Wow.

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I did not get it all done, or finished. But I did get a decent start on those things. I found my social security card and extra checks. I did speak, again, with the people regarding plates and believe I can get that done easily and quickly, and I had my rifle adjusted and then went to the range. The rifle is pretty much right on the money. But I am flat out exhausted. I could barely climb the steps to my apartment. I am not doing well. And, no, the medicine was not in the mail.

I need a nap, then back to reading. Tomorrow I will get my driver's license, do laundry, and probably do a bit more target practice if I do well with the other things. This Saturday is the shoot. The good thing is, in my actual test runs with the rifle, on the targets I will be using, standing and free shooting, I hit between 7 and 8 shots in the area I will need to shoot at the same distance. The sitting and prone positions should be much easier. Tomorrow, if I do well shooting again, I might try those positions too just to see. It is nice to have the rifle on target.

There were a few things, to be honest, in Jeremiah and the Isaiah though, or maybe just one of them, which bolsters my belief that the "once saved forever saved" idea to which some Christian cling is false. I have seen it in earlier writings too. Just as the prophets were breaking the news that one is culpable for his own sins, that it was not a community thing, that they started telling them that they could not depend on mostly good. A wicked man who repents and pays for his deeds is saved while a man who has lead a virtuous life but then changes his path will die.

I think this is one of the major bastardizations of Christian and Jewish ethic which has become so foully incorporated into modern government movements. Actually, as I have said before, communism and socialism are ancient ideas, it used to be called the (what we now call anyway) the mafia. The idea that we are communally responsible, guilty, or innocent. This, though through a minor twist, is introduced into government as social welfare. We are all guilty if we do not force all to pay for those who have become ill, made very poor choices, or for whatever reason cannot sustain themselves. This was never meant to be a communal guilt thing, and communal guilt itself is not only dated, it has been done away with. Charity is not to be forced. It is a most grievous and flawed idea, which is probably based on poor Christian or Jewish education, or to put it more bluntly, ignorant and decidedly ignorant Christians and Jews.

Then again, churches and synagogues, from what I have heard and experienced, do no teach all that well. The real education is left to the devoted participant. Even that is not explicitly explained. One hour of church, or three, will not offer much in the way of instruction. A 1/24 portion of one day of seven, where song, prayers, and other such fill most of the time, often with only 15 minutes for the priest or minister to offer a sermon, is not enough. Still, I do not blame the churches, except that they fall into the trap (quite often) of simply going with the flow or that they offer little in other learning experiences. (Which way does a living trout swim? Only dead trout face downstream, they go with the flow. It is natural, if harder for people to buck the system. Uhrm, do not go with the flow!)

The other notion that communists and socialists in our midst seem to misunderstand is that the poor do not have any claim on anyone's wealth. There are certain things allowed, but even those are not guaranteed. So, when someone claims a right to health care, they are lying. People were allowed to sell themselves into slavery (and their children). God is not on their side. Then again, this has become, for the most part, a Godless country. Most of that is due, I think, to urbanization, the gross mutilation of our separation of church and state clause, the forcing of public education, and a few other things. Then again, the Jewish nation(s), without any of this, had their own problems with adherence. I would like to have said, at least we are not burning our children for gold idols, but the truth is, with just a little adjustment in the phraseology, we are. Instead of burning them for gold idols, we are burning them for gold. A woman's prospects, as an unwed mother, decline dramatically. And prostitutes cannot do their thing with a child to tend.

I was thinking just the other day, too, regarding abortion. If it were not for the fear blacks would increase exponentially, I believe abortion would have been ended before it ever started. I do honestly believe that. As many times as I have been called racist, I have never had one of those who did so who supports abortion be able to answer that. Usually, it ends the debate. And, as I am leaving, I say under my breath but certainly audibly, "Racist". Every idea the left puts forth either kills Africans in Africa somehow, or pushes for their genocide here. All I ask is that quality, not race, be the determining (and only) factor in school admissions, job opportunities, and all else. And, I wish that the right to associate (which, by it's nature, extends to the right to disassociate) be held in just as much esteem as the others. Not one of my proposals leads to the murder or genocide of anyone. That is how mixed up things have gotten. If you have been to a campus recently and spoken to almost anyone, you know what I mean.

Rambling, again. And very tired. I think I will go have a pillow fight I cannot win. I know, not much, but it was a lot for the shape I am in. Little successes, little bits, a piece at a time. If that is too much, Smaller little successes, more petite little bits, and fragments of pieces at a time. Keep the home fires lit but keep the front door busy, back door too if you can garden. :p

Have a good night!