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Isolation with Indulgence

By BBennettJ • May 18th, 2008 • Category: Articles

Isolation with Indulgence
Our modern prison system
 When it comes to the point that you have to lock up your fellow man to protect yourself from him - and to protect him from you - and all the most well equipped standard bearers standing armed in the public square are mercenaries - and your prophets and priests [...]



The North Central Iowa Thinkers Society

By BBennettJ • May 18th, 2008 • Category: Articles

The North Central Iowa Thinkers Society

I belong to he North Central Iowa Thinkers Society (NCITS) - however, I am presently the only member. I believe that there are others about who are thinking - but as of this writing they have not been asked to join - nor have they inquired about membership. [...]



When the Lights Go Out

By BBennettJ • May 14th, 2008 • Category: Observations

When the Lights Go Out

It is beginning to look like we are in a nuthouse - that is being run by the inmates - the psycho ward. We call it accepting diversity.

The problem with doublespeak - or could we say ’speaking with a forked tongue’; is not that we tend to accept atrocities [...]



WAR

By BBennettJ • May 13th, 2008 • Category: Poems

WAR
 
Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
 
War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the [...]



Lift up the voice of Lamentation

By BBennettJ • May 12th, 2008 • Category: Poems

Lift up the voice of Lamentation
(Call to America)

Lift up the voice of lamentation
For destruction and the whirlwind are upon us
We were as children playing before the storm
Famine, sword, pestilence
We did not heed the call or warning
And they are come upon us unawares

For we were all as in the days of
Prosperity and merriment and festival
We played [...]



Call to America

By BBennettJ • May 12th, 2008 • Category: Poems

Call to America
 
In that final desperate hour
When we stand or die
Will the beautiful land
Be filled with praise?
Or harsh despair and doubt?
 
So;…brothers,…for we all shall share
The trauma of emergency -
The famines stalking shadow;
The meagerness and want -
And fear for what is coming
 
Or clasp hands and set ourselves against
The darkness of the night
And loathe to tread
Yet steadfast [...]



Walking where you know the Reed

By BBennettJ • May 4th, 2008 • Category: Lead Story

Walking where you know the Reed
 
It is possible to walk through life and not see the trees for the forest - to sort of amble about with no particular focus - failing to absorb what is happening around you. Those who have experienced extreme isolation often report that it changed their priorities - it [...]



Isolation

By BBennettJ • May 3rd, 2008 • Category: Lead Story

Isolation

“At daybreak Jesus went out to a solitary place.” - Luke the Physician

Sooner or later we all experience isolation in some form or another - but how many of us seek it? In our present culture, isolation has a somewhat negative connotation - that is, we would most likely associate isolation with unpleasant, [...]



Teach Your Heritage

By BBennettJ • Apr 30th, 2008 • Category: Lead Story

Teach Your Heritage

The Word
Academic skills
Manners
Social graces, self-control, discipline
Industriousness
Vocations
Moral Character & Virtues

2TI.3:14,15 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation [...]



Pathological Sexuality

By BBennettJ • Apr 25th, 2008 • Category: Poems

Pathological Sexuality

Pathological sexuality
Really?
We live in the era
Of fallout - ever heard
of it?
Just wait until we
have to walk in it
Unprotected
And undesired.