The great thing about life is that one can choose one's own adventure. As a person makes choices, he/she cannot choose the consequences of those choices, but the adventure is theirs. One reason why I like liberty and freedom so much, is because more good can come of it. Moral people can make more moral choices with more liberty in their lives. I guess the argument/downside is that immoral people can do more evil with more liberty. That is a risk. Right now, much of our lives are ultra-regulated. Because of this, moral people don't have as much money or latitude to do good but have to do what others think is moral. So, as a for-instance, a moral person may want to give more money to charities. With the taxes as they are, the government takes and gives to those who it thinks should have it. The moral person doesn't have enough money to give more. Thus is the problem of high taxes and high regulations. Right now we have a choice.
If you want to Mexico, go to page 37.
If you want to have others telling you what to do all the time, vote for a statist.
If you want to have more liberty to make your own moral choices, vote for liberty.
Choose Your Own Adventure.
I hope my posts make sense. I usually write them around 7 in the morning and don't proofread much.
Showing posts with label liberty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label liberty. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Monday, February 27, 2012
It's official
It's confirmed, whether by foreign hackers and bots or not, my blog is now international! If I had some rysgrynsgröt right now, I'd celebrate. Here are the countries of this blog's pageviews:
I hope that those international pageviews are real people and not bots just crawling the web. I guess we'll see. Liberty is a wonderful idea and a beautiful implementation. So much good comes from liberty, and I wish all peoples of the earth would decide to live in liberty. The policy I don't agree with is forcing our way of living on other people. We should persuade, but not force. That may be what we've been trying to do in the Middle East. Forcing other governments to democratic or "more free." I don't think that is a thing that can be forced. The people must be educated and ready for liberty.
Anyway, if any of you international viewers are real, shoot me a line in the comments (I'd appreciate you chiming in on this discussion).
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I hope that those international pageviews are real people and not bots just crawling the web. I guess we'll see. Liberty is a wonderful idea and a beautiful implementation. So much good comes from liberty, and I wish all peoples of the earth would decide to live in liberty. The policy I don't agree with is forcing our way of living on other people. We should persuade, but not force. That may be what we've been trying to do in the Middle East. Forcing other governments to democratic or "more free." I don't think that is a thing that can be forced. The people must be educated and ready for liberty.
Anyway, if any of you international viewers are real, shoot me a line in the comments (I'd appreciate you chiming in on this discussion).
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Interesting scripture
For those of you of other faiths, you may have heard of the Book of Mormon. Well, I read from that book of scripture every morning. I read from it because I know through the Spirit of God that it is true and the words of that book and the Spirit of God renew me daily.
There are many interesting scriptures in that book. Here is one relating to liberty:
Alma 8:16-17
16 And behold, I am sent to command thee that thou return to the city of Ammonihah, and preach again unto the people of the city; yea, preach unto them. Yea, say unto them, except they repent the Lord God will destroy them.
17 For behold, they do study at this time that they may destroy the liberty of thy people, (for thus saith the Lord) which is contrary to the statutes, and judgments, and commandments which he has given unto his people.
The people were studying to "destroy the liberty of [the] people." That was their sin. Wow.
Something to think about.
I know it's late, but I've been delinquent for a day or two and I couldn't go to bed with this scripture twirling around my head.
There are many interesting scriptures in that book. Here is one relating to liberty:
Alma 8:16-17
16 And behold, I am sent to command thee that thou return to the city of Ammonihah, and preach again unto the people of the city; yea, preach unto them. Yea, say unto them, except they repent the Lord God will destroy them.
17 For behold, they do study at this time that they may destroy the liberty of thy people, (for thus saith the Lord) which is contrary to the statutes, and judgments, and commandments which he has given unto his people.
The people were studying to "destroy the liberty of [the] people." That was their sin. Wow.
Something to think about.
I know it's late, but I've been delinquent for a day or two and I couldn't go to bed with this scripture twirling around my head.
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Morality & education
This post does not come from "objective" history, but from my own understanding and view of our history.
You know what our Founding Fathers had that we don't have? A majority of people that were more moral and more educated. I'm not claiming that all modern Americans are immoral; there are many people that are moral. I'm just saying that their level of morality was a bit higher. For example, they honored the Sabbath of the Lord (and I'm not just referring to the sporting event that occurred a few days ago). They also took sacred oaths more seriously. They also were more willing to take care of themselves (They didn't expect the Feds to send out agents to help them if their Montana homestead was struggling).
In terms of education, they read a lot more than we do (and read more sophisticated books). We watch a lot of things and think we've been educated--one of my friends said that in the communications world, much of what we see on TV is "infotainment" (we think we know something; it's entertaining to think one has learned something). The people back then actually read the Federalist Papers and Anti-federalist Papers and actually had debates about ideas.
Instead of just voting and hoping that our candidate become president, we should educate ourselves and others about liberty and be involved in our precincts. Liberty does not take a bunch of people voting every 2 to 4 years for it to be maintained. It takes constant vigilance.
I sure hope I haven't alienated all my friends with this "fiery" blog.
You know what our Founding Fathers had that we don't have? A majority of people that were more moral and more educated. I'm not claiming that all modern Americans are immoral; there are many people that are moral. I'm just saying that their level of morality was a bit higher. For example, they honored the Sabbath of the Lord (and I'm not just referring to the sporting event that occurred a few days ago). They also took sacred oaths more seriously. They also were more willing to take care of themselves (They didn't expect the Feds to send out agents to help them if their Montana homestead was struggling).
In terms of education, they read a lot more than we do (and read more sophisticated books). We watch a lot of things and think we've been educated--one of my friends said that in the communications world, much of what we see on TV is "infotainment" (we think we know something; it's entertaining to think one has learned something). The people back then actually read the Federalist Papers and Anti-federalist Papers and actually had debates about ideas.
Instead of just voting and hoping that our candidate become president, we should educate ourselves and others about liberty and be involved in our precincts. Liberty does not take a bunch of people voting every 2 to 4 years for it to be maintained. It takes constant vigilance.
I sure hope I haven't alienated all my friends with this "fiery" blog.
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