To my liberty minded friends out there -
I've been reading some despair on this forum recently. There is one cure for that - faith.
Despair comes from a selfish assumption that we are alone, that everything depends on us and us alone. If we lose it's all over and all our fault and if we win it's all because we're so awesome and we're the best. That is one extreme of the equation and it is wrong.
The other extreme is, "Everything is up to God and we can't do anything about what happens so let's do nothing and hope for the best."
Both extremes are bad and wrong. We need to recognize that we have to do our best, which means phone from home, donate, be a delegate, convince people, everything we can do. But we have to realize that we are NOT in control of everything. We are right and we stand for Good, but we are NOT alone. We have to have faith in whatever force created us that we are doing the right thing, and whatever happens happens in the end, and we keep going no matter what.
I hear people saying there's only a 2% chance we'll win in a brokered convention - how does anyone know that? Has there ever been a force so pure in American politics before that they have stacked a delegate convention to the point that we have?
This is a wild card and nobody knows what the hell is going to happen.
If we win the nomination, we win. If we lose the nomination, we will win some other way at some point, because freedom is the state that whatever created us wants us to be in.
Every call you make, every delegate we get, ever dollar you donate, isn't to "win the election". We have no control over that. We do have control over what we communicate to the world by calling, becoming a delegate, and donating. The more we communicate, the faster we will win. Exactly when is up to God, not us.
But we have no right to despair, because we are not alone.
I've been reading some despair on this forum recently. There is one cure for that - faith.
Despair comes from a selfish assumption that we are alone, that everything depends on us and us alone. If we lose it's all over and all our fault and if we win it's all because we're so awesome and we're the best. That is one extreme of the equation and it is wrong.
The other extreme is, "Everything is up to God and we can't do anything about what happens so let's do nothing and hope for the best."
Both extremes are bad and wrong. We need to recognize that we have to do our best, which means phone from home, donate, be a delegate, convince people, everything we can do. But we have to realize that we are NOT in control of everything. We are right and we stand for Good, but we are NOT alone. We have to have faith in whatever force created us that we are doing the right thing, and whatever happens happens in the end, and we keep going no matter what.
I hear people saying there's only a 2% chance we'll win in a brokered convention - how does anyone know that? Has there ever been a force so pure in American politics before that they have stacked a delegate convention to the point that we have?
This is a wild card and nobody knows what the hell is going to happen.
If we win the nomination, we win. If we lose the nomination, we will win some other way at some point, because freedom is the state that whatever created us wants us to be in.
Every call you make, every delegate we get, ever dollar you donate, isn't to "win the election". We have no control over that. We do have control over what we communicate to the world by calling, becoming a delegate, and donating. The more we communicate, the faster we will win. Exactly when is up to God, not us.
But we have no right to despair, because we are not alone.
good thread!
