Great post John. I believe Lincoln would consider Washington DC a horrible nightmare were he to experience it today. In my opinion it is the most corrupt place on earth. That is certainly an arguable distinction but my case rests on the staggering pretension and hypocrisy of the place, that layered on top of its utter corruption. Nothing is what is appears to be. Everything is cloaked. The media presents it as a serious place, with one side fighting for the average citizen and the other side in opposition. It is all illusion of the most grotesque kind. I believe the average American has no idea how evil the government of this nation has become. Washington DC is ruled by Baphomet. No mistake
DC has some stiff competition for that "coveted" title of "Most corrupt place on Earth", Brien, e.g. The City of London, The Vatican, Israel and Switzerland. Or perhaps they could be awarded joint "winners" as they are strongly interlinked to form the evil "system of control".
I have commented elsewhere, that if God opened a chasm in his Earth and swallowed Washington DC whole, that America would be better for it. Rhetorical hyperbole but I believe it would be true.
"our U.S. government now seems entirely dedicated to enriching, aggrandizing, and protecting its rich and corrupt friends." It is now that way by design. Unless and until you outlaw all political donations except by individual citizens, and put a reasonable limit on them ($10 max, $100 max), this will continue as politicians are indebted to the organizations that "support" them.
Or, even better: no donations whatsoever at all to ‘the government’, by individuals or businesses or groups? Why in the hell would people need to make ‘donations’ to government officials or governmental entities, anyway? As we all know, there’s only one reason. Lobbying (aka bribery).
And outlaw insider trading and enforce strong ethics rules to stop the revolving door between corporate interests and government office. But Congress will never vote to stop their grifting!
The Gettysburg Address is a masterpiece as you noted and I appreciate the points you emphasized!
I have visited Gettysburg many times and I am always touched by what happened there and can feel it.
Your Cicero quote is perfect.
Crassus (Trump) is doing his best to destroy America, as did Biden, and as you noted only a few brave people like Massie are trying to do what is best for America at great cost to them.
America is a Zionist Owned country by Blackmail. bribery, murder and threats. Our "Leaders", they are not leaders they are Traitor Cowards owned by a Foreign country (Our True Enemy). And no I do not mean all Jews.
In 2013 I travelled to the USA targetting Civil war routes and of course Gettysberg. I spent weeks on historic battlefields and the whole tour at times gave me weird feelings I defined as respect and awe at the magnitude of the battles. There were many eerie places and stop gap cemeteries where especially the south had buried their soldiers. The most eerie location I visited was a wooded area with a restored wooden bridge that crossed a stream. The plaques described a small battle here involving a total of eighty soldiers from both sides.
Yet the most eerie I felt happened when I visited the battle grounds of the big battle where the North defeated the south due to the failure of the Southern calvary to skirt and come up behind the grapeshot cannons that slew many of the southern army approaching directly towards the army of the North.
At the site of the southern encampment there is a knoll where the southern generals pitched their tents and overlooked what was to be the battlefield the next day. I stood there transfixed for half an hour as I considered the slaughter the next day that was the most important battle of the Civil war. I just experience such places as sacred as was my visit to the place where the truce and surrender was signed. I think it was Appomatox. I walked up the same steps the two opposing generals had and entered the same building and looked past the room barrier where the surrender had been agreed upon. The North and Southern generals standing there where an act of respect occurred with the northern General not telling General Lee to surrender his sword.
I will never forget that trip as the most memorable one I ever took to the USA. I have been to the USA every year from 2006 to 2021 enjoying the friendships with primarily women I have met and long lasting friendships with them and one especially that will exist to my dying day.
While I am at it the USA is the greatest nation in the whole world and the people there I adore who are the best quality I ever met.
"I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe." -- Abraham Lincoln
"The money power preys upon the nation in times of peace and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, and more selfish than bureaucracy." -- Abraham Lincoln
"The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. By the adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. " -- Abraham Lincoln
When the Confederacy seceded from the United States, the bankers once again saw the opportunity for a rich harvest of debt, and offered to fund Lincoln's efforts to bring the south back into the union, but at 30% interest. Lincoln remarked that he would not free the black man by enslaving the white man to the bankers and using his authority as President, issued a new government currency, the greenback. This was a direct threat to the wealth and power of the central bankers, who quickly responded.
"If this mischievous financial policy, which has its origin in North America, shall become indurated down to a fixture, then that Government will furnish its own money without cost. It will pay off debts and be without debt. It will have all the money necessary to carry on its commerce. It will become prosperous without precedent in the history of the world. The brains, and wealth of all countries will go to North America. That country must be destroyed or it will destroy every monarchy on the globe." -- The London Times responding to Lincoln's decision to issue government Greenbacks to finance the Civil War, rather than agree to private banker's loans at 30% interest.
In 1872 New York bankers sent a letter to every bank in the United States, urging them to fund newspapers that opposed government-issued money (Lincoln's greenbacks).
"Dear Sir: It is advisable to do all in your power to sustain such prominent daily and weekly newspapers... as will oppose the issuing of greenback paper money, and that you also withhold patronage or favors from all applicants who are not willing to oppose the Government issue of money. Let the Government issue the coin and the banks issue the paper money of the country... [T]o restore to circulation the Government issue of money, will be to provide the people with money, and will therefore seriously affect your individual profit as bankers and lenders." -- Triumphant plutocracy; the story of American public life from 1870 to 1920, by Lynn Wheeler
"It will not do to allow the greenback, as it is called, to circulate as money any length of time, as we cannot control that." -- Triumphant plutocracy; the story of American public life from 1870 to 1920, by Lynn Wheeler.
"Slavery is likely to be abolished by the war power, and chattel slavery destroyed. This, I and my European friends are in favor of, for slavery is but the owning of labor and carries with it the care for the laborer, while the European plan, led on by England, is for capital to control labor by controlling wages. THIS CAN BE DONE BY CONTROLLING THE MONEY." -- Triumphant
plutocracy; the story of American public life from 1870 to 1920, by Lynn Wheeler.
Goaded by the private bankers, much of Europe supported the Confederacy against the Union, with the expectation that victory over Lincoln would mean the end of the Greenback. France and Britain considered an outright attack on the United States to aid the confederacy, but were held at bay by Russia, which had just ended the serfdom system and had a state central bank similar to the system the United States had been founded on.
Left free of European intervention, the Union won the war, and Lincoln announced his intention to go on issuing greenbacks. Following Lincoln's assassination, the Greenbacks were pulled from circulation and the American people forced to go back to an economy based on bank notes borrowed at interest from the private bankers. Tsar Alexander II, who authorized Russian military assistance to Lincoln, was subsequently the victim of multiple attempts on his life in 1866, 1879, and 1880, until his assassination in 1881.
Source: All Wars are Bankers Wars by Michael Rivero
Lincoln changing to government fiat money to circumvent the banker robber barons usury was the equivalent to drinking arsenic once a day to avoid the cyanide.
You are missing the point. Today we have the Federal Reserve, which is a private bank that has been given the right to print money no longer backed by gold.
The only reason we have a Federal debit is because the the Treasury sells a bond and the Federal Reserve buys this bond with money it created out of thin air. You the tax payer has to pay off the bond with interest. A good portion of our Federal debit is owned by the Federal Reserve.
"The privately owned Federal Reserve bank, was given authority to print Federal Reserve notes out of thin air instead of the Treasury Department writing the Treasury Notes as directed by the U.S. Constitution, these Federal Reserve notes were not printed to be given out to the economy, in the way as the Treasury Notes of the Treasury Department. Rather, they were loaned to the U.S. government and then circulated into society, to be paid back with tax money."
Total of 7 U.S Presidents murdered or attempted to be murdered by the Central banking cartel.
The Presidents who have been Murdered by the Central banking cartel.
"The refusal of King George 3rd to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from the clutches of the money manipulators, was probably the prime cause of the revolution." -- Benjamin Franklin, Founding Father
1. Andrew Jackson escaped assignation by luck. There was an attempted assassination which failed when both pistols used by the assassin, Richard Lawrence, failed to fire.
2. President Zachary Taylor - murdered/assignation
Taylor died on July 9, 1850 after eating a bowl of cherries and milk rumored to have been poisoned. The symptoms he displayed are consistent with acute arsenic poisoning.
3. President James Buchanan - murdered/assignation
He was poisoned with arsenic and survived, although 38 other people at the dinner died.
4. Lincoln- murdered for Greenbacks issue
Following Lincoln's assassination, the Greenbacks were pulled from circulation and the American people forced to go back to an economy based on bank notes borrowed at interest from the private bankers.
5. President James Garfield - murdered/assignation
"Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce, and when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate." -- President James A. Garfield, two weeks before he was assassinated
6. President William McKinley - murdered/assignation
McKinley favored gold-backed currencies and a balanced government budget which would free the public from accumulating debt.
McKinley was shot by an out-of-work anarchist on September 14, 1901, in Buffalo, NY, succumbing to his wounds a few days later. He was suceeded in office by Theodore Roosevelt.
7. President John F. Kennedy - murdered/assignation
As President, John F. Kennedy understood the predatory nature of private central banking. He understood why Andrew Jackson fought so hard to end the Second Bank of the United States. So Kennedy wrote and signed Executive Order 11110 which ordered the US Treasury to issue a new public currency, the United States Note.
Five months later John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas Texas, and the United States Notes pulled from circulation and destroyed (except for samples held by collectors).
No, I am well aware of that, and have been for over 3 decades.
You miss MY point, which is that neither option was good. And this nation has paid the price ever since.
Lincoln chose the blood of Americans over the money of bankers. The bankers got the money anyway. He wasn't wise enough to choose neither. He's no saint, far from it.
It takes more than one. It takes fixing the three fuckups that happened in 1913. It takes moving the federal government to cash-in-hand spending only. It takes no more foreign interventions or giveaways. It takes the American people holding the government accountable. And it takes shrinking government to at most its actual enumerated Constitutional limits, if not smaller.
It is worth noting that he said our nation is under God. Too many people trying to run the world today thinking they are God. Too many people deciding for themselves what is right and wrong.
Narcissism. I used to be naive until recently it has trickled down into more bite sized pieces. From a historical political viewpoint it is easy and comfortable to look at WW2 and the present Ukraine / Russian conflict if you are not in any of these war zones or if you an individual who stayed home in the US during WW2. Same is true in the bible. In the prophesy concerning the End Times given by Jesus it is not a big deal to one personally what is happening in the Middle East, wars out there, earthquakes,famines, and so on. Because someone else has to deal with the messes and fallouts. But where people miss it in these prophesies is not doing what it is says,
"Pray and BE ALERT".
Prayer is conversation not with someone who will try to sell you a bill of goods, lie to you, try to offer to you something that has a hidden ill motive. No, you are having conversation with someone who is truthful, informative, gives wisdom generously, genuinely cares about you. Here is where the narcissism comes in. It has trickled down from the dark elite to society and institutional level. Science, justice, police, medicine, family, church, friends have been infiltated and perverted. Many have accepted bribes or sold out to corruption. And narcissism is knowingly doing things to harm others and pretending to be saintly, pious, scientific, honest or righteous. In the prophesies of Jesus is mentioned not only the more dramatic things but also more personal and subtle things, a departing from the faith and sound principles, betrayal by friends and family. If we are complacent and dull instead of prayerful and alert, we will not notice these infestations of narcissism into our institutions, society, work place, family, personal life. We will be too distracted by the drama of wars, earthquakes, and famines.
I do believe that my personal experiences with narcissists for 50 years up until the present helped me to discern the times. It has only been the last recent 7 or so years that this term has become mainstream. And what was the very first narcissist? Old Satan itself. This entity has caused more destruction with this lowly characteristic damaging trait than Any other possibly could. The honoring of Jesus' first and second fulfilled commandment to His Jewish Apostles and followers would eradicate all sin in the Earth.
If Lincoln and Grant were here today, they would see the fruition of the centralization of economic and political power and the establishment of empire that they fought for, under the pretext of humanitarian concern for the African slaves whom they despised and discriminated against before, during, and after the war at least as much as the southerners who enslaved them.
With 800 military bases in every other nations backyard , and the DOD now rebranded the department of war , why do Americans not see where the real " tyrany " is born .....!🤔🙏🏾😔🙏
Ok, do you think human corruption is isolated to our current government and time? I don’t think so, Lincoln was surrounded by villains and the power hungry. They shot him dead. So, I don’t think humans are more corrupt, we just have more opportunities. You may think Massie is noble, but don’t forget he would like to be reelected too.
The 1800s his-story we're fed is nothing but a collection of lies. All of it written by the FOUNDers, who also penned the tale of 1776 and those "founders." The evidence of this fraud is the architecture all around us that was supposedly built without power tools, trucks, cranes, etc., in which, the FOUNDers' descendants are still squatters in.
Great post John. I believe Lincoln would consider Washington DC a horrible nightmare were he to experience it today. In my opinion it is the most corrupt place on earth. That is certainly an arguable distinction but my case rests on the staggering pretension and hypocrisy of the place, that layered on top of its utter corruption. Nothing is what is appears to be. Everything is cloaked. The media presents it as a serious place, with one side fighting for the average citizen and the other side in opposition. It is all illusion of the most grotesque kind. I believe the average American has no idea how evil the government of this nation has become. Washington DC is ruled by Baphomet. No mistake
DC has some stiff competition for that "coveted" title of "Most corrupt place on Earth", Brien, e.g. The City of London, The Vatican, Israel and Switzerland. Or perhaps they could be awarded joint "winners" as they are strongly interlinked to form the evil "system of control".
Hear ya, THEY go in the Military Meat Grinder...To keep the corrupt "Oligarchs" in power" BTW Amerika is the perfect example of "What not to be"
I have commented elsewhere, that if God opened a chasm in his Earth and swallowed Washington DC whole, that America would be better for it. Rhetorical hyperbole but I believe it would be true.
You bet your life it would.
"our U.S. government now seems entirely dedicated to enriching, aggrandizing, and protecting its rich and corrupt friends." It is now that way by design. Unless and until you outlaw all political donations except by individual citizens, and put a reasonable limit on them ($10 max, $100 max), this will continue as politicians are indebted to the organizations that "support" them.
Or, even better: no donations whatsoever at all to ‘the government’, by individuals or businesses or groups? Why in the hell would people need to make ‘donations’ to government officials or governmental entities, anyway? As we all know, there’s only one reason. Lobbying (aka bribery).
And outlaw insider trading and enforce strong ethics rules to stop the revolving door between corporate interests and government office. But Congress will never vote to stop their grifting!
Beautiful John and so appropriate - Thank you!
The Gettysburg Address is a masterpiece as you noted and I appreciate the points you emphasized!
I have visited Gettysburg many times and I am always touched by what happened there and can feel it.
Your Cicero quote is perfect.
Crassus (Trump) is doing his best to destroy America, as did Biden, and as you noted only a few brave people like Massie are trying to do what is best for America at great cost to them.
America is a Zionist Owned country by Blackmail. bribery, murder and threats. Our "Leaders", they are not leaders they are Traitor Cowards owned by a Foreign country (Our True Enemy). And no I do not mean all Jews.
In 2013 I travelled to the USA targetting Civil war routes and of course Gettysberg. I spent weeks on historic battlefields and the whole tour at times gave me weird feelings I defined as respect and awe at the magnitude of the battles. There were many eerie places and stop gap cemeteries where especially the south had buried their soldiers. The most eerie location I visited was a wooded area with a restored wooden bridge that crossed a stream. The plaques described a small battle here involving a total of eighty soldiers from both sides.
Yet the most eerie I felt happened when I visited the battle grounds of the big battle where the North defeated the south due to the failure of the Southern calvary to skirt and come up behind the grapeshot cannons that slew many of the southern army approaching directly towards the army of the North.
At the site of the southern encampment there is a knoll where the southern generals pitched their tents and overlooked what was to be the battlefield the next day. I stood there transfixed for half an hour as I considered the slaughter the next day that was the most important battle of the Civil war. I just experience such places as sacred as was my visit to the place where the truce and surrender was signed. I think it was Appomatox. I walked up the same steps the two opposing generals had and entered the same building and looked past the room barrier where the surrender had been agreed upon. The North and Southern generals standing there where an act of respect occurred with the northern General not telling General Lee to surrender his sword.
I will never forget that trip as the most memorable one I ever took to the USA. I have been to the USA every year from 2006 to 2021 enjoying the friendships with primarily women I have met and long lasting friendships with them and one especially that will exist to my dying day.
While I am at it the USA is the greatest nation in the whole world and the people there I adore who are the best quality I ever met.
I hate being “that” person, but did you mean 1863?
I also noticed that in the email, that sentence said November 19, 1963, but in the above text it is correct.
No comment needed
Lincoln- murdered
"I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe." -- Abraham Lincoln
"The money power preys upon the nation in times of peace and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, and more selfish than bureaucracy." -- Abraham Lincoln
"The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. By the adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. " -- Abraham Lincoln
When the Confederacy seceded from the United States, the bankers once again saw the opportunity for a rich harvest of debt, and offered to fund Lincoln's efforts to bring the south back into the union, but at 30% interest. Lincoln remarked that he would not free the black man by enslaving the white man to the bankers and using his authority as President, issued a new government currency, the greenback. This was a direct threat to the wealth and power of the central bankers, who quickly responded.
"If this mischievous financial policy, which has its origin in North America, shall become indurated down to a fixture, then that Government will furnish its own money without cost. It will pay off debts and be without debt. It will have all the money necessary to carry on its commerce. It will become prosperous without precedent in the history of the world. The brains, and wealth of all countries will go to North America. That country must be destroyed or it will destroy every monarchy on the globe." -- The London Times responding to Lincoln's decision to issue government Greenbacks to finance the Civil War, rather than agree to private banker's loans at 30% interest.
In 1872 New York bankers sent a letter to every bank in the United States, urging them to fund newspapers that opposed government-issued money (Lincoln's greenbacks).
"Dear Sir: It is advisable to do all in your power to sustain such prominent daily and weekly newspapers... as will oppose the issuing of greenback paper money, and that you also withhold patronage or favors from all applicants who are not willing to oppose the Government issue of money. Let the Government issue the coin and the banks issue the paper money of the country... [T]o restore to circulation the Government issue of money, will be to provide the people with money, and will therefore seriously affect your individual profit as bankers and lenders." -- Triumphant plutocracy; the story of American public life from 1870 to 1920, by Lynn Wheeler
"It will not do to allow the greenback, as it is called, to circulate as money any length of time, as we cannot control that." -- Triumphant plutocracy; the story of American public life from 1870 to 1920, by Lynn Wheeler.
"Slavery is likely to be abolished by the war power, and chattel slavery destroyed. This, I and my European friends are in favor of, for slavery is but the owning of labor and carries with it the care for the laborer, while the European plan, led on by England, is for capital to control labor by controlling wages. THIS CAN BE DONE BY CONTROLLING THE MONEY." -- Triumphant
plutocracy; the story of American public life from 1870 to 1920, by Lynn Wheeler.
Goaded by the private bankers, much of Europe supported the Confederacy against the Union, with the expectation that victory over Lincoln would mean the end of the Greenback. France and Britain considered an outright attack on the United States to aid the confederacy, but were held at bay by Russia, which had just ended the serfdom system and had a state central bank similar to the system the United States had been founded on.
Left free of European intervention, the Union won the war, and Lincoln announced his intention to go on issuing greenbacks. Following Lincoln's assassination, the Greenbacks were pulled from circulation and the American people forced to go back to an economy based on bank notes borrowed at interest from the private bankers. Tsar Alexander II, who authorized Russian military assistance to Lincoln, was subsequently the victim of multiple attempts on his life in 1866, 1879, and 1880, until his assassination in 1881.
Source: All Wars are Bankers Wars by Michael Rivero
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrKf9nYeXT0&rco=1
Lincoln changing to government fiat money to circumvent the banker robber barons usury was the equivalent to drinking arsenic once a day to avoid the cyanide.
You are missing the point. Today we have the Federal Reserve, which is a private bank that has been given the right to print money no longer backed by gold.
The only reason we have a Federal debit is because the the Treasury sells a bond and the Federal Reserve buys this bond with money it created out of thin air. You the tax payer has to pay off the bond with interest. A good portion of our Federal debit is owned by the Federal Reserve.
"The privately owned Federal Reserve bank, was given authority to print Federal Reserve notes out of thin air instead of the Treasury Department writing the Treasury Notes as directed by the U.S. Constitution, these Federal Reserve notes were not printed to be given out to the economy, in the way as the Treasury Notes of the Treasury Department. Rather, they were loaned to the U.S. government and then circulated into society, to be paid back with tax money."
Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/how-the-fed-gets-around-freedom-of-information-act-requests-2009-11
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All Wars are Bankers Wars by Michael Rivero:
Total of 7 U.S Presidents murdered or attempted to be murdered by the Central banking cartel.
The Presidents who have been Murdered by the Central banking cartel.
"The refusal of King George 3rd to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from the clutches of the money manipulators, was probably the prime cause of the revolution." -- Benjamin Franklin, Founding Father
1. Andrew Jackson escaped assignation by luck. There was an attempted assassination which failed when both pistols used by the assassin, Richard Lawrence, failed to fire.
2. President Zachary Taylor - murdered/assignation
Taylor died on July 9, 1850 after eating a bowl of cherries and milk rumored to have been poisoned. The symptoms he displayed are consistent with acute arsenic poisoning.
3. President James Buchanan - murdered/assignation
He was poisoned with arsenic and survived, although 38 other people at the dinner died.
4. Lincoln- murdered for Greenbacks issue
Following Lincoln's assassination, the Greenbacks were pulled from circulation and the American people forced to go back to an economy based on bank notes borrowed at interest from the private bankers.
5. President James Garfield - murdered/assignation
"Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce, and when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate." -- President James A. Garfield, two weeks before he was assassinated
6. President William McKinley - murdered/assignation
McKinley favored gold-backed currencies and a balanced government budget which would free the public from accumulating debt.
McKinley was shot by an out-of-work anarchist on September 14, 1901, in Buffalo, NY, succumbing to his wounds a few days later. He was suceeded in office by Theodore Roosevelt.
7. President John F. Kennedy - murdered/assignation
As President, John F. Kennedy understood the predatory nature of private central banking. He understood why Andrew Jackson fought so hard to end the Second Bank of the United States. So Kennedy wrote and signed Executive Order 11110 which ordered the US Treasury to issue a new public currency, the United States Note.
Five months later John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas Texas, and the United States Notes pulled from circulation and destroyed (except for samples held by collectors).
Full documentation found at link:
www.WhatreallyHappen.com
https://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/bankersinonechunk.php
https://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/allwarsarebankerwars.php
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrKf9nYeXT0
No, I am well aware of that, and have been for over 3 decades.
You miss MY point, which is that neither option was good. And this nation has paid the price ever since.
Lincoln chose the blood of Americans over the money of bankers. The bankers got the money anyway. He wasn't wise enough to choose neither. He's no saint, far from it.
I see, then what is your solution? Maybe a constitution amendment?
It takes more than one. It takes fixing the three fuckups that happened in 1913. It takes moving the federal government to cash-in-hand spending only. It takes no more foreign interventions or giveaways. It takes the American people holding the government accountable. And it takes shrinking government to at most its actual enumerated Constitutional limits, if not smaller.
What is your view on the gold standard? Cash-in-hands, the question is who created the cash in the first place? The Federal Reserve or the Treasury?
It is worth noting that he said our nation is under God. Too many people trying to run the world today thinking they are God. Too many people deciding for themselves what is right and wrong.
Narcissism. I used to be naive until recently it has trickled down into more bite sized pieces. From a historical political viewpoint it is easy and comfortable to look at WW2 and the present Ukraine / Russian conflict if you are not in any of these war zones or if you an individual who stayed home in the US during WW2. Same is true in the bible. In the prophesy concerning the End Times given by Jesus it is not a big deal to one personally what is happening in the Middle East, wars out there, earthquakes,famines, and so on. Because someone else has to deal with the messes and fallouts. But where people miss it in these prophesies is not doing what it is says,
"Pray and BE ALERT".
Prayer is conversation not with someone who will try to sell you a bill of goods, lie to you, try to offer to you something that has a hidden ill motive. No, you are having conversation with someone who is truthful, informative, gives wisdom generously, genuinely cares about you. Here is where the narcissism comes in. It has trickled down from the dark elite to society and institutional level. Science, justice, police, medicine, family, church, friends have been infiltated and perverted. Many have accepted bribes or sold out to corruption. And narcissism is knowingly doing things to harm others and pretending to be saintly, pious, scientific, honest or righteous. In the prophesies of Jesus is mentioned not only the more dramatic things but also more personal and subtle things, a departing from the faith and sound principles, betrayal by friends and family. If we are complacent and dull instead of prayerful and alert, we will not notice these infestations of narcissism into our institutions, society, work place, family, personal life. We will be too distracted by the drama of wars, earthquakes, and famines.
I do believe that my personal experiences with narcissists for 50 years up until the present helped me to discern the times. It has only been the last recent 7 or so years that this term has become mainstream. And what was the very first narcissist? Old Satan itself. This entity has caused more destruction with this lowly characteristic damaging trait than Any other possibly could. The honoring of Jesus' first and second fulfilled commandment to His Jewish Apostles and followers would eradicate all sin in the Earth.
If Lincoln and Grant were here today, they would see the fruition of the centralization of economic and political power and the establishment of empire that they fought for, under the pretext of humanitarian concern for the African slaves whom they despised and discriminated against before, during, and after the war at least as much as the southerners who enslaved them.
That’s a bold statement John and I say that that is an insult to the sewer. Rock on! sir.
John, I would love it if you continue to incorporate American history quotes and stories. Your knowledge is a privilege to receive.
Lincoln was a tyrant
With 800 military bases in every other nations backyard , and the DOD now rebranded the department of war , why do Americans not see where the real " tyrany " is born .....!🤔🙏🏾😔🙏
Ok, do you think human corruption is isolated to our current government and time? I don’t think so, Lincoln was surrounded by villains and the power hungry. They shot him dead. So, I don’t think humans are more corrupt, we just have more opportunities. You may think Massie is noble, but don’t forget he would like to be reelected too.
The 1800s his-story we're fed is nothing but a collection of lies. All of it written by the FOUNDers, who also penned the tale of 1776 and those "founders." The evidence of this fraud is the architecture all around us that was supposedly built without power tools, trucks, cranes, etc., in which, the FOUNDers' descendants are still squatters in.