All Night Vigil

Well here we are again.  New Year's Eve. 2019.  Time to celebrate an end and a beginning.
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On the eve of an event, vigils were begun.  They were church related observations to pray and meditate in preparation for the holy day.  In other words, they expelled darkness and welcomed Light.  They watched for evil and countered it with good.

Vigils vary as to purpose at hand.  They also might be different in length.

Originally they were all night for protection.  It's like riding a storm til it passes.

In mostly modern times, it's probably just a church service.  People might go to their homes and continue.  There are just not many who do an allnighter.

What I hope lingers amidst the revelry is to see to the safety of all.  This is on all levels and doesn't detract from the fun  In fact, it enhances life.

Safety?  Personal, social, national usw.  Springboard for Liberty and thus the exposure of tyranny.

Hey, have fun.  With fun comes responsibility -s-.

Anon

I've gotten my share of anonymous comments here.  Most of them are spam.  I wish I had more time for honest discussion but most of the time I leave my posts in hope that people take a little food for thought and go about Freedom on their own.

There are safety reasons also for anonymity.  The Founders often used pseudonyms when publishing and organizing resistance to British rule.  Secret societies as it were.  Hanging together or separately comes to mind.  There are reasons for them and yes, there are both good and bad.  Vis a vis French Resistance vs Gestapo.  Open secrets?

Anon is a two sided coin.  It is either for safety from those who destroy or it is used by craven cowards who seek to destroy the Republic.

Don't be shy.  Be careful.

Relevant

Collectivists love their pet words.  They often steal them and subvert their meanings.  Whether it's resistance to liberal, these devious creatures twist definitions to their own perverted ends.  So it is with relevant.

Relevant implies a traceable, significant, logical connection.  For the Liberty minded, the Constitution and Bill of Rights are relevant to proclaiming Freedom.  Logical.  Makes sense.  The opposite of collectivist bilge.

And the door swings back as the collectivists see the aforementioned document and our Republic as refuse.  They still wish to install communism, claiming this time it would be perfected.  They defy logic.  And they appeal solely to emotion. And there is no balance of head and heart.

There twisted logic has given way to the use of relevant to promote sjw/woke claptrap masquerading as entertainment.

Now I'm all for messages in the ravioli.  We can best present Freedom  in comedy and sci-fi, for they are easier to see than dry history.  Well and unless something can be as forthright as, say, Texas Rising for example

What the enemy of Liberty does is attempt to beat us into submission with leftist versions of anything we hold dear.  Or they just love to supplant and rewrite our history and social interaction.

They seek order from chaos.  

We seek honesty and balance.

What's relevant to you?

2 Stores.

I don't hate chain stores.  It depends on the chain and the people in each store.

I do love independent stores or 'mom and pops'.  There is a somewhat growing market for such.

This time round, I'm just making a simple observation about two stores.

One store is on the north side.  It is grander but follows a similar pattern to other outlets.

The other is southside and follows the design of the original stores.  It's large and just a shade plainer.

Demographics have nothing to do with this.  It's just a feeling.

I don't rely solely on feelings, I need to balance them with facts.  But, impressions pave the way to understanding.

It's simply less frenetic and more laid back down south.

They are both well off areas.  They even have private airports nearby, fwiw.  It's not that.  And I'm glad people can reap the fruits of their labors.  I just like laid back over frenetic.

Make of it what you will.

Also, the southern store is quite like the eastside store that was summarily shut down for 'business reasons' and where we shopped for years.

And, at checkout the other day, they played 'Duel of the Fates' from The Phantom Menace.