Bond Love

Sure I love James Bond, books (Ian particularly) and movies.

In the 80s there was an American fan club before the famous Brit 007 one.  It had a fan mag called Bondage.  I still have them -s-.  They are chock full of background, bios and minutiae.

Ian Fleming's character personally captured my imagination long ago.  I started reading his novels in junior high and shortly followed the movies.

Now, my enthusiasm hasn't flagged, but I certainly am older and wiser?  Well, I have seen and done things, lived my life.  Yet, Bond remains well loved, more textured and he is the white knight I have always admired.

Oh oh.  White knight has nothing to do with all this collectivist hype re supremacism.  It has everything to do with virtue.

A hard living guy who drinks and womanizes?  Yes.  He has a hard job and lives on the edge to compensate.  It all goes far beyond teenage fantasies.

Fleming said he gave his hero few virtues save for patriotism and courage.  Not bad then nor now.  We need such in droves.

Bond battles evil which seeks to destroy mankind.  He literally slugs it out with psychopaths not unlike those in real life.

He has doubts, fears, is a rough guy.  Knights have never been easy dudes.  Their job was rough and so are they.  They care and so they fight evil, not a gentle job.

It's interesting to note that so many socalled liberals adulate Fleming and Bond as do those of us who value Freedom.  Why?

They have an agent of the state.  We have someone willing to break the rules to accomplish a goal.  We both live vicariously.  Yet, I see our hero as someone to emulate as far as fighting for Freedom goes.  To me that is virtually limitless.

I think libs secretly can be naughty and break their collectivist rules fictionally.  They see Bond as that state agent who enforces its will.

I see him as someone who protects ultimately people and their striving to be free.

Libs see the villains as people who fight the state.

I see them as psychopaths who embrace forms of collectivism.  They wish to kill us to make us bend to their will.

Bond seeks to liberate people so they might live their own lives.

Debate all you want.

I'm going for my annual watching of the films.  Then I watch Danger Man, then The Prisoner and also The Man From UNCLE first season.  More on that later.

As the Thunderball lyrics say, his fight goes on and on and on.

So must ours.

Millstones

I've mentioned how all groups, racial, tribal, social etal encompass all kinds of people.  Good bad inbetween.  All flawed yet reach for the heights or depths.

Most have read/heard the passage concerning Jesus' love of children/innocence and his warning to those who defile.

Storytime featuring drag queens is not sex ed.  It is child rape 'disguised' to confuse kids who are in formative years.

I've met and known drag queens.  These creatures are not.  It's another attempt by child rapists to become 'legitimate'. 

Confused people, whatever the core and cause, are more easily controlled.  And kids should develop naturally, not have anything forced. 

I could be attacked for what I've just written.  Because cultural Marxism doesn't handle scrutiny well.

We now have a mixture of the aforementioned and child rape.  One of the profligate creatures even admitted in court they were grooming kids as though he was bragging.  It is NOT drag, which is adult entertainment.  Often the guys imitate celebrities.  These creatures mimic demonic forms.

Call me overly dramatic alarmist or delusional.  I am not.  Not drag queen I know would encourage kids to 'experiment'.

Kids learn and with guidance approach sexuality with parental guidance.  They are NOT ready in any way shape or form to be active sexual beings.

Sometimes kids explore.  Show me is curiosity.  It is perverted by child rapists.

I remember an innocent kiss on the cheek by a girl when we were preschool.  That was it.

There was no lust or obsession when I saw pretty girls.  I just knew I liked them.

Sexualizing kids is simply another trick collectivists use to subvert. stability.

It is also a direct affront to Jesus' love of children.  Innocence perverted.

Child rapists reap what they sow.  I have seen this too.  Collectivism has its own consequences.

Millstone was putting it mildly.

Gain

It's a relative term.

Paraphrasing Scripture, 'What if a man gains the whole world but loses his soul'.  Sounds drastic and is.  It happens.  Greed wins instead of balance and wisdom for wielding power.

Weight gain can be good or bad.  To the over indulgent, it's destructive.  To the starving, it can be new health.

For those who have lost people, there is no exact replacement.  But there is love.  It never dies and grows, with others coming into a life. 

Things sometimes can be replaced.  A new beginning beckons to start again.  For the irreplaceable, there is memory.

If memories fade, there is hope for a cure or at least that others won't desert you.

Learning from mistakes.  Applying experience.  At least leaving a bit of light, love, good for others.

Financial sacrifice for a better dividend, a better Republic.  Profit and loss.  Give and take.  Cause and effect.

Responsibility.  Moral turpitude or decency.  Taking on that which destroys in order to build.

In these turbulent times such business is not catch phrase, it is action.

Destiny awaits.  Nothing to lose.  Everything to gain.

Loss

Major forest fires hit California with devastating effect.  Many lost everything, emphasis on thing.  Perhaps insurance will cover it.

Now I'm not making light of anyone's crisis.  There are many who have nothing to begin with.  There are many who see their life's possessions literally go up in smoke.  All have to deal with loss.

I'm not going into the cause of these fires.  They re mighty twonky in my estimation.  But whatever the source, the results remain.  BTW please investigate. Research and see where it leads you.  There are those who profit in one way or another from tragedy.

I happen to know a few of the people affected by the fires.  They have to deal with hard facts.  All my life I have known folks who suffer loss to one degree or another.

It's important to let them know they are not alone, that we can be with them through the emotional/physical/spiritual roller coaster.  Despair unstopped is mankind's undoing.

I have lost everything materially twice.  The second was a careful build up for material things.  Still, I started back with nothing in that regard.  However, I had everything otherwise. 

I had a clear field upon which to rebuild.  I was cheated out of several inheritances.  I twice lost all material things.  With the clothes on my back, I suffered at the hands of others and myself.  I let myself be batted around by the winds of fate.  Feeling sorry for myself, I could have wallowed in self pity.  I made up my mind not to do so.

I gathered my wits about me and determined a course of action.  Mind you there is the trap of making plans and not carrying them out.  There is the trap of time, thinking there was plenty of it.

Also, I didn't waste time allowing betrayal or the callous ways of some who revel in others' despair/crisis to stop me.  I have allowed for stops and starts and not asking anything of anyone I wasn't willing to do myself.  And there is no time for platitudes or feel good (or bad) pats on the head.  No pity parties in a chase the tail circle of commiseration.

We share grief especially but not limited to loss of people. But we go on. 

Decide to keep that which is given; memories, lessons, faith and rebuild.

Never give up.  Platitude?  Only if it is not followed up with action.

Loss.  Emptiness.  Crisis=opportunity.

Hope, dream, do.

Gain may not be the same, but you have to start.