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AN UNWORTHY LIFE ?

Posted by Mike Silverman on Sunday, July 12, 2009 10:00:45 PM
What is the significance of life?  Is it to be useful in some way? To plow fields, to feed the hungry, to bring happiness to others, to invent, to heal, or in some way be of value to the world? what if a man is paralyzed, immobile, his arms and legs frozen forever? Perhaps he can hear and see and speak, but lets rob him even of his eyes and his voice. He is paralyzed and blind and mute. He can hear and he can breathe. All other senses fail him utterly. Perhaps he has been this way for as long as he has been alive. Does his life have any vaule? What is the significance of the life within him?
 
Perhaps there are those who would seek to help him. They would learn how to care for such a man, to provide him with what he needs to survive, and how to communicate with such a man who is so shut off from manners of expressing himself. Perhaps there are those who would love him for the life within him, for its own sake. Perhaps by caring for him, they would learn to care for others and to respect life in a deeper way. But then, is he merely significant as a tool to teach others something?  Does he have to be something to someone else, or can his life mean something important even if no one cares for him?
 
Let's move to the end of his life, he dies, and no one has noticed. His lifeless body stiffens and grows cold in his bed and days pass before anyone discovers him. He is then taken away and laid to rest in the earth. what can we say about the time during which life inhabited his body?
 
He did not choose to be born, birth comes absent of the knowledge of the one being born. And certainly he did not choose to come into the world with such a condition afflicting him. Yet, into the world he came. The earth was solid under him, the sun shone on him as on everyone else, and the wind touched him no less or more than it touched anyone else. Creation did not judge him. So what man can say he knows better than all of creation? If the world and the universe and all of existence was willing to accept his birth, is a man better able to judge if his life is acceptable?
 
- Mike Silverman
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YOU MAY NOT LIKE THIS - MY OPINION ON ABORTION

Posted by Mike Silverman on Tuesday, June 02, 2009 10:16:25 PM

As always, blogs are primarily repositories of opinion, and so let me preface what I am about to relate by stating that this is purely my most heartfelt opinion. If you are too sensitive to face reading an opinion that is dramatically opposed to abortion, then I suggest you go read something else, for you will not like what follows here, you might even find that my opinion is shocking. I will begin by making a simple observation. The most innocent, the most untouched by the demands the joys the wonders and the sorrows of human society, the purest moments of existence for a human are those precious moments before, during, and then after birth when a child takes his or her first few breaths. Like a falling snowflake pure and unique, it begins a journey that will eventually change it, merge it into a greater conglomerate of snowflakes till the child may seem to disappear in the masses of society. And yet, like that snowflake, it adds a little something to the overall depth and strength and volume of our world. Of course a child is far more complex, has far more potential and life than a mere snowflake. To see and hear a child newly born, crying out, reaching out to the world around it as that child takes it's first tentative grasp of a new experience outside of the womb is a moving experience for anyone with a human heart. Along with the divine spark of life that was passed to that child from the parents, within that child rests a potential for achievements as yet untapped. With caring and guidance and love, that child will have a chance to learn and dream and reach for highest potential of the human spirit. How then, any loving person can make a deliberate choice to kill... to wipe out, destroy in horrific fashion that purest, most innocent of human life before it has the chance to even take those first few precious breaths, to reach out into the world with those small hands, to have a chance to bear witness to creation, that innocent life depending on its mother for protection, a mother who commits either of her own will or under the heavy handed influence of others to that most wretched and vile act of savage and brutal betrayal, is beyong my reckoning for it seems to be an act completely without human comapssion. Which brings me to the point of my soliloquy. Recently the news media has been telling us of the murder of Doctor George Tiller, a commited abortionist who had no qualms about ripping innocent helpless life to shreds thousand times. He has openly declared it, seeming to be pround of the fact, that he has done this thousands of times. No infamous serial killer has been as prolific or heartless as this dreadful man. The difference is that the law, sadly, protected this murderous villian in most of the cases. What of the family Dr. Tiller leaves behind?  You may think me cruel to offer my opinion in such a fashion at a time when they most likely are greiving the loss, but in my opinion there is in fact no time in which the truth of the matter should be hidden, avoided, swept under the rug, or aborted. I feel sad for his family, those who loved him and who feel the pain of losing a loved one. I hope that as they pray for his soul, they will also take a moment to pray for the hepless and innocent souls who as a doctor, a profession people look to for healing, he betrayed and crassly ripped from this world and suffed out. Just so there is no misunderstanding, murder is wrong, always. Whether it takes the form of building a gruesome mountain of abortions, or if it takes the form of murdering the murderer. Tiller will face his ultimate judgement before God. I will conclude with this thought, there is no case, no time, no circumstance when a fetus, a human life, a baby in the womb should ever be deliberately aborted. Not even at the cost of the mother's life. Again, my blog... my opinion.  If you disagree you are welcome to respond.

- Mike Silverman

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DUST IN THE WIND....,

Posted by Mike Silverman on Wednesday, April 01, 2009 10:38:48 AM
  The role of the Securities And Exchange Commission is fair and reasonable as far as it goes, but for our government to extend its hand any further is highly dangerous to the stability and security of our nation. The problem with it stems from over reliance on government to take care of the problems that are in fact the problems of private investors and company directors. The government has already spent all of our money. It's gone. It is now paying for its budget on borrowed money and it makes no sense to put such a fiscally irresponsible institution as the federal government in charge of deciding the course of action of any part of our private financial industry . Government will make decisions about business dealings and operations based on a political model, when it should be a business model. We've been led off on the wrong foot to begin with. We have to change the way we have been conditioned to think. In a capitalist society, which is a society grounded in freedom for the individual, there is no such thing as a business that is too big to fail. That is simply a basic economic fact of capital driven markets. But societaly, we have been conditioned by liberal progressives as economic pundits and news media "experts" to believe that we are doomed if a company like AIG fails. Any time that we look to government to take care of problems that arise from personally irresponsible behavior, whether that behavior is from the top executives at a company who have made bad business decisions, or individuals who have bitten off more than they can chew with personal financial decisions, we abdicate responsibility for ourselves. When we don't look within to find the problems and fix it, but look to an overbearing external power to sweep in and take control forcing changes that we have not vetted, making decisions about how much prosperity we are allowed, and revoking our right to serve our own best interests, we have given up our right to self determination. We have thrown away the freedom that was God given, in favor of having our destinies controlled by strings from a faceless body of government. In most states, the age of eighteen is the age at which a child is no longer legally considered a minor. Our governments have basically said.., "you have been alive for eighteen years, it's time you take responsibility for your behavior and not make it your parent's duty.". But, here we are with the likes of President Obama and Barney Frank declaring that we are not responsible for the problems we encounter when we buy a home we can't afford, when businesses we invest in fail to profit, or just plain fail, when major industries loose market share and thousands get laid off, when some people become fiscally wealthy and others don't, none of that is the fault of the people who are at the downside of those issues and the resulting consequences, we are merely victims of a faceless evil demon with great red horns whose name is Greed. The fraternity of socialists in our federal government are slapping the money out of your hands that you earned and taking it away from you, telling you that you don't know what's good for you so "we who sit in government" will give you what you need and you will become our mindless foster child for the rest of your life. At that point, life , liberty, and the pursuit of happiness becomes dust in the wind. You have to look in the mirror and decide whether you are the master of your own fate, or whether your master sits on a committee in congress, or even a chair in the White House.
 
- Mike Silverman
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RE-DECLARING OUR INDEPENDENCE

Posted by Mike Silverman on Wednesday, March 25, 2009 9:12:08 AM

 
The Declaration of Independence: ( WITH NOTES ADDED BY ME... in parenthesis)


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IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal... ( this includes the executives at AIG, the management and employees of Wal Mart, speculators in the stock market, and people at all income levels from the wealthiest to those with no income)...that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life ( abortion is not a "right") , Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness ( the amount of money at your disposal increases the ease at which you can pursue liberty and happiness, thus the more you are taxed the more the government chokes your options for such pursuits) .--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed ...( our government is not there to rule us, we own it, it functions at our discretion and we will reign it in when it goes too far)..., --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends,...( ...when our government tries to determine the fate, future and obligations of the people and forgets that it's role is to serve rather than to limit freedom...) it is the Right of the People to alter ...( elect new leaders)... or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes ( .. the Constitution must not be ignored as a matter of convenience )...; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government( ... or perhaps restore to primary importance the founding principles and guiding documents of a great Republic to govern as was the original intent by replacing corrupt leaders with those who respect the Constitution)... The history of the present King of Great Britain ...( or perhaps... the present political leaders in DC )..is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.

 This first paragraph of the Declaration of Independence lays out the basic reasons for pursuing redress of grievances against a government that has gone out of control.  My notes inserted into it were meant simply to point out the modern equivalence of some of those grievances. It seems that  far too many of our elected leaders have forgotten or forsaken the principles and ideas of our nation's founding. We have a governing body now that seems to have lost its way from the principles primarily embodied in the right to liberty. Freedom. From freedom all the rest of it becomes possible.
 
- Mike Silverman

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