As you might imagine, things have been somewhat hectic here. That might account for the fact that I forgot to take my sleepy-time OTC meds. That’s the only way I can try and maintain a sleep schedule that matches the rest of the humans around me even though my condition predisposes me against that.
So when Maz heard a sound at 2:10AM and alerted the household, as he should, I was up for the rest of the night. I tried to get back to sleep, but the brain was working overtime. So, since I had moved my WiFi-equipped computer into the bedroom with me, I decided to check my email and write down my thoughts to post here. But when I got to my emails, I found something interesting.
I subscribe to a quote service that sends me liberty quotes by guys like Jefferson, Socrates, Adams, Cato, Locke, and Washington. So I was intrigued when I found an email of quotes by a guy named Jesus of Nazareth; I had to read them.
What I found was interesting. And, in my state of mind, I had a surprisingly different take than I had when I first read them years ago.
Let’s take a look at them:
"But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you." -Holy Bible, Matthew 5:44.
"Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God." -Holy Bible, Matthew 5:9.
Take a look at that second quote again. Who shall be called “the children of God?” The peacemakers, right? So the folks who aren’t peacemakers, the warmongers, can’t or won’t be called the children of God. With me so far? And all good Christians should want to be called “the children of God,” I should think. So, all good Christians should be peacemakers, right? Loving their enemies, blessing those who curse them, doing good to those that hate them, all that stuff.
So all those good Christians here in the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave should be for Peace on Earth and have Goodwill towards all Men. Right? Am I missing something here?
Then why do we have troops in over 140 countries and are engaged in two war zones? Sounds like all those potential ‘children of God’ aren’t doing their job. So whose children are they then?
Just a thought.
As for why I’m interested, I believe in LIBERTY. It’s a strange thing, liberty. I can’t have it unless I ‘allow’ you to have it. If you have liberty and I have liberty and neither of us try to make the other do something against our rights and will, we will have peace between us. So folks who advocate liberty have a shot at becoming a child of God; those who don’t, don’t.
Just as long as we understand each other.
Feliz Navidad!
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Sunday, December 23, 2007
Amy’s Stay, Day 7
Updates, huh?
As you might imagine, I have a confluence of things going on all at the same time this time of year.
My chemo is going marginally better than last time. Or, I’m getting use to dealing with it. But I can feel pretty crappy depending on the circumstances. Especially if they want me to do the dishes! :-) And the pump does come off tomorrow.
As for my worsening condition, Amy touched lightly on the issue. My last PET scan was so-o-o-o good that we might have forgot what my doctor had said. He had stated that their hope, their goal, was just to keep things from getting worse than the way I came in during the first few courses of chemo. Which was why my tumor reduction was a “dramatic improvement.” We’re probably just getting back to a normal progression of events I guess you could say. I did get a tentative agreement to use the "cancer strength" product called IP-6. I’ll take the documentation in tomorrow and we’ll see.
As some of you may know, I tend to read and agree with a lot of the stuff Lew Rockwell has on his site, and I have commented on Bill Sardi’s site, Knowledge of Health, before. Besides, I believe that, just like Genesis 1:29 says, “all seed-bearing plants” can be used for food, for the health of our bodies. No matter what someone else may say.
Amy’s friend, Mike, flew in Friday night to visit for the Holiday weekend. He had been on one of those islands in the Caribbean—for work, honest—and had to fly into Green Bay to visit us. Quite the contrast!! He was delayed by fog just getting into GB.
We ran down to Ken and Kris’s today for Christmas dinner. The snow caused us to take quite a while on the trip, both ways. Amy was driving her Florida rental, which was fun. She drove very cautiously! Drove me nuts! But then, I can’t drive all the time, I guess.
Tomorrow Ben has to go in to work early for a few hours, Mike flies out of GB to go home, then I have to get my pump removed, my sister ,Cuz, and Ronny are coming up for a few days, and I might have friends stopping by to say “Feliz Navidad” in the afternoon. So I might not get a chance to stop by and say anything for a while.
So “Feliz Navidad!” And have a safe and Merry Christmas if I don’t talk to you before then.
And remember, this goes back to Genesis 1:29: "As a juror, I will exercise my 1000-year-old duty to arrive at a verdict, not just on the basis of the facts of a particular case, or instructions I am given, but through my power to reason, my knowledge of the Bill of Rights, and my individual conscience. When needful, I will judge the law itself." -L. Neil Smith
As you might imagine, I have a confluence of things going on all at the same time this time of year.
My chemo is going marginally better than last time. Or, I’m getting use to dealing with it. But I can feel pretty crappy depending on the circumstances. Especially if they want me to do the dishes! :-) And the pump does come off tomorrow.
As for my worsening condition, Amy touched lightly on the issue. My last PET scan was so-o-o-o good that we might have forgot what my doctor had said. He had stated that their hope, their goal, was just to keep things from getting worse than the way I came in during the first few courses of chemo. Which was why my tumor reduction was a “dramatic improvement.” We’re probably just getting back to a normal progression of events I guess you could say. I did get a tentative agreement to use the "cancer strength" product called IP-6. I’ll take the documentation in tomorrow and we’ll see.
As some of you may know, I tend to read and agree with a lot of the stuff Lew Rockwell has on his site, and I have commented on Bill Sardi’s site, Knowledge of Health, before. Besides, I believe that, just like Genesis 1:29 says, “all seed-bearing plants” can be used for food, for the health of our bodies. No matter what someone else may say.
Amy’s friend, Mike, flew in Friday night to visit for the Holiday weekend. He had been on one of those islands in the Caribbean—for work, honest—and had to fly into Green Bay to visit us. Quite the contrast!! He was delayed by fog just getting into GB.
We ran down to Ken and Kris’s today for Christmas dinner. The snow caused us to take quite a while on the trip, both ways. Amy was driving her Florida rental, which was fun. She drove very cautiously! Drove me nuts! But then, I can’t drive all the time, I guess.
Tomorrow Ben has to go in to work early for a few hours, Mike flies out of GB to go home, then I have to get my pump removed, my sister ,Cuz, and Ronny are coming up for a few days, and I might have friends stopping by to say “Feliz Navidad” in the afternoon. So I might not get a chance to stop by and say anything for a while.
So “Feliz Navidad!” And have a safe and Merry Christmas if I don’t talk to you before then.
And remember, this goes back to Genesis 1:29: "As a juror, I will exercise my 1000-year-old duty to arrive at a verdict, not just on the basis of the facts of a particular case, or instructions I am given, but through my power to reason, my knowledge of the Bill of Rights, and my individual conscience. When needful, I will judge the law itself." -L. Neil Smith
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