Everyone is equal in God's eyes

Mankind wishes to judge one another, and proves such, nearly every day of the week, by judgments so rendered, formally or not; and further to the point, mankind is often way too impressed over worthy accomplishments of other people, believing thereof, that these people of those accomplishments, are by their actions, better than they are. Additionally, there are plenty of people that judge their own self, in a manner in which they purposefully compare themselves to someone of poor character, and thereby declare themselves to be, superior to such.  In general, mankind spends an inordinate amount of time working on their personal place in the pecking order of life, never seeming to realize that in actuality, everyone so created, was equally created by God, and that such equality cannot ever be subsequently divided into castes, and therefore to believe so, is fundamentally flawed.

So too, many people believe wrongly that they have to "earn" God's respect and to win over God so that God will thereby love them.  In point of fact, we read in Holy Scripture, "…Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons," (Acts 10: 34).  This doesn't imply or mean that God doesn’t care about what we do and accomplish, but rather that God does not play favorites; for God values each of His children so created, exactly the same.  Those that are of a high ethical character may very well conduct their lives in such a manner as to be of good service to their fellow compatriots, of which, by doing so, they are helping to make this world a better place for their good deeds, and of which, they will surely reap their appropriate award for so doing; but that reward is not more love from God, or a special status with God, for all that they so desire from God, is already theirs for the asking, if only they would have the faith and the belief to accept this.

There are plenty of people in this world, that get up on their high horse, perhaps with justification, perhaps not; of which, that type of behavior works, when it works, only within this earthly plane, and has no place and is given no sanction, whatsoever, before the throne of our God, for in truth, God's throne is ultimately the one and only throne that so matters.  This so signifies, that lowly or high, evil or good, hard working or not, everyone is accorded the exact same respect and is counted the exact same way in God's presence.

If more people would take fully to heart, that we are all equally created by our God, and that our equality one to another is permanent, and unchangeable -- recognizing then therefore the importance of thereby putting forth the effort to live in good faith with our fellow brothers and sisters on this good earth, then for a certainty, this world would be a far better place to live and to breathe upon.  Therefore, do not make the error of either discounting others, or paying a premium for some, for each of us is made of the exact same substance, and not one of us, no matter the length of time so measured by mankind, will ever be left behind.

Interstate banking should be banned

In the present day, the United States has huge banking behemoths that collectively control or manage a significant amount of the assets of this great country, of which prior to the 1980s, this situation simply didn't exist; because legislation so previously passed, was done so as to limit banking institutions to their State of residency, thereof, and further that these financial institutions were not permitted to bank beyond the borders of their State of residency.  The primary reason why interstate banking is a grave mistake is the fact that when that government of, by, and for the people, does not restrict banks from crossing State borders, then inevitably what occurs, is that these banks become too large and cumbersome, and do thereof accumulate many ill and non-performing investments, that subsequently get labeled as being "too big to fail," and when that ensuing financial crisis does come, what thereby occurs is that those banks end up being supported and bailed out explicitly by the taxpayer's money, so that in effect, in good times, banks profit upon the citizen's backs, and in bad times, those same citizens make good on that banking greed gone so horribly wrong.

The United States of America is the richest nation in the world, and banks were created to be a depository of the people's money, for the expressed benefit of those people in regards to prudent loans and investments being so made; but what has occurred through today's interstate banking is that a significant amount of interstate banking institutions have made it quite clear that they are beholden to just one thing, which is the making of money for that bank, above all, and the people, thereof, be damned.  So too, when banks are restricted to just local communities, cities thereof, and their specific State, those banks typically make it a point to utilize their assets in conjunction with those communities, so that those monies so being deposited therein, are recycled within those communities.  On the other hand, interstate banking institutions, are national in structure, signifying that some communities thereof are quite obviously going to be net losers to those monies so being earned, deposited and dispersed, whereas others will be net winners; and of which typically the result of such, is the greater overall concentration of wealth into fewer and fewer hands and institutions, thereby making a very few being benefited and wealthier, at the expense of the many who are the losers, and thereby poorer.

In a country in which some of the States thereof, are so productive and wealthy, that if they were classified as a separate country, they would rank as high as fifth in the world, in terms of the size of its respective economy, has no ready need to expand its banking beyond the borders of that State.  It is proper to recognize that this country is a voluntary union of States, of which, each State has its own separate Constitution, for the express purpose to benefit those State residents; and therefore it so follows that regulated State banking institutions will therefore, more times than not, do what is best for those State residents; whereas national banking institutions, will, as a matter of course, do what is best for their bottom line, foremost, and care not a whit about anything else.

The lie of the "Lost Cause"

It has been said that the victors write the history; but that is only true, when that victory is absolutely total and those that are the defeated, effectively thereby have had their voice silenced, once and for all.  While there may be many things that those that made up the Confederacy so represented, one of those things that they for a certainty believed and of which was patently false on every level, was their fatally misguided belief that the Southern cause was noble and just, and that the Federal government was therefore the unjustified oppressors of those Southerners that took up arms against that Federal government; so done after the Southern States had lost a fair democratic election, so that such a belief then that the Southern cause was noble and upright is a great lie, and a primary example of why those that delude themselves into thinking wrong, subsequently have actions which reflect that wrong.

In point of fact, the South had nothing really to worry about when it came to their peculiar institution, of enslaving fellow human beings, within those States in which such was long established and legal, of which, the President-elect had made it vividly clear that he did not believe that he had the Constitutional right to interfere in such; yet, the South took the problematic position that to be precluded in the extension of that slavery within territories subsequently added as States to this Union, would bring the death knell of said institution, though even that belief, was fundamentally flawed as being unnecessarily too fatalistic.

The South, through its own arrogance and lack of foresight, took the words as spoken by President Lincoln that in regards to the voluntary and inviolable Union of States that he had a solemn obligation to "preserve, protect, and defend it;" as being the words of an oppressive dictator and further believed that Lincoln and that Union of loyal States would not successfully take up arms against their own compatriots, and therefore that the South would be able to secede from that Union, with nary a shot fired, or perhaps through a short war, in which the North would after being bloodied a bit, simply give up and just let the South be.

Instead, the South became the aggressors in a war that need not have occurred, and compounded that error by not taking in the reality that they were severely outgunned, outnumbered, and without a legitimate cause that European countries would support them in.  So then, that Confederacy of States, who took battle upon that loyal Union of States, did so, for no other real reason, other than their bigoted belief that the natural state of those that were of a darker complexion, was to be perpetually enslaved to the Southern white man, for the exploitation and benefit of that white man.

There are still some that reside in this country today, that believe somehow that the South was right and thereby justified in their cause, without seeming to understand that those that lose at the ballot, and thereby take up arms against those that are the victors thereof, have no moral ground to stand upon; and further that all those that abuse, exploit, and enslave their fellow human beings, are by definition, immoral, unpatriotic, and at odds with the eternal justice of God, which will not be forever denied.

Most people's understanding of freedom is fundamentally flawed

It would seem that in America, that this country prides itself upon freedom, of which, the concept held by so many people appears to be that true freedom, is one's ability to do whatever that they so desire to do, subject to some degree of reasonable laws, that thereby precludes doing stupid things that infringe upon other people's freedom, such as, for instance, gunning another person down in cold blood.  So basically, a whole lot of people believe that freedom consists in doing whatever that they will to do, and whatever that they feel like doing, and to just basically keep doing that.  That's freedom -- or is it?

In point of fact, in any situation consisting of a country of people, that believe wholeheartedly that they are entitled to do whatever that they want to do, is going to be a country in which there will be, indisputably, also a whole lot of conflict, because in that world in which each party believes that they are each equally permitted to that sort of freedom will inevitably stir up that trouble of conflicting and entitled desires colliding against one another; and of which typically such is eventually resolved in an unfair manner, of favoring almost exclusively those that are the rich, powerful, and influential who thereby dictate to all those that are not, the full measure of those laws enacted thereof, being applied unequally and unfairly to those that lack the wherewithal to preclude such.

In truth, freedom is never going to be and ought never considered to be, something in which it is a free-for-all for everybody, because that simply does not work; of which, we see the reality of that construct in countries such as America, which while preaching freedom, incarcerates its own citizens at exceedingly high and unprecedented levels.  Rather, freedom should be properly seen as an unalienable right that has been gifted to us by our God, for the express purpose of providing us with the choice of thereby using our freedom to perform good deeds for others, in accordance to the wise guidance of God.  In other words, those that have free will and freedom, should understand that it is in our ability to do right and to be good on behalf of God and therefore to be of aid to those that we congregate and associate with, that so represents true freedom, for that signifies that those so created by God, have paid the highest homage so possible to God, by voluntarily being godly in all that they say and do.

All those then, that take their freedom and decide selfishly that they do not desire to do the will of God, as per their free choice, have by that action, created sin -- and that which is sin, is not now and never will be in harmony with the good attributes of God.  Therefore, those that freely do wrong have essentially traded that which was freely gifted to them, for a false construct in which they profess to believe that they are entitled to those free actions, and yet, somehow can't come to grips that they have by so doing, traded their freedom so as to take into their hands instead, their free passageway into the very gates of hell.

More than 100 years of race riots

Some people may very well think that racial riots in America are of somewhat recent vintage, such as we saw in Ferguson, Baltimore, and Charlotte in recent years; but before that, there were also riots in Los Angeles in 1992 after the acquittals of the police officers in regard to the Rodney King beating; and well back in the 1960s, there were riots in many cities, including Detroit, Newark, as well as Los Angeles, again.  Though many people are familiar with those riots, it must be said, that these were not the first racial riots in America, for there were also some very violent racial riots in 1919.

During America's entrance into World War I, plenty of white as well as black soldiers were deployed overseas in order to fight that war, of which, blacks overseas though segregated from their own fellow countrymen of the white race, nobly fought and supported their allies in those battles; of which, blacks found that in many cases, the animus of whites towards blacks often displayed back home, was in many cases notably reduced, and that the European attitude towards those of color, was far more progressive than the narrow-minded bigotry so often suffered at home.

Beginning in and around 1916, blacks in southern States, recognizing the futility of their being forever second class citizens of those States, began their great migration up north, of which, because of the necessity of gearing up for World War I there were plenty of industrial jobs so needed for people, even those of color, within those factories, and once provided with the opportunity to work, blacks proved their able worth, day-by-day.  So too, upon the armistice so being signed and thereby ending World War I, the soldiers so deployed overseas, returned back to their homeland.  Those soldiers, especially of color, expected to be greeted with some degree of respect and appreciation by their homeland, but found instead, in many cases, the same historic disrespect that thereby discounted their sacrifice and their value, this of which the accepting of such was found to be a bitter pill that they no longer would be so acquiescent in swallowing.  Further exacerbating the situation, white soldiers returning home, were dismayed that jobs that they once held, were being labored upon by black hands, and further compounding their consternation, the wages that they were expecting, were being undercut by this new color labor, and tensions did so rise.

In the summer of 1919, a black teenager who was swimming, was stoned and thereupon drowned after violating the unwritten rule of segregation on Lake Michigan.  This thereby served as the tinderbox, for the racial riots in Chicago to be stoked and thereby fully enflamed into a conflagration, and of which, these riots soon spread to Washington DC, Knoxville, Texas, Arkansas, and Nebraska.  As might be expected, in an era in which blacks had no power, no justice, no guns, and were vastly outnumbered by those whites that had all of those very things in abundance, the results thereof from those riots were blacks doing most of the bleeding, most of the dying, and having their homes do most of the burning down.  In the end, there wasn't any fair justice served back in 1919, and there still sure isn't much fair justice being served here, 100 years later.

The Great Railroad Strike of 1877

The United States is a nation that conducts a whole lot of business, not only domestically, but also internationally, of which, to get products from one location to another, requires infrastructure and transportation to do so; of which in the present day, a lot of products are moved from one locale to another, through semi-trucks barreling along our interstate highways.  However, back in the 19th century, freight items and goods, typically moved through our efficient railroads, which was an integral part of the progress of these United States.   Not too surprisingly, railroads required a lot of labor to load and unload these freight cars, in which, one might think that honest labor for something of such vital importance, would subsequently be fairly paid.

In truth, as might be expected within a capitalistic structure with minimum government interference, those railroad barons typically didn't actually pay a fair wage, and in 1877, after cutting railroad wages for those laborers, yet again, those that were laboring, began their strike, which started in West Virginia and quickly spread throughout major railroad lines in this great nation.  The response by those railroad moguls was not to subsequently meet at the negotiating table and thereby come to a fair resolution, but rather to reach for their guns, and to thereby utilize the local militias to put down those that were striking, of which a violent conflict so ensued. 

Soon though, those railroad barons recognized that local militias would not be able to, on their own, successfully stymie this wildcat strike, so they thereupon turned to the Federal government and its federal forces, to save the day for them.  The fact that those federal forces, did answer the call, and answered specifically to the call of those railroad moguls, is a reflection that at the end of the day, whenever that government, of, by, and for the people, actually sides with those that have power, resources, and money to influence that government for their exclusive benefit; that what this country actually represents, in whole, is the few, at the expense of the many.

Thereupon, now with overwhelming fire power as well as the professionalism and training of actual United States troops turned against its own citizenry, the result that came to be was pretty much always going to be a foregone conclusion.  Those that were striking, thereof, were soon shot down with estimates of more than one hundred dead, by their own nation's armed forces; of which, the wages that they were legitimately striking about, therefore took a back seat to the demands of those that were the barons of the railroad; signifying that those that were simply trying to receive a somewhat reasonable wage for an honest day's work, received in return by their government, a belly fully of lead.

Yet, despite their defeat, those that did strike against the railroad moguls, were able to through their brave sacrifice, enlighten their fellow citizens, of the grave injustice of their being denied what should actually be a fair right for all citizens; especially in consideration for all those that were only too willing to work diligently in order to provide for their family.  Soon thereof, a national labor union movement arose from the ashes of this railroad strike being forcefully put down, helped along by sympathetic good people as well as with the aid of that Federal government bringing forth a more progressive agenda.  Alas, though, labor unions in America peaked in 1954, and have been in precipitous decline every since then; which is why the common man is still fighting for that respect, not so given back in 1877, of being paid a fair and living wage.

Exhaustion, real or imagined

Some people get tired or even more than tired and are thereby suffering varying degrees of fatigue, on a near constant basis, of which, undoubtedly, some of these people are suffering from something of a biological or of a mental origin which is creating or contributing to that debilitating condition.  Yet, not everyone that is exhausted or fatigued, actually is genuinely in that condition, per an explainable or plausible medical condition.  In other words, for some people, even unwittingly, their feelings of fatigue or exhaustion are part and parcel of something that they believe has a biological origin, or something involving some sort of brain malfunction or chemical imbalance, or in any event that has a reasonable explanation, but as in many things, that is not always the case.  Additionally, there is also all those people that logically become exhausted or fatigued when they are overworked, stressed out, or sleeping poorly.

Then there are those other situations, in which people seem to be absolutely exhausted, but somehow, when an unexpected phone call comes in, or an unexpected visitor comes by, or there is some sort of outstanding news, suddenly those that appeared to have no energy, become quite exhilarated and alert.  This reaction primarily occurs because life often consists of a lot of ordinary moments, in which living in a same day in and same day out routine has a tendency to become exceedingly dull and enervating, so then when something unexpected occurs, and especially when that unexpected event is something that is highly desirable, people awaken sharply from their slumber, and that dullness, so exhibited by their fatigue and exhaustion, simply vanishes away.

Yet, there are also those other situations in which people express exhaustion and fatigue, but there doesn't appear to be a valid reason why this is so; of which these situations often have a lot to do with a given person's position within a family dynamic or something similar, in which those that are expressing fatigue, are doing so not really because they are actually physically fatigued, but rather as a way to fight back against their perceived powerlessness against whomever or whatever seems to be bossing them around.  In other words, for instance, those that are in subservient positions, in which they know for a certainty that they will never have the upper hand, find that the only conceivable way that they can fight back, is to feign that they are too weak, and too tried, to do any more than what they are currently doing, and thereby do less of what they do not wish to do.

So what we find then, is that in this world, not everything always appears as it really is, for people react to the world as it is perceived by them -- the injustice of it, or the unfairness of such; all of which can thereby be manifested through the emotions so displayed.  We are therefore not just what we feel that we are in our body and our mind, but we reflect also in our mannerisms our take upon how we see the world and our situation.  Therefore, those that are in what they consider to be helpless, hopeless, or downtrodden positions, may well find themselves feeling exhausted and quite fatigued, because that is their preferred way of dealing with being oppressed.

Lies, damned lies, and the people that lie

People lie.  That is the truth of the matter and there are virtually no exceptions to this general rule.  While there are all sorts of reasons why people lie, and continue to lie, the most basic reason why people lie, is because they do not desire to own up to the truth of the matter; and thereby their lying is their way to escape punishment as well as fair justice so deserved by their having lied to protect their own self. 

The thing about lying is that even when those that lie, know for a certainty that they have been caught in a lie, they have a strong tendency, more times than not, to lie even further to defend and to protect what they were lying about in the first place, by concocting even more lies, whenever they are being directly confronted by someone that knows that they are lying.  Behavior like that, is toxic for relationships because obviously when a person has been knowingly caught in a lie, and thereby weaves even more lies in a futile attempt to either deflect from the culpability of the first lie, or to mitigate such, it makes for a distinct form of disrespect and a clear form of someone that represents dishonesty.

So too, when people lie about things that are relatively trivial, or at least not that big of a deal, the only proper conclusion that the offended party can come away with, is that the person so lying about this particular small matter, must thereby feel, for whatever reason, that they cannot willingly admit their lie, perhaps because they believe it reflects poorly on their character or is some source of embarrassment, never seeming to realize that by not testifying to the truth that their character is further tarnished, all the more, by failing to  own up to that smallish lie, thereby signifying for a certainty that they surely won't own up to a big one.

Then there are those people, that do sort of, or appear to, own up to their lies, but insist upon re-categorizing such as not so much a lie, but rather as something more akin to an error in judgment or an inadvertent mistake and thereupon come up with all sorts of reasons, excuses, and basically lies, to concoct a story that subsequently changes the facts or the circumstances of such, that it thereupon appears to be not so much a lie, but just some sort of misunderstanding.   The problem with this, though, is that those that actually make an error or have made a mistake, and have such honestly and without judgment pointed out to them, usually have little hesitation in owning up to such, and almost always thereby sincerely apologize to the other person for that error or mistake; whereas someone that is liar, doesn't bother to apologize for such, at all.

It wouldn't be so bad, if people that lied, did so primarily because they desired so strongly to be seen always as a paragon of virtue, but rather the fact is, those that lie the most, and lie at those times when to admit truth would subject them to some sort of punishment or admonishment, are people of weak character; that typically also insist that the other party always be honest with them, while they on the other hand, are conveniently dishonest when it so suits them.  The thing about habitual liars is that besides the fact that they lie, is that at the end of the day, they do not want to put forth the effort so needed to change their heart, but would rather prefer to lie about such a change of heart, instead.

Good, does not necessitate evil

In this world, we are confronted to varying degrees with those forces that are evil in nature.  For good people, the world over, the fact that there is so much evil being conducted within this world, is often quite distressing, and especially this is so for those that have great faith in God; for it seems as if this world, has separated itself from God, or even that God somehow lacks fully the omnipotence and omniscience so attributed to his Being.

The truth of the matter is that God is always good, and of God, there is no evil and no error, whatsoever; and because God is both immutable as well as being eternal, this thus signifies that all is well.  Yet, for those that are here upon this planet, all is not well, and clearly there is an abundance of things so occurring and happening, which is wrong, false, and evil; thereby making a lot of the faithful and true, quite nervous and clearly distressed.

It is wise to remember, that the rules of incarnation upon this dimension are not the same as what it is when we are outside of our bodily form; which thereby lacks such distortion, whenever we have returned to becoming pure spirit.  This planet, represents in so many ways, the desire of those that have been created by their God, to be, for whatever reason or reasons, separated from that which is perfection so as to thereby experience a form of life, in which, that separation has created all of the duality that we thereby come across, day-by-day. That is to say, encased within a physical form, thereby forms within our being, the duality of existing as being physical, yet, also as spiritual; and to the degree that we lose sight of the fact that we are in actuality immortal and in essence a spiritual being we thereby often find ourselves getting more encased into the physicality and therefore the dilemma so represented by our present material dimension. 

Further to the point, our body has innate demands that require food, warmth, shelter, sleep, and so on, of which because we need these things, as well as our being fearful of other things, creates the need or the desire to often do what we believe we have to do in order to get those self-sustaining things; thereby materially contributing to a persona of our giving in to our desires and because those desires will inevitably conflict with other people and their particular desires, this thereby becomes the most salient reason of why evil, so of, is subsequently created.

In other words, when our desires meet another person's desires, in which, each of those people, sees the other as someone that is not equally worthy or entitled to such, then that discord, thereby creates all the trouble thereof.  This is why we subsequently see this world as representing a perpetual war between the forces of good versus that of evil; of which, the reality is that evil could not exist, and in fact, does not exist, except within that dimension which has turned its back, so to speak, upon God's eternal law, in the fruitless attempt to somehow disbelieve in God's existence and relevancy.  All those that separate themselves from God, therefore live within a space in which they essentially are doing battle with their own self, believing wholeheartedly that this is a fight to the death; when in reality it is a fight to re-discover who and what we truly are.

Toxic relationships and selfishness

In the modern era of no-fault divorce, if one party wants to dissolve that which was joined together, "for better or for worse, and till death do us part"; signifies that sentiments and vows such as that, basically play no relevancy whatsoever, to whomever  wants to vacate said marriage; along with those in a serious relationship, for that matter.  No doubt, because it is so easy to break those bonds and in consideration that for the most part, society does not treat those that have been divorced or have left committed relationships, in a manner in which they have been banished from that society, there thus remains nothing much that classifies such as being some sort of disgrace or even necessarily of being in error.

Unquestionably, some people should definitely get a divorce, and no doubt, some people should separate themselves fully from a toxic relationship, but in view of the fact, that a significant amount of people that sever important relationships, end up getting back into another one; it might behoove people, in general, to understand better what may be the thing or things which went wrong or were set to go wrong, in the first place.

To a significant degree, a lot of what goes wrong in relationships of all different types, fundamentally comes down to selfishness.  In other words, far too many relationships are essentially a series of couples often talking pass one another, and simply expressing their own desires for their own benefit, and to the degree that the other person can help fulfill those desires, then that person is "loved" or appreciated, and to the degree that they do not, then they are "hated" or despised.

So then, whenever a relationship is fundamentally structured upon what the other person can do for a given person, then obviously there is going to come a point in which either that person so desiring that submission to their desires, will become disappointed, or that point when the person submitting to such, will get sick and tired of doing that, or both.  A healthy relationship, on the other hand, is always going to be that one, in which both parties to it, acknowledge that each of those parties, has intrinsic worth, and further that in order for two heads joined together to be better than just one, that those two joined together, must be in harmony with one another.

The grave mistake made in far too many relationships, is the wrong perspective taken by one of those members, or both, of believing that what a given person so desires, trumps all; as if the other person rather than having unalienable rights and therefore their own free will, is meant instead to be subservient to someone else, for that persons' particular convenience and pleasure.    So that, what often transpires, and thereby fools those that are part of those relationships, is that one party decides that they will be nice and considerate, not really because these are good attributes to have, but rather as a way to manipulate the other person to do what they want to be done; and when that other person no longer buys into that false construct based upon a facade, then thereby all is exposed for what it really is, which thereby leads to those relationships' subsequently falling apart.

God willing

There are all sorts of phrases that are in common usage, of which, those using such phrases, may or may not know, that the invocation of God into anything that a given person says, typically has very strong religious connotations to it; so that if one requests God's will to be done, then one's desire for that to occur should be absolutely sincere, or else that person is clearly a hypocrite or has taken God's name in vain.  Additionally, it is true that some people are confused about what God's will is or what it should be in a given situation, so the calling forth of the aid or the wisdom of God, certainly makes sense, if genuinely requested and adhered to.  Remember well, that we should always take into consideration that we are not automatons, but have been gifted by our Creator with free will, and if we are wise enough to desire that our will be in accordance with God's will, so much the better.

That said, this typically invariably leads to the question as to what God's will is for each one of us, of which, the only correct answer to that vital question, is to recognize that God's will for each and every one of us is always going to be correct, on point, and unchanging --no matter our given circumstances in this life; for God always and forever wills the "good" for each one of us.  That is to say, God's will, is that we do good in all that we encounter and contemplate upon, so that we thereby are just and upright in our actions with others.  So then, when someone requests God's will to pass a particular school test, or to get a desirable job; such a petition as that, is correctly answered by God willing that the result thereof be fair and in accordance with that which we have brought to the table for those endeavors.  In other words, for instance, to will from God, that we be accorded something undeserved because we haven't, for example, put forth the appropriate amount of effort or time to accomplish such, is not going to change the result; for our God is always and forever will be a fair and equitable being, so that, in essence, God does not play favorites, and never takes from one to undeservingly give to another. 

The petitioning for God's justice, through the sincere request of His wisdom or will, is something that most definitely has its appropriate place, and those that truly do desire to live within what they consider to be God's will, need to thereby live to the tenets of what God fully represents -- which is unconditional love, the willing of the good of the other, and the treating of each individual that we so encounter, as having equal worth with us; in the conscious recognition that we all are fellow brothers and sisters of the very same God.  After all, those that desire that God's will be done, but have not taken the time to actually comprehend what God so represents, or are confused about such, may not know that a truly sincere petition to God for His will to be done, necessitates always our humble acquiescence to it.

The African continent is projected to have more than 25% of the world population by 2050

Those that live in North America as well as those that live in Europe have a strong tendency to look through the prism of this world through their own perspective, which somehow misses the vital point, that the population of this world has already been ceded to the balance of those other countries which are non-North American and non-European, and that as in many things, size and numbers do matter.  For instance, for the year 2050, as projected by www.ined.fr, Africa is scheduled to have a population of 2,489,275 peoples, and Asia is scheduled to have a population of 5,290,263; whereas North America and Europe combined will have a scheduled population of just 1,135,686.  Further to the point, the median age of a given country or continent most definitely matters, for the younger a given nation is, the more productive that nation has a tendency to be, along with the salient fact that younger people consume as well as produce far more material goods than older people do, as well as the additional fact that younger people are far less of a burden upon the nation in regards to healthcare, retirement benefits, and other relevant things.

This world is fully realized, thereby signifying that there are no new horizons to be discovered, for all has already been discovered; therefore in today's world, such countries that formerly were colonies of European powers, are now independent nations and those up and coming nations, essentially want the very same material things that are so prevalent in our western societies of today.  The difference though, between those young nations in Africa in comparison to the United States and Europe, is that Africa has plenty of young people that they can avail themselves of and lean upon in  order to increase their productivity from their current relatively low levels, thereby accomplishing very impressive economic growth rates, that western nations will not ever achieve again; for those western nations, have the heavy burden of a great amount of old people, and an ever aging population, which is thereby supported by a decreasing percentage of young people, that somehow have to carry not only the weight of their own self, by also those senior citizens.

So too, one of the most important ways, that nations enrich their population is through the exportation of all sorts of goods and products, of which, there was a time when many a consumer good in America so imported, was labeled, "Made In Japan," which then was subsequently replaced by the ubiquitous "Made In China," and will by 2050, be replaced by "Made In Nigeria," or some other country in Africa, because those nations with the youngest workforces while also having very low labor compensation rates have an inherent advantage over all those mature nations that are ever aging as well as having to adhere to all sorts of rules and regulations, long established, by those subject nations.

The biggest advantage that Africa has over all other continents is that outside investment into their continent, is highly desirable by capitalistic enterprises, because Africa offers to those that have that capital, a far higher return upon that capital, than equivalent domestic investment in such, which thereby translates into a higher as well as a more sustainable growth rate for those African countries.

"Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever"

The above quote comes from the inestimable Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., from his seminal "Letter from Birmingham Jail."  Yet, those words written in 1963, have clearly not been successfully and fully resolved in America, despite the fact that there are plenty of laws so written, that provide equal protection as well as fair opportunity to all citizens of this great land, and further that stipulate that there shall be no discrimination based on race, sex, or previous condition of servitude; but these words ring absolutely hollow when they are not lived and breathed in the actual country that professes to believe wholly in them.

What we unfortunately have is that those that are currently oppressed are oppressed by those that have the power to do so, and further are kept in power by all those "nice people" that care not to stand tall for truth, justice, and liberty, but take instead the easy way out, by simply turning their heads away from the injustice that is clearly in evidence throughout the actions that thereby occur, every single day, in so many different ways.  Because those nice people, do not apparently understand that oppression has no place in a country that professes to epitomize liberty and freedom, than that country and its people, have blinded itself; yet it must so thereby recognize, sooner or much, much later, that no country in conjunction with those that are the hidden or visible enablers to such, can have that country ever successfully continue to excel or even to exist when it does not provide justice to those that estimably deserve such.

The answer to oppression, is not now, and never will be more oppression of those that do not have a voice, for even the very stones themselves will cry out for justice; for, in truth, justice never sleeps, but patiently awaits the actuation of such, by the conscious actions of all those people that subsequently awaken from their self-induced slumber of delusion to understand finally and in totality that we are in actuality all children of equal worth, created by the very same Creator, and therefore what hurts any one of us, hurts all of us.

Those that are currently oppressed need to be provided forthrightly with the same good opportunities so taken from them by those that oppress them; of which those that are currently oppressed, have been wrongly and unjustly denied fair access so needed by them in order to have a proper opportunity to be something of merit and to live well.  Those that fail to recognize the continuing danger of oppression so sanctioned by the state, fail to recognize that oppression of any kind never has a legitimate place in that country of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; of which it is quite clearly written into our incomparable Declaration of Independence that each one of us, has equally been manifested by our Creator with the very same self-evident unalienable rights.  Those that are not true to that which is truth, itself -- are thereby directly or indirectly, oppressors of that truth and the most unpatriotic of citizens.  In sum, we are all in this together, and therefore a people subdivided into the oppressed and the oppressors, is a country that will never rest in peace or have fair justice.

Accept the challenge

Far too many people aren't up for the challenges that life inevitably brings, but rather would instead prefer to either outright avoid them, or to simply live a life, which doesn't necessitate having to make the effort to overcome them.  That though, is really the coward's way, for a coward does not wish to risk his own endangerment, and will do everything possible to run from that which is right in front of him, which he has perceived as being one of trouble or of danger, though, it may well not be.

Those that have come into this world, with a real purpose, are those that have well prepared themselves to do battle with the forces of evil, oppression, injustice, falsity, unfairness, and wrong.  This thus means, that confrontations will occur between those two opposing forces of right and wrong of which this must and does occur; of which, the changes that we so often proclaim that we would desire to have, necessitate the slaying of that which precludes such a change, which thereby requires our forthright effort as well as such from those that have the same desires and mindset.

The very point of challenges in life, is to forcefully awaken us from the pathetic escaping of what we should actually be doing -- whenever we waste ourselves inordinately through distractions and mindless activities, so that we can instead thereby be shaken up from our complacency or tendency to such, to thereupon be roused to rise up and become the courageous lion that each of us has been birthed with.  We should welcome the opportunity to prove our mettle, for words are forever cheap, and it is in our actions, that thereby prove whether we are true to what we honor or not, and subsequently the result of such, makes for our having done our part to make this world a better place for our involvement in  it.

After all, nobody would bother reading a novel or going to a movie, if there wasn't some vitally important inherent conflict or trouble that the hero of such a story, has to overcome through great personal effort, much danger, and palpitating risk, in order to rightly earn what they have put their mind upon to achieve.  This signifies, that all those that want easy victories, and easy lives, are those that are cheap in their outlook, and cheap in their viewpoint; for every the most cursory of looks, indicates that this world and the people that live upon it, are ever in need, of a real hero to help aid them in overcoming the troubles so presented to them.

Remember this well, when we contemplate upon what our finest day or finest hour was, it is never that day or hour when we were relaxing in front of the television, or something similar to that; but rather it is that day or hour, when we stood up, even perhaps with trembling knees, and took on that which was wrong that stood menacing in our way, and overcame that trouble; for that which is false, or evil, or unjust, cannot ever long stand before that which is true, righteous, noble, and courageous, for determined good ultimately always vanquishes evil, and always will.

Our criminal justice system has consistently been unfair and unjust

When the United States became an independent nation, with its own Constitution, such arrived in a day and age, in which there was not a formal police system; but rather the governor of each individual State, was often the personage in charge of selecting each individual sheriff that thereupon was the enforcer of the laws throughout a given jurisdiction, and of which, the assistance to that sheriff, typically came from that community of people, itself, rather than their being some sort of formal posse or policing arm, so sanctioned by the state.  This thus signified that since the necessary help provided to the sheriff came from the people, that the people were more directly involved in the justice so served.  At the same time, this also meant, that personal prejudices against those that did not neatly fit into the orthodox beliefs of that time, were therefore more susceptible to prejudiced and unjustified legal actions against them.  Yet, to a very large extent, this is, when honestly examined, essentially true of criminal justice so enacted in the present day and age.

Back then, unlike today's courtrooms, with its formal trial conditions, the justice so rendered in colonial times, was far swifter, and typically consisted not of some sort of formal incarceration, but depended almost exclusively upon public shaming, as well as its corresponding corporal punishment. In addition, for those that were particular difficult malcontents, communities exercised their right to banish such from that community, under penalty of severe corporal punishment, including even death, if that given person was to be obstinate and to thereby return.  So then, unlike today's course of justice which is often slow, meandering, and cumbersome, the colonial times were all about nearly immediate punishment done in a manner in which the hope would be that by public shaming this would thereupon impress upon those bad actors the need thereby for them to subsequently conform to community standards.

Yet, as much as some things have changed; fundamentally a lot of our criminal justice system effectively is as it has always been.  In other words, back then, those that were connected, of high value and importance, as well as being well placed, were always treated differently by that colonial justice than such that were considered to be the rabble of that time.  In other words, those that had power or position in their own right were treated differently than those that lacked those very things.   So too, laws so written and exercised to be equally applied to all, were selectively applied and thereby exercised specifically against those that were considered to be thorns in the side of those "good" members of that society.

Although the United States, is considered to be a "classless" society, in fact, its criminal justice system from its inception, has always dealt with people according to their perceived class and position; of which, those that are in the upper echelons of that society, are almost always able to avail themselves of every loophole, appeal, and the full power of superb attorneys, as compared to all those that lack those very things; of which, the application of that criminal justice system, deliberately is done in a manner in which, those that lack power, class, and position, are subject to the full force of the law, whereas those that represent those very attributes, and are often protected from suffering from such.  So that, in effect, today or years gone by, those accused of a given crime, essentially receive the justice so correlated with the position that they represent in that society.

Plea bargaining is fundamentally an injustice and always will be

As reported in the nytimes.com, "…97 percent of federal cases and 94 percent of state cases end in plea bargains," of which that percentage of criminal justice cases so resolved with a plea, thereby reflects that in virtually all cases the accused is never actually convicted by an impartial jury, and this plea so made is not done through a public trial or through a public forum, but is instead a situation in which the accused makes some sort of plea deal with the prosecuting arm of the State or of Federal auspices; coerced or not, fair or not, which effectively becomes the justice so rendered in those cases.

The Constitution of these United States, guarantees that in "…. criminal prosecutions the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury," and is further entitled to "….due process of the law."  In point of fact, there is absolutely nothing within the Constitution and the Amendments to such that address directly or indirectly the very concept of plea bargaining.  Plea bargaining exists as a convenience as well as a tool for the State and for the Federal authorities; and it is effectively used as a shortcut to simply transact criminal cases in a manner of which suits those authorities, as well as allowing those authorities to exert an incredible amount of pressure on typically those that are not intimately familiar with criminal laws, the nuances of those laws, their Constitutional rights, as well as the fact that those so being accused of criminal actions, are often lacking both in the resources as well as the money to effectively fight back against those that are prosecuting them.

America has an almost endless list of criminal laws, of which, if the thinking is that each one of these laws are fair and equitable, and the corresponding punishment for such, appropriate; then it would behoove said country to actually go through the trouble of having public trials of all those so accused of those crimes, rather than circumventing such.  Certainly, if this were to be done, the very first functional problem the United States would thereby encounter would be the overwhelming backlog of cases that would need to be brought to trial along with all the accouterments that go with trials and their outcomes, which would necessitate more of the taxpayer's money being devoted to prosecutorial elements, jailing, judges, courtrooms, and the like.  Not to mention, that in order for anyone so accused to actually be convicted, necessitates juries of the people, consistently being willing to convict, again and again and again.

In actuality, though, if plea bargaining was no longer permitted, those currently being charged with various criminal offenses, would instead find, that after a relatively short period of time, that in lieu of the prosecution simply continuing to bully the poor, the oppressed, and the ill-educated till the end of time; that with so many cases being upon their plate, and with the plea bargain cudgel no longer being part of their perverted version of justice, that the criminal justice system would fundamentally changed from the current bastardization of justice that it presently so represents, to returning to that which would be of beneficence to the people, which would be to concentrate only on arresting those that have taken or interfered with one's life, liberty, or property, and nothing else. 

Plea bargains are never going to be a fair part of any good criminal justice system; in fact, they are a reflection of a criminal justice system, gone horribly wrong and terribly amok.

Always at war

The United States of America would not always be at wars all across this globe, if it actually was a living and breathing Constitutional republic; but it is only that on paper, for in principle it is anything but that. Again and again, the United States, trivializes the importance of its Congressional legislature, which is the voice of the people, so represented by those elected by the people in each of those individual States, and thereby bypasses the need for the Constitutional declaration of war by those representatives of Congress, and instead forthrightly goes about making war upon other nations, principalities, and inchoate elements such as the "war on terror", without any sort of legislative authorization or even a need to consult such.  Further, although the United States is both the principle founder as well as being the most important member of those that make up the United Nations, that does not mean that the United States, believes it has the need to or let alone is concerned with being ever held accountable to that august tribunal; for the United States, simply does whatever that it so desires to do, on behalf of the executive office of that United States, and in the obedient fulfilling of the desires of the military-industrial-technology complex, that answers not a peep to the people of this great land.

The United States has no interest in actually having a true, impartial and a fair dialog with other countries, principalities, or even those that they have classified as terrorists -- when they have some sort of dispute with such; nor is it ever of real concern for the United States to make a proper case for war, to its very own people, let alone to those that are their sister members of the United Nations, but rather the United States adheres to the only avenue that they believe is truly representative of what the United States stands for, which is force, first and foremost, and none else. 

This so signifies that the United States is the world's preeminent bully, though it does not prefer to be known by that moniker, but in essence, all of the attributes of a bully, are clearly that which represent those United States; for this country, feels it does not need to ever justify its aggressive military actions against other sovereign lands and innocent peoples, but simply takes war to any principality that gets in its manifest dynastic way, and any such principality that does not pay permanent and abject obeisance to this nation, will for a certainty pay the price for such disobedience, in one form or another.

The United States has no need for formal diplomatic relations with any other nation, friend or foe, because in point of principle, the United States' flag, bows down to no other nation; so then, there is no point in even pretending that an actual dialog between this nation and another, would ever consist of the United States at least listening some of the time to the concerns of the other, and thereby addressing differences between such, via a mature point-by-point basis, because in fact, the United States ultimately listens to no outside voice and nobody -- including not even its own people and their representatives. 

The United States is always at war, because it does not wish to deal with foreign policy in any manner that legitimizes any concerns or interests of those other principalities, especially that which would be considered to be relevant and sensible, but rather prefers instead to exercise aggressively its military muscle and thereby to bully such into submission.

Those that own shelter and those that do not

In America, home ownership is considered to be part and parcel of what helps define someone or some family that has achieved or is in the process of achieving that American dream; for one's home is really one's castle, and thereby a valuable sanctuary in what for a lot of Americans, is a life that presents far too often, a sea of trouble.  Further to the point, those that do not own their own homes, have the fundamental issue that they still have a need to have somewhere to rest their weary heads and thereby to have safe shelter, of which, without the necessary income, credit, or money to purchase their own place, no matter how modest that place might be, they are thereby left to rent what they can, for whatever price that they can rent such for.

As reported by politifact.com, in a report issued by the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard, "In 2016, households that spend over half of their total income in housing included about 11 million renters."  That amount of money being spent just to have a place to lay one's head down, does not take into account, the further monies needed for healthcare, education, food, utilities, transportation, and anything else of relevancy for a given family to thereby live a sustainable life.  So that, when any family is placed into the unenviable situation of having to give up more than half of their total income, just to have shelter, that means almost for a certainty that they are going to have to sacrifice something else, and maybe many other necessary things in order to have some sort of semblance of sustainability, while still being in perpetual fear and constant danger of losing that which they really must have.

Those that do not own their own shelter, are at the beck and call of all those that do; and when those that own shelter of all different stripes and quality are able to dictate to the helpless and poor the price of admission for that shelter, those that have no bargaining power and with little ability to travel outside their domain of current residency, are going to have to pay the freight for that shelter, without much wiggle room, whatsoever. 

While this country rightly understands the necessity of providing what is known as "food stamps" for those poor that qualify for such; it does not on the other hand, do nearly as robust a job at providing housing vouchers or housing subsidies or housing choices, for those that are in need of a helping hand for the shelter that they so require.  When any country, permits those that work hard for a living, to achieve that, without receiving in return a fair and living wage, then unsurprisingly, those people with that shortfall of income, are vulnerable to all the ills and troubles that not having the right amount of compensation places them into.  When the poor are precluded from being provided with good options to live in safe neighborhoods consisting of rent so being paid that effectively is a net amount reasonable for their given situation; then what happens, is that those poor are forever exploited by those that have or control that ownership, for the expressed benefit of those owners -- while that government of, by, and for the people, effectively looks the other way.

We all have an equal claim to justice

America is in theory, an egalitarian society, and therefore no respecter of people; but rather each of us is judged by our individual merits and what we therefore bring to this fabled land of opportunity.  This is the way that it should be, and this is what this country was founded upon, for able governments are instituted amongst the people, with the consent of those people, for the expressed benefit of the people; so that each of those people are thereby fairly entitled to the beneficence of that government, of, for, and by the people.

This signifies, that each us has equal claims upon what this country so stands for and fair claims upon what those that are its citizens, produce from it.  That is not to say, one for all, and all for one; or of each according to their ability, to each according to their needs, but rather that those that are the most successful amongst us, while being fairly entitled to the fruits of that labor, have also an inherent responsibility in their being a good member within a responsible and just governance, to thereby pay their fair dues through taxation and similar means so that this answerable government can subsequently provide a helping hand to those that are in good need of that helping hand.

This country is not meant to represent forever some sort of dog-eat-dog competition consisting of the strongest, cleverest, and the best connected, thereby having or taking the lion's share of the spoils from other people that are their fellow citizens; but rather in consideration that we each have a responsibility to that which has provided us with the good opportunity to be something of a success, we each thereby must recognize that through our inter-relatedness that we have an obligation to deal squarely with those that are our compatriots, without though being unfairly compelled by that government to do so.

One of the primary searches for mankind, is that search for justice, but not just justice in the formal courts of mankind's laws, but rather true justice in how we deal with one another, day-by-day, of which there must be a conscious recognition that a fair profit should be good enough for those that are inclined to such; in the fair understanding that societies invariably breakdown whenever there are only a very few that are the winners of such, and the masses thereof are subsequently left with just the crumbs, as well as often being left with reduced opportunities to make something of their own lives; therefore signifying  that the only way that such a country as that does not further devolved into outright revolution, is through the wrongful continual suppression of the people, through the force of arms and by a police state.

Each of us has an unalienable right to fair justice, equally applied to all, and that very government of, for, and by the people, is only that government which gets its legitimacy and its moral strength by the very fact that that government makes it their point of principle to enforce equally that law of justice for all.

God's justice and civil war

America went through a bloody civil war, caused by the Southern States deliberately rebelling against the Northern Union; this despite the fact that President Lincoln made it very clear in his first Inaugural address which specifically addressed the most salient concerns of those Southern States, stating that "the government will not assail you," without first those Southern States themselves being the actual instigators and aggressors to such; in addition Lincoln expressed that as President of this Union of States that he had the solemn oath to "preserve, protect, and defend" that Union, in which through a fair election, Lincoln was fairly elected; and of which those that lost that fair election, decided that they would not accept such and therefore they turned instead to outright violence to protect what they considered to be their most precious as well as their most peculiar institution.

And so the war came; and that civil war exceeded both the length of time that informed pundits believed such a war could or would be, with correspondingly incredible sacrifices by both sides throughout this war, with much violence and countless tragic deaths, as well as wholesale destruction and mayhem, of which virtually nobody believed this could or ever would be possible, yet this do so come.  Both sides believed that they were following God's will, of which, what was actually learned by each, was that though both sides were correct in believing in that will of God, they were each incorrect in their respective belief of what that will was; for each side did not recognize that God is forever just and that everything so rendered by God in this world, is forever righteous.

So then, as it has been written, the wages of sin is death. So that, if the slavery and the wresting away of another man's bread and his hard and unrequited labor is considered to be that sin; it can surely be expected that mankind's payment for that sin is going to necessitate a meaningful sacrifice to it.  There are, despite what mankind might wish to think, no free rides within the world of God's justice, and none get off scot-free from that which has been knowingly done as a selfish and self-serving disservice to our fellow brothers and sisters in this world.

Far too often, mankind wishes for that easy road, without taking into account, that those wrong and dangerous roads that meander and collide all over the place, and thereby create all sorts of strife, conflict, hatred, trouble, violence, and disputes, cannot be suddenly changed into that straight and narrow path, without a corresponding amount of collective sacrifice to that which is needed to thereby make what should be right, to be right.   Every violent lash upon the back of one's fellow man, is a lash that not only leaves a lasting scar upon he who is innocent, but it also is a lash that cannot ever be taken back, which is why that which is wrong, must pay the price, for its transformation into that which is right. 

Every country, as well as every individual should fearfully tremble at the knowing that God's justice does not and will not slumber forever, and further that our immutable and omniscient God is always and always will be absolutely just.