I enjoyed it. Listened to it twice. Dr. Meyer is one of my faves, up there with William Lane Craig and Steve Gregg (any relation? 😄)

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"Screwels" as Rush Limbaugh used to call them.

Communist takeover?

A little history lesson on liberty lost:

"Rich dad explained to Mike and me that in England and America originally, there were no taxes. Occasionally there were temporary taxes levied in order to pay for wars. The king or the president would put the word out and ask everyone to “chip in.” Taxes were levied in Britain for the fight against Napoleon from 1799 to 1816, and in America taxes were levied to pay for the Civil War from 1861 to 1865.

"In 1874, England made income tax a permanent levy on its citizens. In 1913, an income tax became permanent in the United States with the adoption of the 16th Amendment to the Constitution. At one time, Americans were anti-tax. It had been the excessive tax on tea that led to the famous Tea Party in Boston Harbor, an incident that helped ignite the Revolutionary War. It took approximately 50 years in both England and the United States to sell the idea of a regular income tax.

"What these historical dates fail to reveal is that both of these taxes were initially levied against only the rich. It was this point that rich dad wanted Mike and me to understand. He explained that the idea of taxes was made popular, and accepted by the majority, by telling the poor and the middle class that taxes were created only to punish the rich. This is how the masses voted for the law, and it became constitutionally legal. Although it was intended to punish the rich, in reality it wound up punishing the very people who voted for it, the poor and middle class.

“Once government got a taste of money, the appetite grew,” said rich dad..."

Creative.

I'm still agnostic on anything about aliens, except that, as a Christian, I do believe angels exist, and they are extraterrestrial beings.

Rich Dad Poor Dad

https://a.co/d/9WjKVK7

I just started reading this. (I know; I'm all over the place).

I installed nos2x and Alby. Does that mean I'm not a Normie? 🥹

And he died. The same day C.S. Lewis and JFK did.

The Palestine-Israel debate was apparently on the Bitcoin Standard podcast a few months ago. (I haven't heard it yet myself.) Here is the link:

https://youtu.be/JBFvMv0F26I

Jim Caviezel's other famous movie was also difficult to watch...

Good movie. I saw it back on July 4th, but it was difficult to watch. I had feelings of revulsion I hadn't experienced since I watched Schindler's List in the theater...

The parasite class

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I listened to a podcast with Doug Casey yesterday and two books he recommended were "The Principles of Economics" by nostr:npub1gdu7w6l6w65qhrdeaf6eyywepwe7v7ezqtugsrxy7hl7ypjsvxksd76nak and "Defending the Undefendable" by Walter Block. There was also a humorous discussion about how Saif trounced Walter in a debate about Palestine and Israel...

https://youtu.be/5EtuEv8rEUM

"Government has become ungovernable; that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless; that is, it cannot see where laws should stop. The chief feature of our time is the meekness of the mob and the madness of the government."

The collected works of G.K. Chesterton (ed. Ignatius Pr, 1987)

"AN ALMOST UNNATURAL vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old. It is the custom in passing romance and journalism to talk of men suffering under old tyrannies. But, as a fact, men have almost always suffered under new tyrannies; under tyrannies that had been public liberties hardly twenty years before."

G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy, chapter 7, “The Eternal Revolution” (New York: John Lane Company, 1909), 213.

"MAN IS AN exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head."

G.K. Chesterton, All Things Considered, chapter 28, “Wine When It Is Red” (London: Methuen & Co., 1908), 232–33.

“[Christianity] has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult, and left untried.” G. K. Chesterton