For example, the message in “The Secret” will not resonate with someone in acquisition mode until they have evolved into giving mode. This is also recognized as the shift from the Have-Do-Be paradigm to Be-Do-Have.

I think you will enjoy the movie “The Moses Code”. The name of God, “I am that I am”, might have contained a deliberate punctuation omission in the Bible. The addition of a single comma “I am that, I am”, that being everything and everyone you observe with your senses, may be what God is all about. The idea that God could be in everything and everyone is contrary to the power objective of organized religion because that belief would not permit war, poverty, class structure, pollution, etc. from ever existing.

Love, Dad

keep people anxious and in fear and you sell more things to them to cheer them up artificially.

I think local news showing local things that you can actually have some effect on is far more important than worrying about senators. You have no say in what they do, absolutely none so why get upset at what they do?

As for the “Pledge of Allegiance,” I never understood it. How do you have allegiance to a flag? Shouldn’t it say to the “nation?” Another meaningless fillip in the life of the country.

Language. I think of language as another item in the “marketplace of ideas.” If it becomes important to someone, or desirable, to speak another language they’ll make the effort to learn it. If not, not. Now, I admit to a certain uncertainty about citizenship. Should an applicant for citizenship be required to demonstrate the ability to read and write the de facto national language? I’m open to persuasion either way on this.

I know, stating an open-minded position is not the Way Of The Web. I’m supposed to write only in a This Is The Way It Is sort of fashion. I guess I’m a flop. An unprincipled boob.