There are all too many people who exhibit a Will-O'-The-Wisp (“anything that deludes or misleads by luring on”) characteristic. The Encyclopedia Britannica indicates that: “in meteorology, a Will-O'-The-Wisp is a mysterious light seen at night flickering over marshes; when approached, it advances, always out of reach.” In some ways, it is similar to The Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz who silently lives with his fears due to his sense of inadequacy and perceived lack of Courage. He doesn’t seem to understand that Courage means acting in spite of and in the face of Fear.
On April 27, 2009 an article appeared in the Russian Pravda News Site. It is entitled “American Capitalism Gone With A Whimper”, written by Stanislav Mishin. Some of the shared thoughts are: “It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American descent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people…The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. But we Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the fists of the Marxists. Those lessons were taken and used to properly prepare the American populace for the surrender of their freedoms and souls, to the whims of their elites and betters. First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather than the classics. Second, their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different branches and denominations were for the most part little more than Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more than happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the winning side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another. Third, the final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed…has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America's short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more than another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Weimar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe…There came the announcement of a planned redesign of the American Byzantine tax system, by the very thieves who used it to bankroll their thefts, losses, and swindles of hundreds of billions of dollars. These make our Russian oligarchs look little more than ordinary street thugs, in comparison. Yes, the Americans have beat our own thieves in the shear volumes. Should we congratulate them? These men, of course, are not an elected panel but made up of appointees picked from the very financial oligarchs and their henchmen who are now gorging themselves on trillions of American dollars, in one bailout after another. They are also usurping the rights, duties, and powers of the American congress (parliament). Again, congress has put up little more than a whimper to their masters…Apparently, even though we suffered 70 years of this Western sponsored horror show, we know nothing, as foolish, drunken Russians, so let our "wise" Anglo-Saxon fools find out the folly of their own pride. Again, the American public has taken this with barely a whimper...but a "free man" whimper.” See: http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/pravda.asp.
Obviously, those who stand for nothing will fall for anything! An Earth Worm has more spine than many of our citizens. Too many are focused on what they deem to be their vested interests than they are to stand on principle and for what is right. They are willing to accept the inevitable without so much as a whimper. An illustration of this is in I Kings 18:21 when Elijah is in the Contest with The Prophets of Baal. “Elijah went before the people and said, How long will you waver between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow him; but if Baal is God, follow him. But the people said nothing.” Not a whimper! No demonstrated commitment! No willingness to be involved! No standing on principle! No courage in a vital cause! Just witless and/or wistful! No whimper or word of support for Elijah. More than 50 years ago, Paul Tillich wrote a tome with an intriguing title: The Courage To Be. He notes: “The breakdown of absolutism…” and observes: “In this the anxiety of emptiness and meaninglessness is dominant. We are under the threat of spiritual non-being.” That’s what Witless and Wistful Non-Whimpering Wimps embrace. Consider these things with me!
On April 27, 2009 an article appeared in the Russian Pravda News Site. It is entitled “American Capitalism Gone With A Whimper”, written by Stanislav Mishin. Some of the shared thoughts are: “It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American descent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people…The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. But we Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the fists of the Marxists. Those lessons were taken and used to properly prepare the American populace for the surrender of their freedoms and souls, to the whims of their elites and betters. First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather than the classics. Second, their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different branches and denominations were for the most part little more than Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more than happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the winning side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another. Third, the final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed…has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America's short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more than another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Weimar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe…There came the announcement of a planned redesign of the American Byzantine tax system, by the very thieves who used it to bankroll their thefts, losses, and swindles of hundreds of billions of dollars. These make our Russian oligarchs look little more than ordinary street thugs, in comparison. Yes, the Americans have beat our own thieves in the shear volumes. Should we congratulate them? These men, of course, are not an elected panel but made up of appointees picked from the very financial oligarchs and their henchmen who are now gorging themselves on trillions of American dollars, in one bailout after another. They are also usurping the rights, duties, and powers of the American congress (parliament). Again, congress has put up little more than a whimper to their masters…Apparently, even though we suffered 70 years of this Western sponsored horror show, we know nothing, as foolish, drunken Russians, so let our "wise" Anglo-Saxon fools find out the folly of their own pride. Again, the American public has taken this with barely a whimper...but a "free man" whimper.” See: http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/pravda.asp.
Obviously, those who stand for nothing will fall for anything! An Earth Worm has more spine than many of our citizens. Too many are focused on what they deem to be their vested interests than they are to stand on principle and for what is right. They are willing to accept the inevitable without so much as a whimper. An illustration of this is in I Kings 18:21 when Elijah is in the Contest with The Prophets of Baal. “Elijah went before the people and said, How long will you waver between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow him; but if Baal is God, follow him. But the people said nothing.” Not a whimper! No demonstrated commitment! No willingness to be involved! No standing on principle! No courage in a vital cause! Just witless and/or wistful! No whimper or word of support for Elijah. More than 50 years ago, Paul Tillich wrote a tome with an intriguing title: The Courage To Be. He notes: “The breakdown of absolutism…” and observes: “In this the anxiety of emptiness and meaninglessness is dominant. We are under the threat of spiritual non-being.” That’s what Witless and Wistful Non-Whimpering Wimps embrace. Consider these things with me!
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