I Am Pro-Israel

I am pro-Israel. I have been there. What a beautiful nation! What beautiful people! I hope I can return. I know I will be treated kindly. Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East. I see three main problems that affect Israel. 1) The nation is not perfect. 2) The nation is hated by many. 3) Many are insanely jealous of Israel. As the old saying goes: "When you got it, you got it." I leave this piece of advice to all of the haters of Israel: Please do not hate them. Pursue your dreams. There is always room for hard working, disciplined, kind, tolerant, educated and respectful people. If, since your childhood, you have been taught to hate a group of people, you are at a severe disadvantage. Why? Because hatred is like a cancer. So...what do you do about it? Quit hating. Quit being jealous. There is something special for you too. "And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed." (Gen. 12:2,3) No need to be a hater!

Hate A Jew? No Way!

Hate a Jew? No way! Jealous of a Jew? No way! Mentored by a Jew? Of course! I do not have time to be jealous or hateful of Jews. I have my own intellectual skills, talents, good health, God-directed spiritual guidelines and motivation. If I am not successful, I have nobody to blame but myself. I will blame nobody, especially Jews. Do you want to be a success? Go for it! Who is stopping you? Certainly not Jews. We do not need to agree with everyone and everything, but hatred should not be chosen as a viable option. It is bad for your health. It is self-destructive.

Teddy Roosevelt And Church Attendance

I am against revisionist history when it purposely excludes events that were particularly important. On November18, 2009, Barry Howard posted "Teddy Roosevelt's 10 Reasons for Going to Church," in "Ethics Daily.com." "Some people go to church regularly, some go occasionally, and others seldom go at all. How important is church participation? Are there good reasons that I should go to church? Actually, the Bible calls on believers to be the church, and not just go to church. But to effectively be the church, believers need to faithfully gather with the other members of the body of Christ for equipping and encouragement. Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States, believed in attending and participating in church. In 1917, in an interview with Ladies Home Journal, President Roosevelt offered at least 10 reasons for going to church: In the actual world a churchless community, a community where men have abandoned and scoffed at or ignored their religious needs, is a community on the rapid downgrade. Church work and church attendance mean the cultivation of the habit of feeling some responsibility for others and the sense of braced moral strength, which prevents a relaxation of one's own moral fiber. There are enough holidays for most of us that can quite properly be devoted to pure holiday making. Sundays differ from other holidays, among other ways, in the fact that there are 52 of them every year. On Sunday, go to church. Yes, I know all the excuses. I know that one can worship the Creator and dedicate oneself to good living in a grove of trees, or by a running brook, or in one's own house, just as well as in church. But I also know as a matter of cold fact the average man does not thus worship or thus dedicate himself. If he strays away from church, he does not spend his time in good works or lofty meditation. He looks over the colored supplement of the newspaper."

Propaganda From Goebbels

The war between the truth and lies has been going on since the dawn of time. It is nothing new. We are confronted with lies constantly. Perhaps we do not pay attention to the consequences. Perhaps we are too busy to be bothered by the truth. Perhaps we are only interested in the truth when it influences us directly. Perhaps we are just busy people and we think:"hey, first things first." In spite of all of that, I still have not met anyone who likes to be lied to. In the long run, lying has unpleasant consequences. If you check your history, you will find that Joseph Goebbels was the the Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda for Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany. He was responsible for controlling the mass media. Did he not make a career out of lying? Or was it just propaganda for the "public enlightenment."? Goebbels clearly stated the following: “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

A Letter From An Ex Jaguar

The following letter was written by a former Southwestern College student. The writer did not sign it, therefore I do not know who it is, but he/she was clearly disgruntled, and very honest.
Here it is:
 "I'm so happy to finally transfer out of this hell hole. It took me several years and a lot of semesters + summer sessions, but I finally transferred out and plan on attending San Diego State University with a 3.86 GPA. There were a lot of cool professors who were always willing to help and fully teach their interpretations of the material, but at the same time, there were some awful professors who have had long lasting careers on campus and that's a shame on SWC's behalf. Obviously, the dean doesn't listen to student's complaints and all the negative feedback about those professors or otherwise they would have replaced them by now. As far as the administration and counseling departments, there are some nice people but then there are some total A-holes who purposely sabotage your progress because they don't really care or lack the knowledge to help you graduate/transfer. Almost every single person who works in the financial aid department has been extremely rude and unhelpful. The same cannot be said about the staff in the cafeteria because the majority of the employees are friendly and I trust them preparing my food. Now, when discussing the atmosphere of this campus only one word comes to mind, and that's the word "Tijuana." This place is basically Tijuana 13th grade with around 80% of the population little social kids who live across the border and prefer to only speak Spanish and have their walkie talkie Nextels always chirping while they goof around all class and practically drop or fail every course they sign up for. I will not miss you Southwestern and your crowded parking lots, ticket happy police, and all of your budget cuts on classes when in reality you guys are spending millions of dollars expanding the campus. What's the point of building so many new facilities and classrooms if every semester they keep cutting classes and staff because they claim they have no money? You obviously have the millions of dollars to build a new cafeteria in the back and new facility on the corner of H Street yet you make all of your pupils suffer trying to crash and enlist up to 50 students on a wait list with no mercy or sense of urgency for your students."

Freedom.....The Destination

Freedom is the goal. It is not necessarily a means to reach that goal. It is the goal. Life is a series of obstacles and events that create the journey, the journey toward freedom. That is correct. The journey is not freedom. The destination is freedom.

Born Free?

Born free? Sounds good. But I do not think we are born free. We are born to be taught to do things that will help us to survive. We were born to act and react. We need to be taught to be free. That is tough to do. There is no freedom where there is no order. We must be taught to order our lives to permit us to enjoy freedom.