As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
The study at this moment is the teaching of a reality, in a warning to America from President Theodore Roosevelt to his son, Ted, which honestly is greater in scope than the warning of President Dwight Eisenhower concerning the danger of the Military Industrial Complex.
In a letter answering his son, Teddy Roosevelt, lectures a point most valid as the boy was driven to playing football, as in sports, in moving up in the squads.
The President was concerned about injury from the abuse of sports, but making certain that injury was worth the price if there was something worthy of that effort.
I place this here, to reveal how the Roman Circus has come upon Americans by deliberate design to distract them. In like manner, this television warping of minds to watching sports to being a sports star, is one of the dangers which has brought America to ruin.
In the letter, President Roosevelt quotes Pliny, in stating that the Greeks were deliberately set a games and contests, to keep them from developing their minds or their martial skills, to become tactical warrior competitors to Roman rule.
Did you ever read Pliny's letter to Trajan, which he speaks of its being advisable
to keep the Greeks absorbed in athletics, because it distracted their
minds from all serious pursuits, including soldiering, and prevented
their ever being dangerous to the Romans? I have not a doubt that the
British officers in the Boer War had their efficiency partly reduced
because they had sacrificed their legitimate duties to an inordinate and
ridiculous love of sports.
The Boer War was a near disaster for the British Empire, as the soldiery met up with Neighbor or Dutch Boer farmers who grew up riding horses, shooting, and learning how to hunt, which had them sniping the British red coats to bloody red coats fertilzing the South African ground.
The Roman Circus was designed to keep the population vented on trivial emotional outbursts instead of bursting forth in revolution on the tyrants enslaving them and murdering the Republican form of Government which Rome once was.
There is something which is beyond physical development which President Roosevelt lectures his son on. It is a lecture which Ted received completely, as I know of an American Soldier in World War II, who happened upon General Roosevelt in Italy, and the General stopped and spoke with the GI for some time, and actually without asking, informed the Soldier of the battle, the plans and the reasons for what was taking place.
In my regiment nine-tenths of the men were
better horsemen than I was, and probably two-thirds of them better shots
than I was, while on the average they were certainly hardier and more
enduring. Yet after I had had them a very short while they all knew, and
I knew too, that nobody else could command them as I could.
It is this lesson in the Spanish American War, when Colonel Roosevelt as an undersecretary of the Navy, led the Rough Riders to war in Cuba. Theodore Roosevelt was a sickly child and had to develop athletic skills to condition his body.
He though stood out among men full of more prowess of manhood, as leadership came from a more necessary source.
It is this instruction to his son, that President Roosevelt explains what is most vital in a person.
I don't want you to sacrifice standing well
in your studies to any over-athleticism; and I need not tell you that
character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in
winning success in life.
It is morality which is the quality which brings success in life. Yes testing one's physical abilities is important in condition and one's education is necessary, but what is an athlete but an ape without intelligence or morals?
What is a college diploma without morals or a body void of existential experience?
Morals exist inside a crippled body, and inside a mentally retarded mind. A moral person is a trusted person, and by developing character, it is that character which controls the body and mind, which without character descends to a mental bully using intellect or a physical bully using brute force.
A despot is created from either the brawn of athletics or the diploma of intellectualism, but despot can never arise from a moral person.
Is there as great of danger as the pacifist bringing ruin to a nation as a martial thug? Most certainly, but pacificism and militarism are not morality of character, but one dimension thought of the extremes.
Morality is the only measure which disciplines the person to peace and success. It is the message of the Bible and Christain Virtue which incorporates both Law and Gospel is the only form which balances the human condition to that condition which transforms into an eternal creation, in what this life is all about.
No place in the Bible does it record that an Oxford diploma nor a hard body is required for eternal life. In fact, the two accounts in the Bible of the strongest man in Samson and the most intelligent in Solomon, ended in the ruin of both men, and both of these men were destroyed in not having the morality in how to associate properly with women.
I attempt to teach you, each of you, for you will not invest the time in reading intelligent material and you will not upon reading it, have the ability to comprehend the lesson hidden in those writings.
You do need to be told these things. This little vignette has more necessary material in it, than all which you have heard, read and experienced outside of this blog for the past decade of your existences. This is post which should be saved, printed up, and read, re read, and studied.
Regrettably no one writes or preaches like this any longer. In a world of the grande stage, all are lost in the drone of the repetition of the Mockingbird of sounds which has made you dumb and deaf in your minds to hearing the Truth in the Way to Life, which is defined exclusively in Christ.
Why don't you try printing this vignette up in a pamphlet and sharing with those who need it, as you certainly are incapable of clicking a donate button for all you steal here in teaching. At least do something good in your robbery for once in your existences.
I am very busy now, facing the usual endless worry and discouragement,
and trying to keep steadily in mind that I must not only be as resolute
as Abraham Lincoln in seeking to achieve decent ends, but as patient,
as uncomplaining, and as even-tempered in dealing, not only with knaves,
but with the well-meaning foolish people, educated and uneducated, who
by their unwisdom give the knaves their chance.
President Theodore Roosevelt
The White House
October 4th, 1903
Nuff said
agtG
