would have been insupportable, and
kind unconsciousness would have come to our rescue;
but in His case, He was wounded, and
felt
the sword;
He drained the cup and tasted
every drop.
O King of Grief! (a title strange, yet true
To Thee of all kings only due)
O King of Wounds! how shall I grieve for Thee,
Who in all grief preventest
me!
As we kneel before our
now ascended Saviour's throne, let us remember well
the way by which He prepared it as a throne of
grace for us; let us in spirit drink of His cup,
that we may be strengthened for our hour of
heaviness whenever it may come. In His natural body
every member suffered, and so must it be in the
spiritual; but as out of all His griefs and woes
His body came forth uninjured to glory and power,
even so shall His mystical body come through the
furnace with not so much as the smell of fire upon
it.
Evening
I
will accept you with your sweet savour.
Ezekiel
20:41
The merits of
ouIt
is well for us when prayers about our sorrows are
linked with pleas concerning our sins--when, being
under God's hand, we are not wholly taken up with
our pain, but remember our offences against God. It
is well, also, to take both sorrow and sin to the
same place. It was to God that David carried his
sorrow: it was to God that David confessed his sin.
Observe, then, we must take our
sorrows to God. Even your little
sorrows you may roll upon God, for He counteth the
hairs of your head; and your great sorrows you may
commit to Him, for He holdeth the ocean in the
hollow of His hand. Go to Him, whatever your
present trouble may be, and you shall find Him able
and willing to relieve you. But we must take
our sins to God too. We must carry them to
the cross, that the blood may fall upon them, to
purge away their guilt, and to destroy their
defiling power.
The special lesson of the text is
this:--that we are to go to the
Lord with sorrows and with sins in the right
spirit. Note that all David
asks concerning his sorrow is, "Look
upon mine affliction and my
pain;" but the next petition is vastly more
express, definite, decided,
plain--"Forgive
all my
sins" Many sufferers would have put it, "Remove my
affliction and my pain, and look at my sins." But
David does not say so; he cries, "Lord, as for my
affliction and my pain, I will not dictate to Thy
wisdom. Lord, look at them, I will leave them to
Thee, I should be glad to have my pain removed, but
do as Thou wilt; but as for my sins, Lord, I know
what I want with them; I must have them forgiven; I
cannot endure to lie under their curse for a
moment." A Christian counts sorrow lighter in the
scale than sin; he can bear that his troubles
should continue, but he cannot support the burden
of his transgressions.
up, this
evening, before the sapphire throne, let the
incense of your praise go up also.
Brute' says ObamaCare is really just the law of unintended consequences.
Why Me? A Hundred Year Bad Marriage
If you think your marriage is awful and you want or need a divorce, sorry about that!
But the really sad thing is if you are married to another party for over a hundred years and then you find out that the troubles you have been experiencing for most of a century are rooted in a mutual codependency. You seemed to want the same thing but you never really understood why you were always arguing about virtually everything in life. It took a hundred years and you recently found out by reading this Wonder Springs article that you have totally incompatible religions. You always thought that you were progressing towards the same goal, and now after all this time you realize that you need to split the sheets.
The two twentieth century religions that are in the process of breaking up after all this time are evolving atheistic materialism and Christendom; better known as those who promoted a social gospel, Protestant liberalism, or in some extreme cases, social justice, and Liberation Theology. Those who were around at the beginning of the marriage believed that it was a marriage made in heaven. After all both parties in that early relationship were interested in creating a utopian city here on earth. A shining city on a hill to show the world how well Christians could get along with pagans and in turn everyone would turn their hearts to Jesus.
The problem that both participants in the marriage did not understand was the vision of creating heaven on earth is really the only religion of man for all of recorded history, with very few exceptions. If you take the Bible, not as a holy book, but rather just a brief synopsis of human history virtually every story is about someone intent on creating the kingdom of God in the here and now. A utopia is the goal, it really doesn’t make any difference on the means required to get there, if we all just work together there is nothing we can’t do.
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The ObamaCare Wildfire
For over a year, off and on the healthcare debate has slowly intensified and generally revolves around both the cost and the constitutional question, if human governments can create rights, rather than being a gift of Natural Law given to humans by God. As of yesterday the debate was codified into law and started the wildfire which we will discuss briefly.
There are those who will continue to fight the hot spot battles related to human rights, the American federal government’s ability to create and to tax, and the continued desire to live beyond our means. Just as in a wildfire you will be able to tune to your favorite news channel, talk radio, or podcast and hear the yin and yang to support or defame your paradigms, but Washington DC this time next year will be a very different place than it is today. It will look like a wildfire passed through the capitol and there will be new shoots of growth beginning to sprout from the ashes, but still a lot of dead wood around, some of it standing some not. When you get out into the country those changes will begin to be seen also, but not the effects that the ObamaCare supporters had hoped.
Wildfires are frightening things, extremely rapidly they can change what has stood strong and relentless for centuries, and in a few minutes it is all gone. But if you look beyond the visual changes, what a wildfire does is fundamentally change the energetics of the ecosystem, including human ecosystems. You probably will only hear about the energetics of the ObamaCare wildfire here at Wonder Springs, so pass this to others.
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Morning & Evening for March 21th - Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Morning
Ye
shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall
leave me alone.
John 16:32
Few had fellowship with
the sorrows of Gethsemane. The majority of the
disciples were not sufficiently advanced in grace
to be admitted to behold the mysteries of "the
agony." Occupied with the passover feast at their
own houses, they represent the many who live upon
the letter, but are mere babes as to the spirit of
the gospel. To twelve, nay, to eleven only was the
privilege given to enter Gethsemane and see "this
great sight." Out of the eleven, eight were left at
a distance; they had fellowship, but not of that
intimate sort to which men greatly beloved are
admitted. Only three highly favoured ones could
approach the veil of our Lord's mysterious sorrow:
within that veil even these must not intrude; a
stone's-cast distance must be left between. He must
tread the wine-press alone,
and of the
people there must be none with Him. Peter and the
two sons of Zebedee, represent the few eminent,
experienced saints, who may be written down as
"Fathers;" these having done business on great
waters, can in some degree measure the huge
Atlantic waves of their Redeemer's passion. To some
selected spirits it is given, for the good of
others, and to strengthen them for future, special,
and tremendous conflict, to enter the inner circle
and hear the pleadings of the suffering High
Priest; they have fellowship with Him in his
sufferings, and are made conformable unto His
death. Yet even these cannot penetrate the secret
places of the Saviour's woe. "Thine unknown
sufferings" is the remarkable expression of the
Greek liturgy: there was an inner chamber in our
Master's grief, shut out from human knowledge and
fellowship. There Jesus is "left
alone." Here Jesus was more
than ever an "Unspeakable gift!" Is not Watts right
when he sings--
"And all the unknown
joys he gives,
Were bought with agonies unknown."
Evening
Canst
thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or
loose the bands of Orion?
Job
38:31
If inclined to boast of
our abilities, the grandeur of nature may soon show
us how puny we are. We cannot move the least of all
the twinkling stars, or quench so much as one of
the beams of the morning. We speak of power, but
the heavens laugh us to scorn. When the Pleiades
shine forth in spring with vernal joy we cannot
restrain their influences, and when Orion reigns
aloft, and the year is bound in winter's fetters,
we cannot relax the icy bands. The seasons revolve
according to the divine appointment, neither can
the whole race of men effect a change therein.
Lord, what is man?
In the spiritual, as in the natural world, man's
power is limited on all hands. When the Holy Spirit
sheds abroad His delights in the soul, none can
disturb; all the cunning and malice of men are
ineffectual to stay the genial quickening power of
the Comforter. When He deigns to visit a church and
revive it, the most inveterate enemies cannot
resist the good work; they may ridicule it, but
they can no more restrain it than they can push
back the spring when the Pleiades rule the hour.
God wills it, and so it must be. On the other hand,
if the Lord in sovereignty, or in justice, bind up
a man so that he is in soul bondage, who can give
him liberty? He alone can remove the winter of
spiritual death from an individual or a people. He
looses the bands of Orion, and none but He. What a
blessing it is that He can do it. O that He would
perform the wonder to-night. Lord, end my winter,
and let my spring begin. I cannot with all my
longings raise my soul out of her death and
dulness, but all things are possible with Thee. I
need celestial influences, the clear shinings of
Thy love, the beams of Thy grace, the light of Thy
countenance, these are the Pleiades to me. I suffer
much from sin and temptation, these are my wintry
signs, my terrible Orion. Lord, work wonders in me,
and for me. Amen.
Brute' expresses his love for the ides of March and St. Patrick's Day.
Why Me? Priggish Blathering Compost
Last week we looked at how New England Calvinism pushed a number of new religious leaders out of the Calvinist box, and the changes they rent we still see among us today. Many Americans and people around the world, still find those rejected box outers to be our prophets and patron saints, even though we would never be so outwardly religious. Religion after all is really not something, we, the enlightened, need because it is so primitive and dare we say, priggish. Thanks to our lucky stars we will never be that way.
We work very hard for our money, even though it never really increases our wealth, and we never have the time to really question who we really are, or where we are going. Again thanks to our lucky stars, for if we had the time to reflect, we might not like the reflection.
However if you look at that out of the box history from two hundred years ago, today really isn’t that different. Just like back then all of life was and is about the present material. You go to church and for the most part they teach you how to be healthy, wealthy, and wise. They seem to talk about God, but no one seems to know God.
You go to the outdoor store and they show you all the neat stuff you need to bring with you when you go to the wilderness, so you can make it just like home. While the wild is somewhat free, the stuff you need to get you there and keep you comfortable surely isn’t. So you need your full time vocation to support your part time advocation.
Is this all there is? Those with the most toys are subservient to their idols’ wishes — no demands. So when you come right down to the nitty-gritty, nuts and bolts, the problems we face today is that we are both natural and transcendent personalities in a totally common or natural world.
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Three Word Transitions
Well Sarah, it ain’t workin’ that well right now and come to think of it things haven’t worked all that well for quite a while.”
As we have been promoting in our Wonder Springs weekly articles for a number of weeks, change we can believe in is really change we can understand and makes us comfortable. However, if change really is the only constant in the world, then real stupendous change is truly freakin’ scary and it makes us withdraw further into our old sense of security, and we exacerbate the problems. Hence in real reality “Change we can believe in.” is really the enigma of continual angst. To question whether how much of this current change is by design or chance only magnifies the apprehension?
Last week in the Chronicle we looked at a number of religious antitheses to New England Calvinism. Calvinism defines the prime concept of its theology in three words that begin with the letter “G” standing for “Guilt, Grace, and Gratitude. In this week’s “Why Me?” article we will look at similar three word theses, these non-Calvinist and other religious expressions use to express their believe systems.
Watching Glenn Beck last Friday, he unveiled a similar progression to use in his work as he attempts to encourage others to begin to move beyond change we can believe in, as this country attempts to reset the nation on our constitutional foundation. Those three words were “Faith, Hope, and Charity.” These of course come from the old King James - American Revolution era translation of 1 Corinthians 13. Our modern versions use love instead of charity and consequently lose the true perspective of what the Apostle Paul was really saying.
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Morning & Evening for March 14th - Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Morning
Let
him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he
fall.
1 Corinthians 10:12
It is a curious fact,
that there is such a thing as being proud of grace.
A man says, "I have great faith, I shall not fall;
poor little faith may, but I never shall." "I have
fervent love," says another, "I can stand, there is
no danger of my going astray." He who boasts of
grace has little grace to boast of. Some who do
this imagine that their graces can keep them,
knowing not that the stream must flow constantly
from the fountain head, or else the brook will soon
be dry. If a continuous stream of oil comes not to
the lamp, though it burn brightly to-day, it will
smoke to-morrow, and noxious will be its scent.
Take heed that thou gloriest not in thy graces, but
let all thy glorying and confidence be in Christ
and His strength, for only so canst thou be kept
from falling. Be much more in prayer. Spend longer
time in holy adoration. Read the Scriptures more
earnestly and constantly. Watch your lives more
carefully. Live nearer to God. Take the best
examples for your pattern. Let your conversation be
redolent of heaven. Let your hearts be perfumed
with affection for men's souls. So live that men
may take knowledge of you that you have been with
Jesus, and have learned of Him; and when that happy
day shall come, when He whom you love shall say,
"Come up higher," may it be your happiness to hear
Him say, "Thou hast fought a good fight, thou hast
finished thy course, and henceforth there is laid
up for thee a crown of righteousness which fadeth
not away." On, Christian, with care and caution!
On, with holy fear and trembling! On, with faith
and confidence in Jesus alone, and let your
constant petition be, "Uphold me according to Thy
word." He is able, and He alone, "To keep you from
falling, and to present you faultless before the
presence of His glory with exceeding joy."
Evening
I
will take heed to my ways.
Psalm 39:1
Fellow-pilgrim, say not in your heart, "I will go hither and thither, and I shall not sin;" for you are never so out of danger of sinning as to boast of security. The road is very miry, it will be hard to pick your path so as not to soil your garments. This is a world of pitch; you will need to watch often, if in handling it you are to keep your hands clean. There is a robber at every turn of the road to rob you of your jewels; there is a temptation in every mercy; there is a snare in every joy; and if you ever reach heaven, it will be a miracle of divine grace to be ascribed entirely to your Father's power. Be on your guard. When a man carries a bomb-shell in his hand, he should mind that he does not go near a candle; and you too must take care that you enter not into temptation. Even your common actions are edged tools; you must mind how you handle them. There is nothing in this world to foster a Christian's piety, but everything to destroy it. How anxious should you be to look up to God, that He may keep you! Your prayer should be, "Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe." Having prayed, you must also watch; guarding every thought, word, and action, with holy jealousy. Do not expose yourselves unnecessarily; but if called to exposure, if you are bidden to go where the darts are flying, never venture forth without your shield; for if once the devil finds you without your buckler, he will rejoice that his hour of triumph is come, and will soon make you fall down wounded by his arrows. Though slain you cannot be; wounded you may be. "Be sober; be vigilant, danger may be in an hour when all seemeth securest to thee." Therefore, take heed to thy ways, and watch unto prayer. No man ever fell into error through being too watchful. May the Holy Spirit guide us in all our ways, so shall they always please the Lord.
Why Me? Outside the Box
In previous articles we have stated that in western culture about every five hundred years a major reboot of the way we do things occurs. This turmoil creates the fertile soil for new developments that redefine our individuality and communities in ways that were unknown before the plowing or tilling began.
Beginning with the absolute understanding that humanity is a creation of God, and was indeed a creation in the image of God, it logically follows that this five hundred year upheaval, forces us again to look beyond the temporal world and refocus upon the transcendent nature of common life. That understanding then brings about the incorporation of that transcendence into the religions of mankind.
While all religions including evolutionary materialism are exclusive in their worldviews, stresses develop that quickly become fault lines between the reformers and the establishments they are attempting to reform. Within Christianity the last time this occurred was in the Protestant Reformation.
That Reformation led to an era known as the Enlightenment where those new religious views received a more common application. At the time when the human development and religious fervor were properly understood within the broader culture, time was right for the miracle that became the American Revolution and the founding of the United States of America as a constitutional republic.
Notice all the “re” words that accompanied the changes from subjugation by divine right of kings into a worldview that valued individual liberty above all else. It then attempted to formulate a minimal governmental structure in which all humans would have the opportunity to pursue happiness, without class distinction.
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Week in Review – February 28 - March 6, 2010: Olympic hockey, healthcare, opportunity
At the end of it all, the United States won more metals than any nation in history and the host Canadians won more gold, again setting a record. The games now pit professionals against professionals, which in our age should be because of the dedication required to perform at such a high level of skill.
The same cannot be said of America’s politicians. Sometime this week we expect the final redux of the Democrat’s healthcare reform package. The only thing for sure is that with or without ObamaCare, within a few years American’s will be paying 20 percent of GDP for health services. Then either reform, or reform of the reform, will and should be the nation’s top domestic priority.
It is true that most Americans are happy with their current coverage and don’t want it to change, simply because they get it for free or cheap with their job. So while they can see the doctor of their choice for routine matters, they never really understand the limitations of their current plan if they seriously need something called major medical.
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Morning & Evening for March 7th - Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Morning
Have
faith in God
Mark 11:22
Faith is the foot of the
soul by which it can march along the road of the
commandments. Love can make the feet move more
swiftly; but faith is the foot which carries the
soul. Faith is the oil enabling the wheels of holy
devotion and of earnest piety to move well; and
without faith the wheels are taken from the
chariot, and we drag heavily. With faith I can do
all things; without faith I shall neither have the
inclination nor the power to do anything in the
service of God. If you would find the men who serve
God the best, you must look for the men of the most
faith. Little faith will save a man, but little
faith cannot do great things for God. Poor
Little-faith could not have fought "Apollyon;" it
needed "Christian" to do that. Poor Little-faith
could not have slain "Giant Despair;" it required
"Great-heart's" arm to knock that monster down.
Little faith will go to heaven most certainly, but
it often has to hide itself in a nut-shell, and it
frequently loses all but its jewels. Little-faith
says, "It is a rough road, beset with sharp thorns,
and full of dangers; I am afraid to go;" but
Great-faith remembers the promise, "Thy shoes shall
be iron and brass; as thy days, so shall thy
strength be:" and so she boldly ventures.
Little-faith stands desponding, mingling her tears
with the flood; but Great-faith sings, "When thou
passest through the waters, I will be with thee;
and through the rivers, they shall not overflow
thee:" and she fords the stream at once. Would you
be comfortable and happy? Would you enjoy religion?
Would you have the religion of cheerfulness and not
that of gloom? Then "have faith in God." If you
love darkness, and are satisfied to dwell in gloom
and misery, then be content with little faith; but
if you love the sunshine, and would sing songs of
rejoicing, covet earnestly this best gift, "great
faith."
Evening
lt
is better to trust in the Lord, than to put
confidence in man
Psalm 118:8
Doubtless the reader
has been tried with the temptation to rely upon the
things which are seen, instead of resting alone
upon the invisible God. Christians often look to
man for help and counsel, and mar the noble
simplicity of their reliance upon their God. Does
this evening's portion meet the eye of a child of
God anxious about temporals, then would we reason
with him awhile. You trust in Jesus, and only in
Jesus, for your salvation, then why are you
troubled? "Because of my great
care." Is it not written,
"Cast thy burden upon the Lord"? "Be careful for
nothing, but in everything by prayer and
supplication make known your wants unto God."
Cannot you trust God for temporals?
"Ah! I wish I
could." If you cannot trust
God for temporals, how dare you trust Him for
spirituals? Can you trust Him for your soul's
redemption, and not rely upon Him for a few lesser
mercies? Is not God enough for thy need, or is His
all-sufficiency too narrow for thy wants? Dost thou
want another eye beside that of Him who sees every
secret thing? Is His heart faint? Is His arm weary?
If so, seek another God; but if He be infinite,
omnipotent, faithful, true, and all-wise, why
gaddest thou abroad so much to seek another
confidence? Why dost thou rake the earth to find
another foundation, when this is strong enough to
bear all the weight which thou canst ever build
thereon? Christian, mix not only thy wine with
water, do not alloy thy gold of faith with the
dross of human confidence. Wait thou only upon God,
and let thine expectation be from Him. Covet not
Jonah's gourd, but rest in Jonah's God. Let the
sandy foundations of terrestrial trust be the
choice of fools, but do thou, like one who foresees
the storm, build for thyself an abiding place upon
the Rock of Ages.
Brute' says sometimes nothin' is better than a lot of somethin'!
Why Me? The American Miracle
So far, we might conclude the ships of nation states around the world are economically in a potentially perilous position of sinking. From our leadership we hear that such a catastrophe is impossible. So too were the passengers on the Titanic until that pesky natural iceberg forever altered their reality. Then just three years later, no one on the Lusitania believed that a man caused disaster, the small German u-boat torpedo, could sink the ship in just 18 minutes.
The problem with political leadership is that they have a vested interest in projecting the past into a rosy future. If our ship had a hole in it, we have now by our own ingenuity and skills fixed the problem and we are again full speed ahead. Of course if some might ask the question, “Where are we going?” they are met with scorn and ridicule for being a conspiracy theorist, or a primitive common human, not highly evolved to understand the pleasures of a fantastic ocean voyage.
At Wonder Springs we speak a lot about the world being afloat on an ocean of non-energetic debt money. Just as in the “Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner,” there is money, money everywhere, but none of it can you drink. Of course we are told that if we just have hope, someday a few drops of good money will trickle down to us, but just as with seawater, it is undrinkable and the salinity is such that it can’t be used to grow anything, or abstractly create wealth.
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Week in Review – February 21-27, 2010: Olympic bobsleds, Chile earthquake, Obamacare
Now you may be asking yourself how these three events are related at all, even if the obtuse modifier is used? The thing that ties together all of our points this week, relate to how people respond to an opportunity or a crisis, in our terms stupendous change.
Our zenith of this report was the results of the four man bobsled event at Whistler in which the United States won its first Gold medal since 1948. While that was a worthwhile achievement, what I found really interesting was what happened after the medals presentation, where the Americans were joined by the Silver medal winning Canadians and the Bronze medal Germans.
Before TV cameras all three teams sort of scrunched together for a group photo and in the process you had over 1000 kilos (2200 lbs.) of competitive alpha males getting up close and personal, all smiling like they sort of liked one another. I have searched for a picture of that happening but it doesn’t appear to have gotten significant press attention.
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