For whom shall I vote? Part I

Please don't vote only on emotion. Watching the RNC and now the DNC, I know many people of our nation will vote by "emotion." That alone is not sufficient enough to make sound judgement on a ballot. Vote on logic, reason, and history. That might be to much work for some of you. So I challenge you, I'll try (because of my insanely packed schedule) to help you out. My first reading is of Alexis de Tocqueville's - "Democracy in America."

*Your homework for this session is to find out who he is and what he did during his age of life. Also, what this book is about!

Since we are at difficult times in our democratic-yet-not-so-democratic country's state of affairs today, I'll start off by what Mr. de Tocqueville has said about heads of government. It reigns true today as it did many years ago. Here it is: "On my arrival in the United States I was surprised to find so much distinguished talent among the subjects, and so little among the heads of government." I know many persons who would probably do a better job as a president than what they do in business, work, and life. Yet they choose not too and that is their freedom. Next, he says - "It is a well authenticated fact, that at the present date the most able men in the United States are very rarely placed at the head of affairs, but it must be acknowledged that such has been a result in proportion as democracy has outstepped all its former limits." Again, reiterating my former explanation. Finally he says - "The race of American Statesman has evidently dwindled most remarkably in the course of the last 50 years." I somewhat agree, especially during this stage of our political history. He goes on to say next by addressing this phenomenon. That it maybe the intelligence of the people (or lack thereof), and that this needs to be raised to a certain level in the people. He says that "...the human mind can never be instructed and educated without devoting a considerable space of time to those objects."

I challenge you. I hope within the next few weeks you can follow me and you can find out truth for yourself. This is just one of the many sources I based my truth, logic, reason, and some of my emotion on. I hope you can raise your knowledge (there are many forms of intelligence), by learning more before you cast that vote in the next few months.

The Mama

You guys who are good, upbeat, positive, have a lot going for you, and would like to think of themselves as nice; but yet wonder why some ladies prefer the jerk, negative, not-going-anywhere, type of guy...blame it on her mama. She didn't teach her daughter to look for the good guy. I'm starting to believe this the more I see it. Lesson for the day.

Cougars of a Lady

Normally I don't post stuff like this, but here it goes anyway. So I've been praying to God that I want to try to be in a relationship for once, because I haven't been in one in a very long time. It's not that I'm lonely, it's just that, there is a human need to have someone next to their side in this journey called life. So after praying for this, I've been getting answers… and it's different than what I was looking for. Randomly today, three different "cougars of a lady" have come up to me and all have said, and I paraphrase – "a young man like you should stay single and have fun." Well, so be it then…

Decisions

We are deciding about his last days. He lays on his bed. We talk about how certain actions will help or not. His voice sounds tired, yet he rasps away. He fights. What actions will bring the most pain or help with giving him no pain. Soon there will be no more fighting, no more pain. As everyone talks, he looks around the room, he sees me in the dark corner listening, observing, staring. He smiles at me like he always has. I wave and smile back. This moment, I shall take away... A decision to be happy, not sad.

The Middle

When the lowest of lows hits, remember it can only go up from there. When the highest of highs hits, remember it can only last for a second. Find balance in all, and be ready for change...

Simple

Knocking on the sky in a few. Find me on some random star. This souls time renew, only by afar.

[159] Self

This explains it perfectly...I against I. Staring into my own eyes...Wondering which one of me is going to overcome the other...On and on I could go, I will let this entry of George MacDonald explain though

"Self, I have not to consult you but Him whose idea is the soul of you, and of which as yet you are all unworthy, I have to do, not with you, but with the Source of you, by whom it is that (at)  any moment you exist - the Causing of you, not the caused you. You may be my consciousness but you are not my being....For God is more to me than my consciousness of myself. He is my life; you are only so much of it as my poor half-made being can grasp - as much of it as I can now know at once. Because I have fooled and spoiled you, treated you as if you were indeed my own self, you have dwindled yourself and have lessened me, till I am ashamed of myself. If I were to mind what you say, I should soon be sick of you; even now I am ever and anon disgusted with your paltry mean face, which I meet at every turn. No! Let me have the company of the Perfect One, not of you! Of my elder brother, the Living One! I will not make a friend of the mere shadow of my own being. Good-bye, Self! I deny you, and will do my best every day to leave you behind."

My struggle is within. I don't compete with others to best them. I compete with myself, to beat myself, to over come self. I don't mean to act as if I am better than others, I just rejoice in defeating my former self. People may just be caught up in the act and think I am trying to prove something to them, this is false. It is I who will overcome him that thinks he is me...