protesters storm US capital :-(

[jasonc]

I don't think a war with China will last long. It will be vicious, but short. Our navy too strong even with a shortage of carrier escorts. The island raiding will be deadly.
That said, our older son served in the navy. By the time the government got through isolating him on those deployments, he turned on us to the point I haven't spoken to him in about 18 years. I made him join the military because he was committing felonies and I had to get him straightened up. He never was prosecuted or even arrested but they blackmailed him. "Either turn on your parents...or else". At least the last words I ever spoke to him were "I love you."
They know they can't turn our youngest on us so I fear they'll kill him.
There is so much money involved in my situation it is used to recruit anyone around me. It worked on everyone except my wife and youngest son. My own half-brother excepted $50k and bragged about it.
My case is so big, one word from me, Texas immediately dropped its indictment against Netflix for the Cuties the movie. I contacted Netflix and told them if they wanted Texas to drop its indictment just mention my name and threaten them back with doing a documentary of what Texas actually does to actual victims of actual childhood sexual assault. The case was immediately dropped and swept under the rug. Complete media blackout. Like the song Fight Song...."I only got one match, but I can make an explosion....."
An FBI informant recruited our daughter and I can't even tell you the heinous crime she committed for money.

the navy ,ncis,has no power to arrest ,detain or try civilians .

not even under martial law ,that has been regulated to the civilian authority .my mos is a military police .the posse commidatus act of 1868 prevents federal that .

of course no law without teeth or the desire to enforce it will work

 

[jasonc]

Always wished I could own an M1. I did own an M14E2(selector switch removed). I also owned a mini -14 and an AR-15 among others. All gone now. I'll most likely never own another weapon ever again. I loved my M14. Great rifle.

different creature .the m1 is a bolt action versus a carbine drum fed auto 306.

 

[daninthelionsden]

the navy ,ncis,has no power to arrest ,detain or try civilians .

not even under martial law ,that has been regulated to the civilian authority .my mos is a military police .the posse commidatus act of 1868 prevents federal that .

of course no law without teeth or the desire to enforce it will work

Our son served in the Navy as a sonar tech on the USS San Jacinto in the USS Harry S Truman carrier battlegroup, though the cruiser did deploy on its own several times. He went to Haifa once for a week.

 

[jasonc]

Our son served in the Navy as a sonar tech on the USS San Jacinto in the USS Harry S Truman carrier battlegroup, though the cruiser did deploy on its own several times. He went to Haifa once for a week.

that isnt a leo mission ,I know a few navy man at arms ,one did a counterterrorism mission and retired ,but started with the blue angels as a parts supply

 

[daninthelionsden]

different creature .the m1 is a bolt action versus a carbine drum fed auto 306.

I'm talking M1 Garand, not M1 carbine. Garand had the .30-06 stripper clip gas-operated. 8-round clip. I always wanted one....no more. M-14 was gas operated as well but was fed by a box 20 round magazine. It used .308. Yep Springfield was also .30-06 and used in WWI and early WWII. Bolt action.

 

[Christ_empowered]

I think "freedom" is relative, honestly. The US provides freedom...if you have re$ource$. It isn't that we are a "bad nation," its just the way the elites have shaped policy...

the top 20% or so (income, overall wealth) enjoy freedom and respect. As you go further down, its almost like...losing space, if that makes sense. Space...both figurative and literal, I think. Smaller houses, smaller lives....

till, towards the bottom, you have no space (homeless, jail, prison, maybe what's left of the state hospital system) of your own, physically, and...figuratively...

0 space in which to do much, freely, at all. Lower and lower..."mind space" can even shrink to 0, with all the intrusions from forces, people, agencies, above.

not that its -just- the US. and it isn't just that we have (too much) poverty, its also the growth of the (way too) rich, the ones at the very, very top of the power structure. how many (multi-)billionaires can any nation afford, really?

Of course, as a Christian....I know that "he whom The Son has set free is free, indeed." I cling to that, honestly. In Christ, I've personally been blessed with more freedom, including more -space- , both literal and figurative, than I ever had out on the broad road. I am increasingly thankful. having said that...

as a nation, things have been reworked, since the 70s or so, to make sure that more and more re$ource$ move upward, upward...from the renter to the landlord to the mega-corporations...instead of promoting a more equitable distribution, which is what the US had for a while, from the post-WWII years into the 70s, before the elites declared all out war on the poor, then the working class, then the middle-classes. Now? man oh man...

I had an acquaintance from The Netherlands. He lived over here for a couple of years, and he was about sick of this corner of the US when he high tailed it back home to the mother country. He was open about it..."in my country, we don't let people go to shreds" and "is everyone here miserable and on pills?," on and on.

It isn't that the US is a -bad nation- , as nations go, I think the bigger issue is the -highly questionable- policies over the past decades that have really damaged society, communities, families, individual morality...

it is what it is, I suppose. :-(

 

[jasonc]

I'm talking M1 Garand, not M1 carbine. Garand had the .30-06 stripper clip gas-operated. 8-round clip. I always wanted one....no more. M-14 was gas operated as well but was fed by a box 20 round magazine. It used .308. Yep Springfield was also .30-06 and used in WWI and early WWII. Bolt action.

m14 carbine not the m1

 

[daninthelionsden]

I think "freedom" is relative, honestly. The US provides freedom...if you have re$ource$. It isn't that we are a "bad nation," its just the way the elites have shaped policy...

the top 20% or so (income, overall wealth) enjoy freedom and respect. As you go further down, its almost like...losing space, if that makes sense. Space...both figurative and literal, I think. Smaller houses, smaller lives....

till, towards the bottom, you have no space (homeless, jail, prison, maybe what's left of the state hospital system) of your own, physically, and...figuratively...

0 space in which to do much, freely, at all. Lower and lower..."mind space" can even shrink to 0, with all the intrusions from forces, people, agencies, above.

not that its -just- the US. and it isn't just that we have (too much) poverty, its also the growth of the (way too) rich, the ones at the very, very top of the power structure. how many (multi-)billionaires can any nation afford, really?

Of course, as a Christian....I know that "he whom The Son has set free is free, indeed." I cling to that, honestly. In Christ, I've personally been blessed with more freedom, including more -space- , both literal and figurative, than I ever had out on the broad road. I am increasingly thankful. having said that...

as a nation, things have been reworked, since the 70s or so, to make sure that more and more re$ource$ move upward, upward...from the renter to the landlord to the mega-corporations...instead of promoting a more equitable distribution, which is what the US had for a while, from the post-WWII years into the 70s, before the elites declared all out war on the poor, then the working class, then the middle-classes. Now? man oh man...

I had an acquaintance from The Netherlands. He lived over here for a couple of years, and he was about sick of this corner of the US when he high tailed it back home to the mother country. He was open about it..."in my country, we don't let people go to shreds" and "is everyone here miserable and on pills?," on and on.

It isn't that the US is a -bad nation- , as nations go, I think the bigger issue is the -highly questionable- policies over the past decades that have really damaged society, communities, families, individual morality...

it is what it is, I suppose. :-(

I've heard the US is one of the easiest places to find material prosperity, but one of the hardest places to find spiritual peace. I saw a documentary about former missionaries coming back to America and having a hard time readjusting to the needless hurrying and extreme focus on money.

 

[humble soul]

I haven't spoken to him in about 18 years

Sorry to hear this Dan. It must play on your mind a lot. I have a few sibling relationships that are strained and a cold war continues. It erodes the soul I would like to fully resolve. But maybe we need to let go. Allow God to worry about it.

 

[humble soul]

I've heard the US is one of the easiest places to find material prosperity, but one of the hardest places to find spiritual peace. I saw a documentary about former missionaries coming back to America and having a hard time readjusting to the needless hurrying and extreme focus on money.

Interesting insight

 

[daninthelionsden]

Sorry to hear this Dan. It must play on your mind a lot. I have a few sibling relationships that are strained and a cold war continues. It erodes the soul I would like to fully resolve. But maybe we need to let go. Allow God to worry about it.

I've read where it is almost emperative (ugh can't spell that right to save my life) to sever toxic relationships regardless the emotional cost. Our daughter was a treasure, but absolute greed led to absolutely horrific psychopathic behavior.

 

[WIP]

I've heard the US is one of the easiest places to find material prosperity, but one of the hardest places to find spiritual peace. I saw a documentary about former missionaries coming back to America and having a hard time readjusting to the needless hurrying and extreme focus on money.

I don't know if that's so true. There are a lot of people living around me that are not controlled by money. The Amish live a very simple lifestyle and have little use of money. They live off the land by the sweat of their brow and cooperative community work. They use no electricity and use no self-propelled machines like automobiles, farm machinery, and so forth. They have no modern technology like computers, telephones, entertainments systems, etc. To obtain what money they do need for things that they can't produce themselves or to pay taxes they sell some of their goods. It really comes down to what one considers priority and that's the basic premise behind their lifestyle. They believe modern technology and lifestyle is too distracting from their faith and focus on God.

 

[humble soul]

I don't know if that's so true. There are a lot of people living around me that are not controlled by money. The Amish live a very simple lifestyle and have little use of money. They live off the land by the sweat of their brow and cooperative community work. They use no electricity and use no self-propelled machines like automobiles, farm machinery, and so forth. They have no modern technology like computers, telephones, entertainments systems, etc. To obtain what money they do need for things that they can't produce themselves or to pay taxes they sell some of their goods. It really comes down to what one considers priority and that's the basic premise behind their lifestyle. They believe modern technology and lifestyle is to distracting from their faith and focus on God.

So the Amish are what percentage of the American population?

 

[WIP]

So the Amish are what percentage of the American population?

What does that matter? The point is, we don't have to be governed by our materialism, greed, etc.

 

[stovebolts]

I don't know if that's so true. There are a lot of people living around me that are not controlled by money. The Amish live a very simple lifestyle and have little use of money. They live off the land by the sweat of their brow and cooperative community work. They use no electricity and use no self-propelled machines like automobiles, farm machinery, and so forth. They have no modern technology like computers, telephones, entertainments systems, etc. To obtain what money they do need for things that they can't produce themselves or to pay taxes they sell some of their goods. It really comes down to what one considers priority and that's the basic premise behind their lifestyle. They believe modern technology and lifestyle is to distracting from their faith and focus on God.

I think those sects are dwindling... Most Amish are now embracing many modern amenities.

P.S. A man from our church and Bible study was raised Amish and he left that lifestyle 11 years ago with his wife and children. He is a very good man, but holds much disregard for the religion and legalism within the Amish community.

 

[WIP]

I think those sects are dwindling... Most Amish are now embracing many modern amenities.

P.S. A man from our church and Bible study was raised Amish and he left that lifestyle 11 years ago with his wife and children. He is a very good man, but holds much disregard for the religion and legalism within the Amish community.

There are some that leave the community and there are some that continue to embrace it. I only presented it as one example. One of my neighbors left, not because he wanted to experience our modern technological lifestyle but because he saw the error of their religious teaching. He left and attended seminary to become a pastor.

 

[jasonc]

i should post the stories of home started churches that are over 90 ,even 100.

st.Helens ,first covenent,the Lutheran church ,both,the homes of the later two still stand and a few others

 

[daninthelionsden]

i should post the stories of home started churches that are over 90 ,even 100.

st.Helens ,first covenent,the Lutheran church ,both,the homes of the later two still stand and a few others

I like photos of old churches, abandoned or not.

 

[jasonc]

I like photos of old churches, abandoned or not.

none are abandoned that I have photo graphed . the homes of the Lutheran church origin and the Swedish missionary church

https://jasoncran.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F633809691258093568

 

[jasonc]

built in 1940 addition added nine years later

the home on the right is gone but was near by and it is where my father in law grew up in .his sister has these photos ,she is 92,the kids are in front of then Sunday school,and that I have been two and that was the original church ,the family saw the photos and described it to the t as it was and also what it has ,I read its meters for years and sensed a story ,it is an old farm ,its barn still stands built for the arvid carlsward family whose son Arthur is in that photo and grandson I asked and lives near where i work .

https://jasoncran.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F640248394093412352

https://jasoncran.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F640248811189682176