A New Voice of Freedom

Pt II B: Agency cont.  If you have not downloaded Podcast 206, may we recommend that you listen to it first. This is a continuation. In our hypothetical world described in Podcast 206, a very powerful dictator represented himself to the people as a benevolent libertarian. He persuaded them that there was no God and no Devil, no absolute good and no absolute evil, no life before birth and no life a...

Pt II A: Agency  If you are new to the “Recognizing the Hand of God” series, we recommend that you first download Season 3 Podcasts 204 and 205 “Mortality vs. Immortality Pt I A and Pt I B for continuity. The one thing that everyone at the final judgment will recognize unambiguously is that God is Just. On earth we tend to blame God for both good and evil. On my Facebook page today a person wrote,...

Pt I B: Mortality vs. Immortality cont. We are so glad you joined us. If you missed our last podcast, we recommend that you first listen to Season 3 Podcast 204 Pt I A before listening to Podcast Pt I B. This is a continuation of Pt I A and will help you keep the continuity. In the Christian view, in pre-mortality we lived as spirits with God called our First Estate. In Jude we read, 6 And the ang...

Recognizing the Hand of God,  Mortality vs. Immortality I am beginning a new series entitled “Recognizing the Hand of God.” This is the first in the series. The other examples will follow randomly.  The purpose of this series is to prove that God works by law; that all blessings of God are based upon law; otherwise, faith could not develop, and it is only by faith that miracles occur, and it is on...

“The Story of Creation” Pt V Milton emphasizes that Adam and Eve are man and wife, married by God himself. She disappeared, and left me dark, I wak’d To find her, or for ever to deplore Her loss, and other pleasures all abjure: When out of hope, behold her, not far off, Such as I saw her in my dream, adorned With what all Earth or Heaven could bestow To make her amiable: On she came, Led by her He...

“Abortion” Abortion began with the following arguments: ·      Outrage against the butchery of dark alley abortions ·      Women’s rights ·      Health of the mother ·      Incest and rape ·      Emotional trauma But it quickly escalated into a political battle mostly buried under rhetoric. The first thing that we can dismiss is the argument that abortion is about women’s health. If abortion were...

“The Dirac Equation Paradox.”  Okay, assuming you have listened to Podcast 197 Pt I “How Taxpayers view inflation reduction”; and Podcast 199 The Land of Laputa; and Podcast 200 Xeno’s Paradox, in this the final podcast on The Inflation Reduction Act, I shall address how Congress uses the Dirac Equation Paradox to reduce inflation. The Dirac equation in one way is similar to Zeno’s Paradox but jus...

“Zeno’s Paradox.”  Okay, assuming you have listened to Podcast 197, “How Taxpayers view The Inflation Reduction Act” in which I explained what inflation reduction means to an average person on a fixed income; and also assuming that you have listened to Podcast 199 “The Land of Laputa” in which I showed how our present-day Executive Branch and Legislative Branch modeled their behavior after the Lap...

“The Land of Laputa.”  Okay, assuming you have listened to Podcast 197, “The Inflation Reduction Act for Dummies,” “How Taxpayers view inflation reduction” in which I explained inflation from the common person’s point of view, I shall now turn my thoughts to Congress and look at things from Congress’s point of view. In this podcast, I should like to show a precedent for Congress by comparing our g...

“The Story of Creation” Pt IV  As Adam ponders the questions—Who am I we? Who created me? Where did I come from? Why am I here on this earth?—the answer comes in a dream.  On a green shady Bank profuse of Flowers Pensive I sat me down; there gentle sleep First found me, and with soft oppression seis’d My drowsed sense, untroubled, though I thought I then was passing to my former state Insensible,...

The Inflation Reduction Act for Dummies Pt I In this Podcast, Part I, I shall give a working man’s definition of The Inflation Reduction Act. In Part II, Podcast 199, I shall give a Congressman’s definition of The Inflation Reduction Act as influenced by Zeno’s Paradox.  In Part III, I shall give a Congressman’s definition of The Inflation Reduction Act as influenced by the Dirac Equation.  In thi...

Linda Tribalism in America Pt II In a democratic state, when laws break down, tribes no longer having common ground, turn against each other. That is how the left is winning.  They claim that conservatives hate women, hate gays, hate lesbians, hate transgenders, hate immigrants, hate the poor, hate the blacks, hate the Hispanics, hate Muslims. They even claim that conservatives have mental illness...

Tribalism in America Pt I Tribalism is a closed group held together by extreme loyalty.  Each tribe is defined by attributes unique to the members: blood, nationality, religion, crime, politics, money, poverty, skin color, work, wealth, occupation, education, geography, language, nationality, etc.   Tribalism is essential to all organized groups, large or small.  Every nation is a tribe.  Loyalty...

A Perfect Model of Freedom As stated many times laws have two parts: conditions and consequences. Freewill is determined by our ability to choose the conditions. Captivity is determined by the consequences.  All laws have conditions. Freewill relates to the conditions (or cause) of law.  Determinism relates to the effects (or consequences) of law.  The laws of nature do not always give us choices...

Paradise Lost Bk VII, Pt XVI, “The Story of Creation” Pt II In the following segments of Book VII, we first have a conversation between Adam and Raphael about the purpose of creation. Milton, the Christian and Bible scholar, uses the Bible as his primary resource for the fundamental elements of the creation story. For those familiar with Genesis the story will be very familiar. Milton, the poet, h...

Part II The Beatitudes and the Book of Revelation First let me refer you to Podcast 187, The Beatitudes and the Structure of Law. It is helpful to review that podcast to fully appreciate Pt II. All who study the scriptures know that they mean different things at different times to different people.  Personalizing scriptures is a gift from God when inspired by the Holy Ghost.  The scriptures live a...

The Road to Power, Machiavellian Pragmatism, Rule # 39: “Argumentum ad Hominem.” Pt II If you haven’t listened to Pt I, let me encourage you to download it first. In this podcast I wish to present some observations based on the information in Pt I. This Podcast serves as a kind of conclusion to Pt I. It is divided into four parts. The first two parts contain observations about how the democratic p...

The Road to Power, Machiavellian Pragmatism, Rules # 39: “Argumentum ad Hominem.” Pt I “Argumentum ad Hominem” is a logical fallacy that refers to “personal attack”. One commits the ad hominem fallacy when one in any way diminishes, attacks, belittles, insults, discredits, disparages, ridicules, maligns, disdains, slanders, or otherwise uses any form of character assassination.  Rule 39 of Machiav...

Some Random Thoughts on Addiction Part V “Three Attributes of Addiction” This is the conclusion of the five-part series on Addiction. Let me refer you to Podcasts 157, 170, 171, & 172. I leave it into the hands of experts to create programs or agendas or steps of recovery. To succeed any program must include faith in self, faith in others, and faith in God. The first step is desire. One must w...

Milton’s Paradise Lost Bk VII, Pt XV, “The Story of Creation” Pt II In Bk VII, Raphael explains to Adam and Eve about the creation of the earth.  In the following Milton describes the First Day of Creation. One could successfully argue that the Old Testament is already written in exquisite poetry; however, Milton, though faithful to the original story, adds his own peculiar and elegant style and s...

The Beatitudes and the Structure of Law In this podcast, Linda and I would like to examine the nine Beatitudes found in Matthew, each beginning with the word “Blessed.”  (1)  Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. (2)  Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. (3)  Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. (4)  Blessed are they which do h...

The Road to Power, Machiavellian Pragmatism, Rules # 30 – 40: “A Glimpse into the Future, Pt II.”  It took a visionary like John to see into the future and imagine a world that could make such a nightmare possible. It took a world with nuclear weapons, missiles, worldwide communication technology, computer dependency, jets, biological warfare, television, satellites, domino financial instability,...

The Road to Power, Machiavellian Pragmatism, Rules # 33 – 40: “A Glimpse into the Future, Pt I.” I have made it very clear in these podcasts that there are only four laws of liberty. Any government that moves away from these laws, regardless of the rhetoric, will move toward totalitarianism.  The four laws of liberty are:  1.     The Law of Liberty 2.     The Perfect Law of Liberty 3.     The Law...

Revenge As mortals, we live with a multitude of niggling contradictions, petty parasites, infinite decisions, kaleidoscopic temptations, roller-coaster emotions, multitudinous feelings of rising Fahrenheit and plunging Celsius, ever struggling between good and evil, right and wrong, love and hate, freedom and captivity.  On a normal day, the sun will shine, and the rain will fall, thunder will cra...

Milton’s Paradise Lost Bk VII, Pt XIV, "The Story of Creation" Pt I In Bk VII, Raphael explains to Adam and Eve about the creation of the earth. Milton writes in his preface to Bk VII. Raphael, at the request of Adam, relates how and wherefore this world was first created; that God, after the expelling of Satan and His angels out of heaven, declared His pleasure to create another world,...