Scimus autem quoniam diligentibus Deum omnia cooperantur in bonum, iis qui secundum propositum vocati sunt sancti. And we know that to them that love God, all things work together unto good, to such as, according to his purpose, are called to be saints.

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It occurs to me that whatever is good, whatever is reasonable, whatever is cheerful, whatever is orderly, whatever is peaceable, a Leftist wants to rub my face in its opposite. I think that that is all there is to Leftism and Leftists: just rub normal people’s faces in the opposite of what delights them and God. That’s it. Analysis over. That’s all of it, revealing to its very back the phenomenon of Leftism.

There is nothing wrong per se with an intelligence community or a foreign policy establishment. Battalion and larger military formations have intelligence and policy staffs without their command structure being overwhelmed or overtaken by the same. Intel and policy are intel and policy, not command.

Get the Leftist urge to rub people’s faces in the muck of things revolting installed in staff and / or command structures, however, and an organization’s purpose and operations go south in a hurry. CIA were created just for the purpose of rubbing people’s faces in the muck of things revolting. Hoover embarked FBI on a parallel course. Monied private interests created a massive web of revolving door foreign / domestic policy GOs-NGOs, most of them Leftist, including those self-branded conservative.

Comment strings on “conservative” blogs are littered with “concerned citizens” wanting revenge on someone for something they said or did or want. Armies of commenters want to rub someone’s face in what someone thinks that someone fears or detests. Where is the good in that? What is the good in “getting even.” There is no such thing. They send you a message, you send them a message, now they have to send you a message back. There is no even in getting even. Pretty soon the town is all women because the men are all dead from vendettas. We all know the story. We all saw the movie. It’s true, that part of it anyway.

Leftists, wherever ensconced, however titled and empowered, want to rub my face in what I don’t want my face rubbed in. That’s as complicated as this gets. And you know what? I don’t care. They are going to do what they are going to do and I am going to do what I am going to do. God can take care of the consequences. I have my duties, and you know what, I am going to do them the best I know how until I cannot do them at all.

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Enquiry into the nature of Mind will reveal that it has no existence apart from thoughts that arise through sense organs. Hence sages declared: Sankalpa Vikalpathmakam Manaha – Thoughts and doubts constitute the essence of mind. To bring the mind under control we have to free ourselves from the entire process of mental agitation. If we want to take a bath in the sea which is agitated by waves, we cannot afford to wait till the waves subside and the sea is calm. Likewise, it will be foolish to wait for the agitations in the mind to cease for experiencing divine bliss. By constant rumination over one’s sensory experiences the mind acquires a form. By relating the experiences to the ‘I’ as the experiencer, the consciousness of a distinctive individual (the Ego) arises. From that, desires develop and from the desires the mind acquires a form.