Showing posts with label Greece. Show all posts
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Thursday, February 20, 2014

Grace Barclay's Recollection of The American Revolution, eBook.

Battle of the Hook, 2013
Battle of the Hook, 2013 (Photo credit: Battleofthehook)


Grace Barclay's Recollection of The American Revolution from Chuck Thompson

In these times of great struggles when it seems as those who are charged with leading this great nation, are falling short, and producing by far less than ideal standards at every level for the American people, we see the rising of Babylon and the destruction of Rome or Greece.  There is nothing new under the sun.  Failure to know and understand history is in fact hurting everyone.  We see masses of people bashing Christians who are only trying to warn people based on God's word, not their own word.

  We see tremendous ignorance everywhere and it is due in large part to the complete and utter failure or destruction of our own educational system, or should we call it more aptly, indoctrination system.  We continue to digitally publish as many old history books as we can to try and fill a gap in the complete lack of understanding that so many suffer from.

  To at least bring some degree of sanity to you where insanity has now become the order of everyday.  The above book about the American Revolution is one created by someone who lived through the ordeal and gives a personal account of what those times were like.  It allows us to compare what our forefather lived through and take a step back and look at how and where we are now.  It may even, with a lot of prayer, inspire one of our leaders to lead down the correct path.  But I wouldn't hold my breath on that.

  If you want a copy of the book, we allow free downloads of this book from our Slideshare site.  
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Sunday, September 15, 2013

The Federalist Papers No 14, Objections to the Proposed Constitution From Extent of Territory Answer

MADISON:

To the People of the State of New York:

WE HAVE seen the necessity of the Union, as our bulwark against foreign danger, as the conservator of peace among ourselves, as the guardian of our commerce and other common interests, as the only substitute for those military establishments which have subverted the liberties of the Old World, and as the proper antidote for the diseases of faction, which have proved fatal to other popular governments, and of which alarming symptoms have been betrayed by our own. All that remains, within this branch of our inquiries, is to take notice of an objection that may be drawn from the great extent of country which the Union embraces. A few observations on this subject will be the more proper, as it is perceived that the adversaries of the new Constitution are availing themselves of the prevailing prejudice with regard to the practicable sphere of republican administration, in order to supply, by imaginary difficulties, the want of those solid objections which they endeavor in vain to find.

The error which limits republican government to a narrow district has been unfolded and refuted in preceding papers. I remark here only that it seems to owe its rise and prevalence chiefly to the confounding of a republic with a democracy, applying to the former reasonings drawn from the nature of the latter. The true distinction between these forms was also adverted to on a former occasion. It is, that in a democracy, the people meet and exercise the government in person; in a republic, they assemble and administer it by their representatives and agents. A democracy, consequently, will be confined to a small spot. A republic may be extended over a large region.

To this accidental source of the error may be added the artifice of some celebrated authors, whose writings have had a great share in forming the modern standard of political opinions. Being subjects either of an absolute or limited monarchy, they have endeavored to heighten the advantages, or palliate the evils of those forms, by placing in comparison the vices and defects of the republican, and by citing as specimens of the latter the turbulent democracies of ancient Greece and modern Italy. Under the confusion of names, it has been an easy task to transfer to a republic observations applicable to a democracy only; and among others, the observation that it can never be established but among a small number of people, living within a small compass of territory.

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Federalist Papers No, 14 - Objections to the Constitution Answered from Chuck Thompson

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Thursday, September 5, 2013

Federalist Papers No. 9 The Union As A Safeguard Against Faction And Insurrection

To the People of the State of New York:

A FIRM Union will be of the utmost moment to the peace and liberty of the States, as a barrier against domestic faction and insurrection. It is impossible to read the history of the petty republics of Greece and Italy without feeling sensations of horror and disgust at the distractions with which they were continually agitated, and at the rapid succession of revolutions by which they were kept in a state of perpetual vibration between the extremes of tyranny and anarchy. If they exhibit occasional calms, these only serve as short-lived contrast to the furious storms that are to succeed. If now and then intervals of felicity open to view, we behold them with a mixture of regret, arising from the reflection that the pleasing scenes before us are soon to be overwhelmed by the tempestuous waves of sedition and party rage. If momentary rays of glory break forth from the gloom, while they dazzle us with a transient and fleeting brilliancy, they at the same time admonish us to lament that the vices of government should pervert the direction and tarnish the lustre of those bright talents and exalted endowments for which the favored soils that produced them have been so justly celebrated.

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Thursday, August 22, 2013

Dark Souls Day - Say - Free MP3 Song Of The Day



Gothic Metal.  It's not raunchy or grunge strung either.  It has a great beat but dark sound.  Well done tune that is actually fun to listen to, if you like this kind of music.  The band is from Greece, Thessaloniki to be exact.  The track is sung in English.   The album is X-Lives.  We are presently checking out the entire album and if any more tracks are as good as this one, we will bring you more.  And from early results, we will be bringing you more.
Stained glass windows, Inglesia Santa Barbara ...
Stained glass windows, Inglesia Santa Barbara de Santa Rosalia, Designed by Gustave Eiffel, Gothic, Metal church, San Rosalia, Baja California Sur, Mexico, dedicated 1887 (Photo credit: Wonderlane)
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