Posted on 09/03/2011 5:23:24 AM PDT by Kaslin
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I would also add that in doing certain behaviors, you aren’t really all that free. Addiction isn’t freedom, being indoctrinated heavily in a distorted lifestyle is not freedom, or open-mindedness, but abuse. Giving a distortion that being raised by a mother and a father shouldn’t be the ideal isn’t freedom. Again, natural law was about giving freedom, not free reign of one group over another.
So very true, Morpheus2009. It seems the “freer” that we become as a society, the more problems are created. The type of philosophy of “if it feels good then do it”... what has it created? More divorce, molestations, adultery, teen/unwed pregnancies, abortions, STD/HIV.. the list just goes on and on.
“Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites—in proportion as their love of justice is above their rapacity;—in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption;—in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon the will and appetite is placed somewhere: and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds can not be free. Their passions forge their fetters.”
— Edmund Burke
I would also add cohabitation, while I just wasn’t lucky in my dating life, what disappointed me so much more than my own failure at finding a wife was the fact that so many young men in their early 20s, peers and friends of mine could have married, gone through more education, or even both, decided to settle for a lesser option and simply move in with their girlfriends. I can tell you, plenty of these people in these cohabitating relationships weren’t all that free, a great deal being because they didn’t have a firm definition as to how committed their relationship was, and then it fell apart. I haven’t found many good stats on how cohabitating relationships go, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the failure rate for such relationships was worse than marriage, or possibly if plenty of them didn’t advance into marriage, either way, in addition to abortion and the others, I feel, based on what I observed, and have seen others do, that cohabitation is already a serious problem. It was pretty common among my friends at that time, and I can only see it being far more worse now from accounts of what friends of my nieces and nephews are doing. Again, there’s nothing that makes a young man like me more disappointed than the fact that people who could have done far better, and actually gotten married, at least with the priest’s blessing, or religious leader, if you will, are settling for something less. One of my friends’ situations ended in total disaster because he was not legally wed to the woman he lived with, he had absolutely no legal standing to see his daughter after they broke up, because it wasn’t technically a divorce they were going through, even though they had a child together. He wasn’t free to see his daughter, because he didn’t go through with the full commitment, what’s even worse is that he sadly may have lessened the chance of as severe had he actually found someone who also wished to make the commitment of marriage to him. Again, I am not trying to be judgemental of the people I know, I wish them well, and I hope they work to become better people, however, there were some serious consequences and horror stories from their cohabitating relationships at the same time. I wouldn’t hesitate to tell my family the importance of working to be the selfless person that makes a good father or mother from your early years onward. I also wouldn’t hesitate to let the kids know that it’s important not to settle for less than marriage, and avoid cohabitation at all costs. While divorce is possible, there are plenty of horror stories I have seen from cohabitating relationships myself that are also incredibly inconvenient to both involved in them.
The big thing about sexual freedom, is the whole idea is counterfeit. Life isn’t free without some serious restraints and limits on what one does sexually. Not just the threat of STDs, but also the effects on one’s conscience, as well as personal well-being too.
“I wouldn’t hesitate to let the kids know that it’s important not to settle for less than marriage, and avoid cohabitation”.
No truer words have ever been spoken. It is up to the parents to teach their children right from wrong. It is also up to the parents to teach them that their bodies are precious and special. Cohabitation is “playing house” in a way. You get to play “husband” or “wife” without the commitment. It amuses me in a way when someone will say, “Marriage is only a piece of paper... we can live together and stay together if we really love each other”. My thought has always been “if you really love each other, then a piece of paper is worth making it legal and honorable”.
Excellently well done!
One idea would be to modify the life appointment subject to good behavior. For one thing, to cure liberal judges of their weenings and leanings, how about this? If a judge is reversed in any five-year window more than X% of the time by the Supremes, he gets tossed. And we could address it personally to the putzes of the Ninth Circus in California.
Same thing for the Supremes: X% of minority votes in Y years -- poof, you're retired. Double black-mark points if you're reversed by a later Supreme Court ruling or by a constitutional amendment (like, when we take down Lawrence, Roe, and Griswold, and the gun-control cases in Miller 1939, Presser 1886, and the Klan-contaminated Cruikshank 1877 [that tried permanently to deny the BoR protections to all individuals by restricting BoR protections to federal cases, implicitly denying them for any case brought under state law], by constitutional amendment -- which would instantly, under my broad-minded and clever plan, throw double black marks on every federal judge who ever issued an opinion consistent with the offending cases).
Texas FReepers: "Stirrin' it up over here, Boss!" </Luke>
Standard liberal tactic -— those who oppose deviancy are the problem.
Sounds as though you should run for office. State senator?
Seriously.
Have you read Travis McGee/Bracken’s books? I think that’s what will have to happen, unfortunately. If you haven’t read them, I HIGHLY recommend them.
Sad and sickening.
Aren’t you glad you believe in Hell? Don’t you wish everybody did?
Morally, these people stink.
Heck, at 66 you could probably drag out death penalty appeals past your expiration date. :)
Being 63 myself, I share your mindset
I forgot to add yesterday - Harry Hay was a card carrying member of the Communist Party for a while and taught Communist philosophy or whatever it’s called. I may have a link, I’ll look.
These articles are must reading for anyone who wants to see the background connections between the left and the home/pedophilia-agenda. Harry Hays is in there, too.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2626827/posts
George Soros in Bed with NAMBLA, Homosex Part One
Canadian Free Press ^ | 11/13/10 | Cliff Kincaid
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2626825/posts
NAMBLA-gate: Part Two NAMBLA-gate: The Strange Case of Kevin Jennings, Part Two
Canadian Free Press ^ | January 5, 2010 | Cliff Kincaid
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2626828/posts
NAMBLA-gate: Soros & Homosex, Part Three
Canadian Free Press ^ | January 7, 2010 | Cliff Kincaid
Posted on Saturday, November 13, 2010 6:58:12 PM by STD
A very interesting development the same date of the post. My brother called from his 46 year class reunion, and ran into this particular girl (I recently told him about this). She doesn’t remember him, my other brother (who were about her age), or their friends in the neighborhood. Seems she has early Alzheimers.
WOW...
My experience wasn’t as extreme as yours. Unfortunately, many on the “Hot Teacher” threads would call you “lucky.” Keep your face towards Christ, FRiend. He’s the source of all healing.
There have been a whole slew of articles in the past few weeks about trying the normalize pedophilia. So I think they’re going right for the children.
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