Is this your lucky day, or what? TWO questions of the day!! (Need to give the womenz a chance to answer something.) I read this just today; —-“Hope isn’t a mere feeling of optimism, nor is it some kind of mental escape from unpleasant realities. Hope is a virtue. “
Q: In these deeply troubling times of hate, lies, and despair …. what gives you hope?
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Me?
I’ve been through many troubling times these past three years, or so. And it is continuing. I get by by repeating a simple thought in my head over and over throughout the day; — “I can get through this TODAY. Just a few more hours until I can sleep and dream. Hang on, just a little while longer.”.
My hope is simply this; I try to believe bad times never last forever and a tomorrow will come that will be better. It’s not deep, profound, or perhaps even wise. But, that’s what I got right now, and it seems to help …. a tiny seed of hope in a dry parched soul that will one day flower into joy, again.
Perhaps the manner in which you find hope will help me, and many others, find a new way.
Here’s another temporary hope. I hope this doesn’t turn into a shit-fest … where people are criticized if you don’t like their answer. A hope where there are no down votes, and everyone gets at least one up vote just for taking the time to think, and answer such a deeply personal question.
Thank you.
tHE END.
Believe it or not, I get hopefully when I read many of the posts on TPB. At least I know I’m not alone, even though I don’t agree with all comments. But I do know that the people here care enough to think instead of always reacting to outside stimuli. Realistically though, we need more than hope. We need a plan, and I don’t think most people have a real one. It’s not enough to wait and see what TPTB are going to do. We can’t depend on outside forces regardless of how much control they have. We do have them outnumbered if we can figure out how to harness our strengths.
At a different website I read about Freedom Cells. As I understand you get a small number of people together and establish a singleness of purpose; something that everyone is in agreement with unanimously. Remember the French Resistance was made up of communists, gypsies, and other “undesirables”, but they all wanted to get the Germans out of their country. That’s the kind of thinking our cells must have. It was strongly suggested that the size be under ten individuals. More people will be marginalized easier. When the number eight is reached, you split and create another cell. I would be interested in hearing if anyone has tried this and how it is working. That’s the kind of hope I want.
Stuck:
Dark times these are indeed, but nothing lasts forever.
In my line of work, I am dealing with people facing foreclosure. Many try to “hang on” till the bitter end, fight the bank, etc etc.
While some people have a legit case against the bank, 99% of the people I deal with have really and truly lost the house to a legal foreclosure.
So I tell them this: You can spend the next 1-2 years going to court, filing paperwork, afraid to answer the door or open the mail, or you can take whatever relocation money the bank is offering you and move on with your life. If you do that, I guarantee that 1-2 years from now literally NONE of this will matter.
I tend to look at today’s political climate much like that.
Generations grow old and die. Nancy Pelosi, Schiff, et al are OLD and most likely not last much longer than 5, 7 years. Joe has not long either, be it yet another brain aneurysm or just 25th amendment’d off to his basement permanently. Kamala is like fingernails on a chalk board and has no political chutzpah that Clinton had, lover her or hate her, she was a political machine. Kamala is savvy in one very specific way, controls no “foundation” and is very unlikeable with a crazy laugh at inappropriate times. With her at the helm zero will get done, and god help us all in the national arena.
The younger Republicans coming in are much more realistic and see their age cohorts drowning in debt, unable to buy a house, and pretty much not even able to find a normal woman or man to marry and have a family with.
We cannot assume that the loudest voices are all the voices. Or even the majority. I don’t believe they are, and I don’t think anyone else does either.
AOC is obviously a very young, immature idiot who has existed in the bubble of NYC for so long she has no idea how the real world works. Just because she knows how to use social media to her advantage doesn’t mean the entire world thinks she’s a genius. When I was in my 20’s I thought some parts of socialism were good…like helping homeless people, and feeding the hungry, and helping kids. Then I had to pay for my own shit and put a roof over my head and I realized I didn’t like giving my stuff to other people who wanted it just because they wanted it.
Regular folks who are the gears of this nation understand that nothing is free. Hell, even the hippies knew “ass, grass, or gas”. They also knew enough to question authority.
People who keep the lights on, the food stocked, the gas in the tank know that universal this or that will not end well, and cannot be sustained.
The idiots running the show may need to have their turn at proving themselves wrong, and that will result in some painful years. It could even result in the country splitting apart.
But in the end, the pendulum swings, and it never lands in the middle. Remember, the leftists we deride today will be the ultra-conservatives we could be afraid of tomorrow.
Hitler rose to power because people were pissed, not because they were happy.
So remember the things that matter. Your parents, your siblings, your children. The small pleasures of a lover’s embrace, your faithful dog on the front seat of the truck on a Sunday drive. Treasure your health if you have it, help those that don’t.
Anger is warranted when you need it, action called for when words fail, but time marches on and waits for none.
When I was about 12, a cousin of mine had a bitchin 69 Chevelle. He had one of these stickers on the back window. I thought he was so cool.
Sorry Pup. This isn’t something that’s just going to pass. Looks like this is going to be men’s work. You just made my case for me. I had a farm cat that I was fond of, and he was dying of old age. I had him laying in a little cat bed, and I stroked him as I watched him die. I was trying to be soothing telling him it was going to be okay. And then I snapped out of it. No, it wasn’t going to be okay. He was going to be dead in 12 hours. Snap out of it. If they can’t prove this algorithm, we’re going to lose the country because we will never have a fair election again.
Star, I am absolutely not disputing things could get bad, and real fast. The way I see it, even if Trump wins, we are still heading down the flume ride of bad debt, more bad debt, and oh yeah…bad debt. If this world goes 100% digital currency then it will not matter one whit who is in charge here, in Bangladesh, China, the Canary Islands or Uzbekistan. We will all be under one horrible dome of control.
Couple that with a BS virus that might be made worse by the vaccine they are peddling, and there really is going to be some serious shit to deal with.
My point is, that RIGHT NOW all we can do is hope Trump prevails through legal means, because if he doesn’t, then I think the US will split apart.
Rome lasted longer than the US appears to be capable of doing.
The US has not been itself for a long, long time. What rises from the ashes might be better, and hopefully the asshats that brought it down will be long gone and normal people can get busy living life and building back.
The way I see it is hey if people want to be dumbed down morons voting for their own destruction then more power to em. They can sit around eating poisonous food, taking all the vaccines they want, subjecting their minds to constant propaganda, getting dumber and dumber. They’re the ones who are going to suffer the most, ultimately. I will always find a way to work around this trash. I will run circles around them. Because they’re functionally retarded. They make me look better. They make my skills more in demand.
Rebelation, what a cool name for a book!
What gives me hope is I can have a sense of humor. And what allows me to have a sense of humor is there is a better kingdom coming, while we wait for the corruption to of this age to reach its zenith and the hope of the next age to be rewarded for how I conducted myself in this age.
Awrighty Stuck, great post & query goin’ into this weekend! What’s the biggest source of hope? I’d say it has to do w/GNL’s post above, that even at the darkest times, there is OUR LORD ready to pull us thru with the salvation of his only begotten, Christ Jesus who was the sacrifice for all of us, from the Alpha to the Omega of mankind.
Here’s something about me: I was born into this realm at the perfect time to experience all the movie-tales of hardcore dystopia, apocalypse, and post-apocalyptic drama. I got the full brunt of all that from the 1st film adaptation of Fahrenheit 451, The Planet of the Apes series, Soylent Green, Logan’s Run, Network, (1978’s) Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Apocalypse Now, (Pink Floyd’s) The Wall, The Thing, Mad Max & Road Warrior series, Blade Runner, 1984, The Terminator series, Brazil, RoboCop, They Live, Total Recall, 12 Monkeys, Dark City, The Truman Show, Fight Club, The A.I., The Matrix series, Minority Report, V for Vendetta, Children if Men, The Road, I Am Legend, District 9, The Island, Watchmen, Looper, The Hunger Games series, Xmen, Transcendence, The Maze Runner series, and Ready Player One (& a good few that I’m somehow leaving out of this list).
Now, what do the above movies and the last of the New Testament (The Book of Revelations) have in common? For the most part, these flicks & TBOR describe an apocalyptic “final stand” of sorts, where many will succumb, but there’s ultimately hope for those that “hold the line” and secure their place in “the remnant,” so these are all perhaps counter-intuitively but ultimately STORIES OF HOPE.
I get a great deal of hope from reading the comments on many sites. People are more in tune with what we mere humans are dealing with here on this Earthly plane than you might think. Good triumphs over evil, never forget that.
Time takes care of all things.
What gives me hope ?
The fact that I’m a damn good shot, I’ve been getting ready for the BS that’s coming for years in many ways .
I have a good supply of Bourbon ( bought another bottle today ) .
I have a farm to go to when the SHTF and good neighbors there for the most part .
I live in the South.
I have a great wife and family.
The Lord is my creator, my guide and he sent his son to die for my sins .
That sums it all up .
Hope is the mind killer
Hope is a lie that diverts you into doing little or nothing.
Q: In these deeply troubling times of hate, lies, and despair …. what gives you hope?
When did these ‘troubling times’ start? Hate, lies, and despair have been with us for a looooong time. Might even say it’s part of the human condition…with some of us getting more than our fair share. Everybody’s got their own sack of rocks to tote, they say.
Hope.
NOUN:
1-a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen
2-a feeling of trust.
VERB:
1-want something to happen or be the case
“And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?” Job 17:15
Job mentions ‘hope’ 15 times in 12 different chapters, for a total of 130 times in 121 verses in the Bible.
“Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.” Psa 42:5
As death slowly approached my dad, he held his only grandchild as that life began….for 22 months…and I was full of rage at God. None of his three kids amounted to squat, and now the Lord was gonna take dad without letting him have time with his only grandchild.
Prayers unanswered, I started in reading to prove it was all BS…..It. Is. Not.
“Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.” Ecc.7:3
annuit coeptis novus ordo selcorum <<—–====
"And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee." Psa 39:7
Amen, Ordie
70-80 million people voted AGAINST Biden. Who know how many actually voted for him. We know it was a lot fewer for sure. Those people are generally hard-working, generally are makers and not takers, generally have a respect for human life – but are prepared to kill to defend themselves and their property, and generally are sick and tired of the pieces of shit on BOTH sides of the aisle that continue to pretend that they, not us, know better how to live our lives, raise our children, disposition our property, spend our money, etc. I know that no matter the result of this election, they are NEVER going to see Biden as their president, will consider every one of his dictates as illegitimate, and will have a sound basis for believing that. “…That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed….”Biden will not have that consent, and the basis of that anger is the gross and outright fraud that has been committed during this election….not just a “orange man bad” sentiment with no other foundation than emotion. Such resistance might hasten the end. The followthrough of some of his agenda, will surely spark a response that none of the folks on his side will be expecting.
Beggin’ your pardon, Mr L; The Harris Administration, if you please.
Joe is there only for comic relief (and as cover for the Demoncrat-Socialist-Communists.)
I’d like to know who give Harris her marching orders??
wef.org
bilderberger.org
soros.org
trilateralcommission.org
Take your pick.
All of the above, and a few unnamed others….
Hi Stucky –
For the record I have up voted every comment and will up vote any I miss after my own. No reason to negate any reason that fills one with optimism. After all isn’t that what Hope is optimism?
Life is challenging for everyone from their own perspective and yet we all continue to look to tomorrow or some date/time further on that will be better than the one we are currently experiencing.
May of 2019 I learned my mom’s days on Earth were drawing to an end, she lived a long life, and I knew that the stoic Polish woman who raised myself and nine others was in pain even though she did not complain. Yet selfishly I did not want her to go. As her primary care giver I watched her vibrant mind slowly fade, I watched as her fruitful body began to fail her.
The last Birthday, the last Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years.
It was heartbreaking and mind crushing and I hoped for more time even as I knew the clock was running down.
Valentines day 2020 and I was forced to call an ambulance because I knew she was suffering and if nothing else the hospital would be able to make her comfortable for her journey to the other side.
Mother Theresa left us on February 15th and as sad as I was that her time here was done, I was also relieved that she would finally be able to sleep all night.
One of my mothers sayings to me when things did not turn out as I had hoped, was “Out of the bad some good must come.”
Stay in the light Stucky and remember, ‘Out of the bad some good must come.’
The hope I have is enthusiasm to explore the quietness of the wilderness. Last July and August I explored the Sawtooth Mountains. June 2021 I will explore the Bitterroot National Forest.
I have hope as I plan to prepare fresh pasta (for the first time) as an addition to my Béchamel sauce for alfredo.
I have a country-high hope. Folks who reside in the remote country experience freedom everyday! Freedom to experience joy for their way of life. The constant political battering has not affected folks ability to wake up to what they love most in life.
Images of the Bitterroot Mountains
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Private Idaho.
Go the other side away from the Sawtooths to the White Clouds. There you will hike from lake to lake to lake and fill yourself with fried trout and loneliness.
Hope don’t put no beans on the table; never did and never will. Hope without work is like tits on a Nun: a beautiful waste. Hope that matters is the desire for something better that motivates a person to work for it. Of course, Pray for God’s guidance and blessing because if you receive them, you’ll succeed. If you fail for some reason, consider lowering your hopes; start over. I hope God exposes and severely punishes all the liberal traitors; MAGA in His Holy Name and Will, Amen. I hope I can be of assistance to God in this work.
I have hope, but as for things giving me hope? No, nothing I can really think of. I do know a number of fine young people, so there is that. But generally, I think we are on a course that is dark and full of doom, and it is inevitable. I find happiness and joy in things, but the world in general does not give me hope that these waters will be calm. It will be a mighty tempest, I fear.
Llpoh…I have come to think of everyone here as a second family of sorts. And often had dreams of someday, maybe, meeting some or all of you in person.
When TSHTF perhaps that will come to pass out of necessity.
Old saying – shit in one hand, hope (wish) in the other, and see which one fills up first.
Pragmatic.
Glory! My hope is a hopefully soon to be glorified eternal existence! Paul writes:
Colossians 1:25-28 KJB… “Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God; Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:”
I hope that I can help someone, anyone find the same. It’s a purpose that goes far beyond the trials and tribulations of this evil world… even though they can sure suck sometimes.
Thanks for the question!
What gives me hope is knowing that if I stick to the plan I will be debt free in about 3 years.
… and I’m a pretty good shot as well.
Rob – good work. Great plan. Very few have the ability to delay gratification, and so never get to the point you are approaching. It will change your life when you get there.
I used to be a good shot, back in the olden days. Now, with a scope and a rest, on a good day I am probably no better than low mediocre. But, hey, to shoot a roo with a spotlight that is good enough!
Why would someone downvote this?
Get em joey
Maybe they don’t like the idea of killing kangaroos.
Roos are good eating. Very tasty.
Thanks for the encouraging words Llpoh..!
There is no time to waste crying over spillt milk with regards to this current election fiasco. It is wasted energy better spent elsewhere… like maybe at a 4th of July picnic at Scrabble’s farm.
Looking towards something like that gives me hope…
RiNS,
You’ve given up on Trump?
Sadly yes… maybe I’m proven wrong but to me it looks like the fix is in and because of that it might be best now to pick up sticks and move on.
While I am all for hope and keeping ones spirits up have to also deal with reality and at times the ugliness of reality,hence,I prep while at same time try to enjoy the day with friends,listen to some Tull/Zep with a few Blue Moons/enjoy what nature has to offer while also at times cursing what it has to offer and having to shovel ect.
I have sad to say no real hope things will get on even a basic steady course in this country,sad but just feel true,hence guess me hope is to live for today and ready to fight tomorrow.
I will also say though at times Stuckman has some good articles I have absolutely zero/zilch/nada hope that it will continue without also a slew of masturbatory/ tranny/culture articles!
Thankfully, we got Stuck’s other thread to 400 posts so he didn’t post dick pics or masturbation stories.
aoc,
r u starting to regret giving stucky a computer & unlimited internet access?
u could always become a native american giver?
No, never. It’s not the same without Llpoh and Stucky.
i’m the upvote,my guess is that it’s llpoh or stucky who downvoted you–
Tampa – very funny. I gave you an upvote. But truth be told I rarely vote. Especially downvotes. If people take the time to post, that is worthy, and I almost never downvote as a result.
I am so pleased that Stuck is back, and that Admin is roaming more often. Am missing EC, and beebs. And many others, of course, too numerous to mention. You are adding good stuff yourself, as are so many others. We need to keep up the momentum.
You are probably right regarding future “culture” articles. Very briefly, let me tell you an absolute true story.
(Background: My mom has been back in the hospital since Thursday … difficulty breathing … turns out to be water/lung issues … diuretic injections cleared it up … she’s ok now …. will be released today or tomorrow.)
Anyway, yesterday I brought her food and other stuff … including the NY Post. Inside they did a book review. a brand new release, titled “Phallacy: Life Lessons From The Animal Penis.” And I went over some of fascinating facts with mom. Really.
—- The picture they included with the story was of a gigantic Blue Whale and some tiny little snail.
———- A blue whale’s penis is 8 feet long! This cracked up my mom to no end. “Eight feet??” Is that when it’s soft, or hard? How big around is it?” Not kidding. Mama Stucky is a real hoot when she’s not consumed with pain.
——— The snail’s penis is only about an inch long, BUT that’s three times its body length!! So in relative terms, that snail has a bigger pecker than the whale. The whale would need a 240 foot penis to compete.
——————Note: I decided to do a quick calculation on myself. So, I got out a yardstick … OK, a 12 inch ruler …. and measured King Stucky, did the math, and discovered that I too have a bigger schlong than the whale, by about 25%, in relative terms. This made my day!
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—- There is a species of rat in SE Asia that has spikes on the end of it’s pecker. It impregnates the female by jabbing the spiked pecker INTO THE FEMALE”S HEAD!
—- Some other lizard (going by memory here) LITERALLY has an EYE on the end of his pecker!
—- Several species have weenies so small a microscope is needed to see it (this made me think of Llpoh.)
—- Finally, when a honey bee finishes mating, when it pulls out, it also rips apart his abdomen! Gets pussy one time, and dies. Rough!
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Anyway, I might write more about this, but only if you give me permission. Thank yeeew.
I remind myself that I’m probably not just a body.
Wow! Absolutely! You are consciousness in the body, but not of the body and so immortal. Take care of things in this life as you will be back one day for more until such time as you know you are not your body and don’t just suspect that you are not. Hope does not help, but doing can. Appreciation for what is is the greatest gift, because dealing with what is leads to self-awareness and to knowing you are not your body.
The most important question: What is it that is conscious, and knows that it is conscious. –Harold Percival
My two sons give me all the hope I’ll ever need. They are proof that God loves me.
As I look back through my 60 odd years I find some of the most precious gifts I have experienced were neither sought after nor planned but were thrust upon me. I KNOW I will still find amazing and heart filling times still yet to come in this stormy time in spite of myself.
What gives me hope?
1. The strength of my local community.
2. The complete fearlessness that develops after you’ve crawled through a shit pipe that lasted several years.
3. The fact that, no matter how bad it’s going to get in America (and it WILL get terrible over the next 2 years), there will be enormous opportunity to rebuild something better.
My hope, seeing what people are actually made of. Talk is the cheapest commodity in the world. My hope is to see people of action, make things happen. My hope is that we steel our hearts to righteousness and never give into evil!
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things..” Henry David Thoreau
Hope is a virtue.
I use Hope as a 2nd level investment strategy after Luck and before Prayer.
Hope is not a plan but it is a very powerful motivational force. The fact that sites like TBP exist and people like ADMIN, Stucky, and HSF devote time and talent to it give me hope as does my family and friends and of course my steadfast belief in God. Life is a gift and should be cherished each and everyday as none of is promised another day. My hope is I can help others and be a good husband, father, friend. Okay I know what I said is a cliché but it is what matters to me. I am so glad Stucky is back and a force once again at TBP he was sorely missed when he was absent I HOPE he will be here for a long time!
Refreshing Breitbart and zerohedge every couple of hours looking for good news and the fact that food production here and in America is in the hands of conservatives with guns.
Then again McDonald’s is reintroducing the McRib sandwich. What’s old is new again!!!
The sandwich was reintroduced for W. Barr
Everything is falling apart right on schedule.
I don’t know the whole schedule, but what I’ve been made aware of gives me hope.
God I hope this guy is right.
http://www.amerika.org/politics/how-modernity-ends/
KaD, THAT gave me hope! I don’t put a high degree of probability in the totality of it, but it IS an alternative, possible time line. I like it. If enough folks put some thought ,energy into it ( just as group prayer works), it could happen.
That’s a great article! That would start a new Renaissance in America.
A country/empire once in decline, never more than pauses in its descent.
kad,
you ought to send that to admin & suggest it as a standalone post–
Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. Matthew 6:³⁴
Nice turn, Stucky!
And uplifting comments in these harsh times! I seek (and find) consolation in poetry- so here we go:
Hope” is the thing with feathers – That perches in the soul – And sings the tune without the words – And never stops – at all – And sweetest – in the Gale – is heard – And sore must be the storm – That could abash the little Bird That kept so many warm – I’ve heard it in the chillest land – And on the strangest Sea – Yet – never – in Extremity, It asked a crumb – of me. (Emily Dickinson)
Poet Mary Oliver reads her poem “Wild Geese“:
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about your despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting — over and over announcing your place in the family of things.
I hope that everyone finally gets the crap out of their heads.
Very old WG,
100%
I hope so too.
Autumn Leaves
Have you ever watched
The glory of
An autumn leaf shower,
Flashes of rust, orange
Purple, yellow and red,
Dazzling us with their beauty
Easing our existential dread,
Leaves letting go
Forgetting the gentle
Zephyrs of spring
Twisting,
Corkscrewing,
Whorling,
Rocking,
Flipping
Floating
Frolicking
Each tracing
A different route
A heroic journey
To find a new home
‘So what,’ you say?
They are only dead leaves
Why do I care?
Why indeed?
And yet I do admire
Their courage
Leaving home
Riding the wind
With such grace and ease
To who knows where?
Reveling in the breeze
Resisting not
The crosswinds and down draughts
Enduring such turbulence,
Dancing with delight
Floating free
‘It’s the journey’
They speak to me!
Hope is for suckers. Hope is the refuge of weak minds. Fuck hope. You all can hope yourselves right into the fucking grave. That’s where the once proud nation of the United States is headed. And if I believed that the majority of citizens actually voted for mad cow joe and commiecuntharris i’d say good riddance. But they didn’t, the deep state stole it and any of you fuckers who voted other than Trump because he didn’t meet all or any of your wishes, you helped contribute to the deep state. Of course he wasn’t perfect, in fact, he was a miserable failure but he had all the elements lined up against him… who could succeed with those odds. The deep state pulled all the levers of power, government, media, cultural, everything was aligned against him… and finally some of us who couldn’t stand the son of a bitch. But he was our son of a bitch and anyone who voted against him is a fool and a fucking asshole and you no longer have any right to call yourself an American. This election was the people vs the deep state and those fuckers beat the shit out of us. Their actions prove they’ve got something so important to THEM that they were willing to reveal all their puppets for the whole world to see… didn’t matter thou because most of us are blind.
Fuck hope and those who take refuge in it’s warm, fuzzy, comfort. Shits real and about to get deadly. We were a nation once of men(watch The Liberator on netflix then realize it’s about a real American warrior hero). Ain’t no more of them, EXCEPT when push come to shove and they’re called upon to win back our freedom. Don’t know how long that will take but I’m certain I won’t be around for it, too bad, I’d like to get my share of killing when the time comes.
Take hope and shove it up your ass.
I hope you’re having a good day.
Too bad you’ll miss your opportunity to kill people.
There is no hope for the likes of you.
“Thy kingdom come, then things will be done on earth as they are in heaven”
The Lord’s Prayer
CowDoc…
You touched on something….”on earth” as opposed to “in earth”. I grew up memorizing “on” every Sunday with the pew sitters. Then, my dad died, and I ripped into that book like a twister to a barn….I wanted to tear it apart.
May seem trivial to most, but after many years I am convinced the difference is there for a reason-because “in” is what was intended:
“That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.” Gen. 6:2
“And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.” Jude 1:6
“Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.” Matt. 6:10
“And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth.” Luke 11:2
annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum <——=== G.R.A.I.N…..when gods once again comingle with men
Hoisting the black flag and slitting throats is my new hopium. All the countries I got to see from the military side has unequivocally shown me that the United States turns every thing it touches to shit. I am prepared spiritually and physically to do what I believe is going to be the culmination of all these events compounded by an order of magnitude with all tbe latent or suppressed rage built up from the continuous fuckery by the charlatans holding office and their handlers. The sooner every person realizes that the one hope for the doomed is not to hope for safety is the sooner we get back core Americanism: pissing in the faces of tyrants, monarchs, oligarchs all the other archs except patriarchs. All hail the return to patriarchy. But seriously: the time for preparing is near its end.
I also hope you all have good plans with multiple contingencies.
Amat victoria curam.
God, my children, and the knowledge that with my Remington 870 I can make bad things go away.
I also feel better knowing our country is full of people, many ex-military, who own guns and know how to use them. when the Nazi,s showed up my family were unarmed. Not now.
God.
It gives me hope to realize I can disengage. I have resisted
the smart phone, most all of social media (is reading and
responding on TBP social media?) I have resisted debt and
spending to impress others, new vehicles especially. We have
downsized from expensive city life to poverty level rural life.
I need a new dog to replace my aging Dobe…that is my only
worry. Lest you think I can’t accept a mutt? know that finding
a dog in a Humane Society kennel is not really an option.
That system has been turned inside out. Covid is the excuse
for all mean changes. My only fear is being held down and
given an injection. Likely they will steal what little $ one
has left if one doesn’t cooperate. The End.
The great thing about Hope is its first prequisite.
First, you must give a shit. If we do that, there’ll ALWAYS be an avenue opened.
I think the Big Guy said that but don’t quote me verbatim.
Timeless principles, Stuck. These are what we carry with us upon receipt from those who have gone before. My life is better when I apply honesty, as opposed to dishonesty, courage over cowardice, and faith over fear.
When those we love are gone, an empty space remains but filled with the memories of who they were and simple things like the words, the smiles, hugs, and such.
It calls to my mind one of my favorite El Coyote quotes:
Expectation is the mother of all resentments. In reality I have no control over much of anything except my own actions. Influence, possibly. Control, doubtful. Wisdom is what happens after a lifetime of experience & observation. Experience is usually what’s learned when I fuck up. Observation is what’s learned when someone else fucks up.
Hope is that little feeling in the back of my brain that tells me, just maybe, that I wont be needing all of the mental, physical, or spiritual safeguards that have been put in place over a lifetime. But not betting on it.
I hope these guys put up the new advent calendar soon… https://boobychristmas.com/
I couldn’t wait ’til Christmas.
“In a time of destruction, create something.”
― Maxine Hong Kingston
Today is the first time I’ve been able to read the responses.
Great stuff, REALLY great stuff.
Thank you all for taking the time.