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Hand in Hand with Jesus

Published by Richard Kimball on December 17, 2024

I know it is an odd thing when I say Jesus talks to me. But somehow, he finds a way. 

If I do good, I am kind, thoughtful and giving, he inflates my senses of self-worth and joy.

If I do bad, he loads me with self-doubt and roils my brain in the darkness of a sleepless night.

It is because of him, I never think of harassing, bullying, abusing or grabbing a woman by the pussy.

He talks to me about supporting the poor and needy, not judging or condemning others, or seeking revenge or retribution, or promoting conflict and division. All spot on with what he said and exampled in his life.

He also talks to me of the modern-day temple profiters pointing to their new leader who warps his every example into the most grotesque deformities persuading acceptance of a smothering of all he lived for.

Richard Kimball – more historian than Christian

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Tired of Fake News?

Published by Richard Kimball on December 5, 2024

Go to:

Reuter

Associated Press

BBC

Wall Street Journal

Forbes

The Hill

Newsweek

NPR

Not much left in the world of unbiased news and even some of those I’ve listed struggle mightily to hold a toe in the lane of unopinionated.

Most of us just choose news elsewhere that plays sweet music for our own ears.

Richard Kimball

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Merriam Webster

Published by Richard Kimball on November 17, 2024

SELFISH: concerned excessively or exclusively with oneself

Long, long ago in a world now far, far away, I was reading of an eighteenth-century Scottish historian who suggested democracy would always eat itself.  A people starting in bondage would develop great courage, he said. That would lead to liberty, in turn liberty would lead to abundance, abundance to selfishness, selfishness to complacency, complacency to apathy, apathy to dependence and thus back to bondage.

 I had thought him wrong then and gave much of my life to prove him so, but I would not now.   Age has given me clarity; a clarity I wish I did not have.  Selfishness takes primacy in all beings and is particularly evident amongst human beings. How else could it be that we have ended the existence of so many other species and now stand on the precipice of ending our own.

 Or as H. L Mencken, a devout conservative wrote, “As democracy is perfected, the office of the President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people.  On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be occupied by a downright fool and complete narcissist moron.”

Richard Kimball

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