CYOA

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.

Hope

I just watched an episode of 19 Kids and Counting. The Duggars are a faith-ful family that give me hope for America's future. If we could all recapture greater morality and big-family mentality, America could have a new generation of reeducated, wise, and good people to take back our government (peacefully, of course).

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.