lol. I figured it had something to do with the movie but not having seen it I wasn’t sure what it meant. Well... I guess I’m the one who took your strawberries so just keep calming yourself with the brass balls and I promise not to steal any more strawberries. lol
I work a long, monotonous physical labor job that gives me a lot of time to think. Or watch movies. So maybe I’ll see if I can find that movie and watch it one of these days.
I think a lot of our defenses were not geared toward the kind of war and threats we face today. Maybe the enemies tailored their methods to match our vulnerabilities. I think we need to seriously look at those vulnerabilities though, because we definitely have serious enemies. Both the communists and Islamists have pretty much said that their game plan is to disguise themselves as normal Americans and topple the nation from within.
Sometimes I wonder if we are beyond ever undoing the damage already done by communists taking over basic infrastructure. And the Muslims are definitely on the move, as if they smell blood in the water.
We had a devotion today that asked how we would live if we knew we had one week left before dying. I said that’s a tough one because you can’t just snuggle with the family for a whole week so you’d have to find something else worth doing in that time also. And it would be a different response if I knew it was just me that would be dying, and not my whole family or the whole world ending or something.
I think about what my kids might see in their lifetimes, and so much of what I do is really fighting for their sake, for their future. If I knew there wasn’t a future to even fight for, my life would be totally different. So the questions about what happens if Obama truly turns this nation communist are not just theoretical mind games for me. That’s probably true for most people here.
I’m more an office geek these days - but it wears on me because of all the mind games & PC stuff people play these days. Part of why I got out was all the politics in the officer corps. I understand where your coming from on the devotional - I’m not much of a church goer, turned off it with the cliques that the ones I knew growing up in a small town had, but I read the good book and other studies on my own. It is though a different question if your on your own vs if you have to watch the family.
I’ve already decided that if the shooting were to ever stop I’d ship my wife back home to Japan with the kids and head for the woods of home. I can survive on my own pretty well with no issues - but picket ship tactics were never my forte :) That’s actually an easier battle in my mind - you know the enemy for the most part and you’ve got a goal in mind.
The harder one is as you say fighting for the future of your kids. So many people these days can’t look past tomorrow, let alone next year; so it’s hard to get the level of committment needed for the dedicated fight, and mentally it’s much more draining when you can’t fully grasp the enemy.
Fair winds following seas - and watch out for your strawberries :) (it really is a good movie)