Read this to the end and see where it goes. First, I need to lead you to what I see as Freedom
Opened my digital mail this morning to unbelievable world happenings, which is how fast the world seems to be moving. I haven't bought an old-fashioned paper in years. The digital headlines were similar to those of years past, with different words that still support similar ideas.
It struck me again how much the world has changed from the one I grew up in. I'm 73 years old now, and I've spent most of my life believing in freedom. Freedom of mind, of speech, of living. Freedom to make choices as I choose. Whether good or bad, they're all my choices. I admit that many should have been better. But even those bad choices are better than nothing. If you learn from your misteaks, um, err, mistakes, that is. I sat at my desk, and a different perspective flashed into my mind. The ideas and concepts hit me like a storm.
I began to think of all the experiences People go through, whether a long life or a short life.
The idea that we are, for the most part, taught that either we are graced with good luck or graced with the worst of life. Living in hardship that is truly due to many of their prior choices in life. Current living is based on your past choices and how you handled recovering from bad ones. Did you do your homework and learn how to repair the bad choices? to free you from your predicament. Did you choose to persevere to find paths to your success or take an easier path?
My own life is a story of falling from grace and rising again. It was choices that I should have known about or investigated sooner. I was not born hardwired for success. No one is. The world does not give us that as freedom; we have to earn it, invest in it. In the United States, The Words that make this true are the following: WE THE PEOPLE. It is our choices that make freedom prevail. It is a series of choices based on the fact that nothing in life is free. You ALWAYS trade something for it with a choice.
Whether the trade is a Thought, a coin, your life, your freedoms, or your very soul, if you believe it so as the character Faustus did. Like everything else, even your soul is a choice once set on a path; that path never passes in the same place or the same way.
The current situation in New York City, which I have visited on Business many times, is a fantastic example of destruction by choice in mass. Bad decisions are made by people who believe they will get something for nothing. told to them by a man who sees them as peon infidels who need not be told the truth, nor have any need to be honest in dealings with infidels. By his own beliefs. It will be an extremely hard lesson for New York State as well when the business moves to Texas or other freedom-loving states. It will cause the financial capital of the world to move to another state.
I predict that if it continues, it will bankrupt many of the current millionaires and generational New Yorkers like my family within 7years. Businesses such as Amazon and others have already been forced to choose to stay or go. Choices{ Bad ones} and one New York City will never be able to recover from again. When Wall Street, which many have already left, falls. There's no reset going to happen.
Some people end up living a long, prosperous life, while other tiny lives end very quickly. It is really much the same when you think about it. As a child, I looked at life as a long distance to my end of life on this earth. Though with events that occurred, I am surprised that I made it this far.
Now I look back at the life I have lived and the things that have had major and subtle changes in my life. I see what I could and still can correct to some degree. With age, it becomes very easy to examine one's past, but it can be complicated to make choices that should have been made long ago. Procrastination occurs when you are young and think that the road you are walking is unending.
The only Choice in our lives. Read on, please
But every moment that we even breathe is another choice. Even when you decide to stop breathing, that in itself is another choice that has no reset, or so you think. You probably thought that was a finite solution. Well, if you believe in most faiths or none, there is a continuity to that also. Some believe in reward and punishment. Some in sexually perverted eternity with virgins, the more primal minds believe. Without a physical body, that's going to be a feat of sheer magic. Some believe that we are destined to recycle again and again till we get our spirits sorted out.
For those having no particular beliefs. There are many videos and researchers, as well as medical people who work with the dying, who have seen an energy by whatever name you may tag it with, leave the body at that last breath when the machine we call our body stops. We are seeing these beliefs change even now. trading and updating. Adapting to social beliefs. Still free to believe as you wish?
I once asked questions in a Born Again Church at Bible study hour and was asked not to return. I asked about one of those unexplained "mysteries" in the KJ Bible. The former life insurance man turned so-called minister asked me not to return, as I was confusing and damaging the members' faith.
I thought of the Christians in the area when the lions were tearing them to pieces. I looked behind me and all around. The minister asked me what I was looking for. I said I'm truly sorry, I thought that I had tucked my barbed tail in, and left my pitchfork at the door. He stopped the bible class and actually walked me to the door. My choice, I have not entered a church since, only as a visit with others. Jesus preached on open ground. God is WITHIN us all. We don't need a Switchboard; it's a direct connection.
There are a million other beliefs and variations of beliefs. Check out the millennia-long list of those who are known throughout history. A few believe we just run out of power, and the machine simply quits. REREAD THE PRIOR PARAGRAPH PLEASE.
There are a few things in life that a person has no choice about.
Being born is one. That choice is completely up to others who are acting responsibly or are acting without any thought or care for a created being's future. That is why God created us. It's said we are in God's image. That is our choice to create. That creation is at our mercy to make choices to guard its life with ours. The choice is to murder a part of yourself. Reread this to help you rethink if you believe it won't matter.
Note to you, the reader. A jellyfish has no brain, but is considered a living thing; some would say a fetus is not a living thing. Yet it lives and thrives. Many would marvel and be amazed that a jellyfish, but would not give that same consideration to a helpless Human fetus. The lion's reason was that they had been starved and didn't know better.
Paying taxes on most everything.In many states, such as New York, particularly those States where there's a Political Sledgehammer over people regarding taxes, Taxes on land and land use, taxes on absolutely everything.
My 96-year-old dad died, and there were taxes even on the gravesite and equipment to bury him, even the undertaker charged taxes. We then had to pay some sort of death tax to get closure. If you work out of state and still have anything registered in the state, state taxes will chase you into the other state or even another country for 20 years or indefinitely. One of the few states that can do this or that will do this, this choice is that most folks should move to free states and leave New York's ways and ideas behind. Leave the dead to bury the dead.
Yet only the other day, Governor Kathy Hochul was on the news whining about the cost of living and pointing a finger at Trump for all the problems New York has developed. She also stood shoulder to shoulder and backed the current mayor of the greatest Financial power in the world, New York City. Her choice, the same vice Governor turned Governor when Cuomo fell from grace during the COVID madness.
The same one who took our choices of masked or no masks. Made plans to permanently lock citizens in concentration camps who didn't comply without arrest, trial, a judge, or jury.saying without a release time. She publicly had a news conference to tell those who didn't agree with her to leave the state. Now she is getting her wish. Make a choice, but be careful for what you wish.
This is another trade that you think you don't have. That is a choice WE THE PEOPLE have. Except for this trade, and live with it as where you enjoy being. Be driven out of your homes at some point in time, or change them. be taxed into financial ruin, or make a change to your goals in life.
The wars going on in the usual parts of the world are nothing new. It has been going on from the beginning of time. Just open any complete and non-modernized history book. Then see if you can find an older book with the same title. A much different explanation inside. It all changes to help you conform to those in power who pull the strings of our lives' other choices.
Those who allowed themselves to be led into the aforementioned Roman arena to be lions' food. The Romans didn't like individuals questioning the established order either. That was that empires choice to rid themselves of problems.
Dropping to their knees and allowing their own deaths were the victims' choice. To turn the other cheek is not always the best solution. That only empowers bullies to escalate. Whether a slap in the face or a Nuclear bomb. Freedom hates domination from anywhere.
Can you name even one of those people who missed the piece that says I quote, 'The Lord helps he who helps himself" now? Neither can I.
That time is passing for the choice of those in power to document their actions. It's happening now with Epstein's files and the redacting out of the victims and perpetrators. Both need their time to have their day in court. Time has passed, and the choices are the same. new times, same thing.
The victims made a choice to allow themselves to be on an isolated island for a free vacation with powerful people. That free never happens. A bad choice that takes any further control or choice away from them.
The choices those powerful people made to abuse those invited girls and others were their choices. One victim has paid a price already. More are said to be buried on the New Mexico Ranch Property. Those powerful people in Washington, D.C., who redact and protect the perpetrating associates are also making a choice. A bad choice to protect monsters hiding in the dark. 2026 must solve that dilemma.
Washington moves on, and those girls are forgotten. You can blame it on President Trump and everyone else, but it is the choice. Many voices in the office need to step up and bring it all into the light. WE THE PEOPLE must raise our voice to pull that curtain of corruption back without fear. Justice for our sisters, daughters, babies, children, and young men.
I wrote an article a while ago. I explained why this happens repeatedly. Let me capture that here again for you. Zebras are grazing. The morning is quiet. Lions attack the herd, and the zebra herd scatters in terror. One Zebra breaks from the herd and is singled out. The lions attack as the lone zebra is torn apart. Its screams are heard throughout the herd of zebras, who now stand and watch as they return to grazing. After all, it wasn't them, and THAT won't happen to them.
As the savaging of this zebra takes place, some lions stand watch to protect the pride of those who hunted and now devour the victimized zebra. They protect from others that would intrude on the feasting hierarchy. They didn't attack the zebra, but they are part of the pride, and it will be the same when they hunt. It was the same when they had hunted. The pride must protect. It is the power of pride. The zebra made several choices that morning. So did the lions.
Same scenario, a time loop with only variations of the actors. Perhaps Shakespeare knew, I believe it was his belief that all the world was a play and we its actors.
This century and the people may have progressed with technology, but human Ideas and natures have, for the most part, remained the same. The scenarios are all written in the same way.
Life forms move in a direction, physically or mentally.
I do not believe that is a choice in mankind. It is their "human" nature. Like a tiger, you dye purple; it is still a tiger inside. It is a script written somewhere we can not go to rewrite what is to be. Even the thoughts in one's mind are a choice to ignore or heed what allegedly comes to Mind.
That choice takes you on what you believe to be a unique course of action. And, for the most part, it will be unique to you.
only because we are characters written in isolation from trillions of occurring similarities that have happened forever.
Throughout my life, those things and many more seem to run in an eternal circle, as some philosophers state. Different Scenarios.Different times.similar outcomes. Action and reactions.Reactions and safeguards to actions. Still, and yet more choices.
Bringing this back to my original beginnings, our world and our natures, and mankind's nature may not be only the continual playing out of the proverbial circle of life. Whether personal thoughts. Thoughts brought to actions or circumstances by others' thoughts or actions.
War is a good example of the choices compounded by Mankinds imprinted nsature and in this play of life and reality.
Religion programs the scenario from any side. Each has the idea that theirs is from a particular deity, thus one is good, and one is evil. Both mute since god and evil, so it's written, were from the same source. Those making big bucks on it and basically living as the sages and priests have done for...well, forever in mankind's timeline convince the masses to believe the rest are all others to be the children of lesser gods. no capital on the lesser gods.
That takes a majority of choices away using this mindset. Throw in a little Hell, Fire, and Brimstone, and you've got an army that will literally walk into hell on command.
The choices living things make are the only actual "freedoms" that we have. Those choices are like writing another line in a computer program. That freedom is what is the power of reality. Reality, being the proverbial concept, powers what we know as our lives from the point of conception, where we first encounter sensation.
At my age, it's easier as age increases wisdom and sees through some of the veil of the matrix, only to its pattern. Some wise minds claim to pierce the matrix veil completely. I believe that's a complete illusion. What plan would not foresee the captives escaping the terrarium? Perhaps one day, when I cross that endtime barrier, I may see the Master's work in its whole OR return to be a highwayman again. Maybe we truly do return again.
It was my choice to read my morning Digital newspaper and be inspired to write this. I hope it was, if nothing else, inspirational or at least entertaining.
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I hope your life is filled with the best that life can give you. And if life gives you Lemons, find a way to profit from the lemonade.
Till next time, folks.
RJ Pickering
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