CULTURAL SUICIDE CAN COME QUICKLY
Ephesus in 200 BC
Ruins of Ephesus today
In February, New York was the world’s most dynamic metropolis. By August, the city was more like the ruins of Ephesus. It is not all that hard to blow up a culture. You can do it in a summer if you haven’t much worry about others.
When you loot and burn a Target in an hour, it takes months to realize there are no more neighborhood Target-stocked groceries, toilet paper, and Advil to buy this winter.
You can in a night assault the police, spit at them, hope to infect them with the coronavirus, and even burn them alive. But when you call 911 in a few weeks after your car is vandalized, your wallet is stolen, and your spouse is violent, and no one comes, only then do you sense that you earlier were voting for a pre-civilized wilderness.
And that wilderness can come in a blink of history’s eye.
MYSTERY LAKES OF THE GOBI
The southernmost portion of the Gobi Desert is called the Alashan in Inner Mongolia. Traversed by Marco Polo in 1273 on his way to meet the Mongol Emperor Kublai Khan, he said it contained a “mystery.”
For in the hidden center of the Alashan is an area known as Badain Jaran, “Mystery Lakes” in Mongolian. There are some 140 of these small lakes surrounded by enormous sand dunes. The photo you see is of one of these lakes, taken in late afternoon on a windless day, with the giant dunes above reflected on the water.
We were there in October 2017. We will explore Inner Mongolia and the Gobi again in October 2021. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #32 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)
NO FEAR OF THE EVIL EYE: The Tenth Commandment / Fingernail Clippings and Ugly Babies
The second and third chapters of Part I on Envy are quite short, so I thought it best to offer both this week. Comments and observations are always welcome!
THE TENTH COMMANDMENT
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, nor thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's. Exodus 20:17
This is the King James Version (KJV) translation of the Tenth Commandment of Yahweh not to envy. The Living Bible (TLB) translation is more accurate:
“You must not be envious of your neighbor’s house, or want to sleep with his wife, or want to own his slaves, oxen, donkeys, or anything else he has.”
The original word in Hebrew translated as “covet” is chamad. The word can be used in different contexts, referring to sexual lust for example. But for thousands of years, Jewish tradition has considered the 10th as a proscription not to envy other people.
Not surprising considering that according to the Old Testament, the first crime ever committed, Cain killing his brother Abel in Genesis 4:3-8, was an act of envy.
THE HIDDEN NORTH FACE OF KANCHENJUNGA
This is one of the truly great mountain sights on earth yet never seen – except for professional mountaineers and those on our Himalaya Helicopter Expeditions. Kanchenjunga at 28,169 feet (8,586 meters) is the world’s 3rd highest mountain (after Everest and K2), with a drop from summit (the peak on the left in front of the cloud) to the glacier at it base of 12,000 feet straight down.
You can be awed by such a picture, but to actually physically be here, to witness this magnificence personally so that it is forever a part of your life, is to feel a depth of awe that has to be experienced to be understood. Kanchenjunga is part of the Himalayas, now on the border of Nepal and Sikkim, once an independent kingdom now absorbed into India. We fly right up the North Face, and into the Amphitheatre of the Southwest Face as well.
We hope to be here again in early November if Nepal opens up by then; we’ll be here for sure next April. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #31 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
THE DEMOCRAT DREAM
HALF-FULL REPORT 08/28/20
This was in Portland on Monday night (8/24), should have been done three months ago at the very start. Yet better late than never.
Welcome to The Tide Is Turning HFR. And wait ‘till you hear what the Dem theme song is now.
SKYE’S LINKS 08/28/20
How lovely! On Durham's 8 hour Brennan interview:
Was John Brennan Just Put In A Completely Legitimate Perjury Trap?
Attention Mike Ryan!
Psychopathic racist PR: EXCLUSIVE: Insider at PR Giant Publicis Groupe Reveals Far-left Racism Spreading Through Woke Capitalism
Real election interference: Twitter Censors Trump Tweet About 'Voter Security Disaster'
Big Brother Zuck is watching you to make sure that nothing that you say goes viral without His Royal Majesty’s approval: Report: Facebook Introducing a 'Virality Circuit Breaker' to Prevent Spread of Viral Content
Tell a big enough lie long enough - and maybe the BBC(!) will fact check it. (I wonder if that fact-checker still has his job) BBC Fact-checks Joe Biden for Charlottesville 'Very Fine People' Hoax
There’s lots more!
FLASHBACK FRIDAY — CLIMBING THE MATTERHORN AT AGE 14
The Matterhorn at 14,692 ft in the Swiss Alps is arguably the most famous mountain in the world. By extreme luck, I was able to reach its summit with my guide Alfons Franzen at age 14 (in 1958!). The summit is not a point but a ridge 100 feet or so long and only 2 feet wide, like a knife blade in the sky.
This was my formative great adventure that set me on my life path. For over forty years that path has been providing friends and clients with great adventures for their own lives. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #30 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
WHAT GOOD IS THE SECOND AMENDMENT IF NOBODY USES IT?
Kyle Rittenhouse
The motto of opencarry.org – advocate of open carry laws – is “A right unexercised is a right lost.”
Wisconsin is an open carry state. Much more than that. Wisconsin is a shall-issue, open carry, no-duty-to-retreat Castle Doctrine state.
An indication of the vast number of long gun (rifles/shotguns) owners can be seen by the current 2020 USFWS Hunting License Data for Wisconsin: 3,913,818 Resident Licenses, Tags, Permits & Stamps – out of a population of 5,822,000.
Deer hunting is enormously popular in Wisconsin. Over 680,000 deer hunting licenses have been paid this year. These are hunters who know how to handle a rifle.
Where are they? Why don’t they have the courage of a 17 year-old boy to protect their cities from Communist criminals?
DEMOCRATS BECOME MARXIST COMMUNISTS RIGHT IN FRONT OF OUR EYES
BLM/Antifa Marxists demand woman raise her fist for them, she refuses
Washington DC restaurant, August 25, 2020In a Forum comment on my No Fear of the Evil Eye book installments, Mellie kindly said:
“I’m so glad to see you finally doing this, Dr. Jack. And I think this is the perfect time for it – the effects are so readily seen. Your ‘for examples’ can come straight from this morning’s paper!”
In subsequent chapters, you’ll be gaining an understanding of how the basic foundational principles of Marx, Lenin, and Mao explain what the Radical Left is doing right now in their takeover of the Democrat Party.
I’m going to jump the gun here, to make one thing clear as it won’t wait. Let me tell you a story.