Special Report
Green Vitriol
14/February/2010 19:24
Record snow falls in the eastern United States and
in Europe, and again we see an exponential growth
in vitriol revolving around the global warming or
climate change debate. This really looks backward
to the Enlightenment birth of what we call science,
that originally went under the term natural
philosophy, which grew out of the discussions
between applied and theoretical theology. So we
hear some people calling global warming a religion
and others calling it settled science. The truth is
that none of us now alive will be around when it
makes all that much difference, but that sure
doesn’t keep pundits and know-it-alls from making
popish balderdash.
Back in the 1970s when the fear that the world was known to be heading towards another ice age, one of the discussions against cleaning up the air, was that it may lead to global warming. What we are now told in essence, when we saved the world from dirty pollution, we condemned the world to invisible pollution. So the cheap and simple solution should be let’s get dirty again. Of course that is really just a straight-forward fix that doesn’t fit within our self-righteousness coin flipping to save the planet — get rich.
If we could ask the Wooly Mammoths they would tell us to watch those ocean effect snowfalls because they could cause you to freeze to death in the stupendous snowy change that would start an ice age. Of course they did freeze to death during the start of an ice age. So in all our human smarts we know that we really don’t want to have that enter into our frigid natural philosophy discussions.
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Back in the 1970s when the fear that the world was known to be heading towards another ice age, one of the discussions against cleaning up the air, was that it may lead to global warming. What we are now told in essence, when we saved the world from dirty pollution, we condemned the world to invisible pollution. So the cheap and simple solution should be let’s get dirty again. Of course that is really just a straight-forward fix that doesn’t fit within our self-righteousness coin flipping to save the planet — get rich.
If we could ask the Wooly Mammoths they would tell us to watch those ocean effect snowfalls because they could cause you to freeze to death in the stupendous snowy change that would start an ice age. Of course they did freeze to death during the start of an ice age. So in all our human smarts we know that we really don’t want to have that enter into our frigid natural philosophy discussions.
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The Audacity of Wrong
13/February/2010 11:56
This past Wednesday Glenn Beck had a segment on the
Cure Worse Than Disease, in
which he discussed the depression of 1920-21.
As Glenn mentioned himself, I also had never
heard much about that time in United States
history. What I had heard was something about
continuing booms and busts of the economy as
America closed the western frontier, became a
world power through WWI, and had the Roaring
’20s ,which ended in the Great Depression.
Then thankfully the New Deal was issued in by
FDR, America was saved from total anarchy
until we were forced to fight Japan and those
terrible Nazis.
I had begun to question this whole New Deal salvation when I read the “The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression” by Amity Shales, earlier this year, So I wondered what I might find online, to increase my knowledge of this unknown earlier depression that Glenn had used as a model for fixing our country’s and the world’s economic mess. After some searching I came across “The U. S. Economy in the 1920s” an article by Gene Smiley of Marquette University. This is a very thorough discussion of that decade of almost twenty six thousand words and graphs that took up sixty four pages in my computer’s PDF format.
What the Smiley article showed, and as Beck addressed, the Depression that began in 1920 was much more severe that anything we have faced in the current meltdown and bailouts. Furthermore the fix of letting the markets work to rebuild, or as Glenn said, “reboot the system” accomplished an economic miracle in which unemployment fell from over 11% to less than 2% in short order.
As with our current situation, speculation in securities coupled with tight money policies, was a correct but simplistic description of the beginning of the Great Depression. However if you link the growth of the 1920s followed by the Depression of the 1930s, this broader historical context more vividly displays the reality pointed out so well in “The Forgotten Man.” In this larger context Roosevelt’s New Deal was truly the antithesis of what the economy really needed.
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I had begun to question this whole New Deal salvation when I read the “The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression” by Amity Shales, earlier this year, So I wondered what I might find online, to increase my knowledge of this unknown earlier depression that Glenn had used as a model for fixing our country’s and the world’s economic mess. After some searching I came across “The U. S. Economy in the 1920s” an article by Gene Smiley of Marquette University. This is a very thorough discussion of that decade of almost twenty six thousand words and graphs that took up sixty four pages in my computer’s PDF format.
What the Smiley article showed, and as Beck addressed, the Depression that began in 1920 was much more severe that anything we have faced in the current meltdown and bailouts. Furthermore the fix of letting the markets work to rebuild, or as Glenn said, “reboot the system” accomplished an economic miracle in which unemployment fell from over 11% to less than 2% in short order.
As with our current situation, speculation in securities coupled with tight money policies, was a correct but simplistic description of the beginning of the Great Depression. However if you link the growth of the 1920s followed by the Depression of the 1930s, this broader historical context more vividly displays the reality pointed out so well in “The Forgotten Man.” In this larger context Roosevelt’s New Deal was truly the antithesis of what the economy really needed.
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New Leadership Tab
11/February/2010 13:00
In our effort to create more effective resources
here at Wonder Springs, we have deleted the
Phylogenesis Tab and replaced it with an off site
link under a new Leadership Tab. This link will
take you to The Creation Leadership Center we are
developing using our Wonder Springs Chronicle
Archives as well as other teaching resources we
have developed over the years. Eventually The
Creation Leadership Center will be offering hands
on learning experiences in Business Ecology,
Leadership, Economic and Personal Survival, as well
as other programs to allow you to understand the
growth opportunities, that times of stupendous
change create.
Haiti reflections
16/January/2010 12:38
by Jerry Bannon
We began this year in our original installment of “Why Me?” with a brief discussion of survival. For the last few days and for weeks and months forward we will see real life survival situations playing out on our televisions and featuring the people of Haiti. I used the term “playing out,” because when the video and the commentary are combined, we really cannot comprehend the reality of the situation. But it is reality.
The projected death toll continues to rise. News I heard last evening stated that the total deaths might reach two hundred thousand, with other casualties reaching three million. This within a country with a total population of eight to nine million, depending upon the source, which compares well with New York City.
How do you survive a situation like that?
The reality, after you subtract the death toll, is that you are almost totally dependent upon the good will of external aid and the grace of God. In the case of Haiti crushing poverty, before the quake, exacerbates those problems.
In the still richest country in the world, the effects of hurricane Katrina are still present in the city of New Orleans, as today their National Football League team battles to continue the city’s mental recovery.
Survival is essentially a mental and spiritual happening. Right now in Haiti and in all our other catastrophic recovery efforts, we focus upon immediate material aid, and once the crisis is over, survivors are pretty much on their own to answer the stupendous challenge of “Why Me?”
Our global economy essentially says, “It is not our problem, survival of the fittest is the supreme natural law.” Then they move their consumer kitsch factory to some other place.
Religion in common and specific senses, typified by the fundamentals of Judeo-Christian values, are the only support that will remain, but those efforts will be greatly hindered by the lack of capital to rebuild and restore human lives. The people of the United States will lead in that rebuilding effort, because they still are the most religious and graceful people in the history of the world. That is simply because the American ethos, really hasn’t changed, as it also has been pillaged by the global reach of what is beginning to be feely called “crony capitalism.”
As the United States moves forward, we too will be making survival decisions. God willing, those changes will not be as stupendous as now being forced upon the people of Haiti. In the battle of morals and morale, we will hear many words of our founding fathers, one of the most quotable being Thomas Jefferson. Let those words not neglect Jefferson’s vision of a nation of self-sufficiency in the form of yeoman farmers, freeholders, not of a mortgaged suburban home, but owners and stewards of their natural subsistence.
These diverse opportunities are in direct opposition to the attempts to create urban monocultures of consuming union factory and service workers. Extreme specialization is a genetic agenda that attempts to create dependency at the expense of common sense. In that comparison, the currently struggling people of Haiti, have been given an opportunity to rebuild, a more just and sustainable society than they have had in their history.
We the people and citizens of the United States of America, face a very different challenge. Our challenge is not to return to our roots that made the American Dream, the great hope of mankind, but instead to prune the tree of the excesses of all consuming material prosperity.
Contrary to what we are now being told that cannot come from governmental regulations and the redistribution of wealth. Nor can that change come from individual initiative without respecting the divine creation of all of humanity and the initial goodness of all of God’s creation.
Survival from stupendous change takes many forms on this small blue globe, orbiting in the universe of space. But we are not alone, we have a God that sustains it all and created us in his image, and we have each other, which reflects the unity and diversity of the Trinity, through individuals, tribes, and nations. So instead of believing that we have all the answers, we must go back to the fundamental common questions:
Where did we come from?
Why are we here?
What are we to do?
Where will we go when we die?
In God’s common grace if we work to understand the life questions in the middle, he will take care of the bookends.
We began this year in our original installment of “Why Me?” with a brief discussion of survival. For the last few days and for weeks and months forward we will see real life survival situations playing out on our televisions and featuring the people of Haiti. I used the term “playing out,” because when the video and the commentary are combined, we really cannot comprehend the reality of the situation. But it is reality.
The projected death toll continues to rise. News I heard last evening stated that the total deaths might reach two hundred thousand, with other casualties reaching three million. This within a country with a total population of eight to nine million, depending upon the source, which compares well with New York City.
How do you survive a situation like that?
The reality, after you subtract the death toll, is that you are almost totally dependent upon the good will of external aid and the grace of God. In the case of Haiti crushing poverty, before the quake, exacerbates those problems.
In the still richest country in the world, the effects of hurricane Katrina are still present in the city of New Orleans, as today their National Football League team battles to continue the city’s mental recovery.
Survival is essentially a mental and spiritual happening. Right now in Haiti and in all our other catastrophic recovery efforts, we focus upon immediate material aid, and once the crisis is over, survivors are pretty much on their own to answer the stupendous challenge of “Why Me?”
Our global economy essentially says, “It is not our problem, survival of the fittest is the supreme natural law.” Then they move their consumer kitsch factory to some other place.
Religion in common and specific senses, typified by the fundamentals of Judeo-Christian values, are the only support that will remain, but those efforts will be greatly hindered by the lack of capital to rebuild and restore human lives. The people of the United States will lead in that rebuilding effort, because they still are the most religious and graceful people in the history of the world. That is simply because the American ethos, really hasn’t changed, as it also has been pillaged by the global reach of what is beginning to be feely called “crony capitalism.”
As the United States moves forward, we too will be making survival decisions. God willing, those changes will not be as stupendous as now being forced upon the people of Haiti. In the battle of morals and morale, we will hear many words of our founding fathers, one of the most quotable being Thomas Jefferson. Let those words not neglect Jefferson’s vision of a nation of self-sufficiency in the form of yeoman farmers, freeholders, not of a mortgaged suburban home, but owners and stewards of their natural subsistence.
These diverse opportunities are in direct opposition to the attempts to create urban monocultures of consuming union factory and service workers. Extreme specialization is a genetic agenda that attempts to create dependency at the expense of common sense. In that comparison, the currently struggling people of Haiti, have been given an opportunity to rebuild, a more just and sustainable society than they have had in their history.
We the people and citizens of the United States of America, face a very different challenge. Our challenge is not to return to our roots that made the American Dream, the great hope of mankind, but instead to prune the tree of the excesses of all consuming material prosperity.
Contrary to what we are now being told that cannot come from governmental regulations and the redistribution of wealth. Nor can that change come from individual initiative without respecting the divine creation of all of humanity and the initial goodness of all of God’s creation.
Survival from stupendous change takes many forms on this small blue globe, orbiting in the universe of space. But we are not alone, we have a God that sustains it all and created us in his image, and we have each other, which reflects the unity and diversity of the Trinity, through individuals, tribes, and nations. So instead of believing that we have all the answers, we must go back to the fundamental common questions:
Where did we come from?
Why are we here?
What are we to do?
Where will we go when we die?
In God’s common grace if we work to understand the life questions in the middle, he will take care of the bookends.
New Year Adaptations
04/January/2010 17:01
By Jerry Bannon
Updated January 5, 2010, 9:30 AM
The year 2010 begins the twelfth year of publishing The Wonder Springs Chronicle or the predecessor The Chronicles of Diversity. Over that time and on this website you have free access to over two million words which are amazingly consistent in their context. Since that 1999 beginning we have seen some remarkable changes in this country and around the world.
There are those who say that the recent Great Recession is over and now heaven on earth is just a few legislative maneuvers, bureaucratic assumptions, and hopeful hype spin away. The unique position of Wonder Springs stems from a paradigm that the Natural Laws of God’s creation are Absolute Truths which governs all of man’s aspirations. If our endeavors or enterprises are going to provide long term growth in all diverse aspects, then the wisdom that we use gathered from what we can learn from God’s living reality, forces us to model our limited and simplistic struggles utilizing those Truths to find meaning and purpose in life.
This concept began in the early 1980s when I began a business management model called Business Ecology. The essentials of those simple principles and graphic illustrations are found in various places in the archives. Some of the ways we have described these concepts in addition to Business Ecology are Enterprise Symbiosis, Stupendous Change, Fractured Rapture Tales, and probably the most scientific description: Métis Phylogenesis.
During the years following the development of the Business Ecology concept, through some more technical consulting work I was given the rights to redevelop a Great Depression successful, air concentrating technology for precious metals. To that was added an environmentally sound refining process. These technologies formed a basis for a company I tried and failed to get funded during that time when all the worldly buzz related to the Internet and something called dot-com. In October of last year I was contacted by some potential mine developers I had briefly known after I had actively closed the company. They wanted to know if I was still interested in going ahead with that work now that the price of gold had exceeded $1000 per ounce.
I scraped together enough funds to reestablish the company as PREFER Ltd in the State of Washington and began to assemble infrastructure pieces that had not been utilized for probably twenty years. PREFER stands for the acrostic: Providing Resourceful Energetics For Economic Renaissance. One of the problems with the original air tables was that it did not scale beyond a piece of equipment that could process more than five tons per hour of properly crushed ore. Furthermore changes of the particle size of the desired precious metals fraction required a complete reworking of the air fluidizing screens.
Early one morning just before Christmas I awoke with an idea for a new design without the above limitations. With some sketches of this new equipment design, understood in the science of small particle physics we will begin to enrich the whole process stream as we design, build and test this new equipment. We also have obtained another client with a property that would fit well with the PREFER emphasis on small scale environmentally sound mining and refining.
There still is the distinct need to find investors that believe in the truth that a significant portion of America’s new wealth producing enterprises need to be directly tied to the land. For it is that natural wealth together with the American people’s constitutional inalienable rights that provided for the development of the greatest nation in all of human history. Furthermore that symbiosis is the mechanism by which we will again prosper.
Combining the precious metals with Business Ecology and placing it within a human environment in which our money has no basis in reality, it logically follows that we should again look to God’s creation for the knowledge and wisdom to again provide a mechanism to produce new wealth not only from the ground, but also to help others manage their current wealth in a means that will minimize the effects of higher taxes, currency devaluations, and inflation.
So on New Year’s Eve we began a new website called Deep Woods Moola which will function as a subsidiary adventure of PREFER Ltd. The slogan for the Deep Woods Moola website is, Innovatively Creating Sustaining Wealth. As yet there is nothing there beyond a domain name, but over time the goal is to separate The Wonder Springs Chronicle to enhance its Christian emphasis and develop Deep Woods Moola into a mechanism to address in a secular manner the challenges that now face all of humanity.
When I began this regular writing in 1999 it was under the web banner of Createleaders.org. As with Deep Woods Moola, we again established The Creation Leadership Center utilizing our old URL on New Year’s Eve. Over the years, as with many other organizations, we fully understand the potential of nature to teach the basics of leadership, integrity, humility, teamwork and many other priceless life principles. Actual training programs in the Deep Woods, gives us a perspective of all life and our place within our natural world, as well as within human culture.
The unique nature of the Biblical Creation Worldview demonstrates the diversity of all life, and the function of mankind as stewards and gardeners, as we seek to develop prosperous human communities. For only by understanding that we humans are not just part of creation, as creatures, but set apart in the image of God, to inherit his special goodness, can we truly understand the potential for Wonder Springs in not just a physical Death Valley, but more importantly our eternally spiritual Death Valley, without the grace of God offered to us through Jesus Christ.
Updated January 5, 2010, 9:30 AM
The year 2010 begins the twelfth year of publishing The Wonder Springs Chronicle or the predecessor The Chronicles of Diversity. Over that time and on this website you have free access to over two million words which are amazingly consistent in their context. Since that 1999 beginning we have seen some remarkable changes in this country and around the world.
There are those who say that the recent Great Recession is over and now heaven on earth is just a few legislative maneuvers, bureaucratic assumptions, and hopeful hype spin away. The unique position of Wonder Springs stems from a paradigm that the Natural Laws of God’s creation are Absolute Truths which governs all of man’s aspirations. If our endeavors or enterprises are going to provide long term growth in all diverse aspects, then the wisdom that we use gathered from what we can learn from God’s living reality, forces us to model our limited and simplistic struggles utilizing those Truths to find meaning and purpose in life.
This concept began in the early 1980s when I began a business management model called Business Ecology. The essentials of those simple principles and graphic illustrations are found in various places in the archives. Some of the ways we have described these concepts in addition to Business Ecology are Enterprise Symbiosis, Stupendous Change, Fractured Rapture Tales, and probably the most scientific description: Métis Phylogenesis.
During the years following the development of the Business Ecology concept, through some more technical consulting work I was given the rights to redevelop a Great Depression successful, air concentrating technology for precious metals. To that was added an environmentally sound refining process. These technologies formed a basis for a company I tried and failed to get funded during that time when all the worldly buzz related to the Internet and something called dot-com. In October of last year I was contacted by some potential mine developers I had briefly known after I had actively closed the company. They wanted to know if I was still interested in going ahead with that work now that the price of gold had exceeded $1000 per ounce.
I scraped together enough funds to reestablish the company as PREFER Ltd in the State of Washington and began to assemble infrastructure pieces that had not been utilized for probably twenty years. PREFER stands for the acrostic: Providing Resourceful Energetics For Economic Renaissance. One of the problems with the original air tables was that it did not scale beyond a piece of equipment that could process more than five tons per hour of properly crushed ore. Furthermore changes of the particle size of the desired precious metals fraction required a complete reworking of the air fluidizing screens.
Early one morning just before Christmas I awoke with an idea for a new design without the above limitations. With some sketches of this new equipment design, understood in the science of small particle physics we will begin to enrich the whole process stream as we design, build and test this new equipment. We also have obtained another client with a property that would fit well with the PREFER emphasis on small scale environmentally sound mining and refining.
There still is the distinct need to find investors that believe in the truth that a significant portion of America’s new wealth producing enterprises need to be directly tied to the land. For it is that natural wealth together with the American people’s constitutional inalienable rights that provided for the development of the greatest nation in all of human history. Furthermore that symbiosis is the mechanism by which we will again prosper.
Combining the precious metals with Business Ecology and placing it within a human environment in which our money has no basis in reality, it logically follows that we should again look to God’s creation for the knowledge and wisdom to again provide a mechanism to produce new wealth not only from the ground, but also to help others manage their current wealth in a means that will minimize the effects of higher taxes, currency devaluations, and inflation.
So on New Year’s Eve we began a new website called Deep Woods Moola which will function as a subsidiary adventure of PREFER Ltd. The slogan for the Deep Woods Moola website is, Innovatively Creating Sustaining Wealth. As yet there is nothing there beyond a domain name, but over time the goal is to separate The Wonder Springs Chronicle to enhance its Christian emphasis and develop Deep Woods Moola into a mechanism to address in a secular manner the challenges that now face all of humanity.
When I began this regular writing in 1999 it was under the web banner of Createleaders.org. As with Deep Woods Moola, we again established The Creation Leadership Center utilizing our old URL on New Year’s Eve. Over the years, as with many other organizations, we fully understand the potential of nature to teach the basics of leadership, integrity, humility, teamwork and many other priceless life principles. Actual training programs in the Deep Woods, gives us a perspective of all life and our place within our natural world, as well as within human culture.
The unique nature of the Biblical Creation Worldview demonstrates the diversity of all life, and the function of mankind as stewards and gardeners, as we seek to develop prosperous human communities. For only by understanding that we humans are not just part of creation, as creatures, but set apart in the image of God, to inherit his special goodness, can we truly understand the potential for Wonder Springs in not just a physical Death Valley, but more importantly our eternally spiritual Death Valley, without the grace of God offered to us through Jesus Christ.
Special Report: A Christmas Hunt
14/December/2009 10:02
Today the United Nations Climate Change
Conference Copenhagen focuses upon “Earth
Journalism Awards” among other interesting topics.
In efforts to provide a little “fresh insight” into
this unique conference in human history the Wonder
Springs Chronicle would like to post this little
contribution. We don’t claim that it is journalism,
nor even a good story, probably more of a simple
fairy tale, concocted not by climate change
skeptics, but true believers, in this continuing
universal principle. It however, probably doesn’t
spin this reality in a way that would find a wide
audience among our Copenhagen friends.
We live in troubling times, and readers of knuckle dragging blogs such as the Wonder Springs Chronicle and other publications and programs are being told they are unenlightened, stupid, naysayers, who only believe in some fictional deity, guns, and real money. Therefore for our loyal readers please understand that this really is a tale of real fiction, which you might fully not understand. It attempts mythically to bring together for a hunting trip in the backwoods two of the most enlightened progressives of all time, namely Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt and Albert (Al) Gore. It must be pointed out that these two men lived a century apart, we therefore need some license with reality to make this fictional trip happen, so we have creatively decided to have this trip begin today, December 14, 2009, but to focus upon the technology of a century ago, that would be December 14, 1909.
Our story is set in a hunting camp in Northwestern Montana, at one of President Roosevelt’s favorite hunting spots. He has been camping at the location a couple of days before Vice President Gore arrives, by horseback, sometime in the evening before our story begins.
Teddy: Good morning Al, Merry Christmas. How did you sleep?
Al: Happy Holidays Teddy. Dang, I almost froze to death, I mean the ten wool blankets you gave me to keep warm just didn’t seem to do the job. And did you realize the fire in the tent stove went out about midnight. Why didn’t you get up and feed the fire, that canvas tent was as cold as that eternal hotspot, if you catch my drift?
Teddy: Well Al, you see it is this way, I was President of these here United States and you were just a Vice President. I think that means you work for me, not the other way around. More to the point if you had not spent the whole night whining about being cold and gotten up and stoked the fire yourself, you might have gotten your blood circulating and not have been so cold. More to the point, the canvas tent, the wool blankets, and the wood stove are about as carbon neutral as you can get. I thought you believed in that sort of thing.
Al: You’re right Ted, I’m just not acclimatized to this rapid cold change from staying in five star hotels, traveling on my private jet, and my home back in Tennessee. Also you know methane flatulence is produced by the sheep that was the source of the wool, why didn’t you have some modern petroleum based sleeping bags, I’m sure I would have slept very toasty in a nice synthetic bag?
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We live in troubling times, and readers of knuckle dragging blogs such as the Wonder Springs Chronicle and other publications and programs are being told they are unenlightened, stupid, naysayers, who only believe in some fictional deity, guns, and real money. Therefore for our loyal readers please understand that this really is a tale of real fiction, which you might fully not understand. It attempts mythically to bring together for a hunting trip in the backwoods two of the most enlightened progressives of all time, namely Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt and Albert (Al) Gore. It must be pointed out that these two men lived a century apart, we therefore need some license with reality to make this fictional trip happen, so we have creatively decided to have this trip begin today, December 14, 2009, but to focus upon the technology of a century ago, that would be December 14, 1909.
Our story is set in a hunting camp in Northwestern Montana, at one of President Roosevelt’s favorite hunting spots. He has been camping at the location a couple of days before Vice President Gore arrives, by horseback, sometime in the evening before our story begins.
Teddy: Good morning Al, Merry Christmas. How did you sleep?
Al: Happy Holidays Teddy. Dang, I almost froze to death, I mean the ten wool blankets you gave me to keep warm just didn’t seem to do the job. And did you realize the fire in the tent stove went out about midnight. Why didn’t you get up and feed the fire, that canvas tent was as cold as that eternal hotspot, if you catch my drift?
Teddy: Well Al, you see it is this way, I was President of these here United States and you were just a Vice President. I think that means you work for me, not the other way around. More to the point if you had not spent the whole night whining about being cold and gotten up and stoked the fire yourself, you might have gotten your blood circulating and not have been so cold. More to the point, the canvas tent, the wool blankets, and the wood stove are about as carbon neutral as you can get. I thought you believed in that sort of thing.
Al: You’re right Ted, I’m just not acclimatized to this rapid cold change from staying in five star hotels, traveling on my private jet, and my home back in Tennessee. Also you know methane flatulence is produced by the sheep that was the source of the wool, why didn’t you have some modern petroleum based sleeping bags, I’m sure I would have slept very toasty in a nice synthetic bag?
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The Advent Season
04/December/2009 12:05
And now
these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the
greatest of these is love. (1
Corinthians 13:13)
At Wonder Springs we normally give Brute’ his day, but with the United States jobless rate declining last month to an even 10 percent, it is generally assumed that most of the MSM, or the LSM (Lame Stream Media) will be reporting that “Happy Days are Here Again.”
The reality of the so called good news is really confined to pretty much those who have had access to the government’s free (funny) monetary expansion policies. The truth is that there are many Americans and citizens in other countries around the world are facing hardships stemming from the Great Recession, that they have never experienced before. Some of them have been in that rut and somehow survived now longer than they thought possible.
The opportunity that we can gain from these life trials is that “faith, hope and love,” are unique assets of all our human personalities. They are gifts of God, given to us in unique ways, we are however much of the time to busy understand not only their unique nature, but also our own.
Their have been those, in relatively recent human history, who have tried to change these gifts of God into a force that can be manipulated by human efforts. Many times these faux conversions were attempted for lofty reasons.
Love is probably the most abused of these three. “I (heart design) something,” being the most common attempt to make the supernatural gift of God, subject to human depravity. “All you need is love” as well as “Love means you never have to say you’re sorry.” are not examples of true love, but really narcissism.
Making you healthy, wealthy, and wise through your faith, was and still is part of the reason Christianity continues to be considered ridiculous, by many people, some who have tried the to plant their seed of faith and found it bought someone a new house and corporate jet, while their faith had to make the choice between food, and utilities, while old time necessities came to look like totally vanquished dreams.
Finally, we have succeeded in turning hope into a force also. Hope in hope and we can change the world and the United States will obey also. Truthfully I have little hope that the breathing period will last all that long, but I am grateful for at least a little reprise for this Christmas season.
Therefore during the rest of this year the Wonder Springs Chronicle will focus upon how God uses our difficult circumstances to reveal His nature in our lives and how Godly faith, hope, and love, are able to sometimes overcome our circumstances, but also provide are deepest needs when we have forced to take steps beyond our understanding
C. S. Lewis has said that the greatest miracle was not in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, but that He was willing to become human at all.” The Christmas season is that time when most of the world celebrates that miracle. Let those of us who truly believe in that miracle take the time to share historical reasons for our faith, hope and love and the material gifts will take care of themselves.
Advent is the first period of the church year in which Christians around the world look forward to the birth of a Jewish baby who was also God incarnate. That condescending act of God has become the basis of our redemption, real Good News, and the true reason for the season.
Merry Christmas
Jerry
At Wonder Springs we normally give Brute’ his day, but with the United States jobless rate declining last month to an even 10 percent, it is generally assumed that most of the MSM, or the LSM (Lame Stream Media) will be reporting that “Happy Days are Here Again.”
The reality of the so called good news is really confined to pretty much those who have had access to the government’s free (funny) monetary expansion policies. The truth is that there are many Americans and citizens in other countries around the world are facing hardships stemming from the Great Recession, that they have never experienced before. Some of them have been in that rut and somehow survived now longer than they thought possible.
The opportunity that we can gain from these life trials is that “faith, hope and love,” are unique assets of all our human personalities. They are gifts of God, given to us in unique ways, we are however much of the time to busy understand not only their unique nature, but also our own.
Their have been those, in relatively recent human history, who have tried to change these gifts of God into a force that can be manipulated by human efforts. Many times these faux conversions were attempted for lofty reasons.
Love is probably the most abused of these three. “I (heart design) something,” being the most common attempt to make the supernatural gift of God, subject to human depravity. “All you need is love” as well as “Love means you never have to say you’re sorry.” are not examples of true love, but really narcissism.
Making you healthy, wealthy, and wise through your faith, was and still is part of the reason Christianity continues to be considered ridiculous, by many people, some who have tried the to plant their seed of faith and found it bought someone a new house and corporate jet, while their faith had to make the choice between food, and utilities, while old time necessities came to look like totally vanquished dreams.
Finally, we have succeeded in turning hope into a force also. Hope in hope and we can change the world and the United States will obey also. Truthfully I have little hope that the breathing period will last all that long, but I am grateful for at least a little reprise for this Christmas season.
Therefore during the rest of this year the Wonder Springs Chronicle will focus upon how God uses our difficult circumstances to reveal His nature in our lives and how Godly faith, hope, and love, are able to sometimes overcome our circumstances, but also provide are deepest needs when we have forced to take steps beyond our understanding
C. S. Lewis has said that the greatest miracle was not in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, but that He was willing to become human at all.” The Christmas season is that time when most of the world celebrates that miracle. Let those of us who truly believe in that miracle take the time to share historical reasons for our faith, hope and love and the material gifts will take care of themselves.
Advent is the first period of the church year in which Christians around the world look forward to the birth of a Jewish baby who was also God incarnate. That condescending act of God has become the basis of our redemption, real Good News, and the true reason for the season.
Merry Christmas
Jerry