Long ago when I was a subteen I think, or barely in my teens,
I was sorting out right from wrong. It was obvious that the
child is alive from the git go, but what if it is a rape child?
The thought occurred to me that the child wasn't to blame
for his father's behavior. And something reminded me of a
line in The Bible, that I don't remember having read at that
time, that no one should be put to death for the sins of their
parents or children, but each should die for his own sin.
I guess The Holy Spirit or an angel was prompting me.
(I recall feeling like something white and humanlike stood
nearby me, when I was sorting out about sex and whether
l should side with love as the only legitimate thing, or figure
promiscuity and sex as an end in itself was okay, and
if I took the latter choice I could exploit the exploiters, and
it almost said to me, "Even if the whole world is unclean,
that doesn't mean you have to be.")
At that time I wasn't a dyed in the wool Christian exactly,
and was about to embark on my "rational atheist" phase
that segued into demon conjuration and witchcraft sturdy,
Thank God it didn't work well, but I got scared one day,
and started turning to Christ, Who I had met in a near
death situation at 3 and never really forgot, by the time I
was in my 20s. I was baptized in a swimming poot at 27,
but started sliding back to occultism in the form of Tarot
and pendulum, but finally rejected it all. I was rebaptized
and chrismated into Christ and Orthodoxy Apr. 15,
AD 2008.
So by 13, I had rejected unchastity on the part of EITHER
sex, men who slept around were damaged goods and
no good tramps as much as women who did so, and
rejected abortion. homosexual acts were a non starter. So
was the sex role separatism thing. I was a tomboy as far as
my health allowed, and was attracted to legends of woman
warriors.
Anyway, that is how my values developed. (I am uncertain
about euthanasia, because if we are better than animals,
and humane euthanasia is kind to animals we should be
even kinder to humans, an analysis I made at 13. Which
shows that a position that denies equality of animals to
humans, does not rule out anything that people who oppose
animal rights says it does.
But I am dead against legalizing assisted suicide, it should
always be a legally difficult and dicey thing, in order to
prevent exploitation by overly eager heirs and others
who find someone's life inconvenient, not to mention
depression gone suicidal patients need to be protected
against themselves.
The whole problem began on the battlefield,and should
have stayed there. Suicide or killing someone to keep
them from a fate worse than death has always struck
me as legitimate, and one or two early Christians took this
approach to avoid being raped or sold into prostitution,
or given by her husband to Nero for sex. No negative
comment attached to the story. Supposedly some at
Dunkirk, who were too wounded to evacuate, were quietly
drowned by some to save them from torture if taken alive.
Some things are complicated. But like I said, the
problem began in extreme, usually battlefield situations,
and should have stayed there, instead of ending up in
state legislatures.)
I signed the petitions against Glenn Beck and Dobbs.
I used to be a John Birchy kind of Reaganite. But I
couldn't accept the moral relativism that his regime and
the whole counter insurgency thing was soaked in. Once
the Iron Curtain fell, I dumped the necessary evil of anti
communism.
Meanwhile, I had increasingly found that the real conspiracy
wasn't communist, it was nazi connected capitalist. the
satanic involvement played on both sides of the political
spectrum, and all classes, and hid out in Christian
contexts as well, especially the politicized ones. Pride
and greed and lust and power are the lures. Which is why
the supposedly holy and Orthodox Serbs in the Balkans
are always making trouble. Yeah, I'm Orthodox but I am
against Serbian pretensions and aggressions, which
have also been criticized by some Orthodox incl. a few
clergy who weren't as blind as most slavic at least
Orthodox are on the subject.
Obviously, this isn't going to be your usual liberal or
conservative blog. Stay tuned.
And start studying what Alex Constantine, Dave Emory,
and Michael Ruppert have to say.
Ruppert of course has his problems too. Like trying to
end the war on drugs. That it is being hypocritically
conducted is irrelevant. It could be done better. Ruppert
noticed or maybe it was Emory, that in Nixon's time the
drug thing was twofold. Cure the users and stop the traffick.
In Reagan's time, given the need of the CIA and others for
the drug money, many treatment centers were closed
by lack of government funding, while the effort to stop the
drug flow was increased. This meant that any that got
through - and a lot would - would still have plenty of users,
to supply money that would line the pockets of money
laundering banks, incl. Chase Manhattan and others, and
organizations like the CIA and allies. The Taliban were
most likely attacked originally, because they just about
eliminated the opium crop. Once they went down, the
remaining elements of them fell into step with poppy growing
to finance their own troops.
Before someone argues that homosexual acts have been
observed among animals, therefore must be "natural,"
may I point out that some animals have been observed to
kill and eat their own young, or those of others of their own
species, and some ungulates will not suckle any calf but
their own. Does that mean that abortion clinics should run
restaurants on the side and add larger children to that,
or that we should cancel all foster, adoption and so forth
efforts?
