#1874 Straight Jacket Ready

#1874

Straight Jacket Ready

"Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world.  If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.  For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.  And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever."  (1 John 2:15-17)

There is nothing neutral about technology or the media.  Technology captures you, media exploits you. 

A man never starved because he did not take time to eat.  Warriors do not worry about whether they will survive the battle...they just plunge on.  On this, my birthday number 86, this old warrior just plunges on fully aware (at least, I think I am fully aware at my age-I do believe senility is taking over) that the world around me has gone completely crazy-berserk.  This sightless old man, looking around, ears still attune to the news-the conversations of people around me-my associates and employees everyone is straight jacket ready, heading for the loony hospital-asylum.

There is nothing as obvious about our mental lunacy as the fact that hard-working people become more physically and mentally exhausted everyday.  You either work or steal.  Our borders have been open like the welcome wagon to migrants rushing here for streets of gold, and in just eight years, Obama has doubled the national debt with an increase of ten trillion dollars, money which future generations can never repay.

In my town, there are churches on every corner yet more crime than ever.  America, at one time a supposed Christian nation, has more people in prison than any other nation.  WHAT WOULD MY TOWN BE LIKE IF IT HAD NO CHURCHES?  My country has become a playground instead of a battleground.  What happened to the "onward Christian soldiers"?  What happened to the patriots who preserved as they had defended our hard-won costly liberty?

As important as chlorophyll to plant life, hemoglobin to animal life is the inescapable majesty of common sense.

Does it make any sense that you would buy a new car on which you must deprive yourself to make payments, when you know, full well, that the most expensive trip you will ever make, the miles from the car lot to your house...the car depreciating a large part of its value on that short trip.

Every time I show one of my buildings for sale, first words out a prospective buyer, it is dated.  Of course, every building-stick of furniture-human-being is dated.  So, bathrooms are dated yet, some pay great prices for an old bathtub...an old pie safe...vintage clothing.  Cyber warfare, many of these prissy-particular people will be happy to find the old-fashioned outhouse...real emergency. 

The cure for most diseases is in the kitchen, not the drug store.  Health depends on nutrition and exercise.  The elitist American male, so intent on interneting and experience, covets the golf course for exercise...yet rides around on a cart.  The American female, also wanting exercise goes to her gym-dance-yoga classes but cannot find the energy to push a vacuum cleaner or dust rag.

At the UNC-CH Medical School, Chapel Hill, I used to look at the museum's surgery and medical relics.  How did our ancestors survive, before the time of advertisements telling us what to eat-drugs to take-activities to follow?  Our ancestors, like people in third world countries, knew and know that we eat plant life or, we eat animals that eat plant life.  Americans have obesity problems because the homeostasis demands of a live body craves nutrition, the trillions of cells in the animal body must have nutrition.  When we attempt to satisfy hunger by cramming the body with "junk" that has no nutrition we just supplement the fat cells.  The body cannot digest synthetics.  In poverty ridden countries of the world, this world traveler saw children eat mud cakes, they might have eased the hunger pains by filling the stomach but there was little nutrition involved.

Thankfully, educators have discovered that well-fed children do better in school...school feeding programs.  Thankfully, communities manage nutrition for the elderly.  When, and I have been a condemned proponent of supplements all my professional life, will opinion molders-media-health educators realize that holistic healthcare practices are successful:  that Chinese-Asian healthcare practices were successful long before western medicine got its start.  Have you ever read the pamphlets that come with every drugstore prescription...the reasons not to take the medicine, side effects, etc?  You never hear of curing anything, just treatment.  Big Pharma wants every living person to take pills everyday, and as I learned long ago the patient wants a piece of paper to buy expensive medicine they do not want you to advise about care...sleep-eating-habits.  It is far better to maintain than to regain.

God's word has all the answers.  Yet, most people who say they believe in God's word never read it.  In the Old Testament, Jesus concealed.  New Testament, Jesus revealed.  The most beautiful story, Abraham, first Jew (a chosen people of God), and his son of promise, Isaac, and I believe he was around thirty years of age, his old doddering father, up and away early, Mount Moriah, where Abraham had been instructed by God to offer his precious son as a sacrifice.  Can we even imagine the sorrow in this old man's heart, the confusion in the young man's heart?  The scripture had never mentioned a sacrifice before, no record that Abraham had said anything about his matter to Sarah.  Just think, fire was carried around with people, there were no matches-cigarette lighters.  Isaac carried wood on his back, just was Jesus would later carry wood on his back.  This was probably the greatest test we have ever encountered.

When will we learn that human-beings are tested?  Most of the time, testing is grievous.  The saints of old, "of whom the Earth was not worthy" (Hebrews 11:38) were tested as we can never even imagine.  God has always sought out "faithers" redeemed-sanctified believers whom he can "showcase" forever in his presence.  They are more than "faint hearted" believers, "fair weather" patriots.  Neither God nor our country deserves lunatics ready-racing toward the asylum.