First I want you to know White Wolf, I did not watch the video. When I had time I could not bring it up and now I do not have the time
I also want to thank you for writing the Rant. There is a lot of good things in it most of which its not just about prepping food.
While putting beans, bullets and band-aides away for the up and coming TEOTWAWKI for the body, I think we also need to reconcile our past sins and get right with God for our souls.
In my earlier life I really got off track, probably being brought up in the 60?s and 70?s. My wife and I spent much of our time doing whatever felt good. This stopped abruptly one early morning when my wife was pulled over going the wrong way on a one way street in Seattle. The police report stated that she blew a .022. Later at trial, the judge told her you have two choices:
1) Pay the fine and go to jail or
2) Go to outpatient rehab. She took the rehab and has been sober since ? Twenty years in
March.
To this date my wife and I feel that God interviened as both of our lives changed for the better.
During those twenty years she went to AA meetings in 10 or so states and three countries until we came to RI. The meetings here were not to our liking. The reason and subsequent story I will save for another post.
Over our 35 years we have been together we have watched a lot of folks fall. There was adultery, divorce, substance abuse, violence, death, etcetera going on all around us. It seemed like as each year passed we had less and less friends because of divorce and death. One day a few years ago we asked again ?what happened? when our very best married friends got a divorce. In almost every instance it was due to people thinking about their own pleasure above all else.
We did a little research and what it came down to to us was once my wife had her run in with the law we both decided to not follow Baal (Bael) into his depths. Was my wife tempted to have a Tanqueray and soda or do another line of coke; yup. I use to travel almost all the time; consequently I had many, many opportunities to bed another gal but I never did. We just refused to follow that devil down to his pit.
Why do our countrymen think it is O-Kay to follow Baal. Well not to start another debate I think it has to do with the induction of ?the pill? into our society in the mid 60?s. Just look at divorce rates before 1965? Look at drug use or single parent rates pre and post the introduction of the pill to our consumers. Just food for thought.
Now it?s time to bring my thoughts back to my opening paragraph. Along with putting beans, bullets and band aides aside for our flesh we need to get right with God for our soul. We need to take with us into our BOL why these things are happening and will we learn from them. Not only do we need to show our children how to shoot accurately, we need to help them understand why they should not follow Baal into the pits of hell.
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