"When The Swords Flash"

"When the swords flash let no idea of love, piety,  or even the face of your fathers move you."
Gaius Julius Caesar    (100-44 B.C.) Dictator of the Roman Republic



"The people must fight for their laws as for their walls."      Heraclitus (c.540-480 BC) Greek philosopher

4 Quotes About Liberty

Liberty will not descend to a people,a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed."     Charles Caleb Colton



"The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. ... Freedom and slavery are mental states. Therefore, the first thing to say to yourself: 'I shall no longer accept the role of a slave. I shall not obey orders as such but shall disobey them when they are in conflict with my conscience."    MahatmaMohandas  

"Not being able to govern events, I govern myself."     Michel de Montaigne


"Freedom lies in being bold."   Robert Frost

It Must Be Repeated (Atheism vs Creation)

"It requires that supernatural causes and agents must be ruled out as scientific explanations for natural phenomena; (all proposed scientific explanations must be testable and repeatable) must be based on evidence and must obey physical laws.”

(The Creation of the world/universe cannot be repeated,) so NS* needs to avoid the Big Bang. They just admitted it’s not science.
(Evolution of life can’t be repeated,) so Evolution is not science.
The Great Flood can’t be repeated so they deny this ever happened.
The extinction of all life (whether by Flood or meteor) (can’t be repeated) so saying the dinosaurs got wiped out by a meteor isn’t science.

Their starting point isn’t observation, like real science, which would lead them to God. Their starting point is that everything we see happened on its own with no God or gods. They have already excluded God at the starting line. It’s dishonest of them to say that the science they found during the race led them to conclude there is no God.

For the naturalist**   “no God” isn’t a conclusion, or end point. It’s their starting point.

*     "natural science"
**   “natural man”.

1 Corinthians 2:14

"But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.     

"The People Must Fight For Their Laws"

"The people must fight for their laws as for their walls."      Heraclitus (c.540-480 BC) Greek philosopher



My comments on the above quote:


Yes, when the time comes for the people to fight for their laws they will actually fight for their value system, for their view of justice and for their freedom.  Why?  Because their laws are based on what they consider to be of importance.    R. Dominguez

Think Good Thoughts

A man is capable of  "thinking himself" into anger, depression, jealousy, lusting and frustration.  The five aforementioned are not usually positive or beneficial.   So, what is the solution?  It is simple.  Or, it is difficult.  It depends on two main factors.   They are the following.  1)  How serious one is about their cessation.  2)  Is one willing to do what it takes to overcome them?  Let us assume you are serious and willing.  Here is the solution:  Think good thoughts.  Train yourself to think good thoughts.  Does it sound simplistic?  Maybe.  Does it sound difficult?  Maybe.  Is it a good idea?  Of course it is.  And I do not mean "maybe."  Someone, long before we ever existed, shared it with us.  His ideas are the best.  "For as a man thinks in his heart, so is he."  (Prov. 23:7 a)  In other words we are being told: We are what we think about.  No, we are not necessarily what/who we think we are, that is a different concept.   As stated, we are what we think about.  So, what do we do about it?  Think good thoughts.

Extremism (Rick Gaber)

" 'Extremism' is a word deliberately chosen for its vagueness and used by intellectual snobs who are too desperate, sneaky or lazy to say exactly what they mean.  Its only purpose is to deliberately try to confuse the difference between people who are extremely good  (usually because of their devotion to their principles) with people who are extremely bad.  The sleazeballs who use this supposedly scary, yet undefined word are not only trying to smear people of conviction and integrity, but they are also trying to divert attention away from the fact that they are obviously not people of principle themselves."      Rick Gaber

"There Never Was A Good War"

""There never was a good war," said Franklin. There have indeed been many wars in which a good man must take part, and take part with grave gladness to die if need be, a willing sacrifice, thankful to give life for what is dearer than life, and happy that even by death in war he is serving the cause of peace. But if a war be undertaken for the most righteous end, before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime."Charles Eliot Norton(1827-1908) American educator, writer, and editor who founded the Nation (1865)

Do Good Today

Do good today.  Help someone out today.  Practice kindness.  It will enrich your life.  You will not be sorry for doing it.  You will not regret it.  At least say a kind word to someone today.  Be sincere about it.  Make an effort within yourself to mean it.  It can only improve your day.  It can improve your life.  Make it a habit.  It is a good habit to have.  Help someone out.  Do good today.

Dulce Et Decorum Est

"Bent double, like beggars under old sacks, knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed  through sludge, till on the haunting flares we turned our backs, and towards our distant rest began to trudge.  Men marched asleep.  Many had lost their boots, but limped on blood-shod.  All went lame; all blind; drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind.   Gas! Gas!  Quick, boys! -- An ecstacy of fumbling, fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;   But someone still was yelling out and stumbling and floundering, like a man in fire or lime...Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light, As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.   In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,  He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.  If in some smothering dreams you too could pace behind the wagon that we flung him in, and watch the white eyes writhing in his face.  His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin.  If you could hear at every jolt, the blood come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs.  Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud of vile, incurable  sores on innocent tongues, -- My friend, you would not tell with such high zest to children ardent for some desperate glory, the old lie:
DULCE ET DECORUM EST PRO PATRIA MORI."        (caps mine)


"Dulce Et Decorum Est" is a poem written by Wilfred Owen, 2 weeks before he was killed in combat during World War I.  It was published posthumously in 1920.  The Latin title, translated into English, means: "How sweet and becoming it is to die for one's country."

Three Quotes By Frederic Bastiat

"If every person has the right to defend -- even by force -- his person, his liberty, and his property, then it follows that a group of men have the right to organize and support a common force to protect these rights constantly. Thus the principle of collective right -- its reason for existing, its lawfulness -- is based on individual right. And the common force that protects this collective right cannot logically have any other purpose or any other mission than that for which it acts as a substitute. Thus, since an individual cannot lawfully use force against the person, liberty, or property of another individual, then the common force -- for the same reason -- cannot lawfully be used to destroy the person, liberty, or property of individuals or groups."  
Frederic Bastiat  

"Life, faculties, production -- in other words, individuality, liberty, property -- this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation and are superior to it."
Frederic Bastiat

"Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all."
Frederic Bastiat



(1801-1850) [Claude Frederic Bastiat] French economist, statesman, and author.  He did most of his writing during the years just before -- and immediately following -- the French Revolution of February 
1848  Source: "The Law" by Frederic Bastiat