{"id":90194,"date":"2019-08-25T14:30:14","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T18:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=90194"},"modified":"2019-08-25T10:55:49","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T14:55:49","slug":"view-from-my-window-pt-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=90194","title":{"rendered":"A View From My Window – Pt. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Who can’t wait to dig in? (crystalinks.com\/Fine Art America)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Another viewpoint of what is going on, through some valid observations by Chris Sullivan, who is also a gun owner and writes about guns here: https:\/\/differentbugle.blogspot.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

From his article: :\u00a0\u00a0 https:\/\/dollarvigilante.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/24\/rome-didnt-fall-in-a-day\/<\/a><\/p>\n

One such person was a man named\u00a0Salvian<\/a>, sometimes called Salvian the Presbyter. He wrote a treatise that is called in English\u00a0The Governance Of God\u00a0or\u00a0De gubernatione Dei<\/em>\u00a0in Latin*. Its original title was\u00a0On The Present Judgement\u00a0and it is well worth reading to see how things played out then and probably always will. His purpose was to show that the then current problems were caused by moral collapse, excessive taxation and a greedy and conniving landed class, not an abandonment of the old pagan religion. Julian the Apostate who had made the opposite argument 70 or so years before, had tried to re-institute paganism and even tried to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem, presumably because it wasn\u2019t Christian and he liked practices such as animal sacrifice, but his efforts ended when he was killed in a war with the Persians after a short reign.<\/p>\n

These are more quotes from linked article by Chris Sullivan:<\/p>\n

One of the many things Salvian mentions that is starting to be more common in the U.S., but was unheard of just a few years ago is people fleeing the Empire and renouncing their citizenship.<\/p>\n

\u201cThus, far and wide, they migrate either to the Goths or to the\u00a0Bagaudae<\/a>, or to other barbarians everywhere in power; yet they do not repent of having migrated. They prefer to live as freemen under an outward form of captivity, than as captives under the appearance of liberty. Therefore, the name of Roman citizens, at one time not only greatly valued, but dearly bought, is now repudiated and fled from, and it is almost considered not only base, but even deserving of abhorrence.\u201d(pg.136)<\/em><\/p>\n

Just as Washington refuses to rein in its excesses (in 2012), the same was true of Rome around A.D. 450.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen, indeed, the authors of base pleasures feasted at will in most places, but all things were filled and stuffed to overflowing. Nobody thought of the State\u2019s expenses, nobody thought of the State\u2019s losses, because the cost was not felt. The State itself sought how it might squander what it was already scarcely able to acquire. The heaping up of wealth which had already exceeded its limit was overflowing even into trifling matters.\u00a0But what can be said of the present-day situation? That old abundances have gone from us. The resources of former times have gone. We are already poverty-stricken, yet we do not cease to be spendthrift.\u201d (167, 168)<\/em><\/p>\n

Note that this article was written in 2012, during guess who\u2019s? administration. Remember the idiotic lunch programs that had kids going hungry? And now the ecohippies want to get rid of meat of all kinds and follow only a plant-based diet – but they fail to remember that Homo sapiens – that’s us – is an omnivorous species. Everyone I\u00a0 know of is telling them to go suck an egg.<\/p>\n

Encourage people to look up those excesses and idiotic programs that failed and what we are seeing now as a by-blow result from it.\u00a0 The worst kind of governance is the one that wants to control everything you do, including the food on your plate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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