5000 Year Leap
Traditional Historic American Values - Part 3: Natural Law
23/September/2009 06:58 Filed in: Weekly
Column
The sun rose this morning, we can count on it to
set this evening, morning and evening of September
23, 2009. We also understand that gravity keeps us
from floating off into space. The world is made up
of matter. Water runs downhill and we can expect
winter to follow this autumn, and spring and summer
to repeat next year. These are just examples of
Natural Law that every human being understands,
believes and uses them as the basis of countless
decisions each year.
The Founder’s of the American Republican experiment added to those observable Natural Laws, a human variation. Those began with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, but are quite extensive. They also stated a human Creator God gave those laws for humans to follow and by them flourish as individuals, as well as communities and nations. It seemed quite logical that the rising sun and human liberty were directly related through the whole concept of Natural Law and furthermore they based the unique historical United States Constitution on those absolute precepts.
But what happens when you take away the Creator of Natural Law?
Simply put, the whole process breaks down, and eventually chaos will follow. It is really nothing more than simple logic and the Natural Laws of thermodynamics.
In the United States today we seem to have forgotten these basic logical assimilations. As a society we are told to believe that God does not exist, or if He does, He let it all happen slowly over eons of time, and now passively lets us do our own thing. On our own we have created a god of Mammon, or money, and thereby allowed this god to create subservient powers, by which it shall eventually control everyone and everything including the global climate. In past ages we created idols out of gold, silver, stone and wood. Today the god of money has no tangible existence other than demanding the totality of our lives.
What a better human centered utopian dream could anyone hope for?
Perhaps one based upon reality for starters, and finally a broad spectrum of Americans are beginning to realize that the real Natural Law that they feel, essentially in their gut, is being violated. It has been a long time coming but about a year ago, when the ever evolving global economy collapsed, and much of the money people controlled, which they believed to be true wealth, evaporated, not over a season, but overnight.
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The Founder’s of the American Republican experiment added to those observable Natural Laws, a human variation. Those began with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, but are quite extensive. They also stated a human Creator God gave those laws for humans to follow and by them flourish as individuals, as well as communities and nations. It seemed quite logical that the rising sun and human liberty were directly related through the whole concept of Natural Law and furthermore they based the unique historical United States Constitution on those absolute precepts.
But what happens when you take away the Creator of Natural Law?
Simply put, the whole process breaks down, and eventually chaos will follow. It is really nothing more than simple logic and the Natural Laws of thermodynamics.
In the United States today we seem to have forgotten these basic logical assimilations. As a society we are told to believe that God does not exist, or if He does, He let it all happen slowly over eons of time, and now passively lets us do our own thing. On our own we have created a god of Mammon, or money, and thereby allowed this god to create subservient powers, by which it shall eventually control everyone and everything including the global climate. In past ages we created idols out of gold, silver, stone and wood. Today the god of money has no tangible existence other than demanding the totality of our lives.
What a better human centered utopian dream could anyone hope for?
Perhaps one based upon reality for starters, and finally a broad spectrum of Americans are beginning to realize that the real Natural Law that they feel, essentially in their gut, is being violated. It has been a long time coming but about a year ago, when the ever evolving global economy collapsed, and much of the money people controlled, which they believed to be true wealth, evaporated, not over a season, but overnight.
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Traditional Historic America Values - Part 2
16/September/2009 12:31 Filed in: Weekly
Column
According to a report in the United Kingdom’s Daily
Mail Online,
“Up to two million march to US Capitol to protest
against Obama's spending in 'tea-party'
demonstration.” From the reporting on the
tea party demonstrations earlier this spring, there
seems to be a significant interest in Britain with
Yankee civil unrest, especially when the tea party
term is used. Perhaps it has something to do with
the fact that the original Tea Party in Boston has
been used historically as perhaps the first step
towards the American Revolution and the end of
English world dominance. The article is worth the
read and the photos are outstanding, probably not
what you may have seen above the front-page fold in
your Sunday newspaper.
From what little reporting I heard from the mainstream media, the crowd was more like thousands. Moving up or down the spin ladder, I heard tens of thousands. Fox News set the estimate at more than 75,000. No matter the number, there were more people protesting in Washington DC this past Saturday than anyone expected, especially the Beltway crowd and the politicians.
This continues the tie from the left, which attempts to portray the current protestors as anti-healthcare reform, talk radio and Glenn Beck agitated Republican kooks. But from what I understand of Beck’s political philosophy however, he is a Libertarian and also a Mormon. I bring up Beck’s Latter Day Saints affiliation, because everyone knows the stereotype that Mormons are all male dominated, blond haired, blue eyed, racists.
This of course misses the points; Beck was at one time a drunk from Washington State, and that the State of Utah would not exist if it were not for religious persecution of the Mormon Christian cult in the 19th century. As a result, Mormons, even Mormon converts, are perhaps the most ardent, dare I use the term traditional, Americans when it comes to the understanding of America’s constitutional provisions for freedom and liberty, especially when it comes to the choice of religious freedom, or the separation of church and state.
It then follows in the progressive, liberal, logical process that everyone who does not agree with the political agenda of President Barack Obama, are also racist. That by inclusion includes all religious people of all faiths, but with an emphasis on Bible thumpers of any persuasion, “after all they all look alike.”
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From what little reporting I heard from the mainstream media, the crowd was more like thousands. Moving up or down the spin ladder, I heard tens of thousands. Fox News set the estimate at more than 75,000. No matter the number, there were more people protesting in Washington DC this past Saturday than anyone expected, especially the Beltway crowd and the politicians.
This continues the tie from the left, which attempts to portray the current protestors as anti-healthcare reform, talk radio and Glenn Beck agitated Republican kooks. But from what I understand of Beck’s political philosophy however, he is a Libertarian and also a Mormon. I bring up Beck’s Latter Day Saints affiliation, because everyone knows the stereotype that Mormons are all male dominated, blond haired, blue eyed, racists.
This of course misses the points; Beck was at one time a drunk from Washington State, and that the State of Utah would not exist if it were not for religious persecution of the Mormon Christian cult in the 19th century. As a result, Mormons, even Mormon converts, are perhaps the most ardent, dare I use the term traditional, Americans when it comes to the understanding of America’s constitutional provisions for freedom and liberty, especially when it comes to the choice of religious freedom, or the separation of church and state.
It then follows in the progressive, liberal, logical process that everyone who does not agree with the political agenda of President Barack Obama, are also racist. That by inclusion includes all religious people of all faiths, but with an emphasis on Bible thumpers of any persuasion, “after all they all look alike.”
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Traditional Historic American Values - Part 1
09/September/2009 09:09 Filed in: Weekly
Column
From very recent history it seems as if the traders
on Wall Street believe that their rapidly
increasing fortunes are again just a few months
away. To a certain extent they are correct because
it really doesn’t make a whole lot of difference to
them because they get paid as long as the markets
continue to function, up or down. The only time
they really lose is when nothing happens. This
brings up two questions you might like to ponder,
because the future of Wall Street traders really is
of no interest here, but for your intellectual
musings they may be:
Does Wall Street any longer reflect the true prosperity of the country (and the world), or is it just an exclusive special interest, determined to extract monetarily its due no matter the greater social costs?
Since the recent inception of a new enterprise model called “Too big to fail” has government intervention in big business essentially sown the seeds of future economic stagnation, or worse, that will eventually have to be treated as weeds and eradicated, to again restore the diversity of the free market system?
Moving on, a few weeks ago I was reading a Wall Street Journal interview with the current Governor of Texas, Rick Perry. The essence of that article discussed present Texas prosperity while the rest of the nation languishes in prolonged recession, budget deficits, and essential despair. Early in the interview the governor pointed to a table with three books that outlined his programs for the current Texas prosperity. Those three books were “The Road to Serfdom” by F. A. Hayek; “The Forgotten Man” by Amity Shlaes, and “The 5000 Year Leap” by W. Cleon Skousen.
Both Hayek’s and Shales’ books are favorite references at Wonder Springs, and over time we have written reviews and quoted frequently from their pages, however I was not aware of “The 5000 Year Leap.” Since at that time I was in Spokane I stopped at a bookstore and picked up a copy. I normally write a review of a book, music album, or article and pretty much leave it at that, but after taking in The Leap, I decided a little more depth was needed. What I read in the pages was what I long believed about the Founders and the Constitution of the American Republic, but had never read anywhere, or heard properly discussed in context. So today we begin that journey, but before we begin that context, I shall digress for a little personal context.
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Does Wall Street any longer reflect the true prosperity of the country (and the world), or is it just an exclusive special interest, determined to extract monetarily its due no matter the greater social costs?
Since the recent inception of a new enterprise model called “Too big to fail” has government intervention in big business essentially sown the seeds of future economic stagnation, or worse, that will eventually have to be treated as weeds and eradicated, to again restore the diversity of the free market system?
Moving on, a few weeks ago I was reading a Wall Street Journal interview with the current Governor of Texas, Rick Perry. The essence of that article discussed present Texas prosperity while the rest of the nation languishes in prolonged recession, budget deficits, and essential despair. Early in the interview the governor pointed to a table with three books that outlined his programs for the current Texas prosperity. Those three books were “The Road to Serfdom” by F. A. Hayek; “The Forgotten Man” by Amity Shlaes, and “The 5000 Year Leap” by W. Cleon Skousen.
Both Hayek’s and Shales’ books are favorite references at Wonder Springs, and over time we have written reviews and quoted frequently from their pages, however I was not aware of “The 5000 Year Leap.” Since at that time I was in Spokane I stopped at a bookstore and picked up a copy. I normally write a review of a book, music album, or article and pretty much leave it at that, but after taking in The Leap, I decided a little more depth was needed. What I read in the pages was what I long believed about the Founders and the Constitution of the American Republic, but had never read anywhere, or heard properly discussed in context. So today we begin that journey, but before we begin that context, I shall digress for a little personal context.
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No weekly column this week
03/September/2009 11:07 Filed in: Weekly
Column
There will be no column this week as we have been
handling physical things rather than the more
mental occupations. The weekly column will return
next Wednesday, September 9th, when we will begin a
new series on the creation and sustaining of the
United States Constitution, based on the book “The
5000 Year Leap.”
Brute’, not concerned with human requirements will however post his weekly insight on Friday as usual.
The series we begin next week will look at the principles behind the Founding Fathers work to codify a constitution for the American Republic by setting aside individual beliefs and political desires, as this noble document was designed and now has become a working unique guideline for all of human history. Then we hope to tie Gratitude - Praise - Worship, as fundamental common religious experiences, finding their highest expression through music.
August was a good month at the Wonder Springs Chronicle, most of our web stats were consistent with recent history but Unique Visitors and Foreign viewers increased significantly. The Unique visitors was up a third, while foreign visitors came to Wonder Springs from 32 countries. Since 11 years ago when I began this weekly endeavor it was designed as a Christian missionary newsletter, the increase in foreign viewership was extremely heartening.
We still look forward to hearing from you regarding your role in changing the world through music.
Jerry
Brute’, not concerned with human requirements will however post his weekly insight on Friday as usual.
The series we begin next week will look at the principles behind the Founding Fathers work to codify a constitution for the American Republic by setting aside individual beliefs and political desires, as this noble document was designed and now has become a working unique guideline for all of human history. Then we hope to tie Gratitude - Praise - Worship, as fundamental common religious experiences, finding their highest expression through music.
August was a good month at the Wonder Springs Chronicle, most of our web stats were consistent with recent history but Unique Visitors and Foreign viewers increased significantly. The Unique visitors was up a third, while foreign visitors came to Wonder Springs from 32 countries. Since 11 years ago when I began this weekly endeavor it was designed as a Christian missionary newsletter, the increase in foreign viewership was extremely heartening.
We still look forward to hearing from you regarding your role in changing the world through music.
Jerry