As Traditional Values collide with Progressive Hopes and Visions. The old are syncretized to fit the new. As a Noticer, I observe, I research and I share. Join me in exploring the effects of CHANGE and the events that drive it in culture, media and politics through dynamics in Practice and Policy across the globe. This is truly an amazing time to be living! For other types of postings, paste www.jackandcarlayoutube to your browser and open and explore posts and Powerlinks.
And yes... Both devices can be very, very dangerous.
Hey Parents... Your influence over media access to our youth is critical... Did you know that the July 4rth shooter, "Awake," the rapper was posting since age 11 and paid over $100,000 in royalties for the attention created by his online presence. Who are your kids listening to? Consider....
Highland Park parade shooting: What we know about person of interest social media influence.
Is our addiction to media killing our youth? Does the power to captivate mass attention create peril? Does the intensity of our outrage guarantee reoccurrence? And our divisive political actions progress at the expense of each victim?
There are many ways to create terror. Look across the globe. But when someone who is experiencing mental or emotional torment looses connection, structure and boundaries their outrage can create an explosion of loss.
But you can do something. This, "Fast and Furious," event was stopped! Consider these who were arrested before a parallel July 4th mass shooting could occur. Consider the video clip below.
Two men arrested in July 4th mass shooting plot, police say
If you or someone you know has reoccurring thoughts of doing harm, go with them to your local Emergency Department or call the police if this is unsafe. If that person is you, you should go now. If you are in a crisis go to your local hospital emergency now! Someone will be there to talk with you. And if you find yourself struggling with resentments, depression or reoccurring anger or addictions, attending a local support group like Celebrate Recovery can be a real option.
When someone becomes tormented and looses their sense of human connection, supportive correcting action is important! When they cannot tolerate personal boundaries or the social structures, like home, job, or school, the sense of isolation and outrage can destroy them and many others. Consider the following videos, and when you do, consider who noticed what, and which device was misused first and probably led to obtaining the other on this terrible pathway toward destruction.
Former Columbine student reflects on killers' red flags
Rocky Mountain PBS 63.9K subscribers
Apr 22, 2019 (length 9 min)
Again, If you or someone you know has reoccurring thoughts of doing harm, go with them to your local Emergency Department or call the police if this is unsafe. And if you find yourself struggling with resentments, depression or anger attending a local support group like Celebrate Recovery is a real option.
There are a variety of Recovery groups. Most are held in church buildings. Call your local churches, or look online for their websites.
The link below explains
Why and How Support Group Recovery can be effective.
With the 2014 un-negotiated and mostly ignored-by-the-West annexation of Crimea from Ukraine that took 15,000 Ukrainian and countless Russian Separatists lives... The cloak and dagger victory was fully celebrated and according to these Cossacks, an Emperor figure arose.
But is Putin truly an emperor molded in the likeness of Emperor Constantine, who broke tradition to establish Christian teaching and culture across his domain?
Has there been a, "Fundamental Change," in Russia, even greater than the, "Fundamental Changes, "that President Obama brought to America?
Has Russian Governmental control and intrusion into individual private life drastically decreased as is described by the Russian Religious Television broadcaster in the second video below?
Do Putin's values truly match those held by the members of the Orthodox Russian Church which represents roughly 70% of the Russian population, and if so why...
Here's why the Russian Orthodox Church is deeply connected to Putin (due to protecting Holy sites) in the Syrian War Apr 21, 2019(length 4min)
And finally, Could the assumption of being destined to win due to presumed allegiance to, "Orthodox Truth and Righteousness," have caused their military to wrongly assume an easy victory in their attempts at, "Reuniting the Russian Empire?"
How is their act of, "being on the right side of Russian history," going?
According to the video, even after Ukrainian Orthodox leadership became divided, the Priests of both Ukrainian branches including 300 Russian Orthodox Priests united in offering support, shelter, assistance and even returning of the bodies of invading soldiers along with their condemnation of the Russian invasion. Orthodoxy also remains consistent in promoting, Traditional Christian family and cultural values, and although most are less militaristic than the Cossacks in the video below. Those pushing for military action report doing so to resist a return to godless Secular Humanism.
Today, both branches of Ukrainian Orthodoxy, and Orthodoxy as a whole resist these, "Progressive Changes," that Secular Humanism has brought to the west. They see it as cultural decline.
These are the very kind of careless acts that prove useful for Anti-Western propaganda. They intensify the perceived crisis by validating the very cultural fears which strengthen Putin's hold.
But these occurrences are not new, they have been promoted on a global scale with little regard for consequence even during times of uprising and terrorism. Again, when we look back to 2014 we see top US officials speaking out about inciting backlashes and terror through our careless and provocative advancement of "Progressive," Policies"...
State Ambassador warned of backlashes over what Islamic populations described as, "cultural terrorism."
Senior State Department Deputy Ambassador Richard Hoagland warned his audience at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in 2014 about the cost of aggressively pushing the LGBT agenda.
“There are times and places where I believe we need to temper our idealism with at least a certain degree of realpolitik.”
Hoagland, a homosexual, and then the number two diplomat
at the mission, co-hosted a USAID, and GILFAA
(Gays and Lesbians in Foreign Affairs Agencies)
event in June of 2011 at the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad,
Pakistan. This was their first LGBT, "Pride Celebration.
“...We should never forget the terribly important maxim, ‘First do no harm."... “There are countries in the world, whether religiously or culturally deeply conservative, that will react to our goals with backlash against their own LGBT citizens.”
“We should maintain enough humility to remember that we are terribly new at promoting LGBT human rights as U.S. foreign policy...."
One thing is certain. Today, there seems to be no neutral ground. So how did the division get here? The following presents some of the, how it happened details.
Today there are many ways to be misled. Some are more traditional and some are less.
History shows that we are especially vulnerable to being misled, when wejustify our own misdeeds as a form of moral advancement or benevolence. This was true when the west, "Christianized," peoples through conquest, colonialism and expanded the abuses of slavery prior to emancipation. Or conversely when the Soviets reorganized Ukrainian agriculture and created mass starvation in the name of advancing Communism. Sadly, all of these acts were initiated for their perceived long term goodness toward their cause of establishing the, "correct kind." of power.
When we consider the fruit of our, "Progressive," experiment here in the west; with our rejection of the, "traditional family, " and traditional family roles, we see the social prevalence of serial monogamy, intermittent or often total fatherlessness and an increasing confusion in our young often leading to role and gender confusion. We see a tolerance of illegal profit and access to addictive drugs and even the promotion of drug abuse in our youth along with the associated fear, crime, gang affiliation, violence, incarceration, homelessness, suicide, and intergenerational patterns of chronic unemployment. With our recent progressive BLM and CRT activism we also see a crippling of leadership in our black communities and a breakdown of the traditional alliances that once brought strength and stability to our intercity communities.
The fear that Putin exploits; That the west seeks to once again replace Russian historical biblical values with corrupting Humanist Doctrine and dogma is very valid. And this alone has motivated a strong social pushing back against western influence. This fear was certainly exacerbated by the lawlessness and destruction of the global BLM uprisings.
In comparison to the drastic decline of Christian influence in much of the west, the Orthodox Church has risen in splendor and beauty! She has been the keeper of many of the oldest Christian religious sites in the world and has a long history of steadfastness to the historical teachings of the Church. She has displayed strength and resilience for millennia and has overcome the persecution and oppression of the communist era to blossom in size and wealth and social influence and bring "Fundamental Change," through the goodness of her intentions.
(Kiev-Pechersk Lavra in the center of Kiev Ukraine. It is one of the first monasteries founded in Kievan Rus and remains under the leadership of the Moscow Patriarchate Kirill. This monastery was founded in 1051.)
But has this goodness and beauty been hijacked by a political opportunist?
Consider Putin's Political History in the the video below...
Have Russian Christians been manipulated to become tools of state manipulation much like the Humanistic teachings she claims to oppose? Not familiar with the term, "Humanism," Consider this discussion contrasting Humanistic and Christian teachings during our last election here in America at: https://www.thesubwaywalls.com/2019/11/christian-and-humanist-tradition.html)
The recent decision by Archbishop Bartholomew calling for the separation in Orthodoxy of Ukraine from Russian Orthodox leadership appears to say yes.
Could avoiding this tendency, "Of inflicting harm on others, in our zeal for what we believe is good," or even see as righteousness, be why Jesus said...
To understand why, "Transition Therapy," was rejected by some in the church and forcefully punished by Biden as well as stories of many living out their lives as Christian believers who experiences same sex attraction consider...
"Whose choice and what change? Family, faith & activism"
In this context of, "Choice," even choosing to become an instrument of divine judgement is not unfounded. Will Putin use nukes? Will our leaders in the West? Only God knows? For according to scripture, all of mankind is deserving of the judgement. Are you ready?
Responder 1: I do believe I'm a miracle! Thanks for that! However, the timing of this implies it is actually a pro-life stance hidden behind a nice self-affirming statement. So I am gonna respond in kind.
In math, there is a paradox called the birthday paradox. It really is not a paradox at all. People just get it wrong because they don't "zoom out enough" to see the whole picture. I'm am gonna do that with this video... it only considers myself, a success story, rightfully affirming what a complex, beautiful, unique person I am. But the miracle goes deeper...
Of the millions of unique individuals God creates at conception in the womb, 33-50% fail to implant, according to guttmaker. They are washed out of the mother and into oblivion. Of those that do implant, up to 20% are spontaneously aborted/stillborn at some later point according to the American Family Physician publication. Not only am I lucky to be a living, working, complex human; I am also lucky to be part of the (very roughly) 40% of fertilized cells (with 6 billion-part DNA codes describing a unique person) that God, I'm his wisdom, allows to survive until born. But let's not forget the "cruel" pro-choice crowd who "do not value human life"! They kill roughly 2% of these remaining precious lives!
To summarize, of 1,000 unique and beautiful fertilized eggs, God (in his wisdom) disposes of up to 600 of them! Of the remaining 400, abortionists dispose of 8... I'm still special! In fact, now I am more special. To have developed into a functional human when so many fertilized eggs never get a chance... I am super special!
This reasoning is called "reduction ad absurdum" because I accept a proposition and it leads to a conclusion that just is not tenable. While the math is rudimentary, the message is clear i hope. If we celebrate EVERY fertilized egg as unique, viable, human life then we have to also accept God as "the great abortion doctor in the sky". Take the number of abortions you are currently claiming the US needs to atone for... God killed 50 times that many!
Make no mistake, every human born is incredibly special! More special than they often consider in light of the above! However, to believe that God is the ruthless genocidal being described above is not acceptable to me. So I choose to believe God's actions are not morally wrong... I do not believe that God is destroying 60% of humanity... so I cannot accuse the pro-choice movement of destroying 2%.
That is my own honest argument. I hope it makes sense and doesn't bug you to much.
My Return Response:
I appreciate your writing back although entering into a discussion was not necessarily my intent. I know you are already very busy, but I also appreciate your time and see it as a form of caring. Thank-you.
The birthday paradox that you shared presents a point of view that is very difficult for most to accept. The potential human death rate prior to birth is a cause of great discomfort for most, especially those seeking to have a child. And yes, on the statistical level, the miracle, of you is actually much bigger than even the video presented. So much so that it is difficult not to seem flippant and dismiss ideas of human life having special sanctity when we consider how fragile it is.
On the faith level, each individual is created in the, "Image of God." Jeremiah 1:5 states, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart... This could accurately refer to both conception and foreknowledge.
On the fact level, how we are created has nothing to do with our culture or politics. It is not pro or anti woman or pro or anti abortion. (It just is ) as the opening equation states.
This is very incredible all by itself.
Considering that I am not God, I do not have the capacity to make a judgment about Him without intentionally joining Eve in the act of seeking to, "become like God," in my presumptions of, "good and evil." It is not my place to make moral judgments about God. Or His part in causing the natural survival or death of person's before birth. However, unnatural termination of the life inside of the womb is discussed several times in the Bible. But that was not the purpose of this post. Wonder and awareness is.
My intent in posting was to encourage a look beyond the natural, which is so easy to take for granted. My goal was to stop and consider the incredible; which you have already acknowledged.
Responder 1:
Sorry for presumption. Things are pretty crazy in the world right now and the last thing you posted on my Facebook page was much more overtly about Roe v. Wade. I am very troubled about that subject. It has taken the country down a path that will not end well for anyone in my opinion.
It certainly is a time to pray for love and unity, build connections of mutual trust, and respect one another. I can do that in my life but worry that has become impossible in much of the broader world, where people seem to be regularly acting in bad faith... then I get to comfort confused kids while walking a tightrope of avoiding things I'm not supposed to talk about... because unlike the last president, the scotus, and much of congress, I am not willing to undermine the institution I work in for personal reasons.
It is very draining! Pray for me!
My Return Response: Praying that you will be strengthened and encouraged in these difficult times with the strength and wisdom that comes from above and that the god of this world would have no influence over you.
Responder 2:
Don't forget all the pregnant women this particular deity took out in the flood. He doesn't seem particularly pro-life does he?
My Response:
Your comment matched the sentiment that I reviewed in June of 2020 at the death of RGB. Do you notice an increase of social influence by the group mentioned in this article?
The Death Of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Pushed Me To Join a Politically Active Temple.
I consider most "Church of Satan" people to be politically active people who just want to make use of America's religious laws the way that Christians do every day. There is a definite double standard in practice and these individuals are simply pointing it out with the means at their disposal... we live in a weird country.
NPR- Florida man asks schools to ban Bible following the state's efforts to remove books
I hadn't even heard that so maybe it's just a logical conclusion over social influence.
My Response:
I recently read this article about the self deceit of discrimination and racism. It compared characteristics of DNA the, "Same Kinds of creatures," and talked about how, "the human DNA code is completely recognizable and unique from all other life-forms. There is variation within our kind – taller, shorter, different shades of skin, more or less hair – but the basic code, the basic DNA structure is the same....And while there are differences, human beings have an essence. We all share “human-ness.”.... (if we choose to see it).... We share what it means to be human and this is not something that can be measured like height, it is something a creature either has or does not have. “Human-ness” is found in every variation of humans.
Many woke American's now morn on the 4rth of July as they imagine a monolithic global racist hierarchy. This narrative wrongly ignores the theme of the holiday. The miracle of the 4rth was not their inability to self criticize and fragment over disagreement. The miracle of the 4rth was the formation of a functioning Union among a group of colonialists who disagreed so intensely.
This new America became what today's progressives would call, "The Re-imagining," of Government in the Western World. Even with her many flaws the greatness of America stands out. When focused on her shortcomings (and that is what they are) it is easy to overlook the valiant efforts that were made by courageous individuals who challenged the injustices of slavery in America. But repentance is hard, and it is easier just to ignore pervasive problems like slavery; even as we do in our world today. Then like now wealth, comfort and pleasure seeking makes the reality of world wide emancipation impossible, at least in our preoccupied minds.
Throughout human history vulnerability to exploitation, combined with avarice, and military ambition motivated exploitation of people groups, and tribal groups were often much more vulnerable. It is sad that the nature of mankind seeks advantage over his fellow and it is human triumph when justice prevails.
The inspiring speaker, Fredrick Douglas, presented in the link below, contrasts the strengths and hypocrisies of the pre and post Civil War time that he lived in, as well as the culture at the time of the nation's founders. Hear him below.
Frederick Douglass | What To The Slave Is The 4th of July?
But to admit that we fall short does not mean that we do not aspire. To be balanced we must remember the courage and integrity of many black leaders like Douglas, along with many of his white contemporaries, even some of wealth and power. All were examples of vision and integrity much like the Jewish person mentioned in the blog below who committed himself to redeeming one group of modern day slaves.
see story described in this screen capture...
Among them was the wealthy Philanthropist and British Parliamentarian James Oglethorpe who founded the Georgia Colony. He associated with those who later inspired William Wilberforce. Neither were colonists, but both were instrumental in emancipating the enslaved subjects of the British Empire. Oglethorpe was a man of action, a problem solver, a prison reformer who resettled many of Britain's poorest debtors' from prisons into the New World. In his colony, slavery was banned. Wilberforce persevered through 35 years of poor health and constant defeat before achieving victory through the process of dis-incentivizing financial investment and profit in the slave trade.
History also shows that Thomas Jefferson clearly intended to address the issue of slavery in the Declaration of Independence in his early drafts, where he wrote...
"He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life & liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither."
This phrase, “Cruel war against human nature itself " accurately reflected the views of many of America's founders and other white Europeans at that time and many spoke out, but not enough to pull the majority and even their lives were filled with the compromises of their culture. They may have been good hearted individuals, like many of us today who have strong convictions, but they also caved to the pressures of their culture.
Even before the Declaration of Independence the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, known as "The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage" was founded April 14, 1775. Eventually Benjamin Franklin was elected as the organization's president and he presented ending slavery to the Constitutional Convention as well as petitioning the U.S Congress to ban slavery in 1790.
The Society eventually had members and leaders of all races. It is the oldest known abolitionist organization in the United States and continues to seek improvement on issues of fairness in our criminal justice system.
Fredrick Douglas in his speech, (see link above), describes the grave hypocrisies we commonly defend and the incredible moral price we pay when we refuse to examine our attitudes and actions; hypocrisies great enough to divide America into warring factions.
But consider; Are our inconsistencies unlike theirs? Don't we and our political leaders willingly overlook extreme discrimination in the form of modern day slavery, cultural exploitation and even organ harvesting and involuntary abortions among persecuted people groups in China; and this to maximize business profits and enjoy cheap consumer goods? Aren't we enhancing our wealth, our power, our pleasure and our comfort at their expense?
Perhaps you could say... The difference is our level of ideological commitment. But aren't we the ones who joined our newly elected leaders in callous disregard of the crimes and atrocities foisted on families, and their children abandoned on our southern border? Now will we run to the rescue in pretence of mercy to save the surviving victims of this political humanitarian crisis? The crisis we worked to create by dismantling cooperative organized efforts with our neighbors; the crisis that enriches the criminal elements in these nations and impoverishes their population? Can we now bathe our consciences in waves of self congratulatory virtue? There is much that must be done to protect these children. But first we have to see the problem.
With our recent withdrawal from Afghanistan I am reminded of Malala Yousafzai who was shot by the Taliban as she attempted to inspire girls in her community to attend school. She survived and became an international speaker. In 2014 Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai were both honored with the Nobel Peace Prize. Shortly before Kailash gave an excellent speech on child slavery while receiving the Wallenberg Award. Hear him below.
One thing is certain; with the measure that we judge; we will surely be judged. Like our founders who struggled with the realities of their time. We will either succeed or fail based on our actions, and currently we are failing. We are not willing to accurately address the glaring problems that we create.
How is the process of solving these problems inherently different from solving the problem that our founders faced? Their failures eventually led to what Lincoln labeled a Judgment of God. Will our failures be seen differently?
Throughout history discrimination and oppression has occurred along various lines and not been confined to race. Remember Jonathan Swift's, "Modest Proposal"? Here the persecution through extortion, coercion and starvation was a re-visiting of the, "religious wars," which had nothing to do with race.
Douglas was right to both extol and complain about America! But he also worked constructively to make it better.
Currently our Legal system led by Attorney General Merrick Garland is doubling down on perceived threats to our Government with a, "New National Strategy!"
Attorney General Merrick says his policies and actions are motivated by the violence that occurred at the January 6th event and not any political point of view.
Hear him speak on this in the video below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2iv4QN9XnU
Currently the detained January 6th (Protestors/Insurrectionist) are being impoverished as they are held in a special jail facility where many are kept in isolation and denied any option of posting bail to obtain their release.
Hear Author Julie Kelly with commentator Mark Levin describe the conditions and situation that the January 6th Protesters/Insurrectionist face in the link below:
And now consider our Presidents trip as he met with our European allies and opponents.
How can we who consider ourselves, "being back,"as Moral Leader of the, "Free World," label Putin's actions as unjust when we mirror hisunjust/unreasonable detentionmethodsfor treating political prisoners here in the U.S! Our new Attorney General Garland says the ",actions," of our new, "national strategy," are about violence. But during the 2016 ANTIFA anti-Trump post election protests, and the hundreds of BLM/ANTIFA protests that have followed. Thousands have been injured and many scores killed, beginning with the man shot here in Portland during the 2016 ANTIFA led post election riot. Consider the following article.
Although extensive violence and destruction did occur at the January 6th event in Washington D.C., it occurred on a much smaller level and the people who died as a directresult were the protesters. So what is different about these protests? To begin with...
THE JANUARY 6TH CROWD DID NOT RETURN!
Their rally had been HIJACKED in a way that was INTOLERABLE for the vast majority of those that had gathered.
And the LAWLESS ACTIONS that occurred HAVE BEEN UNIVERSALLY CONDEMNED by the political leaders of the attendees, along with the HIGH JACKING OF THEIR RALLY.
The THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS of ATTENDEES demonstrated this rejection by their withdrawal and the absence of a reoccurrence. Compare this with the REPEATED TOLERANCE FOR RIOTING, VIOLENCE and INTIMIDATING DESTRUCTION that the thousands of, what the press described as "Mostly Peaceful," BLM/ANTIFA protestors have REPEATEDLY DISPLAYED. Consider the emotional trauma, the imposed poverty, the loss of safety, freedom and commerce experienced by those who were attacked by these unruly mobs. Consider how some POLITICAL LEADERSencouraged continued escalation and reoccurrence. How the destructionand violence WAS NOT CONDEMNED. Crimes repeatedly acceptable to the, "PROGRESSIVE CROWDS."
Crowds that demonstrated , passive acceptance, evidenced by their continued participation in predictable repeated REOCCURRENCES. These REPEAT attendees displayed TOLERANT ACCEPTANCE when they CAME BACK OVER AND OVER AND OVER...!
Were you in one of those crowds? Did you discover what was happening and leave? Or did you stay?
After you LEARNED what kind of things the crowd was TOLERATING, DID YOU REFUSE TO HAVE ANY PART OF IT?
DID YOU SEEK ANOTHER OPTION? OR DID YOU RETURN and inadvertently show support and approval of the trauma and destruction by your affirming presence.
IF SO, How can YOUR ACTIONS NOT BE WORSE than a person who followed a January 6th INSURRECTIONIST into the building?
And how can our Democrat Leaders, (specifically, V.P. Kamala Harris) Encourage these predictableacts of intimidating violence and destruction withLEGALIMPUNITY to promote her political viewpoint and ideology...
Hear Kamala on the BLM/ANTIFA protests...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTg1ynIPGls
Even while pushing our legal systemto harshly punish much smaller offences that occurred among those whoHOLD POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES that SHE OPPOSES!
I believe that GarlandIS DELUDED! Are you willing to join him?
We must remember that Hitler and his wealthy supporters like the Rockefeller's honestly believed that they were working to save the world from genetic degradation. From what many saw as a form of, human weed, pollution preached by Margret Sanger and many others of that time period.
They truly believed that their "Progressive Cause, "to change the future of humanity," was far more important than any temporary abuse of power. This attitude was so prevalent that it successfully deluded much of the world including much of academia. And today we still refuse to acknowledge the true lifecycle of a human being for social convenience.
Again, take a moment and compare. Compare Merrick Garland statements to the Kelly report at the link and then consider carefully. What do you really think?
AG Merrick Garland Says DOJ Not Targeting Citizens for Their Political Views
