I feel a need to apologize. It has been brought to my attention that I have an angry tone to my blogs. I can see that. Truth be told I am not angry in general. I have deep and strong convictions. Those convictions are that we must do something to bring about a change in this GREAT country. This is a blessed and promised land. However every blessing has its cursing. It is a 2 edged sword. The Lessons of the Book of Mormon strongly warn us against Secret Combinations. It is difficult to just come out and say that there are many such combinations now in our land and our government and across the world in governments and institutions without sounding like a conspiracy nut.
However if history is a good guide we can see both in the secular history and in BofM history the constant drive for power and the lengths men will go to to obtain that power.
I struggle with what I can do about it myself. I honestly have a strong desire to run for public office. I am in no way able to do that for a number of reasons at the present anyway... So I use this blog as a way to share with others my strong convictions so that we can share knowledge and ideas and get people excited to at least go out and vote. So it is not anger (most of the time - I am pretty frustrated though many times) rather it is urgency and determination and energy that I write these posts. I want to energize people to action in anyway they are capable.
Brigham Young stated in the Journal of Discourses, "We all believe that the Lord will fight our battles; but how? Will he do it while we are unconcerned and make no effort whatever for our own safety when the enemy is upon us?...it would be quite as reasonable to expect remission of sins without baptism, as to expect the Lord to fight our battles without our taking every precaution to be prepared to defend ourselves. The Lord requires us to be quite as willing to fight our own battles as to have Him fight them for us. If we are not ready for the enemy when he comes upon us, we have not lived up to the requirements of Him who guides the ship of Zion, or who dictates the affairs of the Kingdom."
Edmund Burke said, "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
I want to protect the Constitution of this land. To do this we must not give up more freedoms and we must defend our borders, our sovereignty. We must defend ourselves against socialist ideals and laws. We must defend ourselves from terrorists that would want to control the world. We must defend ourselves from elitists in the government and their special interests. This my soapbox to call all to action, to disseminate my convictions and ideals.
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I feel no Anger per say from you Dan. I do feel the passion of your blogs. I also happen to share your same passion most of the time. Our country is GREAT. It has the potential to return to an even greater awareness of itself. Unfortunately, it also has the potential to have its freedoms eroded to a near marxist state.
Keep it up Dan, Passion, Anger, Whatever!
That Burke quote is one of my favorites. You don't sound like a conspiracy nut :) -- I'm pretty sure most people recognize that there are definite secret combinations out there as there have been for thousands of years.
We have deviated in many ways from our forefathers who started this great nation and some of those need to be fixed but thank goodness we have changed in some ways or else I wouldn't be able to vote! Change is not always bad but it does require monitoring--I think it's great that you have this blog, Dan.
I too have never felt anger in your blogs and enjoy reading every post. I do have one suggestion though, I would really like it if you would include somewhere on your blog, a list of books you might recommend.
Anger...nah. OCD... yeah. hehe...
And to bolster your passion I will quote myself here: Laziness coupled with OCD is surely more responsible for innovation and invention than any other driving force in the Universe. I just made that up today. I hope someone else didn't make it up before me and I am somehow regurgitating it from somewhere deep within the cobwebs of my cerebral cortex because that could be a life threatening blow to my ego if it were determined to be the case.
I posted that statement in my blog post today along with a note to myself to try and incorporate that thought into my talk in church on Sunday.
So all I am saying here is anyone who is telling you your posts sound angry ... stop.......must.. refrain from... continuing... don't want to belittle...or offend... or be insensitive... to...... whomever............ AHHHHHH!!!!! The letter F comes to mind. Pronounced and actually spelled Eff. If it is your wife or other loved one then go with the letter D; as in they can Dee OFF, since that is not as vulgar and insensitive as giving them the "failing" grade.
And why yes I am mentally dis-stabled, thank you for noticing. :o)
oooooI am on a role today... that's another good one... Anyone know if or how I can make sure I get credit for being the one that came up with "why yes I am mentally dis-stabled, thank you for noticing"??
OH... I seemed to have found who looks to be the culprit for your apologies about angry posts. Since it appears to be your sister (and not your wife as I had previously presumed)then maybe we can spare her the gallows... after all she is family and we would not want to leave her children motherless.
I have had discussions with Leslie about how she needs to keep in mind that while reading other people's blogs and comments that she needs to realize that the text itself is emotionless. Typically, if someone wants to convey extreme anger and irateness or yelling then they would use ALL CAPITAL LETTERS AS IF TO SHOUT FOLLOWED BY THE USUAL AND CUSTOMARY MULTIPLE EXCLAMATION MARKS!!!!!
Having yelled that, I just want to take another few inches of space to apologize to anyone that I may intentionally or unintentionally offended with my thoughtless comments which more often than not are meant to be sarcastic and get under your skin because it is fun and it makes me feel better about myself as a person due to my complexly deep shallowness or otherwise delusional state of mind as a result of my ability to create extremely long sentences which may or may not be run-on sentences.
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