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I can certainly appreciate that.Guest wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2020 12:41 pmI don't have the income right now to afford $100. Times are rather tough for me. How much will the completed paper edition cost? I would rather have that than a digital edition.
John, we spoke (wrote) past each other here, but please clarify, do you have knowledge of the Orthodox faith? I'm uncertain due to the way that you responded; just an honest question. I ask because you seem to think that people denying the truth of the world are the same with those who love life/goodness/truth/virtue, the eternal things, which are of course both God and are of God. Every religion and ideology is the same? That's an odd thing for a learned man to say, first because they are so objectively different even when one doesn't consider (the most important part) their metaphysical qualities.The point I'm trying to make is that this has nothing to do with
ideology or religion.
Religion is about whether you go to church on Sunday. Ideology is
about whether you support a 22 or 28 percent tax rate. So when you
blame something on a man's ideology or religion, you're absolving him.
Everyone's entitled to their own ideology, so you can't blame him for
his ideology. Same with religion. Or, if the person's religion is
some "enemy" religion, whether Christianity or Islam, then you can
blame the actual religion, rather then the person. So the man is
absolved either way.
There is no ideology or religion that supports a man beating up his
wife, or lynching a black, or destroying a city, or destroying a
country, or committing genocide (unless you're at war). So these
crimes have nothing to do with either ideology or religion.
Every day I see the worst of human behavior. I don't write about it
every day, but I see it every day. A politician destroying a city,
country or population, or torturing someone for saying the wrong
thing, or killing someone for no reason, and then defending it with
the usual crap that comes out of the mouths of politicians. I've
developed very strong negative feelings about the mental sickness of
humans, to the extent that I sometimes question my own sanity. This
is in the DNA, and is irrespective of religion or ideology.
I do not agree that mental illness absolves someone of a crime. It's
true that "insanity" is a defense for some crimes, but that just means
that he's locked up in a mental institution instead of prison.
So when the Nazis kill the Jews or when Maduro destroys Venezuela or
when Lori Lightfoot destroys Chicao or Ted Wheeler destroys Portland,
I'm not willing to attach a religion or ideology in any way, because
every religion and ideology is the same. To me, it's a mental
illness.
Navigator,Navigator wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2020 12:10 amThe draft of the first quarter of the book "How to Prepare for the Coming Storms" is done.
It will need to be reviewed for grammar and those pesky misspellings that make it through auto-correct, but the content is done.
Based on feedback, I did make a minor change. I only got a couple of pages into specific preparations, so I wrote about the ones that will save your life rather than just to start to get into financial matters.
The manuscript will be available to those that have contributed $100 and up within a few days. If you have not donated, please do so. If you donated less than $100 previously, you can add to your previous donation to make this target, and you can have access.
I will stop writing at this point, as I previously declared, until we get the donations to compensate for writing the next quarter of the manuscript.
The information you want will be in the first half of the book.Cool Breeze wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 5:02 pm
Navigator,
Since you are going to leave this out, what would be 1-3 top things financially that you would do. You can be general, just wondering what the specific financial topics would have revolved around. Being all in commodities? Getting out of all stocks/equities/financial devices? Being in a real estate location where food growth is possible? Does your timeline for this next/upcoming war (or John's) go past 2030 even?
Thanks.