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Inspirational/Spiritual, Politics

“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, …

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 Obama-Lies-SCand eventually ‘they’ will believe it.” ~Adolf Hitler

“… the magnitude of a lie always contains a certain factor of credibility, since the great masses of the people in the very bottom of their hearts tend to be corrupted rather than consciously and purposely evil, and that, therefore, in view of the primitive simplicity of their minds, they more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a little one, since they themselves lie in little things, but would be ashamed of lies that were too big. Such a falsehood will never enter their heads, and they will not be able to believe in the possibility of such monstrous effrontery and infamous misrepresentation in others.…” (page 231 of the Manheim translation)” ~of Mein Kampf

Lies – the basis of propaganda….

The Hitler regime and Obama regime use the theory and practice of the ‘lie’ well…and the low-information masses follow, don’t question and believe…

Politics

We are no longer ‘a nation of laws’…

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We are a “nation of agendas!”
Politicians now casually abuse their power by shamelessly using police to
terrorize detractors and others who don’t support them politically. The “law,”
particularly the Constitution, is thus virtually irrelevant in some
jurisdictions!

Modern politicians don’t believe there is, nor should there be, any limit
on their arbitrary power to impose personal agendas on a hapless population,a population made of miserable, powerless citizens, who have no rights,and who need to think of themselves as existing only to serve the “Party Elite.”

For those few of us remaining who don’t drink that Koolaid, here is some  sage advice:

1) Owning guns, in any jurisdiction, now needs to be looked upon as having a terrible, personal secret. Gunowners are thus well advised not to talk about, nor photograph, guns they may own, particularly on Facebook and othersocial media. Knowledge of your guns must be strictly on a “need-to-know” bases. All family members need to adhere. Remember this adage:

“Security discussed is security compromised!”

2) Guns that don’t need to be in a high state of readiness need to be
continuously locked in gunsafe(s). Gunsafe(s) need to be hidden, never in
plain sight. Contents of your gunsafe(s) should never be discussed. Lists
need to be kept locked under a password. Don’t show anyone the contents of your safe, and don’t open it in front of anyone unless they have a valid
search warrant, and your lawyer is personally present.

3) When asked by officials about guns you may own or have access to, decline to answer and demand that your lawyer be personally present before any additional questions are asked.

4) When officials come to your home, for any reason, do not invite them  in. When they have a search warrant, they won’t ask! Conversation, brief as it may be, can take place at the door. When threatened, don’t hesitate todemand to talk with their supervisor and that he personally come to the
scene. When that indicate that you are a suspect in a crime, immediately stop all conversation and demand that your lawyer be personally present before any further questions are asked.

Don’t go anywhere with police unless you’re under arrest! When they ask you to come with them, ask them if you are under arrest. When they indicate you are not, decline to go. When in a public place, ask police if you’re“free to go.” When they indicate you are, stop all conversation,
disengage and separate immediately.

5) Most people don’t need a lawyer on continuous retainer, but do get to know a lawyer in your community whom you can call upon when something like the foregoing happens to you.

6) Know how to politely, but firmly, invoke your rights. Never allow yourself to be bullied, deceived, nor intimidated. Your rights are there to protect you. Never casually give them up!

I’m not advocating non-cooperation, just “smart” cooperation! Vicious  anti-gun agendas are at present, secretly and openly, being enforced in many jurisdictions.

Politicians currently in power, in NJ, CO, NY, and many other places, arrogantly believe that the only problem with this Country is that citizens have too much personal freedom. Less freedom is thus their constant goal. So, they want to take our personal treasure, take our guns, take our religious rights, and take our personal dignity. The only kind of citizens they want are poor, miserable, fearful, mindlessly obedient, and wretched. Those are the ones they can control!

EXPLOSIONS, Politics

“We the people are the rightful masters…

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of both Congress and the Courts, not to overthrow the Constitution – but to overthrow the men who would pervert the Constitution.” Abraham Lincoln

“In the first place, it is to be remembered, that the general government is not to be charged with the whole power of making and administering laws. Its jurisdiction is limited to certain enumerated objects, which concern all the members of the republic, but which are not to be attained by the separate provisions of any.” –James Madison, Federalist Paper XIV, 1787

“Hence as a private man has a right to say what wages he will give in his private affairs, so has a Community to determine what they will give and grant of their substance for the Administration of public affairs.” –Samuel Adams, A State of the Rights of the Colonists, 1772

“Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.”

“Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man”.

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.”

“How do you tell a communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.”

“It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.”

“We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.”

“We in government should learn to look at our country with the eyes of the entrepreneur, seeing possibilities where others see only problems.”

“The work of volunteer groups throughout our country represents the very heart and soul of America. They have helped make this the most compassionate, generous, and humane society that ever existed on the face of this earth.”

“The government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.”

“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.'” Ronald Reagan

Obama thinks government control and intervention is the answer to everything.
 
Obama ignores the
Constitution and behaves as if he were King…

Obama left our men to die in Benghazi…

Obama lies, spins, blames and lies again. 

Obama cover-ups…

Obama is a traitor to every American and to everything American.

“I have been to 57 states. I think I have one more to go.” Barrack Obama
This puppet man, Obama, running for President didn’t even know how many states are in America.

Actual quote from “Dreams from My Father” [pg. xv]: “When people who don’t know me well, black or white, discover my background (and it is usually a discovery, for I ceased to advertise my mother’s race at the age of twelve or thirteen, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites), I see the split-second adjustments they have to make, the searching of my eyes for some telltale sign. They no longer know who I am. Privately, they guess at my troubled heart, I suppose – the mixed blood, the divided soul, the ghostly image of the tragic mulatto trapped between two worlds. And if I were to explain that no, the tragedy is not mine, or at least not mine alone, it is yours, sons and daughters of Plymouth Rock and Ellis Island, it is yours, children of Africa, it is the tragedy of both my wife’s six-year-old cousin and his white first grade classmates, so that you need not guess at what troubles me, it’s on the nightly news for all to see, and that if we could acknowledge at least that much then the tragic cycle begins to break down…well, I suspect that I sound incurably naive, wedded to lost hopes, like those Communists who peddle their newspapers on the fringes of various college towns. Or worse, I sound like I’m trying to hide from myself.?”

Obama is clearly a mixed-up man with mixed-up thinking who doesn’t know who he is. He associates with Radicals, Muslims and those who want to ‘change’ America from greatness to not much of anything.

Obama can’t/doesn’t make a budget. He makes speeches and TV appearances, that is when he isn’t vacationing. He is a campaigner, a ‘community organizer’, a dictator. Obama is not an American President. Obama is not an American. He attended American schools on foreign scholarships. 
 
Obama doesn’t have the character, background, education, experience, integrity, or mindset to be where he is. He’s never cut a paycheck, made a business profitable or fought in a war.  He has lived off the government, has been supported or backed by those out to destroy our country for all of his life. How convoluted is it that he is now running our country… running it into the ground?  Obama is not about America’s supremacy and that we lead the world. Obama is about America’s destruction.

What would our founding father’s have to say about Obama? They’d probably shout, Wake up America! This is what we warned you about and this is why we set up checks and balances in our govenmental system.

The Constitution was created to protect America from people like Obama. America is about freedom of choice. America is about ‘WE’ the people!  America is not about governmental rule, dominate and control!  

America we have a fox in the hen house. Obama is a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

Inspirational/Spiritual, Politics

Obama clearly stands with Muslims…

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BarackIn fact, Obama appears to be in a fast race to have a Muslim infiltration of America and to make America Muslim….

Why is the Obama regime so Anti-Christ? But then ‘occasionally’, Obama will read from, or ‘quote’ the Bible only to use it as a tool to further his agenda of destroying America. Whenever Obama does read from the Bible,  it rings as false as anything could.

Why is Sharia Law being allowed anywhere in America? It is against the American Constitution. Sharia Law is a political ideology disguised as a religion with goals to take over America and the world. They sanction lying, taqiyya, to achieve their goals. They use stealth jihad tactics (everything short of physically going to war) to infiltrate, propagandize, elect Muslims to office, and convert Americans to Islam, in order to establish Sharia law as the law of the land, and make the country an Islamic nation, ruled by a Sharia-compliant caliph.

Christians are life, freedom, forgiveness and love. Muslims are  death to anyone who isn’t a Muslim, maiming, killing, torturing, diminishing women, etc.

Why couldn’t the Obama administration find qualified men who were ‘born in America’ to help make decisions about our country?

Muslims Jihad

MuslimsMuslimsArif Alikhan – Assistant Secretary for Policy Development for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Muslims LookwhosMohammed Elibiary – Homeland Security Advisor

Rashad Hussain – Special Envoy to the (OIC) Organization of the Islamic Conference

Salam al- Marayati – Obama Advisor- founder Muslim Public Affairs Council and its current executive director

Imam Mohammed Magid – Obama’s Sharia Czar – Islamic Society of North America Islamic Society of North America

Eboo Patel – Advisory Council on Faith-Based Neighborhood  Partnerships

How does this sit with you America? How will this affect your lives and that of your children? How will this change the direction of America from in God We Trust to the archaic, Neanderthal, dark ages practice of Allah this and Allah that? Killing for Allah ranting and BS! This is not a peaceful practice… no matter how much they ‘claim’ that it is…

Why is this Muslim infiltration being allowed?

Will America’s women soon be forced to dress like this…? Or they will be raped, stoned or worse…

Sound impossible!? Well, who would have ever thought we would have this intense Muslim infiltration in America and around the world…

What are we going to do about it?

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Politics, Women In Real Life

Gap store logic, Obama economics…

???????????????????????????????You know how the Gap is always having discounts, sales and specials, but only if you use your Gap credit card? You can get 10 to 30 % off at certain times and on certain days.. but only if you use your Gap card… there are incentives of 10% off here and there up to even 40 even 50%, or more, and ten dollars off an item, at times… but only if you use your Gap card…

Sounds like a great deal, huh?

Last week, I got over a hundred and twenty-five dollars worth of tee shirts and tanks for twenty-five dollars by shopping on the right day and using all my discount certificates. I used my Gap card, of course, and when my bill comes in, I will pay it off that very month… so I will really and actually recognize the full discounts and savings…

Because should I keep using my card and charging it up without paying it off… even though, I did get great savings and discounts …. they will be soon eaten up by the interest charged each month on the card. And that is exactly what the Gap stores are enticing for and wanting everyone to do. That people just keep charging on their card thinking that they are getting such great savings and discounts then to pay off their balance a little each month, while the Gap charges them interest out the whazoo!

Making it a win for Gap and a lose for the customers…. any savings eaten up by the credit card interest. Those items thought to be had at a bargain, end up costing twice to three to four times as much…

And this is what Obama and his economics are doing to America… funding all these programs now, that ‘seem’ so enticing and to be a gotta have, good deal that we will be paying for, for generations even into forever. No bargains here folks…it’s highway robbery…. abuse of credit to an extent that is unfathomable…

I barely shop at the Gap any longer…since I realized their liberal/progressive agenda… only a few tee shirts here and there purchased at discount, charged to my card, then paid off in full. So, I beat them at their enticing spend now to get a bargain con.

But Obama is beating America up and endebting us deep with the Gap logic, Obamacon economics… Enticing with goodies, give-aways and freebies. Oh! Obama can ‘promise’ great benefits and goodies, if it’s charged on the Obamacard (tax payers money). Don’t think about the reality that America will be paying for it for the rest of its life, its children’s lives and their children’s children’s lives into infinity, until what was originally given, ‘actually just promised’ has no meaning, but debt, interest, pain, slavery to the government and suffering… then the system crashes. Because should you keep charging on your Gap credit card up to its limit and can’t make your payments, your card is cut off, your credit ruined and bankruptcy may be around the corner… no enticing bargain is worth this destruction…

Un-needed government spending… un-needed Gap clothing…same/same…

America has had its credit rating downgraded already. But Obama wants to keep charging on America’s credit card… pushing us to bankruptcy…

Gives actual meaning to owe your soul to the company store… huh?

So, like my Father taught me, pay off your credit cards each month and only buy on time, if you can’t pay cash, those things that you really need not want and will use for years that hold and have value. And always have credit and actual savings for emergency situations…

Good sound financial advice… that this current administration and many people have forgotten or were never taught. It’s simple economics. 

Everyone should be able to see that the Obama regime knows exactly what they are doing. They are purposefully  bankrupting America…with ‘promises’, government programs and ‘goodies’.

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Health, Politics

When this fully kicks in, will all hell break…

loose, or will we be living in hell?…. 

Will we be living in an America, where we have no choice, where human life is only worth what it produces for the government? Where when you are old and ill, the government has control over whether you get treatment or die and they can confiscate your property for their use?

What Nancy Pelosi didn’t want us to know until after the Healthcare bill was passed. Remember she said, “Pass it and then read it!!.”

Obama Care Highlighted by Page Number – THE CARE BILL HB 3200JUDGE KITHIL IS THE 2ND OFFICIAL WHO HAS OUTLINED THESE PARTS OF THE CARE BILL.

The mostegregiouspages of HB3200 especially reference to pages 58 & 59JUDGE KITHIL wrote:

Page 50/section 152: The bill will provide insurance to
all non-U.S. residents, even if they are here illegally.  (Remember when Obama was called out as being a liar about this and the man was chastised for doing so, well he was telling the truth? Obama as usual was lying!)


Page 58 and 59: The government will have real-time access to an individual’s bank account and will have the authority to make electronic fund transfers from those accounts.

Page 65/section 164: The plan will be subsidized (by the government) for all union members, union retirees and for community organizations (such as theAssociation of Community Organizations for Reform Now–  ACORN). 

At age 76, when you most need it, you are not eligible for cancer
treatment see page 272

Page 203/line 14-15: The tax imposed under this section will not be treated as a tax. (How could anybody in their right mind come up with that?)


Page 241 and 253: Doctors will all be paid the same regardless of specialty, and the government will set all doctors’ fees. (Socialized Healthcare)


Page 272. section 1145: Cancer hospital will ration care  according to the patient’s age.  


Page 317 and 321: The government will impose a prohibition on hospital expansion; however, communities may petition for an exception.  


Page 425, line 4-12: The government mandates advance-care planning consultations. Those on Social Security will be required to attend an “end-of-life planning” seminar every five  years. (Death counseling – Death panels)


Page 429, line 13-25: The government will specify which doctors can write an end-of-life order. (Death panels)


Judge Kithil then goes on to identify: “Finally,it is specifically stated that this bill will not apply to members of Congress. Members of Congress are already
exempt from the Social Security system, and have a well-funded private plan that covers their retirement needs. If they were on our Social Security plan, I believe they would find a very quick fix’ to make the plan financially sound for their future.”


If the government wouldn’t spend our funds on providing for Illegal immigrants and all ACORN members, they might be able to do a better job for those who actually deserve to have it spent on them.

But Obama and his ilk reward their friends and punish their enemies and the old people are their enemy, since they do not bring in as much in taxes for government use and most of them see through the con of the Obama regime.

The ‘government’ helps illegals, (but we aren’t supposed to call them ‘illegals’ any longer because they are Obama’s ‘friends’) so ‘they’ can get their votes forever, so ‘they’ can stay in office.  Plus, they will be a fresh and longer source of future tax revenue. Therefore, the government caters to them, at least, for now.

The government can raid citizens assets, when they get ill, as what they have saved, earned and worked for all their lives, become a piggy bank for government use. This so-called ‘Healthcare Bill’ is not about health, or life, it’s about government control of your life. It’s about taxes and confiscating resources from the real American citizens.

Once the older generations have passed on (the Obama Regime wants this to happen sooner rather than later) America as we know it, will cease to exist. It will become just another socialistic/communistic country full of people controlled in every aspect of their lives by the government regime.

This is exactly what our forefathers warned us about and why they set up government checks and balances to avoid and to curtail. But Obama and his ilk are ignoring our Constitution, our Bill of Rights and destroying everything that made America free… And America is the home of the ‘brave’ and the ‘free’.

This ‘Healthcare bill’ is not about health. It is about control, death and a power grab of the assets of private citizens…

ConstitutionSo thanks to Pelosi, Obama and their ilk, our Healthcare is being destroyed, are rights taken, choices gone, and our property seized.

I believe it fully kicks in 2014. It’s implementation of the NWO.

So will all hell break loose, or will we be living in a hell of the Obama regime and those who back it and pull its strings, making?

Politics, Women In Real Life

What we pay for and what we put up with…

???????????????????????????????and what do we really get?…

Ever think about how much technology costs each month, what the regulations are and what the agencies charge and taxes are to get technology to us?

Then when something goes ‘wrong’ with technology, what we have to deal with to get it corrected… as in listening to the overly-long automated menu, ‘pushing 1 for English, and 2 for whatever’… on and on… to finally get to a human voice that more times than not turns out to be someone you can barely understand… with their ‘Indian sing song slur’, or broken English. I always ask where I am calling and if it’s not in America, I hang up then call back, until I get a clearly speaking English person… and sometimes that’s multiple times.

So we pay each month for these services then put up with endless irritation to talk to someone to fix their glitches…

How much is paid in insurance… car, property, health, life, mal-practice, business, etc?…

How much is paid in taxes before anyone even gets to paying Federal income taxes…as in sales tax, property taxes, city, state,  and school taxes, taxes on utilities, on technology… taxes on regulations that you can’t even figure out what the charge is for or who really gets it. Then let’s go to interest that is paid on credit cards, mortgages, anything bought on time…

Add in the cost of gas, heating and AC… and how much food costs and how fast all the prices are going up.

And Obama is wanting to implement a milage tax… taxes on braces for teeth… it goes on and on…

It’s a wonder anyone has anything left to save. And the government now wants to figure out a way into savings, IRA’s and retirement accounts to have them be invested in the government, therefore, taken over by the government.

The government who is so indebted and whose rating keeps being diminished. And the government who keeps on spending and getting deeper into debt… this is not a wise investment, but the government wants you to sink it all in with them… while they live high on the hog….

Then there’s tolls and licenses to do so most everything, driving, business, inspections, dues, fees….even to have a garage sale, or for a child to have a freaking lemonade stand.

It’s endless…

We are taxed to death and pay too much to stay plugged in. And are taxed again when we die…

And Obama and company wants to make this monstrosity even bigger…

Who benefits from all this?…

Think about it…

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EXPLOSIONS, Politics

EXPLODING!!! Do ‘WE’ the people have a choice any longer?

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???????????????????????????????Exploding through a smile, clenched teeth or whatever…but exploding none-the-less. Because it’s my opinion that ‘our’ will is not recognized as worthy any longer. The government and the media are out of control, running amuck and doing any and everything against us, to harm, brainwash, to suck rights, choice, money and resources from ‘WE’ the people…

Obama, in dictator fashion, over-rides the constitution at every opportunity and the media backs him. While it’s OUR CONSTITUTION that ‘kept’ and ‘will keep us’ from becoming a dictatorship…

‘Supposedly’ Obama is a ‘constitutional’ lawyer. But how do we really know? We have not seen his school records… but if he is, it is only so, he can dismantle our constitution… in the slimiest attorney-like sneaky way and manner.

Much like a ‘psychologist’ becomes one, ‘only’ to learn how to mess in and manipulate with people’s heads… as some psychologists are the most mentally and emotionally sick, twisted people on the planet.

Some people wanting to ‘control’ others, learn the skills of a ‘certain’ profession or trade in order to better assist them in their agenda and victimization…

So good ole, Obama ‘learns’ about the constitution, in order, to know how to side-step around it and dismantle it. So he can suck all the rights from, and ultimately, the Will from, ‘WE’ the people… As it’s the Will of the People that evil always wants to destroy, capture, dismantle and control…

It’s the tactic of all manipulative sociopaths and psychopaths… learn exactly how to control your prey, in order, to better exploit and take advantage of them…

And with Obama, the American people, their way of life and what they love and stand for… their freedoms are exactly what he wants to destroy… America and its way of life are what Obama wants to destroy…
make no mistake about this… as everything Obama and his ilk do is towards this end…

Obama and his ilk are taking away choice from ‘WE’ the people…by indebting, taxing and enslaving. They are attempting to tell us how to talk, (what words to use, what they mean and even giving words ‘new’, ‘agenda-filled’ meanings of  what’s important or not), how to live, what to buy, how to care for our health, even if we have healthcare, what to like, and how we ‘should’ even ‘feel” about things…

They try to tell us what is right, what is ‘PC’, what is acceptable to do, to think, and how to be on the planet… as the planet is the important thing to them, not ‘WE’ the people. Our feelings and our will is to be ignored… manipulated and ‘changed’ into the image that ‘they’ choose. The ‘will’ and ‘feelings’ of ‘WE’ the people don’t matter, unless, we think and feel as we are ‘told’ to think a
nd to feel…

I watched the movie, GATTACA, the other evening and in this orchestrated, genetically informed, controlled and specifically manipulated and created world… it’s shown that the human will is able to overcome adversity and seemingly handicaps. It’s the will of the individual spirit that is God-given, not man-made, or directed that is the only thing that can overcome. It can’t be measured, contained or quantified as much as evil tries to do so… it can’t be done.

And our feelings are what create our will… our will to survive and to use our God-given gift of individuality, our circumstances and situations that make us who we are … ‘the people’… the human beings on the planet.

God gave human beings dominion over the earth and all its plants and animals not the other way around. We should be good custodians, but ‘we the people’ are what matter… the earth is of service to us… not the reverse as those of evil wish and try to dictate us to believe. Evil walks the earth and has no place in Heaven…

The evil ilk running the show on the planet now, want to diminish the feelings and the will of the people… instead of creating thinking, self-aware, individual beings… they want to orchestrate and create it in ‘their’ image, the image of manipulation, control, immorality, degradation, lies, and depravity and this is all for ‘their’ benefit, instead of God’s….

God gave us freedom of choice. We are given ‘choice’ as our right of birth … not to be in servitude and controlled by of evil…

It’s of the people, by the people, and for the people…’WE’ the people… the will and feelings of the people are the only things that can save our America… 

If we deny our feelings and our will, we deny who we are. And if we do so, we will all be melded down into servitude, loss of will, and denial of our feelings and lead into slavery in every aspect of our lives… until the human race is nothing, but drones lead by a few and only for their benefit…

It’s the WILL of WE the people that matters… not the ‘orders’ and ‘dictates’ of the self-chosen, self-proclaimed few…

This Explosion will not be over until things begin to shift to lift the people up to freedom and choice once more! Smaller and less governance and the Will of ‘WE’ the people…

Agree or not…? What are your feelings and thoughts on this topic?

Inspirational/Spiritual, Politics

Fear…Friend or Foe?

brickorange3Fear can be your friend or your enemy… or both, depending on the time frame and circumstances.

Fear can warn you of impending danger and in that regard it is your friend even a blessing…or it can keep you in a state of confusion that will dull your senses and make you weakened and easy to be taken advantage of, only to be lead further to your destruction…it then becomes your foe working to your disadvantage and against you. It can stop you dead in your tracks in a ‘knowing’ of warning, or freeze you so that you can’t succeed or overcome.  Fear can make you a hero or a victim. The wisdom is to know the difference.

I believe that all our feelings and emotions have their place and one is not better than the other. All of them are appropriate and when we process through, honor what we are feeling, and walk through emotions is when they serve us as God intended. After all, we are sentient (feeling) beings. We are on earth to ‘feel’… and to experience.

Fear is to warn and to protect… but also to spur us on…

What is your greatest fear? Is it fear of death? Fear of public speaking? Fear of the government? Fear of evil? Fear of pain? Fear of being alone? Fear of losing all that you have? Fear of the world ending?

We all have them. Look at whatever fear you have. Walk into it. Imagine what it would be like should it occur… examine all your feelings and emotions about it … Then step out of it and observe…

Years ago, I was an interior designer and I was asked to speak before a large group at a convention on the topic commercial selling. I was in the top ten in the nation and they wanted me to share my knowledge and techniques. Of course, I was honored and I knew my subject inside and out. But right before I was to go on stage… I thought I was going to faint, collapse, have a heart attack and literally die. I was actually shaking…  and wanted to run away and out of the room as fast as I possibly could. But how would that look? I had many in the audience who worked for me and they saw me as their fearless leader…Yeah right! Not in this instance, however…

So, to the woman standing near me I confessed, “I am scared to death.” She graciously took my hands and we prayed, and, of course, that helped.Then I recalled something I had been told… ‘Imagine the worst thing that could happen’. So, I did. Which was I walked up to the microphone then fainted or dropped dead…and  the image of that happening made me chuckle. Because if that would occur … it just would. THEN it was time.. I walked up the stairs one by one and approached the mic and dropped to the floor right then and there.

NO! HA!  I told the audience that I was scared to be talking before so many .. so would they bare with me, if I made a fool of myself. They chuckled in understanding and smiled warmly at me. I took a deep breath, felt relief and smiled back at them. So I began.. and I loved it! In fact, they had to make the cut motion across their necks for me to stop and get off the stage for the next speaker to have their turn. The audience was asking questions and I was on a roll…I was feeling good, competent and not scared at all. I was loving it… TA DA!

Afterwards, everyone complimented me and momentarily, I felt like a ‘star’…

Had I allowed by fear to ‘control’ me … I would have missed the fun, the accomplishment, the feeling of success of conquering my fear.

My intense fear was unfounded… although, public speaking is on the top of the list of things people fear the most.

Obama and others in our current government use fear to ‘control’. It’s the weak, manipulative people who use the ‘threat of fear’… and this is what Obama has done the duration of his ‘rule’. He preys on people’s fears knowing that the weak and lost will buy into it. He wants people weakened and lost. He is our first ‘victim’ president and he appeals to others who wear the ‘mantel of victim’ … as these people are the first to succumb to fear instead of overcoming it … making them easily to be told what to do, what to think and how to behave. We have all been victims at one time or another, but what makes the differences is if we stay in that mindset or not… if we stay in the fear or not. If we allow the fear to overcome us, we remain victimized by it and it

diminishes us.Remember…”A weak man dies a thousand deaths. A man of courage only one.”Or “The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one’…. (The man who first said that) was probably a coward…. He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he’s intelligent. He simply doesn’t mention them.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

Let the fear in your gut serve to warn you, prepare you, sharpen your actions, and reserve, to call on something deep inside yourself to overcome, but not to freeze into your being and stop you from overcoming it.

Fear can be your friend and also your foe…remember the ‘wisdom’ is to know the difference.