Increasing the Volume: PSA

This is a public service announcement (with guitars)

1. You have the right not to be killed. Murder is a crime, unless it is done by a policeman, or an aristocrat.

2. You have the right to food money, providing of course, you don't mind a little investigation, humiliation, and, if you cross your fingers, rehabilitation.

3. The right to free speech (as long as you're not dumb enough to actually try it)

Know your rights
These are your rights
All three of 'em

Note, it has been suggested
In some quarters
that this is not enough!
Well..............................

Get off the streets
Get off the streets
Run
You don't have a home to go to?
Tough

Finally then I will read you your rights

You have the right to remain silent
You are warned that anything you say
Can and will be taken down
And used as evidence against you

Listen to this...

Run

Every morning I down load the main frame, and then log off after finishing the required paper work.

FFF

Faith, family, friends, in that order, everything else is just filler. Be good to yourselves, but more importantly, be good to each other.

1 Corinthians 11:24

....this is my body, which is (in this case, literally) broken for you.

Increasing the Volume: 011313

Often misunderstood, Devo was in fact a band that had quite a bit to say about the nature of people in their lyrics.

Here's just a couple of examples, both songs by the way are fantastic musically, as is with most of Devo's music.

Look around, you'll find that you're listening to Mark Mothersbaugh (singer/sing writer of Devo) a lot more than you may realize.

Enjoy or don't, whatev...
d(-_-)b

Devo: Freedom of Choice

a victim of collision on the open sea nobody ever said that life was free sank, swam, go down with the ship but use your freedom of choice

I'll say it again in the land of the free use your freedom of choice your freedom of choice

In ancient Rome there was a poem about a dog who found two bones he picked at one he licked the other he went in circles he dropped dead

freedom of choice is what you got freedom of choice!

then if you got it you don't want it seems to be the rule of thumb don't be tricked by what you see you got two ways to go

I'll say it again in the land of the free use your freedom of choice freedom of choice

freedom of choice is what you got freedom of choice!

In ancient Rome there was a poem about a dog who found two bones he picked at one he licked the other he went in circles he dropped dead

freedom of choice is what you got freedom from choice is what you want

freedom of choice is what you got freedom from choice is what you want

Devo: Enough Said

none of you would help me when i baked my bread now all of you would help me eat it i can see that you are very well fed this indicates that you don't need it

enough said enough said stop and let me tell you what tomorrow holds for you stop and let me tell you 'bout a plan i have for you

take all the leaders from around the world put them together in a great big ring televise it as the lowest show on earth and let them fight like hell to see who's king

gather up the pieces when the fight is done then you'll find out living really can be fun

the next thing i say to you will be true the last thing i said was false remember to do nothing when you don't know what to do

you wanted a world you could figure out but something happened while you were asleep you wanted a good life you could brag about too bad they took the parts you wanted to keep

enough said enough said stop and let me tell you what tomorrow holds for you stop and let me tell you 'bout a plan i have for you

take all the leaders from around the world put them together in a great big ring televise it as the lowest show on earth and let them fight like hell to see who's king

gather up the pieces when the fight is done then you'll find out living really can be fun

enough said

SpoCo

Remember, every day that you don't wind up spontaneously combusting...silently and helplessly smouldering to death, well that's a day that really could have been a lot worse...

...just a little perspective.

A Conservative Approach

It is important not to forget, but...as long as you remember to spin the chamber each time, before putting the gun in your mouth and pulling the trigger, simply loading a bullet, or even two, and pulling the trigger does NOT automatically mean that you're going to get shot...even if you do there's a chance that you still might not die.

Drill, spill & kill for the till...if money doesn't ease your conscience...that's why we make these pills.

Second Amendment Violation

A well armed militia army is posed to violate the second amendment rights of this bear.

Fire Arms

I support your right to have fire arms, I just don't understand why you want them.

Some say Blogger

I say Blumberjack!

We are the Chumpions

Certainly that which doesn't kill us may in deed make us stronger in certain ways.

That is one option...

Another very real option however, is that which does not kill us might, in the end, just leave us really fucked up, and wishing it had just finished job.

Nothing takes the past away like the future.

The Passed

I never used to think about the past so much, but then again I never used to have so much past to think about either.

Your time is now

Time is the one resource we are afforded in very finite and unknown quantity, and yet we treat it as though we knew ours was infinite.

If time were truly money, would we spend it the same way?

Every moment is a gift from God

It is often a need to be absent that brings to light the need to be present.

The Ugly

It's not about the good and bad it's about the why and how.

X

Moderation in all things is simply the extremism of one thing.

All things in moderation is the means to mediocrity.

Unless you are content with mediocrity in all things, you must be extreme in at least some of them.

Piece Out

Some are afraid of dying, some of living. Some fear both, and some neither. Some have their certainties, and some their doubts. But we all have our reasons...

We did not get the choice to live and so we will have no choice but to die, but we have many choices in between that will greatly affect how, and why we do either.

Preach It

Love Hurts (Nazareth)
You telling me? (Jesus of Nazareth)

I say goodbye

A tidal wave is the ocean's way of saying goodbye and a title wave is a repo man's way of saying goodbye.

1 out of 2

One of two things needs to happen:

A) Amendment 2.1 The Culture of Fear Act

or

B) A well regulated citizen's militia army needs to be established.

Because that's the only reason that the right of gun ownership is established under.

QuestionAble

All of us it seems, in spite of our own perceived differences, for some reason or another, at some point or another will ask ourselves questions, common questions, which may be very difficult and yet very important.

We may be unwillingly compelled, we may simply be curious, or we may seek to fill some void within ourselves.

Whatever the case, generally speaking it seems that somehow we instinctively know that in seeking these answers we might then know our origin and thus our destination. Consequently then we might too find purpose, clarity and ultimately peace for our lives.

In my experience, if these questions could be categorized by their answers, there are really only three kinds:

1) Those questions for whom a simple provision the answer is sufficient for us.

2) Those questions for whom no answer will ever be sufficient for us.

3) Those questions whose answers will not be sufficiently understood or applied, without our own experience and/or discovery of them. Answers that require patience and test our desire. We must work and wait.

For the last category it seems that merely handing us those sorts of answers is a disservice to the inquirer, as we tend to discredit certain things by virtue of our vanity, and the certainty that our own experiences have afforded us a sufficient perspective for understanding those things we have not experienced.

Although collectively we may ask the very same questions for which there are the very same answers, I believe it is the nature of our inquiry and the condition of our hearts that will determine which category our questions will fall into.

Just thinking...
db

2 Questions for You

Hear me out. I'm not judging, but I am asking a couple of serious questions here.

I'm not against gun ownership although I don't think I'll ever own one because of my own moral conflicts, but that's my issue and not yours.

It seems to me, according my understanding, that there are really very few arguments that a Christian can make for gun ownership without a certain compromise of faith.

That said the arguments that could be made outside of a religious context are actually very strong very strong in deed. (Which is part of my inner conflict in this.) I just rarely hear the strongest of them being used.

I don't know anyone that has to hunt for food. (actually I do know one family). Many may choose to but they don't have to. That's probably particular to my geographic region though.

So the next best argument it seems is also the one people use in the worst possible way. The Second Amendment.

Why is it that gun owners never, at least to my recollection never, site the Second Amendment verbatim when using it as their defense for owning a gun? They simply say "the second amendment" like they've never read it or even understand it. They then go on to say all sorts of reasons that aren't at all covered under the second amendment, basically it's insurance in a fear based culture. What if this, what if that.

It's actually pretty short, and simple. It wouldn't be all that hard to memorize.

They could simply say that they're preparing to be part of a citizen's militia army to defend the state should such a time come and the second amendment states they should do so, which why they have this freedom in the first place. Who could argue that?

But they don't say that.
I don't know why, so I won't speculate.

So here are my two questions:

1) From the American pov. If you read this and advocate gun ownership as an American right (which it is) maybe you could help me out here. Why not use the verbiage of the second amendment as part of the defense? Seems like a solid argument.

2) From the religious pov. If there is a case to be made from a Christian stance about gun (weapons of defense) ownership I'd like to hear that too.
Doesn't matter which side of the issue to me, just one side or the other. What does your conviction of faith say?
(Please don't try to tie in patriotism with faith it's really too inconsistent. Strictly faith based please.)

People read this stuff and never comment, but it doesn't hurt to ask I suppose.

I'm not trying to argue with anyone, just asking.

db

Consistent C***

"I'm simply preparing to take part in a 

"well regulated militia, to the security of a free state." " 

Boy if I had a nickel for every time someone used that to tell me why they have a gun and why I should too, well then I still wouldn't have a nickel to my name.