> ..."this a formulation I first heard from Mark Passio, and have heard it in many places since): > > **If a law violates natural law, then it is morally impermissible.** > > **If a law comports with natural law, then it is unnecessary.** > > **Either way, the law should not exist."**

My Wife and I Got Rousted by the Cops

'It's the Law'—the mating call of authoritarians, psychopaths, Karens, and losers everywhere. (DN 4.YX)

The Founding Fathers of the United States didn't have the nearly 250 years of experience with a democratic republic to look back on that we do...

Doug Casey's International Man

Democracy Is the Ideal Distraction

How modern democracy serves as a strategic illusion, masking the influence of a powerful Deep State that manipulates both political parties and pub...

The U.S. #GovtIsTheProblem

Interesting episode on A.I. and spiritual implications thereto...

Fountain

The Theology Pugcast • Is Technology-Worship America's New Religion? • Listen on Fountain

Today the Pugs discuss a provocative essay in the English publication, AirMail by Tara Isabella Burton. In this article she explores a new and very...

I saw written on a curb today: "No ICE" Then I see written on someone's back car window: "I drink my horchata warm because I HATE ICE"

> As the Snowden revelations have shown, the state - deep or otherwise, will do whatever it wants, laws be damned. The mere existence of the technology [Palantir] is sufficient for terrible tyranny... https://w3.do/eFEK8FFI #GovtIsTheProblem #deepstate #bigbrother

I just created a "Following Jesus" group in the new +chorus app, for followers of the Messiah, Jesus of Nazareth, and those interested and seeking. All are welcome. Feel free to join and contribute! https://chorus.community/group/34550%3Adace63b00c42e6e017d00dd190a9328386002ff597b841eb5ef91de4f1ce8491%3Afollowing-jesus-mbkja553 #jesus #christian #bible #God

> 18 If someone has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and will not listen to them when they discipline him, 19 his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his town. 20 They shall say to the elders, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.” 21 Then all the men of his town are to stone him to death. You must purge the evil from among you. All Israel will hear of it and be afraid. Deuteronomy 21:18-21

I just read that one in three grown men say they haven't read a single book in the last year. Have you?

> "None more deceive themselves than they who think their religion is true and genuine, though it refines not their spirits and reforms not their lives." – Benjamin Whichcote *The Works of the Learned Benjamin Whichcote* (1751)

> "It is base and unworthy to live below the dignity of our nature." – Benjamin Whichcote, *The Works of Benjamin Whichcote* (1751)

> “The US has delivered 90,000 tons of bombs, guns, and other military equipment to Israel since October 7, 2023, to support the genocidal war against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, according to numbers from the Israeli Defense Ministry. The Defense Ministry said Tuesday that the 800th plane carrying US weapons arrived in Israel in the morning, and 140 ships have also delivered US equipment in the nearly 600 days since October 7.” > > Knowing about this genocide where well over 50,000 + Palestinians at a minimum, more than a third of them children, have been killed, burnt alive, bombed apart, and far more wounded and starved to death...

The Lesser of Two Evils: The Burning of Children Instead of Paper – Edward Curtin

The U.S. #GovtIsTheProblem