woody4paul
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Hi all,
Im not new here just came back after taking a few years off.
Im only posting this because I believe EVERY RP voter will be moved by it. I DIDNT write this......found it in a comments section and cut/pasted it.
Ive always wondered EXACTLY what it is that causes me to feel the way I do about RP and I think I have finally found it in this article.
Posted in grassroots because it might be of help to some trying to knock voters off of the fence.
From
Israel: Vote Ron Paul and Let My People Go!
by
Rafi Farber
Lately
I’ve been having trouble sleeping. I sit here in my living room in
Karnei Shomron, Israel, on the 8th night of Chanukah, wondering what
other miracles lay in store on January 3rd and in the months ahead.
The name Ron Paul is constantly at my fingertips. I’ve typed it in
so many times the past month it’s insane. I’m experiencing an
excitement I’ve rarely ever felt, and I don’t even live in
America anymore. During the last Republican debate I woke myself up
at 3am Israel time to watch an 8pm EST live stream on YouTube, with
no fatigue whatsoever. I’m on overdrive, and I can’t calm myself.
I’ve
only recently figured out what this excitement actually is.
I
first got interested in the whole freedom movement when I heard that
Ron Paul wanted to end all foreign aid, including to my country,
Israel. This seemed like a spectacular idea to me. I hate the idea of
taking American tax payer money I don’t need. The only reason we
take it, by the way, is not because we need it. It’s that we don’t
want to feel alone, and Jews always feel a deep existential isolation
and loneliness. “As I see them from the mountain tops, gaze on them
from the heights, this is a people that dwells alone, not counted
among the Nations,” says Balaam of the People of Israel in Numbers
23:9. We still feel that loneliness. So we take the money. It’s
shameful, it’s theft, it’s destructive, it’s morally wrong, and
it makes people hate us for tying them into a conflict they have no
business trying to solve. I wanted it to end and didn’t trust any
Israeli leader to give it up on his own, so I looked up more about
Ron Paul.
What
I found was fascinating. On the forums, I learned of people who, back
in ’08, literally gave their lives short of death to this man. Some
poured money into his campaign they could not afford to give, and
some even lost their marriages because of their single-minded insane
dedication. This shocked me. I couldn’t yet understand it, but
after a few days of listening to him, it began to click.
What
is it about Ron Paul that inspires such extremes? Such maddening
support on the one hand, and such fear and loathing on the other? I
can give the answer in one word: Soul.
The
essential soul of a human being is by definition free. The idea that
men are free as determined by God is a concept that is foreign to
most men. This is because most men want to control others, to take
away their freedom. This is usually referred to as the drive for
power. The drive for power is antithetical to freedom because power
means the ability to control others. There is only one legitimate
thing that power can and should be used for, whether it be military,
legislative, or executive power. That is, to legalize freedom.
Ron
Paul doesn’t want to be President to “give” me freedom. He
doesn’t own my freedom and he didn’t give it to me. The only
reason Ron Paul wants to be President is to stop punishing people for
using their freedom that is rightfully theirs. He wants no power.
This is clear to anyone who listens to him speak.
There
are two kinds of human beings. Those who want power, and those who
want freedom. You can tell which one’s which very easily. Those who
want freedom are straight-edged. They are consistent, principled, and
you can feel their human soul when they speak to you. There’s a
continuum out there of human souls somewhere in spiritual cyberspace,
and when you come into contact with one of these souls, you know
immediately, because souls are by definition free. You sense
sincerity, realness, consistency, a free human being. If you’re a
man who seeks freedom and you come into contact with a real human
soul, you become instantly addicted and you swallow up anything you
can get your hands on. You want to unite immediately, no matter what
you disagree on. There are people in the freedom movement that don’t
exactly like Israel, especially me being a “settler” and I don’t
care. If they want freedom, I sense it and my human drive for
individualism suddenly turns into an intense desire to unite into a
collective – but a collective of free individuals. It’s a
beautiful dialectic, and it doesn’t matter what we agree or
disagree on, as long as we agree on freedom.
You
get hooked on Ron Paul and you desperately seek more and more, any
video you can find from the past, any speeches you missed, anything
he said that you haven’t heard yet, even though you’ve heard it a
thousand times already in different words. You can’t help yourself.
The voracious hunger to be able to use your God-given freedom takes
you over entirely. It’s like you suddenly realize you’re human
and the Divine Image with which God created you comes alive and
catches fire.
But
something else happens to you. Once you get hooked on Ron Paul, you
can no longer bear to listen to a man who wants power, and you become
instantly disgusted when they start saying words. Before, they were
just boring. Now they’re revolting. Listening to Romney or Gingrich
or Bush or Obama makes you sick and you don’t know how Ron Paul
gets through those debates without getting nauseous. You see a
political veneer in these politicians that’s so transparent it’s
like a ghost flapping its ethereal tongue at you. You can’t bear
it.
What’s
so maddening about hearing Romney or Gingrich talk is that there’s
someone standing there saying things, but there’s no soul in it.
These are not free men. These are power men. Not that Romney or
Gingrich don’t have souls. They do. They are men just like you and
I. But they have practically forfeited their souls to try and attain
power, to control others with spin and talking points and
contradictory statements like “I want to cut the budget and expand
the military!” and they’ll say it with a polished tone and a
straight face, just like a soulless recording. Their humanity is so
buried under the mountain of lies they have told themselves, that
neither they themselves nor you can even sense their souls in the
human continuum. The scene of a human body speaking but no soul
communicating can drive a free man mad.
The
reason that Ron Paul never goes down in the polls is that he’s not
“convincing” people in the everyday sense that he’s right on
whatever issue. He’s activating human souls, lighting spiritual
fires one by one speaking about freedom. Once a soul gets activated,
and the man realizes that he IS free no matter what people do to him
or tell him, there is no turning back. The other candidates are
trying to turn heads with snappy one-liners that sound cool. Slaves
follow these one-liners like mobs, and follow each other from
candidate to candidate. Slowly but surely, Ron Paul activates a few
of the individual souls in the mob as they bob from snappy comeback
to snappy comeback and he goes up in the polls.
Yet,
we cannot expect every man woman and child to understand or get
excited about the message of liberty. In fact, most just can’t
handle it. Being truly free is as terrifying as it is electrifying.
The Bible tells us this very clearly in the story of the Exodus from
Egypt. When Moses finally accepts the role of deliverer from God, he
was assigned to say the following to my great-grandparents the
Israelites:
“Therefore
say to the Israelites: I am God. I will free you from the labors of
the Egyptians and deliver you from their bondage. I will redeem you
with an outstretched arm and with amazing signs. And I will take you
to be My people and I will be your God, and you will know that I am
the Lord who freed you from the labors of the Egyptians.” (Ex.
6:6-7)
And
what was my grandparents’ response?
“And
Moses told this to the people, but they didn’t listen due to lack
of spirit and cruel bondage.” (6:9)
Not
everyone can handle the message of freedom. It’s too frightening
for some people, and some are just too enslaved. Those are the people
that despise Ron Paul, the same types who rebelled against Moses in
the desert and attempted to go back to Egypt. Freedom is too much for
them and they can’t handle the Divine gift. They want and need
someone to control them. Their souls have been too battered by
slavery, taxation, and wars.
But
nonetheless, God forced my stiff-necked great grandparents to leave
Egypt, and as a result I’m here today, preaching freedom once
again, fighting not only for America’s freedom, but for my own from
America’s influence in my own region.
Vote
Ron Paul and let my people go once again! Stop meddling here and stop
trying to buy influence by giving me money. Stop trying to be the all
powerful Peace Maker and let us work out the problems here on our
own! If we think Iran is a threat, we can handle it and we’ll take
the consequences. It’s not America’s problem and you can’t
afford another war.
Now
I understand why people will give everything to this man. Whenever
he’s asked the question, “Would you legalize heroin?” Ron Paul
answers, “I want to legalize freedom!” Little do these people
understand that freedom is a thousand times more addictive than
heroin.
American
Jews! Wake up! Set your brothers in Israel free! We were the first
nation ever to be set free by God, and we brought the concept of
liberty to the world when we left Egypt over 3000 years ago. It’s
about time we set the example we were chosen to set.
December
31, 2011
Im not new here just came back after taking a few years off.
Im only posting this because I believe EVERY RP voter will be moved by it. I DIDNT write this......found it in a comments section and cut/pasted it.
Ive always wondered EXACTLY what it is that causes me to feel the way I do about RP and I think I have finally found it in this article.
Posted in grassroots because it might be of help to some trying to knock voters off of the fence.
From
Israel: Vote Ron Paul and Let My People Go!
by
Rafi Farber
Lately
I’ve been having trouble sleeping. I sit here in my living room in
Karnei Shomron, Israel, on the 8th night of Chanukah, wondering what
other miracles lay in store on January 3rd and in the months ahead.
The name Ron Paul is constantly at my fingertips. I’ve typed it in
so many times the past month it’s insane. I’m experiencing an
excitement I’ve rarely ever felt, and I don’t even live in
America anymore. During the last Republican debate I woke myself up
at 3am Israel time to watch an 8pm EST live stream on YouTube, with
no fatigue whatsoever. I’m on overdrive, and I can’t calm myself.
I’ve
only recently figured out what this excitement actually is.
I
first got interested in the whole freedom movement when I heard that
Ron Paul wanted to end all foreign aid, including to my country,
Israel. This seemed like a spectacular idea to me. I hate the idea of
taking American tax payer money I don’t need. The only reason we
take it, by the way, is not because we need it. It’s that we don’t
want to feel alone, and Jews always feel a deep existential isolation
and loneliness. “As I see them from the mountain tops, gaze on them
from the heights, this is a people that dwells alone, not counted
among the Nations,” says Balaam of the People of Israel in Numbers
23:9. We still feel that loneliness. So we take the money. It’s
shameful, it’s theft, it’s destructive, it’s morally wrong, and
it makes people hate us for tying them into a conflict they have no
business trying to solve. I wanted it to end and didn’t trust any
Israeli leader to give it up on his own, so I looked up more about
Ron Paul.
What
I found was fascinating. On the forums, I learned of people who, back
in ’08, literally gave their lives short of death to this man. Some
poured money into his campaign they could not afford to give, and
some even lost their marriages because of their single-minded insane
dedication. This shocked me. I couldn’t yet understand it, but
after a few days of listening to him, it began to click.
What
is it about Ron Paul that inspires such extremes? Such maddening
support on the one hand, and such fear and loathing on the other? I
can give the answer in one word: Soul.
The
essential soul of a human being is by definition free. The idea that
men are free as determined by God is a concept that is foreign to
most men. This is because most men want to control others, to take
away their freedom. This is usually referred to as the drive for
power. The drive for power is antithetical to freedom because power
means the ability to control others. There is only one legitimate
thing that power can and should be used for, whether it be military,
legislative, or executive power. That is, to legalize freedom.
Ron
Paul doesn’t want to be President to “give” me freedom. He
doesn’t own my freedom and he didn’t give it to me. The only
reason Ron Paul wants to be President is to stop punishing people for
using their freedom that is rightfully theirs. He wants no power.
This is clear to anyone who listens to him speak.
There
are two kinds of human beings. Those who want power, and those who
want freedom. You can tell which one’s which very easily. Those who
want freedom are straight-edged. They are consistent, principled, and
you can feel their human soul when they speak to you. There’s a
continuum out there of human souls somewhere in spiritual cyberspace,
and when you come into contact with one of these souls, you know
immediately, because souls are by definition free. You sense
sincerity, realness, consistency, a free human being. If you’re a
man who seeks freedom and you come into contact with a real human
soul, you become instantly addicted and you swallow up anything you
can get your hands on. You want to unite immediately, no matter what
you disagree on. There are people in the freedom movement that don’t
exactly like Israel, especially me being a “settler” and I don’t
care. If they want freedom, I sense it and my human drive for
individualism suddenly turns into an intense desire to unite into a
collective – but a collective of free individuals. It’s a
beautiful dialectic, and it doesn’t matter what we agree or
disagree on, as long as we agree on freedom.
You
get hooked on Ron Paul and you desperately seek more and more, any
video you can find from the past, any speeches you missed, anything
he said that you haven’t heard yet, even though you’ve heard it a
thousand times already in different words. You can’t help yourself.
The voracious hunger to be able to use your God-given freedom takes
you over entirely. It’s like you suddenly realize you’re human
and the Divine Image with which God created you comes alive and
catches fire.
But
something else happens to you. Once you get hooked on Ron Paul, you
can no longer bear to listen to a man who wants power, and you become
instantly disgusted when they start saying words. Before, they were
just boring. Now they’re revolting. Listening to Romney or Gingrich
or Bush or Obama makes you sick and you don’t know how Ron Paul
gets through those debates without getting nauseous. You see a
political veneer in these politicians that’s so transparent it’s
like a ghost flapping its ethereal tongue at you. You can’t bear
it.
What’s
so maddening about hearing Romney or Gingrich talk is that there’s
someone standing there saying things, but there’s no soul in it.
These are not free men. These are power men. Not that Romney or
Gingrich don’t have souls. They do. They are men just like you and
I. But they have practically forfeited their souls to try and attain
power, to control others with spin and talking points and
contradictory statements like “I want to cut the budget and expand
the military!” and they’ll say it with a polished tone and a
straight face, just like a soulless recording. Their humanity is so
buried under the mountain of lies they have told themselves, that
neither they themselves nor you can even sense their souls in the
human continuum. The scene of a human body speaking but no soul
communicating can drive a free man mad.
The
reason that Ron Paul never goes down in the polls is that he’s not
“convincing” people in the everyday sense that he’s right on
whatever issue. He’s activating human souls, lighting spiritual
fires one by one speaking about freedom. Once a soul gets activated,
and the man realizes that he IS free no matter what people do to him
or tell him, there is no turning back. The other candidates are
trying to turn heads with snappy one-liners that sound cool. Slaves
follow these one-liners like mobs, and follow each other from
candidate to candidate. Slowly but surely, Ron Paul activates a few
of the individual souls in the mob as they bob from snappy comeback
to snappy comeback and he goes up in the polls.
Yet,
we cannot expect every man woman and child to understand or get
excited about the message of liberty. In fact, most just can’t
handle it. Being truly free is as terrifying as it is electrifying.
The Bible tells us this very clearly in the story of the Exodus from
Egypt. When Moses finally accepts the role of deliverer from God, he
was assigned to say the following to my great-grandparents the
Israelites:
“Therefore
say to the Israelites: I am God. I will free you from the labors of
the Egyptians and deliver you from their bondage. I will redeem you
with an outstretched arm and with amazing signs. And I will take you
to be My people and I will be your God, and you will know that I am
the Lord who freed you from the labors of the Egyptians.” (Ex.
6:6-7)
And
what was my grandparents’ response?
“And
Moses told this to the people, but they didn’t listen due to lack
of spirit and cruel bondage.” (6:9)
Not
everyone can handle the message of freedom. It’s too frightening
for some people, and some are just too enslaved. Those are the people
that despise Ron Paul, the same types who rebelled against Moses in
the desert and attempted to go back to Egypt. Freedom is too much for
them and they can’t handle the Divine gift. They want and need
someone to control them. Their souls have been too battered by
slavery, taxation, and wars.
But
nonetheless, God forced my stiff-necked great grandparents to leave
Egypt, and as a result I’m here today, preaching freedom once
again, fighting not only for America’s freedom, but for my own from
America’s influence in my own region.
Vote
Ron Paul and let my people go once again! Stop meddling here and stop
trying to buy influence by giving me money. Stop trying to be the all
powerful Peace Maker and let us work out the problems here on our
own! If we think Iran is a threat, we can handle it and we’ll take
the consequences. It’s not America’s problem and you can’t
afford another war.
Now
I understand why people will give everything to this man. Whenever
he’s asked the question, “Would you legalize heroin?” Ron Paul
answers, “I want to legalize freedom!” Little do these people
understand that freedom is a thousand times more addictive than
heroin.
American
Jews! Wake up! Set your brothers in Israel free! We were the first
nation ever to be set free by God, and we brought the concept of
liberty to the world when we left Egypt over 3000 years ago. It’s
about time we set the example we were chosen to set.
December
31, 2011
