tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3247350212550914879.post4237401379681286613..comments2024-03-04T15:59:34.907-07:00Comments on Frankenstein Government: Is Blogging or Writing Pretentious?Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11009623520148094685noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3247350212550914879.post-7671107761623274432011-11-22T10:09:52.155-07:002011-11-22T10:09:52.155-07:00from the header of my pretentious new pontificatin...from the header of my pretentious new pontificating blog, Non Sibi Sed Patriae...<br /><br />"We shall be told: what can literature possibly do against the ruthless onslaught of open violence? But let us not forget that violence does not live alone and is not capable of living alone: it is necessarily interwoven with falsehood. Between them lies the most intimate, the deepest of natural bonds. Violence finds its only refuge in falsehood, falsehood its only support in violence. Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his METHOD must inexorably choose falsehood as his PRINCIPLE."<br /><br />Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn Honorary Vermonter and first hand witness to the terror that is socialist tyranny.<br /><br />Walking in and Speaking Truth<br /><br />Psalm 15:1-2 O LORD, who shall sojourn in your tent? Who shall dwell on your holy hill? He who walks blamelessly and does what is right and speaks truth in his heart;<br /><br />Zechariah 8:16 These are the things that you shall do: Speak the truth to one another; render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace;<br /><br />Ephesians 4:25 Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.<br /><br />1 John 1:8 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.<br /><br />1 John 3:18 Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.<br /><br />Speaking truth to power. It beats swallowing the propaganda of the brain dead any day.Toaster 802https://www.blogger.com/profile/17034456844621365910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3247350212550914879.post-21931579697101589312011-11-21T08:50:04.679-07:002011-11-21T08:50:04.679-07:00I strongly disagree with even entertaining the not...I strongly disagree with even entertaining the notion that blogging is pretentious. Sure, some people can be at times, but so what? What else is new?<br /><br />I wonder if Thomas Paine ever worried that he might be perceived and pretentious? He was not an elected official or an established journalist.<br /><br />I'm sure most people have their own intuition on most subjects, but we actually need to hear or read things to help make our ideas more concrete and focused. <br /><br />Since most of us have other things to do, we rely on other voices out there to help us sort through the craziness.<br /><br />I think most people (myself included) are fairly malleable politically and can be persuaded by peer pressure and the media. I personally had this happen to me to a large degree when I lived in San Francisco for a time (before blogging).<br /><br />However, blogging and the like removes control of opinion from powerful people and institutions and even friends and family. This is true freedom of ideas.<br /><br />Get the ideas out there and let the chips fall where they may.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3247350212550914879.post-71101585241063060102011-11-20T21:47:16.407-07:002011-11-20T21:47:16.407-07:00Well said.
I began blogging as a way to organize ...Well said.<br /><br />I began blogging as a way to organize and record my thoughts. I still write quite a bit, but now my mandate is to share an alternate economic universe with my readers.Markhttp://www.planbeconomics.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3247350212550914879.post-68048472155287097672011-11-20T15:11:13.416-07:002011-11-20T15:11:13.416-07:00Thanks AP, Mozart and anonymous. I really apprecia...Thanks AP, Mozart and anonymous. I really appreciate your kind words.<br /><br />BrianBrianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11009623520148094685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3247350212550914879.post-46811006891016064252011-11-20T14:59:30.730-07:002011-11-20T14:59:30.730-07:00I read your blog most every day. For whatever reas...I read your blog most every day. For whatever reason you write it, thanks for having the courage to share your thoughts, opinions and research.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3247350212550914879.post-1711976659388210462011-11-19T22:20:32.076-07:002011-11-19T22:20:32.076-07:00Nice blog and I agree with your premise.
I read A...Nice blog and I agree with your premise.<br /><br />I read AP's blog as well about being pretentiuos and I took a step back, there might be some truth there given ego and what not.<br /><br />However your explanation/blog was good, really good.<br /><br />Thanks<br /><br />MozartMozarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06035860053472861396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3247350212550914879.post-52635458226504680522011-11-19T14:03:22.622-07:002011-11-19T14:03:22.622-07:00You're right.
If it were that bad, it would s...You're right.<br /><br />If it were <i>that bad</i>, it would speak pretty poorly of me that I continue to do so.<br /><br />Thank you for paying enough attention to catch that and expand on it. <br /><br />APAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com