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sr- What we Believe

sr-1100 What we Believe fb post
It has become apparent from events of the last several years the belief is much more powerful than reality. The human brain has developed the ability to rationalize and block out reality and replace it with with an ‘alt-reality’ that becomes the believers reality. Once established, it is almost impossible to deny the alt-reality and retun to actual reality. Todays vast communication choices provide complete worlds of alt-realties that it is possible to live in.

Belief is the most powerful force in our lives. Everything we do is based on our beliefs. Beliefs are so powerful because what we ‘know’ is miniscule in comparison to what we ‘believe’. Beliefs are formed from our life experiences. When we are young most of our beliefs are formed from what we have learned from our parents. Before we ever start school the basis of our beliefs has been fromed. As we go through life our beliefs will change as we are exposed to new experiences, ideas and beliefs. Some we will accept, some we will reject.

Two types of beliefs that make up who we are. The first is the facts we know from personal experience and can physically verify. Things we can see and feel and can verify their existence. Facts are truth, whether we accept them or not.
The second is belief. A belief is what we accept as truth when direct evidence from events or physical facts cannot be obtained, or when we refuse to accept reality. As soon as man acquired the ability to ‘think’ the need to explain life and the universe began. Stories and myths were created to explain the unexplainable. Beliefs are based solely on the experience each individuals as they go through life.

Most of the things we think we ‘know’ are really beliefs. God is the best example of this. It is impossible to prove God exists, or does not exist, and yet almost every person on the planet will tell you they ‘know’ that that god exists, or does not exist. Most will say they will die before giving up their belief.

We must constantly aware that what we ‘know’ may in actually be a ‘belief’. For thousands of years man believed that the world was flat. People did not ‘know’ the world was flat, it appeared tp be flat and they were told by their leaders and educators that it was flat. We now ‘know’ that the Earth is spherical. What will we know tomorrow?

It is difficult, if not impossible, for people to accept changes to established beliefs, even small ones. Beliefs established in childhood will create the foundation of the person’s life that will be with them until they die. This is especially true of religious or spiritual beliefs that have been handed down for generations and learned from birth. It is difficult, or impossible, for most people to admit to themselves that something they have believed their whole life is built on beliefs. Changing beliefs handed down from former generations creates a sense of betrayal. It is much easier to find ‘facts’ to validate the belief.

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When you are ‘young’ and are still trying to figure out who you are you look to others for answers that will form your fundamental beliefs. It is not until you can start to look beyond yourself that you can think about your relationship to others, to the universe, and to yourself.


pol-104000 Book Ban

pol-104000 Book Ban

Book bans are a tool of an authoritarians government.
They are used to restrict intellectual freedom and free speech.

Florida
County removing books
“Children in a democracy must not be taught that books are dangerous. The freedom to read is guaranteed by the constitution,” Nossel said. “In Escambia County, state censors are spiriting books off shelves in a deliberate attempt to suppress diverse voices. In a nation built on free speech, this cannot stand. The law demands that the Escambia County School District put removed or restricted books back on library shelves where they belong.”|


nap-The Southern Border

nap-201810 The Southern Border
nap-0000 Index New American Party
nap-201800 Immigration Migration Asylum

Statement: Our border is overwhelmed. I keep hearing claims that the border is ‘open’. Nonsense.
We have record apprehensions and seizures, empirical proof that the border is not ‘open’. It’s overwhelmed.

My Rebuttal: Regardless of what we call it, the border is anything but secure. America cannot sustain an influx of 5000 to 20000 immigrants a day crossing our southern border. Regardless of our humanitarian wishes, it is not possible. We cannot even sustain our own population; poverty is ranked as the number 4 cause of death in the US. Until we solve our own wealth/poverty ratio we cannot compound it by accepting immigrants/migrants that only add to the problem.  Additi America cannot sustain an influx of 5000 to 20000 immigrants a day crossing our southern border. Regardless of our humanitarian wishes, it is not possible.

We must SECURE the southern border and do everything in our power to change the conditions in the countries that these people are coming from. Ultimately OUR only solution is the solution in THIER countries.  There is also the problem of almost unrestricted drugs flowing into the US, as well as guns flowing from the US into Mexico. Stopping record amounts or not, we are only catching a small portion of the amount being trafficked (see War on Drugs).

We must SECURE the southern border. Understanding that it can never be completely locked down we must do what we can to secure it.  Building additional sections to the wall where practical and adding additional surveillance and personnel would be a great improvement. Entry points and checkpoints are some of the weakest links. Additional manpower and technological improvements’ need to be made.

Making the border more secure will be expensive, but the cost of not securing the border is much worse. What is the cost of migrant camps, courts, transportation (both in the US and in sending migrants back to their countries, not to mention the cost of the War on Drugs that we are dramatically losing. These costs are just a small part of the total cost and to not even take into consideration of the emotional and physical cost to the migrants in getting to the US and then trying to stay in the US.

pol- War on Drugs

pol-51100 – War on Drugs

Drugs are freely flowing into the US for one reason. Profit. American gun makers are making immense profits from arms being sold to Mexican drug cartels. The Drug cartels are making immense profits from the uncontrolled drug proliferatin in the US.

nap-End of the American Nation

nap-3000400 End of the American Nation

America no longer exists as a nation. It has become 50 states bound together in name only. When citizens of one state must flee to another for sanctuary you can no longer say the live in the same country. America has become 50 states divided by bigotry, fear, hate, and mistrust.

We have already experienced one failed insurrection, will there be another one in 2024, or even sooner?

Over the last six years the Democrats have failed America. They have allowed the far right maga evangelical movement (Magelicans) to take over a majority of the political power of the nation. Magelican majorities now contorl most state governments and the United Stataes House of representatives.

Use it of Lose it..
The end of democracy in America will not come at the hands of the Magelicans. It will come because of the failure of democracy. The failure of the average American to participate in their government.