6 thoughts on “Merry Christmas From The Trenches!”
Merry Christmas!!… even though The Grinch of Genocide has made it very un-merry. Still we say the words as if there’s some ancient remembrance in them, remembrance of a time when joy was real and people enthusiastically connected and celebrated love. So Merry Christmas!!… especially to Henry who gives us the Trenches platform to express our opinions and insights, our rage and aspirations, and who teaches us to fight for The Bill of Rights and to stand up to any and all infringement. It’s a great thing to be able to say, “We didn’t look away.”
The reason why Jesus ended up being born in a manger so far away from home is because for the first time, the people all over the empire were required to register, even if his parents had to travel a long, arduous journey to do so. My question is, did they register? Then, I got to thinking about the Bill of Rights. Approximately 2,000 years later, that beautiful glitch in the tyranny of empire made it so there would never be any such requirement under the law of liberty and freedom, of, by and for the people, to register for anything. Jesus was born under the tyranny of the Roman Empire, December 25. The Americans have it made under their law of December 15, 1791. Under that law, they are free to unregister, and to dispose of any and all tyranny that violates their law which gives them the means to do just that. Happy Birthday, Jesus. Thank you for the love. God knows we need it, but 2,000 years is a long, long time, to have to turn the other cheek and tolerate the tyranny…
Looking at the present and looking back over history, I see many have not “turned the other cheek” or “tolerated the tyranny.” Many battles lost/lives destroyed but the war victory is in front of us. Only through the fight do we get we’re we gotta go. I’m thinking of an old quote by Pablo Picasso:
“I am always doing things I can’t do. That is how I get to do them.”
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Thanks galen. Looking at the present and looking back over history, I see what you mean. It has always had to come down to the power of the free individual who fought to the death rather than live as a slave. Those who survived and wrote the Bill of Rights and those who teach it today are the individuals more of us need to emulate as we head into the future.
Merry Christmas!!… even though The Grinch of Genocide has made it very un-merry. Still we say the words as if there’s some ancient remembrance in them, remembrance of a time when joy was real and people enthusiastically connected and celebrated love. So Merry Christmas!!… especially to Henry who gives us the Trenches platform to express our opinions and insights, our rage and aspirations, and who teaches us to fight for The Bill of Rights and to stand up to any and all infringement. It’s a great thing to be able to say, “We didn’t look away.”
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Merry Christmas to all Trenchers! Blessings!
The reason why Jesus ended up being born in a manger so far away from home is because for the first time, the people all over the empire were required to register, even if his parents had to travel a long, arduous journey to do so. My question is, did they register? Then, I got to thinking about the Bill of Rights. Approximately 2,000 years later, that beautiful glitch in the tyranny of empire made it so there would never be any such requirement under the law of liberty and freedom, of, by and for the people, to register for anything. Jesus was born under the tyranny of the Roman Empire, December 25. The Americans have it made under their law of December 15, 1791. Under that law, they are free to unregister, and to dispose of any and all tyranny that violates their law which gives them the means to do just that. Happy Birthday, Jesus. Thank you for the love. God knows we need it, but 2,000 years is a long, long time, to have to turn the other cheek and tolerate the tyranny…
Looking at the present and looking back over history, I see many have not “turned the other cheek” or “tolerated the tyranny.” Many battles lost/lives destroyed but the war victory is in front of us. Only through the fight do we get we’re we gotta go. I’m thinking of an old quote by Pablo Picasso:
“I am always doing things I can’t do. That is how I get to do them.”
🙂
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Thanks galen. Looking at the present and looking back over history, I see what you mean. It has always had to come down to the power of the free individual who fought to the death rather than live as a slave. Those who survived and wrote the Bill of Rights and those who teach it today are the individuals more of us need to emulate as we head into the future.
Merry Christmas!