Not interested in proving anything to you, pal, just that you’re as intellectually dishonest as you accuse believers of being. To wit: you never answered the question I posed. Instead you fell back on your own self-serving cherry picking and on accusations and insults. And, oh, yeah, assumptions, since you know neither me, my journey, nor my perspective. As for why I’m posting here—let’s just say I’m goofin’ on all your musty hot air. Smile, Jeremy! Jesus loves you anyway!

Why do you say going away soon? Is that Disneyland?

Ah, thanks Diane.

And I am sure you’re not just saying this because your son took this picture. :)

that is a very strange photo.

It was taken up near Santa Clarita. It looked like a single house caught fire, not part of any of recent big burns.

400th post ≠ Burning Man photos.

laser misses beam. play date?

powerful brain.

Dear Mom,

“I believe that most Democrats are elitist, that’s what attracts them to that party.” – Mom

As society has become more complex, a larger percentage of people do need extra help, to prevent chaos at the bottom. It keeps everyone closer to being part of progress.

Progress is the key primary engine of The United States.

The U.S. was founded on hugely progressive Enlightenment principals, resulting in the creation of the most potent human society in history.

This progress can be seen as two things: liberty and education.

Liberated people have the opportunity to excel at their natural talents.

An educated person possesses the accumulated sum of human knowledge.

By your use of the word, this country was founded by a big gang of “elitists”. Have you ever read the actual writings of the founders?

“The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it. ” -Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson, who owned slaves. That’s both elitist and flip-floppy!

But he also wrote:

“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”

Now that’s both elitist and fancy-talk!

It’s the first sentence of The Declaration of Independence.

We are still learning what it means to be human.

Consider how recently women were given equal rights, and how some women in other societies remain slaves.

It’s simple: VOTE FOR PROGRESS, as progress has forever been the only solution.

You may not like everything about Obama, but you know he represents tremendous progress, and his presidency will help our great country regain its elitist place in history.

We lead, or fail.

“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” -Albert Einstein

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