ORIGINS of DISSENT, DISSENSION, DIVISIVENESS, DIVISION, BELLIGERENCE, CRIME and WAR

Like it or not, it seems increasingly evident to me that God [or “The Powers-That-Be,” if you prefer to call Him that] wants all the disparate racial, ethnic and religious factions in the world to AMALGAMATE.

I believe we BEGAN [or “emerged,” if you prefer] as ONE human entity, and then after The Fall [i.e. the beginning of envy, spite, malice, murder, vengeance, theft, rape, extortion and vandalism] began to split up more and more into divisive, brutally competitive, warring  factions.

I also believe in EVOLUTION, and after many tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds-of-thousands, of years the different "races" gradually took on the characteristics we see today in response to the exigencies of climate, topography and the availability of natural resources, etc.

At any rate, no matter what I believe –– or what YOU believe –– it's pretty obvious that circumstances beyond anyone's control have conspired to bring about CONFRONTATION much of it hostile, destructive –– even murderous.

NEVERTHELESS, the ultimate result is BOUND to be a UNITING of whomever is left breathing after the next worldwide conflagration.

Humanity will then have a chance to start all over again.

I imagine this vicious cycle has already been repeated many hundreds-if-not-thousands of times already in the aeons we've existed on this planet.

No. Mine is not a "biblical" view in any strict sense, but I think it's quite realistic.

After all human life existed for untold thousands of years before the Bible ever came into being.

The flowering and demise of the Hellenic Civilization alone should teach all thinking people that the Creation Fable as given in Genesis and Exodus, etc. no more tells the whole story than any of myriad other mythologies. It is but a few stones in the gigantic mosaic that is The Ultimate Truth of Being.

ALL of us –– not just Islamaniacs –– need to be more modest about our beliefs and more curious to understand, and eager to learn more about Reality.

When the Arrogance and Adamancy of the Abrahamic faiths –– the parent of which is JUDAISM –– are finally replaced with Modesty, Humility, Curiosity and more gracious, accommodating Spirit, we might start at last to bring in The Millennium.

As long as Pride, Self-Righteousness, Exclusivism and the militant ambition to DOMINATE and CONTROL prevail, our species will continue to live in man made Hell on Earth.

~ FreeThinke

Cordial, congenial, fully engaged with others

Confidence or Arrogance? You tell me.

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BONUSTOON from Lucianne.com 

NEWS FORUM HOMEPAGE

The Old College Try

by Noemie Emery - (truncated and emended by FT)

Washington Examiner

 March 26, 2019

No, the Electoral College is not a Right Wing plot. Yes, it is needed.

Without it, the recount in the 2000 election could have gone on forever. 

Without it, we could never have founded the union, since the small states would never have accepted the loss of their power. 

Without it, candidates could win by running up numbers among their backers, whereas now it takes a diverse coalition of disparate elements.

This isn’t to say that we haven’t seen oddities, such as the 2016 election where never before had the gap between the electoral vote and the popular vote been so notably wide, –– or caused entirely by just ONE state.

The claim of the Left, from Nov. 9, 2018  onward, has been that the Electoral College defied the will of the nation by giving the White House to Donald Trump.

THIS, however  is NOT TRUE.

The will of the people in 30 of the 50 states combined elected Donald Trump by a POPULAR VOTE margin of 

approximately ONE-and-a-HALF-MILLION.

President Trump won 2,626 counties, 
Hillary Clinton won only 487.

California, the biggest and most populous state in the union –– and a very queer political and cultural outlier by any standard, –– voted for Hillary TWO-to-ONE—, thus effetively giving her the national popular vote.

It was as if there were two different elections in 2016. Clinton became the first woman president of Tinseltown by the popular landslide she had always desired. … The REST of the country REJECTED her handily.

Thank God for the Electoral College! It calms the fears our Founding Fathers had that a bizarre outlier state like California today could distort the entire electoral process.

That isn’t the college’s only purpose, either. … Think what might happen, for instance, if a crisis came in small increments, so that factory after factory closed, and a large area became so impoverished a whole way of life disappeared? 

Damage exactly like that has been concentrated in the manufacturing towns of the Midwest, –– places where people had traditionally voted Democrat since FDR created the New Deal in the 1930s.

oday, however, that long-neglected group now wisely pins its hopes on Donald Trump.

Donsld Trump was the first one in decades who understood, then voiced their concerns, promising much needed help. …

Trump won with the help of the Electoral College, which functioned exactly as the Founding Fathers intended. It very properly rewarded the party that spread its votes over a wide range of precincts, instead of the party that dominated in just one area.

The Rich and snobbish Eastern Cultural Elites weren’t permitted to ignore the less fortunate in 2016, precisely because the wisdom and foresight of the Founders gave us the Electoral College.

For once Fantasy Land was forced to confront the pain of the Rust Belt thanks to Donald J. Trump. The Founding Fathers would be glad for that, –– and so should we.

COULD THIS POSSIBLY BE ALL 

THERE IS TO IT?

And the Stale, Fetid Air Between His 

Cold, Split Buns Isn't Even Hot!

OUR BLOGGING COLLEAGUE, LISA, OF WHO'S YOUR DADDY? MAY RUN AN UNRULY BLOG DOMINATED BY TRASH-TALKING LEFTIST TROLLS AND THOSE WHO LOVE TO RESPOND TO THEM IN KIND, BUT WE KNOW LISA TO BE A LOVING, RIGHT-THINKING PERSON WHO SIMPLY BELIEVES IN FREEDOM WHEREVER IT MIGHT LEAD. WE APPLAUD HER AS A FELLOW ANIMAL LOVER, GOOD FRIEND, AND ALLY IN THE FIGHT AGAINST ENCROACHING LEFTIST TYRANNY.

______ TO LISA’S TUCKER ______

Truly you’re a friend, you shaggy dear ––

Open-hearted, sweet, sincere and eager ––

Loving without guile and without fear

I see your kind affection can’t be meager.

Simple, unsuspicious, generous ––

A blessing to your family and your friends ––

’Tis good your adoration isn’t venerous

Such would be the beastliest of trends!

To argument you’re thankfully immune ––

Uninfluenced by partisan constraints. 

Canine friend, you don’t bay at the moon ––

Kowtow to adversaries’ fierce complaints,

Ever faithful friend and staunch ally, 

Rest assured I’ll love you till I die.

~ FreeThinke

AND NOW THE BELOVED AMERICAN BARITONE NELSON EDDY SINGS OLD DOG TRAY  
A CLASSIC TRIBUTE 
TO MAN'S BEST FRIEND

THIS NEEDS NO WORDS 

FROM ME

A Home Truth Worth Pondering

The heart asks pleasure first

and then excuse from pain

And then those little anodynes

that deaden suffering.

And then to go to sleep 

and then if it should be

The Will of its Inquisitor 

the liberty to die.

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

Christina's World - Andrew Wyeth (1948)

Eighteen-Hundred-Year-Old Roman Penis Carvings Discovered 

1,800 year-old Phallic Grffiti Found near Hadrian’s Wall. Some Things Never Change

by J.D. Simkins

This phallic graffiti from 207 A.D. was discovered at a quarry near Hadrian's Wall by archaeologists from the University of Newcastle. (University of Newcastle)

They appear in the sky when least expected, grandiose artistry undertaken by daring pilots willing to risk it all. They grace thousands of pages of green notepads, contemporary hieroglyphics detailing the zone-out timeline during an infantryman’s mandatory PowerPoint lecture. Decorations of them shroud Porta-John walls around the globe with more vigor than a Clark Griswold Christmastime display.

They are penis etchings, the longstanding pride of the United States military.

Militarized affinity for phallic scribbling, however, dates back long before the first illustrations were ever fashioned by disinterested American service members — so long, in fact, that European expansion to North America was not yet even an idea.

That was the revelation this week when archaeologists from Newcastle University and Historic England uncovered portions of graffiti, carved by Roman soldiers in 207 A.D., in a quarry near a section of Hadrian’s Wall in Cumbria, England.

Among the scrupulously carved Roman compositions was a distinctly identifiable phallus, which researchers from Newcastle University say served as a sign of good fortune during the period.

Hear that, squadron commanders? All those sky variations were just colossal tidings of “good luck.”

A number of other engravings, meanwhile, including a caricature of a commanding officer, provided insight for researchers into exactly when the apathetic Roman doodles were forged.

“These inscriptions at Gelt Forest are probably the most important on the Hadrian’s Wall frontier,” Mike Collins, Hadrian’s Wall ancient monuments inspector for Historic England, said in a press release. “They provide insight into the organisation of the vast construction project that Hadrian’s Wall was, as well as some very human and personal touches. Hadrian’s Wall, designed to “separate the barbarians from the Romans,” according to a biography of the emperor written 200 years after the wall’s 122 A.D. construction, was undergoing extensive renovations during the time the newly-discovered carvings were fashioned.

In those days, Roman soldiers were shuttling stone from the quarry to reinforce portions of the 73-mile-long fortification that stretched all the way across northern England, from sea to sea.

Inevitably, boredom ensued, a result of working parties even 1,800 years ago.

Now, the lasting result of that stone-moving monotony — a penile legacy — stands steadfast for all to see.

And it’s not the only one; a number of other phallic symbols invoking Fortuna’s charms can be found scattered among sections of the defense.

Oh, Fortuna, blind, heedless goddess, I am strapped to your wheel. Do not crush me beneath your spokes. Raise me on high, divinity.

Phallic symbols adorn sections of Hadrian's Wall, 
which began construction in 122 A.D.

With erosion playing an increasingly complex role in visual interpretation, archaeologists plan to use laser scanning to record detailed images of the area, Historic England confirmed.

These captured, laser-generated photos will then be fed into software capable of creating a three-dimensional digital model of the entire rock surface, allowing for extensive study for years to come of the fascinating inscriptions discovered — like another membrum virile.

RAPE

A

P

E

What is it?

How would 

YOU 

define 

it?

A FEW QUESTIONS FOR PHILSOPHICAL DISCUSSION:

1. Are you OPEN MINDED, 

or merely INDECiSIVE?

2. Are you BIGOTTED, or do you 

just have FIRM CONVICTIONS?

3. Are you a RELIGIOUS FANATIC, or do you 

simply have an HONEST BELIEF in a 

loving, all-powerful GOD?

4. Are you a MERCY FREAK and a GRIEVANCE JUNKIE, or do you simply have a KIND HEART 

and a GENEROUS DISPOSITION?

5. Are you a GLUTTON, or 

are you a GOURMET?

6. Are you a SEX ADDICT, or do you just 

have an AMOROUS DISPOSITION?

7. Are you a GREEDY CAPITALIST PIG, or 

just a PROSPEROUS MIDDLE-CLASS 

PROPERTY OWNER who 

loves living well?

8. Is the THOUGHT fATHER to the DEED, 

or is it the other Way ‘round?

9. Are you a “WORKAHOLIC,: or do you 

have an honest DRIVE to EXCEL?

10. Are you a RACIST, or only a REALIST?

I believe it all depends on your individual circumstances and personal point 

of view, or doesn't it?