A Tribute To Those Who Served...

VETERANS DAY SUNDAY, 11 NOVEMBER 2012

 

It has already been written:  

"Veterans Day is an official United States holiday honoring armed service veterans. It is a federal holiday that is observed on November 11th. It coincides with other holidays such as Armistice Day or Remembrance Day, which are celebrated in other parts of the world and also mark the anniversary of the signing of the Armistice that ended World War I. (Major hostilities of World War I were formally ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918 with the German signing of the Armistice.)

Veterans Day is not to be confused with Memorial Day; Veterans Day celebrates the service of all U.S. military veterans, while Memorial Day is a day of remembering the men and women who died while serving.^[1]"

The American Heritage Dictionary of The English Language, Fourth Edition defines TRIBUTE:  n.  1. A gift, payment, declaration, or other acknowledgment of gratitude, respect, or admiration: put up a plaque as a tribute to his generosity.  2. Evidence attesting to some praiseworthy quality or characteristic: Winning the scholarship was a tribute to her hard work.  3. a. A payment in money or other valuables made by one ruler or nation to another in acknowledgment of submission or as the price of protection or security.   b. A tax imposed for such payment.  4. Any payment exacted for protection.  5. a. A payment or tax given by a feudal vassal to an overlord.  b. The obligation to make such a payment.

AS USED HEREIN --- SHOULD VERY MUCH LIKE TO OFFER A DECLARATION AND ABSOLUTELY ALL OTHER APPROPRIATE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT(S) OF GRATITUDE, RESPECT, ADMIRATION, THANKS, THANKSGIVING, AND MOST DEFINITELY THANKFULNESS IN GENUINE APPRECIATION OF AND FOR ALL OF THOSE WHO HAVE RENDERED GENUINE SERVICE --- SPECIFICALLY ON THE ELEVENTH OF NOVEMBER TO THOSE WHO HAVE RENDERED SERVICE TO THE MILITARY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA --- AND TO THOSE FOLK WHO HAVE --- PLEASE HAVE A WONDERFUL AND MARVELOUS CELEBRATION --- NOT NEARLY ENOUGH, TOTALLY INADEQUATE I TRULY DO KNOW --- BUT GENUINELY HEARTFELT...  SO PLEASE DO...

For me, it is and it quite ought to be in my opinion difficult to not notice 3. 4. and 5. in the above definitions regarding TRIBUTE and to ponder, contemplate, consider, and comprehend why it is exactly that the United States of America and us, its citizens are not making those sorts of payments to overlords, foreign nations, dictators, barbarians at the gates and so forth --- LONG MAY IT EVER BE SO IN THIS NATION... AND LET US ALL PRAY AND DO OUR PART THAT IT MAY BE SO...

SO, AGAIN TO THOSE WHO HAVE SERVED A GENUINE AND HEARTFELT THANK YOU...

And certainly, let us not fail to properly and appropriately REMEMBER their spouses, familial members, children, and yea even friends, fellows, and comrades etc. who also in so many, many cases have fully shared and borne the sacrifice(s) of the service(s) rendered...  Mean that, I really do...

THANK YOU is just so really not enough --- from the service of those in Colonial Times, The French and Indian Wars, The Revolutionary War, The War of 1812, The Civil War, The Spanish American War, World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, The Gulf War, The Iraq War, The War in Afghanistan --- THANK YOU TO ALL OF THOSE WHO SERVED IN WHATEVER LOCATION AND IN WHATEVER TIME PERIOD AND IN WHATEVER CAPACITY, THANK YOU IS JUST SO, SO NOT ENOUGH...  and as we read through that list of tributes in the above definitions and consider the taxes and tributes that we are not paying (at least not yet) we might ponder, consider, contemplate why exactly that is --- and bestow some GENUINE AND IN MY OPINION APPROPRIATE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT(S) OF GRATITUDE, RESPECT, ADMIRATION, THANKS, THANKSGIVING, AND MOST DEFINITELY THANKFULNESS IN GENUINE APPRECIATION OF AND FOR ALL OF THOSE WHO HAVE RENDERED GENUINE SERVICE AND TO ALL OF THOSE WHO HAVE SHARED IN AND BORNE WITH REGARDING THAT SERVICE AND THOSE SACRIFICES --- mean that, I really do...

From Valley Forge to Hill 937 to those Disembarking Higgins Boats (LCVPs) at Omaha Beach to "The Red Tails" (The Tuskegee Airmen) to... to... to... to... You know, really, words just fail...  How was it that Winston Churchill put it, Never was so much owed by so many to so few ...

The "CAPTAIN" (DEWAYNE REEVES) served; "STRIKE" (Michael B.) served --- GENTLEMEN, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE, YOUR COUNTRY AND ITS CITIZENS (well, at least some of them anyway) SAY THANK YOU --- AND IT IS HEARTFELT... Mean that, I really do...  And so do a whole bunch more honorable folk, yeah they're out there, they really are...

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE TO ALL OF THOSE WHO HAVE SERVED AND TO ALL OF THOSE THAT HAVE BORNE WITH THEM REGARDING THE SACRIFICE(S) OF THAT SERVICE --- THANK YOU...

A TRIBUTE:

 

Well, specifically, technically, VETERANS DAY, 11 NOVEMBER is for those who have served in the Armed Services --- The Captain (DeWayne) and Strike (Michael B) both have --- and if that we think about it, we the citizens of this still GREAT NATION, The United States of America (even if we too have also served, or if that we have not; don't figure anybody ought be left out of/on this) have much, much to consider, contemplate, meditate, muse regarding, and otherwise think about with reference to Declarations and Appropriate Acknowledgements of Gratitude, Respect, Admiration, Thanks, Thanksgiving and Most Definitely Thankfulness in Genuine Appreciation of...

 

As I think about it, it seems to me that The Captain and Strike are still serving...  Me, I get to witness this every day, Monday through Friday...  Technically not perhaps in the Armed Services of The United States of America, but whenever anybody of merit speaks regarding This Great Nation, and This Great Country, and speaks regarding The Greatness of It, it generally is that usually the Speaker specifies the Noteworthy and Praiseworthy Beliefs, Values, Principles, Precepts, Ideals, Freedoms, Rights, Privileges... that our Great Nation was built upon, that it has stood for, and that it still stands for, and we pray that it will continue to stand for --- and service to our great country and it's military or otherwise is usually in one way or another interpreted as service to, and accoladed for ---  that...  FAIR ENOUGH, SO BE IT, ALL THAT YOU CAN SAY AND THINK OF LAUDATORY AND SO MUCH THE MORE --- already said that words for these things are just so inadequate...  ALL THAT IS NOTEWORTHY, ALL THAT IS PRAISEWORTHY, ALL THAT IS LAUDATORY, AND SO MUCH THE MORE...  ONE NATION UNDER GOD EMPLOYING, ENGAGING, STANDING FOR , PROTECTING AND --- "STEWARDING" AND "SAFEGUARDING" REALLY --- THE PRINCIPLES AND PRECEPTS OF JUSTICE, JUDGEMENT, EQUITY, FAITH, AND MERCY --- GOD'S VERY OWN PRINCIPLES AND PRECEPTS AND IDEALS AND...  and no doubt about it our Armed Services have been instrumental in maintaining the continuation of those beliefs, values, principles, precepts, ideals, freedoms, rights, privileges...  and when that we say THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE AND GENUINELY MEAN IT --- I think that those things are what we are genuinely thanking folk for serving...  And, in my view/opinion all that is NOTEWORTHY AND PRAISEWORTHY AND LAUDABLE AND TRULY GREAT ABOUT OUR NATION AND OUR COUNTRY LITERALLY AND FIGURATIVELY DERIVES FROM GOD AND SINCE THAT WE DERIVE ALL OF THOSE PRINCIPLES AND PRECEPTS AND IDEALS AND SO MUCH THE MORE FROM GOD --- THAT WOULD MAKE US ONE NATION UNDER GOD AND THAT IS REALLY OUR GREATNESS ISN'T IT --- WHERE THAT WE ARE IN ALIGNMENT AND HARMONY WITH GOD AND HIS WAYS OF DOING AND BEING, HIS PRINCIPLES, HIS PRECEPTS, HIS IDEALS, HIS TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH, AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH, SO HELP US...  THAT IS --- where else are you going to get the principles of fairness and justice from --- politicians????  Where else do you derive "We Hold These Truths To Be Self Evident... " from --- monarchies????  Maybe we properly ought stop and think --- SELAH!!!!

 

SELAH:

• Selah (Hebrew: סֶלָה‎, also transliterated as selāh) is a word used 74 times in the Hebrew Bible – 71 times in the Psalms and 3 times in Habakkuk – and is a difficult concept to translate. (It should not be confused with the Hebrew word sela‘ (Hebrew: סֶלַע‎) which means "rock.") It is probably either a liturgico-musical mark or an instruction on the reading of the text, something like "stop and listen". Selah can also be used to indicate that there is to be a musical interlude at that point in the Psalm.^[1] The Amplified Bible translates selah as "pause, and think of that". It can also be interpreted as a form of underlining in preparation for the next paragraph.
• Pause, and think of that; stop and listen, and maybe there is to be a musical interlude at that point...

•     SELAH!!!!  SELAH!!!!  SELAH!!!!  SELAH!!!!
• "YEP," they're out there, they really, really are...          
•  SELAH!!!!

Well if our country is Great, and it is; and our nation is Great, and it is; because that which it stands for and upholds is Great, and it is; and service to all of that which is Great, is noteworthy and worthy of recognition and praise, and it is; is it then reasonable to take it all to the greater levels and to consider, contemplate, meditate, muse regarding, and otherwise think about and to ponder, HOW GREAT IS THE KINGDOM OF GOD --- AND HOW GREAT IS THE KING OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD --- AND HOW GREAT IS THE GOD OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD ---  AND HOW GREAT ARE THE WAYS OF DOING AND BEING, THAT IS THE PRINCIPLES AND PRECEPTS AND IDEALS AND SO MUCH THE MORE OF THE GOD OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD --- which is where and from WHOM everything that makes this NATION Great and what it stands for Great and provides its citizens Great and the whole rest of the world quite literally benefits from greatly --- comes from --- IF ALL THAT IS GREAT ABOUT ALL OF IT DERIVES FROM GOD --- THEN WE REALLY DO WANT TO BE ONE NATION UNDER GOD --- DON'T WE --- COME ON --- THINK ABOUT IT...  REALLY...  SELAH...  COME ON, SING WITH ME...  COME ON...  COME SING WITH ME...

• "YEP," they're out there, they really, really are...
•  SELAH

  

Without any question, shadow, or doubt whatsoever in my mind, those who have served in The Armed Forces of The United States of America with regard to upholding, protecting and defending all of those "things" aforementioned and all of those that have shared in the sacrifice(s) and borne the burden(s) with them are far, far, more than worthy of our appreciation, praise and recognition.  Nonetheless, the United States Military operates primarily in the temporal realm as the "enforcement arm" if that you will, and by their own admission enforce and execute "The Policies" of our elected officials (oft referred to by the upper echelon of the military as "The Suits") that is, "The Suits" make (legislate) Policy and then where applicable the military and its personnel enforce and execute that/those Policy/Policies...  (the same is also true to one degree or another of our Law Enforcement Departments throughout the land and the judicial system as a whole, or at least it is supposed to be that way)...  That ought bring home the importance of our elections and the importance of what our elected officials believe, value, hold as Principles, Precepts, Ideals, Ways of Doing and Being if that you will, et al...  So all that can and should be said with regard to those who have served and all of those that have shared with them in the burden(s) and sacrifice(s) of that service --- all of that and more really is only fair, right, and appropriate...

  

Nonetheless, at least in my view and opinion, there most definitely are greater, far greater in my view, realms and dimensions to appropriately be considered...  I honestly cannot FOR THE LIFE THAT IS IN ME come up with any good, cogent, compelling reason whatsoever to limit any of this at all merely to the temporal realm.  If that you sit for a reasonable while on the proverbial park bench and think it through with some appropriate degree of probity ---seems to me that the ultimate conclusion becomes more than obvious that what is GREAT about our Nation, our Country, our System of Government, etc. is really THE PRINCIPLES AND PRECEPTS AND IDEALS, THAT IS, THE WAYS OF DOING AND BEING (INCLUDING JUDGEMENT, JUSTICE, EQUITY, FAITH AND MERCY) that REALLY, REALLY have been derived over time FROM OUR GOD!!!!  So, I honestly cannot FOR THE LIFE THAT IS IN ME come up with any good reason whatsoever to limit any of this to the temporal or to not GIVE/OFFER A DECLARATION AND ABSOLUTELY ALL OTHER APPROPRIATE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT(S) OF GRATITUDE, RESPECT, ADMIRATION, THANKS, THANKSGIVING, AND MOST DEFINITELY THANKFULNESS IN GENUINE APPRECIATION OF AND FOR ALL THAT HAS BEEN MADE AVAILABLE TO US AND QUITE LITERALLY HAS BEEN BESTOWED UPON US AND ENTRUSTED TO US --- BY OUR GOD --- HOW GREAT IS OUR GOD --- FATHER, SON, AND HOLY SPIRIT --- That is my honest opinion, view, thinking and belief...  SELAH...

  

Said above, "As I think about it, it seems to me that The Captain and Strike are still serving... Me, I get to witness this every day, Monday through Friday..."  This is true, this is so.  Recently, on the CFRN.NET Live Radio Broadcast The Captain went into what I for one considered to be reasonably great length and breadth and depth with regard to the whole process involved in naming what I consider to be this great (I'll go so far as to say God's Very Own, at least so far) venture and adventure, THAT IS THIS, THE CHRISTIAN FINANCIAL RADIO NETWORK and exposited with clarity why that it was not named The Financial Christian Radio Network, or The Radio Network of Financial Christians, or The Network of Financial Christians on Radio and so forth...  The Captain did indeed exposit at least some of all that was involved in the naming of, and it was a reasonably extensive exposition...  Obviously was more than quite evident that a ton of Prayer, Seeking God, Thought, Consideration, and quite probably at least one or more than one God-Seeking, Bible-Believing, God-Knowing Grandma, and so much more was involved in the process...  Well, why bore us with all of that one might ask, we want to know whether to be long, short, or flat the S&P, the Emini, and...  Well, for those that have read The Book of Genesis, you know that all seed produces after its own kind because that is the way that God in the beginning engineered the system and that is why that WE NAME OUR BUSINESSES, CHURCHES, ENTERPRISES, etc. et al. so that they can produce after their own kind --- in other words, you have to name the seed, you did that with your own children, didn't you...  (If you have children, if you are gonna have children, it is highly probable [trader talk] that you will name them...)

  

And, since it is my firm opinion and belief and point of view and perspective that everything that is TRULY GREAT regarding everything aforementioned in this writing is CONCEPTUALLY, FIGURATIVELY, AND INDEED QUITE LITERALLY, DERIVED FROM GOD --- FATHER, SON, AND HOLY SPIRIT --- HIS WAYS OF DOING AND BEING --- HIS PRINCIPLES AND PRECEPTS AND IDEALS (INCLUDING JUDGEMENT, JUSTICE, EQUITY, FAITH AND MERCY) --- AND THAT THIS IS FROM WHERE AND FROM WHOM THE (AND ALL) GENUINE AND TRUE GREATNESS DERIVES --- imagine if you will THE GENUINE SHOCK AND AWE (to borrow a Rumsfeld phrase; actually more appropriately attributed to Ullman and Wade circa 1996, but Rumsfeld did make it famous) quite literally that ENGULFED me when that I stumbled over this in BROTHER DEWAYNE'S "LETTERS TO THE ES ALONIANS" AKA (ALSO KNOWN AS) THE CFRN.NET BLOG which obviously BROTHER DEWAYNE writes pretty much on a daily basis, at least Monday through Friday (hey, according to The Bible, even a farm animal is supposed to get a Sabbath Rest) at any rate consider THE SHOCK AND AWE THAT QUITE LITERALLY ENGULFED me when that I stumbled across this in The Captain's penmanship (reprinted here virtually verbatim and quite hopefully with permission; this is from the CFRN.NET Blog Posting Dated 23 October, 2012 @ 10:36 P.M. Pacific Time --- and the 23rd of October By The Way is The Captain's Birthday --- so at least we all know what that he was doing on his birthday, or at least we think that we do... :-)

  

"What is CFRN's Educational Mission Statement as you originally defined it?"

I stroked the stubble on my chinny-chin-chin, and quoted it verbatim:

"To equip and train believers around the world to become traders
for the purpose of accomplishing God's call on their life.
To recognize that not all men are called to become traders.
To steward those placed in our path with love and grace."

 

THE SHOCK AND AWE THAT QUITE LITERALLY ENGULFED me when that after I had read that and it began to really sink in ---"YEP," that is entirely accurate and is entirely appropriate and is the entirely correct way to express --- THE SHOCK AND AWE THAT QUITE LITERALLY ENGULFED me when that after I had read that and it began to really sink in ---"YEP!!!!"   SELAH...

  

Have a really, really GOOD FRIEND that I am endeavoring to develop an even deeper and better RELATIONSHIP with on so many levels, one of those incredibly rare FRIENDS that you actually really, really can trust...  HIS SHORT NAME IS "THEO" and I am really working on developing one of those BFF relationships (Best Friends Forever) that you hear so much about in the world of tweet speak...  At any rate, we were recently discussing some issues of various sorts, doing some compare and contrast analysis with regard to what I believe to be THE GENUINE DIFFERENCE AND TRUE VALUE ADDED OF CFRN.NET, THAT IS, THE CHRISTIAN FINANCIAL RADIO NETWORK (with GREAT, GREAT, EMPHASIS ON THE WORD "CHRISTIAN" as exposited, illuminated, elucidated, and well explained by The Captain recently on The CFRN.NET Live Radio Broadcast) and the notions of GENUINE VALUE ADDED, INTEGRITY, TRANSPARENCY, INTELLECTUAL HONESTY, LENGTH, BREADTH, DEPTH AND HEIGHT (daily as regards markets, price, volume, candlesticks, trends, channels, Fibonacci numbers, pullbacks...) and so very, very much more...  Have some personal experience with quite more than a few of what holds themselves out be CFRN.NET's competitors/competition --- "THEO" and I were discussing what that after a while becomes obvious and easy to spot in my opinion and view (just one Ghost Rider's opinion of course, and I do believe "THEO's") sales gimmicks, psychological manipulation, emotional exploitation, whole-sale fear of not getting in on the "latest, greatest mousetrap, while the getting is good and before you're the last one on your block that did not get your piece of that particular mousetrap pie..." (yuck, what an unappetizing notion that, that truly is...) you know, the train left the station and you weren't on it but you can be now, just get out your credit card and in ten days or whatever you'll be ordering your new Beamer...  Well, as I said my GOOD FRIEND, "THEO" and I were discussing all of this and the notion came up, "They seem IN MY OPINION (CFRN's purported competitors/competition) to tread quite heavily in the sales and psychological and fear manipulation paths and put forth big huge amounts of big schtick..."  I expressed this to "THEO" fully expecting HIM to be impressed by my interpolation of the sayings of that other Theo brought to bear on the subject at hand --- that is, the competitors/competition in my opinion and view (you are more than welcome and invited and encouraged to do your own analysis, to have your own opinions and views, and to develop your own BFF Relationships...) that most of these, "Walk/tread very heavily in the psychological, sales, emotional, intimidation and manipulation departments while carrying and promoting very big schtick."  'THEO" informed me that I had actually misinterpreted the other Theo (Theodore Roosevelt) and actually had the quote wrong and that if that I was going to keep this up that maybe I should change my Nom De Plume from Ghost Rider to Rough Rider ("THEO" IS INCREDIBLY BRILLIANT, it gets downright embarrassing at times, it really does...) Huh, Duh, What????  Go look it up says "THEO."  Of course, guess WHO was correct, quite as usual:  

  

•   http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_President_exclaimed_Walk_softly_but_carry_a_big_stick
• What Theodore Roosevelt said was not "walk softly but carry a big stick" as is often mis-quoted. He gave his famous quote during a speech in 1903:

  There is a homely old adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.

So then "THEO" communicates if that you (meaning me, or to go along with the Nom De Plume thing, moi) want to really "GET IT" "RIGHT,"  then "SPEAK SOFTLY AND CARRY A/THE BIG GOD" --- huh, duh, what????  Oh yes, says "THEO," have you not read ---  Philippians 2:13  For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.  Philippians 2:12-14 (in Context) Philippians 2 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations  As I said, "THEO" IS INCREDIBLY BRILLIANT, it gets downright embarrassing at times, it really does...  "SPEAK SOFTLY AND CARRY A/THE BIG GOD..."  I, personally, have learned and am in the continuous process of ever learning that it is a bit, a very big bit, ludicrous arguing with "THEO..."   "YEP."  Just ludicrous...   "SPEAK SOFTLY AND CARRY A/THE BIG GOD..."   Probably a good way to walk too, have to discuss that with "THEO" and get confirmation...  What followed next was an extensive Scriptural discussion, well tutorial really, and emphatically I was not the tutor --- would include it but it was pretty extensive --- maybe next time...

 

Well here's the Truth of it regarding what actually happened --- already told you about: "THE SHOCK AND AWE THAT QUITE LITERALLY ENGULFED me when that after I had read that and it began to really sink in ---'YEP,' that is entirely accurate and is entirely appropriate and is the entirely correct way to express --- THE SHOCK AND AWE THAT QUITE LITERALLY ENGULFED me when that after I had read that and it began to really sink in ---'YEP!!!!'  SELAH..."  And then "THEO" the equivalent of downloads on me "SPEAK SOFTLY AND CARRY A/THE BIG GOD..."  I would say that I about became unglued, but the plain truth of the matter is that the elastic in my socks and certain unmentionable parts of my under armor to be polite (Powderhorn is so much gutsier in some things than that I am) just absolutely got fried --- flat out fried...  Smell of burnt elastic (metaphorically) all over the place...  "YEP."  SELAH...

  

"What is CFRN's Educational Mission Statement as you originally defined it?"

I stroked the stubble on my chinny-chin-chin, and quoted it verbatim:

"To equip and train believers around the world to become traders
for the purpose of accomplishing God's call on their life.
To recognize that not all men are called to become traders.
To steward those placed in our path with love and grace."

 

THE SHOCK AND AWE THAT QUITE LITERALLY ENGULFED me when that after I had read that and it began to really sink in ---"YEP," that is entirely accurate and is entirely appropriate and is the entirely correct way to express --- THE SHOCK AND AWE THAT QUITE LITERALLY ENGULFED me when that after I had read that and it began to really sink in ---"YEP!!!!" SELAH...

  

"To equip and train believers around the world to become traders
for the purpose of accomplishing God's call on their life.
To recognize that not all men are called to become traders.
To steward those placed in our path with love and grace."

 

Well I absolutely defy anybody to tell me that, that ain't gonna constitute GENUINE SERVICE worthy of RECOGNITION if that it is carried out and executed correctly...  "YEP!!!!"  SELAH...

 

Some might actually interpret that as a MISSION STATEMENT, and anybody who has served in the Armed Services of the United States of America well knows what that the word MISSION means...  SELAH...  And, in fair, right, and appropriate in my view and opinion, consideration of all that which has been shared in this writing above as relates to GREATNESS AND WHERE AND FROM WHOM IT EMANATES AND IS DERIVED and concerning those who have rendered LEGITIMATE SERVICE in that regard --- certain words from those words just quite literally jump off the page at one, if that one is paying any sort of attention whatsoever...  For the Armed Services of The United States of America, The Commander-In-Chief is The President of The United States and The Government of The United States derives its powers and authorities from The Constitution of The United States basically inclusive of The Amendments, A COVENANT DOCUMENT --- in the KINGDOM OF GOD, The Commander-In-Chief is The KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS --- THAT IS, OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS, THE CHRIST, AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD DERIVES ITS POWERS AND AUTHORITIES ----  THAT IS, THE PRINCIPLES AND PRECEPTS AND IDEALS, THAT IS, THE WAYS OF DOING AND BEING (INCLUDING JUDGEMENT, JUSTICE, EQUITY, FAITH AND MERCY)  FROM THE GOD OF THE KINGDOM AND THESE ARE DETAILED IN THE WORD OF GOD AND THE NEW COVENANT --- ANOTHER COVENANT DOCUMENT --- JUST FAR, FAR SUPERIOR at least in my view and opinion and belief...  SELAH...  Well, you THE READER are more than welcome, invited, and yea even encouraged to do your own probative analysis, compare and contrast, hopefully with intellectual honesty and integrity and determine for yourself which that you believe is superior to which and which derives from which and from where, and which came first, and which supersedes which...  SELAH...

 

To take a closer look we can examine our founding documents (no, not going to go fully into that here, will touch on it briefly but this piece is getting long; but here's a couple of links for you to get started if that you are so inclined: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence and  http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution  ) from that first link:

 

• We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from...

Well, it ought to be more than INCREDIBLY SELF-EVIDENT THAT HUMAN BEINGS IN OTHER PLACES AND WITH OTHER BELIEF SYSTEMS ON THIS VERY PLANET EMPHATICALLY DO NOT HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT AND WELL MAY NOT EVEN HOLD THEM TO BE TRUTHS AT ALL --- JUST READ HISTORY AND EVALUATE CURRENT EVENTS AND OTHER SYSTEMS OF GOVERNMENT!!!!  SELAH!!!!  Seems to me, that so much of what the "Average Citizen" so easily and in my view and opinion so carelessly and obtusely takes for granted regarding the FREEDOMS, RIGHTS, PRIVILEGES AND SO FORTH AFFORDED TO ITS CITIZENS IN AND BY THIS GREAT NATION OF OURS AND QUITE LITERALLY PURCHASED, DEFENDED, SAFEGUARDED, AND HELD SACRED IN AND BY THE BLOOD, SWEAT, AND OFT TIMES INDEED TEARS OF THOSE WHO HAVE LEGITIMATELY SERVED AND THOSE WHO HAVE SUPPORTED AND BORNE WITH (Gee whiz, what really does that so remind one of --- Purchased In and Safeguarded By The Blood of...  Built Upon The Foundation of...)  SELAH...

 

Not totally sure where that I first heard it said but heard it said I did --- "Whatever one does not know how to properly honor, value, appreciate, and to esteem, they will inevitably abuse, and then they will inevitably lose..."

 

"YEP!!!!"

 

And for anyone who has listened to the CFRN.NET Live Radio Broadcast most likely more than once --- ought in my opinion be pretty clear that there are those who view the Freedoms, Rights, and Privileges that we enjoy as citizens in this Great Nation as Sacred Entrustments which need be Safeguarded, Esteemed, Held Up, Protected, Defended,Valued, Appreciated, Honored and EMPHATICALLY NOT ABUSED OR TAKEN FOR GRANTED (Please Think About What That It Cost Those Who Served To Purchase Them On Our Behalf, Please Do...) as is very definitely and emphatically the case in my opinion and view regarding any of the SACRED ENTRUSTMENTS, FREEDOMS, RIGHTS, PRIVILEGES... THAT HAVE BEEN BESTOWED UPON AND ENTRUSTED TO US BY OUR GOD --- SELAH...  Just because we have all of these now, does not at all mean that we cannot lose them ---JUST READ HISTORY --- JUST READ THE BIBLE --- SELAH...  THESE SACRED ENTRUSTMENTS EMPHATICALLY NEED BE AND EMPHATICALLY ARE EXPECTED TO BE PROPERLY STEWARDED BY US --- SELAH...

 

Well, how about this to contemplate,  "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence) --- WOULD SOMEBODY PLEASE EXPLAIN TO ME EXACTLY WHO THAT "THEIR CREATOR" IS, WHAT EXACTLY THAT THEY ARE ENDOWED BY "THEIR CREATOR WITH," AND WHAT EXACTLY AN UNALIENABLE RIGHT IS????  PLEASE!!!!  (While you are at it you might care to Opinion Blog and explain to me why it is that so many "high churchman????" seem to think and believe that they are our creator, that they have endowed us with certain quite alienable rights, that emphatically all men are not created equal that there is a vast difference between the laity and the deity and in that regard they consider the deity to be them, and that among those quite alienable rights that they have bestowed upon us, among these are to vicariously [guess that they get this from their self appointed titles as vicars {vicar- to take the place of, to be the replacement for --- emphatically does not matter what denomination or what sect; emphatically not picking on any particular denomination or sect here, especially not yours, addressing the notion, the underlying principle and precept and the underlying principles and precepts of --- nonetheless, if the shoe fits then it probably is your shoe and only you can do something about your shoes}or something --- NOBODY, BUT NOBODY TAKES OR EVEN CAN TAKE THE PLACE OF THE VICAR OF GOD, THAT IS, JESUS --- THE CHRIST, --- AND NOBODY, BUT NOBODY HAS BEEN SENT TO LEAD AND TO GUIDE US AND EVERYBODY ELSE INTO ALL OF THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH, AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH, SO HELP US GOD, THE ONLY ONE THAT REALLY, REALLY CAN --- BUT THE HOLY SPIRIT OF THE LIVING GOD --- NOBODY BUT NOBODY TAKES THE PLACE OF THE HEAD OF THE CHURCH, JESUS --- THE CHRIST, OR THE HOLY SPIRIT OF THE LIVING GOD --- AIN'T EVEN POSSIBLE --- IT WOULD IN MY VIEW AND OPINION BE HYSTERICALLY FUNNY THAT SOMEBODY COULD EVEN BE SO STUPID AS TO THINK THAT THEY ACTUALLY COULD IF THAT IT WASN'T SO TRAGIC SO OFTEN WITH ABSOLUTELY HEART RENDING AND HEART BREAKING CATASTROPHIC RESULT --- if you do not believe that please go read The Fourteenth Through The Seventeenth of The Gospel of John as many thousands of times as possible, particularly from The Amplified Bible {The Amplified Bible oft comes across a little louder you see} AND INDEED THE WHOLE REST OF THE NEW COVENANT {obfuscatingly or obfuscatorily referred to as The New Testament}  PLEASE DON'T TAKE ANYBODY ELSE'S OPINION AND/OR WORD FOR ANYTHING AS ETERNALLY IMPORTANT TO YOU AS THAT --- DO YOUR OWN WORK, DO YOUR OWN READING, DO YOUR OWN SEEKING, DO YOUR OWN PRAYING, AND ALL THE REST THAT GOES WITH... AND COME TO THE PLACE OF MAKING UP YOUR OWN MIND IN A WELL INFORMED AND INTELLIGENT MANNER IF THAT YOU AS A FREE MORAL AGENT SO CHOOSE --- IS TOTALLY YOUR OWN CHOICE AND CHOICES YOU KNOW --- I AIN'T HERE TO TELL ABSOLUTELY ANYBODY WHAT TO DO, OR WHAT TO BELIEVE, BUT I DO HAVE OPINIONS ON WHAT IS WELL INFORMED AND INTELLIGENT --- DON'T YOU????  WHAT DO YOU THINK????] to vicariously live out your life through theirs???? like as watching football or something --- you know thousands of out of shape viewers watching twenty-two at a given time really well in shape players --- only, by observation, usually the self appointed "vicars????" ["replacements???" by their own definitions] ain't in very good shape in any category or capacity whatsoever... PLEASE FEEL FREE TO OPINION BLOG AND TO EXPLAIN ALL OF THAT TO ME --- PLEEEEAAAASSSSEEEEEE DO... and please do not blame The Captain or Strike for my "riff" --- that is all on me, not them --- THIS IS AN OPINION BLOG PIECE AND THAT IS MY OPINION --- CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED UNDER THE FIRST AMENDMENT AS FREE SPEECH --- strong as it may well be perceived to be --- "YEP!!!!"  So, that's on me, not The Captain or Strike, and besides, all of that took place inside of a parenthesis --- And, just to be totally forthright about it, I figure that I am actually HONORING the BLOOD, SWEAT, AND TEARS OF THOSE WHO SERVED AND PURCHASED OUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES FOR US by actually EXERCISING my FIRST AMENDMENT FREE SPEECH OPTIONS HERE [you know, use it or lose it; hey we are Traders or Trader-Wanna-Bees, or thinking about becoming Trader-Wanna-Bees here aren't we --- aren't we supposed to fully exercise our options when that they are in the money and not to just lose their value through failure to exercise or to be in the know, etc.  AREN'T WE????]  But, please feel free to Opinion Blog and explain all of that to me if that you can...)  AND PLEASE NOTICE THE VAST DIFFERENCE AND PAY ATTENTION TO THE WORDING OF: PLEASE --- PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE...

 

"To equip and train believers around the world to become traders
for the purpose of accomplishing God's call on their life.
To recognize that not all men are called to become traders.
To steward those placed in our path with love and grace."

  

Said above, " --- certain words from those words just quite literally jump off the page at one, if that one is paying any sort of attention whatsoever... "  In my personal view, opinion, thinking, belief --- this is so, this is true.  Please appropriately consider, ponder, contemplate, meditate, muse regarding, and otherwise think about deeply:

  

"To steward those placed in our path with love and grace."  If that you think about that one for a while, and if that your experience is in any way, shape, or manner like as what mine was --- that will figuratively, metaphorically, and quite literally "knock your socks off..."  Think about it --- TO STEWARD --- WHAT A WORD THAT, THAT WORD IS --- "STEWARD" --- THAT WORD IS BLOGS, AND BLOGS, AND BLOGS... IN AND OF ITSELF!!!!  THOSE PLACED IN OUR PATH --- WHAT, BY WHOM, WHO PLACED THEM IN OUR PATH AND WHY, AND HOW???? --- what exactly is going on here --- "THEO, THEO, THEO" --- need some help here please --- huh, duh, what... WITH LOVE AND WITH GRACE --- THERE IS ONLY ONE PLACE AND ONLY ONE SOURCE THAT LOVE AND GRACE PROCEED AND EMANATE FROM --- IN MY VIEW AND OPINION --- ARE YOU KIDDING ME --- NOW WE ARE ALL VIRTUALLY STANDING AT GOD'S OWN OCEAN --- genuinely hope that you all brought your very own thimbles, I do, I really, really do... If that you think about it honestly and for a while, "To steward those placed in our path with love and grace."  What did I say, "If that you think about that one for a while, and if that your experience is in any way, shape, or manner like as what mine was --- that will figuratively, metaphorically, and quite literally 'knock your socks off...' Think about it ---"  Sorry, do apologize, that just ain't even strong enough to be fair and accurate --- not only knocked my socks off, but figuratively, and metaphorically, and bloody-well (to borrow a phrase from the Brits but if you think about it, maybe used totally appropriately here) close to physically shorted out my circuitry and wiring and flat out fried the elastic in those socks that blew off and certain unmentionable parts of my under armor to put it politely...  Not fooling... SERIOUSLY --- SELAH!!!!  WOW!!!!  JUST THE WORD "STEWARD" WAS ENOUGH ALL IN AND BY ITSELF --- REALLY --- THINK ABOUT IT --- SELAH...  "To steward those placed in our path with love and grace."   INCREDIBLY BIG WORDS --- YOU ACTUALLY PLANNING ON LIVING UP TO THAT????  YOU ACTUALLY PLANNING ON LIVING THAT OUT FOR REAL, FOR SURE, FOR TRUE????  LOTS OF PEOPLE SAY STUFF LIKE AS THAT --- YOU ACTUALLY PLANNING --- BEFORE GOD NO LESS --- ON CARRYING THAT OUT, EXECUTING THAT --- ACCOMPLISHING THE MISSION --- THAT MISSION --- WOW --- ABSOLUTELY FRIED MY SOCKS AND SO MUCH MORE --- NO DOUBT ABOUT IT... SELAH --- THAT SURE IS WHAT I'M DOING --- SELAH-ING --- NO DOUBT ABOUT IT... THIS I FULLY PLAN ON "SEEING" AS IN COME TO PASS...  WOW!!!  WOW!!!!  WOW!!!!  WOW!!!!  WOW!!!!  WOW!!!!  WOW!!!!  WOW!!!!  THAT WAS EIGHT --- SELAH...

  

"for the purpose of accomplishing God's call on their life."  God, has "A CALL" on people and their lives, really --- like as in God, Himself --- there is PURPOSE (another one of those really, really BIG WORDS like/as STEWARD) --- accomplishing like/as in ACCOMPLISHMENT --- somebody still believes in accomplishment --- are you kidding me????  PURPOSE, ACCOMPLISHING, ACCOMPLISHMENT, GOD'S CALL, LIFE --- no, no, no, no, no, I am running out of socks and unmentionable parts of under armor --- STOP IT.... PLEASE... I'M GETTING FRIED HERE...

  

"To equip and train believers around the world to become traders..."  "To recognize..."  You posted all of this in/on the CFRN.NET BLOG on 23 October 2012, you sure that you weren't supposed to post it on 31 October, YOU KNOW --- LIKE AS IN "TRICK OR TREAT????"  ARE YOU SERIOUS --- YOU REALLY PLAN ON DOING ALL OF THIS --- BEFORE GOD --- THE REAL ONE --- YOU KNOW not the ones who posit (posit --- as in position) on TV who believe their own press clippings and think that they are God????  You know, the ones that want to take "ONE NATION UNDER GOD" out of THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE so that we could all be one (puny, in my opinion) nation under them --- YOU KNOW, the ones that want to take "I SWEAR TO TELL THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH, AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH, SO HELP ME GOD" (in my opinion and view, THE ONLY ONE that really, really can anyway) out of the courts --- what are they going to replace it with, I swear to tell the truth sometimes so help me "Smokin' Joe, Nancy, and Harry..."   (could you even imagine having a god named Harry --- or Joe --- that used to be the names of two of my bar tenders --- don't mind at all a bar tender named Harry or Joe or even "Smokin' Joe" but a god --- come on, get real would you please...) and what exactly are they going to make the pledge --- I pledge allegiance to the flag of "Smoking Joe," Nancy, and Harry, one (puny, in my opinion) nation under Canada and above Mexico with wide open borders, no free enterprise, but tacos and nachos for forty seven per cent and growing because we have a free trade agreement in place and the truckers don't need drivers licenses...  ????  Really???? --- YOU ARE JOKING AREN'T YOU --- YOU PLAN TO ACTUALLY LIVE THIS OUT BEFORE GOD --- THE REAL ONE????  THIS I GOTTA SEE --- AS IN COME TO PASS --- "To equip and train believers around the world to become traders..." "To recognize..." WOW --- DEAR READER --- THINK ABOUT THAT FOR A WHILE AND THEN GO BUY STOCK IN HANES OR FRUIT OF THE LOOM OR WHOSOEVER (Hey, WE'VE ALREADY GOT "FRUIT OF THE WOMB" AS IN "THE HEAD OF THE CHURCH" SO ---"IT'S ALRIGHT..." ---"YEP!!!"  DON'T EVEN MATTER WHAT KIND OF CAR THAT YOU DRIVE --- AT THE MOMENT --- WE'VE GOT "FRUIT OF THE WOMB...")  DEAR GOD IN HEAVEN, HELP US ALL IN THE NAME OF JESUS AND PROTECT OUR SOCKS, ELASTIC, AND UNMENTIONABLES TO BE POLITE IN THE SENSE OF UNDER ARMOR...  PLEASE LORD...

  

What can I even say but --- SELAH... REALLY...

  

"To equip and train believers around the world to become traders
for the purpose of accomplishing God's call on their life.
To recognize that not all men are called to become traders.
To steward those placed in our path with love and grace."

  

Well, YOU'RE ACTUALLY REALLY PLANNING ON LIVING THIS OUT, FOR REAL, FOR SURE, FOR TRUE, HUH --- BEFORE THE REAL GOD, THE TRUE GOD --- YEAH, DO SUPPOSE THAT YOU ARE AND ABSOLUTELY KNOW FOR A FACT THAT "THEO" WOULD NOT HAVE IT, WILL NOT HAVE IT, WON'T HAVE IT, ANY OTHER WAY --- NOT "THEO..." "AIN'T THAT THE TRUTH..."  SELAH!!!!

  

AND, ALL OF THIS, I JUST ABSOLUTELY GOTTA SEE --- AS IN COME TO PASS...  "YEP!!!!"  AMEN!!!!  SO LET IT BE WRITTEN (oh, it already is) SO LET IT BE DONE...  AMEN AND AMEN...

  

THIS I ABSOLUTELY GOTTA SEE --- AS IN COME TO PASS...  "YEP!!!!"

  

I excerpt the following from a communication currently in transit to The Captain and Strike --- and I absolutely mean it:

• "and the so much more that went into it all and that was why that it wasn't named the Financial Radio Network of Christians, or The Radio Network of Financial Christians etc. and so forth... So, in keeping with and most definitely with great, great appreciation of/for all that went into all of that, it seems to me that there is a certain amount of allowable perhaps even desirable emphasis on THE CHRISTIAN essence of this whole thing. So, do suppose that I perceive it kind of like/as the CFRN.NET BLOG POSTINGS AKA (ALSO KNOWN AS [at least by me and soon to be...]) "BROTHER DEWAYNE'S LETTERS TO THE ES-ALONIANS," or BROTHER MICHAEL B'S TRADING RESULTS RECAP VIDEOS, or the lessons to be learned from the Live Trade Room, or any of the so much more made available through CFRN.NET in its entirety --- nobody is ever told what to do, nobody is ever told what to believe, nobody is ever pressured or coerced or ostracized, or psychologically manipulated, nor is it demanded that they have to do absolutely anything --- HOW INCREDIBLY REFRESHING --- I MEAN THAT I REALLY, REALLY DO!!!! A lot (now that's an absolute understatement, an absolute really whole lot) of really, really good stuff is made available and whomsoever will, so let them... Folk are free moral agents, and as such not only do they have the right and privilege to decide and to choose for themselves what they will believe, what they will choose to do... "

SO DEAR READER, DEAR FRIEND, DEAR FREE MORAL AGENT, DEAR WHOSOEVER THAT YOU ARE AND WHERESOEVER THAT YOU ARE --- MAKE UP YOUR OWN MIND --- DO YOUR OWN "DUE DILIGENCE," PLEASE BE WELL INFORMED, PLEASE BE INTELLIGENT, AS ONE OF OUR DEAR FRIENDS ON THE CFRN.NET LIVE RADIO BROADCAST OFTEN ENCOURAGES PLEASE "KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND DO WHAT YOU ARE KNOWING..."  AS THE CAPTAIN OFT ENCOURAGES, DON'T TAKE ANYBODY ELSE'S WORD FOR IT, WATCH IT UNTIL YOU ARE COMFORTABLE AND YOU ARE SATISFIED (the Captain was talking in reference to how long he observed charts set to the half hour as opposed to the hour specifically, but he has also invoked that principle and precept at other times regarding other subjects at hand) PLEASE DO YOUR OWN HOMEWORK, AND PLEASE TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOURSELF, FOR YOUR DECISIONS AND FOR YOUR ACTIONS AND FOR YOUR LIFE --- NOW AND IN THE WORLD TO COME --- THAT WOULD BE THE ETERNAL ONE IN MY VIEW AND OPINION ---

  

AND PLEASE DON'T BE OFFENDED BY MY FREE MORAL CHOICE TO EXERCISE MY FREE MORAL OPTION UNDER THE FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ALSO KNOWN AS THE FIRST AMENDMENT OF THE BILL OF RIGHTS  http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/bill_of_rights_transcript.html 

• Amendment I  "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

 ---  THAT IS CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED FREE SPEECH IN THE FORM OF THIS OPINION BLOG PIECE WHICH AS STATED AFORE IS MY BELIEFS, VIEWS, AND OPINIONS SO THEREFORE ALL OF THIS IS ON ME AND NOT ON THE CAPTAIN AND/OR STRIKE --- AND IF YOU DISAGREE --- YOU HAVE EVERY CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED RIGHT TO YOUR VERY OWN OPINION AND MOST CERTAINLY CAN WRITE YOUR OWN BLOG PIECE ABOUT IT --- WHAT'S THE EXPRESSION ---"THAT'S WHAT MAKES MARKETS, ISN'T IT????"  AS FOR ME, I ACTUALLY REALLY DO FIGURE THAT I ACTUALLY REALLY AM HONORING THOSE WHO "HAVE SERVED" BY ACTUALLY EXERCISING MY CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OPTIONS THAT THEY QUITE LITERALLY GAVE THEIR VERY OWN BLOOD, SWEAT, AND TEARS FOR TO UPHOLD, PROTECT, DEFEND, MAINTAIN, STEWARD, AND OF COURSE SERVE AND THEREBY THESE GREAT, GREAT RIGHTS AND PROTECTIONS AND PRIVILEGES ARE AFFORDED TO ME, AND TO YOU IF THAT YOU ARE A CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, --- AND I CHOOSE AS A FREE MORAL AGENT TO FULLY ENGAGE AND EXERCISE THEM --- AND SO HONOR THOSE FINE INDIVIDUALS AND THEIR "GENUINE SERVICE" IN MY VIEW AND OPINION "TO GOD AND COUNTRY..."  SELAH...  AMEN!!!!

 

Well, it was pointed out above:

• "Have some personal experience with quite more than a few of what holds themselves out be CFRN.NET's competitors/competition --- "THEO" and I were discussing what that after a while becomes obvious and easy to spot in my opinion and view (just one Ghost Rider's opinion of course, and I do believe "THEO's") sales gimmicks, psychological manipulation, emotional exploitation, whole-sale fear of not getting in on the "latest, greatest mousetrap, while the getting is good and before you're the last one on your block that did not get your piece of that particular mousetrap pie..." (yuck, what an unappetizing notion that, that truly is...) you know, the train left the station and you weren't on it but you can be now, just get out your credit card and in ten days or whatever you'll be ordering your new Beamer... "

Well, in my belief, opinion and viewpoint --- there is more than one train leaving the station --- and each FREE MORAL AGENT gets to choose which train that they are going to ride on --- and some trains go very, very far and for a very, very long time --- PLEASE CONSIDER:

PLANES, TRAINS, AND AUTOMOBILES...

  

Do believe that, that about covers trains, planes we have dealt with in previous OPINION BLOG POSTINGS, so moving on to automobiles (well, a Jeep really...)

  

Sometime in late August or early September I was going through The Captain's videos (Captain Video????) http://www.youtube.com/cfrn forty of em there at last count, and somewheres in there (I have reasonably extensive and copious notes and fully do plan on going back over all forty of these videos, and more --- If you want to know what CFRN.NET is all about and desire some reasonably extensive exposition regarding the philosophy or you just want to get to know CFRN.NET and evaluate whether or not that you think that you can trust them or are at all the least bit interested in having them mentor you in the world of trading futures ---THIS IS A GENUINELY GREAT PLACE TO START --- AND FOR FREE --- I know whereof I speak --- as I said, I went through all of these, took copious notes and plan on going through them all again if that I ever get done with this OPINION BLOG POSTING --- even if that you just want somebody to talk with --- go click on them, you will think that The Captain is talking with you, personally ... really...) and somewheres in there The Captain unabashedly states something to the effect that "If you're still watching these videos you're searching for something..."  Uh huh, well dear friend, dear reader, if you're still reading and following along in this OPINION BLOG POSTING you are definitely searching for something....

  

LET'S TRY THIS:

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQFaqrgSciM  (me, I would as a FREE MORAL AGENT choose to pay particular attention to the "Crowns" that are promised and to the conditionality attached to actually receiving them that flashes across the screen at what about four minutes and thirty seven seconds into the video or so --- but you do what you like, make up your own mind, me, I think that it's worth paying attention to the whole video...)

Well, said that we had pretty well covered at least for the time being planes (previous OPINION BLOG POSTINGS) trains (up above) and what that is left is automobiles (well Jeeps really) --- of course all of that invokes the notions of travel and motion... Might interest you to know that even though you have felt like/as you have been sitting still reading this OPINION BLOG POSTING quite literally forever that you have actually BEEN TRAVELING AT A RATE OF ABOUT/APPROXIMATELY eighteen and one half MILES PER SECOND (no, that's not a misprint or a misspelling) that is 18 1/2 miles per second, which anybody with an HP12C or other nifty such device can tell you is roughly Sixty-six thousand six hundred miles per hour (no, that is emphatically not a misprint or misspelling either) that is 66,600 miles per hour --- how does one do the math on that you ask --- well you Google the earth's annual sojourn around the sun in miles, you divide that by 365 1/4, then you divide that by 24 and then you divide that by 3600 and that gives you miles per second approximately 18 1/2 --- and there you were thinking that we were sitting still and wondering if this OPINION BLOG POSTING was going anywhere...  SELAH...  Well, everybody is going somewhere, where do you figure that you are going....

  

Vehicles --- Automobiles and Jeeps --- Well one needs a highway for those --- travel and motion --- IS THIS OPINION BLOG POSTING GOING ANYWHERE --- ARE WE GOING ANYWHERE --- hmmmnnnn...

Well, quite clearly it is at the very least the opinion and BELIEF of at least some of us that we VERY DEFINITELY are GOING SOMEPLACE...  HIGHWAY TO...  You know, not really at all unlike trading the markets as far as that I can tell --- you need to know THE BIG PICTURE (you know, look left on the charts, and at the bigger time frames) you need to know where the markets are now, that is THE CURRENT PICTURE (you know, that would be concurrent as price and the candles are printing right before your very own eyes) and YOU HAVE DEFINITELY GOT TO HAVE A VIEW ON WHERE IT IS ALL GOING AND WHAT THAT IT ALL MEANS OTHERWISE HOW WOULD YOU TAKE A POSITION (you know, look right, as far, far right as you can --- The Captain calls it "The Hard Right Edge," FAIR ENOUGH --- I call it "Master and Commander of The Far Right Hand Side of The Chart" [that's cause I'm young, naive, and easily impressionable; no just kidding...]) long, short, or flat????  Obviously you want to manage and hedge your risk... etc.  Hmmmnnnn, is that not quite like the world which was, the world which is, and the world which is to come --- and which pray tell is THE REAL BIG PICTURE --- INQUIRING MINDS DO INDEED WANT TO KNOW...

  

Highways to, Roads to, Vehicles, Jeeps...  I knew a man (in Christ) about/above fourteen years ago...   let's see that would have been circa 1998 ---"YEP," that is correct, well right in "the thick of it" as they say --- at any rate, this fellow at the time was an Itinerant Preacher/Teacher and Travelled the Roads and Highways and Byways (and By-The-Ways) extensively up and down the East Coast and the Central States of The United States of America in a Jeep Cherokee...  As the story goes, this guy would get out of meetings late and be unable to sleep or just preferred doing the driving in peculiar and wee hours of the night and pre-dawn morning while most folk were sleeping and the roadways were more open and less congested.  Said that he also thought that it was a great time to pray...  Had him a CB (Citizens Band Radio) and went by the CB Handle "The Road Runner..."  "Yep," this is a true story...   And, as the story goes, there were some pretty lively and not at all "churchy" conversations/discussions that occurred over Channel 19 (The Road Channel --- Gee whiz those channels are just about everywhere aren't they) between this Itinerant Preacher/Teacher and various and sundry truckers of various and sundry colorful natures and vocabularies --- got pretty wild at times, said he...  Well, one night the truckers were particularly rambunctious as the story was related and one trucker in particular says to this Itinerant Preacher/Teacher guy, "All right Preacher, tell me something I don't already know about Jesus" (Evidently, the trucker had had some very dissatisfactory experiences with church, churches, church folk and preachers in particular...)  As the story goes, this Itinerant Preacher/Teacher guy in a voice that was quiet and low transmits ---"Tell you one thing driver, whatever you do, don't get caught dead without HIM..."  True story... Channel 19 went absolutely silent --- "THE HOLY HUSH" as they say...

Romans 10:9-10

King James Version (KJV)  http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%2010:9-10&version=KJV

⁹ That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

¹⁰ For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

SELAH...

SELAH...

 

 

WELL, AS WE OFFER A DECLARATION AND ABSOLUTELY ALL OTHER APPROPRIATE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT(S) OF GRATITUDE, RESPECT, ADMIRATION, THANKS, THANKSGIVING, AND MOST DEFINITELY THANKFULNESS IN GENUINE APPRECIATION OF AND FOR ALL OF THOSE WHO HAVE RENDERED GENUINE SERVICE, I personally feel and absolutely do quite BELIEVE and it is my own CONSIDERED OPINION that those who have served in THE KINGDOM OF GOD, that is IN HIS MAJESTY'S SERVICE (IHMS) are certainly as deserving as...  I am standing at the moment, at FULL ATTENTION at the moment, I AM SALUTING AT THE MOMENT, SO HELP ME GOD (the only one in my belief and opinion that really, really can)   

SELAH...  WHAT CAN I EVEN SAY, CERTAINLY HARD TO ADD TO THAT --- THANK YOU JANNY (I knew her, Have close Friends who knew her better and SERVED our LORD AND KING with her...) She is no longer with us in the temporal on this planet; neither is Terry (met him, have close friends who knew him and SERVED our LORD AND KING with him...) Their sojourn on this planet came to the "End of The Line..."  And, so will ours.  Even if you have one hundred years left, 36,525 days, if you put that in the numerator and forever in the denominator, it's just a few more days...  And, if that we have all of this nifty digital recording equipment and highfalutin technology, what do we figure, God doesn't --- wherever did we get the ideas for all of this fancy technology from in the first place, hmmmnnnn...  So probably not a bad idea to make however many days that we've got left, count ---  It is our choice as FREE MORAL AGENTS whether or not we choose to make it/them count, ISN'T IT????  Me, I fully plan to make it/them count --- WHAT DO YOU THINK????  HOW DO YOU FIGURE????  Janny --- see you soon my SISTER...  Not too soon, but no matter how much time that one has left, it will still be soon...  And, that's the Truth...  SELAH...  Terry --- see you soon my BROTHER...  Not too soon, but no matter how much time that one has left, it will still be soon...  And, that's the Truth... SELAH...

  

STRONGER THAN BEFORE: 

 

Terry, Janny, so many others, See You Soon My Brothers And My Sisters And Thank You --- Just not that soon...

 

GENUINELY HOPE IN GOD that I have accumulated as many wages and rewards as you all did before that I...

 

The worker is worthy of his wage, the laborer is worthy of his hire... Wonder WHO said that...

Did share with you all about the references to the "Crowns" that are promised and to the conditionality attached to actually receiving them that flashes across the screen at what about four minutes and thirty seven seconds into the video or so --- up above, I did, didn't I...

  

Luke 10:7
And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house.
Luke 10:6-8 (in Context) Luke 10 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations

 

1 Timothy 5:18
For the scripture saith, thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward.
1 Timothy 5:17-19 (in Context) 1 Timothy 5 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations

 

 

SO, DEAR READER, YOU THINK THAT YOU WANT TO BE OR YOU ALREADY ARE A FUTURES TRADER --- may I politely ask --- have you considered your own...

 

SO, DEAR READER, YOU THINK THAT YOU MIGHT WANT TO TRADE OR YOU ALREADY ARE TRADING GOLD FUTURES  --- may I politely ask --- have you considered:

Revelation 21:15-21

King James Version (KJV)  http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%2021:15-21&version=KJV

¹⁵ And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.

¹⁶ And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.

¹⁷ And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.

¹⁸ And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.

¹⁹ And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald;

²⁰ The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolyte; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.

²¹ And the twelve gates were twelve pearls: every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.

PLEASE NOTICE: THAT STREET AIN'T PAVED THAT'S PURE MADE OF, NOT PAVED OVER --- BUT READ IT FOR YOURSELF---

WELL, IN HONOR OF ALL OF THOSE WHO HAVE LEGITIMATELY SERVED WITH HONOR IN EITHER KINGDOM --- I AM STANDING, I AM SALUTING, I AM DEFINITELY AT ATTENTION --- AND I AND I DO BELIEVE WE, ABSOLUTELY SALUTE YOU ---

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE...  ABSOLUTELY MEANT THAT...

WHAT MORE IS THERE TO SAY...

WOULD YOU CARE TO COME SING WITH ME...

SELAH!!!! SELAH!!!! SELAH!!!! SELAH!!!! "O' Father God, tonight, we commit this project into your hands..." and THANK YOU for YOUR GUIDANCE, YOUR GRACE, YOUR WISDOM, AND SHOWING US CLEARLY HOW TO DO OUR PART YOUR WAY... IN JESUS' NAME... BY THE EMPOWERMENT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT... TO THE GLORY AND HONOR OF THE FATHER, THE SON, AND THE HOLY SPIRIT, SO HELP US GOD...  "YEP," ---THEY'RE OUT THERE, THEY REALLY, REALLY ARE...  SELAH...

May God Richly Bless You,

Ghost Rider 3:16