Barack Obama has become known for his description of the US Constitution as a bundle of negative rights, or liberties that limit government from doing a lot of things that he believes the government should provide. Since those negative liberties are designed from the federal government down through the states, to the individual, those negative liberties are mostly focused upon limiting national power.

Keeping with our last post on “Our Sin-Cosmos Demise” the increasing federal power over the history of the United States can be portrayed as the slow eroding of the essentially ex nihilo informational energetics of the nation’s founding. This erosion follows the first two laws of thermodynamics. If our sin cosmos analysis is correct, over time that created stasis will reach a point that without significant increases in thermodynamic informational energetics, the whole process will collapse in a manner similar to that shown in radiation half-lives.

Whether you believe that enviable collapse by that mechanism or not, there are a couple of natural laws that provide the basis for those federal limitations of Obama’s negative liberties. Both natural laws basically find their power from the negative reality of sin, but each law focuses on different ends of our created human spectrum of inalienable rights. Both are found in the first 11 chapters of the book of Genesis.

Since the highly evolved collective elite considers the Bible essentially a book of negative myths of evolutionary history, the reality of their application is beyond the paradigms of their enlightened worldview. Irreconcilable variations exist between the evolutionary millions and billions of years contrasted with a Biblical constructionist need to compress the creation account and mans’ history into thousands of years. However when you look seriously at that debate, creation historical dates are just differing applications of our two underlying natural laws.

The first sin focuses on the individual and is found in Genesis 3; generally referred to as the fall of mankind, and the beginning of the Christian concept of total depravity. Stated in specific terms this is the individual desire to be like God, to know the difference between good and evil and to be able to define our own specific works as good.

The second is found in the Tower of Babel experience and the confusion of the human language into languages. Stated in Biblical terms, which we have no problem understanding, our highest community desires is to work together so that there is really nothing that human abilities cannot accomplish. That is especially true if we are able to evolve beyond these negative myths. Read More...

Tags: U S Constitution, sin cosmos, Babylon, Biblical Creaton, Natural Law, evolution, Barack Obama, Bill O Reilly, Redux Rendezvous

There will be no column this week, for we are taking a brief hiatus to get a little perspective on the way forward. There seems to be bad news everywhere, especially with the economy. The popular prescribed ways forward all rely on some sort of miraculous improvement of past human failures.

The president made the Ground Zero mosque a national issue that has only intensified, bringing into question even Obama’s Christian confession. Historic Christianity is about the completed work of Jesus Christ and not about liberation theology, social justice, and especially about some heretical concept of collective salvation.

Wonder Springs exists as a virtual reality alternative to a real Death Valley. To the best of my knowledge, Glenn Beck is the only person, with a broad based secular following, who has proclaimed America’s problems to be faith based. But it also follows that way too many people think the solution to the country’s and world’s problems stem from human enlightenment and not with God. In that darkness the economic bottom is still a long steady decline away, made bearable only by the grace and mercy of the Almighty.

Because our angst is a God induced redux of the Divine Providence of the founding of the United States, solutions will come as we look to God created natural laws and common grace. The problem is that nobody is actually willing to look at those natural laws as they might relate to human institutions. Therefore what play these principles get in the media either relates to self centered individualism, or described by the Social Darwinist elites, as primitive, knuckle dragging, myths of the religious stupid folk.

These last few weeks have been as financially stressful as I can remember in over twenty years. The ability to increase the Wonder Springs influence demands some changes not only financially but they also relate to location. All of this demands resources that are not now apparent other than a miracle from God. So until our next installment we shall try to live expectantly in that hope.

Tags: Glenn Beck, Christianity, God, Social Darwinism, Wonder Springs

Things are currently happening in America, that aren’t supposed to happen. At least that is what we have been told for at least a generation. We have been given the story line, if we just do our job, make reasonable expenditures to keep the economy moving, and pay our taxes, tomorrow will be better than today. That reality was said to be true not only for us, but also our children and grandchildren.

That reality has changed, and in our gut, we believe that it will be a long time, if ever, before we will be able to accept again as truth, that desire for security. The question then forms in our minds, “Were we lied to, or were our leaders just stupid?”

For the most part, I think the truth is that most of our leaders were just as ignorant as we were. Probably because they were so immersed in the political culture, they were even more enthusiastic. Sadly they also believed that what they were doing was responsible for our successes and hence, just as we did, never really looked beyond the security of their comfort zones.

Now the tendency is to look to those from the immediate past, blame them for the present, and make some boastful predictions that the future will make us more secure. All we need to do is to have hope that this will become true. However hope and faith are not forces, but realistic beliefs in external factors that will bring about our desires. During this last generation, but always present in the human psyche, we have replaced God as that redemptive ability, with our human governance and our materialism.

Coping with these changes I am in the process of redefining a lot of things in my life, and trying to figure out how I can adapt and provide positive guidance to others. In our sound bite — talking points world, one needs to have a handle that fits. Some concise description that you can defend, both in the sound bite world, but also, if need be, as the depth of your being. The descriptive term I finally have settled on is a Redux Independent.
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Tags: Redux Indpendent, War Racket, Redux Rendezvous, Bill O Reilly, Glenn Beck, tea party, U S Constitution, Biblical Creaton, God, Barack Obama

Our new Wonder Springs Intelligence email address just received a memo from an undisclosed source that said that there is going to be a Top Secret shakeup of all federal government agencies and departments. This will include the White House and Defense Department, as well as Congress and the Federal Reserve. Accompanying this Top Secret document was a draft of a help wanted advertisement that will run later this month in leading newspapers and other established media outlets.

Uncle Sam needs your help! As you know things are not going like we hoped here at zenith of human enlightenment, so we are going to reorganize the totality of the Federal Government to better serve the needs of the American People. In that illumination we are currently seeking the smartest and the brightest from across the nation to help us create this positive change. Accepted applicants must demonstrate that the potential hireling be a team player with unquestioning loyalty to failed ideas of the progressive era. Formal education from the top universities is required, as well as extensive professorial experience at the same — a definite plus. Those hired will not have any tangible human leadership skills, but possess oratory skills to pontificate about things they know nothing about ad infinitum-nauseam. Special Note: Those persons with possessing something once called common sense — need not apply. Except for that Your United States Government is an equal opportunity employer.

Hallelujah! Soon, very soon we are going to change the country and the world. Now there will be those detractors out there that say this employment opportunity will not exist once the Republicans take back both the house and the senate in the November midterm elections. However our anonymous Top Secret source has indicated that this employment advertisement passed muster with the Republican Party establishment, which signifies the whole of the nation’s political class are on board with this extensive governmental restructuring.

Of course the management here at Wonder Springs is concerned that nothing at all will change due to this restructuring of the status quo, we question if fact this restructuring is nothing but a form of a noise generating attempt to keep the American people in their current mushroom status. (Maintain the people in the dark and feed them horse manure.)

Thankfully for over a year now we have heard the president say that we are “back from the brink” economically. So the major question that no one seems to be asking, “Are we still just peering into the chasm or have we changed directions and headed what looks to be a endless barren plateau?”
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Tags: common sense, USA, jobs, Barack Obama, Natural Law, God, Redux Rendezvous

Today I am going to tell you what is wrong with this country, and the world for that matter. Then I am going to tell you again, and then perhaps again in another way, and then we will be done.

We humans everywhere have lost our sense of wonder. If the rest of the animals on this earth, perhaps the plants too, could, or can wonder, they would wonder what is wrong with the human species, they have lost their sense of wonder about everything, about life.

Truly we bitch and moan, belittle and bloviate, prophesy and procrastinate, worry and fret, whine and are stubbornly unhappy about a whole world of trivial things. Things, things everywhere, so much so that thing obsession has become both our religion and our way of life. To make matters worse we no longer have the time to wonder why things seem so wrong, when we hoped that things would be so right.

The good news is that wonder springs from the totally mundane. But the thing we need to learn again is that wonder is only possible because of the existence of the transcendent. We have become so materially blessed that we really are of no earthly good. In the process we have become so self centered that we have lost our sense of faith in anything we cannot physically touch. Oue recent problems stem from the reality that we are limited beings and just can’t touch an infinite world without some help and we are too insecure to even know were to ask for help.

We can be thankful however that wonder springs from death and the impossible.

And God said, “I wonder what kind of world those humans will create if I make them in my image?”
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Tags: Wonder Springs, God, Death Valley, Desert Pete, Kingston Trio, Babylon

Welcome to jobless times that vex the jobless soul.

Welcome to the new decade of the early twenty-first century, where the future is based on hope. The hope that Christmas past will again invigorate Christmas present, or the hope that Christmas future cannot come too soon. Hope, hope everywhere and none of it changes reality, for we have no concept of reality, other than the future hopefully repeats or improves upon the past.

Japan has had a lost decade for the last couple, because their economy has developed permanent stagnation. So the country that just some twenty to thirty years ago was the business model for the world, now is just another economic player in a global community of lethargic materialism.

Europe for its part has done better than Japan, but it is sort of a unified Europe after all. But in the context of world economics, it seems that the proper concept is “Been there, done that, and got the shirt.” They seem however beginning to realize that loving one another, while better than war, still doesn’t necessarily make for a happy family.

Here in the United States we have recently made hope our God. Well if not really a god, hope in change seems to be a figment of perverse imagination, really creates nothing but more regulations, present deficits, and a future of higher taxes, coupled with either deflation or inflation.

The past is where we feel the most comfortable, so if we all hope together that past-future will evolve right before our eyes. Can I get a witness?
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Tags: innovation, Invention, jobs, Social Darwinism, Collectivist Elitists, Laissez Faire Scoundrels, Wall Street, USA, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Kauffman Foundation, God

This is an impossible story of how to create a new frontier of enterprise opportunities, in a land led by leaders that believe they know how to improve the unbroken, and create reality by their words and nothing else.

The tale is a brash attempt to create and Effrontery Frontier, much like the settling of the American west, which was the mechanism that provided the emphasis for prosperity and growth until approximately a century ago.

The need for the Effrontery Frontier is shown in the reality that all new jobs are really created in startup companies as we noted last week with the reference to the Kauffman Foundation Report. Sadly current enterprise and political leadership focuses upon a generation of debt driven consumption with globally produced disposable goods as the sole means of the world’s economic growth.

Through some clandestine process that was slipped by the American people, the United States decided to become the financier of this scam, as we shipped our wealth-producing infrastructure offshore. Then through environmental imperialism we sought to turn our public lands into wilderness and parklands through conscious neglect. The Effrontery Frontier will slowly bring back the wealth, building upon the industrial revolution but not subservient to it.

Some would say that the current problems began with the rise of progressivism of that same vintage, but to divorce progressivism’s birth from the death of the real frontier does a gross injustice to both endeavors; for good, the not so good, and the down right repugnant.

With the real frontier, the expanse made real opportunity, just over the horizon, whether that was just the visible skyline, or several thousand miles distant. Within that environment, a shopkeeper, the son of a shopkeeper, could become a cattle rancher, or a prospector and a miner — or the other way around. The possibilities were only limited by you and your ability to work hard and to learn from your mistakes.
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Tags: Kauffman Foundation, USA, Progressivism, Effrontery Frontier, homestead, Wallace Stegner, John Wesley Powell

Last Saturday at 2:47 in the afternoon my email inbox chimed with a “Fire Weather Watch” to be in effect from 11 AM until 11 PM Monday. What that means is that high winds are expected which can blow down trees and if those trees hit power lines they can start fires that really move across the countryside. Interestingly just two years ago on that very day, a similar storm caused three major fires in Eastern Washington. In total I received six messages from that weather service and two from another predicting the storm, until the power went out at about 3:30 Monday afternoon. It was restored at about 8:40 Tuesday morning for a total of seventeen hours and change.

There is not much you can do about the weather, you can take precautions like making sure things that might blow away – can’t, and anything in the way of a falling tree – isn’t, but for the most part you just have to let it happen. The same is not true for human activities and in context, the economic weather. If you look at such companies as Apple, Microsoft, Cisco, Dell, Hewitt Packard, and a whole host of others, they have been around for approximately a generation. But what no one seems to notice is, unlike humans, these enterprises really don’t have any kids.

The statistics show that the Great Recession has cost the American economy somewhere between eight and nine million jobs. Job creation in recent months has basically hovered around an average of those required to keep even with the growth of the population. Everywhere from the president on down to the neighbors discussing the day’s activities, they are all talking about there is not enough or no work. Those with jobs are very thankful, and those without work are more and more often giving up.

A major question has been where was all the professional forecasting that this was going to happen, but more importantly now that the power has gone out of job creation, what are we going to do about it?
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Tags: Kauffman Foundation, The Forgotten Man, startup business, jobs, entrepreneurs, Keynes, tax cuts, flight money, The State of Effrontery

This is the final installment of our specific Redux Rendezvous series. That means it is the seventh in the series, which this seventh month comes out on the seventh day, our twenty-seventh issue of the year. Which as far as I know means absolutely nothing. It is not so much we have run out of ways to enlarge these redux basics, but rather in a forest of stupendously changing events we keep finding amazing trees and other life that needs deeper description.

Through this series timeline our separate Monday posts have become more important as descriptions of current events that got our attention in the previous week. These articles began in late January as a Week in Review posts, but over time they have become more focused commentary rather than spun reporting.

At the same time while doing the Redux Rendezvous series we have been able to focus on broader observations on what is developing in our world that no one seems to see or understand. Contrary to the uncertainty that you read and hear in the big bad world, everything that is now happening is following natural law, or more precisely is falling apart because we humans think we know better and hence create mess after mess as the result of our own foolishness.

This week we will sort of encapsulate our remarks in the context of a Ubermenschen failure. True, the world really has no superhuman people, except in their own eyes, but our human focus is still the belief that somehow the combined wisdom of humanity can make this whole adventure function better than it historically has been able to provide.

These uber-thoughts surfaced in the early morning hours as I was musing about the mess that Michael Steele has produced by remarks, at a Republican Party fundraiser over Afghanistan being president Obama’s war. Steele said it is doomed to failure because no power has been able to create a nation there in over a thousand years.

Steele’s observations are basically in line with our comments about the lack of somewhat related historic success when it comes to fighting counterinsurgency wars. Our thoughts that Afghanistan is really Obama’s Vietnam, and in the broader context just as the president kept the Laissez-Faire Scoundrels in charge of the financial system, it seems that he also kept the Bush era neocons in charge of foreign affairs.
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Tags: Michael Steele, Afghanistan, Ubermenschen, Social Darwinism, Laissez Faire Scoundrels, Collectivist Elitists, Radical Islamists, Complacent Agnositics, Tradtional Independents, counterinsurgency, nation building

When I completed Monday’s article “In My Tent Leadership” on Gen. McChrystal and the war in Afghanistan, I couldn’t help thinking that to do this thing right we could have the makings of a 30 year war, in a country that no one thinks it truly is worth the bother. To my surprise when I opened my emails Tuesday morning I was hit with the headline “The 30 Year War in Afghanistan.” As I read the article from Stratfor, I began to understand that their analysis believed that our war in Afghanistan began in 1980, when we offered support to the mujahideen to block Soviet advances. With President Obama’s decision to escalate American involvement when he took office, the war entered Phase 4. It is now Obama’s war. This opens the question will this be Obama’s Vietnam?

Over the weekend reports say that the Canadians spent a billion dollars to protect the G20 leaders from anarchists riots in Toronto, where 900 people were arrested. Maybe Afghanistan is not such a bad investment in that context.

In a developing story ten deep cover Russian spies were arrested in America just like in the good old days of the Cold War. We could go on, but rather than focus on war as and end, perhaps a better description of war is an attempt to control chaos. Chaos however begets chaos, and in the common sense definition of what is happening in the world, the change we were told we could believe in, is really chaos seemingly feeding upon itself.

Since the end of the Korean Conflict, for the United States our wars have been defined in terms of either insurgencies or counterinsurgencies. In Vietnam we were engaged in a counterinsurgency with the Vietcong and the North Vietnamese. In the Gulf War we fought a traditional war, and abandoned the war efforts before either term really applied. With the true Iraq War a similar result was quickly obtained, but pacifying the country quickly became counterinsurgency, against indigenous militias, foreign mercenaries, Al-Qaeda, Iran, and others.

It seems that the Iraq counterinsurgency is finally working, but many problems still remain. Afghanistan is still a very open and troubling question. Historically, the only truly decisive counterinsurgency victory was the British success in then Burma, where Black ops personnel basically hunted down the communist bad guys and killed them. Half a century later Burma is now Myanmar, one of the most oppressive communist régimes in history.

Our Redux Rendezvous emphasis today however, is not to promote or even describe warfare, but rather to focus upon major current worldviews that seem to be either insurgencies or counterinsurgencies in a world in which we all hope will return to order, rather than deepening chaos. In the broader picture this is currently not so much a guns and bullets war, but rather an economic war, or wars.
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Tags: Afghanistan, Stanley McChrystal, Redux Rendezvous, Laissez Faire Scoundrels, Collectivist Elitists, Radical Islamists, Tradtional Independents, Complacent Agnositics, Alan Greenspan, Al Qaeda, Social Darwinism, Barack Obama, tea party

In Monday’s “The Chaos of American Energy” we used a Vietnam era construction that said: We the unwilling, led by the incompetent, to do the impossible, for the ungrateful, have struggled so long, with so little, we are now able to create anything out of nothing.

Sticking with the Vietnam motif today we use another term from those bygone days that pretty much describes what is happening to the Obama Administration. That historic expression is Buzzard Luck, Can’t kill nothing, nothing will die. Perhaps a more contemporary definition brings fuller meaning. Everything that happens turns into a disaster.

My personal take on the subject is that there is no such thing as luck, even Buzzard Luck, and everything happens for a reason, including disasters. Since there is no such thing as a previous state of existence, karma does not apply either.

However before noon Pacific time, a soon to be published article in Rolling Stone in which Afghanistan commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal made comments that were not all that flattering to the President, his staff, and related support in theater. As a consequence the general is being summoned to Washington to explain his actions today and maybe get the opportunity to retire early.

Then a federal judge in New Orleans blocked the President’s off shore drilling moratorium. U. S. District Court Judge Martin Feldman stated that the moratorium was arbitrarily imposed because continued drilling posed no imminent danger. Arbitrary and capricious two wonderful legal terms which are almost impossible to prove the negative. Outstanding!

Who would have believed that just eighteen months into his Administration it seems like the Obama team continues to shoot itself in the foot. It kind of makes you nostalgic for the good old days of George W. Bush and even perhaps Bill Clinton. But alas, that is just ancient history.

We should however ask ourselves the question, “Is all this Obama’s fault, or is he just the man who volunteered to be the messenger?
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Tags: Buzzard Luck, Gen McChrystal, Barack Obama, Warren Buffet, Berkshire Hathaway, PREFER Ltd, Moola

A few years ago while looking for a place to develop The Creation Leadership Center, my travels took me to the small hamlet of Loomis, Washington. Loomis sits in a long riff valley next to the eastern slope of the Cascade Mountains and west of the Okanogan River. Today the place consists of a general store, a few houses, a small church, and at the time of my visit a second hand store. In the back room of that store in the used book section I found a small saddle stitched booklet that caught my eye. The title of the pamphlet was: “A comparison of two primitive apples from two continents” authored by one Vladimir Sekerfreevich.

From the description of the author on the back cover I found out that Dr. Sekerfreevich was a professional botanist and geneticist from the Soviet Union, who had defected in 1929 and purchased a small orchard on the shores of Palmer Lake a few miles north of Loomis. At the time Palmer Lake was one of the area’s prime orchard areas, but today being off the beaten track from the Okanogan Valley its contribution is diminished.

According to the owner of the thrift store, Sekerfreevich was essentially a hermit, who lost is family somehow related to a Stalin purge, but still was well liked in the community and help generously the other orchardists improve their orchards. So I gave the thrift store owner a dollar and purchased the booklet, probably the only one still in existence, took it home and promptly put it away, only to discover it recently while looking for something else.

In his little book Sekerfreevich said that when coming to America he was able to bring a small tin of apple seeds from the research center where he worked in central Russia. When he purchased his orchard he planted the seeds and grew them to the point where they began to produce fruit. Because of the difference in climate some of the seeds didn’t produce any fruit, but one particular tree looked very promising, so he grafted it to other rootstocks and rooted some of the canes. As a play on words he called the apples by the common name Russian Red.

Searching an expanded area around his home, on an abandoned homestead up in the Similkameen Valley near the Canadian border, he found a very unusual apple seedling quite different than any he knew back in Russia, or those that grew from his imported seeds, or any that grew in the commercial orchards in the Okanogan Valley. Like what he did with his Russian seeds, Dr. Sekerfreevich, grafted and rooted canes from this variety, defining the variety as Liberty Bell. Read More...

Tags: Collectiva maximus, Independenceus arduous, Thoreau, Glenn Beck, Bill O Reilly, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, USA

In our Monday response to the question “Is the world broke?” posed by Fox Business, the Wonder Springs conclusion was that the world economic system was basically broken. We believe the reason for this is that there has been various conscious efforts by increasingly enlightened governance, in the United States following the rest of the world to replace the Invisible Hand of capitalism created by Adam Smith, with the visible hand of various collective régimes. This collectivism contrived to replace essentially the hand of God, with simplistic human planning, empowered by wishful thinking.

This broken worldview has led to a series of schemes in which the ability of human enterprise to create wealth has been greatly limited by simple gross negligence. In order for the world to continue to function, money created almost exclusively through debt has as been utilized as energetics behind economic growth.

What none of these self-righteous elitists seem to understand is that wealth and money are not synonyms for the same thing. Wealth is basically transcendent and in our time space continuum it can be converted into money. Money is simply a convenient medium of exchange from one form of wealth into another or to exchange goods and services. Especially in our twenty-first century money is a commodity like a whole lot of other things.

This brings up an interesting question and that is why humans seem to hoard money when they don’t stockpile much of anything else, with perhaps the exception of property? Perhaps it is simply the illusionary mystic that money is wealth.

It is not rocket science, but basic common logic to understand if the Invisible Hand of God creates wealth, and if we make a conscious choice to deny the reality of God, then our ability to create true wealth will disappear. Perhaps that makes money, once in coins and paper, and now in electronic bytes, a simple easy to understand idol of something that was once a true reality, and that was real wealth.
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Tags: USA, money, wealth, Social Darwinism, Natural Law, Redux Rendezvous, revivalism

Negative metaphors, metaphors everywhere, and all of them seem to work. Into such a simplistic worldly description, we continue treading water this week. Just like where do we begin?

News that the United States is about to become a model of a failing European state are grossly optimistic or pessimistic, depending upon your point of view. The reason behind all of this hoopla is simply the fact that the vast majority of the American people are unwilling to play the game. The importance of this gaming the people punditry is being broadcast into our homes and offices by those needing to sell ideas, but also products deemed to make the world better.

If you seriously look beyond the hype and hyperbole however, you see that life goes on. Furthermore a realistic look at the present vibrantly illustrates, that in a realistic context the present isn’t all that bad, and generally Americans may not control the future, but they still have a faith in the God who does. In that context, the plans by the mice who say they know what they are doing in that land back where the sun rises, doesn’t seem to relate to the men and women who daily go about their lives out here in the hinterland.

So in that context of American development, we all have truly become a nation of Native Americans, some of them we call Indians, in that respect the Canadian term First Nations, seems more appropriate, but only on the surface of the current progressive spin. A deeper look shows that the old concept of unity in diversity, or “Out of Many, One,” is still very appropriate. The reality is if the immigrants to these United States had wanted to be and remain Europeans, or Asians, Latin Americans, or even Africans, they could have stayed where they were, even if they died trying, or returned later.

The continents we call the Americas were the last place that people settled and we are all immigrants to these shores, with the time frame measured in thousands of years at most, no matter how you spin the origin.

On Memorial Day I had the opportunity that I had wanted to do for a very long time, that was to attend the service at a church in Sherman, about seven miles northeast of the town a Wilbur (population 914 in 2000). Sherman today consists of a small church, built in 1888, an old grange hall, now converted into a storage shed, one singlewide manufactured home, a couple of other farms within line of site, and a cemetery.
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Tags: USA, Memorial Day, Sherman Church, Jump Canyon, Denmark, Wilbur, American Dream, Barack Obama, BP Oil, Redux Rendezvous

In Monday’s, “The Wealth Creation — Tax & Debt Redistribution Continuum” we offered the thesis that wealth creation was an inalienable right given to humanity by the Creator. We, who have been blessed to be immigrant citizens to these shores, also have the benefit of a codified structure for national development, outlined in the Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. For a broader context we also posted this article under the blog tabs at Deep Woods Moola and The Creation Leadership Center.

As a founding right, given to us by God, wealth creation belongs to the individual in the literal sense. We proposed that not only was wealth creation an inalienable right it is also a fundamental right of all Americans. Upon further reflection, it is not really a stretch at all to state that the wealth creation right, is essentially the Absolute inalienable fundamental right of all Americans, for the concepts of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness all flow through this highest of all birthrights.

We further proposed that new wealth is basically an ex nihilo creation in the mind of an individual that combines the energetics of faith with the information of the enterprise to form a wealth seed. Through the introduction of equity liquidity, meaning a total commitment, not just debt involvement, this seed can sprout and become a viable product, service, profession, or vocation.

Taxes and debt can serve as means to grow the germinated seed, either directly or indirectly, but contrary to what has been promoted through a half century of a diseased American Federalism, debt and taxes can only redistribute present and future wealth through money, they cannot create fundamental new wealth.

This wealth creation reality is part of the general revelation of God in nature; hence its status as the Absolute inalienable right, but it is also part of the specific revelation the Bible. Monday we used the Apostle Paul’s constructs of Faith, Hope, and Charity, found in 1 Corinthians 13. In the legal definition of a corporation, since it is a creation of man’s laws, it does not live outside of the legal code; therefore it has no real life, no soul, or true creative ability, except what is given it, through legal precedent. Only a real person in the natural sense, can plant the wealth seed in faith, hoping for a growing wealth producing plant, relying only on charity of others should the opportunity fail.
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Tags: wealth, God, Redux Rendezvous, Lyndon Johnson, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Alan Greenspan, Barack Obama, tax cuts, 2 BIG 2 Work, Wall Street, Main Street

Beginning with the Absolute that there is a God and at specific times and places, working through human personalities created in His image, stupendous changes are created in both nature and human civilizations to redux the past into the future.

Absolutes are defined as truth residing outside the auspices of human understanding. Another way to describe an Absolute is that it is a natural law in which we humans can only apprehend, but cannot change in the sense of its universal application. The reason we must resort to the use of the term Absolute is that the old term of truth has been so distorted and made politically correct that it no longer really defines anything but a spin of a faux reality.

The term Absolute, as a modern philosophical construct, became popular through the ministry and the writings of Francis Schaeffer. While produced in the turmoil of the 1970s, Schaeffer’s most famous work, “How Should We Then Live” is a video series that essentially dramatizes the cultural changes we now are having a very difficult time believing.

In our enlightened world, the reality of Absolutes causes all sorts of angst. How can we be continually evolving onward and upward when there already exists a standard that makes our best efforts seem moronic in their best spin?

So we see a contrast between the things of God and the things of man. As we have pointed out in previous weeks, Godly change works from the Universal to the individual. Human change begins with the individual to form a collective, to be administered by the more highly evolved above us.
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Tags: Francis Schaeffer, Absolutes, Christian Diaspora, Christian Redux, God, dry bones valley, propitiation, justification, revivalism, Protestant Liberalism

Anymore every time I hear the word “change,” I cringe. Still I find it amazing that most of the time the user of the change slogan is trying to paint change in a positive light. Like they want me rush to their simplistic point of view and acknowledge the enlightenment they are peddling.

The problem is that the world is to such a point that the status quo is just as unacceptable. The old saying, “Stuck between a rock and a hard place.” seems to apply. Except for the reality that “between” only encompasses two real directions, it’s more like being ground to dust in the interface of a glacier and a mountain, except that also is terribly abstract and impersonal.

In all this, we long for the good old days, but back then we also had problems. When you come right down to it however, if we could use those nostalgic times and make them better, perhaps that will help us design the future in a positive way, for wandering into a chaotic future makes no sense either. Hence the concept of redux. Redux comes to us from the Latin and literally means lead from the past, or more commonly brought back or revived.

The whole world needs a lot of redux, for the alternative is anarchy or chaos. It is also true that those who don’t learn from the past are destined to repeat those mistakes. So how far back do we go, on which to begin the building process?

Last week in the Christian Diaspora we basically developed the context that construction or creation-wise, God works from the universal to the individual. From the solely human perspective we find the Babylonian model that builds from the individual to the collective. That clash of those two creative constructs has brought us to the place in which change is only something we reluctantly accept.
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Tags: Christian Diaspora, Christian Redux, United Kingdom, Religious Right, Glenn Beck, George Whitefield, John Wesley, Social Darwinism, Barack Obama

Last week we wrote about those awful sinners that control, or seek to control the land, the Social Darwinists. Those really bad guys are really bad, because they only think of themselves and that is because they haven’t asked Jesus into their heart.

I once attended a church where the young pastor in a Sunday sermon brought up the reality that sinners — sin! The reaction from the congregation was one of almost dumbfounded amazement. He pointed out that sin was their job description. “It can’t be true, people need Jesus, but to call them sinners is almost un-American.”

In this particular denomination the world is made up of three classes of people, the saints, the carnal Christians, and the people who need Jesus. Not a sinner in the group! In Bible days within the Jews, they had three similar groups, the Pharisees, the Sadducees, and the gentiles or the goyim.

The interesting thing about the financial crisis was it was brought about by sinners — sinning. It was their job description. We called them last week Social Darwinists, but why are most Americans so dumbfounded that the greedy elitists were doing just what comes naturally?

But what is even more amazing, is that people think that with a massive set of regulations passed by Congress, signed by the President, and codified through reams of bureaucratic regulations, this is somehow going to curb the abuses.

We are nearing the point where we will reach the cross over where if we had let the too big to fail — fail, would be bypassed by real bankruptcies and the new growth of a financial spring, but that is a missed opportunity, a road not taken. This was a political decision based pretty much upon the basis of short-term political expediency. Now again short term political expediency (that must be complete before the fall elections) again is called upon to make a long-term decision on how to regulate the unregulated.

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Tags: Social Darwinism, sin, Christian Diaspora, Absolutes, entropy, grace, God

How many times in these United States have you gone to visit someone and were admonished at the front door, “We don’t allow the discussion of politics or religion in this house!”

Even if it is an unspoken rule, the lack of discourse of both politics and religion and how they are related, dare I a say as a civil discussion, is what has gotten America into our current position.

Just mention Sarah Palin and a volcano of anger or praise erupts almost instantaneously and soon volcanic ash threatens to block out the sun. If someone doesn’t change the subject pretty soon, air traffic will have to be diverted around the area.

Underlying all this joy and mirth is the clashing of worldviews.

One view believes that there is a God, who created everything not all that long ago, and mankind was created in the image of God.

The scientific worldview does not believe in god, maybe aliens, but nothing exists but the natural material reality that evolved by quantum leaps of intellectual complexity over millions and billions of years.

A third worldview states that they believe in God but are agnostic on how it all came to be and where we are going, because they just have enough trouble dealing with daily life.

The forth group believes essentially that they are the zenith of evolution, and because of their superior intellect, the rest of us should acquiesce to their understanding of how it all works, and likewise thank and serve them for being so very magnanimous. These are the Social Darwinists, who now are the dominant religion in America, but as we will see as we continue, are facing a conundrum of epic proportions, that will very soon lead to a battle to the finish among the members. The survival of progressive evolution is at stake and to victor belong not only the spoils, but the vanquished will be eliminated from the gene pool.

So if you happen to be in one of the first three religious groups, for the time being, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, sit back, relax, turn on your television, open a cool one of your choice, and watch the battle unfold.

Well just between you and me, the battle has been rigged, because both of the participants have already been found to have fatal weaknesses, but that does not mean that this sport will not be worth watching.

So let the battle begin!
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Tags: Sarah Palin, Social Darwinism, God, evolution, Wall Street, Goldman Sachs, Ronald Reagan, Curtis Mayfield, Barack Obama

This week we bring you the final installment of this series of, “Why Me? A Novel — Novel of Historic Apprehension.” In keeping with the novel – novel theme we have looked at some of the major theses, or paradigms of historic western culture and how many times it was the antitheses of these original beliefs that brought about change, sometimes stupendous change. And amazingly in this historic context, much of this change can be considered beneficial.

In closing this series, all of our readers, whether in the United States, or elsewhere in the world, recognize that the changes we are experiencing are what we describe as stupendous. In that light the concept of “change we can believe in” seems grossly simplistic if not truly oxymoronic. As a result we all sense an excitement, but at the same time an anticipation of apprehension that mankind has truly never past this way before, especially when that concept is enlarged, as we are asked to “think globally.”

The title to this chapter is an adaptation of the title of a book by Robert Bork entitled, “Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and the American Decline” first published in 1996. Bork was one of Ronald Reagan’s appointments to the Supreme Court, who never made it through the Senates conformation process, because he was vilified by his opponents as being an extremist. From that process came the invention of the term “borked,” which seems amazingly close to what is happening currently to the American people, by what is now being called “crony capitalists — media — politicians.”

Slouching is one of the most enlightening books I have ever read, and the title shows historically how we have pretty much through just passive neglect dumbed down the world in which we live, to the point that we will someday face destruction similar to the Biblical Gomorrah.

The divergence in the world today and the world over a decade ago, is that a slow slothful meander towards oblivion has been replaced with defined action, as if we just can no longer wait to get to Gomorrah, we have the city in our sights and together with all our baggage we are hell-bent to get there as soon as possible. In many ways Gomorrah has become our biblical replacement of the shining city on a hill, representing a New Jerusalem of many of America’s Christian founders.
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Tags: Gomorrah, Robert Bork, Bill Clinton, Great Society, Viet Nam, George W. Bush, Goldman Sachs, Wall Street, Chicago, Social Darwinism, Soviet Union, Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan

As I was writing Monday’s post on “2 BIG 2 Work,” I began thinking about the concept that perhaps the problems now facing the United States and really the broader world concept of globalization stems from the reality all have gotten 2 BIG 2 fail and simultaneously 2 BIG 2 work.

What a better closing paradigm for this “Why Me?” series! Failure isn’t my fault because everything just sort of quit working because of bad karma, and since I only think good thoughts about everything, except a few bad stuff moments, I am completely off the hook for all the bad stuff that happens.

Now I will have to admit the 2 BIG 2 Work concept was stolen from Dan Henninger of the Wall Street Journal. Whether it was original with him I do not know, but it surely does describe a whole lot of what is happening all around us. In the context that I heard from him, he was talking about the Federalization of too big to fail financial institutions, but what if the whole country at the national level is getting simply 2BIG 2 Work.

Albert Einstein gave us the Theory of Relativity, but he then spent the rest of his life trying to develop a scientific General Theory of Why, but was never able to get there. I would submit that without God it is a philosophic tautology, and with God it becomes undefinable, because of the natural limits of human created capacity. So if a real general theory is impossible for man, why not dumb it down and talk about just the universe of human governance?

We must begin in Ivy League prose where it goes something like, “The cognitive limited diversity of our educational paradigm provides incongruous perceptions of natural reality.” In the media perception of the Tea Party movement, “Wees’ jist don’t knows no betta!”
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Tags: 2 BIG 2 Work, governance, Bernie Goldberg, Adam Smith, federal governance, U S Constitution, Ronald Reagan, flat tax, fair tax

Last week we closed the Sheep to Wolves article with the signature paragraph of the Declaration of Independence.

And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

If you would like to know the succinct answer on why the United States finds itself in its present predicament, a new version of those thoughts would go somewhat as follows:

With a firm reliance on the my personal virtue of unfettered greed, I will do whatever necessary to get ahead according to my definition of success, giving no thought at all to the pain and suffering I might cause other people, or the world in which I live.

Furthermore, to accomplish my goals as rapidly as possible, with the least personal risk, I will work for a large global corporation, institution, or government that shares my values.

Turn on the television to the lame stream media and you will hear that capitalism no longer works, so we need to replace it with diverse government programs that will solve capitalism’s problems.

These pundits have a religious bias that they alone think that they can fix something broken, with something better in their own eyes. When in reality their solution is worse than the broken predecessor. Welcome to the world of ObamaCare.

Turn on Fox News and you will hear pundits say that the solution is to get back to the messiah-ship of Ronald Reagan and that the free markets of personal and corporate greed will solve all the problems that the progressive bureaucratic regulators are using to try to keep us all from getting rich by the principles of trickle down economics.

The fact of the matter, little money and virtually no real wealth trickles down to the folks, through either big government, or big business, or big labor. Furthermore if any of them can figure out a way to get some of the little they let go of, back, they will do that with as much conniving as possible.
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Tags: Declaration of Independence, capitalism, ObamaCare, God, Ronald Reagan, dry bones valley, tea party

Sheep: What a stupid animal, so nondescript we really don’t know if you are talking about a sheep, or a herd of sheep.

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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Tags: sheep, wolves, Adolph Hitler, Barack Obama, Calvary Chapel, tea party, Declaration of Independence

So you think your marriage is great, that is wonderful!
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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Tags: health care, Barack Obama, Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Premillennialism, Preterism, Amillennialism, Christianity, evolution, U S Constitution

We have reached the point in this expose´ of the self where history is about to catch up with the present. In that illumination we will soon be able to understand the context that makes us right, meaning correct, and everyone else is not so smart. We base our enlightened understanding on our evolving change we can believe in, never venturing outside our comfort zone, because that is our right, essentially because we are so very cool.

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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Tags: Calvinism, money, Progressivism, religion, God, Christianity

The United States and the world today are facing “Outside the Box” stresses. It has been a long time since the stupendous changes of economics and politics have not only forced people to look outside their comforts and securities for solutions, but also to examine the basic paradigms on which their perceived security is based.

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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Tags: God, transcendence, Reformation, U S Constitution, revivalism, Christianity, dry bones valley

There is a historical interest article beginning to make its rounds this week delineating a comparison between the ship survivors on the Titanic and the Lusitania. Probably the most interesting in the free literature is the Discovery article, but for those with ten dollars to spare you can get the original from the National Academy of Sciences.

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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Tags: survival, Titanic, Lusitania, American Dream, Promised Land, God, Jesus, U S Constitution, Founding Prinicples, Moses, power, authority