Conundrum

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Excerpt: "Conundrum The definition of the word Conundrum is: something that is puzzling or confusing. Free people are not equal. Equal people are not free. “A gun is like a parachute. If you need one, and don’t have one, you’ll probably never need one again.” Here are six Conundrums of socialism in the United States of America."

Dear, Dear Robert, This came to me from one of my consortium. Priceless wisdom from insight. They know not that we have had many years interacting. .
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 2 years, 2 months ago
    It is time for America to check its premises. The original premises were correct, but Benjamin Franklin would be shaking his head because we couldn't keep the republic that he and the other founders bequeathed us.
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    • Posted by $ 2 years, 2 months ago
      If our youngsters are not exposed to the language there can be no knowledge that a "premises" exists.
      Homo Sapiens are formal language. All language is an abstraction. All abstraction must be a form of objective presentation and learning. And, this is a never ending process for all humans.

      And there is the simplicity beyond the complex, as Robert so eloquently shows.

      From The Way Of Life, Bynner, 1944, poem 38

      A man of sure fitness, without making a point of his fitness,
      Stays fit;
      A man of unsure fitness, assuming an appearance of fitness,
      Becomes unfit.
      The man of sure fitness never makes an act of it
      Nor considers what it may profit him;
      The man of unsure fitness makes an act of it
      And considers what it may profit him.
      However a man with a kind heart proceed,
      He forgets what it may profit him;
      However a man with a just mind proceed,
      He remembers what it may profit him;
      However a man of conventional conduct proceed, if he be not complied with
      Out goes his fist to enforce compliance.
      Here is what happens:
      Losing the way of life, men rely first on their fitness;
      Losing fitness, they turn to kindness;
      Losing kindness, they turn to justness;
      Losing justness, they turn to convention.
      Conventions are fealty and honesty gone to waste,
      They are the entrance of disorder.
      False teachers of life use flowery words
      And start nonsense.
      The man of stamina stays with the root
      Below the tapering,
      Stays with the fruit
      Beyond the flowering:
      He has his no and he has his yes.
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