Sensible Truth Ep. 16: The American Spirit Unleased
8/30/2023
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Devon Archer's Biden Bombshells Start Dropping So We Need to Start Educating by JD Rucker
We're just getting started and they're already blockbusters. Granted, most of it is stuff we already knew but hearing from a first-hand source will make it harder for corporate media to ignore. They'll still try, but this has an opportunity to spread to "normies" through other means.
Then again, it may be wishful thinking on my part. But since I don't believe in hope without action, I figure the best thing we can do is to get the word out to everyone we know whether they're skeptical of the Biden Crime Family or not. In short, it's time to start educating the "normies" ourselves, so here are a couple of resources to help.
Let's start with Miranda Devine's Tweets since she's been on top of the story from the beginning:
Devon Archer’s testimony today is bombshell: • Hunter Biden’s ex BFF testified that the value of adding Hunter Biden to Burisma’s board was “the brand” and confirmed that then-Vice President Joe Biden brought the most value to “the brand.” Archer also stated that Burisma would have gone under if not for “the brand.”
In December 2015, Mykola Zlochevsky, the owner of Burisma, and Vadym Pozharski, an executive of Burisma, placed constant pressure on Hunter Biden to get help from D.C. regarding the Ukrainian prosecutor, Viktor Shokin. Shokin was investigating Burisma for corruption. Hunter Biden, along with Zlochevsky and Pozharski, “called D.C.” to discuss the matter. Biden, Zlochevsky, and Pozharski stepped away to take make the call.
How Our Culture Disempowers Teens by Kerry McDonald
Teenagers are extraordinarily capable.
Louis Braille invented his language for the blind when he was 15. Mary Shelley, daughter of libertarian feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, wrote Frankenstein when she was 18. As a young teen, Anne Frank documented her life of hiding from the Nazis during World War II. Malala Yousafzai won the Nobel Prize at 17.
The Impact of Low Expectations
These are remarkable people for sure, but teenagers are able to accomplish remarkable things when given freedom and opportunity. Instead, our culture systematically underestimates teenagers, coddling them like toddlers, confining them to ever more schooling, and disconnecting them from the adult world they will soon enter.
Our low expectations of teenagers create a vicious circle. We think teenagers are lazy, unmotivated, and incapable of directing their own lives, so we restrict their freedom and micromanage them. This process leads teenagers to believe that they are, in fact, lazy, unmotivated, and in need of micromanagement. According to Peter Berg, author of The Tao of Teenagers and a teacher who has worked with teenagers for over 25 years, this circle emerges because many of us were treated this way as teenagers. We may have a hard time trusting teens because we ourselves were not trusted. Berg tells me:
The Medlock Post Ep. 170: Patriotism, Freedom, and Truth
The Medlock Post Ep. 170: Patriotism, Freedom, and Truth
We are also going through hard times in America. This quote from Abraham Lincoln sums it up, “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” I believe this is true. And right now we are destroying ourselves. It can be hard to stand by and watch this happen (I see many parallels between right now and Nazi Germany) but you can do something about it! Love your country and defend it! I know it seems like there are only bad people left but I have seen and met many good families who still believe in America. I know God is on our side and we need to stay on His.
Trump and Netanyahu as archenemies of the ‘deep state’ and its politicized justice
About every day we see in the news media something like this:
Trump faces additional charges in Mar-a-Lago documents case
Netanyahu Charges Take Israel into Unchartered Waters
What is going on? Trump and Netanyahu were using the same governing tools as their predecessors – the tools which may look like corruption for those who are not familiar with the inner corruptive works of the government and its politicized judiciary. But they are treated not as their predecessors – they are treated as archenemies of the State.
Why? – Because the politicized judicial actions against Trump and Netanyahu masquerade the true reason behind the hate of Trump and Netanyahu. And the true reason is the ‘Deep State’ sees Trump and Netanyahu as defenders and protectors of Traditional Israel and Traditional America which are the real enemies of the ‘Deep State.’
7/30/2023
Are Your Beliefs Rational? Four Tests to Evaluate Your Worldview by Aletheia Hitz
Theologian and philosopher Richard J. Mouw recounts once seeing a car with a Playboy bunny sticker on the rear window and a statue of the Virgin Mary on the front dashboard. He initially assumed that there was a reasonable explanation to the apparent contradiction: a Catholic wife and a brazen spouse, perhaps? Only later did he realize that the dichotomy might not have had a rational explanation. The car’s owner may have neglected, as many do, to critically examine his worldview.
A worldview, as the name implies, is simply the way in which one person views the world. It generally encompasses five main areas: theology (beliefs about God), anthropology (beliefs about man), epistemology (beliefs about acquiring knowledge), metaphysics (beliefs about the nature of reality), and ethics (beliefs about morality).
Everyone has a worldview: We all have beliefs about God, man, knowledge, reality, and morality. However, some worldviews fail to make sense of central aspects of truth. And yet, it’s important to have a worldview that can stand up to scrutiny. From philosopher Ronald H. Nash’s book Life’s Ultimate Questions, here are four tests to verify the validity of a worldview.
I’d Rather Raise Kids with Rich Hearts Than Rich Bank Accounts
I saw this great quote from Danielle Sherman-Lazar of Living Full. It said, “I’d rather my kids be the ones who’re average in school and sports but hold the door open for a teacher with too much in her hands. Comfort a crying classmate. Invite everyone to their table. I want my kids to be the kind kids above anything else. Because that’s how they’ll change the world.
A Time for Greatness, Courage, and Moderation by Daniel J. Mahoney
Our dark hour calls for a recovery of the statesman’s virtues.
The inheritance we defend—that noble civilizational patrimony that helps define the West and America—is not good simply because it is old or because it is ours. But it is wisdom tried and true. As a result, we know that we can never begin anew with some revolutionary “Year Zero.” The destructive zealots and ideologues among the French Revolutionaries did that, displaying deadly contempt for Burke’s more capacious understanding of a primordial contract that connects the living, the dead, and those yet to be born. As a tradition dedicated to human liberty, the Western tradition is dynamic and expansive, yet it has ample room for true pietas. As the French political philosopher Bertrand de Jouvenel wrote so eloquently in his 1955 classic, Sovereignty: An Inquiry Into the Political Good: “[E]very individual with a spark of imagination feels deeply indebted to many others, the living and the dead, the known and the unknown…. The wise man knows himself for debtor, and his actions will be inspired by a deep sense of obligation.”
Reason and experience alike testify that men and women become monsters when they confuse themselves with gods beholden to nothing or no one. In our times that conceit has led to utopian dreams and murderous rage, or to petty souls who rest content with what Blaise Pascal vividly called “licking the earth.” Real human freedom and dignity need to be nourished by a deep sense of obligation, starting with our forebears, without whom we would not be or have anything at all. Natural piety, however, is not solely focused on the past: it lifts our gaze further outside ourselves to the mysterious givenness of the natural order. It is open to the grace that lifts our spirits and allows us to experience the presence of the Living God. Only by acknowledging our considerable debts to our forebears, to ennobling tradition, and to the natural and divine sources of our dignity as human beings, are we rendered capable of achieving great and good things in our turn.
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