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Prayers

May God disrupt and destroy the plans of those who would enslave the residents of the United States to death panels. May these evil tyrants be ensnared in their own traps.

Churches to visit when traveling

Christ Covenant Church of Chicago

Christ Church, Santa Clarita

Trinity Reformed Church, Moscow ID

And of course, Providence Reformed P.C., St. Louis MO if I were to go to Covenant Seminary.

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Misc. List of Luminaries from the Scottish Enlightenment

This list is just the beginning of course.

Robert Simson: Mathematics

William Cullen: Chemistry, Medicine

Joseph Black: Chemistry, Physics

James Watt: Inventor, Mechanical Engineer

Francis Hutcheson: Philosopher

Adam Smith: Social Philosophy (Economics, Moral Philosophy)

Wikipedia's key figures in the Scottish Enlightenment:

* Robert Adam (1728-1792) architect
* James Anderson (1739-1808) agronomist, lawyer, amateur scientist
* Joseph Black (1728-1799) physicist and chemist, first to isolate carbon dioxide
* Hugh Blair (1718-1800) minister, author
* James Boswell (1740-1795) lawyer, author of Life of Johnson
* Thomas Brown (1778–1820), Scottish moral philosopher and philosopher of mind; jointly held the Chair of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh University with Dugald Stewart
* James Burnett, Lord Monboddo (1714-1799) philosopher, judge, founder of modern comparative historical linguistics
* Robert Burns[9] (1759-1796) poet
* Alexander Campbell (1788-1866) founder of the Restoration Movement
* George Campbell (1719-1796) philosopher of language, theology, and rhetoric
* Sir John Clerk of Eldin (1728-1812) prolific artist, author of An Essay on Naval Tactics; great-uncle of James Clerk Maxwell
* William Cullen (1710-1790) physician, chemist, early medical researcher
* Adam Ferguson (1723-1816) considered the founder of sociology
* Andrew Fletcher (1653-1716) a forerunner of the Scottish Enlightenment,[10] writer, patriot, commissioner of Parliament of Scotland
* James Hall, 4th Baronet (1761-1832) geologist, geophysicist
* Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696-1782) philosopher, judge, historian
* David Hume (1711-1776) philosopher, historian, essayist
* Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746) philosopher of metaphysics, logic, and ethics
* James Hutton[9][8] (1726–1797) founder of modern geology
* Sir John Leslie (1766-1832) mathematician, physicist, investigator of heat (thermodynamics)
* James Mill (1773-1836) late in the period - Father of John Stuart Mill.
* John Millar (1735-1801) philosopher, historian, historiographer
* John Playfair (1748-1819) mathematician, author of Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth
* Allan Ramsay[11] (1686 - 1758) poet
* Henry Raeburn[7] (1726-1823) portrait painter
* Thomas Reid (1710-1796) philosopher, founder of the Scottish School of Common Sense
* William Robertson (1721-1793) one of the founders of modern historical research
* Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) lawyer, novelist, poet
* John Sinclair (1754 - 1835) politician, writer, the first person to use the word statistics in the English language
* William Smellie (1740-1795) editor of the first edition of Encyclopædia Britannica
* Adam Smith (1723-1790) whose The Wealth of Nations was the first modern treatise on economics
* Dugald Stewart (1753-1828) moral philosopher
* George Turnbull (1698-1748), theologian, philosopher and writer on education
* John Walker (naturalist) (1730-1803) professor of natural history
* James Watt (1736-1819) student of Joseph Black; engineer, inventor (see Watt steam engine)

Plus two who visited and corresponded with Edinburgh scholars[8]:

* Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) physician, botanist, philosopher, grandfather of Charles Darwin
* Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) polymath, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States

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Exodus 6:1-8

But the Lord said to Moses, “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh; for with a strong hand he will send them out, and with a strong hand he will drive them out of his land.” God spoke to Moses and said to him, “I am the Lord. I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by my name the Lord I did not make myself known to them. I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they lived as sojourners. Moreover, I have heard the groaning of the people of Israel whom the Egyptians hold as slaves, and I have remembered my covenant. Say therefore to the people of Israel, ‘I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from slavery to them, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great acts of judgment. I will take you to be my people, and I will be your God, and you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who has brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. I will bring you into the land that I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. I will give it to you for a possession. I am the Lord.’”

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Tesla got screwed

Check out the biographies posted on "The Traveller" (BTW the British spelling is deliberate--it relates to the RPG of the same name.) and you will see that Tesla got screwed on radio and if you dig deeper you will find that he got semi-screwed by George Westinghouse (primarily because of JP Morgan banking et al) on transmission of electricity and three phase motors.

Why I am a Trade Unionist.

My political views are somewhat eclectic, because I have tried to adapt and adopt political ideas that fit objective reality (yes there is such a thing).

First my history:

I was raised by my parents as a moderate Democrat, but by the time of my first presidential election in 1980, I went with Anderson over Carter and Reagan. After suffering under the authoritarianism of the US Army, for a time I was an Anarchist and then a Trotskyite Socialist. I couldn’t stomach Bolshevistic Communism, with which most of the people in the Socialist movement seemed to be in love. I saw the error of my ways and beliefs, however, when I began to consider the dismal results of Communism wherever it was tried. The bottom line on this political philosophy is the unspoken motto: "let us do evil that good may result". More could be said about the evils of Communism, but for now I recommend a book called "The Black Book of Communism". (And as of this writing there is new evidence coming out that Mao Tse-Dong is responsible not for 50,000,000 dead Chinese, but closer to 70,000,000 dead Chinese.) All told the various forms of Socialism (Communism predominately) are responsible for the more than 100 million dead human beings in the 20th Century alone.

As God brought me back from my ten year moral backslide, I began to look at the world more realistically. For a time I have leaned toward the Republican party (In fact, Bill Clinton's allowing the giving of our nations military secrets to Communist China pushed me firmly into that party for awhile.), and the founder of the party, Abraham Lincoln, has some very good things to say about Labor. Teddy Roosevelt was a progressive Republican and was the first president to use the military to enforce bargaining between the owners and labor. (The other thing to note about A. Lincoln and T. Roosevelt is the advocacy for people of color--it must be remembered that many of the founders of the Republican party were abolitionists--in the case of T. Roosevelt, he was the first American President to invite a Black man to the White House as a guest instead of as a servant.)

So I am somewhat a Progressive Republican like Teddy Roosevelt, but I am still conservative on social issues where they pertain to God's Law. One of the things that put me at odds with my conservative friends is that though I, like them, believe that capitalism in its purest sense is the superior economic system, I believe, unlike some of them, that in a Fallen World (as taught in the Bible) there is a need for checks and balances in the free market system. As a Christian, I can see that the answer is in a good Christian ethic which will bring proper justice and compassion into the bare brutalism of the marketplace. Unfortunately, many who claim to be a Christian suddenly lose their faith when it comes to money. The trade union concept is the imperfect solution to provide this check and balance. We can see an historical example in the case of the leading industrialists of the United States in the time of the Industrial Revolution (especially during the nineteenth century)--some of these industrialists claimed to be Christians and yet had no problem with paying their workers so low a wage that they could barely survive. In some sense, Unionism in America is God's Judgement on these Christians who thought so little of their workers.

One final note about the Republican Party:
Even just before the time of Teddy Roosevelt and since then, one trend in politics in this party that has really served to destroy the character of the Republican Party is the take-over by mainstream members who are bought out by Corporations--some have labled these as Neo-Conservatives. I differ from these people in morals and in economic theory--they are for huge monolithic monopolistic mega-corporations, whereas I am for small business and labor unions and I hold that it is more important to hold the moral high ground and they will do anything to get elected. (To be fair, the Democratic Party is bought and paid for by Big Business also and has shown a recent trend toward screwing Labor.)

I am an advocate for a reformation of our political system that would enfranchise more political parties than the current two. If I had a political party, it would be a cross between the Libertarians, Constitutionalists, and the Progressive-Conservative Labor Party, and some elements of the Republican Party.

I may sometimes register as a Republican, to advance certain policies, but I have no love for that party. I would say that I am a Labor Partyist, but I have no use for the Communists. The perfect system is a true free-market economic system regulated by trade unions. Today we do not actually have a true free-market system--we have competing monopolies.

misc.

Without joy in God with no faith at all, one becomes deeply paranoid about everything. I've sampled many opinions lately including even the fringe (Coast to Coast with Nory sp? on the radio, etc.) and it seems to me that the people getting through life (with all of its trials) as joyful and happy well adjusted individuals are the people with a genuine Christian Faith. Everyone else is busy proclaiming the end of the world as we know it.

My hope is in the Lord Jesus Christ who alone of all humans to walk this earth was able to come back from a full brutal death and transcend Space and Time--thus proving that He is the God-Man, Theanthropos. Look to The Triune God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit for your hope. Only with the power of Christ will you be able to break through the space-time limit imposed upon our short lives.